Keeping things Organika is Walker Ryan, the latest rider to get on the team.
He has been impressing all over the place recently, and this welcome video shows exactly why. This is footage not making it into their upcoming video, blimey.
Danny Brady has got himself on Autobahn and will now be cruising around on their urethane.
He joins the likes of Ricky Oyola, Steve Caballero, Pat Duffy, Lucas Puig and Benny Fairfax on the Autobahn team.
Sports TV giant ESPN have just announced that the Vert competitions will not feature in the X-Games this Summer, citing poor viewer ratings as the problem.
Alongside this, other factors included the aging talent pool of vert skaters, and a lack of widely available vert ramps. X-Games General Manager Chris Stiepock said, “With the skating at skateparks all over the world not being true street or true vert, we want to honor the huge segment of that population that’s being ignored. Kids will be able to watch the X-Games skateboarding competition for SuperPark and see pros on the same obstacles that they might be able to ride at their local park.”
Read the full statement from ESPN by clicking here
Soma Magazine has just released its fourth issue, and features sick stuff from Florentin Mirtain, Mark Froelich and his moustache, Scott Bourne, Sole Tech in Athens, Marc McKee and lots more.
Available in skateshops only for a measly 1 euro, you can also download the previous issues and check videos and more at www.somaskate.com
Well, not exactly.
Seeing as everyone in the world has seen Fully Flared now, Dave Carnie takes this opportunity to write about hanging out in a bar with Mike Carroll and other members of the Lakai team, and reminisce of event s over 14 years ago.
It’s a good read though, so head over to the Big Brother blog for more.
Jerry Hsu has got his first pro model on Emerica, exactly one year after joining the team.
These will be available in the shops very soon, if not now, and are “made for skateboarding, period.” That’s good to know.
See the shoe launch party pics from NYC, and get all the regular team updates on the blogs at emericaskate.com
On Saturday 3rd May, Volcom hosts their second major miniramp contest in Durango, Spain, with the TXOTX comp.
With a 22meter wide ramp and a cash pot of €8,000 up for grabs, this event will be attracting the best from all over the world including some serious UK heads.
For more info, head over to www.volcom.com
More Landscape updates, these boy are on it!
As well as the Shuall series out next week, new graphics have Snowy and Joel’s favourite band influences with these great Stone Roses and Joy Division pastiches.
Support Landscape and your local skate owned shop by getting one of these as soon as the beat drops, and apparently rumours are rife of some serious website updates coming very soon.
News from the Landscape camp, as Save the Southbank campaigner and artist Toby Shuall has done a series of decks for the team with some ‘winter dusk’ style graphics.
These will be available from your local shop in the next few weeks, but for updates keep your eyes peeled on the Landscape site very soon.
Our mates over at Xynthetic will be putting on the last show in their Carbon & Chemicals tour.
The Xyn will be hitting up the Wainwright’s Workshop store in Bristol on April 4th from 6pm. The night will feature hand-painted skateboards, screen-prints and much more from JamFactory, Klingatron, Mr Jago, WASTE, Paul Harraway, Richt, Danny Wainwright, Orco and Pone as well as lomo photography accompanying work from Laura Thorne, Lee Page, David Canning and The Xyn Fam.
So, get yourselves down to Workshop from 6pm til 9pm, 1-2 Perry Road, Bristol to enjoy all the fun!