Always so fresh and so clean, Motive Skateboards‘ website has undergone a hefty re-design and it’s looking sharp.
Head over to motiveskateboards.co.uk and have a gander at the new layout alongside some new (sick!) photos too. The entire ‘Dimensions‘ video is online too, so why not catch one of the best UK video productions of last year while you’re at it?
If you’re having enough trouble keeping up with how fast skateboarding is progressing then refresh your browser now because this clip will only hurt you even more. Vox Footwear posted a ‘teaser‘ clip of their amateur team this week and it’s nothing short of mind-blowing. The video features Dan Nepscha, Bryan Chapo, David Vargas and more names you should probably start taking note of. If you’re ready for it, click the play button below and try to keep up…
There’s nothing meaner than the Deaner. Nothing. The gnarliest downhill skatepark in Bristol will be holding a Hardcore Funday on the 31st July and all you South-West punks are invited. Get down to Dean Lane’s training facility and expect all the usual shenanigans, just don’t turn up to skate the pansy flat-bar; this is an event for real men so it’s wallrides, bonelesses and tree stumps only. Check the flyer below for all your needs. Bring your own booze, dogs, chains, piercings etc.
Want to see how Silas Baxter-Neal got his new signature shoe together for Adidas? Click the video below to find out…
The Crew are a skate collective from Michigan that are big on skating and big on beats. We were treated to a sick edit from Port Huron boys in our inbox this week… this is Volume 12 in their on-going mixtape series, entitled ‘The Crew Massacre‘. It’s packed to the brim with quirky lines, ledge wizardry and big beats. Get stuck in below…
Etnies regularly updated trip into the lives of Joe Gavin and Willow and what they’re gettting up to in their cities, Manchester and Berlin respectively, has seen two new video edits online this week.
First, we head to Manchester to see Joe shred the streets with the help of Danny Jack, Kev Eley and Jak Pietryga in honour of the launch of his new shoe. Then it’s over to Berlin where Willow takes us on a little trip round some of the local hotspots before getting involved in a little skatepark action with his Manchester counterpart…
Head over to www.talesoftwocities.com to see the new stuff and to keep up on all the latest…
If just one look at this tee doesn’t make your mind scream ‘THAT… is the best t-shirt I’ve seen in my entire life’ then I don’t think I can trust you. It’s not often that a photograph can capture something so perfect that no response can be accused of being hyperbole but here is an example. Printed on this Etnies t-shirt is that shot of a skater bombing down the Interstate 405 flippin’ off the commuting collective that emerged on Go Skateboarding Day in 2008, and it is nothing short of the best thing ever. Don’t try to analyse it. Whatever you do, don’t put yourselves in the mind of any of the drivers either because that makes you a cock. This, whether you love it or hate it, is skateboarding defined: being free, being against the grain and just not giving a damn about anyone else.
Aside from being able to replace any bad things in your life with feelings of AWESOME, this t shirt is a regular fitting tee and comes in either black or white which is enough to satisfy anyone’s taste in what you like to cover your nips with I’m sure. Get it, or just look at it, whatever, just let it make you feel good.
Stanley
Pigeons are my favourite animal ever. They’ve got a bad reputation and I dig that. This rep stems from the same breed of idiots that attribute notions of purity and peace to those butter-wouldn’t-melt bastard doves. Despite the dove and the pigeon being in the same family of birds, they are dismissed as a disease-riddled nuisance. Never to be put down by racial profiling, the pigeon is so bad-ass it just struts around cities where ever it pleases, eating up whatever we’re too lazy to put in a bin. The pigeon is an urban bird that quite obviously doesn’t give a fuck. And I love them.
So imagine my delight when Zoo York put out a board with a flock of up-to-no-good pigeons lurking on top of the tallest building in the sprawling menagerie that is New York. The caption reads ‘plotting doom from high upon the empire state building’ and that’s precisely what they’re up to. These birds belong in the same cage that houses the likes of Forrest Kirby, Zered Basset, Aaron Suski and other wood-pushers that are simply too gnarly to exist outside of some sort of enclosure. It’s only fair that my bros the pigeons get a pro board too.
The deck itself rides like a dream made straight from the concrete jungle. The very place that according to Alicia Keys has an assembly line specifically designed to pump out dreams as relentlessly as time passes. The only difference is that this dream is a solid piece of wood, but it did come from a similar assembly line. Zoo York regularly produce excellent planks to ride and this is no exception. It also happens to have the raddest graphic I’ve seen from them in some time. Hold tight Zoo York and hold tight pigeons.
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There were many ups and downs at this year’s eventful DVS CPH Pro in Copenhagen this weekend. Rune Glifberg’s high speed collision with Robbie Russo left Russo in hospital with a fractured skull, John Rattray smashed up his chin and Shane O’Neill cracked a rib. This didn’t stop the finals from being a thrilling display of insane skateboarding – even when T-Pud’s was puking on the hip, Luan was banging out huge f/s bigspins and making the comp his own demo.
We wish Robbie Russo a speedy recovery, as well as everyone else who took one for the team.
Edits are appearing on the web left, right and centre so put on your google glasses and get stuck into some action this Monday morning. To get you started, have a peep below the results for Blair Alley’s edit of the finals and best trick.
Street Finals
1. Luan Oliveira
2. Torey Pudwill
3. Sean Malto
4. Shane O’Neill
5. Javier Sarmiento
6. Vincent Alvarez
7. David Gonzales
8. Tony Trujillo
9. Grant Taylor
10. Roberto Aleman
11. Lucas Puig
12. John Rattray
Cliché Best Trick
1. Rodrigo Leal
2. Neverton Casella
3. Elissa Steamer
4. Colin Kennedy
5. Daniel Lebron
Vert Contest
1. Rune Glifberg
2. Jussi Korhonen
3. Martin Andre
4. Nicky Guerrero
5. Oskar Gydell
6. Grant Taylor
7. Pontus Bjorn
8. Ryan ‘Peabody’ McWhirter
9. Robbie Russo
10. Arina Rahman
The latest Traffic Report is live, get in there for Mark the Shark hitting up the streets of Barcelona filmed by Rob Mendoza and look out for their City Dweller cruisers on your travels as they look dope.