Category: Skateboarding News

As if there aren’t enough twats in the world, one of them broke into Stockport’s Bones Skatepark on Friday and cut the gas and water mains, partly flooding the place.

Luckily, no-one was hurt as the new owners smelled the gas before turning the lights on, and they said they will still re-open for the end of June despite the setbacks.

The newly refurbished park will be re-named Ukskate-Park, and they are currently looking for artists to submit work for the walls of the park, and volunteers with woodworking, electrical or plumbing skills to help fix the place up. If you can lend a hand, get in touch with Steve@ukskate.com

www.ukskate.com

Volcom have whacked up the trailer for their new video ‘Let’s Live’ over on their site.

Here’s hoping it’s as good as Chicagof, which was frankly absolutely amazing.

Feast your eyes and get hyped for some Ozzie carnage at www.volcom.com

Loads of news from the Birdhouse guys this month, these guys are really getting on it recently with footage coming in left, right and centre in preparation for the upcoming video ‘The Beginning’.

Justin “Figgy” Figueroa snatched himself the August cover of Skateboarder magazine with a ridiculous frontside feeble on a beast of a rail. Watch Figgy in action here.

More video feasting with some Brian Sumner footage over at the Adio skatepark. Click as many times as you like on the video page or keep checking out www.briansumner.net

Ginger ninja Shaun White has had his own promo video to officially welcome him to the Birdhouse team and introduce his signature model deck. The Birdhouse site has a competition to win one of them sticks as well. You know the score by now. Blam.

For anything and everything Birdhouse, walk you fingers over you keyboard to www.birdhouseskateboards.com, where all that stuff above can be found. But I’ve just saved you three or four mouse clicks, so you owe me.

It seems like forever until this Lakai video will finally come out, but if those lads keep going to different countries and ripping it apart then thats fine by me.

Lakai in China footage is here suckers.

www.lakai.com

TransWorld have uploaded what they describe as a ‘mega super duper
redonkulous’ photo slideshow from their annual awards last week.

Click right here to head over and see that pro skateboarders are always respectable, upstanding members of society. Or something like that.

www.skateboarding.com

The Epicly Later’d series on www.VBS.tv continues with another episode, this time with East Coast stalwart Fred Gall.

Clickedy click click on the image to the right to absorb it into your eyes.

www.VBS.tv

The Works are having their all-day thrashfest ‘Mid Summers Night Scream’ on June 23rd with live bands, best trick comp, and some pretty flash prizes to give away to the first person to kickflip into someone’s face.

The all-dayer costs a measly £10 with loads of bands playing throughout the day including Dougie McLaughlan’s finest Gentlemans Pistols, so get your arses down there and get messy.

For more info on what is going to be an absolutely mental day, hit up The Works on www.theworksskatepark.com or www.myspace.com/theworksevents

With much local chit chat about the future of Meanwhile Gardens down here in West London, it seems that the skatepark will not be bulldozed to make way for luxury apartments.

Councillor Pat Mason had this to say about the recent surge of bill posting regarding the new suggested build in the area:

I don’t know who said the skate park was going, it’s not, as far as I am aware. The council propose to build a luxury penthouse development at the Kensal Road end of Meanwhile Gardens to pay for a new community building even though the council is awash with money. The development will obliterate the Scented Garden, operated by a local mental health charity, encroach on the Wildlife Gardens, to name but 2 adverse affects, and set a precedent for such builds on green space in the borough. Thanks for your email.

Pat Mason, councillor Secretary, Friends of Meanwhile Gardens.

Last night saw the final episode in the cracking first series of Curb Surfers, generously filmed and edited by Casual‘s head honchos for the masses. This week was a nice little best of and some off cuts and gave the show a good send off until it returns for a second series on the 23rd July.

So if you missed it, and seeing ducks shake their ass and shit all over the place is your kinda vibe (of course there is some skateboarding involved also…), then hit up the Curb Surfers website as the episode should be up for picking shortly.

www.curbsurfers.com

It’s looking evermore likely that our beloved pastime will finally become an Olympic sport, as the International Olympic Committee said on Friday that talks had been held about introducing skateboarding in time for the 2012 Games in London.

With the IOC desperate to update the Olympics and attract those who otherwise would have no interest, BMX and snowboarding have already been adopted, but skateboarding is yet to be confirmed.

“The IOC wants to make the program relevant for young people,” IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said.

The IOC does not currently recognise an international skateboarding federation, so it would first be adopted under the umbrella of the cycling universal body, the UCI, who could then make a formal proposal for it to become an Olympic sport.

In an interview in the Evening Standard, UCI sports director Olivier Quejuiner said: “We are doing our best to introduce skateboarding for 2012.

We have a clear strategy. All we need now is the green light from the IOC. Technically, logistically, and in terms of cost, it would not be a problem to stage the event in 2012.”

There have been rumours that skateboarders who currently earn their living from skating will not be allowed to compete, so many of the names you are expect to see at an event like this might not be there. Either way, there is still one further problem that needs to be tackled before skateboarding is accepted as an Olympic sport. Are we really going to want to see Team Great Britain skating in Lycra uniforms? Maybe not.