What a year 2010 has been for Welsh based Crayon Skateboards and they celebrate this Xmas week with some footage from their Malaga trip earlier this year.
Look out for Dan Wileman’s Reflections feature that will drop within the next week plus a full video interview with Korahn Gayle once it’s edited and don’t forget that their new Boxman graphic is sat there in skater owned shops for you to pick up if you are looking for some new wood.
This year one of the highlights to hit the web video wise was Elephant Direct, a visual project put together by Jeremy Elkin and Jason Auger. It ran on Color magazine’s website for a limited period but some offcuts have landed on the web this week so we thought we would share them.
Read the full review here and scout this one out if you missed it and as a bonus to this news piece there’s an 18 minute tour video from the Color guys on this page for you to watch afterwards.
One Way or Another (Road Trip) – FULL MOVIE from Color Magazine on Vimeo.
Death Skateboards riders Moggins, Boots, Radman, Steak, Ronny Calow and Mikey Patrick all feature in this Xmas edit from Death filmed by Jake Shunt at the Boardroom in Leicester.
As you know this time of the year indoor skate parks are sat there catering for our needs, support them or lose them!
Xmas Biscuits are being shared down in the South this week as the 4twentytwo crew at Revolution Skatepark release a behind closed doors edit for your viewing pleasure.
This latest sesh features Michael Smith, Dan McCusker, James Brown, Adam Pau, Tim Hoy, Dan Chapman, Sam Watling and Barnaby Fisher-Smith repping Broadstairs, Kent. Send yours.
Skaters who still love a bit of Rip Grip and fluorescent copers will be delighted to know that Quiksilver have organised an 80s vert comp that will be hosted on January 7th in Florida.
The event will feature many legends of the scene such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Kevin Staab, Mike McGill, Ben Schroeder, Rodney Mullen, Buck Smith, Mike Frazier, and more.
Look out for the footage online at Shred or Die once it’s ready.
Christmas Day. Stay tuned. (Photo: Chris Haslam)
The on-going fight to keep Bay 66 under the Westway has hit the airwaves as Gaby Roslin and Paul Ross interviewed Chris Bailey of the Westway Development Trust on Monday’s Breakfast Show on BBC London.
The interview is primarily concerned with the location of the park, which as the BBC reporter points out, appears to have already been decided by the Westway Development Trust looks set to change as office space and gardening centres are likely to be more profitable.
It’s good to see that both Gaby and Paul challenge Chris’ statements with both the social and cultural significance of the park’s current location, backing this up with words from a 9 year old local skateboarder called Alex. As we know, the current location of Baysixty6 is where thousands of young people across the UK are accustomed to going to on a regular basis throughout the year. To change the location of one of country’s most important skateparks would have gross consequences to the scene no matter what.
It remains up to us skateboarders to let our voices and opinions be heard and convince those planning on relocating or closing the park that it is in the best interest of the city of London to let this cultural institution stay where it is.
To listen to the show, follow this link and skip ahead to the 2:16:20 mark to get straight into the discussion.
For those of you who have been directed here by the radio show, please join the Save BaySixty6 Facebook page where you will find continually updated information and please sign the petition here.
Karma Skateboards have posted up a banging edit of Channon Wallace set in stark black and white and filled to the brim with interesting and technical trick choices on sketchy spots.
Get stuck in below. Channon is rad. Karma is rad. Black and white footage is rad. Rad.
Enjoy this video from The Harmony as it could be the last nugget of footage we see this side of 2011 from Jak Pietryga.
For the clip, Jak stopped lurking hard in London and spent a day at the Pump Cage with Joe Gavin on filming duties. Watch below for an example of someone who’s got the art of catching a fliptrick by the nads, then head over here for his end of year Reflections.
Not literally obviously, but Grant Taylor is definitely set proverbially ablaze as he shreds this pool for Spitfire.
Imagine if this was in your back garden. Watch him below and remind yourself how he could easily have been skater of the year too.