Category: Skateboarding News

4.36pm Monday 30th July

Nick Powley, Vans Team Manager reporting live from Prissick Plaza Car Park.

“It’s day 3 of the tour and I’m sitting in the bus watching Rogie bust his balls in the monstrous bowl e are just having a little time in the sunshine before heading to R-Kade Skatepark in Redcar for tonight’s demo. So far the tour has gone well, very relaxed rather than hordes of screaming kids asking for stickers and the kids have just been stoked and into skating with us.

Everyone is looking forward to a free day tomorrow where we will try and skate the newer parks at Dundee and Dunblaine rather than the traditional romp at Livi, see you in Scotland!

Winners so far of the FREE VANS bonanza are:

Saturday

Ryan Swain from North Yorkshire
Adam Collingburn from Retford

Sunday

Paul Tibbins from Stonebridge
Warren Greatrex from Essex

Monday

Steve Purser from Leicester
Ben Cope from Leeds

Enter via the competition pages daily to win….

DGK and RBK are bringing you a true legend this summer. Stevie Williams, along with the rest of the DGK team are touring Europe this summer with demos, signings and free skate lessons at loads of parks around Europe.

Of course, its a bit much to ask you to travel to Europe to see them, so lucky for you they’ll be leaving their mark on the wood and concrete of loads of UK spots and parks.

You can catch Stevie and the team on these dates, in these places:

20th Aug Shop Visit Slam City Skates London
21st Aug Tutorial & Demo Bay 66 London
22nd Aug Shop Visit Casino Leicester
Demo The Boardroom Leicester
23rd Aug Tutorial & Demo Creation Birmingham
24th Aug Shop Visit 50:50 Bristol
25th Aug Tutorial & Demo Lloyds Bristol
27th Aug Shop Visit Projekts Manchester
28th Aug Tutorial & Demo Projekts Manchester
29th Aug Shop Visit Exit Leeds
Tutorial & Demo The Works Leeds

Get these dates in your diary.

To celebrate the Vans UK Tour that kicks off this Saturday 28th June Crossfire will be giving away a pair of AV Era and a pair of Half Cabs exclusive to this site only EVERY DAY.

We will also bring you news from the tour via PowleyVision, (a new uniquely bald and chaotic way to travel on the road) to fill you in on the teams’ whereabouts.

Go to the competitions page to enter daily. The winners names will be released daily and the shoes will arrive to your door 3 weeks after the tour finishes. Please note colours are subject to availability and may not be the same as you see on this page..

VANS UK TOUR DATES:

28th Jul – Shop Visit Slam City Skates, London / Bay Sixty6, London. (2pm)
29th Jul – Shop Visit Exit, Leeds / The Works, Leeds.
30th Jul – Shop Visit Mischief, Stockton / R-Kade Skatepark, Redcar
1st Aug – Shop Visit Focus, Glasgow / Kelvingrove Skatepark, Glasgow
2nd Aug – Ramp City, Blackpool
3rd Aug – Shop Visit Dazed / Stoke Plaza
4th Aug – Shop Visit 50:50, Bristol / DLH Funday – Dean Lane Skatepark, Bristol
5th Aug – Mt Hawke Skatepark, Mt Hawke, Cornwall
6th Aug – Shop Visit Flavour, Newquay & Vans Summer Sessions till 12th Aug

Hype hype hype. Wait wait wait. Hype hype hype.

Well now they’ve announced the release date, they couldn’t just leave it at that, so here’s the brand new trailer from the Lakai lads.

Fully Flared trailer

www.lakai.com

Silver Trucks, home of P-Rod, Ryan Sheckler, Alex Mizurov, and Rob Dyrdek, have updated their website with tons of new content including the second part of the Dew Tour highlights featuring the Sheckler and the P-Rod pretty much dominating the park and getting all the girls.

You can also check out the Silver Myspace page as well by clicking the links below, or find them on Sheckler’s page in between photos of him posing in the mirror.

www.silvertruckco.com and www.mypsace.com/silvertruckco

Ralph LD has been searching out new spots and skated a shockingly sick new concrete park park in Namur recently. It isn’t entirely finished yet, but it blends street and transition skating really well and is definitely worth checking out if you visit Belgium.

Click the image for the Brusk forum topic with loads of pictures taken during the construction. There’s a good couple of overview shots at the bottom of the second page. Wish you were here this summer?

The Mark Gonzales priest exibition has been moved from DPMHI for a temporary viewing at the Kemistry gallery in Shoreditch, and started today. (26th July)

The collection of handpainted priest figures, each uniquely painted by The Gonz himself will be in the Kemistry gallery for a short time, so if you haven’t seen them already, do.

For details, www.kemistry.co.uk, or give them a ring on 0207 729 3636

Kemistry
43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD

Just another reminder that Toy Machine and their incredible team land on our shores on August 1st, and will be invading what was Epic, is now Creation skatepark in Birmingham.

Ed T, Billy Marks, Johnny Layton, The Butcher, Austin Stephens and new wunderkid Nick Trapasso will entertain you with a demo, Toy Machine cinema, prizes for Best Trick and craploads of free stuff for you to throw back at them to sign, or just put your best mate in a headlock over.

Ipswich has always been renowned for producing some amazing skateboarders, so to document this videomaker Sam Barker has made a film featuring the local talent. No, not hookers.

Ipsvillage will be premiering on August 3rd at the Cock and Pye, and features the likes of Lee Blackwell, Nick Williamson, Paul Roe, Dave Davies & Adam Howe.

The premiere will also have a huge party with some local bands and plenty of boozing. Go and support your local scene if this is, and if not, go anyway.

After leaving the Girl skateboard team not long ago, speculation of where Jereme Rogers would end up started.

The obvious choice was uber team Plan B, and that’s precisely what has happened. Jereme will join the likes of Pat Duffy, P-Rod, and PJ Ladd, where he seems to fit right in.