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SUPRA team to visit Bay 66 today instead of Stockwell

Bay 66 Skatepark in Ladbroke Grove will now be hosting the Supra team demo today from 5pm. The demo was supposed to happen at Stockwell but has been relocated due to the amount of amazing street skaters on the tour so spread the word of the change.

Expect Ali Boulala, Terry Kennedy, Lizard King, Chad Muska, Stevie Williams, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Matt Mumford, Tom Penny, Furby, Spencer Hamilton, Keelan Dadd, and Boo Johnson to be in the park tonight that you can see for FREE.

Watch some of the team skating in texas on tour here.

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Bored for Life

Getting Bored rocks this week. See for yourself and get down South for life.

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Alex Perelson at the 2011 Pro-Tech Pool Party

realskateboards Out of all of the footage that has been gracing the internet this week, this is one of the stand outs. Real Skateboards are probably wondering how lucky they are to have such a talent riding their wood this year as Alex Perelson is turning out to be one of the best skateboarders on the planet in such a small space of time.

Watch this highlight footage of him ripping at this year’s Pro-Tech Pool Party and weep.

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New Heroin Zombie Series Boards

Heroin Skatebooards are back with a brand new series of decks this month with art supplied by Suzi Kemp, Andrew Pommier and Craig Questions. Here’s an update about the artists involved from Fos below who also carved his wares on the new Heroin Zombie Pro Series. These beauties will be gracing the walls of your local skate shop in the next 2 weeks so make sure you reserve one today before they are all snapped up.

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Suzi Kemp

I hate going to degree shows. A load of pissed up students swanning around thinking they’re the best thing in the world and all their work looks like stuff that’s been done a million times before. It’s either Japanese Manga rip off stuff or twee crap saying “Be happy” or some shit that looks like they ripped off our mate Marcus Oakley. So when I was at the Brighton degree show last year and I saw Suzi Kemp’s work it was a breath of rotting fresh air. Suzi’s penchant for Black Metal and Zombies fitted right at home with Heroin. I’m stoked that the first board she did was for us, expect more killer shit from her in the future.

Andrew Pommier

Andrew is an International Skate art heavyweight and I love introducing him that way to people at parties. He’s the art director at Momentum wheels, has worked for Girl, Toy Machine, RVCA, Adidas and a bunch of other nerds I guess. We met in China a few years ago and we’ve been homies ever since. We always seem to end up on epic skate art trips together. He’s a good lad and is down to come and shoot semi automatic weapons at the L.A. gun club with me.

Craig Questions

What can I say about Craig Questions? I first met him at the premier at “Live from Antarctica” where he proceeded to chew my ear off about 80’s skateboarding and hasn’t stopped since, and that was bloody 6 years ago. He’s one of my favourite people and there’s never a dull moment with him around. Craig lives and breathes skateboarding and if you don’t like him, I can’t imagine that he gives a fuck. What you see if what you get, from cutting the heads off dead animals for his skull collection to getting numbers off the hottest girls, Craig is a force of nature and I’m stoked to have his shitty artwork on the bottom of my board.

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Northampton council issue fines for skateboarders

Skateboarders in Northampton are facing more pressre from their local council after new fines were put in place last week to curb street skating. Despite a huge backlash to the plans from locals in January the new laws have been out into place to clamp down on nuisance behaviour that include sanctions on dangerous and nuisance skateboarding.

Skateboarding is now banned in the Mayorhold, St Michael’s, Grosvenor Centre and St John’s multi- storey car parks, as well as St John’s and Albion Place open car parks.

Locals have worked with the council to get funding arranged for a new public skatepark which is looking likely to be built next year but for now will have to get used to the fact that fines of up to £500 will be issued if the law is breached.

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Pinball skatepark built in New Zealand

A skatepark built in the style of a pinball machine has been built by Mountain Dew in Auckland, New Zealand this month. It’s made from a combination of plexi-glass and wood costing a cool half a million dollars and amazingly built in just 17 days.

A British artist, Mark Ward designed the layout of Skate Pinball that opens today (Saturday June 4th) with guest pro riders which will then be open to the general public. Look out for edits dropping soon and enjoy this preview of what is going on down under.

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Creature Skateboards Crue-sades UK Tour

The Creature Skateboards team will be visiting the UK in the next 2 weeks and will be shredding parks across the UK from June 11th-16th. The line up of US guests is monsterous so expect some incredible sessions going down at Clissold, Hastings and other spots listed on this flyer. UK team riders will also be on the road including newly appointed ripper, Ben Devine who joins the Creature UK set up this week. Plan for this as it looks to be a blast.

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Look out for the SUPRA UK tour next week

The Supra team are heading back to the UK next week for another tour. Expect Ali Boulala, Terry Kennedy, Lizard King, Chad Muska, Stevie Williams, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Matt Mumford, Tom Penny, Furby, Spencer Hamilton, Keelan Dadd, and Boo Johnson to be in your local area in the following locations.

JUNE 7

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
SKATE DEMO & TEAM SIGNING
SAUGHTON SKATEPARK, 4PM BALGREEN ROAD EH11 3BQ
PRESENTED BY: FOCUS SKATEBOARD STORE, ROUTE ONE SKATEBOARD STORE

JUNE 9

MANCHESTER
SKATE DEMO & TEAM SIGNING
PROJECTS SKATEPARK, 4PM, LONDON ROAD, M1 2PG
PRESENTED BY: NOTE SKATE SHOP

JUNE 11

LONDON
TEAM SIGNING ONE AT SLAM CITY SKATES, MIDDAY, 16 NEAL’S YARD – COVENT GARDEN WC2H 9DP
SKATE DEMO – STOCKWELL SKATEPARK, 5PM SW9 9TN

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Jerry Hsu Emerica Stay Gold B-Side

jerry-hsu-stay-gold-b-side15 minutes of extra footage of Jerry Hsu has been released today from Emerica’s Stay Gold DVD. Enjoy his full B-Side here.

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Riding the Long White Cloud

Those who follow John Rattray’s unsurprisingly excellent blog will have had the pleasure of watching this already. For those who don’t, well, you should start. You should also start by watching this superbly documented trip to New Zealand, Riding The Long White Cloud. Here’s what John himself has to say about this project:

“Below, in 5 parts, you should hopefully find a film of a muscle-powered tour that a group of skateboard enthusiasts undertook in New Zealand one summer. My idea was to use the trip as a speculative platform from which to investigate what life might be like in a post-industrial society. That is to say a society whose main fuel source has been depleted to the point of being scarce and expensive. Please let me know in the comments if this objective is not clear from the film. Thankyou.”

Expect great things, and reward your expectations with something beyond them. Check it and find Rattray’s blog here for more goodness from one of skateboarding’s most interesting minds.

Riding the Long White Cloud Part 1 from predatory bird on Vimeo.

Riding the Long White Cloud part 2 from predatory bird on Vimeo.

Riding the Long White Cloud part 3 from predatory bird on Vimeo.

Riding the Long White Cloud part 4 from predatory bird on Vimeo.

Riding the Long White Cloud part 5 from predatory bird on Vimeo.