Enjoy this Rushes edit of Dom Powling skating various spots in the South East put together by Sam Bailey.
Rushes – Dom Powling from Sam Bailey on Vimeo.
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Get Lesta do Rotheram
The party keeps going this week over at the Get Lesta camp. Loomes’ lens made it over to Rotheram’s concrete plaza to film Death’s Timmy Garbett, Joe Marks, Mike Simons and more on a hot, sunny day. Click below for a selection of fun filled party poopers.
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Momentum go Dogging…
When he’s not pestering grannies and drinking shandy bass Caradog Emanuel is out and about pulling off the meanest lipslide variations. Just have a look at his brand new Momentum Wheels ad below to see why they decided to give him free wheels and to understand exactly what we’re talking about.
Well done Caradog!
Skateboarders are skateboarders and pedestrians are pedestrians and never the twain shall meet. Now, for the benefit of the pedestrian’s ankles I would testify that this grossly re-contextualised Rudyard Kipling argument is probably for the best. But exclusivity outside of whose ankles your board is smashing into isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d like it to be. Element have unashamedly and routinely scoffed at social barriers in a way that would make Andy Warhol stoked. I could be sitting on the tube, this Muska Finger deck in hand and a businessman opposite me could be counting the tens and twenties he can barely fit into his wallet with the same logo on it. He knows that his wallet isn’t going to fall apart today, and I know my deck isn’t either.
Element consistently provide skateboarders with good, solid wood. The lightness and insta-pop was a big relief from the unreliable soggy fishes I’d been riding previously. The wild welsh rain and terrain was obviously too much for them. Durability is a big deal for me, and Element don’t disappoint. The guy in the suit probably doesn’t even realise that the same company that made his wallet made the plank of wood that the smelly dude sitting opposite him is clutching. He could afford a new wallet if he wanted to, but if this deck says anything about their other products, he won’t need to.
What’s cute is that this business dude is getting shown the finger by my deck, courtesy of Chad Muska: that guy that you either hate to love, or love to hate, or more likely than not, both. So as he packs his big bucks into his wallet, the same company that’s keeping all that moolah snug is flipping him off. That’s skateboarder mentality for you. I love it. Don’t let those extreme suits with hair that’s a little too dude for the office fool you, Element material is constructed from a skater mindset. If the excellent Trio didn’t sway you in their direction, then the regular high-grade shit they’re pushing will.
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To apologise for Denmark’s lusterless performance at the World Cup, Rune Glifberg is the latest to be featured on the Flip Skateboards video blog, and it’s full of bangers…
Click here to see Rune’s trailer and to see why the Danes still rule.
And if you think you’re still not getting enough action from the CPH Pro in Copenhagen then follow Rune’s Twitter to see what he’s up to down there. Then peep the video below to see him winning the vert competition in 2007.
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FUN times with the NGU SUCKERS
It’s summer 2010 and you should be filling a van full of sleeping bags and beer and hitting the road for a shred. Follow this road trip Karl Davis, Jake Davis, Matt Bromley, Paul Parker, Craig Scott and Jake Snelling as they did exactly that just over a week ago with Bromley on filming duties.
FUN from NGU SUCKER on Vimeo.
This week Lee Dainton’s Sunday Stooges bring South Wales together Go Skateboarding Day and a shred at Newport’s roughly poured concrete. Watch the full edit here.
Emerica’s Wild in the Streets day out last Sunday was a massive success. Enjoy this video with Emerica pros Braydon Szafranski, Aaron Suski and Kevin ‘Spanky’ Long with Euro riders Eniz Fazliov & Ante Aiello and UK riders Tom Knox & Chris Ault and a host of other riders captured on film by Dan Magee and Mike Manzoori.
Emerica Wild in the Streets London 2010 from Emerica Europe on Vimeo.
The Stand Up Skate Shop has landed at Bay66 Skatepark and is open now. Enjoy some fresh footage of the team from session at Stockwell’s concrete, with team riders Nico Del Sarto, Aaron Sweeney and Kevin McKeon plus guests Salar Kooshki, Joe Greener and Simon Burlo.
There are certain things in life that we take for granted. Things that, if taken away from us, would gently sap the joy from our souls, the very part of you that you don’t always notice, but subconsciously makes you want to get up in the morning and fucking get some. I’m talking about the stuff we label as simple things, because they’re simply too overwhelming for us to understand. Like weights being lifted from your chest after just one sip of coffee, the chance of seeing a cat in the street, a good drum beat, the sound of a football commentator losing his shit when his country score and what I got up for this morning – the feeling of skating downhill with brand new wheels.
The wheels that helped get that inner smile beaming like a Cheshire cat on the smoothest, grooviest acid trip were made by Momentum. A company renowned for making smooth, cool wheels that don’t rile the environment. In today’s ever-greyer landscape making environmentally friendly skate products can only be encouraged by someone who wants to see cats roam the streets every day and my coffee to taste bloody delicious.
These wheels are advertised as not only kind to the environment but gentle on your wallet which – if for some reason does put you off – shouldn’t cause any doubt about the quality. These are the wheels that smoothie drinking, smoothie skating Rick McCrank has on his board and are you to question that dude’s taste in wheels? Momentum Rebates are ultimately a solid piece of recycled urethane that won’t hurt your bank balance, so whack on some green clothes and get ready for that smooth ride that makes everything you see in the street instantly life-assuring.
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