Category: Skateboarding News

Filming for the 4th Alien Workshop video is gaining more and more momentum as the time flies on.

A nifty little website has appeared so all you footage cravers out there can get your fix and keep up to date.

Check it out here.

Some of you may have caught the live streaming of this year’s Tampa Pro contest and witnessed the devastating display of littered hammers.

For those who were too busy doing something less important, here are the results from the street and best trick comps.

Tampa Pro Street 2007 Results:

1st Eric Koston
2nd Jereme Rogers
3rd Paul Rodriguez
4th Nick Dompierre
5th Rick McCrank
6th Greg Lutzka
7th Rob Dyrdek
8th John Rattray
9th Mike Peterson
10th Tommy Sandoval
11th Billy Marks
12th Nilton Neves

For Koston’s winning run, click here.

For Best Trick action, click here.

Stefan Janoski claimed the Best Trick prize with a total pisstake switch flip k grind. Ridic.

Yep, The Works have yet another event in the diary but this one is with a difference.

Marc Churchill is back on a board after a nasty car accident which left him hospitalised this year so to welcome the old boy back to the scene, The Works Skatepark are throwing a jam for him at their park in Leeds on Saturday 28th April to celebrate his Birthday.

Expect Powley in his gruds singing 80’s music and a good session…

We all know that Adidas have assembled a new team manager in Neil ‘Blueprint’ Chester, but what you may not be aware of is that his eagle eyes have started to move much in the same way of the bionic man on the lookout for Fresh Blood as Adidas prepare to launch in the UK properly in the coming weeks.

A UK team is being assembled right now, so look out for Ches on his travels as it may well be you who is repping the famous shell toes alongside the Gonz, David Bachinsky, Dennis Busenitz, Tim O’Connor and Benny Fairfax.

Click here to visit the Adidas site.

Blueprint has served up some tasty new decks and wheels to get your greasy mitts on this month.

The Afterhours range, which features pro models from the usual bunch, and the Artwork II series are both available right now.

Any fellow monster footed fellers out there will join me in welcoming the release of the Gilded Grande decks, weighing in at a respectable 8″ and 8.25″ each. Decks with girth and two new sets of wheels, the Pro Fellowship and Team Infinity mean that Santa has come early this year.

Other Blueprint happenings include Mikey Wright helping the Nike SB team claim the throne at the recent “We Are The Champions” competition at the Works in Leeds, whilst Baines and Shier are out reppin’ t’Print in Malaga on a DVS trip.

Good timing on escaping this god awful weather lads, ya lucky gits!

Blueprint are the latest skateboard company to be involved in the forthcoming Meanwhile 2 Gap Jam, visit www.blueprintskateboards.com for more.

New companies always have their own way of launching to the general public, but new shoe company Sneaux Shoes have decided to go with the human skateboard to get the message across to you people?!

We have no idea where these came from but looking at their site it’s clear to see that Jackass clown Steve-O has signed up for the fun of the fair. Whatever next….cheesy answers can be found here.

The Creature Skateboards website is still not in action just yet but a trailer for their new movie “Blackmetal” is up over at Puzzle and is looking like it’s going to be worthy of your mince pies. Go take a peak here.

Look out for a feature on the Crossfire Xmas Jam on the next issue Puzzle VM soon. Whilst you are over there, check out a day with Rick McCrank, – one of the best skaters out there and always has been.

The beautiful thing about the internet thesedays is the fact that even old guys can use it too. Harrison James sent in this clip of Christian Hosoi and Tony Hawk battling it out at the legendary Del Mar skate park back in 1985 when big hair and riser pads were almost the same size. Amazing to see that 22 years later that these 2 are still riding urethane…but the question is – will you?

Footage here.

Buddy Nichols and Rick Charnoski are back with a brand new documentary covering the history of street skating in New York City.

The duo, who have directed amazing movies such as Northwest and Fruit of the Vine are ready to unleash a definitive history of the City covering an incisive and artful exploration of skateboarding and its culture.

Jocko Weyland who wrote the book “The Answer is Never” says “On one level it’s about street skating, but also an anthropological overview of skating’s epochal shift from the parks and pools of the 70’s, to ramp skating in the 80’s, to the street ascendancy of the 1990’s as seen from a New York-centric perspective.”

This film will have interviews with many skaters, street architects and more so expect this to be one of the most talked about films of 2007 released soon. Watch the trailer here.

Crossfire is proud to announce it’s participation in this year’s King of the Ramp competition due to be held on April 14th in Austria. The event is literally no-holds barred Deathmatch with no qualifications and no finals. Just pure annihilation!

The event has an invite list including heavy hitters such as Juergen Horwarth (lat year’s winner), Oli Buergin, Daniel Cardone, Ivan Rivado and awhole load more. On top of that there will also be all the locals in attendance, so you know things are going to get very messy indeed.

To prepare yourselves, watch last year’s event here (80mb!)

More info from the Muckefuck Skate Crew