Billabong announced this week that they have come into the ownership of US skate company, Sector 9.
The Southern California based company focus primarily on longboards, as well as it’s own Gullwing Trucks brand and have been running for 14 years.
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The Final Flare
The trailer for the upcoming special edition 3-Disc boxset from Lakai Footwear is up and ready to get you hyped right now.
With promises of vast amounts of unused footage, a top secret film, commentaries and lots of HD fun, this is way too good to be missing out on.
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Blind Blog
Recent winner of the DVS CPH Pro, Danny Cerezini of Blind Skateboards has got himself a little blogspace, which alongside Winkle, Pablo and Felipe (film rat, photo rat and writer rat respectively) will be filled with all the spiel on his trips whilst filming for the new Blind video.
Check it at www.cerezini.blogspot.com.
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Anthony Demascio on ACE Trucks
Gyppo Army activist, Anthony Demascio, is the latest recruit to be signed up by ACE Trucks UK team.
Check out some bits and bobs from 2006 from Anthony on the Pootube below.
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Mini ramp sesh at Vans
First off, we all know Bobby is the man.
So if you are looking for some words of wisdom on learning nollie flips, or are interested in winning some free spitfire wheels and maybe a few cans of beer then head over here and post your own nollie flip entries by July 21st.
Bare in mind, this guy is doing all this on a Zip Zagger. Gosh damn.
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Steven King’s Day In The Life
Cardiff based Crayon Skateboards have posted up their first webisode of a Day In The Life series, documenting the everyday happenings of ultra consistent, pop fuelled style machine Steven King, laying down goodness all over Dinas Powys and various locations in Cardiff.
Click the photo of Steve for all the goodness.
For more welsh goodness, check out their recent Go Skateboarding Day Edit by clicking here – featuring late varial flips over dead rats, wallride nollie 360 shoves amongst various other visual treats, all captured and thrown together by Nick Richards.
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Tweakerzine Update
The dudes at Tweakerzine were feeling generous.
They have a big load of new features for you to have a gander at – including a portfolio for Channon King and Dan Kircher, an in-depth interview with those behind Savoir Faire and plenty more, all underneath a great cover of Chewy skating those crazy looking benches in Never Forever. Have a peep.
This month, International and European riders from DC Shoes will be splitting into two to conquer both the North and South of Europe, and they want you to get shredding with them.
The North Team, boasting the likes of Colin McKay, Ryan Smith, Jaime Fontecilla, Henning Braaten amongst other known rippers will be heading to London/Oxford on the 15th July alongside UK DC riders Sean Smith, Leo Smith, Dave Snaddon and Dylan Hughes for a 3 day take over. Here’s where you should be:
Wednesday 16th July: 3.30pm North Team Skate session at Cutteslow Park, Oxford
5.00pm “Afternoon Tea” at SS20 Skateshop, www.SS20.com – everyone invited
6.00pm BBQ at Meadow Lane ramps – everyone welcome to come along
7.30pm Charity gig at the Carling Academy to raise money for Oxford skate parks .
Thursday 17th July: North Team skating at several spots around London shooting some team footage, which you will be able to check out at www.dcskateboarding.tv.
Friday 18th July: 3.30pm North Team meeting at Half Pipe Skate shop, London to decide where to go skating, www.half-pipe.co.uk. If you want to go skate with the Pros you know where to go!
With both North and South Teams meeting up for a session of epic proportions in Paris, not to mention a huge party at the end of it all, there is no excuse to miss this! Be a part of it!
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Flip video teaser
The full edit from this Saturday’s Flip Skateboards visit will be ready soon but in the meantime check some clips out from the London demo here courtesy of Alan Christensen and Andy Evans.