Category: Skateboarding

The SMP skatepark in Shanghai, China, is officially the world’s biggest skatepark, and no doubt you’ve already seen the likes of Trujillo tearing the place to pieces.

This lengthy documentary and image gallery features the two Aussie designers and builders of the park, Darren White and Simon Oxenham, giving their thoughts and ideologies towards a project of this size.

When budget is not an issue and and you’ve got a strong army of 100+ Chinese workers to handle the manpower behind your creative vision, you’re definitely one huge step ahead of the process. The “Bigger is Better” skatepark project took a total of 18 months from the initial brainstorming sessions with OZ skate die-hards Tim “Dorfus” McDougall, Tom, “VB” Flaherty, Renton Millar, Brett Margaritas, and Morgan Campbell to completion.

Got a spare half hour this morning? Then get the kettle on, sit back and watch, then think about booking yourself a flight over to China for the weekend.

www.smpskatepark.com

Arizona is churning out some ridiculously good skating right now. Coverage from that area is all over the place right now, and the lads have done it again with fantastic new video On The Friggidee.

The SkateAZ website has the video, which features John Motta, Ryan Lay, Peter Vlad, Ernie Torres and all the AZ staples.

Click www.skateaz.com/onthefriggidee

Those chaps at Landscape have another fine quality piece of hardware for you to get in time for Christmas, with these brand new Land Speed bearings.

Featuring removable rubber shields so you can get your mitts dirty and clean them once in a while, these should be in all good retailers by November.

www.landscapeskateboards.com for more details

Kill City Skateboards and Dead Metal Clothing are throwing a jam to end all Halloween skate jams in Wales this week. Get down there and see Pritchard and Dainton eat offal.

If you haven’t seen this line already, then BT must have cut your phoneline, or cut your eyes out. Eric Koston just builds the hype for “that video” even more with another throwaway clip from the vaults.

Spitfire have hooked up with Lakai to produce a limited edition set of wheels in the run-up to Fully Flared dropping in the next month.

In a goodwill gesture, all proceeds made from these wheels will go to the families affected by the Californian fires that tore through the area last week.

A zombie jam has been announced and taking place at The Boardroom Skatepark in Leicester this Wednesday 31st October 7pm til late.

It’s £3 to enter and £2.50 for those poncey student types. Expect a game of S.K.A.T.E. over/on the brand NEW mini spine with equally silly prizes, pure fun.

Get your fake blood out and get in there.

God knows what this Harvest blog is about, if you can read Japanese scripture then let us know.

However, some of the photos on it are rad, with some very odd looking decks flying about.

I need to go to Japan.

Max Schaaf’s blog is always a good read and contains really useful words and pictures, including eye-magnets, gang sign language, naked girls and motorbikes. Oh, and quite a bit of skateboarding too.

Check out 4qconditioning.blogspot.com for more stuff like pumpkin carvings of Hitler.