Billy Marks loves his Thunder Trucks. So much so that he has little helpers that take over when he leaves the room. Check out his new Gambler Truck, it comes in low 145, hi 145 and 147 and is out now.
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Copenhagen Pro footage
If you missed footage of the Copenhagen Pro event that DVS Shoes threw in Denmark, check out the clip below as it’s full of fun. Riders include Eric Koston, Rob Gonzalez, John Rattray, Jereme Rogers, Chico Brenes, Mark Baines, Paul Shier, Kerry Getz, Torey Pudwill and many more.
With all my speed wobbles and sketchiness, I managed to flatspot a set of Spitfires so badly, my board actually sounded like Zac’s exhaust! So i was a little dubious in trying another set of coloured wheels, but when I saw these gems, all reservations fell away.
Hubba Wheels are relatively new to the industry but they seem to know what they doing. Eyebrows were raised when they made this pack of “lifesavers” though and they had sat at Crossfire HQ looking for an owner for over a month. Usually product comes and goes within days but no one wanted the clown wheels, apart from me! These 53mm wheels are nicely shaped but each wheel is a different colour – talk about breaking the white wheel rule! These take the full piss.
Due to the dye used to colour them, they are a little soft, but that is nice and forgiving on some of the lovely terrain we have to deal with in the UK. On the day I chose to break these in, the terrain was mud. Harlow skate park had been covered in mud by rain and morons with mountainbikes so as it turns out, these wheels are pretty good on mud – and even better on concrete.
I have had more compliments on these wheels in 3 sessions than i have had in the 25 years of skating combined. Yes they are mad and no, you won’t look like everyone else. The wheels are pretty skinny, with a continuous camber. They are very light and definitely better suited for street. Tthe camber makes rail and ledge tricks lock and pop out nicely, and the skinny profile helps you slide/sketch out of things. I used to be part of the white wheel faithful, but these guys have shown me that you can make a quality dyed wheel work and I would definitely recommend these to anyone.
www.hubbawheels.com for more.
White Lightning
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Big Pushings
Call it fate that the sun finally comes out again after this year’s Document Big Push has come to a close.
Hopefully all the boys got crafty and pulled out all the stops at sheltered havens! To pass the time until all the edits are ready, check out the pictures from the end of the tour party (read: sausage fest!) on the document blog sharpish.
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SupraTuf
Want to know more about shoes that last all 12 rounds? Do you want to go all night long? Fulfill your skateboard desires now?
Admittedly this sounds like a spam email for shoe enlargement pills, but to discover the truth about Supra’s new shoe technology that offers a whole new world of durability then head over to the new SupraTuf website and check out all the spiel. Rugged.
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Axel’s Moves
Flip am Axel Cruysberghs delivers a Belgian shove front board for Jerome Loughran’s lense at the recent Flip demo in London.
Click here for the feature with video.
Tom Kruper – Frontside Shove It –
Colin Hale – Noseslide Nollie Flip Out
PJ Ladd – Fakie Cab Heel
Skate Kitchen – Spring Cleaning
Felipe Gustavo – Bigspin Front Nose
Rick Howard – Frontside 5-0
Top 5 Cut offs
1) Everyone stand back! I am going to try scien-
2) They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist-
3) OH SHI-
4) Go away, I’m fi-
5) I’m going to say Candlejack out loud. Just you try an-
Top 6 Truck companies so far from this week’s poll
1) Independent
2) Thunder
3) Venture
4) Tensor
5) Royal
6) Fury
Pic of the Week
Iñigo Igarza is the newest team rider on Fidelity Skateboards caught here switching a back smith and believe it or not, it was shot by himself…
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Flip London Demo – European Tour 2008
28th June 2008
Words by Kyle Green
Photos by Jerome Loughran
Filming Andy Evans & Alan Christensen, editing Andy Evans
The mighty Flip Skateboards team came to London to bless us with a demo this month. Luckily the sun was shining down on England for once as an eager crowd awaited for the crew to arrive.
I was about to throw in the towel and go find myself a cup of coffee when I heard from a distance a pre-pubescent voice squeal, “they’re here, they’re here!“. I turned just in time to see a few sticker hungry children rush out of the park to chase after two large white vans going down the street. You see, the Flip team never do anything by halves. There are 20 people on this leg of the tour and the schedule is meticulously organised. For the record they are the only team to arrive at this park on time in a year’s worth of pro team visits and they stuck to the schedule.
An extra hundred people showed up in the span of about five minutes (god bless text messages) and right away, a couple of Flip’s new ams mingled about the course with some of the more die-hard skaters who refused to acknowledge that they weren’t a part of the demo. The course was cleared and soon enough the full team minus the UK’s flagship Flip legends Geoff Rowley who rolled an ankle 2 days before the trip and Tom Penny who stayed in Argentina due to US visa problems.
Apparently the guys flew straight in from California the day before which was really quite confusing for me seeing as when I fly here from California all I can manage for the first week is to lay on the floor in the fetal position at the “house of doom” and feel really sorry for myself. I guess these boys are a little more tough than I am considering they completely destroyed the park for the next two hours straight!
Now I don’t want to give away too many details because the video on this page will tell the story but Mark Appleyard floated around the park as if he had little butterfly wings hiding under his t-shirt. He was doing massive kickflip fakies on the vert wall and destroying the ledge with a smile on his face whilst two mums standing next to me were commenting on how fit he was, i thought that was neat.
German street machine Willow hung tight to the pyramid and and was stoked to finally land in London and meet Crossfire peeps after his interview on this site was beamed all over the world last year. We heard from Sidewalk’s crew that he was battering a set of stairs at 2am the morning of the demo, footage sure to be headed for the forthcoming Flip flick. His video part should be stuffed full of bangers.
Seeing Luan De Oliviera skate was a highlight for me. He was the first one to start skating and the last one to quit, making his legs go all sorts of absurd directions whilst flipping his board. He also managed the most majestic nollie inward heel flip I have ever seen…what a treat. Luan is a demo machine and rarely misses a trick. Very impressive. Now usually I’m not really a fan of the way little kids skate, but Flip have managed to really nail it whilst picking out all the newer members of the team. To say that they are the future is an understatement because they are already miles better than a lot of people that have their names on shoes, sunglasses, fanny packs, spot cream and whatever else you can think of. It was a bit shocking seeing a demo that consisted mostly of kids under 18 but at the same time, it was completely awesome.
Curren Caples loves the big stuff, Louis Lopez flies with tech steez, Belgian ripper Axel Cruysberghs has got the rock ‘n’ roll skills and David Gonzales, well, he just turned pro for Flip and Globe and if you have not seen him skate yet then you are missing out. Overall it’s exciting to know that the next wave of skateboarding has a great future, especially as it will be plastered all over the in the next Flip video for us. If this demo is any indication for what’s in store then I can safely say that it’s going to be on another level.
Despite the absence of Rowley and Penny the day turned into a treat for everyone. The product toss made a mosh pit at a Slayer concert look like a joke; I must give credit to the the boys as they put in an hour of autograph work after the demo then headed for the Ladbroke Grove rail. The future looks bright, the future looks Extremely Sorry.
Thanks to all at All at Flip, Shiner, Sidewalk, Bay Sixty 6, Jerome Loughran, Alan Christensen and Andy Evans and of course, you if you came down to support this Crossfire event.
Kyle Green
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Paul Shier on Insight Clothing
If like me, you get a strangely rewarding sense of satisfaction watching Croydon homeslice Paul Shier do nosegrind reverts and those trademark 3 flips all day long then you’ll be pleased to know that you still can.
Except now he’ll be doing it wearing Insight Clothing alongside his Blueprint team bud, Vaughan Baker. Fresh, and a great excuse for some new footage, check the crazy, mad professor style on the controlled noseslide shove!
Check the footage at the Insight Blog here.
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Jess Young up the Duff
Welsh lunatic Jess Young has now found his way onto the Duffs Team!
For evidence of Jess’ absolutely mental approach to skateboarding just check his staring contest with death while dropping in on a bloody overpass in central Cardiff on Trick of the Week.
New footage from the Who ripper should be surfacing soon once the Duffs site gets it makeover. Until then, check out the latest, including Louie Barletta getting his design on in the UK over at the Duffs Blog.
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Final Jams at Interact
It’s never pleasant to see a great park like Burnley’s Interact go under – but this of course doesn’t mean we can’t let it go out with a bang.
Closing doors with a belting all night jam for wood-pushers on Saturday 19th July, here’s your chance to say goodbye to a huge piece of UK skateboarding history and have a good shred while you’re at it.
£10 for a 12 hour session and some good vibes, get on it.