Landscape Skateboard’s premiere of their new DVD ‘Horizons‘ is coming on Saturday November 22nd at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square.
The flick features Joey Pressey, Nick Stansfield, Soy Panday, Joel Curtis, Rory Milanes, Snowy and Jin Shimizu and will be a cracker.
Showings are at 6:45pm & 7:45pm and the remaining tickets can be purchased from Slam City Skates. Be quick.
Dylan Rieder has officially joined Gravis Shoes this week.
The Los Angeles ripper has been on the up for years and has everything at his disposal when it comes to skating. He joins Aarto Saari who also moved over to Gravis this year.
Look out for a video of his skills on www.ivsk8.com/video
Here’s our edit from this years Halloween Massacre. If you have not seen the Night Raids gallery from the evening yet then click here. Enjoy and thank again for making this one of the best nights of the year.
If you are looking for somewhere dry and different to skate this winter look no further than Revolution Skatepark down in Broadstairs. The Gyppo Army crew just came back from a session there this weekend and had a blast. Have a peep at the footage from this weekend and Kevin McKeon, busting his balls as usual.
eS have released their latest in the Theory line. The 5.1’s are a collaboration with Chocolate Skateboards renowned artist Evan Hecox.
Look out for them this month in your local SOS.
For the deck collectors out there, this one’s for you! With only 10 of each to be released in each country, these are amongst the rarest Shortys boards to date. The Sesame Creeps series is out now.
Hammer, nail, head; these are the first 3 words that came to mind when I first laced my eyes upon these vulcanised feet warmers. Believe it or not, this is Geoff’s 11th signature shoe on Vans and even though the Rowley 1 was a favorite of mine back in the day, he’s really got it right this time as far as I’m concerned. These shoes are absolutely FLAWLESS!
Inspired by the classic Vans Lampin from the early 90’s, the Rowley “Specials” are simple, yet sophisticated, ready to skate straight out of the box! They’re slightly wider in fit to allow extra room in the toe area and rocks a really low profile overall. The uppers consist of reinforced suede and the sidewalls have perforations to ventilate your sweaty kickers. Combine all of the above with a flexible waffle sole covered in vulcanized grip and you have yourself a winning formula, it’s not rocket science, it’s plain shoeoligy.
It’s almost as if Rowley had ‘done too much, much too young‘, I didn’t mind the other 10 signatures released prior to these, but not 1 of the previous pairs have anything on this model, these are truly special.
11/10
Crawl… Walk… Skate
2P
The North has always had its fair share of skateparks and owing to the weather, if its not indoors it isn’t going to get skated a whole lot, it truly is grim ooop north. Thankfully along with the each negative point, there has to be a counteracting positive one, and in the North the skaters are blessed with a determination to step away from moaning about “there is nothing to skate” or “the weather sucks” and go and create.
Ramp City‘s wooden creation spans around 30,000 square feet, and is fully undercover. Housed here we have a couple of street courses with the usual up to date obstacles, Wembley/Euro gap, pyramids, steps, rails etc – street heads a certainly well catered for regardless of ability. There are essentially 3 ramps in the main room starting with the fun micro-mini spine ramp which incorporates a roll over and wallride setup. In the middle of the park is a 6 foot mini ramp that hips in to the street course. Sulking in the corner of the park is a mammoth 13 foot high vert ramp, so all aspects of ramp skating are more than covered.
The latest editions to the park have a room all on their own, the Simparch Free Basin and accompanying full pipe have found a settled resting place here at Rampcity. Perfectly reconstructed and illuminated these pieces of art are just a sight to be gasped at. The bowl has been traveling the world for around 8 years now and this elevated Kidney bowl stands around 6 feet deep and has been lovingly restored with cement pool coping, this is the real deal. The fullpipe is as inviting as it is imposing, with its over vert coping I think doom or glory awaits here – I think anyone who gets passed 9 o’clock deserves a pat on the back. I truly never thought I would see these kind of constructions in the UK.
Inside you will be well fed at the café as well or you can hit the pot-noodle vending machine if you are that way inclined! Also resident in the park is Big Woodys SkateShop, this is pretty much the epitome of a skater owner shop, fully stocked with core brands and certainly not shy to bang out the snapped kingpin you couldn’t get out of your venture truck! Woody is pretty much the law inside this warehouse of treats, it’s a great vibe to skate in.
Blackpool can be a bit of a trek, but get your crew to share some petrol costs and it’s a wicked day out, or if you fancy, its only a mile to Blackpool’s seafront so you could score a B&B for £20 and make a weekend of it! This park is rad and ever evolving; look out for a few new obstacles springing up in the near future…..
Sessions:
Sessions are 3.5 hours and £5 per session
Monday to Friday: 4.30 pm till 9.00 pm BIKES WELCOME
Saturday and Sunday: 10.00am ~ 4.30 pm SKATEBOARD and INLINE BLADE ONLY
Saturday and Sunday nights: 4.30 pm ~ 9.00 pm BIKES WELCOME
Rampcity is situated in the Marton area of Blackpool. For those traveling from out of town you need to come along the M55 to the very end ( do not turn off at Junction 4 ). The motorway regulations end and it becomes Yeadon Way ( A5230 ), now turn left at the first roundabout ( with metal artwork in the center ) within a hundred yards or so you will come to another roundabout take the 2nd exit which is Cropper Road . Ramp City WSA is approx. 200 yards along here on the right.
Address:
Ramp City WSA
Cropper Road
Marton
Blackpool
FY4 5LB
Tel: 01253 699005
Philip Procter
I don’t claim to know a lot about American politics, other than every single US president has either bombed a country or got his rocks off with some bird that wasn’t his wife and JFK had better taste in women than Clinton.
Thank God for Lakai, once again to the rescue with their 2008 campaign to get one of their riders elected as Mr. President. A very subtle election campaign mind you, no massive TV adverts slagging off the other side for being tough on the poor, etc. Just a series of t-shirts with simple slogans stating “Elect Rick Howard” or “I Like Mike”. Simple, direct, effective. That’s the secret to a successful political campaign.
Don’t confuse people with facts and figures, policies, promises and fancy suits. Give them a t-shirt with a picture of you and a statement on it, job done.
Get these from your local SOS, they are out now.
Moose.
Throw em if you got em. Mike-Mo, Nick McLouth, Mike Marasco, Travis Reinhardt, Greg Kenton, Vince Capaldi, Torey Pudwill and Lamare Hemmings feature in some left over footage from Deric Longden’s sessions posted on 8=D.