Category: Skateboarding News

Slam City Skates will premiere the much anticipated DVD from Cliché Skateboards tonight. Clé ‘A Live and Unplugged Video’ will kick off at 6pm at the shop. Watch the trailer below.

For so many years Al Partanen has graced videos and mags with his total fucking gnar approach and we love it. Check out recent footage of Al whilst he checks in over at Strange Notes.

Andrew Brophy just turned pro for DVS and found himself $1000 better off at this years ASR Hands Free Big Air Challenge. He was joined by Kechaud Johnson, Torey Pudwill and Louis Tolentino who impressed but Danny Wainwright still holds the world record at 44.5″.

If you have not seen Slam’s Game of S.K.A.T.E yet then it’s up and running now over at their site. You can win £500 worth of product by simply picking the overall winner from a bunch of UK riders.

The full series of The Berrics style skate off’s in Jakes Alley will run over a total of 8 weeks with 32 riders involved so click here to get voting and here for the latest battle between Paul Shier and Rob Mathison.

‘Think Flat, Think Green” is a new feature that French company Anagram Skateboards are running this month.

It’s very simple, you take your board, find a gap that’s 5 or 6 steps high and you do an ollie one foot over it. The objective is to do tricks in as green an environment as possible [clothes, paint, trees etc].

There are 2 ways of winning:

1. Speed: Be the first to send in your video
or
2. Creativity: Be the most creative, be it through the spot, the way the tricks are filmed etc.

To be entered, the clip must fulfill the following conditions:

No music
No special effects
The skate has to announce “Think Flat, Think Green” at the start or the end of the film.

Each of the 2 winners will get an Anagram board, gripped, in the size of their choice [stocks allowing] and the names and the videos of the winners will go up on the Aragram site. To enter it, upload your video to Youtube, Daily Motion etc and send it with your full name, postal address and direct link to the video to contact@anagramskateboards.com

The Kayo Corp have just unleashed a video of their recent Keh’O Canada Tour featuring riders from Expedition Skateboards Chany Jeanguenin, Rob Welsh, Kenny Hoyle, Joey Pepper, Kelly Hart, DGK‘s Wade Desarmo , and Organika Skateboards Karl Watson, Adelmo Jr and Zach Lyons. This 10 day tour looked fun. Check out the sick nose bluntslide in a ditch at 3.30.

Etnies celebrate The RVL and RVM shoe with great HD footage featuring Jose Rojo, Kyle Leeper, Sean Malto and Tyler Bledsoe.

The Harmony’s River’s Edge promo is now complete and ready for you to pick up at skater owned shops for just £6. The DVD comes with footage from the Big Push, an edit of the team in Greece and free stickers. Check the trailer below.

River’s Edge Trailer – Jan 2009 >>

The Gyppo Army have recruited another skater to their ever growing ranks. Brighton’s Rupert Antoine is the man in spotlight and can be seen shredding on this clip below. Look out for the team who will be visiting Xscape in Castleford on January 31st from 3pm onwards.

The Kill City crew tend to seek out fresh concrete on a wet Sunday afternoon. Watch the latest video from the Welsh skate mafia below.