Category: Skateboarding News

Like everybody who has seen him in the flesh will say, an underground killer of the highest order.
Ten years deep on Vans.

Flo Marfaing – 10 Years on Vans from zeropolis on Vimeo.

Following an amazing part in Extremely Sorry and lighting up every demo and comp as he rolls, Luan Oliveira has been made pro by Flip Skateboards.

Geoff Rowley says “Luan has been on a skateboarding rampage of technical video wizardry and contest annihilation for the last year. We are psyched to introduce him to the big leagues as a professional skateboarder on Flip. Makes us proud, bro!”

The Brazilian won Tampa Am for the second year in a row at the back end of 2009 and ripped the UK when the team visited last summer, look out for his Claymation graphic pro model and expect much more from him in 2010.

You know the day is going to be a good one when you wake up and find that Danny Wainwright‘s Bristol section from The Scrum Tilly Lush is now online with a couple of tricks from Paul Carter and Will Ainley.

Last year The Gyppo Army were on the road, filming as they go, releasing edits and generally getting amongst it. Kev McKeon then decided to get a skate shop up and running in Camden with 2 other dudes to bring North London the goods they need to keep going. The Three Amigos Skateboard Shop was launched and is still rocking. Here’s an edit that went live on the web last night featuring Elliot Rees Jones, Marcus Adams, Doug Parmiter and Jeremy Jones put together by Jack Maddison and Marcus Adams.

Nike SB have just released a collaborative work with Holland’s Fluff skateboard magazine in which photographer Marcel Veldman travelled Europe for 18 months steady in order to shoot a photo with every single Am rider on their European programme.

Featuring a heavy article by Sidewalk‘s Ben Powell from Ramsgate featuring Colin Kennedy, Mackie, Jasper King Harman, Joey Pressey, Snowy and cohorts, as well as interviews with Jerome Campbell, Marek Zaprazny,Wieger van Wageningen and Simo Makela, skateshops in the Arctic Circle and much much more. The launch party was held at the SB pop- up store in Barcelona and attended by the jet skate beau monde and all other lurkers. \the book is shipping to SB- carrying shops right now!
The wonderful Wood magazine has a gallery from the night here.

From deep in the Boston scene, Blueprint‘s secret weapon and Slap OIAM alumni, this is his section from the splendid Orchard skateshop’s scene video Out Of Body Experience.
Roll on Make Friends With The Colour Blue!

It may be under a foot of snow up North right now but it doesn’t stop the session if you have an indoor skatepark nearby. Tom Day, Martyn Hill, Will Golding, Phil Long and many more captured a winter edit from the X-Site Park in Skegness to kick start the New Year.

Watch it here and note that there’s a Winter skate jam this Saturday 9th January at the park, open from 12-6pm with street and mini ramp jams expected on the day. Click here for the flyer and get down there if you are local.

The IPATH team love a BBQ in the sun. Remember that stuff, sun? Watch this backyard sesh with Nilton Neves and Mat Rodriguez and try to forget that it’s -1′ and snowing outside today.

Flip Skateboards have released a video taking a look behind the scenes of their Claymation intros in the much publicised Extremely Sorry DVD released at the end of 2009.

Watch how the Colombian team alongside Edgar Alvarez put them all together here.

From Compton to Portsmouth comes Slammer and Hammers volume 7. Jon Sekulla pigs out in the van on South Coast with the 6.57 crew.