Category: Skateboarding News

Let’s Get Dirrrty!

That’s right, two extra unnecessary letters. That’s how seriously dirty this event is.

Brighton Seafront is about to once again witness the Extreme Dirty Weekend, which takes place on the 26th-27th May. This year is going to be bigger and better than those previous to this, so get hyped!

The highlight of the weekend will no doubt be Pete King’s gargantuan Vert Ramp, it’s the largest portable ramp in Europe don’t ya know? Confirmed riders who will be taming the beast include Pete King, Andy Scott, Sam Beckett, Sean Goff and Death team riders.

This year will also see the inclusion of a street course, as well as various other exhibitions and general dirty malarkey. Music will be provided by JFB, Buckwilde and Ed Solo amongst others, and there will be a retail village on the scene too.

Brighton looks like the place to be to get dirty this summer, remember – this event is FREE. Carnage and tight units ahoy!

www.extremedirtyweekend.co.uk

Youtube has become such an important part of skateboarding in the present day. The simplicity of uploading your local footage onto the internet has never been easier and kids all over the UK are filming thir own sponsor me parts and local scene videos every week.

One that has been sent into Crossfire HQ this morning is of Bath shredder Ben Nordberg whose skills on the hills have set him up at Out Of Step distribution with free skate gear.

Send Your youtube footage to us here at Crossfire and the best video parts we receive will be featured in this skate news section which is the most hit part of this website and don’t forget that kate companies ask us about new skaters weekly, so you never know, you could be hooked up and travelling the planet on your whizzplank and getting paid for it!

This first bit of news has fuck all to do with skateboarding but you just have to watch it as it made us laugh hysterically! Is this Marc Churchill in disguise? Click the tache on this image for proof!

Powley, he sent me a link to his new skate company – Dogwanker Skateboards, and they are apparently making decks as i type this.

More news on this new phenomenon when we get it but ‘guest’ boards are going to be made for various pro riders including a well known vert wizard who loves pissing himself when drunk….answers on a postcard to the usual place.

In the meantime, feel free to watch the first advert from er…Dogwanker….

Creature, gnarlmasters of rad, released a Jesus pro model board on Good Friday. Except Jesus is dead, so his resurrection is in zombie form.

Better grab yourselves one of these 9.6 inch beasts quick as all Hell, as only 500 are being made. Grind the Hellstone.

www.creatureskateboards.com

The Girl Skate Jam UK is back for 2007.

The all female skate jam and comp will take place at St Albans’ Pioneer Skatepark on Saturday 9th June from 12pm to 5pm. The event last year was attended by girl skaters from the UK, Italy, Belgium and Holland and this year’s is sure to bring the best girl skaters from around the globe in.

There will be comps for under 18s, over 18s, sponsored girls, a mini ramp and a best trick comp and there will even be a prize for the skater who has the best slam of the day! There will be prizes for first, second and third placed skaters and the prizes will include decks, clothing, hardware, shoes and more with the winners of the sponsored section receiving a cash prize.

All girls who attend will get a goody bag which will include a t-shirt, stickers and some small gifts from the sponsors. Entry is £5 for skaters and £2 for spectators.

www.myspace.com/girlskatejamuk

Vans are proud to be presenting photographer Hugh Holland‘s debut exhibition in the UK.

Following on from the success of his ‘Angels‘ series which did the rounds in LA and New York, the exhibition, named ‘Angels. Street. Skate. Seventies‘ will be opening at the Crane Kalman in Brighton, on June 21st to coincide with Go Skateboarding Day.

Hugh has been capturing the life of skateboarders for decades now. After a good deal of experience with cameras he become engrossed in the skateboarding scene, and has provided a gorgeous insight into it through a lens ever since.

The exhibition will run from the 21st June till the 29th July, so make sure you get down to see what looks set to be a fantastic collection.

www.vans.co.uk

Video from the War of the Thistles skate jam in Aberdeen’s new skate park has been posted up over at Sidewalk.

Click here to launch it and get ready to book your trip to Scotland as this park looks off the hook.

Ph: Neil Currie

Here’s some more footage of Chris Haslam just to wet your appetite before this Saturday’s Almost….a Gap Jam.

This edit comes fresh from Haslam’s video part in Momentum Wheels ‘Por Favor’ DVD.

Dekline have already been successful with their ‘Rider’s Choice’ range of shoes, featuring influence from two highly innovative skaters, Mike York and Shiloh Greathouse. Adding to their list is another fresh and unique skater, none other than Patrick Melcher.

Patrick’s debut Rider’s Choice shoe, the ‘Black Houndstooth’ which features houndstooth woven fabric combined with premium suede will be available as of July 2007.

www.dekline.com

It has taken what seems an age but finally we can reveal the street course plans that are now in motion at Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark.

The park is looking to complete this a week before their opening event on Saturday 9th June.