Category: Skateboarding News

So here it is, Thrasher’s Skater of the Year 2013 is…..

There were so many others who could have taken this crown this year. Jim Greco proved he can still bust it at the highest level. Westgate killed it all year, Grant Taylor and Ben Raybourn both had so much quality footage out there, Bob Burnquist pushed big tranny skating through the roof and changed the game and Mark Suciu’s huge amount of street footage should have pushed him into the top 3. Then there’s Nyjah Huston, who despite dropping an epic edit to complete his year didn’t get past the post despite wearing the tee.

So the prize has fallen to the incredible Ishod Wair who was announced this morning. Congrats all round as Philly’s star player earnt it through consistent style and makes the most difficult skateboarding look simple.

Think he deserved it? Who got your vote?

The Curzon cinema in Soho, London will screen Marten Persiel’s ‘This Ain’t California‘ film next Tuesday evening (10th Dec) that depicts the skate scene in Germany in the 1980s. With footage from back in the day edited with up to date recreated shots, this film that apparently sits between a documentary and a mockumentary looks fun and will be followed panel discussion with director Marten Persiel, artist / activist Skylon and skateboarder Biko Issah.

The film starts at 6.20pm. Book tickets here.

Heroin have posted Tom Day‘s section online from their epic Video Nasty DVD today which takes Skate Edit of the Week. This is one of our favourite sections from this flick so sit back and raise a glass to this all terrain ripper who skates what he wants.

Geoff Rowley‘s Epicly Later’d series comes to an end with this bonus edit featuring a few words on the outdoors from the Grand Canyon.

Join Lev from Palace Skateboards at the Tate gallery in London as he takes you through the making of a new run of decks inspired by artist John Martin. Palace have taken the famed piece The Great Day of His Wrath composed back in the 1851 alongside a sculpture to inspire a new board graphic that will be shown at the Warp night tonight.

Parlour came back from Copenhagen with a bunch of new footage filmed in park and street by Kevin Parrott. Harry Lintell, Chris Oliver, Nick Stansfield, Charlie Birch, Jak Pietryga, Dan West and Rune Glifberg are all involved in this one.

Steve King is now riding on Supertoxicurethane wheels and to celebrate such goodness, his section in the Welsh video ‘Now That’s What I Call Skateboarding’ from last year has been unlocked for your viewing pleasure.

Now go learn those boneless moves this weekend…

Hoon Skateboards are famed for their no shit video parts and Pat Dandy here packs his shit to the ceiling in this new edit. Get ready for a full on assault from an all-terrain ripper.

Another contender for SOTY 2013 has new footage out today. Ben Raybourn hits park and street in this new edit. Photo of that big-arse ollie in San Diego by Brian Shemanski.

So here it is after all the hype, Nike Skateboarding’s Chronicles 2 video has been released this morning with half an hour of top level skateboarding. Watch the film and read our review here.