Category: Skateboarding News

Rumours of a skater dying at Stockwell Skatepark have surfaced.

Alledgedly a month ago, an American tourist called Peter (on hols with wife and kids) was skating the park when he hit the spine in the main bowl and fell onto his head with no helmet on. He was rushed to hospital concussed and unfortunately passed away 3 days later.

Our thoughts go out to the family of the deceased. It’s not often things like this happen at skate parks but if in the future helmets become necessary, at least you know why.

The park and it’s local council are still wondering why local builders completely ruined the surface there at the beginning of the year. The surface has started to crack already, only time will tell if the council are prepared to finally listen to local skaters who know how to surface a park that would last for years.

Just in case you want to know what Etnies have done and achieved throughout the last 20 years, click here for pictures, footage and loads more with an amazing 20 year Timeline

They’ve got hearts of gold those Welsh lads! Down for the Run a Mile Charity, Pritchard and Pancho are teaming up to pull one another the 1760 yards outside Cardiff City hall on July 15th.

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…With their cocks out! Always up for a laugh and making sure they don’t follow trends, the Antiz Skateboard team have released a brand new line of decks in collaboration with cock-rockers Musclhard.

You may not have heard of Musclhard, but they are Demi-gods of the underground metal scene in Toulouse, France- Home to Lucas Puig. With hot riffs on tracks like ‘Lost camping’ and ‘Eat my dick’, hopefully Antiz can get the music rights for their next video due to drop this autumn!

Click here for video goodies.

Everyone knows Danny Way is a devoted Slayer fan and loves a little Reign in Blood in the morning, so get prepared to see a limited edition collabo between the re-born super company and hardcore super band.

In more Plan B news, the company is set to launch a clothing line this August, so everyone can look so fresh and so clean in Plan B hats, shirts, jeans, rucksacks etc…

Also in August, expect a promo for the must anticipated full length feature, Unquestionable .

And finally, big ups to UK Plan B representer Adam Howe who got 3rd in the UK Comp and 6th in the Euro Comp on Sunday at Urban Games in London! Watch out for Adam!

Some little tidbits of sweet news:

Rob Selley, the mastermind behind Milton Keynes Buszy and Motive Skateboards is now the DC Team manager for the British Isles.

Oh! News of a Jody Smith Motive pro model in the works! Hype hype!

Mick Forster has seen it proper to rep his ends by lauching a special H-Boyz decks in honour of his upbringing in Harrow.

Check www.h-boyz.co.uk for more.

London went Wild in the Streets with Emerica on Sunday 25th June with a few hundred (maybe a thousand..? Figures are hazy…) crazed skaters rampaging it through the city and hitting up major spots like the Holborn Viaduct banks, the Mayor’s building and London Bridge Ten. Even if some of these notorious bust spots lived up to their reputation, the police presence couldn’t dampen the hype of a huge skate gathering.

In so much as impromptu Best Trick comps go, London Bridge saw a massive backside flip by Aussie Richard Flude, Gary ‘Woody’ Woodward‘s 360 ollie, and Adam Stoddard grabbing £60 for a nollie full cab. Boom!

Finally, British skate heritage, Southbank felt the rumble of urethane and heard the roar of the crowd as Kris Vile smacked the wedge to wedge gap up with a mad 360 flip, and euro visitor Jo Lorenz chased the competition with a backside nollie over the chasm. On the bank to block Woody served up an ollie to noseblunt whilst Simon Skipp tickled a frontside 5-0 to fakie. A special Wild in the Streets award was given to Rich (surname unknown..?) for generally ripping hard all day. The day ended with a Wild in the Pub drinking session organized by Kingpin.

In case you were wondering, Karma pro Amir Williams is on a sure road to recovery after his ACL operation. It’ll take more than that to hold down the Brighton ripper.

Amir rode about at Urban Games and saw fellow team mate Dave Snaddon get 8th place. Dave has just sorted himself out some shades for this summer in the form of Oakley.

Watch out for the new Karma price point decks of the ‘See the wood’ series available in 7.5, 7.6, 7.75 and 8.125

You know the deal: Big Bowl, Big tunes and Big balls with skateboards attached. The mayhem of Globe Bowlbash comes to Burnley once again for the weekend of July 15th-16th. Last year saw a couple of gnarly slams, a new emergence of British talent and some of Europe’s finest bowlriders slashing and thrashing about. Be there or be square.

www.globebowlbash.com