Category: Skateboarding News

They call it apparel in the USA but us Brits know it as good old fashioned clothing, we all need it to bare the elements of the dialy life, whether in heatwaves or whilst it’s pissing down with rain.

Whilst we bask here in the latter, Vans have been busy snapping up two of their US riders on their skate team to ride for the cloth and welcome Toy Machine rider Johnny Layton who visited our Crossfire Xmas Jam in 2004 and also Anthony Van Engelen whose new Vans pro shoe should hit us in October.

Expect more from their clothing division as it seems they are taking it seriously to give the likes of Element and Volcom a run for their money…more soon.

Eric Koston has had a year of change so far in skateboarding.

After joining Lakai Shoes and Independent Trucks he has teamed up with Spitfire Wheels…well they are some of the finest urethane stocked in your local skate shop for sure, go check em out.

The Harmony have decided to take a stand against the poor quality footage you might be seeing on the net and are going to put out what they describe as an online DVD which will show their first foray into film – Once Upon A Time.

The quality is better than what you’ll find on sites like youtube and the idea is to let you enjoy their skating from the comfort of your own computer.

The “special” edition has all the original parts of their DVD as well as new sections from Paul Silvester and Danny Jack.

So get over to www.theharmony.co.uk and check it out!

Plan B’s website has added a ton of footage, including some sick UK footage on the Fuel TV part of the site.

Point your browsers to www.planbskateboarding.com to see just how the Plan B team rip it.

Friends of Crossfire The Side Effects Of Urethane are putting on an exhibition at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard gallery. The show opens to the public on July 28th and will run until August 12th.

The exhibitions, called Units Moved, is part of Renegade City, a series of exhibitions and events by both curators and invited artists at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard gallery and explore urban experiences and diversity that exists in the city around us.

The artists involved are:

Alex Hartley, Kathy Barber, Nic Clear, Richard Gilligan, Sam Griffin, Sem Rubio, Toby Paterson, TSEOU – Toby Shuall, TSEOU – R Holland, Wig Worland, Peter J Evans.

In addition, there will some new skateable sculptures being put up on the South Bank, in the Undercroft area and will be made from solid stone.

For more info go to www.tseou.com

It’s back again, so make sure you get yourself out of the house and over to the Maidstone UpRockin’ Skate Comp on August 19th. Prizes this year include full set-ups, boards and t-shirts all up for grabs.

Check out www.lovenskate.com for all the latest news and updates.

Over the last 3 years, Crossfire have interviewed famous bands and pro skaters consistently for your reading pleasure.

Those of you who visit us regularly will know that we involve our community to be involved in our interviews.

This week Enjoi and DuFFS pro rider Louie Barletta will be visiting HQ for an interview. If you have any questions for him, click here and leave them for us to pick up and we will include them if they are interesting..

Pritchard and Dainton from Dirty Sanchez have set each other the challenge to skate from Cardiff all the way to newquay Cornwall to get to one of the best parties of the summer the Newquay board masters festival while raising money for cancer research on the way.

They will skate via A roads on the coastal route, which is 192 miles long over a period of 7 days and skating through a load of towns on the way to raise cash.

The race starts Thursday 27th of July from city hall in Cardiff and will end in newquay on headland road (hopefully) for the start of the newquay board masters festival on Thursday the 3rd of august.

Below are some of the towns that we will be skating through on the way, so if you are local, go give ’em your money and they will probably return the favour for “odd jobs”.

SCHEDULE

Cardiff Thursday 27th July, city surf castle arcade 12pm shop signing then on to city hall where the challenge starts.

Newport 27th, 430pm freestyle skate store 1 newport
arcade hight st.

Caldicot 27th, caldicot skate park, evening.

Chepstow 27th , Chepstow skatepark, evening. Camp
site?

Weston super mare 28th, playground skate store 12pm.
Then skating along see front.

Burnham on sea 28th

Bridgeford 28th

Mine head 29th

Ilfracombe

Croyde bay

Braun ton

Barnstable

Bideford

Bude

Camel ford

Wade Bridge

Pad stow

Newquay, 3rd of august

Keep your eyes peeled as they are coming through and will be putting on live shows, skate demos, Sanchez car boot sales, shop signings, wet tee shirts comps and trying not to kill each in order to raise cash for cancer research.

As soon as they have the dates for the towns they are going through on the way, the boys will post them up on the mtv overdrive website.

Who’s going to win the race? Who’s going to raise the most cash?

Who’s going to loose?

Its PRITCHARDvsDAINTON time again!

Krooked AM rider Bobby Worrest is moving up the ranks thesedays after his impressive video part in the most recent contender of video of the year, Krooked Kronichles.

Not only does The Gonz rate this skills but éS shoes who have flowed the East Coast rider for some time have promoted Worrest into the superior team this week.

Sources at Sole Tech who own éS have revealed that his part in the forthcoming YéS video will blow minds, the proof will be in the pudding once the video drops. We will drop more news on YéS when it’s available but for more info on Bobby’s new movement, hit up www.esfootwear.com or click here to read an interview with him at TWS where we blatantly robbed this image..

For those of you familiar with this news column on a daily basis, you may or may not be familiar with who actually writes all this stuff.

Well, he was married to his lovely new wife Pauline this weekend and we send our congrats to the happy couple who threw a lavish do in Chelsea to celebrate their future together supplying us with champagne hangovers!

Please raise a glass to Ralph and Pauline Lloyd-Davis and if you are reading this Ralph, speed up that honeymoon as these guys need fresh news!