Category: Skateboarding News

Element legend Mike Vallely features in another documentary on skateboarding this week. Click below for footage and thoughts from this year’s Zumiez tour put together by Mark Choiniere.

Element Skateboards‘ European riders Michael Mackrodt and Phil Zwijsen hit up a flat bank on tour in Malaga, Spain.

Element Skateboards Europe – Malaga, Spain Tour Demo from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.

The good folks at Bored Skateshop in Southsea have unleashed a video edit from Blueprint Skateboards recent tour demo at Emsworth skatepark in Hampshire. Watch a few tricks from Marty Murawski, Danny Brady, Nick Jensen and Tom Knox here and look out for the Print at Liverpool’s Lost Art Shop and Manchester’s Note Store this Monday and Tuesday.

Blueprint Tour: Emsworth. from Bored of Southsea on Vimeo.

Theeve Trucks have added another name to their team this week. Australian gnarler Jake Duncombe joins their growing roster that already includes Tony Hawk, Johnny Layton, Garrett Hill, Dan Murphy, Darrell Stanton, Matt Mumford, Gareth Stehr, Chad Bartie and Ben Raybourn. Watch him go in this Hoon Run edit, it’s one of our favourites.

The Element Europe team seem to be super busy by the flood of footage that is being uploaded daily. Check out this edit of the European team riders shredding at a demo at the Tetuan skate plaza in the Spanish capital of Madrid. This place looks sick, why the hell does London not have anything like this to offer? Answers on a postcard, enjoy…

Element Skateboards Europe – Madrid Demo from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.

I-Path rider Ben Raybourne‘s feet may stink but he loves a tight as mini ramp sesh. Enjoy a little footage of a sesh on Kristian Svitak’s backyard toy here.

éS rider Ricardo Paterno knocks out 10 tricks from the The Great éScape tour at Le Dôme in Paris.

Gavin Strange at Jam Factory who has designed the new Crossfire site for us has also been working on some ltd Howies deck designs ahead of the Deckades Exhibition with Shiner that will be opening on April 17th at their store at 62 Queens Road in Bristol.

The exhibition will see many archived decks on display from 80s brands such as Powell Peralta, Sims, Schmitt Stix and many more plus 20 hand painted ltd edition Chris Miller decks that will go to auction to raise monies for Unicef. Expect decks from Gav that you can see below plus Jim Phillips, French, Pete Fowler, Wainwright and many more.

Deckades – A skateboarding painting for Howies from JamFactory on Vimeo.

Deckades skateboard exhibition trailer from howies on Vimeo.

Yep, that’s today’s news.

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