Category: Skateboarding News

Skateboarding is a discipline where individual talent is worth your weight in gold, and if you’ve got it then it’s happy days. This unique brilliance runs in the genes of the skaters as well as certain companies and in this day and age two of skateboarding’s finest innovators are PJ Ladd and Plan B.

Well, Es Footwear have decided to release a very limited number of PJ Plan B collabo pro model shoes to celebrate the prodigal son. Now when we say ‘limited number’ we’re talking 60! So get yourself down to one of the following stores with 9 crispy tenners and live exclusively for a little:

Kates skates – Barrow-in-Furness, Rollersnakes – Derby & Leicester, Conspiracy – St Albans and Route One – nationwide.

If that’s not enough, then salivate over PJ’s tricks in the latest Plan B promo Live After Death available for download on Friday 22nd September at www.planbskateboarding.com

Support your scene and get down to the premiere of Pholow Skateboards An That the brand new video from Leicester skaters Eric Thomas, Judah Thompson, Wilko, Curt Bagley and Sam Taylor. The action takes place at the Boardroom Skatepark on Saturday 30th September at 8.30pm.

To get a little pre-flavouring, watch the unused footage promo here and the official promo here. You can find out more info at www.pholow.cjb.net

The boys of Barely Original online Zine have just released their 3rd issue with some sweet photos and video clips.

Check out the new Skegness skatepark, the Rogue Skateboards girls, a street artist named Phlegm as well as the skate artist collective known as Xynthetic, and a cool scene check out for Grimsby (Set to be the new Barca-promise!).

Click away and get lookin’ at what’s cookin’ in the Barely Original Kitchen!

Yeah right! Wight Trash is a new board company headed up by John Cattle over in the Isle of White and manufactured by Death.

The team consists of AVI aka (Chris Atherton), Flynn Trotman, BOD (aka Bodine Grist), Jocky, Martin Allen, Cliff Church (aka Questionaire), Sam Gryzb and Greg Nowik Nowik has some proper shit graphics in guise of a pro model for help to the nation of mini ramp riders which will be available very soon.

Check out www.wight-trash.co.uk for all the good stuff and look out for a video out spring 2007 where allegedly Ricky Grover aka BULLA provides comic relief.

Throughout the month of September, DC Shoes is throwing down the gauntlet in the Big Apple to find the King of New York.

Basically, a spot in each of the 5 boroughs – Staten Island ABC ledges, Manhattan Brooklyn banks, Queens Flushing meadows, Brooklyn John Dewey High and the Bronx Rafael Hernandez Academy- will pitch 50 amateurs head to head throughout the day with the winner from each comp collecting cash, prizes and points.

The overall winner with the most points after all five stages of the competition will be proclaimed King of New York!

Check out www.dckingofnewyork.com for more.

The Ams Getting Paid comp will be taking place in Montreal over the weekend of 22nd to 24th September.

Despite the $15,000 prize money, a brand new Canadian video Yesterday’s Future showcasing the talent of local riders like Ted de Gros, Grant Patterson, Geoff Dermer, Carl Labelle, Dustin Montie and newfound resident Paul Carter.

In addition to the release of Yesterday’s Future, Vans will drop some limited edition hi-tops, as well a limited supply of boards and t-shirts to celebrate this Canadian milestone.

East Coast notables, the Zoo York team, will be present at Ams getting’ paid as it coincides with their Canadian Unbreakable Tour. Oh! And hip hop heads rejoice as New York heavy weight, Raekwon the Chef will be performing live at the comp too!

Just so you know, Plan B has just released a preview video Live After Death on their website and it is going to blow you away!

Danny Way, Paul Rodriguez, PJ Ladd, Pat Duffy, Colin McKay, Ryan Gallant and new rider Brian Wenning pull out all the stops for a short promo of the forthcoming Unquestionable DVD due to drop later this year.

Go to www.planbskateboarding.com and watch the preview, again, and again, and again…

The skate media can be a pretty tough world to compete in, and France just lost two great mags because of it.

Without going into the politics of it all, Crossfire would like to say thanks for all the good times that Chill and Freestyler magazines provided.

Even though Freestyler is definitely no longer around, Chill magazine promises to update it’s website with bits and bobs and now and again.

Enjoying the late September sun, are we? Well, you could have enjoyed it a whole lot more if you made it to the Stoke Plaza Palooza skate jam last weekend (Sept. 10th) sponsored by Etnies.

With all the rails, hips, dips and drops on hand, the shreddage was manadatory and everyone busted out something worthy of a mention. Here are the results:

Full results:

PIER 7

1st: Craig Smedley, Nottingham, fakie bigspin manual
2nd: Jethro Coldwell, Stoke, nollie flip nose manual

BLOCK
1st: Craig Smedley, noseslide bigspin shuvit
2nd: Ryan Evans, Exeter, Backside Bluntslide

BOWL
Shared 1st: Aaron Sweeney, London, backside indie tailslap
Daryl Nobbs, Ceventry, Madonna straight into hip

HIP
1st: Woody, Manchester, Bluntslide to fakie
2nd: Craig Smedley, frontside flip
AM: Barney Page, Exeter, nollie heel flip

RAIL
1st: Ben Grove, Manchester, flip frontside boardslide
2nd: Barney Page, backside smith grind

BIG 3
1st: John Fisher, fakie flip
Shared 2nd: Joe Lynskey, Morley, frontside flip
Craig Smedley, 360 flip
AM: Ross the Boss, Birmingham, shuvit heel

DOUBLE SET
1st: Tom Knox, London, Half cab to feeble shuvit
2nd: Anthony Demascio, Harrow, Kickflip to feeble

A Special mention goes out to Tom Knox for traveling 12 hours return from London, and little 8 year old Theo from Macclesfield who literally broke things off in numerous attempts to leap the big stairs.

Watch dad-cam footy here (skaters in order of appearance – Smedley, Orlando, Pants, Ben Grove, Gnargore Fran, Rogie, Porno Paul, Tom Knox, Fran, Jason Cane* c.f. pic. Switch Ollie Ph. Tim Sadler*, Craig Smedley, Ben Grove, John Fisher, Joe Lynskey.)

For pictures visit www.afour.co.uk
Photo by Tim Sadler

In a similar vein to Day In The City, Dublin skaters can take part in a skating/filming session across the European city on September 24th for the G1 Skate Supply My Goodness! Comp.

The teams are as follows

“Monkeybird” – Mini Brown, Ollie O’Hanlon, James Black, Dan, Ryan filming.

“The Glory Holes” – Al Collins, Dion McGarity, Tim Mills, Ross Dunne, filmed by Gibbo.

“The Chungfellaz” – Mark “Snowy” Brew, Keith Walsh, Paddy Clear, Anto Thornberry, filmed by NOB.

“Stab City” – Dave Hurley, Rueben Shortt, Luke Shortt, Donal, filmed by Dave.

“How About 10 Major?” – Jer Evans, Gav Coughlan, James Carroll, Craig Yule, filmed by Ciaran.

Footage from the various entrants will be available on G1’s website in the near future. Check it out here.