Our friends over at Xynthetic Skateboards have thrown us over a little bit of news.
Firstly their website has had an overhaul and is now back up and running. You can check the steez by clicking the link at the bottom of the news.
Also, the Xyn family will be starting work on Sunday filming for their new full length video so keep your eyes peeled for that badboy.
Tony Hawk, Muhammad Ali, Sharron Stone and Donna Summer. No, not some sick perverted fantasy, but the Annual Celebrity Fight Night held in Phoenix, Arizona last week.
The Birdman, along with ginger snowboard superstar Shaun White, were auctioned off to raise cash in the fight against Parkinson’s Disease.
The highest bidders won a day hanging out with Mr. Hawk and a bucket-load of other X Games champs at his epic ramp complex in California, a tour of the 900 Films studio, and a slap-up meal. I’ll give it a week before you see Tony sitting between Star Wars figures and Royal Doulton plates on Bargain Hunt.
Santa Cruz have added another notch to their bedpost of gnarly pros, this time it’s none other than Justin Strubing, a feller who knows how to kill it on street and on transition.
Those of you who have seen his section in the Foundation flick, ‘That’s Life’, will know what I’m on about. And if you haven’t seen it, where have you been?
Teaming up with the likes of Ted DeGros and the poptastic Flo Marfaing, Santa Cruz are right up there with the big guns. I wouldn’t sleep on these guys right now, I sense big things coming.
For footage of Justin, check his ‘That’s Life’ section on youstrube.
A fine addition has been made to the Blueprint Skateboards website this month.
One of the finest skate videos to ever emerge from the UK, the globally acclaimed ‘Lost and Found’ is now available to watch in full online. If you’ve misplaced your DVD, broken your DVD player or heaven forbid, never bought the thing, here is your chance to watch a great piece of British skateboarding history – for absolutely bugger all.
This made us laugh today. Love skateboarding!
Revert Magazine; the online skateboarding publication has now reached its tenth issue.
You can download the mag for free on their website and goggle at some of the ridiculous photos they’ve got in there this month. Hardflip Pivot Fakie anyone? Looks like Cheese and Crackers had a bigger influence than we thought.
This months issue features interviews with Sam Taylor and Eric Thomas, as well as an article on skating through the winter, and a focus on the CAST skate store. Remember kids, gnar doesn’t cost a thing, so keep your wallet in your pocket and get a clickin’.
The fellers at Icon Skateboards will be throwing two jams/demos during this fine month of April.
One of which is on the 14th April and will be held at Xcite Skatepark in Skegness, the other is on the 29th April at Pride Park in Derby. The latter will also include a miniramp sesh in the Blue Dog Pub for over 18s in the PM. Nice!
Dan Leech and Craig Smedley also have pro models out now, 7.5″ for Smedley, 7.75″ for Leech. An 8″ team deck has also been made to polish off the ‘Mask’ series.
Freestylers in skateboarding ended up running the industry that you know worldwide today and Steve Rocco definitely made his mark along the way setting up World Industries, Blind and many more companies.
A while back we mentioned that there was a documentary in the pipeline about Rocco titled ‘Man Who Souled The World‘ and now there a is a trailer for it that you can see here.
The film directed by Mike Hill should be out this summer so look out for it.
Full story at www.themanwhosouledtheworld.com
It does what it says on the tin, here’s the flyer for Girl Skateboards and Chocolate Skateboards forthcoming visit with May 19th scheduled for a demo at Southbank in London after a signing sesh at Slam City Skates.
We just had a message from Steve Mcqueen from Cantelowes who mentions that if you are coming down to the opening day on Friday and want to skate the bowl, make sure you have a helmet on your head as those are the rules, apparently.
You will be able to use the street and banked areas, but not the bowl. Please make sure everyone you know knows too.
Second, Steve needs help down there – would you like to be an official “Cantelocal” for the day? In return for getting to Cantelowes early (9am) and helping out keep an eye on things during the day, you will get a free T shirt and the first skate of the park.
You can email him here if so.
