Category: Skateboarding News

Gonz to release Instead of Eros Avenged book

Post author By Zac
Post date June 15, 2011

Artist, writer and legendary skateboarder Mark Gonzales has a new book coming out titled ‘Instead of Eros Avenged‘ via an independent publishing house called Nieves this July.

The book will feature select drawings, paintings and mobile phone photographs. The photographs depict a life of joyful and chaotic spontaneity, showing Gonzales posing with fans, hanging out with family and friends and of course, performing wallrides with text by Christopher Churchill.

Get this on your shopping list as you know this will be one to have in your living room at all times. For the latest on Gonz’ travels to the UK, click here and watch the video of The Obstacle jam in London below.

Tags adidas skateboarding, gonz book, gonz skating, Instead of Eros Avenged, mark gonzales, mark gonzales book, skate video, the gonz

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The Muska can still flip ’em

Post author By Zac
Post date June 14, 2011

Check out Muska’s rain flip from the Supra tour.

Tags Chad Muska, rain, supra, uk tour

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Many Man’s Monday at Southbank edit

Post author By Zac
Post date June 14, 2011

Hold Tight Henry has some more recent footage of sessions down at Southbank that went online this lunchtime. Have some tricks from Casper Brooker, Paddy Jones, Sam Taylor and many more.

Tags casper brooker, hold tight henry, Paddy Jones, skate, skate video, skateboarding, slam city skates, southabnk, spt

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Tom Penny is in the Firing Line

Post author By Zac
Post date June 14, 2011

Flip’s Tom Penny woo’d 250 people at Bay 66 this Saturday and smashed the street course to rapturous applause but why has his Firing Line over at Thrasher this week received 250 dislikes?

Has the world gone mad? If so we are out.

Tags firing line, flip skateboards, tom penny

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SUPRA demo footage from the Pump Cage in Manchester

Post author By Zac
Post date June 14, 2011

Manchester’s Pump Cage felt the arrival of last week’s UK Supra tour with a star studded line up rolling through the city.

Elliot Tebbs filmed and edited the day with skating from Terry Kennedy, Spencer Hamilton, Craig Smedley, Boo Johnson, Keelan Dadd, Tyrone O’Hanrahan, and many more. Also check out the trick of the day coming from from Rob Smith as it’s nuts.

Tags boo johnson, Craig Smedley, Keelan Dadd, manchester, pumpcage, Spencer Hamilton, supra demo, terry kennedy, Tyrone O’Hanrahan

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Creature UK footage from Monkey Glove

Post author By Zac
Post date June 13, 2011

Monkey Glove have just uploaded a few tricks of UK riders from the Creature UK tour this weekend for your viewing pleasure.

Enjoy a couple of lines from Stu Graham and Carl Wilson at Hastings and the Source Bowl before rain stopped play.

Tags Carl Wilson, creature footage, creature skateboards, hastings, skate footage, skate video, source, stu graham, uk tour

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Road Gap session with Todd, Jensen and more

Post author By Zac
Post date June 13, 2011

Mark Jackson has some more recent footage up today featuring Lex K, Nick Jensen, Paddy Jones, Jin Shimizu, Olly Todd, Rob Mathieson and more sessioning a road gap in town.

Enjoy what went down in Liverpool St and click here for more footage from Hold Tight Henry.

Tags jin shimizu, Lex K, nick jensen, Olly Todd, Paddy Jones, road gap footage, Rob Mathieson, skateboard video, street skating

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Watch the Nike Pool video edit

Post author By Zac
Post date June 13, 2011

On May 25th 2011 we all headed over East to Dagenham for a private skate session organised by Nike at The Pool, a local swimming pool that had been redesigned for a cracking BMX comp.

Here’s Alan Christensen’s footage from that secret session with skating from Andy Scott, Chet Childress, Aaron Sweeney, Lee Blackwell, Ben Nordberg, Mike Wright, Neil Smith, Carl Wilson and Sam Pulley. Click here for the write up and photos from Brendan Ryall.

Tags aaron sweeney, andy scott, ben nordberg, Carl Wilson, chet childress, dagenham, Lee Blackwell, mike wright, neil smith, nike, sam pulley, skate video, skateboard video, skateboarding video, swimming pool, the pool

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Fresh Extreme Connexions progress photos

Post author By Zac
Post date June 13, 2011

Nick Zorlac headed out to the Extreme Connexions skate park in Hemel last week to see how the build was getting on and came back with these 3 shots of the progress for the Death blog. The mini ramp is looking amazing. For more information about how this skatepark is progressing, click here for a full feature as this park will be the UK’s only indoor concrete skatepark once it opens this summer.

Tags bowls, concrete skatepark, death skateboards, extreme connexions, indoor skatepark, mini ramp, pools, zorlac

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Happy 50th Birthday to Duane Peters

Post author By Zac
Post date June 12, 2011

Photo by Ray Zimmerman

It’s Duane Peters‘ 50th Birthday today, so raise a glass of beer to one of skateboarding’s most legendary characters.

The ‘Master of Disaster’ started skating in 1978 and invented a bunch of classic tricks that went down in skateboarding history. His passion for punk rock led him to be a fantastic singer with his band the US Bombs and he now rolls into his 50’s in style as expected.

Despite a leg gash that almost cost him his life lately he is still getting amongst it and according to his updates on twitter, today, Peters is currently spending this special day watching Evel Knievel on TV. Keep it up Duane, here’s to the next decade.

Watch this documentary footage with Steve and Mickey Alba and fill up that damn glass again.

Tags 50th birthday, DUANE PETERS, master of disaster, old scool, skateboard legend, skateboarding, us bombs