Irish skate company Boarderco have welcomed Darragh Forrester to their team over the weekend. Footage here.
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Ben Raybourn won the Coastal Carnage event in Huntington Beach this weekend, but Jaws had a sweet 540 to throw into the mix.
Jake Donnelly is the latest Real team rider to roll out an edit from his hometown of Buffalo, New York.
Real Skateboards Jake Donnelly Pushing Buffalo, New York from dlxsf on Vimeo.
This weekend’s Downtown Showdown held in Amsterdam went offin fine style. If you didn’t manage to tune into the live stream of the event from Vans then catch up with the highlights from all 4 teams.
Flip team rider Overall “Best Pro” Luan Oliveira skated with remarkable consistency and smooth style, landing tricks and winning 1st place on the Palace Obstacle and the Blueprint Obstacle. Best Overall Am was Element team rider Ross McGouran, who also took 3rd place on the Flip obstacle, skating hard all day. He made every transfer the windmill-inspired Antiz obstacle had to offer.
Flip:
Inside the massive Gasholder building at the Flip Obstacle the atmosphere intensified with heavy hitting last tricks and a solid performance by first place finisher Dominik Dietrich, who set the bar with a wallie up and Nollie heelflip down the ledge.
Vans Downtown Showdown 2012 – Amsterdam – Flip Obstacle Highlights. from Vans Europe on Vimeo.
Blueprint:
At Blueprint, Luan Oliveira landed a variety of flip tricks over the pyramid and on the ledge. Billy Marks double flipped the gap to flat and walked away with 1,000 Euros for 2nd place. Technical and creative skater Dallas Rockvam took third place by using the entire design, which was inspired by the barges and canals of Amsterdam.
Vans Downtown Showdown 2012 – Amsterdam Blueprint Obstacle Highlights. from Vans Europe on Vimeo.
Antiz:
The Antiz Obstacle rose above the venue floor like a classical Dutch Windmill on Acid. Rob Smith took first place by skating every angle, while Ben Nordberg’s backside nose blunt on the extension ricocheted into applause that reverberated off the walls.
Vans Downtown Showdown 2012 – Amsterdam ANTIZ Obstacle Highlights. from Vans Europe on Vimeo.
Palace:
Vans Downtown Showdown 2012 – Amsterdam – Palace Obstacle Highlights. from Vans Europe on Vimeo.
The Mischief edit from the North East skate scene video, ‘Pigs In Wigs‘ released back in 2010 is online from today edited by Bingo (RIP) himself alongside all of the other sections from the video.
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Rom Jam 2012 video
Monkeyglove covered this weekend’s Rom Jam in Essex. Watch it here.
Old bowl footage of good times spent at Kidderminster’s Safari Park bowl has surfaced this week. the cine tapes have footage of Neil Danze, Gary Lee, Roger Harvey, Andy Peerless, Sean Goff and many more.
Check out this edit of bowl, mini ramp and freestyle skating from the archives and footage from an English Skateboard Association comp (ESA) from 1984 too. Classic stuff.
The BBC banks in Manchester may have been decorated lately with skatestoppers after 20 years of freedom, but it has only raised the bar for a different session as Joe Gavin, Rogie, Tom Day, Fos and Tom McClung demonstrate in Jim Craven’s edit.
The carpenters have been finishing off the main body of work in the street course over the last week with the ‘spectator gap’ being the stand out design addition that has been built in front of the new spectator cabin. Check out the new video and photos in the updated feature and feel free to share them as the park really takes shape.
Lakai have dropped a new edit featuring their European crew skating Parisian spots. This footage put together by Boris Proust features Sylvain Tognelli, Karsten Kleppan, Niklas Speer Von Cappeln, Max Frion, Gauthier Rouger, Daniel Espinoza, Sebo Walker and Nick Jensen.