Category: Skateboarding News

Finally the official RVCA promo has hit the web featuring Leo Romero, Nestor Judkins, David Reyes, Julian Davidson and the rest of the team. Watch it here.

RVCA Skate Promo Montage from RVCA on Vimeo.

This bit of latst minute news came in from Luke at the Tate. For the first time skateboarders will be skating in the turbine hall of Tate Modern to create a work of art. This is part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, an annual festival which is running from this weekend.

Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West will create a new film live in the gallery by uniting an unlikely mix of ink, film strips and skateboarding. In this unique event, titled Skate the Sky Melon Grab Film, West will build on her previous experiments with everyday materials such as pepper spray or Axe body cologne used to physically manipulate celluloid.

West will stage a performance in the Turbine Hall for which a team of skate-boarders will traverse ink-covered film strips, their wheels scraping into the celluloid and marking their movements in complex and psychedelic patterns. This live event will be followed by a screening of the films created plus a selection of West’s earlier films.

Performance, Friday 22 May,West End, Turbine Hall 19.00 – 20.30
Screening, Saturday 23 May, Starr Auditorium, 19.00 – 20.30

On the 28th May Slam City Skates are joint hosting a Game of S.K.A.T.E. at New Slang, the weekly Banquet Records club night in McCluskys, Bishops Hall Street, Kingston, Surrey.

£200 is up for grabs for the winner and £50 for best trick from a 16 player tournament.

Expect the likes of Nick Jensen, Vaughan Baker, Neil Smith, Jon Tanner, Scott Howes, Steph Morgan and Rob Mathieson to be there amongst many more and footage will be posted online once the winner is announced.

Here’s a reminder that the UK leg of Volcom Stone’s Wild in the Parks will be held at Revolution Skatepark, at Broadstairs in Kent this Saturday, May 23rd..

There will be sessions for Under 15’s and 16 and Over where you’ll get to skate, best trick style, amongst others as a session so the presure of a comp is off.

Winners have a chance to win a place at the European Finals in Sweden to win one of the two flight tickets to the US WITP Champs.

Schedule:
11:30 Registration
13:00 Contest Start
17:30: Prize Giving

Get down there.

You just can’t stop this dude right now…looking forward to the Koston grill.

He’s one of the nicest guys in skateboarding and he has now been welcomed to the wonderful family of Etnies. Devine Calloway is now on the team and if you click here you can watch a short clip of his happiness. If you want to go through the archives back to 2005 there’s an introduction interview of him on this site.

Death skateboards riders Lee Dainton and Dan Cates fill a void on a Sunday afternoon whilst it pisses with rain down in Wales. Fire and urethane is obviously the answer, watch the clip below for more. In other Death news, the team have been in Madrid of late and blogged over at Sidewalk right now. Click here for that.

Also, Harlow’s favourite tattooed man-slag Monk is recovering from broken bones and is taking the morphine for the crew this week. The Death blog says that.. ‘He is in good spirits though, even ripping a classically timed fart in the ambulance mans face literally 3 mins after the break, then laughed/screamed his way to hospital.

“No matter what happens, there is always time for a fart” – Monk.

Get well soon mate!

Element seem keen to tease the world’s skateboard media for their highly anticipated SOLE movie that is being stitched together right now. Here’s another of those annoying teasers, it does what is says on the tin.

Enjoy a little insight into the workings of Antiz Skateboards here on VBS.

This tune makes me wanna put my balls in a bag and float ’em down the river..