Category: Skateboarding News

It does what it says on the tin. 15 tricks with the Barrier Kult warrior ahead of the Heroin ‘Video Nasty’ DVD hitting your local skate shop this month. Get hyped.

The fight to keep Southbank from relocation took a new twist last week with the Long Live Southbank campaign skating onto the steps of Lambeth Town Hall to deliver Councillor Diana Braithwaite over 14,000 individual objections on paper. In the same week, the Southbank Centre admitted that they have decided to delay their plans to push forward with their planning application, bringing a few smiles to the faces involved in the fight as they roll forward with a passionate campaign to keep the history of SB intact.

The Southbank Centre (SC) issued a statement last week, saying: “The Festival Wing project has huge potential to reach out and change the lives of thousands of local children and young people … but we also want our skateboarders and BMXers to continue to think of this as their home. It is for this reason we have asked Lambeth council to allow us more time to review whether our scheme is achieving the very best balance of opportunities for current and future generations, and they have agreed to this.”

The SC have now taken their appeal a little further by reaching out to people walking past the Undercroft in a new sign erected outside the Royal Festival Hall and a new video statement made by Artistic Director Jude Kelly. Also, tendors for the new proposed design underneath the Hungerford Bridge are apparently being prepped as we write this. It’s a strange battle, made up of passion, history, values and pride, but the message is clear. The SC want to work with us, but need everyone to move. Where this loggerhead situation moves to now is up to the Council and partly relies on the Village Green application under the Commons Act of 2006.

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The spanner is now locked firmly in place due to the commitment of the LLSB on behalf of skateboarders, where we all go from here is the next chapter. Until more fresh news arrives, listen to what street artist and 80’s southbank skateboarder D*face has to say about the campaign, and await a graff related response in video feature from this Thursday.

Also note that a book is being collated right now, so if you have any submissions then send your photos, artwork and stories to longlivesouthbank@gmail.com for possible inclusion, and also read the Guardian’s most recent article that ran yesterday about the state of skatebaording in your area. Click here to feedback.

Ross McGouran‘s incredible new section in Element’s Hold It Down video has been unleashed onto the internet and it’s a beast. Ross brings a huge bag of tricks in a mix of park and street footage and absolutely slays it for Skate Edit of the Week.

Get on this today.

ELEMENT – HOLD IT DOWN Ross McGouran by elpatin

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Level Army ripper Sam Banham has sadly passed. He was a big character down at Brighton’s infamous Level skatepark and was fearless when it came to shredding. Alan Glass has edited a tribute video this weekend. RIP.

I love watching this dude skate. He has some serious board control and pop to die for. Check in with Luis Tolentino and friends for a day skating around Queens.

James Hardy has returned with by far the best skate edit you will see this week filmed entirely in and around Alabama. He takes out pretty much everything in his path, the spots are raw as fuck, the ollies are never ending, every rail gets annihilated and this bloke just keeps giving – as does skateboarding this year.

2013 is becoming a vintage year for great footage, and Thrasher seem to be holding every damn key to it. Hats off to all involved in anyhting as good as this. Watch Hardy’s Homecoming section that is hands down Skate Edit of The Week.

Enjoy this San Diego gnar fest with Blood Wizard rippers Jerry Gurney, Anakin Senn, Jerry Gurney, Toad, Rob Mason, Drew Dezort and friends of the Dark Forest- Mason Merlino, Matt Hourani, and Anthony Schultz.

Blood Wizard are now distributed by Stable Dist in the UK.

If you saw the Team Average clip recently featuring Dylan Reider, Natas and more in New Zealand, this edit kind of follows on from it.

Slow down into La Casa time where both skaters stayed for ten days of ramp building, creating and relaxating. This video is the first of two with the Natas feature coming next week. Keep your eyes on our skate news.

Loved Emerica’s Stay Gold? Marcel Levstek here decided to re-edit the full b-side over three days of hard graft and roll out his own version of it. Emerica approves. Enjoy.

Thrasher have rolled out an amazing peep into San Francisco’s punk rock skate scene with this new 30 minute documentary on the life and times of shredding set around The House. Various Anti-Hero aficionado’s and friends lived and partied hard in this gaff on 6 Newell Street where anything goes.

Enjoy footage from Oakland’s Bordertown skate park, street-slaying, crack-pipers, booze-rippers and much more.