Not that type of girl website, you sicko, put it away.
Girl Skateboards have updated their site and overhauled it a lot, more than likely to help cope with Crailtap’s constant strain of people asking when the Lakai video is out.
Anyway, kickflip frontside crook like Koston onto www.girlskateboards.com
City Skateboards have made a new feature on their site called City Takeout, with offcuts from their upcoming video due to drop in January 2008, which should be amazing as the team roster includes Jeremy Reeves, Alex Klein and Dave Bachinsky
Subscribe to their podcast whilst browsing the rest of the site, so head over to www.thecitystreets.com
Mark Gonzales has announced today that he and his girl Heathermary are the very proud parents to a new son, named William Dexter Jackson Gonzales.
Congratulations to the family, and we’re sure little Will Gonz will be skated Krooked very soon.
Volcom held it’s Big Gig Mini Ramp Jam recently with the first prize being taken by Rune Glifberg who yet again dominates on tranny. That’s ramp, not men in dresses, although who knows, he might be into that as well.
The final results were:
1. Rune Glifberg – $10,000
2. Kyle Berard – $7,500
3. Mike Peterson – $5,000
4. Chet Thomas – $3,000
5. Remy Stratton – $2,000
6. Donny Barley – $1,500
7. Tyler Mumma – $1,000
8. Justin Strubing – $1,000
9. Will Powers – $1,000
10. Ben Schroeder – $1,000
Click on the link below for a full video of the event. Ski-stance backside smiths anyone?
Monday morning, it pisses it down so hard that you think the raindrops will smash the windows, but they don’t because you forgot to close the window last night so that side of the bed feels like wet dog.
What should you do to cheer yourself up? Go skateboarding in the rain, just like Mark Gonzales
Bay Sixty6 was host to the Nando’s X-Peri-Mental event on Saturday, which had kids being taught how to skate, prizes, and serious amounts of spicy chicken.
The event was well attended with names including Lucien Clarke, Amir Williams, and more. Check out the short clip below for some super smooth kickflip frontside crooks to chicken burger reverts.
After much deliberating, the winner of the Nike 6.0 media apprenticeship competition was announced as Josh Knox from London. Josh won through the hundreds of other entrants to bag himself the first prize of placement on the team.
Judges Chris Moran, Andrew Horsley, Will Smyth and Alex Wade all commented on his smooth camera work and strong story lines running through the film clips, with his sharp photography capturing action moments beautifully.
Throughout his placement year with Nike 6.0, Josh will work alongside some of the action sports industries top professionals. From photographers, film makers and athletes, to magazine editors and publishing houses – including companies like Extreme TV, Permenant Publishing and Factory Media. He will also receive exclusive training and top of the range equipment from Adobe – official partners of the scheme.
He will experience live photo shoots, attending some of the best action sports in the world and documenting the 6.0 teams exploits.
Josh, 18, said, “This is a really good opportunity to improve my skills as a filmmaker and photographer and have the opportunity to work with some of the best riders in Britain. I want to progress in the film and photography arena as I want to show people the passion these athletes have for their sport. I also want to learn more on the post production side so I can make my editing outstanding.”
The trailer for Osiris’ latest video Feed The Need has just come out, and it looks a good ‘un with some serious bangers coming from Caswell Berry, Stu Graham, John Rattray, The Butcher, Clint Peterson, Corey Duffel, Jimmy Carlin and loads more.
It looks likely that the UK Premiere of this film will be shown at the Crossfire Xmas Jam this year in London, more info will be released soon.
More details of this to follow but there’ll be a one off premiere of the new Vans tour DVD at the Blue Dog in Derby, Friday 28th September (the day before the House comp).
In the meantime, check the trailer:
Not sure what the idea behind this Sunday Times fashion photoshoot was, but maybe to make supermodels look even hotter by putting them next to sweaty, smelly skateboarders.
Ari Marcopolous filmed this behind the scene look at the shoot, which made me laugh as it’s always funny seeing girls genuinely shocked that you don’t die if you fall over on your board.