Category: Skateboarding News

It always cracks me up when people try and re-invent the skateboard without actually having ridden one before. I once entered a comp to win some mental contraption with wings on the side, but I preferred to ride proper boards. Anyway, whilst fishing for rations to fill our atomic bunker, we came across these two gems. One good and one very very bad.

Exhibit No.1 is the love child of an Artiste and a bumper pack of Haribo Starmix – the Modern Convenience board. I quote their advert when I say, “They look so cool you won’t even want to ride them.” Hmmm…? Well with the $525 price tag, I guess you might not even want to go near one…

Exhibit No.2 is far more functional and realistic. The Swiss street technicians at 242 Skateboards have brought out the Good Combination Series in association with artist Plus41. Pairing up various Hollywood notables (Prince and MJ, Darth and Luke, Tubbs and Crockett, Arnold and Willy and Monica and Bill) and signing them with their riders signatures, this series taps into an area of Chic that the Swiss know very well.

Stereo Skateboards are about to ship a whole lotta hot proddy on UK shores, and as per usual the finesse is there.

The new Artist series features a Still Life deck by Jason Lee, Haberdashery from Stereo Sound Agent Clint Peterson and a Chris Pastras cruiser that “Is gonna kill me”!

Add to that the suave sophisticated designs of the other product, including a new Diamonds are a girls best friend inspired series, and you’re laughing.

Wondering how this sweet stuff is getting to your door- After severing ties with Giant, Stereo is now available through www.outofstep.ltd.uk

For more info from the Sound Agents, put your finger on the buzzer here or here.

We’ll start off with the bad news:

It’s official – Chocolate has lost two of it’s riders. Mike York left and Gino Ianucci retired from the professional ranks. Gutted.

Jereme Rogers and Jerry Hsu are getting pro trucks on Royal trucks…

Wait! That’s not bad news, that’s good news!

So, yeah… Jereme and Jerry will be hand-painting each truck individually, because if they don’t do something special, then what makes the difference between their personal colourways and the 6 or 7 new models Royal are about to drop..?

Sticking with the good news and new product, Chocolate have got a new Gun series out – but that might be a bit touchy considering the school shootings America’s suffering at the moment. Add to your shopping list a whole warm bunch of 4-Star goodies that include scarves, woolly hats, mittens and other festive outdoor apparel.

Did we mention 4-Star’s 10 year anniversary party? It went down a storm. So much so, that a London version is currently getting looked into with great interest. That is, when the Girl staff aren’t boggling at Brophy‘s incredible pop. He’s currently stateside leaping over Daniel Castillo! Boom!

Catch up with the Girl/Chocolate/Royal/Fourstar at these hot internet sites.
Click click click…

www.crailtap.com
www.royaltrucks.com
www.fourstarclothing.com

When the weather is grim, it won’t stop the pilgrim.

Ahh… How poetic! But, when I look outside my window at the cold and rain, it only means more tea and more proper work. Thank god the skateboard industry is constantly on filming missions, otherwise I wouldn’t have these exciting trailers to watch instead of the Autumn gloom.

Brand new Oakley Our life trailer here.

Brand new Toy Machine Suffer the Joy trailer here.

Brand new Chris Hall’s Get Familiar trailer here.

Brand new Ian Reid’s Video trailer here.

Brand new Clyde Singleton’s Minority Report trailer here.

Brand new La rue vers l’image video sections here.

I would drop a gem on you with Donny Barley’s website which contains every snippet of footage the kid ever clocked, but dude’s bandwidth got raped. Too bad.

To compensate for the lack of Barley, here’s some of the last footy you’ll see of the now defunct Recs Skatepark in Wales. Watch as Tourettes Ben mashes it up on the beatbox! Click here for the fun.

When you’re collaborating two successful things, the outcome is bound to work. Etnies and Dirty Sanchez psycho Lee Dainton got together to work on a Callicut desgn that incorporates top knotch skate shoe knowledge of Sole-Tech and the creepy inspiration of a crazed stuntman. The result is the Step-Up. Guaranteed for a good skate and good time!

www.etnies.com

Ever since your motor neuron skills gathered enough ability to grab that crayon in kindergarten, you could scribble. You work you’re way through life scribbling signatures, post-it notes, telephone numbers and usually tags if you’re young. Scribbling isn’t very artful though. That’s why you need to open your minds to one of the UK’s leading stencil activists, PARIS, at The Workshop (1-2 perry Road , Bristol) on Friday October 6th. Open from 6 to 9pm with drinks and good vibes, this Wet Shame Crew artist has some flavour for you.

Check these links for more:
www.wonderfulworkshop.com
www.kuildoosh.com

So, London has been waiting for a decent skatepark for what seems like an age thesedays and it looks like we are about to get something that will please everyone finally. Check this shot sent in thanks to Jeremy Donaldson.

The bowl has been nothing more than a virtual reality computer model dream until now. (Sure, it’s been a fat hole in the ground for a few weeks but that’s not the point). To see the lines check out in concrete reality is a great relief and totally relied on the skill of the crew .

For those of you that don’t know, Nick from Wheelscape paid for Dave North to come out from New Zealand to lead the concrete pours.

The crew bust their balls on the hard labour of concrete finishing from 7 am to 10pm or even midnight for two weeks including the weekend.

The shaping is spot on. Dave is a stubborn, hardworking perfectionist and it shows in the park. We owe them much gratitude for turning the dream into a reality.

Please note that the bottom of the bowl will be poured this weekend (8th October) and concrete takes 28 days to reach only 70% of it’s final strength.

ie: a bailed board or bike could take a chunk out of it.

Can’t deny that the wait will be hard but DO NOT SKATE THIS BOWL UNTIL THE OFFICIAL OPENING DAY. The Contractor says it’ll be mid-November. There’s also some drainage work being carried out to. But now you can see this beauty in it’s prime, you know we are gonna session this place to the death London!

Watch some footage of people skating the banks here:

For more pics and info visit Cantelowes official website here.

Crossfire caught whiff of a new Street park that got built in the French Jura region, Morteau to be more precise, and apparently it’s so good that people are coming from up to 200km away to ride it!

The boys at Syndrom/Skatanova took just under a year to complete the park, from the first shovel of earth to the last tree planted, and this is the sort of fun you can have there.

www.ussr.coop

Keeping it rootsy, Pat Smith and his pals at Coda Skateboards have just released a new batch of sick boards built for all terrain thrashing.

Still waters run deep, so don’t sleep on the New York underground scene!

www.codaskateboards.com

This news is only interesting for those of you that live in Lyon, or are thinking of passing through there between the 6th to 11th November. Cliché are holding their annual sale where good deals are the order of the day. In association with four Lyon skateshops (Wall Street, ABS, Namasté and Ballz Out!), make your way over to Cliché HQ and pick up a board, sweatshirt, jeans or socks for half the price.

Cliché HQ, 29 Rue F de Préssensé 69100 Villeurbanne (metro Charpennes) – Exit metro and walk up Cours Emile Zola until you reach Rue Jubin on your left. Walk up Jubin and take a right on Cours André Phillip/Rue F de Préssensé. Cliché is on the left hand side of the street. Open from 10am till 7pm.

www.clicheskate.com