Over to Switzerland we go firstly, to a secret miniramp in the Tyrol mountains where The Warriors skategang put it through its paces last weekend. Martin Cattaneo, yikes!
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Last bit of concrete news is this edit from Bucky Lasek’s new monster bowl in California, featuring a who’s who of big, balls out skating- Rune, Bucky, Burnquist, the lot:
Bucky’s Bowl-B-Q – watch more skate, snow, surf, and moto videos
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Globe Team demo London 2009
The Globe team visited London back in October 2009 for a swift evening session. Rodney MullenChris Haslam, Ryan Decenzo and more were overwhelmed by the tournout, enjoy the footage here.
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New NPNG edit
Every year we make the trip down to see Bummer, Ewen and the boys of Boscome Bay down in Bournemouth and this year was no exception. They have a good crew at Kings Park and they are known as the No Gain No Pain crew – basically they are up for a bloody good time and this latest video edit should tell you everyhting. Look out for their full length Just Another Day coming in 2010.
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DVS Skate and Create b-roll
DVS have dropped a making of their Transworld Skate and Create video comp entry. The comp may have been 3 weeks back but the way this is put together is well worth the wait. Enjoy.
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Globe Eunited Tour at Bay 66
Friday 2nd October 2009
Words Niall Neeson
Pic right: Haslam Switch Crail on the midi by Matthew Rehm.
Having weathered an economic storm which saw them cut most of their impressive European roster adrift, Globe return to the shores of our continent on a whistle- stop tour of Europes’s major skating hotspots in October.
Last week the squad- consisting of Chris Haslam, Rodney Mullen (not skating, at least on the London leg), Canadian uber- am Ryan DeCenzo and the retained Euro riders, Finland’s Eero Anttila and Austria’s Philipp Schuster– held an impromptu demo at London’s Bay 66 skatepark.
300 quick witted souls bore witness to Haslam’s hirsute switch flip blunts before the jamboree headed to Madrid for a signing at Borja Santiago’s rather wonderful Welcome Skateshop which was mobbed by keen young dudes prior to a demo for the faithful.
Madrid came and went as the crew next descended on Lyon for a street session before a third demo in the nearby city of Grenoble, which was equally mobbed, before the final destination of Berlin, where the Skatehalles park was the location for a final demo prior to what must surely be a well- deserved rest for Haslam and his cohorts.
Ryan DeCenzo gets his nose wet on the new rail. Xmas Jam comp incoming…
Check out the edit from the Demo here thanks to Alan Christensen:
And if that got you excited, here’s a round- up of the latest goings-on from Fresh Blood recipient DeCenzo:
The etnies Euro Recognition-tour may be over but they left behind the evidence.Watch the demo footage with Sean Malto, Ryan Sheckler, Tyler Bledsoe, Jose Rojo, Willow, Kyle Leeper, Mikey Taylor, Julian Furones, Davis Torgerson, Axel Cruysberghs and Tuukka Korhonen.
etnies Euro Recognition tour demo footage from etnies europe on Vimeo.
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Matix do the Museum
It’s not often you get a chance to skate your local Museum. On this occasion, the Matix team with Pudwill, Anderson, Karr, Murowski, McDonald, Akers and Nguyen came up trumps at the St Louis City Museum in the mid west of Missouri.
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Gang of Fartstar Tour incoming
What do you do when you arrive at Heathrow from LA? Chuck a fart at your best mate when he’s just waking up of course. Here’s a teaser for the Gang of Fourstar edit from the Fourstar Clothing UK tour, look out for it soon.
Baker – Shake Junt 8”
The Baker Boys are never far off the scene with other projects in camel, there’s always something brewing and it’s normally a funny spin off or something non serious. I’ve never heard about this shake junting myself, but I’m older than you and skate 8” boards because I like them, not because everyone else does!
This board is pretty much as street as you get and I love the graphic, the green and gold reminds me of my local 7-11 corner shop where I spent most of my misled youth wasting my money on Street Fighter and Contra…money that tended to come from my moms wallet without her full consent. She knew what I was up too, but I guess she also knew I wasn’t spending it on heroin, this was a fix, but one with much less harmful consequences.
The overall shape is slightly sharpish, the nose and tail is not quite as round as I generally like my boards, but I don’t punch a gift horse, ever! I’m about 4-5 weeks in now and to be honest, I don’t even remember why I love a rounded nose and tail so much, it’s pure aesthetics and means less than you think! I’ve enjoyed this board just as much as any other board before it and I do think this deck has a good flip on it, it really scoops well, a quick flick and before you know it, it’s back under your waffle. Concave is slightly flattish, but I put that down to being more of a street nature.
Holla ya mums and beg your fathers, a Baker board is never a bad purchase, they’re good boards, an independent force and I also heard that 10% of all final purchases go to a rehabilitation centre somewhere in the Nevada Dessert which helps to bring skateboarders in despair get straightened out and back on their feet.
www.bakerskateboards.com for more.
Johnny Thunders
