Can anything stop the skateboard workhorse that is the Zero team??? Jaime Thomas led his team to a third consecutive win of Thrasher’s King of the Road. Clocking in almost a thousand points more than their competition (Darkstar, Baker and Toy Machine respectively), this year’s tricks and challenges were wilder than ever.
Visit Thrasher Magazine for more photos and footage and if you want to read an inside blog from one of the judges then click here.
Death Skateboards recently added Patrick Melcher to their team and should have a pro deck out in the next 3 weeks.
Death are are preparing a one off Ricky Oyola ‘Guest‘ model to hit shops soon after he hooked up with the team as Death’s secret guest for the Big Push tour.
This DVD project soon to be released on the cover of the next issue of Document Magazine on August 31st. Watch the Death trailer here.
Fuck yes! The man- John Cardiel – is back on board. John dropped in for the first time since a vehicle ran him over and crushed his spine (!) during a Vans tour. Now if that doesn’t inspire you…
Check this link for more.
Heathen Skateboards are about to release some new threads this month, yes check out those shark jaws, as if you don’t want one!
In Heathen team news Paul Rimmer is kicking London right in the London eye with his Aussie homeboy Timmy Burdett. Timmy is a pure bred beast, I’m sure you’ll all be seeing a lot of him in the next few months.
Colin is busy skating street spots and killing them, even though he doesn’t skate street as you can see in the photo…and Big Mark Burrows has mashed up his knee (again), meaning his shredding activities are on the downlow for a wee while.
Loads more at www.heathenskateboards.com including more pics from the Oban Ramp Jam.
The Concrete Carnival went down last weekend in Penzance with Nicky Cornell taking the honours for Kill City Skateboards.
Expect a little feature on this event over the next week on this site.
1st Nicky Cornell
2nd Marc Churchill
3rd Ross McGouran
4th= Cov Luke and Ollie Tyreman
6th Cov Sid
Masters
1st Sean Goff
2nd Dave Davies
3rd Jim the Skin
Snickers Best Trick
Lee Blackwell f/s corner air.
Nicky Cornell roll in off the edge of the extension into the hip.
One of Europe’s finest street skaters at the minute, Janne Saario, can handle a drawing board and measure just as well as he can hold onto long manuals. The young Finn recently designed a brand new skate plaza for the Northern capital, Helsinki, as part of his architectural work.
Well, now the park is open and everybody is super stoked. The park is sponsored by Element and free for all to enjoy. Let’s hope Janne can design a few more, or even inspire city councils to turn to skaters when it comes to designing and building the landscape.
Check out footage and pictures here.
Don’t forget the world premiere of Elementality Vol.2 which will broadcast live on September 1st by visiting this link: www.elementskateboards.com/audiovisual/
Almost rider Chris Haslam has finally joined Globe Shoes this week after waiting a while for the break due to interest from various companies.
He recently delivered his half of the menu in the most delicious Cheese and Crackers DVD that was released last month where together with Daewon Song they annihilate a mini ramp in a warehouse with every possible combination of tech wizardry.
Congrats to Chris on his new venture with Globe, expect news of a pro shoe with personality soon.
The first European leg of the annual Es Game of S.K.A.T.E. was wrapped up on July 30th at the Willy-Brandt Stadium in Frankfurt, Germany with skaters flipping and tripping over their boards from as far as Dubai, or as near as Austria. However, only one skater could win a chance to take part in the grand final held at the ASR Tradeshow, San Diego USA on September 9th.
All it took (!) was a few switch one foots, double 360 flips and double kickflips (Where was urban legend Julian Molyneux when you needed him???) for Alex Misurov from Germany to dust off the competition. Will this Euro wildcard beat the best in sunny San Diego? Crossfire will keep you posted as soon as the news drops.
For more info check out www.esfootwear.com and www.gameofskate.com
Fellow sole-tech rider (Etnies) and German skater, Juergen Horwarth came first in both the vert and mini ramp comps at the European Skateboard Championships held in Basel, Switzerland. It must be the German engineering or something..?
Keeping the scene together, The Works Skatepark in Leeds will be staging comps every first Saturday of the month – 5th August, 2nd September, 7th October, 4th November, 2nd December – which will ensure some great prizes from the like of Globe, Blind and Hawk Clothing, some sick skating and some pure talent breeding for the region. Such a good idea, but such a silly name… “Saturdays”!
The Muckefuck Skateboard team has just added Andi Fugger and Mathäus Zingerle to the squad, and shall be supplying them with hot new product like this.
I swear if those crazy Austrians weren’t carrying skateboards, I’d expect to see them on the set of blue movies with names like that!
Check out Andi’s skills with long and hard wood here.