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Watch Unabomber demo 1999 with Baker, Stephens, Todd +

Here’s one from the vaults. Watch Vaughan Baker, Franklin Stephens, Alan Rushbrooke, Harry, Olly Todd, Pete Helicar and Toby Shuall repping the Unabomber team from 1999 skating the old bus station skatepark in Norwich. It says on this video description that this was the 1st and only demo featuring all of the original team members. (Paul Sylvester was there but injured.) Nothing like a blast from the past.

Press play and note that Alan Rushbrooke features in Monster Network’s Lords of the Swords edit here. Have you voted yet?

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Geoff Rowley on FOS FM tomorrow morning

Geoff Rowley is this week’s guest on Mark Foster’s Fos FM show in California tonight at 9pm in the US, 5am tomorrow morning in the UK. The Brits abroad will be spinning what will probably involve a healthy dose of rock and roll and much more on kchungradio.org. All of these shows are archived so if you don’t run a farm or live like Dracula (or Zorlac) then you can find the full session on www.fosfm.com where you can find other shows with the pro’s and the ho’s.

Grab a bunch of Rowley’s moments in the meantime.

Geoff Rowley remix from Manolo on Vimeo.

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Watch Tom Penny’s ‘Sorry’ extras from Fred Mortagne

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Flip’s legendary ‘Sorry’ full length video was released in 2003 and went down in skateboarding history as one of the very best ever made. Tom Penny‘s part featured mini ramp skating in a French barn whilst Edith Piaf sang ‘La Vie En Rose’. Eleven years later, ‘French Fred’ Mortagne has unleashed the extra Penny footage. Press play.

In related Flip news, new recruit Oscar Meza will unleash a full section online on October 8th. Put it in your dairy.

Flip “Classics” Video – Tom Penny Extras from FLIP SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.

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Skateboarding hits the front pages with Kilian Martin

Yesterday’s front page news in the Evening Standard in London featured Kilian Martin and Alfredo Urbon skating a longboard for a new advert to promote the new Smart Car. It simply says, search youtube – skatefortwo.

Art on Wheels is what he calls it. Like ballerena skateboarding. As Kilian Martin says himself on his own website, he’s: “creating an all new way to extend freestyle into the realm of street skating. His unique movements set him in a class of his own.”

They certainly do that, there’s no denying it, but will this start a new trend of doubles in the parks of London? Will Hyde park have a new trend? Do we care? Of course not, but this is firstly a hilarious way of depicting what skateboarding is to people who don’t know and secondly a kick in the teeth for those who cringe at what skateboarding is becoming again due to mainstream exposure.

Freestyle skateboarding back in the 80’s was sneered at and laughed out of the parks but what came from that was an era of change. Players like Rodney Mullen upped the game by taking his flatground moves to the streets and the 90s flourished as a result. But this, maybe it should stay as a game for two, as yesterday’s news and today’s chip paper.

STATIONPARK from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

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Watch Geoff Rowley on 411VM from 1995

geoff_rowleyThis video gem featuring a very young, then Airwalk shoe sponsored Geoff Rowley in 1995 is just one of the many videos shot for 411 Video Magazine.

At the time, 411VM was our main source for keeping in touch with skate footage worldwide alongside full-length VHS releases, and were available at the best skate shops monthly. It’s strange to think that the internet even back then didn’t cater for video like it does now as broadband/high speed connections was not available like it is now.

The good news is that Skateboarder Magazine in the US have started rolling out all of the 411VM back catalogue bringing you stacks of skate history from various profiles, team features, event clips, individual sections and much more. Keep an eye on it as it rolls out but for now, watch Rowley’s Rookies section that we stumbled across last night.

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Vida Collective ‘Beginnings teaser’ (NSFW)

vidacollective_logoThe Vida Collective from London have released a teaser ahead of a short film dropping in October. The ender is a shocker, and unfortunately not a switch bigspin down El Toro but footage of a stripper on board one of their team riders. So, if you are viewing this from your desk, school or somewhere else where you are likely to look like a div viewing it, then just don’t watch it.

VIDA COLLECTIVE – “Beginnings” teaser from VIDA on Vimeo.

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Vans Shop Riot footage online

vans-logoThis weekend’s Shop Riot at Hemel Hempstead’s XC skatepark welcomed teams from shops all over the country for a session. The Black Sheep team took the honours with riders repping from Fifty Fifty, The Ledge, Switch, Halfpipe, Lost Art and many more.

Get stuck into the tricks from the day courtesy of Sidewalk with Chris Oliver, Manny Lopez, Daryl Dominguez and many more

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Watch MegaRamp footage from Brazil

The MegaRamp visited Rio in Brazil recently and some incredible tricks went down. See Bob Burnquist on this image here? Try not to shudder when you see the footage.

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Watch Martin ‘socks’ Maguire’s full part

Nise team rider Martin ‘socks’ Maguire has a full part aided by the seafaring swagger of the Dropkick Murphy’s this week. Socks and the ‘Ox’ should session together as it would make nailbiting viewing.

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Pixels footage from Tredegar Park in Newport

Kill City aficionado’s Jake Collins, Sox and Sam Pulley and many more feature in the new Pixels video shot down in Tredegar Park in Newport from this weekend’s opening event. Watch the view of what went down through Alan Glass’ lens here.

Pixels Episode 2 from Pixels on Vimeo.