Texan ripper Auby Taylor double tunes it in this 7 minute edit ending the year on a high. He was on Krooked but who knows whose wood he will be riding in 2015. This footage was on Index Skate Supply’s “Allergic to Awesome” DVD back in 2012 but if you want more, head here for his latest part.
Check the switch heel on the Hollywood 16 and the fakie flip on the Santa Monica triple set…
Dean Palmer gets off at Redfern Station and takes his big bag of tricks to Sydney’s streets in this new Passport Skateboards edit where he takes The Shire apart at night. Name that tune though…
It’s that time of the year again. The Skater of the Year award nominees have been posted this morning and we have one British man in the running alongside a whole host of other contenders.
Ben Raemers gets our vote. How many other British skaters have matched what he has achieved that can skate all terrain so well, make it look easy and still make people laugh with such Dagger-bred goofyness? How many other Brits have two Thrasher covers to to name in the last 5 years? None… Give this Essex lemon squeezer the honours, please.
More the point, who didn’t make the list that should have been on there? No Brad Cromer, Austyn Gillette, or Mark Suciu. No Raven Tershy after all those miles across the planet all year? He must have been stoked on being left out of this.
Thrasher’s official list is below but we reckon it comes down to the following: Torey Pudwill has to be high in the running as he has meant to have a banging edit that closes the new Plan B video and has already taken a couple of covers this year. Barletta laid it down in Oververt and has contributed loads throughout the years. Cory Kennedy has to be in the mix as he’s been active all year and absolutely killed it – in a hat. Wes Kremer delivered some next level stuff as has Raybourn who has had a constant web presence this year too. Ronnie Sandoval could swing it for non stop ripping and Jaws has definitely laid down another year of hammers. He’s unmatched for gnar when you’re talking the big stuff. Then there’s GT. Could he win it twice? Probably.
So where does that leave us? You decide from the chosen few announced today and leave us a comment at the bottom of the page.
Youness Amrani
Louie Barletta
Blake Carpenter
Trevor Colden
Ryan Decenzo
Jack Fardell
Aaron “Jaws” Homoki
Nyjah Huston
Boo Johnson
Jake Johnson
Chris Joslin
Jeremy Leabres
Cory Kennedy
Alec Majerus
Luan Oliveira
Wes Kremer
Torey Pudwill
Ben Raemers
Ben Raybourn
Dylan Rieder
Miles Silvas
Grant Taylor
Clint Walker
Ishod Wair
Kyle Walker
Brandon Westgate
Bobby Worrest
Flip’s Geoff Rowley has a made a plea from the Hawaiian island of Oahu today after being ransacked by a thief in the middle of the night who made off with his laptop, camera, wallet, passport, and a number of extremely personal items. He is offering a reward for his stuff back and has posted this on his social networks:
“If there are any surfers or skaters in the area that can help locate any of this stuff I would greatly appreciate the help. It’s the personal photographs of my family from this vacation that are most saddening. I’m offering a $5k reward for the return of the laptop and any other items.”
There’s no worse feeling that realising someone has been in your personal space, thoughts going out to Geoff and his family right now. Let’s hope that someone sees sense in this situation and gives it all back.
And it’s a Happy 40th Birthday to Lost Art’s Dave Mackey who celebrated with his crew at Warrington’s indoor park this weekend. Hope you had a good one Dave!
Would Christian Hart lie to you? Of course not. Straight up Spit & Sawdust fun with Kill City’s Caradog Emanuel vs Charles and Eddy. Thanks for the earworm lads.
Charlie Birch‘s full section in the Albion video is fresh off the cut today. Enjoy this skating from one of Liverpool’s brightest prospects.
Warning, this post has some spoilers in it.
Last night, the new Plan B video ‘True’ was finally premiered in Los Angeles to a packed out Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood. From overall observations online it’s said to be amazing, “taken skateboarding to the next level” and has delivered a “face melter”.
If you were wondering if Sheckler took ‘that’ backside flip down the famous steps of El Toro then you will probably have to wait for the bonus section on the deluxe – that’s if they were holding it back of course. The team did introduced Chris Joslin though as their newest addition on the night. He’s said to have dropped an absolutely killer part that includes a massive tre flip down the UC Davis gap. You know the one, think Andrew Reynolds’ kickflip in Stay Gold.
Whilst we await a UK premiere and the official DVD or iTunes release, scroll down to watch some Danny Way footage shot on Bob’s megaramp filmed by Kurt Hayashi that he shared over the weekend ahead of the premiere. No helmet required…
You wanted more, you got it. Loads more footage of GT, Sandoval and Tershy filmed at Harrow, Rom, Tottenham, the Deaner, Stockwell, Ideal and much more from Europe in this Yardsale edit.
Photo of the Week: Grant Taylor vs Vicky Park by David Broach
Latvian ripper Madars Apse smashed it with this pro edit for Element.
A huge highlight was the Thrasher crew annihilating Rom, Tottenham and more. Total rampage.
Kris Vile took the honours from Albion.
HUF also unleashed a killer tour edit from their trip through through Asia.
People been calling for Wes Kremer SOTY. On this evidence, it’s easy to see why. Who are you calling for this year?
The long player of the week goes to romcom skate video of the season: Homo Pop Gun.
And this week’s Vault choice is…Cheese and Crackers from Almost. One of the most game changing skate videos of all time from Daewon Song and Chris Haslam.