Category: Skateboarding News

Congrats to Fos and all at Heroin Skateboards who like their friends at Death are also celebrating 10 Years of pushing UK skateboarding.

To celebrate this news, check out the new deck series below scheduled for release in your local SOS this month. The graphics are all put together courtesy of artists Todd Bratrud, Michael Sieben, Don Pendleton, Simon True, Gunsho and French.

In other Heroin news, Olly Tyreman joins the am team this month alongside Rogie, Chris Ault, Jon Monie, Colin Fiske, Arthur Tubb, Hamaji and Tamago. The pro team still stands as Howard Cooke, Chopper, Fos and Chris Pulman.

Look out for an interview with Olly Tyreman in 2 weeks time on this very site as words were completed just this weekend.

Congrats to Zorlac and all at Death Skateboards who celebrate 10 years of pushing skateboarding in the UK.

Horsey has been busy grafting at the Death House so he can escape the big freeze here in the UK and skate the wonderful sunny pastures that are found in California. After a bucket load of work he has managed to save enough dough to get the flights and has produced these limited edition tie dye Death tee’s, look out for them this month out there.

In other Death related news, US ripper Zarosh is next up here for a full interview, so look out for that next week.Take a peep at the footage below if you have not seen this guy skate by now.

London’s bearded illustrator French has completed a bunch of designs for Zero Skateboards this month.

The red and black series covers, decks wheels and tees and should pave the way for the next Zero assault coming to a skater owned shop near you soon.

Projekts Skatepark in Manchester have organised what looks to be the first all girl skate jam of the year.

The jam is scheduled for 8th March and has a whopping £600 up for grabs for the best tricks on the day. Entry is £3 and the event is sponosred by Death, Nikita, Landscape and Independent Trucks.

Visit www.projektsmcr.com for address details and more.

Look out for Ride Skateshop’s latest DVD Humble Jumble featuring their riders Jim Skin, Joe Skin, Luke Hassett, Sam Beckett, Russ Perry, Russ Bristow, Craig Cooper and Matt and Terry Aldersley.

The vid is a 6 part montage with 2 friends sections and the usual slam section/odd clips dotted about covering mostly tranny skating from all over the UK and Europe.

Buy it from the Ride website at for £5 and support skater owned shops.

Scott Magill, the bloke behind the lens on the latest Welsh scene video, Who? has completed an interview that will drop on here on Monday (18th Feb).

Scott speaks to Phil Procter about ‘Second Nature‘, his first venture with film that has led to the making of Who, plus 2000 tricks, Sony VX2100 love and more.

Check the offcuts to the film below..

A Baltimore cop has been suspended after throwing a 14 year old skater to the floor.

Officer Salvatore Rivieri is suspended with pay, after pushing some kid called Eric to the floor and giving him a bollocking for calling him ‘Dude’.

A spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department and the mayor’s office, said authorities have begun an internal-affairs investigation. “The entire incident raised red flags for all of the members of the command staff who watched the video,” Clifford said.

This yet again proves that policemen on powertrips are complete knobs, but it does have some amazing quotes, “Stop calling me dude! A dude is someone who works on a ranch!”

Stereo have unleashed the trailer for their brand new video, featuring smoothness from Olly Todd, Clint Peterson, Daniel Shimizu, Benny Fairfax, John Lupfer, Danny Supa, and Danny Renaud.

This was shown as a teaser at the ASR 2008, and seeing as filming has only just got underway, this video should be bananas!

Head over to the Stereo Sound Agency for more, or click here for the trailer.

This weekend (16th and 17th Feb), Slam City will be teaming up with Stussy for a massive blowout sale at Cordy House on Curtain Road, Shoreditch.

Pay a measly quid to get in, and you can grab some bargains on shoes and clothes from the likes of Lakai, Altamont, RVCA, Suburban Bliss and loads more.

Get there early to get the best deals, because it’s gonna be packed. For more info, head over to www.slamcity.com

Footage leftover from Kellen James‘ pro DVD “Jus Liv’n” released in in March has been posted on the Skate Mafia website and you can find it at www.sk8mafia4life.com

Kellen is also interviewed in this months Transworld.