Silver Trucks would like to announce that that have brought Paul Trep to their silver lining of a team. Congrats to Paul, as he joins the ranks of P-Rod, Danny Cerezini, Jereme Rogers, Josh Kaylis, Brandon Biebel, and Rob Dyrdek.
Check the video link for footage of The Trep:
Blimey! Video overload today. Thank fuck it’s not on Betamax or your player would have died by now.
Thankfully, yet another online video update from Birdhouse, who have put up footage of their recent tour on their site. Get on it for action from Hawk, Sumner, Klein, Nesser and the rest of the team.
Xmas Jam was off the hook and by far the best one yet! People turned up from all 4 corners of the country to shred Bay Sixty 6 like a duck pancake.
With the Osiris team signing body parts for the kids, and Rattray stepping up to get his wallride on, it was the pilgrims who ventured to London that killed the day. Aaron Sweeney took the piss with nollie cab melons on the vertwall, and Carl “Potter” Wilson throwing down nosebluntstalls on the inside of the wall. Heroin’s Chris Ault hacked it about like a loon and getting higher than anyone, whilst Brady kept it tech with noseblunts on the various ledges.
The jam seemed to go off on both the miniramp and handrail this year with the rail seeing flip 5-0’s, nollie backlips from Blueprint’s Neil Smith, and Daryl Dominguez hammering down frontblunts.
The miniramp comp ended the day with Greg Nowick and Pete King doing their tech trickyness with ease, Potter and Sweeney killing it again with stale grabs higher than anyone, and Churchell getting shifty all over the coping.
The afterparty got a tad messy, as those there will know, expect a full Night Raids feature as soon as the fuzzy heads and blurry eyes return to normal. All in all, a fucking amazing day, a massive thanks to Osiris, Venture, Creme, Blueprint, Heroin, Landscape, The Harmony, Karma, Death, Creature, Casual, Plan B, DGK, and Spitfire, see you all again soon for skatedebauchery!
Click below to watch some footage on the Mpora extreme sports website to whet your appetite as our full video edit will take a few days to get together.
Globe have another top notch free video on their site ready for your eyes to peer at.
A 5 day tour video featuring as they say “5 Frenchys and a Spanyard”. There’s great skating and some dicking about, everything you could want from a free video.
www.globe.tv for more
Independent have uploaded part 3 of their Northwest Tour video up on their site.
See what Childress, Navarette, Drehobl, Mumford, Hewitt and Hassan got up to on the concrete expanses of the US. Find the video at http://northwest.independenttrucks.com/
Printed Matter have released a limited edition series of decks featuring the artwork of Liam Gillick, Mark Gonzales, and Ari Marcopoulos.
Each board is in a series of 100 signed by each artist, with The Gonz’s artwork being described as “a colored offset image of various types of untied sneakers…an image with child-like charm that parodies the act of skateboarding, which demands shoes touching a skateboard’.
www.printedmatter.org for more details
The Berrics site is getting regular updates now, so check the footage from Eric Koston pretty much destroying the place in about 10mins.
Click here for Battle Commander action, and head over to www.theberrics.com for more.
Yep, its that time of the year again and we have taken the liberty of organising another event for you to enjoy on Saturday 8th December 2007.
This years Crossfire Xmas Skate Jam is in association with Osiris Shoes and will take place at Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark in West London. Kick off is at 12 midday and the skate jam will end at 6pm. Unsponsored comps will start from 1pm-2.3pm then a pro jam from 3pm onwards and end it with a product toss.
Special guest riders from the Osiris US team will include Corey Duffel, Garrett Hill, John Rattray and Diego Bucchieri plus Brandon Ide and Adam Moss from the UK Team plus UK pro riders from Venture, Creme, Blueprint, Heroin, Landscape, The Harmony, Karma, Death, Creature, Casual, Plan B, DGK, Spitfire and 50:50.
Fingers crossed, a new obstacle will be built for the jam. Last year we had the Whale courtesy of Fos, this year, who knows, but we will update you as we plan on this site.
The Jam will be followed with our traditional Crossfire Xmas Party with a DJ line up and the European premiere of Osiris ‘Feed The Need’ DVD that will be released this Xmas. Click here for the trailer. The party will be held in Corbet Place, The Old Truman Brewery, Ely’s Yard, 15 Hanbury Street, London, E1 6QR and will be a £5 guest list on the door. Join the Crossfire newsletter from the homepage to get an invite. Over 18’s only.
More premieres of this film will be shown around the country from the 8th December onwards, look out for the dates on this site soon but until then, start planning your journey in advance and spread the word.
My first Cliché deck was one of their first ever runs with the team model that ripped off the infamous Coca Cola logo. Like a premonition, Cliché grew, and grew and grew some more until they established themselves as the undisputed ambassadors of European skateboarding and refined taste. With such a heavy reputation to uphold, you need your product to be top knotch, so I expected no less from the latest Javier Mendizabal model.
Seeing as the average board shape will not change anytime soon, the real area for innovation is in the materials and the moulds. The Airline series uses the redline concave with 8 ply epoxy glue construction. The combination of epoxy glue and 8 tightly pressed plies makes for a strong and light board. The redline concave moulds a rather mellow shape that’s easy to adapt to all terrains with.
Initially I found the Mendizabal board to be a bit pointy on the nose and tail ends, but the general proportions let plenty of room to get positioned for slides. I got used to the pointy ness and enjoyed some lengthy tailslides and found that flip tricks spun a lot faster and controlled than on previous decks I’ have ridden with bolder shapes. The wood kept it’s snap too which is always a bonus when you expect quick reactions from your board.
Honestly, this deck surprised me and has kept me happy because to be honest, Cliché boards are not usually my first pick off the rack. From now on though, I’ll definitely be checking in and checking out their boards more often.
7.5/10
Ralph L-D
Revolution Skatepark in Kent has had a lovely new makeover in time for the holiday season, with a redone streetcourse.
Just to let you know, the opening times of Christmas and New Year are:
Mon 24th Dec 10am to 4pm
Tues 25th Dec (Xmas Day) Closed
Wed 26th Dec (Boxing Day) 12pm to 4pm
Thurs 27th Dec 10am to 4pm
Fri 28th Dec 10am to 10pm (Skateboard Jam – 6pm to 8pm)*
Sat 29th Dec 10am to 10pm (BMX Jam – 4pm to 6pm)*
Sun 30th Dec 10am to 8pm
Mon 31st Dec (New Years Eve) 10am to 4pm
Tues 1st Jan 2008 (New Years Day) Closed
Wed 2nd Jan 10am to 10pm
Thurs 3rd Jan Closed
For more info, www.revolutionskatepark.co.uk
