Congrats to all involved in the new Cirencester skate park build in Gloucestershire. It looks like the opening jam was a success! Enjoy watching Nicky Howells, Andy Coleman, Jed Cullen, Joe Habgood, Luke Kindon, Ryan Price and many more christen its new curves in style for James Harris’ lens.
Photos: Nicholas Mohnacky
The tragic news of Jay Adams‘ heart attack last week has left the skateboard and surf community mourning a legend worldwide. You can read our tribute to the great man here but these images and video are some of the last recorded of Adams enjoying beach life down in Puerto Escondido, Mexico last week. They were shot by fellow surfer Nicholas Mohnacky of SurfrApp who blogged them on hearing the sad news:
“Jay ran up to me earlier that morning with a huge smile because he saw me taking photos of the boys surfing at Zicatela. I was mostly shooting Coco Nogales, not wanting to miss a shot but I fired off one of Jay as he was coming towards me deep in the barrel. You can barely see him but it was my last photo of him before he passed away so I want to share it with you.”
More photos from Jay’s family are still being uploaded to his instagram account as we type this.
Our thoughts are with family and friends.
Jay Adams RIP
The Fifty Fifty crew made great use of the free concrete delivered from Red Bull’s DIY drop and added a new addition to Daveside.
Watch this DIY Bristol edit who filmed guests from the recent Polar tour to christen it.
Grab free concrete from various UK skate shops this month and make your own. The comp is only halfway through and only Parlour in Mile End have run out of concrete so far. Details here.
Offcuts from the NOCTURNIS edit have been unleashed online this week from the West and South Coast collective known as OWL with Al Hodgson, Jamie Platt and many more involved.
Real’s Jake Donnelly smashes it in this full part for Thrasher in Buffalo. Watch and learn.
Watch Ben Raybourn, Tony Hawk, David Loy, Lizzie Armanto and the rest of the Birdhouse team from their Summer Tour this year.
Get hyped for some Ethan Fowler footage fresh from the Hall of Fame over at the Houe of Hammers this week. Famed for his contributions at Foundation, Stereo and Toy Machine, Joey Sinko brings this one for the love of it.
Lost Art rider Ryan Rebotis has joins Would Skateboards who on the up out there right now. He joins a team with Scott Whittaker, Tom Watts, Laurie Colley, Ed Russel and flow riders Dan Thompson and Ian Devine.
Check out their screen printed Canadian maple decks when you get a chance.
This week Street League Skateboarding (SLS) and the International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) announced a strategic partnership as the SLS endorses ISF recognition by the International Olympic Committee as the official skateboarding federation. This has now been followed today with the line up of athletes that will be participating in the Youth Olympics this weekend in Nanjing, China.
Paul-Luc Ronchetti is the only British skater involved in what is a landmark event for World Skateboarding. Who would have thought that skateboarding looks to be finding its way into becoming an Olympic sport? Some will argue that it’s a farce resulting from the intrusion of sports brands infiltrating skateboarding, others who follow the Street League events will just be handed an extension to watching more perfect skateboarding with score cards. Whatever your view is, here are the featured athletes chosen for the showcase event that runs from August 17th-27th:
Street:
Leticia Bufoni (F – Brazil)
Candy Jacobs (F – Netherlands)
Kelvin Hoefler (M – Brazil)
Tomas Vintr (M – Czech Republic)
Sean Malto (M – USA)
Chris Cole (M – USA)
Vert:
Lizzie Armanto (F – USA)
Karen Jonz (F – Brazil)
Renton Millar (M – Australia)
Marcelo Bastos (M – Brazil)
Paul-Luc Ronchetti (M – UK)
Delegates:
ISF President: Gary Ream
ISF Event Delegate: Don Bostick
ISF Athlete Delegate: Neal Hendrix
ISF Representative: Johan Andersson
ISF Announcer: Ryan Clements (street)
ISFAnnouncer: Vernon Laird (vert)
Get down to this VX1000 edit from Cory Kennedy shot whilst on tour in Australia on Fourstar’s Crocodile Done Deal tour. Plenty of Ishod Wair footage alongside, Mike Carroll, Max Schaaf, Shane O’Neill, BA, Brophy and Koston.
Click here for the full official edit if you missed it.