Last weekend dozens of skaters (and their friends, no heroes!) flocked to Colchester for the Padre Barrier Jam.
Obstacles were put together from the members of large Monster Network clan and a great session went down. Peep the footage from the jam below. Rad.
Padre Barrier Jam from Monster Network on Vimeo.
The headline for this could have just been ‘John Rattray is amazing‘ but then that wouldn’t be news. We all know that John Rattray is amazing.
So stop whatever it is you’re doing and watch his Elwood Artist Reel for some new footage of a man who can do no wrong. Prepare yourself for a line complete with flying birds and one trick in particular that will really hurt your head.
John, you are very good at skateboarding. Please, never ever stop.
Matilha Cultural in São Paulo is currently hosting Destroy and Create, a collaborative exhibition between Adidas Skateboarding and Vista Skateboard Art.
The standardly brilliant skateboarding-inspired art can be seen on the official Tumblr, but check below for a very inspiring street session through São Paulo with many Adidas activists. Keep it real and get creative.
The design consultants for the upcoming skatepark construction in Bass’ Recreation Ground, Derby have organised some time in September to hear what you guys skating the thing have to say about the plans.
So if you want to have a look at the current proposals and make some suggestions then go get your voice heard at either Quad on Saturday September 11th from 10am-2pm or Rollersnakes on September 15th from 5pm-8pm.
Greenwich Skatepark Co-Op has organised a petition to get Greenwich a world class skatepark in time for the London Olympics in 2012.
For a London borough to have its own Millenium Village, Greenwich has been long overdue a modern skatepark that offers South London skaters some unique and creative terrain in the currently awesome skatepark climate.
Please visit this website and sign the petition.
What do you do when you snap a deck? Maybe you learnt something new on it and wanted to hold on to it as a reminder, subsequently becoming one of ‘those guys’ whose room is covered in colourful, broken, really quite redundant wood.
Or, maybe you’re more creative and choose to create something with all this free material. Well, if you fall into the latter category, have a look at Haroshi’s work for some inspiration because what he manages to create from wood that couldn’t quite handle a twelve stair is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Haroshi has been down for skating since day one, and instead of letting his creative juices dry up on doing pretty stale lipslide variations, he recycles all of his decks and any that he finds into very, very rad constructs. Check out his latest pieces on this page and head over to his website for more goodness.
As the second issue of Grey Skateboard Mag drops in selected fine stores the website has had a bit of re-decorating going on.
Everything looks mighty slick, so head over here to check it out.
Be sure to pick up an an issue if you can, it’s free and the cover shot is an absolute banger. Sausage chomper!
The summer of 2010 will go down as one of the best with the weather holding throughout June and July, BBQ’s, local sessions, European trips and street beers-a-plenty. Here’s a snap shot of our local crew skating East London’s finest micro-mini ramp courtesy of Martyn Thomas and his 550D with Dave Robinson, Mark Brewster, Jamie Harrison, Adam Johns and Alan Christensen.
Here’s something a little different. A couple of months ago, Nye Vaughan teamed up with the most underground skater in Wales, Steven King, to produce the Time Stretched promo.
Steven King footage is notoriously hard to come by, but when it does then the champagne comes straight out. His style, approach and obscure trick selection have turned him into something of a reluctant legend in Wales. Have a look below to see why.
Big props to Nye for spending four grueling months meticulously editing this, it’s a compelling watch…
Daniel Lutheran has now been confirmed as a full-blown Toy Machine am and you can join Leo Romero and Johnny Layton who celebrate with him in his sweet Welcome edit below.
Use this as a perfect reason to remind yourself that Brain Wash, the next video to come from the bloodsucking skateboard company, is coming…