Category: Skateboarding News

Wörgl in Austria has nabbed itself a second concrete bowl after some initial building work problems.

Due to a mains gas pipe running underneath the park and a ‘no build’ law, the original plans for the skate plaza section had to be ditched. But after a bit of jigging about, building a second bowl instead, and moving the whole thing just 4 meters over to one side, construction has started!

The place looks sick so far, but check the amazingly named www.muckefuckskateboards.com for more pics and continuous updates. A huge thanks goes to the PTR Crew and locals for getting this thing going. Flights to Austria are pretty cheap right now and the women definitely aren’t, so get yourselves over there as soon as it’s finished.

The Coping Promo “A Brief Encounter” is ready for you to view and is a short sharp taster of what’s to come from the Coping Threads peeps. It features half the team and is a perfect start.

Coping, started out as a grassroots skater run clothing label in 2000 and has sprung into life since. “A Brief Encounter” was filmed by Corbin Kitchener, Jake Stevenson, Henry (Concrete Poets ), T.J and er Brian the Lion and features parts from Sam Green (Oz), Donny Fraser (Oz), Mikky Josephson (Oz), Damien Wilson (Oz), Sean Witherup (UK/SA) and Ivan Vargas (Oz).

Find them at www.myspace.com/copingthreads whilst their actual site is under construction. Click the image on this page to watch the promo which is dedicated to the late Ben Roberts….this one’s for you mate.

Habitat skateboarder and all-round funny man Tim O’Connor has got himself an Epicly Later’d.

There’s some pretty funny stuff coming out this guy’s mouth about Supra adverts and Jamie Thomas acting all military, but don’t give up the day job Tim, yeah?

Liverpool’s finest and Flip destroyer Geoff Rowley has posted up a photo blog of his latest escapades around Alaska on his trusty push-bike steed.

To see pictures of Rowley hanging out with half-naked Grizzly Adams lookalikes and pointing at stuffed black bears, get out your maps and compass, then follow the wolf tracks to www.flipskateboards.com

Globe’s latest video offering ‘Money For Blood’ is out now.

Featuring Mark Appleyard, Chris Haslam, Adam Dyet, Paul Rodriguez, Matt Mumford and many more, Globe and Thrasher bring you 3-days of the most ridiculous skating ever. Lipless bowls, shitty metal mini ramps, and bone-crunching double sets, with the mouthwatering prize of $50,000 up for grabs, Money For Blood looks rad.

Lucky for you sweatbags, the whole video is online at www.Globe.tv then shred over to Thrasher to buy the DVD which is so packed full of extras that your eyes will probably bleed.

Nope, for all you pool shredders waiting for sick footage of gnarl, hold that thought. This is another one of those “got fuck all to do with skateboarding” news pieces that pops up once in a while, but should make you smile. If it don’t – please kill yourself.

July the 22nd will see the King of the Castle event happen at Clitheroe, featuring a Best Trick on the Hip competition, Bowl contest and the usual all-ages competitions.

Support being thrown at this comes from Vans, Globe, Independent and Enuff so it should be a rad day. Head yourselves over at 11am for a free entry, hopefully sun-drenched day where you can either skate or pretend to be Prince Valiant.

We are proud to announce that Westminster Council asked us to attend a consultation session last week alongside key locals, the UKSA, TSEOU and a few skate park builder types. The result is that Meanwhile 2 will be given £90,000 towards a refit and that the Crossfire Gap Jam actually was very much noticed by councillors and played its part.

Before you sit there and complain that the legendary gap and bowls shouldn’t be torn down, don’t worry they will probably stay intact. More information will be posted on here soon as the design of the project and the appointment of a good company to build it is in place.

If you attended this jam, give yourself a teddy bear and a cigar as you should be proud. Big thanks to LovenSkate, Sidewalk, UKSA, Globe Shoes, Almost Skateboards and all the UK skate companies (who turned up to represent) for taking the innitiative to get involved.

You can see a full feature of the event in this months issue of Sidewalk Magazine, pick one up today.

Adio have released new shoes for Real riders Nick Dompierre and Ernie Torres.

Both shoes feature in the Limited Projects range and are what you’d expect from Adio- simple designs yet do the job really well.

The Hamilton looks nice with its classic suede trainer feel, but I really like the look of Torres’ shoe the Marx RE in really low-cut suede and simple toe piece. If both Ernie and Nick have had input in the design of these, you know these shoes are going to withstand ankle-shattering tre flips and frontside flips down stairsets big enough to give you vertigo.

Click your way over DLXSF to have a look see.

Last year we featured Jon Wolf’s Subterranean DVD promo as Send Yours, well he is now back with the final trailer for your viewing pleasure. Visit Jon for a cup of tea at www.jonwolf.org