The Vans team will be hitting Southbank tomorrow afternoon from 3-5pm following a signing at their store in Carnaby street today at 5pm.
Geoff Rowley, Dustin Dollin, Gilbert Crockett, Chima Ferguson, Jonny Layton, Daniel Lutheran, Chris Pfanner, Rowan Zorilla, Alex Majerus, Nassim Guammaz, Sam Partaix and Danny Wainwright are all in the mix for this one, should be epic.
The team will then hit the road to Bristol (Wednesday) and Liverpool (Thursday) for more. Look out for local details.
Black Label are celebrating 25 years in the game this year and have unleashed Matt Hensley‘s Label Kills section this weekend as a present. Hensley is one of the most influential street skaters of all time. Never forget.
Raw footage from the Stee video featuring Nisse Ingemarsson has been released this weekend. Take in what it took to get his section down on tape.
Watch his section with Jimmy Cao here:
This weekend’s Vans Downtown Showdown in Paris looked fun. The Element crew came good with the overall winnning team award, Sweet Skateboards came 2nd, Flip in 3rd. The individual competition results are below and the official edit from the full weekend has all the highlights.
Palace Obstacle
1 Luan Oliveira
2 Louie Lopez
3 Yuri Facchini
Element Obstacle
1 Pedro Barros
2 Sylvain Tognelli
3 Louie Lopez
Cliché Obstacle
1 Josef Scott Jatta
2 Luan Oliveira
3 Louie Lopez
Flip Obstacle
1 Nassim Guammaz
2 Karsten Kleppan
3 Chris Pfanner
Monster Quasimodo Prize: Evandro Martins
Best AM: Nassim Guammaz
Best Pro: Luan Oliveira
Dutch ripper Douwe Macare has unleashed his official welcome edit to Fabric Skateboards this morning alongside the dulcit tones of Charles Bradley.
Douwe Macare – Fabric Skateboards from fabricskate on Vimeo.
Ed Hubert has dropped a cracking edit of Brighton’s locals skating the new Level Skatepark this week. The park has received much praise since its launch this summer thanks to the handywork of Freestyle skateparks. if you have not seen this beast yet, then click here for a gallery.
Watch footage of Amir Williams, Zak Miller, Al Hodgson, Rafi Sayer, Rich West, Matt Ransom, Joe Lewis Collins, Mitch Wheeler, Justin ‘Pasty’ Ashby, Oska Sullivan, Stacy Ansell, Lee Karakashian, Patch Sullivan, George Terry, Niall Birnie, Finn Casey Knight, Jake Wisdom, Will Greenfield, Dan Emmerson, Aaron Revell and Louis Antoine.
Fullpipe skating is discussed in this week’s Loveletter’s by Grosso, Duane Peters and Salba who look back into the history of missions that discovered the pipe dream.
This weekend’s Vans Downtown Showdown is being streamed live from Paris. Tune in today to watch the Element, Palace, Blind, Sweet, Antiz, Death, Flip, Cliché, Isle, Radio and Metropilitan and teams get stuck into various bespoke obstacles.
Teams:
Cliché (EU): riders: Kyron Davis, Flo Mirtain, Kevin Bradley, Lem Villemin
DROPDEAD: Pedro Barros, Rodolfo Ramos, Evandro Martins, Guilherme Trakinas
METROPOLITAN: Steve Ramy, Vincent Bressol, JJ Rousseau, Lee Smith
ISLE Skateboards: Nick Jensen, Chris Jones, Sylvain Tognelli, Tom Knox
RADIO Skateboards (US): Lenni Burmeister, Octavio Trindade, Valeri Rosomako, Bastien Marlin
PALACE Skateboards (EU): Lucien Clarke, Chewy Cannon, Rory Milanese, Olly Todd
BLIND Skateboards: Kevin Romar, Tj Rogers, Sewa and Sam Beckett
FLIP (US): Geoff Rowley, Ben Nordberg, Luan Oliveira, Louie Lopez
ELEMENT (EU): Ross McGouran, Phil Zwijsen, Nassim Guammaz, Karsten Kleppan
DEATH (EU): Rob Smith, Adam Moss, Mikey Patrick, Moggins
ANTIZ (EU): Sam Partaix, Dominic Dietrich, Samu Karvonen, Dallas Rockvam
SWEET Skateboards: Gustav Tönneson, Josef Scott Jatta, Jonas Skröder, Nisse Ingemarsson
Geoff Rowley is the latest Battle Commander over at The Berrics who drops a sick Beatles approved bunch of tricks with guest cameo appearances from Hawk, Gonzales, Koston, Thomas and Appleyard.
It does what it says on the tin. Hit the play button for one of skateboarding’s most interesting characters.