Moroccan technical wizard Youness Amrani has joined Almost Skateboards this week. Currently residing in Belgium Youness has proved over the years that his technical ability is second to none, especially after scooping the World finals of the Red Bull Manny Mania in 2010 and hooking up on the Nike team.
Enjoy this welcome video which is 5 minutes of Youness goodness and look out for more very soon.
We have a winner from this year’s Crossfire Egg Hunt in association with VANS. Jonny Moon from Binfield, Bracknell will receive a full package of VANS goodies pictured below so congratulations to Jonny for finding the golden egg!
Thanks to all who took part this year, we have more competitions lined up over the next week to win Element Spring wear and the new decks series from Superdead Skateboards. Look out for them soon.
Science Skateboards say goodbye to both Ash Hall and Shaun Currie this week who have decided to jump ship for pastures new this month. Enjoy this farewell footage that was filmed for the forthcoming Science promo that will be ready to roll soon featuring the rest of their team.
It’s the final 2 days of this year’s egg hunt so if you want to win this VANS package then find the golden egg and contact us with the URL of the page where it is hidden. One lucky winner will win and be contacted from our Facebook page so follow the instructions of how to win here.
1) To enter, like our facebook page.
2)Find the egg that is currently hidden on one of the pages in the skate zine features section maybe? Yes, there’s a tip.
3)Copy the URL of the page that you find the egg on. Go to our contact page and include the URL and leave us a brief reason why you should be sent the swag plus your shoe size and clothing sizes!
The competition closes Friday 29th April at midnight and the winner will be contacted via Facebook over the weekend (hence you need to be a fan of our page) and announced in skate news on Saturday afternoon.
Please note that the product won may differ slightly from the images you see in this due to available colours and sizes in stock. This competition is open to everyone apart from staff of Crossfire or Division Promotions
Chris Atherton‘s wonderful video edits have entertained us for years and this week he has posted a brand new one jam packed with British splendour as expected.
Hootnot is the third in a series of Catweazle online edits that include Sinpanthrash and Monatomic Decoy featuring skating from Avi, William Sayer, Jesse James and Blaster Bates. Slow down your life for 5 mins and get tech.
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Analog have posted a short, new edit featuring the UK’s Ben Nordberg, Luke Croker, Sam Winter and Dylan Rieder enjoying a session at Ashbridges Skatepark in Toronto, Canada today.
Watch it here.
The Gnargore lads from Brum have been busy filming for a new scene release and offcuts from their forthcoming promo video titled Goblin Council have been posted online today.
Find more from this lot at www.gnargore.co.uk and read more about what goes on up in the West Midlands scene here from their last offering, Wizard Council.
The locals of Werrington in Peterborough have a new skatepark for the summer thanks to Wheelscape. Watch the video below to have a look at what has been rolled out as it could well be a destination for a summer trip this year.
Brixton have unleashed their new Summer 2011 product video today with some tidy skating from Anthony Schultz, Taylor Bingaman and Ernie Torres plus some tight units and nice dose of garage pop from The Half Rats. Enjoy this.
If you want to get up to date with the Russian skate scene then watch this new video titled Farsh (which means Mince in English). It has appeared online this week with the addition of Death Skateboards riders Moggins and Cates making a surprise appearance at the 13th minute and also comes with some killer 70’s rock to boot.
If you find yourself with over 30mins to spare then watch this all the way through as there are some different spots from the Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Germany, Israel, China, Egypt, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic to check out with skating from the impressive Yura Renov, Stas Provotorov, Maksim Ryazanov, Maksim Laptev, Ivan Uvarov, Antiz rider Samu Karvonen, Fabian Verhaeghe, Moggins, Troy West, Dan Cates, Miki Taktinen and more.