Category: Skateboarding

Death Skateboards have sent us the exclusive on their new deck range in shops this month. Check them out below. They include the Mark Nicolson’s new pro model ‘Crows’ 8″, Andy Scott’s ‘Speak Up’ 7.75″ pro model, Old English 7.5″, Stickered Skull 7.75″ and Dan Cates ‘New Wave’ 7.62″. Get your local skater owned shop to order these now.

Click here for a recent interview with Cates who also discusses his fave Death graphics of all time. Go to www.deathskateboards.blogspot.com for dead animals, hippies and extreme facial hair.

Surrey’s Tolworth bowl built by Wheelscape was sessioned last weekend and got the full thumbs up from over here.

The bowl is gnarly to skate and took out 5 of us with back, knees, thumb and bruised arses.

Expect a Spot Check with a full edit coming soon featuring footage of Habgood, Churchill, Zorlac and more. Click here for Nowik’s Trick of the Week.

Pic: Jotham City gets a front tail going on the blocks with his tongue out.

French is back with yet another gallery of his work, this time down at the Fifty Fifty Gallery on 8 Park Street in Bristol.

Apparently Humour of Initiation is an exhibition of new and previously unseen work by the artist that includes a range of original drawings, limited edition screen prints in association with Vans who French has worked with recently to provide art for Dustin Dollin’s No Skool 2 shoe.

The exhibition runs from 4th April and continues throughout the month, if you are close by go check it out.

The Independent Trucks team roll through Germany via Strangenotes, go grind it out below.

Austrian ripper Mario Wirnsberger has joined the Spanish Nomad Skateboards team this week. Watch him go below.

Ramondetta and the Real Skateboards crew rip up the Berrics park here.

Congrats to UK rider Benny Fairfax who turned pro for Stereo last week, he is the first rider to have this honour since the re-birth of the company. Check out this clip of Benny skating an empty Berrics park where he got to the final of their latest game of SKATE.

Here’s another trailer from Element Shoes who are working on their new DVD, SOLE. Super fresh footage from Chad Tim Tim, the mighty pop of Darrell Stanton, Levi Brown and Mike Vallely is below.

Unsurprisingly the Sk8Mafia crew out in San Diego are releasing a DVD. Witness the fitness below.

If you missed this last Friday as Link of the Day then here’s the bonus level for your Monday morning. Can DVS rider Daewon Song skate without his new pro shoes? Watch below to find out.