Manchester’s Rob Smith will be skating Ricta Wheels officially from this week. Watch his new welcome edit here.
Category: Skateboarding News
The Simple Skate Store in Sheffield hosted the launch of Shaun Currie’s welcome to the Skateboard Cafe team last week. Watch Shaun, Josh Arnott and Matlok at Sheffield’s local spots.
Bay Sixty Skatepark tops the news for a second week running. Why? Well, after much planning and secrecy round these parts, the skatepark has scored a 2 year lease after fighting the system for the last couple of years and have allowed Nike to come in and redevelop the place over the next 8 weeks. So the Go Skateboarding Day jam next Thursday will officially be the last before it is completely bulldozed and rebuilt over the summer with a state of the art refit.
The plans for what they have in mind down here are pretty mindblowing but these will be rolled out soon. In the meantime get hyped on a FREE day of skating with their team riders skating the final session with others from 6.45pm. Details here.
Don’t be fooled though into thinking that the skatepark is safe forever just because a brand has announced its involvement in developing the park. Bay 66 still needs your support and needs it right now. The park needs to have a long term future and not just 2 years, so please sign the petition that is online here and do your bit. It takes 3 minutes of your life. Even if you are viewing this from another part of the country or outside of the country, London’s skateboarders need your help.
Watch the 2010 Xmas Jam to reminisce some of the good times we have had at the park next door to Crossfire and look forward to what is to come in the future.
Following the successful premiere’s of Stacy Peralta’s new documentary Bones Brigade : An Autobiography, the director has announced overnight his desire to release the film publicly in October this year. Speaking to an energy drink website on the subject of distribution Peralta says:
“I’m very excited with the road we’re taking with this film. It looks like we are going to self-release theatrically and make a deal with a company called Topspin Media that is going to manage our entire presence on the web. This will include selling “Bones Brigade” directly from our website via download and DVD, as well as many other things. We will be doing the final on-line and sound mix in late June to have it finished July 1st. Our plan is to release sometime in early October.”
Put it on your Xmas present list.
The film had its UK premiere this week month at a screening at the Sheffield Doc Fest this Wednesday night with another screening about to run this weekend on Sunday.
NIKE PRESS RELEASE:
“SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE”
NIKE CELEBRATE GO SKATEBOARDING DAY & ANNOUNCE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF BAY SIXTY6
Next Thursday 21st June, Nike UK will join a global community in celebrating Go Skateboarding Day with the Nike Skateboarding team passing though London to hit up some iconic skate spots before a free public demo at Bay Sixty6.
The event will also mark the final skate session at Bay Sixty6 as we know it, as Nike say ‘Sorry For The Inconvenience’, close the doors and embark on a state-of-the-art redevelopment of the park.
To commemorate the annual celebrations, the global Nike Skateboarding team, including Sean Malto, Youness Amrani, Lewis Marnell and Wieger Van Wageningen, alongside Fernando Bramsmark, Tim Zom, Chris Jones, Neil Smith, Daniel Kinloch, Joey Pressey and Korahn Gayle plan to get London skateboarding and honour one of the most authentic activities in the world.
Throughout the day, come rain or shine, the team will take in some of London’s classic skate spots, from the Southbank to Stockwell, before heading to Bay Sixty6 for a signing session and the final demo at the existing park. To follow the action, or even better, come and join these sessions, London’s skateboarders will have to follow Nike Skateboarding on Twitter and Instagram for clues and updates about when and where they will be.
To mark the occasion Bay Sixty6 will also have free entry all day for the public to skate their own personal, final session before meeting the Nike Skateboarding team and skating alongside them in between demos.
Skate Sessions across London: 12.45-5.00pm
Free Public Signing & Demo at Bay Sixty6: 6.30-8.30pm
During the renovation, the public will be able to keep track of progress but also take a look back at the history and heritage of the notorious Bay 66 on their new Facebook page www.facebook.com/BaySixty6
Lifeblood Skateboards welcome Tommy Fachiri to their UK Flow Team oficially this week. Enjoy this mini ramp sesh.
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Ed Templeton Leica interview
Love photography? Toy Machine’s Ed Templeton discusses his Leica M6 to capture images of skateboarding life and much more.
Stereo have a new deck series out there this month featuring pro decks from Stereo pro’s Benny Fairfax, Raymond Molinar, Ben Gore and Jack Sabback. The Shutter Series is made up of film and Polaroids from personal collections so press play to hear Benny Fairfax take you through his choices for what photos made the cut from his travels.
Quartersnacks have remixed Dennis Busenitz’s Real Skateboards ‘Since Day One’ section for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy what happens when NY mess with SF in this new edit. Still mind blowing.
Death Skateboards are rolling out a limited edition collaboration deck and t-shirt with Sidewalk Magazine right now. There could be only one graphic from this joint venture, the epic Cates fishtank shot that graced the cover will be featured so ask in your local skater owned shop to order one this weekend.
“It is an honour to have made this collaboration deck with Sidewalk Magazine, we don’t take their hard work for granted. Long live Sidewalk!” – Nick Zorlac.
