Category: Skateboarding News

Charlie Wilkins will no longer have a pro model on 5Boro.

The full details can be found on the press release, but Charlie will continue to be heavily involved in the industry through design and judging. Head over to www.5boro.com

After years together, Mike Rusczyk has stepped down from his professional responsibilities at Foundation and into the realms of retirement.

Good luck to you Mike with whatever you choose to do.

Issue 75 of Document Magazine is out now, featuring a Valencia article with Joe Gavin, Nicky Howells and Chris Jones, a Grime tour to Marseilles with Aaron Sweeney, Doug Parmiter and Kev McKeon, as well as Jerome Campbell’s 5 Flavours. Not to mention Jack Sabback chatting about pony-trekking in the Mongolian province of Ulan Battar. What more could you want?

Plenty more, as this issue unleashes Document +1, a twisted look at the wider reachings of skatebarding with Glen E. Friedman, Richard Gilligan, Marc Foster, The Mountain Goats and Gabe Morford. What’s more, if you subscribe now you will receive a free City Skateboards shirt, a free Spitfire Belt and a free deck of Spitfire playing cards, alongside your Doco Mag delivered to your doorstep and a Doco tshirt. Get on it!

www.documentskateboard.com

These new beauties from Independent will be arriving into the country within the next two weeks.

The new colourways will come in 129 Low, 129 Standard and 139 Standard in each colour, so pick up yours when they drop. Check www.independenttrucks.com and www.shiner.co.uk for more info.

After their closure in May 2007, Unit 1 in Rochester, Kent, has reopened after a group of parents and skaters decided to run it as a charity.

Campaigns to raise funding for the park have been successful and they are now planning to resurface the entire park.

www.myspace.com/unit1_skatepark

A new urban sports centre, to be called Transgression Park, is to open in Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal shopping centre featuring a skate park, BMX track and break dancing arena.

The 9020 ft-square park, which cost a “five figure sum” to fit out, will cost users a £25 annual membership fee, as well as an as yet undecided entry charge. It will be open seven days a week from 10am to 10pm.

Director Ken Smith, said “After all the problems there has been with getting a proper skate park in Edinburgh, it is great that someone like Ocean Terminal is showing faith in us and hopefully it will show the council that facilities for these sports are needed.”

Read the full news story at www.scotsman.com

The Savoir Faire blog has a new edit up of Chris Oliver killing St Albans during a lock-in. The comes in the wake of news that the Savoir Faire DVD is being editied as we speak and should be out very soon.

In the meantime, head over to savoirfaire.wordpress.com for updates.

More news from the Shiner camp, Danny Wainwright and Marc Churchill are now attaching wheels to boards with Independent Trucks.

Both of them seem stoked on the move, especially Marc who does a celebratory backside tailslide for you.

Need any more convincing that the new Emerica video Stay Gold is going to be amazing? No, you don’t, but there’s a brand new trailer up on the newly revamped Emerica site. Have a peek.

http://emericaskate.com/stay-gold/

Morph and crew have put together another banging Hold Tight London edit, featuring Jak Pietryga, Chewy Cannon, Joe Sivell, Shaun Witherup, Steph Morgan, Jin Shimizu and more.

Watch below and head over to www.holdtightlondon.co.uk for more goodness in the Smoke.