The Built to Skate 2007 video is now ready for you to push your eyes into, just by clicking here
Featuring Phillip Schuster, Roman Astleitner, Ralf Edlinger, Andi Fugger, Julia Brückler, Daniel Spiegel, Mathäus Zingerle and more, the idea was to build spots in Austria, then tour them in 2 days getting as many tricks on them as possible.
The result is Built to Skate 2007, a 6 spot, 1000km mission across Austria.
The 5th District Skateboards team are proud to announce that Guy Kampfen has joined their ranks and will be doing frontside tailslide fakie manual reverts.
Not on Monday morning thanks, too tech for me, but good luck to Guy!
Just in case you were wondering how to say ‘kickflip’ to the hard of hearing, check this website below.
My favourite is ‘K-grind’ because it looks like a rad dance move.
Fridays fun starts and ends here! Smoke the bat…
The new EA Skate game was launched recently, with 7 parks across the UK getting some brand spanking new concrete block replicas of world famous skatespots. The launch day saw these blocks dropped into Revolution, Baysixty6, The House, The Factory, Rampworx, The Works, and The Park.
Check the photo montage below for shots of the blocks and who’s done what. Big shout out to Badger at Bullet Clip for all his hard work with the project and making sure that these concrete beauties are there for everyone to use for free.
So, all you need to know is that the comp is still on. All you lot have to do is film your best trick on one or all the blocks, and upload it to http://skate.electronicarts.co.uk
or http://skate.electronicarts.co.uk/news/content/4/
The winners get to go where those blocks are from, so in total 4 people will go to San Franscisco for 7 days and 10 people will go to Barcelona for 4 days, accommodation and flights are paid for. Why are you still reading this? Get in there!
Photos: Gorm and Richard Gilligan
The new Savoire Faire DVD is almost ready, and the website has had some new updates.
This DVD should be amazing due to its strict policy of ‘skaters who skaters want to watch’ being put in. That means the likes of Div Adams, Chris Oliver, Rogie, Dave Snaddon and John Tanner being captured by the lenses of Toby Bachelor, Alex Irvine, Paul Sylvester, Ciaran O Connor, Morph and Kevin Parrott.
Click over to http://savoirfaire.wordpress.com/ for updates and more, including Div’s new part for MotoX 411VM
It’s one of those fuck all to do with skateboarding threads but ha, i’m laughing so much from this that I think I may have followed through!
It’s one of those fuck all to do with skateboarding threads but ha, i’m laughing so much from this that I think I may have followed through!
So, Kris Vile and myself went on a little mission a few weeks back to go and check out the Brussels stop of the Volcom Wild in the Parks tour whilst also getting the street missions on in the few other free days we had.
We had some local knowledge in that one of their team riders – Fabien Verhaeghe – and also their returning ex-pat TM Hans Claessens we’re locals.
So was their other Euro rider – who has recently been made into Flip’s newest Am – Axel Cruysberghs, although at twelve years old his street knowledge wasn’t quite as built up as the Rain Man memory recall Hans was capable of.
The spots were so good – the city stuff was a treat, but like most great skate scenes, it is the suburbs which hold the true delights. This goes not just for the golden session spots, but also for what’s new, too. Having people speak the local lingo aided us no end – especially having the local contacts. This never came truer than in getting the lowdown on the new park in a little town called Namur located in the French speaking part of Belgium.
The hot tip off of this new park just seemed to work so well even though skatepark sessions on a weekend are usually busier than their street counterpart. I think a couple of days skating hard for twelve hours a day pushed us this way. A cold beer and a few laps catching our back trucks on coping worked a treat, too. After the hour drive out to what isn’t the largest park I’d even seen (Think Borehamwood size) we wasted no time, rolling until the sun set.
The park is pretty unique. It’s not a street park, although it has street stuff. It’s not a bowl park, even though there are bowled parts and it’s not a driveway sort of place, even though there are driveways.
If you can imagine, the park is sort of Q shaped. Or maybe not. I guess the only word which could adequately describe it is organic. The mini ramp flows into the flat hip, which curves around into the hubba which…you get the idea, right? It’s cruisy. You can go at it Stockwell style and just pump about all day or you can up your game and throw down some manoeuvres. I’d leave the grinds over the deathbox on the vert wall to the likes of Axel, though. That thing is just plain scary.
Check out the video clip of the Volcom crew in action during the afternoon – and then get yourself on a cheap flight across the English channel and go check it out for yourself. Tin heap skateparks are a thing of the past.
Words and video by Kevin Parrott
The Namur skatepark is situated at the following address thanks to Ralph LD’s local spot skills:
Avenue Baron de Lhoneux 8 (Right at the end of the street)
Jambes (South of Namur)
To get there from Namur central station. Exit the station and cross the road. Take buses 2/ or 9 to Plage d’Amée, Jambes.
No don’t worry, we haven’t gone soft on you.
Check the new trailer for St. Louis scene video Girl Talk from the Pretty Skateboards team. We’re all for scene videos here and this looks like it’ll be a good ‘un.
Featuring Drew Etzkorn, Jack Donze, Ben Goeke, Matt Minton, Bobby Marksteiner, Dave Thomas, Joel Dodson, and many more, you can see the trailer and get the DVD by visiting www.prettyskateboards.com
In the meantime, you can see Randy Ploesser’s guest part from the video below.