Category: Skateboarding News

Just in case you thought skateboarding was resumed by bleached American skateparks and European marble, let it be known that a lot of hard work has gone into making even the furthest destination skateable by a dedicated few.

Thus is the case for 2 bald gits Nic Powley, Nick Smith and the guys over at Skate Goa with their ramp, pool and street obstacles situated far far away in the Indian jungle.

Recently, in a bid to get away from the dire winter weather, SkateGoa hosted their Rumble in the Jungle comp with a heap of local and international talent mixing it up and having a good laugh.

Here are the results from one of the best and most exotic comps to date:

Saturday – Jam

1st – Woody
2nd – Marc Churchell
3rd – Zarosh Eggleston
4th – Olly Tyreman
5th – Steak

Best Slam – Joe Habgood – backflip loop out the pool

Best Trick – Zarosh – Ollie into bowl off of a bench thing.

Sunday – Best Tricks

Greg Nowik – Flip Indy fakie, blunt flip in over the deathbox
Olly Tyreman – Backside Crailslide revert, Frontside 5-0 revert
Churchell – Indy transfer out of the bowl into a quarter, manual roll round the bowl to pivot fakie.
Zarosh – Lipslide roll in, Wall stall to disaster in.
Habgood – Frontside nose pick and blunt fakie on the nastiest thin vert quarter pipe.

Massive thanks to Vans and Nueu (eyewear) for taking a gamble on the event.
Vans podcast coming soon!

www.sk8goa.com

City Skateboards have premiered their first video, Crime in the City and now they want to share the amazing feature with everyone for free!

In a bid to undermine the faceless criminals who upload the latest releases directly to Youtube, City offer an individual rider’s part each week for free on their site. A good initiative that upholds the fact that patience is a virtue.

The first free installment goes to Dave Bachinsky (c.f. FS flip photo c/o City Skateboards), City Skateboard’s latest amateur overshadowed by the fearless feat of Kickflipping the 20 stairs at El Toro. Surprisingly this rinsed fact has been sidelined and Dave just wants to take tricks like the hardflip to new and ridiculous levels. Here is the listing for the next individual parts:

Dave Bachinsky – 19th Jan
Russ Milligan – 25th Jan
Alex Klein – 1st Feb
Eduardo & Jimmy – 8th Feb
Tony Montgomery – 15th Feb
Jeremy Reeves – 22nd Feb

To compliment all this good news, Jeremy Reeves and Russ Milligan are City Skateboards newest pros! Read up on these two in the latest Slap Magazine and The Skateboard Mag respectively.

www.thecitystreets.com

Always first to instigate or join the party, Cliché Skateboards had the best of reasons for a good old knees up last weekend when they celebrated 10 years of steady business.

Malik on the decks, Roest on the beers and Gege on the ramp.

Cheers guys – Here ‘s to 10 more!

www.clicheskate.com

Ok, so last week we dropped news about the bloody massive skatepark Paris is about to get built, but how about this for appetizers?

Situated in the 13th arrondissement at Square Robert Bajac, this is a collaboration between art and skateboarding apparently, they call it an “open-plan planisphere“. We just call it rad.

Cheers to Captain Conso and the Concrete Pirates for the tip-off.

You know the premier Euro skate company, Cliché, have got deep roots in Australia, so a a tour of duty is the call during these shitty winter months.

Catch up with almost everyone on the team, plus a couple of Hoon guests, between February 22nd to march 4th, from Melbourne to the Gold Coast.

Stock a few Coopers in the fridge!

www.clicheskate.com

Real have finally turned this year’s nuclear bomb blast of an amateur, Nick Dompierre, pro.

Congratulations Nick, a fair majority of so-called professionals must be shitting themselves.

Expect to see more of Dompierre alongside many other up and coming skaters worldwide in a forthcoming ‘Fresh Blood‘ feature on this site.

The Element Europe team emailed in to report on the Simple Session 2007 that went down last weekend in the Estonian Capital of Tallinn.

Competition was very very tight and Jo Lorenz missed making the final cut by one place. Boaz Aquino managed to share 6th place with Yama boy Chris Pfanner.

Neither Jo nor Boaz were bummed though, as they enjoyed a good feast afterwards c.f. Picture.

Loot and respect went to Latvian skater Madars Apse who blasted a switch 360flip down the double set.

Peep the footy here.

Celebrated graffiti artist Xenz will be exhibiting various artwork and designs at the Workshop in Bristol from 2nd February to 2nd March.

Xenz started getting up on the walls back in the 80’s differentiating himself from the others by his experimental use of colours and layers.

For more info about Xenz, visit his site: http://www.xenz.org

For more info about this exhibition and future shows at the Workshop visit http://www.wonderfulworkshop.com

Illustrator of gnarly drawings of skulls and general gore French has a new exhibition, which seems to be highlighting his softer side, opening on 18th January.

High Priestess Of The Woods will preview on Jan 17th at the 102 West Bow, Edinburgh and runs until Feb 16th, check the flyer for more details, www.analoguebooks.co.uk or French’s own site www.tapedcopies.com