You’d have a tough time trying to pick just 10 amazing tricks from Daewon’s huge bag of goodness but Manolo’s done a good job here.
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The Skateboard Mag have a new interview with Daewon Song and Marc Johnson today who discuss their latest switch from skater owned brands to a billion dollar sports shoe brand. Press play for their own reasons why.
These two are always on the schralp, always impressing and back with a new edit from Parisian street sessions via Sosh. Enjoy.
For those of you who love seeing a glimpse of Gonz on a deck, this is his latest YouTube edit.
When the news came through Twitter that Marc Johnson had been seen in a new sports skateboarding video this week, we did ponder if it was true as his name as bold as the Eiffel Tower on the Lakai website.
Could MJ have sneakily cut a deal with a billion dollar sports brand after coating off their tennis shoes in a recent interview? Yeah, of course, because that’s sadly how pro skateboarders do their business today after long time friendships in the skate industry. It has become a joke, but today it became even worse.
Mike Carroll has just responded in a very open and cutting interview on Jenkem, the same site that ran MJ’s anti-sports brand rant a while back:
“I’m mad that he told me, point blank the night before the premiere, that there would be no announcements and that he would talk to his lawyer and we’d figure all that out. All the people that work hard for him, that design his shoes, the sales people, production people, the team – everybody that works for Lakai was there and for them to show up to the premiere and get blindsided like that… We didn’t do anything to him to deserve that. For them to find out that way? It just makes us look like fucking idiots, because this dude is a pathological liar. He couldn’t be man enough to tell me straight up.
The night before the premiere, when Marc and I talked, he could’ve told me… I would have been mad but at least he would’ve been honest and I could’ve called the team and told them instead of them finding out like that. He recently had things come up personally and I respect his privacy and distance. I’m just truly disappointed how he went about this. I’m curious to see what he has to say for himself. I can’t wait to see what type of lie he is going to say to justify his action.”
Read the full thing here but good on you Carroll, it’s about time people started discussing how these billion dollar companies are setting themselves up to ruin what skateboarders have worked tirelessly for. Choose skateboarding.
Ph: Madars Apse – Boneless © Alexey Lapin
Patrik Wallner’s latest voyage into uncharted skate territory features Pat Duffy, Madars Apse, Barney Page, Walker Ryan and Gosha Konyshev cruising through Amenia to find new spots.
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Lurk NYC – nobody’s alley
Street sessions in the Big Apple continue in Lurk NYC‘s latest video blog: nobody’s alley. Get the teas on for 12 mins of it.
The amazing Pedro Barros took the honours at this year’s Combi Pool mash up. Lance Mountain was the stand out star in the masters too from what looked like a mad weekend of skating once again in California’s most infamous bowl.
Watch the footage from Thrasher’s coverage below.
RESULTS
Pros
1st Pedro Barros
2nd Cory Juneau
3rd Bucky Lasek
Legends
1st Lance Mountain
2nd Steve Caballero
3rd Chris Miller
Masters
1st Darren Navarette
2nd Bruno Passos
3rd Jed Fuller
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The Dime Video
The fourth offering from Montreal’s Dime brand, featuring Will Marshall, Antoine Asselin, Jake Johnson, Jamal Smith, Alexis Lacroix, Joe Valdez and many more is now live.
Get the teas on for this damn fun new promo.
It has become a trend for sports brands to flex their financial muscles around their full length video release launches lately so it was inevitable the Adidas press machine would be rivalling Nike’s addition of Guy Mariano and Nyjah Huston with the announcement of purchasing more of skateboarding’s prized assets, and it doesn’t come much bigger than Daewon Song.
Daewon was announced as a new addition to the Adidas skate shoe team last night following the premiere of their new video. He confirmed this on his instagram just now stating that “after 19 years I needed a change. That whole company (referring to DVS) is not the same people anymore.”
@crossfirezine MJ is in the video.
— Robert Brink (@RobertBrink) May 13, 2016
Rumours that Marc Johnson has also joined him have circulated on social media overnight, although he is still listed on the team page on the Lakai website this morning and is one record stating that tennis shoes are not for him. Word is that he is in the new video though, confirmed to us earlier this morning by Robert Brink on Twitter. Watch this space.