Category: Skateboarding News

Well, sort of. This Heath Robinson style contraption appeared on Engadget.com with this description recently:

“We know what you’re pondering this fine Thursday morning: how can I most effectively put my body in danger while sustaining full dorkiness? All those “action sports” like flipping motorcycles and skiing through avalanches are just way too glamorous. Well, your answer has arrived in the GroundSurf board from Ratleads. The three-wheeled board has an electric motor, and a unique control scheme that allows you to speed and slow the board using touch controls on an HTC phone over Bluetooth. What could possibly go wrong? The board will be out “soon” for somewhere in the neighborhood of two grand.”

I wouldn’t try answering your phone whilst riding it though, and imagine how bad the shinners would be from it.

Krew have got video of the Active Bling Fest Hundred Dollar Hammers competition, featuring Reynolds, Muska, Angel, TK, and loads more.

Darkstar’s Adam Dyet took home the bacon with a frankly ridiculous nollie varial heelflip backside lipslide, who the hell does those?!

http://kr3wapparel.com/blog

Howard Cooke has been voted by you over the last 2 weeks as the ‘best trick‘ from the Vans ‘Are We There Yet Tour’.

6 tricks were picked by the Vans team manager Nic ‘bald git‘ Powley and the scouser has come out on top!

Look out for Vans UK rippers at this years Crossfire Xmas Jam in 2 weeks time, you know you can’t miss it!

Votes – Yes we can do maths…

Howard Cooke: 34%

Chris Oliver: 7%

Photo: Leo Sharp

Jason Lee has not lost anything. He still has style and can skate better than most of us, despite spending most his time being a Hollywood superstar.

The Stereo website has footage of him taking a break and knocking out a beast of a tre flip on a 1991 shape cruiser board whilst wearing Jack Purcell kicks.

Click it.

Meanwhile Gardens have managed to get through to the final in their bid to win the Lottery’s People’s Millions. This means they are up against some random people in Chelmsford for an £80k lottery grant to do up the gardens.

Meanwhile Gardens will use the cash to make the gardens an even better resource for the local community – and they really need the cash, as they get no government money and are very reliant on volunteers. Unfortunately, to get the cash, they have to go up against the Chelmsford randomos in an ITV People’s Millions public vote (not quite Strictly Come Dancing, but nevermind).

To get the cash, we need everyone in the world, and his dog, to vote. Apparently the number to call is released at 9am on the morning of the 28th November, and voting is until midnight. (You can phone up to 10 times from the same phone). To get the phone number and help Meanwhile out there is an “I Love Meanwhile Gardens” group on Facebook, where people can post any pics/videos of them skating too.

As soon as the number people need to call is released on Weds at 9am, it will be announced on Facebook and www.meanwhilegardens.com

Meanwhile Gardens will also be in ITV ondon news between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of the 28th.

The 2008 Australia Skatepark guide is hitting the shelves now edited by the fantastic Morgan Campbell, who’s probably more travelled than a Saga rep.

The guide features over 1020 skateparks across Oz as well as the editor’s choice of the Top 10 legal streetspots, an interview with Simon Oxenham, and first aid and what to do in real-life emergencies other than reaching for a beer.

Go grab your copy right now!

It seems Peru has slightly more to offer than Paddington Bear, and the boys at eS have discovered some right gems.

Click on the link below for Silas, Garcia and the boys getting casual and dropping hammers.

esfootwear.com/video/es-peru.mov

The bizarre world of professional wrestling throws up some weird things sometimes, like this for example.

Now I don’t know who Layla is, but she’s interviewing Tony Hawk for the WWE site, and to be fair, she should probably stick to wearing lycra and leave the journalism skills alone.

www.wwe.com/inside/superstartosuperstar

Not sure whether to be pleased for Paignton, or sorry for them.

This new ‘plaza’ built for them by the kind people at GBH Ramps, is frankly pretty bad.

Once again, thousands of pounds worth of council money and fundraising has yet again been shit on from a great height and the steaming pile left on the floor is this park.

Check out the Second installment from the Big Smoke Collective who are all under one roof over at Hold Tight London.

This new zine brings bangers with the likes of Lucien Clarke, Shaun Witherup, Neil Smith, Chewy Cannon, Karim Bakhtaoui, Steph Morgan, Rory Milanes, Greg Conroy, Scott Howes and more rippers filling the mini screen with shredding of the highest quality, get in there.