Category: Skateboarding News

If you ever wondered ‘how did they do that’ then here’s your answer…

Check out the first teaser for Hobo Code Tour out in October and footage from the Aberdare 3rd year bash down in Wales from this week’s Sunday Stooges edit courtesy of Lee Dainton and crew. It’s pretty safe to say that Kill City are rocking it right now! Get on it.

This is a contender for footage of the week for sure. Think Skateboards’ Cody Mcentire slows down his steez for your viewing pleasure.

2 of our favourite skaters have joined forces with Blood Wizard Skateboards this month. Chris Senn and Ben Krahn both have pro models on this fabled skate company, watch footage this trip to Phoenix with Blood Wizard team riders Jack Given, Jerry Gurney, and Wes “gnargi” Cooper.

Enjoy Kyle Leeper having fun in Japan..

It’s been a while since we have posted news about the Berrics but this post is a must.

The news of Dennis Busenitz vs Chris Cole should be a headline not to ignore and the results were not disappointing. Click here to watch this amazing game of SKATE.

The internet has allowed some random things to g’wan over the last 5 years. Here’s yet another YouTube video post that is exactly like marmite put together by a man with more time on his hands than most and a fetish for stairs, Mr Joe Moore. Since when did pogo’s come back into people’s thoughts and actions?

Been a while since this lot dropped some footage but it looks like they are back on it. Latest spot is Kingston’s local right here.

The first Downtown Showdown event in Europe has been won by Element‘s European team.

Held on top of the LIngotto Fiat factory building in Turin, the comp was made up of riders competing for euros from Alai, Blueprint, Cliché, Element, Heroin and Trap Skateboards

Blueprint, Heroin and Cliche were all asked to create their own obstacles which saw some incredible skating go down especially from the likes of Javier Menizabal, Chris Ault, Jerome Campbell, Danny Brady and Philippe Zwijsen.

Results:

Team 1st EUR 15,000 – Element
Team 2nd EUR 10,000 – Cliché
Team 3rd EUR 5,000 – Alai

Fiat Freestyle Team Best Trick/Best Slam Prize – EUR 1,000 – Danny Brady

Heroin Obstacle 1st EUR 1,500 – Javier Menizabal
Heroin Obstacle 2nd EUR 1,000 – Chris Ault
Heroin Obstacle 3rd EUR 800 – Alain Saavedra

Cliché Obstacle 1st EUR 1,500 – Chris Ault
Cliché Obstacle 2nd EUR 1,000 – Madars Apse
Cliché Obstacle 3rd EUR 800 – Ingacio Morata

Blueprint Obstacle 1st EUR 1,500 – Jerome Campbell
Blueprint Obstacle 2nd EUR 1,000 – Lucas Puig
Blueprint Obstacle 3rd EUR 800 – Nick Jensen

Best AM EUR 4,000 – Philippe Zwijsen
Best PRO EUR 6,000 – Javier Menizabal

Heathen Skateboards (the skate company with the best taste in music out there) have added Ben Devine to their UK team this week. Look out for the Lincolnshire ripper on your travels up North and watch a few tricks of him and others from back in January in this local X-Site edit.