Adio Footwear have refreshed your browsers with a brand new webpage. The new site blends well with their 2008 ad campaign, and also allows the Adio crew to update the main blog and add podcasts from anywhere at anytime. Exciting!
Check out the new look and stay tuned for some immediate updates from the team’s current excursion to Russia.
This year, Transworld charged up everyone’s creative minds with their very enjoyable Skate ‘n’ Create competition. DVS, Globe, Emerica and Osiris all spent 9 days in a warehouse, constructing the most mind-boggling obstacles to get subsequently shredded by 5 hand-picked riders from each team.
Daewon’s usual ‘wait, what?!’ antics on some well-crafted ledges secured DVS with the gold but we’ll let you pick your favourites. The effort put in by all four teams was admirable and everyone involved deserves plenty of props.
Have a peep at the incredible Globe entry either here or below for youtubers. Watch out for the last couple of minutes too, oh my.
Come on gents… what’s with this haggard and worn out ‘look how outrageously cultured and eclectic I am‘ fashion statement in skateboarding right now? Flannel shirts, cords and shoelace belts… how is looking like a student who missed the bus and forgot to have a shower going to get you anywhere in life? Fix up dudes!
As The Daily Fail have so rightfully (as always…*ahem*) pointed out, the perfect compliment to your ‘nerves of steel’ skating skills is a sharp suit to match. Whose going to pay attention to your gnar gnar stand up grinds if you don’t look the part? No one! That’s who!
Have a read of this and make of it what you will. Oh, to be present at a Daily Mail board meeting. “Wait guys, I’ve got a perfect idea…”
It should be noted that the person who wrote the above is a student who missed the bus this morning, smells a bit dodgy and is wearing a flannel shirt and cords. What a prick.
Osiris Footwear have created a micro site dedicated to their delightfully crazy entry in Transworld’s ‘Skate and Create‘ contest.
The site features a behind-the-scenes look at the action that went down during the filming of ‘Congress of Freaks‘ including a vast gallery, the video itself and some exclusive info.
Check it out here.
A best trick jam will be taking place at the infamous Bristol spot on the weekend of August 30th-31st.
The big three will see the main comp, but a custom made hubba and rail will serve as additional obstacles for another two best-trick sessions.
Backed by the council and Fifty Fifty, the jam will be joined by live music, graffiti and a mini-ramp for those not stepping up to the British Wallenberg.
Cash money prize of £500 for best trick; only enter if you a serious stair/rail head. This could be very interesting…
Not sure if we covered this yet, but it’s fun as. Click below for slide action featuring the likes of Daewon Song, Rune Glifberg, Dennis Busenitz, Omar Hassan, Remy Stratton, Andrew Allen and the Wray Bros.
Slam City Skates have raised the bar in websight trickery with their new lookbook, unveiled this week on the shop’s website. Following in the style of online webzine page turners such as Tweakerzine and others, the lookbook serves as a catalogue for the shop’s products. Slick produce as always from Slam, including flicks of Jensen amongst other familiar faces getting their
handsome-boy-modelling-school face on.
As an added bonus, the lookbook includes an unsurprisingly styled out promo from the Covent Garden skate rats. Grainy footage that compliments that Neal’s Yard atmosphere perfectly, and of course, the usual bangers from Snowy, Lucien Clarke, Blueprint and the Hold Tight London crowd.
Have a look and brighten up your day why don’t you?
While Meanwhile 2 got shut down once again this weekend, those at the Know Skateboarding Project were at the Back To The Banks jam in Brooklyn.
Zared Baset took the $1000 on the bank to ledge combo best trick with a frontside 5-0 grind to fakie. Ryan Bobier and Jake Donelly split the cash between them on the rail with a frontside blunt to fakie and flip frontboard respectfully. And Matt Allen took home some cash money for generally killing it throughout.
Have a peep at a few gems from the rail competition here, look out for the catch on that nollie heel over the rail!
In celebration of Terell Robinson getting bumped up to pro status, Darkstar are offering TEN free decks up for grabs.
Ten copies of Terell’s brand new pro model on Darkstar will be dished out to the lucky winner. Check out Terell’s pro debut video here.
This year’s Big Push is finally out for your viewing pleasure and the polls are now up on the