Death have posted up some old footage of various team riders from Dan Cates’ VX2000 shredding Boreham Wood, Watford and Crawley’s concrete parks. Watch tricks from Steak, Moggins, Cates, Grogan, Boots and Horsey who is on the edit here.
IPATH team riders Kenny Reed, Fred Gall and Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki feature in this left over footage from their recent tour of Thailand. Look out for the new Langston hemp shoes out there right now as they look sick.
Sam (aka SPT) came to this quagmire of decay, slime and death known as London from the lesser shit hole of Leicester. He lives in glamorous Camberwell to be precise, where he obsessively maintains his fine collection of blogs (nerd) whilst living the gully life all day, everyday on the Camberwell streets, alleyways and rooftops. On top of these duties to his postcode he still manages to get in loads of skating and filming, just like any thug would.
He may tie his laces a little tight for my liking but he makes up for that with a natural mass of energy akin to a hyperactive youth, a huge selection of tricks and more combo’s guaranteed than any other skater on his side of the street.
Sam is a very consistent skater which makes him a footage machine and fortunately for him, has an iron gut that is guaranteed to soak up his daily hangover pains thus enabling him to be up for shredding and filming pretty much any day of the week. Give him a few years though, he’ll be buckled in bed for a whole day after a night of drinking cheap cider and vodka like anyone would over the age of 27. Watch out mate.
Sam likes to think of himself as a bit of a Larry David, but nah. In all honesty he is the bastard child of Mr Burns and Joey Brezinski. It’s cool though because he’s always a positive force to be around unlike myself. -Chris Morgan – Science Skateboards
Above Left: Nollie Pop Shuv and Fakie Tucknee Wallride: Photos Matt Clarke
Name: Sam Taylor.
Age: 21.
Sponsors: Science Skateboards and Casino Skate Shop.
Hometown: Leicester but I live in Camberwell, London.
Skating since: About 2002.
Favourite tricks: Kickflips and No Complies.
Favourite spots: The Quay and Wreake benches in Leicester.
Inspired by: Carroll, Hsu, Pappalardo, Pat Steiner, Mikey Cheah.
Hates: Hangovers.
Loves: Girls.
Can’t live without: Coffee.
Skate video: Now? Static 3.
Fave sesh: Quay in summer with BBQs, bitches, beers and bros. Square One dudes around London, watching Knox jump down steps.
Music to die to: Dr Dre.
Ultimate aim in life: Learn impossibles like Ed T.
Watch Sam’s section from the Square One DVD here:
DC flow rider Aldrin Garcia and Luis Tolentino both dropped 43 inch ollies at the DC Grind for life high ollie comp. The challenge drew level at this year’s ASR trade show last Wednesday with both skaters sharing cash on the day and came close to beating the world record, here’s the video.
Science riders Shaun Currie and Ash Hall get busy at The House Skatepark in Sheffield with ten double tricks.
The Crayon Skateboards crew have been roaming in Malaga recently and even Korahn Gayle made the flight! Here’s some offcuts from the trip featuring Korahn, Chris Jones and Dan Wileman.
The Crossroads tradeshow in the US is also go, check this best trick comp in the Jaws of a shark with Chris Cole, Nick Merlino, Nyjah Huston and many more here.
So the much- anticipated Vert Attack 4 has just been and gone in Bryggeriet, Malmo, Sweden, and once again Britain dominated proceedings.
Vert attack 4 from www.skateboard.dk on Vimeo.
Full results:
1. Andy Scott
2. Jussi Korhonen
3. Nicky Guerrero
4. Sam Bosworth
5. Adam Halvorsen
6. Jake Anderson
7. Oskar Gydell
8. Alex Halford
9. Thomas Kring
10. Mattias Svensson
11. Sam Beckett
12. Anders Tellen
Best 40 +: Anders Tellen, Germany
Best junior: Matthew Carlisle, UK
Best woman: Rebecca Aimee Davier, UK
The ASR skate industry get-together in the US saw Volcom and the Skatepark of Tampa throw $10,000 big ones into the ring for this year’s mini ramp jam. Watch the highlights here..
Not strictly British news we know, but for those of you who like to be ahead of the game: PAUSE magazine comes from the beknighted hand of French photographic legend Benjamin Deberdt and is on sale imminently.
Deberdt is the founder of French magazine Sugar, and co-founder of pan-European skate mag Kingpin. You can also see his distinctive and much- copied photography in Cliche’s Resume book which is also out now.
Busy boy – expect a full interview with the man himself here soon.