Category: Skateboarding

Fed up with politicians rinsing your tax dollars out on wigs, £20 tin openers or bills for having their moats cleaned? Well, keep local governement busy with a far worthier cause, The Ripped skatepark up in sunny Yorkshire are looking for some support from the council to keep the park open – they basically need a show of hands from people all over saying that they are prepared to use the park, so click here to sign the online petition.

Coming soon at The Ripped is the Graff Jam – a graffiti/skate/hiphop all dayer, if your on a road trip or in the area be sure to hit the Jam up – later in the day the Relentless “Ride with Us” tour kicks off there with demo/session in to the wee hours.

come from Dennis Busenitz in Diagonal.

Element have their eyes on the future and have found Fresh Blood in Patrick Ryan. Check out this little ripper from Element’s latest online video.

The IPATH team are on tour in the US. Check out the footage of Fred Gall, Adam Alfaro, Nilton Neves, Jack Sabback, Ben Raybourn, Jaws and Ryan Lay below from the Oakdale Skatepark demo in Minnesota.

Here’s footage from this week of UK Jart riders Eddie Belvedere and Harry Lintell. Look out for a Fresh Blood feature on the latter coming very soon on this site and in the meantime enjoy this little clip.

Tony Hawk is tweeting lots today. The world’s most famous skater whose Twitter account has almost 900,00 followers is inside the Whitehouse and about to do a CNN interview there. Could this be the very first manual in the Whitehouse ever? I’m pretty sure Obama may have pipped him to the post though.

Follow Crossfire on Twitter here to find out where we will be hanging with many others on Go Skateboarding Day this Sunday.

Hawk skated out of there too…

Photos taken from Tony Hawk Twitter account

Andy Evans is back with the follow up to the amazing ‘This N That’ film titled Heel Toe Magic. By the looks of this trailer you know that this is going to be the best UK skate flick of the year! Enjoy!

Here it is folks, the 5th episode of Globe Shoes ongoing series of incredible footage. Ryan Decenzo and David Gonzalez will show you the future in United By Fate Episode 5.

I will never forget the hot sunny day in Marseille when Brewce Martin sprayed his balls in gold paint and then dropped into the vert bowl naked in front of 3000 people with only 3 wheels on his deck! Hanging with this guy for a weekend was chaotic to say the least. He owns the Skatopia ranch out in Ohio which to many would be like a scene out of Mad Max but the fact is that this place is real and it gets bigger every year.

Sadly just yesterday, Martin was carted off to hospital injured from a tyre explosion in a nearby tyre shop and now he is in critical condition due to brain swelling from the incident according to reports on the Skatopia website this morning. A new movie titled Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy documents Brewce for a tumultuous year as he struggles to keep Skatopia afloat. Watch the brand new trailer for it below. Our thoughts go out to you Brewce, get well soon.