Dan Cates has spat an interview out over at the Death Blog covering hedgehogs, Day Release (no that’s his band), and even some skating. Check the clown out below from the old Squadrophenia days. Word has it that Dibble has threatened court action…
The European VANS team are about to head out on the road this week on their Roll with Us tour of Europe.
Look out for Chris Pfanner, Danny Wainwright, Flo Marfaing, Hugo Laird, Ross McGouran, Tomas Vintr, Ignacio Morata, Kris Vile, and Sam Partaix ripping up the following dates.
Go to www.vans.eu for blogs and stuff and whilst you are here, check out the latest Chukka review.
31st May – Milan (I)
2nd June – Winterthur (CH),
4th June – Vienna (A)
6th June – Berlin (D)
8th June – Copenhagen (DK)
11th June – Amsterdam (NL)
12th June – Antwerp (B)
14th June – Bath NASS Festival (UK) + Ben Grove, Ollie Tyreman and Pete King
15th June – Bristol (UK)
17th June – Paris (F)
21st June – Madrid (E)
Greenpeace are offering budding skaters (and good fakers) the chance to win tickets to Glastonbury Festival.
The skateboard park is one of the highlights of the Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury. This year’s festival will see daily performances by pro skaters, already confirmed are riders from Vans, Santa Cruz and Death.
The park was designed by Heathensk8 and Third Foot and made to showcase Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood kindly donated by B&Q who sell FSC timber throughout their home improvement and garden centre chain.
The FSC logo guarantees wood comes from environmentally and socially responsible sources. That means it won’t have come from one the of the world last ancient forests – 80% of which have already been destroyed. It also proves that the timber isn’t the product of illegal or destructive logging – which is still devastating forests in places like the Congo, the Amazon and South East Asia.
To win a ticket to Glastonbury Festival this year via Greenpeace you have to send video footage of yourself to win, easy. Go to www.Greenpeace.org.uk/Skate to enter. This ends Friday 13th June so get filming.
Nomad Skateboards have unleashed Petr Horvat footage on YouTube this morning. The Spanish crew are really stepping up their game right now, check the shout for longest nollie flip street manny at 00.52!
Gravity have just finished this little beauty in Eastleigh, Southampton.
Marc Churchill and the team have been busy getting this one ready for the summer and it’s now open.
Dimensions are 5ft >7ft deep, with 7ft wave, loveseat, and waterfall to 7ft deep pool section
Get down there.
The éS Shoes Euro Team will be heading out on the road across the UK this weekend (yes we know, we just got sent this too!) so if you have not made plans yet at least you now know that these guys will be turning up to a few select parks.
Peter Ramondetta lets loose in his backyard spot over at the Deluxe website this week.
The Real Skateboards pro hucks out some local yay for the camera in this online video clip. Check out the lines here.
The Death Team will be visiting Revolution Skatepark on the South Coast this Saturday for an evening of mayhem and malarkey.
The likes of Dan Cates, Mark Nicolson, Steak, Horsey, Boots, Zorlac, Blackwell, Cundall and more louts will stain that skate park good and proper. Get down there you mug.
The annual Pro Tec Pool Party went in off in traditional style this weekend in the US with Etnies and Flip pro Rune Glifberg taking the honours for first place again for the second year running plus $25,000 for the privilege. Glifberg killed the place by all accounts with aft stalefish airs, tweaked fs airs, technical switch mastery and the winning run of the day.
Chris Miller won the masters event and Steve Caballero managed 18 blocks of pool coping for the longest boardslide! look out for footage soon.
Pro Comp
1. Rune Glifberg $25,000
2. Omar Hassan $15,000
3. Bucky Lasek $7,500
4. Bob Burnquist $3,000
5. Benji Galloway $2,000
Masters
1. Chris Miller $10,000
2. Steve Caballero $6,000
3. Nicky Guerrero $3,000
4. Eric Nash $1,000
5. Lester Kasai $500
Thrasher/Vans Longest Boardslide Contest
1st Steve Caballero 18 blocks $1800
2nd (tie) Eddie Reategui 15 1/4 blocks
2nd (tie) Steve Steadham 15 1/4 blocks
Bobby Worrest has a new shoe out on