Motive Skateboards have caused quite a stir with their cracking new promo, unleashed upon the web this week.
Featuring some seriously high standards of skateboarding from Sean Smith, Paul Carter, Dave Snaddon, Dylan Hughes, Layth Sami and new rider Barney Page, this promo serves well at showing the potential of this team and company.
Check out the promo and get familiar with these names. It’s about time we saw some full parts from these guys!
www.motiveskateboards.co.uk/video/
Nike are known for their collaborations and special edition shoes, with mashups coming from the whole country of Sweden, to Slam City, to MF Doom. These collabs are the result of hooking up with Europe’s finest skate team, Cliché.
I’ve gotta say it. I love Nike Classics. They’re comfy, they last for ages, look good, and skate oh so well. Which is why I was a little shocked when I put these on and instantly felt like I was wearing wooden clogs. The nubuck material they’ve used was so stiff that it’s taken a few weeks of walking down the shops to soften them up enough to skate in.
They were very good once they got to that point. The flock wallpaper patterned material is mad-strong, and despite laces snapping every 10th trick, they just aren’t wearing away, save a few scratches around the toe.
Cliché know what they’re doing, and I’m glad they went for the Classic instead of the more obvious Dunk. Years of history behind these shoes has lead to something that skates like a dream, but still looks fresh enough to go out chilling in. Good touch with the corduroy swoosh as well. Corduroy is rad.
Moose
Having not worn a pair of mid-tops for a while, and being generally disappointed by the Dunk when it came out, I bit the bullet and combined the two whilst trying out these Nike Mid Dunks.
Timberland boots is what I thought when I first saw them, and thankfully they are nothing like them. I know Tom Penny can do magic in those beetle crushers, but I need something a bit more slimmed down to get crafty on my board.
Being mids, they had plenty of ankle support yet gave enough movement to get my kicking flicks on with ease. They felt a lot stiffer than the other Dunks I’d tried, which is definitely a good thing as those always felt like someone wrapped my foot in a really cheap pillow.
The sole on these is thin and flexy, gives the perfect amount of board feel yet also gives you that confidence that a primo landing isn’t going to send you hobbling home crying, like you’ve just been caned across your sole.
One gripe is that the Velcro ankle strap does restrict your ankle a little too much, but leaving it undone means you have a flappy extra bit of yellow flying around. Not too much of a problem, but if something with the opposite Velcro side brushes past your foot, it’s gonna stick to you faster than the last drunk girl at a party.
One great advantage to these is that because they look like the kind of shoes you’d find on a woodyard, they perfectly match the collection of lumberjack shirts that you have piling up in your wardrobe, so there’s no excuse not to wear them all the time.
Moose
The northern team on DC‘s Live From Europe Tour were getting gnarly in London and Oxford last week.
Check out the goods on the DC Live From Europe Blog.
Organisers for a world-class indoor skatepark in Worcester are applying for a grant of almost £4,000,000 in the hope to build one of the best skateparks the UK has ever seen.
The park will be dedicated to Tim Greenwood, a skater from Malvern who sadly lost his life to leukaemia. Alongside the park is plans to build a youth café, a roller skating rink and various outdoor facilities including basketball courts, climbing wallas and even internet rooms and music studios.
If all goes to plan then construction for the park should begin in 2010 and reach completion in 2011.
For more information click here.
Fourstar have posted up a video featuring Guy Mariano, Rick Howard, Eric Koston, Brian Anderson, Mike Carroll and Max Schaaf get ripping in a picture-perfect pool.
This is the first installment in a series of catalog shoots and it’s off to a booming start.
Watch out for Hurrican Brian…
While we may still not know what exactly a Bachinsky is, our wait to find out is nearly over.
The latest visual presentation from City Skateboards, “What The F**k Is A Bachinsky?” went down a storm at the world premier over the weekend. To make that wait for the actual video more bearable then check out the photos from the premier over at Thrasher and Epicly Trife.
More to come at www.thecitystreets.com
It’s rare occasion in the UK to be blessed with a skateboarding demo. But it’s guaranteed that whenever we do have one, it’s always going to be something special.
i-Five Distribution are holding a demo in Revolution Skatepark on the 17th August. Admission costs £10 but that’s more than worth it to see the likes of Kris Vile, Joe Nobes, Dan Cates, Chewy Cannon, Jody Smith and Jak Pietryga amongst countless others shred the hell out of Revolution. One day after the Meanwhile Jam too! Looks like a pretty intense weekend ahead of us…
A Third Foot Skateboards have released a a Tribute Range dedicated to some of the best bands ever to grace ears. Lovers of Fugazi, Bad Brains, Minutemen and Black Flag will be flocking to grab one of these from their local SOS.
Go to www.athirdfoot.co.uk for more.
Christopher Gibbons is the latest addition to the growing