Category: Skateboarding News

Here’s a montage of good shit from various peeps including some Substance Skateboards riders with Dinosaur Jr on the speakers too.

Rasa Libre‘s Matt Field is interviewed in this Globalboarding.tv interview.

The Maloof Money Cup went down this weekend in California and the dough up for grabs brought out all the big names in skateboarding. Chris Cole took $100,000 for first place in the street finals. Yes, a hundred grand! His Zero team mate Tommy Sandoval ranked 2nd and little Nyjah Huston managed to get 3rd.

Adam Dyet grabbed $10,000 for a kick flip back tail and 18 year old Alex Perelson stole the vert comp over some of the world’s greatest riders with a 900 and took home $75000 for his efforts. HUGE money, big tricks, check out the videos below.

Vert/Megaramp Video here.
Street Video here.
Best Trick here.

STREET:

1. Chris Cole
2. Tommy Sandoval
3. Nyjah Huston
4. Torey Pudwill
5. Ryan Sheckler
6. Sean Malto
7. Greg Lutzka
8. David Gonzalez
9. Paul Rodriguez
10. Mark Appleyard

BEST TRICK:

Adam Dyet

VERT:

1. Alex Perelson
2. PLG
3. Bob Burnquist
4. Andy MacDonald
5. Buckey Lasek

GIRL’S STREET:

1. Leticia Bufoni
2. Lacey Baker
3. Elissa Steamer
4. Amy Caron
5. Marisa Dal Santo

Here’s the latest news from the Relentless NASS Festival.

DuFFs rider Ben Raemers has won the street comp taking home £1200. Vans rider Joshua ‘Manhead’ Young came in 2nd alongside Ben Grove in 3rd.

Death Skateboards pro Andy Scott has taken first place on this years Goliath ramp comp winning £1000. Jake Anderson came 2nd and Rob Smith was awarded 3rd. We will update this as more comes in.

To celebrate the launch of legendary skate photographer Mike Blabac‘s photo book “Blabac Photo: The Art of Skateboard Photography” and the release of his limited edition DC Signature Shoe, DC is hosting an exhibition of his work from Thursday 23rd -31st July in London’s Maverik Gallery.

You can find this at 68-72 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP and via the www.maverikshowroom.com website.

The UK can be the most fun place to skate ever most of the time and you know even when it rains you will still go to whatever lengths it takes to get a decent session on. Here’s the latest edit from Drawing Boards making the most of a visit to Mile End and more.

The new World Industries team is also at the Maloof Money Cup in the US. Watch some more practice footage here.

Maloof Practice from World Industries on Vimeo.

A mere £5,062.05 gets you rolling on one of these Louis Vuitton limited edition skateboards.

Work out the maths and maybe it will come close to costing you £125 per noseslide. I’ll have two darling.

Here’s some fresh Death Skateboards news exclusive to Crossfire. Firstly, you can find their latest 7.9″ ‘Alternate Skulls‘ deck in your local skater owned shop from next week. Order it now in advance from your local shop as these will go pretty swiftly knowing that the original skull graphic is one of their best sellers.

In related Death news the skate industry’s most famous mustached men, Richie Jackson and Patrick Melcher appeared this week on Text Yo Self at the Berrics.

Click here to watch that and get hyped on the fact that both of these Death riders and the rest of the team are filming hard for the next video which has a working title of ‘Ordinary Madness‘. Get hyped.

Rick Howard is getting the practice in before he faces Corey Duffel at The Berrics.