Category: Skateboarding

Never a dull moment when Gravette is about… Pet Peeves fresh from the horses mouth, oh and he loves lumps.

The latest Traffic Report is in and it’s looking busy down in Pittsburgh, DC, Chicago and Baltimore with Henry Panza.

Traffic Report- 5/18/2010 from Traffic Skateboards on Vimeo.

LRG Clothing announced overnight the arrival of Zero’s Tommy Sandoval. The caveman looking ripper who says he ‘doesn’t have the internet’ has this amazing welcome video to boot, check out the stop motion video below and if you like this and want more, click here for a small feature we ran recently with Tilman Singer.

Visually Heard / LRG Skate Introduces Tommy Sandoval – Short from LRG on Vimeo.

Dainton’s Sunday Stooges hit up Ludlow Skatepark on this weeks travels. Check in with the Kill City crew with coverage featuring flow rider Sam Pulley right here and keep an eye on shredwales.com for all Welsh updates.

This Saturday will see the 6th Pro-Tec Pool Party from Vans go down at the Vans Combi Pool that has just had a re-skin. Enjoy the footage of last year’s session and don’t forget if you are at home wasted and up all night that you can watch a live webcast of the comp here.

Here’s footage of 2009’s event to get you in the mood.

The UK weather forecast is looking good for skateboarders this week with temperatures moving close to 25′ by the weekend with only small chances of showers along the way.

Start planning your sessions for this weekend and pack that BBQ to take to the local park as a taste of summer is just round the corner people!

Here’s the London forecast for us down here, click the image to search out weather for your local area.

I-Path UK riders Eddie Belvedere, Harry Lintell, Adam Moss, Rob Smith and TeaBag all feature in this Scottish visit. Get your roots on here.

London ripper Aaron Sweeney woke up €4000 better off this morning after winning the Volcom´s TXOTX mini-ramp comp that went down at Durango in the Basque Country this weekend.

By all accounts the skateboarding ripped as you can see from this rock-fakie by Sweeney on the ridiculous over-vert section that was built for this comp- obviously fueled by the lashings of apple cider that was allegedly on offer all weekend. Over 2000 people crammed in to watch the contest and bands, read the results below and look out for footage this week.

1º Aaron Sweeney 4000€
2º Alain Goikoetxea 1800€
3º Ivan Rivado 900€
4º Ibon Mariño 450€
5º Otavio 350€
6º Guillaume Mocquin 300€
7º Jaime de Lopegui 250€
8º Manuel Alvarez 200€
9º Jose Manuel Roura 150€
10º Xabi Elorriaga 100€

Best Trick. Manuel Alvarez: Frontside nosepick to fakie on the Stone for €500.

Manuel Palacios cruises his local park in today’s CLAN 010 clip. Look out for an interview with UK Clan rider Kris Vile on this very site when we re-launch.

MANUEL PALACIOS CLAN 010 from CLAN 010 on Vimeo.

Southsea’s Bored Skate Shop have released some winter offcuts of their local rippers for your enjoyment this weekend. They also have fresh threads for you in their new summer Look Book so follow your nose and have a butchers at what’s cooking down on the South Coast.

BOS winter 10 off cuts. from Bored of Southsea on Vimeo.