Our good friend Jono Atkinson has been documenting a bunch of behind the scenes footage of the opening of the new skatepark in Swansea.
Watch this footage that also has skating from Welsh Tommy, Dylan Hughes, Dave Snaddon, Barney Page, Mark Gear, Ric Cartwright, John ‘Beanhead’ Coppen and live music from Ssssnakes.
Buster O’Shea’s video A Happy Medium 2 featured 10 of the best skaters from Arizona back in 2008. Today, Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki’s section from that video is online. if you have never seen this before, get stuck in, as Jaws has become one of the most watched skateboarders on the internet since this dropped.
Look out for Tony Hawk’s interview on here in the next week or so, as he speaks about his Birdhouse team rider and other ams that have ripped up the technical rule book. Enjoy this!
Enjoy some bowl skating and all round gnar from this weekend’s Coastal Carnage in Huntington Beach, California. Here’s the results from Skate Daily and the qualifiers edit from the Tampa crew.
Finals:
1. Tom Remillard
2. Pedro Barros
3. Curren Caples
4. Tony Hawk
5. Ben Hatchell
6. Ben Raybourn
7. Robbie Russo
8. Kevin Kowalski
9. Kalani David
10. Andrew Langi
11. Josh Mattson
12. Div Adams
13. Christian Hosoi
14. Kyle Berard
15. Lance Mountain
Best Trick: – Tony Hawk – 540 on the shark hip
The VANS European team are dropping their Four Corners video series online right now. The most recent episode sees Danny Wainwright introduce you to skating to the East of the world map to China.
View the spots, take in the culture and enjoy the skating from Flo Marfaing, Kris Vile, Josh Young, Nassim Guammaz, Sam Partaix, Ross McGouran and of course, Wainwright himself.
Also, scroll down this page to find Phil Zwijsen’s take on this amazing country.
VANS have confirmed their invited teams and skaters to the VANS European Downtown Showdown that will take place in Old Spitalfields Market on 20th August this month in London. 50,000 euros will be up for grabs to the teams involved below.
If you cannot make it to the event, which is FREE to attend, don’t worry, as you will be able to watch it live on the internet from the Vans website.
To celebrate this event,VANS have given us some Rowley SPV’s, a limited edition, signed, art print and apparel so click here to pick up some free stuff!
CONFIRMED TEAMS ARE:
Blind Europe
Chris Oliver, Sam Beckett, Sewa, Javier Pares
Element Europe
Ross McGouran, Guillaume Mocquin, Phil Zwijsen, Nassim Guammaz
Antiz
Hugo Liard, Sam Partaix, Aaron Sweeney
Cliché
Charles Collet, Lucas Puig, Flo Mirtain and Daniel Espinoza.
Yama Skateboards
Muki Rustig, Ferit Batir, Dustin Vollnach
Blueprint
Danny Brady, Mark Baines, Jerome Campbell, Tom Knox
Almost
Willow, Michael Sommer, Michael Wright, Daryl Dominguez, Youness Amrani
Alis Skateboards
Flex O’ Connor
Superdead Skateboards
Eddie Belvedere, Harry Lintell, Nick Remon, Awadh Mohammed
Palace Skateboards
Chewy Cannon, Rory Milanes, Lucien Clarke, Olly Todd
Death Skateboards
Dan Cates, Boots, Adam Moss, Moggins
Tony Hawk was in town 2 weeks back for a swift visit to Laureus, a project set up to inspire kids in East London. We were invited to pop over there and say hello and returned with a video interview for you that will be running on here soon where Tony discusses the new Bones Brigade plans with Stacy Peralta, Birdhouse plans, the impressive amount of ams on the rise across the planet and much, much more.
Watch this teaser for now and spread the word.
The Emerica Stay Gold footage just keeps on trucking this year. Click play below to watch the the Euro team video featuring hammers from Eniz Fazliov, Rob Maatman, Helder Lima, Pontus Alv, Vladik Scholz and Euro flow riders Thomas Nielsen, Henrique Goncalves and Ante Aiello.
Word has it that there’s another european edit from Emerica on its way so look out for that here once we get it.
The new full length Antiz Skateboards DVD, Occasional Antiz Flashback has been released for free download this month over at the Antiz site Today you can watch Michel Mahringer’s section right here as a taster. Get some.
Jake Reuter skates the many lines of Washington Street for the latest Vox Shoes, Straight out of the Box video series. Enjoy some concrete shredding here.
Dylan Rieder is back with a new street edit filmed and edited by Russell Houghten. The footage was filmed for the X-Games Real Street video competition last week and was pipped at the post by Brandon Westgate.
Watch this amazing footage. Additional filming comes from Greg Hunt, Cody Green and Colin Evans and the music is by Dirt Dress.