Cliché Skateboards are about to release a new video. ‘Clé, a live and unplugged’ video has fresh footage of the full team so expect good times and amazing skating as usual. The French Premiere in Lyon is planned for 5th December, look out for the UK one to drop shorty afterwards.
It has been a busy month for Death Skateboards since the winter kicked in.
Etnies rider Mark Nicolson just got back from Vegas and Dan Cates just got back from South America where he has been for a month shredding some epic spots. Expect a Cates interview on this site very soon.
Horsey’s new boards are doing good but he’s imediately got the pro curse and dislocated his toe. It has been numb for 8 days now – that will teach him to stick it up…actually, i won’t go there.
Zorlac’s knee got wrecked 5 weeks ago but is now on the mend. You should have seen the state of the wall, was far worse.
Boots is filming hard with Shakey Jakey for the Square One dvd. There are Death articles in both Sidewalk and Doco this month (doing tours in Turkey and Berlin), check ’em out.
Richie Jackson is being very quiet, the mind boggles as to what he is up to down under but we have money on 13th Floor Elevators and bongs being involved. Zarosh’s back yard pour is coming on strong, this fella will skate anything and if it’s not there you can expect him to build it himself.
Steak’s make up hasn’t come off since the Halloween Massacre as he was made up by the same bloke as Pheonix Nights…and finally…yep, look out for the Etnies/Death shoe collaboration about to drop soon!
Nick Trappasso seems to have fit into his new Converse shoes easily enough. The new team also includes Anthony Pappalardo, Ethan Fowler, Sammy Baca and Raymond Molinar. Brand new site is now up at www.converseskateboarding.com – have a look chuck.
Landscape Skateboard’s premiere of their new DVD ‘Horizons‘ is coming on Saturday November 22nd at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square.
The flick features Joey Pressey, Nick Stansfield, Soy Panday, Joel Curtis, Rory Milanes, Snowy and Jin Shimizu and will be a cracker.
Showings are at 6:45pm & 7:45pm and the remaining tickets can be purchased from Slam City Skates. Be quick.
Dylan Rieder has officially joined Gravis Shoes this week.
The Los Angeles ripper has been on the up for years and has everything at his disposal when it comes to skating. He joins Aarto Saari who also moved over to Gravis this year.
Look out for a video of his skills on www.ivsk8.com/video
Here’s our edit from this years Halloween Massacre. If you have not seen the Night Raids gallery from the evening yet then click here. Enjoy and thank again for making this one of the best nights of the year.
If you are looking for somewhere dry and different to skate this winter look no further than Revolution Skatepark down in Broadstairs. The Gyppo Army crew just came back from a session there this weekend and had a blast. Have a peep at the footage from this weekend and Kevin McKeon, busting his balls as usual.
eS have released their latest in the Theory line. The 5.1’s are a collaboration with Chocolate Skateboards renowned artist Evan Hecox.
Look out for them this month in your local SOS.
For the deck collectors out there, this one’s for you! With only 10 of each to be released in each country, these are amongst the rarest Shortys boards to date. The Sesame Creeps series is out now.
Throw em if you got em. Mike-Mo, Nick McLouth, Mike Marasco, Travis Reinhardt, Greg Kenton, Vince Capaldi, Torey Pudwill and Lamare Hemmings feature in some left over footage from Deric Longden’s sessions posted on 8=D.