Tom Knox is the latest to drop a teaser for the Eleventh Hour video coming soon with a couple of new tricks from the Undercroft.
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Locals of Hebden Bridge skatepark witnessed their bowls turned into a makeshift swimming pool this week as the heatwave continues to scorch the UK. The bowls were filled with filthy brown water said to have been transported from the nearby River Calder, attracting a bunch of people for a dip. It has been reported that some of the revellers have since been struck down with sickness and diarrhoea and are now at home crapping themselves as a result of the fun. How the river water managed to get into the bowls is still a mystery though.
Prizes will be awarded to the best quotes you can muster from this situation.
Stereo Skateboards have unleashed a new informer today to their crew. Nick Zizzo may sound like a NYC road thief but he manages to steal the last trick by the skin of his teeth in this. Enjoy this.
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Marc Johnson speaks out
Ph: Anthony Craine
Jenkem Mag have a really good interview online today with Marc Johnson who discusses the state of the skate industry, the changes that are going on with people leaving brands to set up their own and much more. The issue of major sports brands within skateboarding was also raised:
If a big sports shoe brand paid you 2 or 3 times your current salary, would you consider leaving Lakai to ride for them?
Okay. No, I wouldn’t ride for a mainstream sports footwear brand. I would not skate for Big Company Footwear.
Why not?
Big Company has a policy where if a skateshop wants to carry that ONE shoe that everyone wants, the skateshop is forced to carry ALL of their shoes. FORCED to carry all of their shoes. When those shoes don’t sell, the skateshop goes into debt and that debt gets bigger and bigger until the skateshop goes out of business. Your local shop owes Big Company a lot of money and must continue to sell the popular shoe just to pay their bills, and then they go even deeper into debt because the other Big Company shoes don’t sell at all. No one wants them. But skateshop is forced to carry those shoes too in order to be able to sell the one popular shoe. And now, skateshop doesn’t even have a choice about what they order. Shoes just randomly show up at the shop, and now skateshop owes Big Company money for product they didn’t even order.
Who the fuck does that to a skateshop????
Obviously someone who doesn’t care about the skateshops, skateboarding or skateboarders. It’s terrible. Skateboarding footwear brands don’t do that shit to skateshops. Skate Footwear brands let the shops decide what shoes they want to carry. Skate Footwear company doesn’t force skateshops to do anything they don’t want to do, or strong-arm them into a debt-slavery relationship.
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE.
If you have not followed this series this week then search out the 1st and 2nd episodes as they put the core into hardcore. This bridge session is annihilated by Grant Taylor, whilst Raney, Fardell, Roy, Gerwer, Riley Hawk and many more get stuck into the rest of it. Hermann’s Hole goes off too. Do it.
The enjoi team headed down under for a shred and came back with footage from Jerry Hsu, Louie Barletta, Ben Raemers, Cairo Foster, Dane Burman, Jake Hayes and Anthony Mapstone. This lot certainly put the ‘C’ into the C-word.
There have been quite a few new shoe moves this week but none more significant as this. HUF have been quietly going about their way to build a solid team of rippers and have now strengthened their squad with the addition of both Dylan Rieder and Austyn Gillette this week.
Look out for these two alongside the full team in the UK this August if plans come to fruition as part of their European tour.
Ph: Switch nosegrind by Henry Kingsford
The second trailer for the Eleventh Hour video has dropped today featuring b-roll footage of Nick Jensen and Sylvain Tognelli alongside an interview on the project with Jensen over at Grey where he discusses his new Lakai shoe, issues with music rights and more.
Get some out takes from Bake and Destroy with Don “Nuge” Nguyen and Sammy Baca. There’s a Nuge slam in here that is insane too. Fuck that.
This b-roll montage also has appearances by Andrew Reynolds, Dustin Dollin, Jeff Lenoce, Kevin Long, Bryan Herman, Terry Kennedy, Braydon Szafranski, Sammy Baca, Don Nguyen, Theotis Beasley, Justin Figueroa, Shane Heyl, Beagle Oneism, Nasty Neck, Riley Hawk, Dee Ostrander, Cyril Jackson, Mike White and more.
Grant Taylor, Tony Miorana, David Gonzales, Gravette, Riley Hawk, Jaws, Andy Roy, Geoff Rowley, Bad Shit and many more all feature in this Skate Rock 2 video from their recent tour of Chicago, Carbondale and St. Louis. Looks like shit went off.