Element‘s new Australian chapter hit the road into Queensland recently. Watch footage of Jack Fardell, Corbin Harris, Phillip Marshall below and also view the new Steve Harrington deck series here.
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Sin City Series – Blacklight wood
Yeah, skateboards still evolve all the time, you might not always be aware of this, but every company out there tries something new every now and then to give their boards more appeal to the likes of you lot!
Black Label aren’t new to this era of fresh ideas, they’ve already come up with the blackhole decks, powerbeams and now the ever lasting blacklight! Blacklight gives you maximum strength and minimum weight…..wait, that’s how boards should be? Why isn’t anyone else doing this?
This board like many other labels I’ve had in my skate span is amongst the finest wood a tree can produce. It’s actually super light and I’ve been rocking to fakie for over a month now and the fucker won’t crumble! The pop retains at maximum strength still and I’ve honestly been around the block a few times on this black beauty. The shape is what you’d expect from Kyle’s style, simple and quirky at the same time (it makes sense to me). Its medium concaved with normal nose to tail ratios, but it comes around so quickly when you roll your foot off the side for it to flip, you’ll be stoked on it.
I honestly highly recommend this board to anyone who feels the need to start 2009 with fresh wood under their feet; it’s strong, light and snappier than rice crispies! The graphic alone is worth a purchase, gambling and rubber duckies are hotter than dessert sand.
Like Shuriken Shannon said, “phfff, it’s BlackLabel bitch, that’s all I got to say!!”
Check out Label at www.blacklabelskates.com and some footage at the Berrics, it’s the hottest edit on that interwebsite fosho!
9/10
Walk…Crawl…Skate…Die
2P
French has started the New Year with a bang in Copenhagen, Denmark.
If you are nearby, visit Force of Nature from 30th January – 21st February.
Go to www.forceofnature.eu for more info and address details.
As the rain falls in the UK for the next couple of months indoor skateparks are preparing for the annual skate hibernation.
Skaterham in Surrey are prepared and have whipped up a brand new 5ft spine for you to shred courtesy of dbw and the local crew.
AD has also inked some fresh art in the park that you can see here. Get down there.
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Skate Perception best of 2008
The best footage throughout 2008 from Skate Perception was released a couple of weeks back. We will save their server with this embed of fantastic footage or click here for better quality.
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Blackbox trade show jam
Blackbox threw their first trade show and the evidence is shocking!
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Andrew Brophy DVS footage
The man with arguably the highest pop in worldwide skateboarding has upped the ante on DVS this week. Check out this banging montage of amazing footage of Cliché’s Andrew Brophy below.
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Nomad warehouse sesh
If you ever wondered what went on during the afternoon at the at the Nomad Skateboards Spanish warehouse then here’s your answer…
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Roll ’em fat boy
Get your dice out and your money ready…
Busy filming for one of the most anticipated releases of 2009, Geoff Rowley has taken time out of his busy schedule of jumping between ridiculously high containers and risking life and limb for your entertainment to put his name to another in a long line of signature urethane from Ricta.
These 52mm Chrome Cores come crafted from Ricta’s White Lightening Urethane which claims to be more resistant to flat spotting than regular wheels. Initially I was skeptical, as regardless what anyone tells you, every wheel will flatspot eventually and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ‘UNFLATSPOTABLE’ WHEEL. However, I was pleasantly surprised.
I’m not the heaviest in the park and I have been known to skid round the last few degrees on almost all the tricks I try but the last few weeks I have been skating them they have held up really well. This included coming out unscathed from learning rad spins and slipping out of laybacks on wood and concrete ramps which usually kills wheels and gives you the dreaded machine gun effect the next time you drop in.
All in all they are good hard wheels that look like they will last. I had a hard time getting speed out of them on larger ramps and some old dudes pointed and laughed when I skated Big Woody’s bowl in Blackpool but that’s to be expected as their 52mms are probably more at home on a street board but overall they are worth a few of your hard earned pennies and their jazzy Dark Blue cores make for a more interesting set up than the plain white deals you’re probably rocking at the minute.
Go to www.ricta.com for more.
8/10 (losing a couple of points for size, 54 and I’d be all over em)
Dickfingers