WeActivist Arto Saari has managed to pick up more coverage this year than most pro’s. Click below to take in the second part of his WESC retrospective discussing his short departure from Flip to Alien Workshop with Chris Pastras, taking a look into his photography and a shred in his backyard pool.
Roger Skateboards take Skate Edit of the Week with this edit that pays homage to Ditches. We don’t have enough of them in the UK to really get a taste of what you will see in this edit, so dream into the worlds of Ryan Holloway, Ryan Pearce, Zachary Blatt, Cesar Fernandez, Bill Pierce, Max Taylor, Nate LaCoste and more in this fantastic ‘Diving Into the Concrete Horizon‘ edit.
Parlour skateshop and Lakai have announced plans for their annual Go Skateboarding Day shred. Sebo Walker, Danny Brady, Nick Jensen, Jesus Fernandez, Enrique Lorenzo and more riders tba soon will be hitting the streets of London on a designated route hitting 7 spots along the way.
Put this in your diary for the 21st June and look out for the spot announcement to follow.
Bristol’s Warmley Wasteland late DIY spot in Bristol has been honoured in this new edit by James Harris and Josh Perrett this week. Click for footage down there of Jess Young, Dave Wallace, Welsh Tommy, Craig Smedley, Arturas Jendovickis, Ryan Chamberlain, and many more.
The Long Live Southbank campaign contunues this week with Ben Bradshaw MP being the latest voice to discuss the heritage of the cultural importance of keeping skateboarding at the forefeont of the Thames, as opposed to more retail units. In related media news this week, the Guardian ran a photo feature from the Undercroft featuring faces of many of SB’s local users by The Inside Out Global Art Project. View David Gold’s shots here.
The public now have until July 5th to give Lambeth Council their feedback.
A new skateboard wheel has been designed in a strange cube shaped formula. Would you skate Shark Wheels? Watch this kickstarter video and let us know.
The Northamptonshire skate scene have filmed a bunch of footage over the last 3 months. Enjoy some skating from Alex “Moose” McGhie, Alex Young, Rew Cooke, Ryan Cotton, Tony Lui, Trevor Johnson and many more.
BUD skateshop rider Stéphan Boussac has hucked out the very first transfer from the middle bowl to the hip at Marseille’s incredible Prado park on southeast coast of France.
The gap has been hit many times the other way. John Cardiel did a 360 over the gap with a broken board, Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki 360’d it too, again, coming from the hip into the bowl.
We just had confirmation that this was the premiere transfer from new BUD shop owner Molinier ‘Momo’ Laurent, so unless you know someone else local who has this transfer in their pocket, you can blame him.
Enjoy a rare NBD from one of the best parks in the world that has seen the lot.
Liam Sproat has been living his life in the sunshine strips of Barcelona and also spent some time shredding the terrain found in Skopje (Skopiya), the capital of Macedonia. Enjoy this new footage and whatever you do, do not fucking click this.
Arturas Jendovickis has a new edit online today filmed by various peeps in Barcelona, Paris and few cities in the UK today. Skills.