Category: Skateboarding News

Love chucking yourself off massive drops? Think the Leap of Faith isn’t that much bigger than a curb? Fancy winning some hard earned cash for you efforts?

Now you can! Vans are organising the Step Up challenge for anyone willing/stupid enough to hurl themselves down the monstrous drop that you can see Ollie Tyreman not making below. Win yourself £200, get shin splints, and leave most of your elbow skin on the road as you attempt not to break your legs. Remember, hip replacement takes a fucking long time on the NHS.

Congrats to Chewy Cannon who is now on the Adidas Skateboarding team. One major sporting goods company to another eh? Good to know that British talent is being recognised by those across the pond for being nuts good on a whizzplank.

Proof? Click below.

To celebrate 10 successful years of renowned skate store 50:50, co-owner and massive ollier Danny Wainwright creates a not-to-be-missed exhibition documenting the vibrant history of the store.

Opening on the 24th August with a special celebration at the Centre Space gallery, Bristol, the showcase will feature a retrospective collection of magazine features, photographs, video and design, with a night of sounds from DJ Daddy G of Massive Attack.

Premiered on this evening will also be the launch of the limited edition 50:50/Vans collaboration shoe. On reworking the iconic half cab design Wainwright said “I wanted to do a half cab because it was a shoe I grew up skating in and the shoe I won the high ollie in. The half cab is a shoe that really represents skateboarding – a timeless classic!”

Alongside the 10 year time-line and shoe launch, other collaborative products including a limited edition cap from co-sponsors New Era, skateboard wheels and decks will be shown.

The exhibition will then be open to the public until the 29th August.

www.vans.co.uk for more and stuff.

Congrats to Aaron Sweeney, who not only destroyed NASS by getting first place and some nice cash dollar, but has now been added to the Casual Skateboards full team.

The Casual team now consists of binbag wearing Lewis Threadgold, Aaron Sweeney, Nick Bedwell and Ewen Bower. Flow riders are Myles Lucas, Lee Santer, John Bell, Chris Lord and Adam Halverson.www.casualskateboarding.com for details and regular as clockwork updates

Touching down at the end of August will be the Independent Trucks UK team tour, hitting up a fair few places between the 27th and 31st.

Catch Ben Leyden, Div, Frank Stephens, Ben Grove, Mark Munson, Flynn Trottman, Rob Smith, Pritch and Daint (they come as a couple), and Ben Raemers as they scrape away their sponsors product on the coping of Ramp City, 5 Bridges, Derby’s Blue Dog pub, as well as some lurking in between that.

For more details, look at that poster over there.

éS is set to tear up Europe in July 2007 as Rick McCrank, Justin Eldridge, Silas Baxter-Neal, Bobby Worrest and Danny Garcia come over for a much anticipated visit.

Currently hitting up locations all over Europe, the éS team will arrive in the UK for 2 days on July 25th and 26th for a couple of shop signings and a demo at the concrete jungle paradise of the Milton Keynes Buszy plaza.

You can get your tits signed by the éS team at Slam City on the 25th, then on the 26th they’ll be ripping the plaza a new arse before hacking over to Conspiracy in St Albans for another signing in the evening.

Apparently all this will be filmed for a DVD due out in early autumn, so get your ugly faces down there and get hyped on what will be some ludicrously good skating.

Document’s Big Push 2007 is over and everyone is slowly returning to the real world and remembering what pillows and showers are. The Doco site is spreading the hype aready:

“Rumors are circling, Neil Smith’s giant phone photo ollie, someone on Death got some ink on somewhere that it shouldn’t be, Olly Todd being brought home by the boys in blue after a solo mission, Ben Reamers at Saffron Walden, Howard Cooke actually staying on the whole trip and Antiz’s special guest threatening to walk after some rowdy in-van entertainment”

The photos and DVD should be out in issue 72, so make sure you get it or I’ll break yer legs. If you can’t wait that long, Heroin have made a little photo slideshow of the trip. I laughed all the way through until the biro ink tattoo, wait for it…

Blueprint have thrown up a few clips on their site as well. Push your way over to www.blueprintskateboards.com

Our mates at Xynthetic have a new video up.

Check the steez on this UV graphic as a skateboard gets the Xyn treatment:

UV Seen The Future from Xynthetic and Vimeo.

www.xynthetic.co.uk

We received an email direct from the UKSA below regarding their involvement in the ‘extreme’ sports festival NASS:

As of 12th July 2007, the UKSA will no longer endorsing the National Adventure Sports Show (NASS) with regards to their judging and competition organisation. Differences in direction have been an issue for several years and have now come to a point where we can no longer offer support. The UKSA will still be working in conjunction with events we feel right to promote skateboarding here in the UK.

This comes as no surprise to us. The image of skateboarding is ruined by events like these. Just look at the amount of chavs involved in this years event. Many skaters believe that NASS has never represented UK Skateboarding properly but let’s get real, who needs core skateboarding when you already have the next big thing…

According to animal rights activists PETA, a fair few skateboarders are considered some of the world’s sexiest vegetarians.

Their 2007 nominations list of the Sexiest Vegetarians includes Andrew Reynolds, Mike Manzoori, Ed Templeton, Danny Garcia, Forrest Kirby, Brian Anderson, Bob Burnquist, Matt Field, Geoff Rowley, Moses Itkonen, Paul Rimmer, Scott Bourne, Steve Berra, and Jereme Rogers.

When was skateboarding or salad ever sexy? Is this what I’ve been doing wrong all this time? Wait, Morrissey is a celibate, right? Oh, he doesn’t skateboard, sorry.