Category: Skateboarding News

Whilst arenas are packed by greedy promoters who like to watch little kids sweat and grown on lengths of wood, the beastmangoat squad have brought the competitive side of skateboarding to a new low with their main event, Manrodeo – a skateboard version of dogging.

Several things stick out from the flyer for this event taling place over the weekend of August 5th and 6th at Maple Street Skatepark and various bars of the Nottingham area – Strongbow Super, Tape decks, No dress code, Das Ragworms, debauchery included…Nothing but the best!

Last years Manrodeo saw a best helmet comp, and this year might see a Wallride and miniramp comp..?

Crossfire can give you an eye-witness as to how sick Daniel Cardone is on a skateboard, so it comes as no surprise to hear he won the ‘Machine’ award at the annual Slam Trick Contest in Ravenna, Italy. Other notable skateboarding was performed by Chris Pfanner who pumped and spun a perfect cabellerial over the big fun box for the ‘Killer’ award.

Here are your results:

Street:

Giorgio Zattoni – McTwist on the quarterpipe
Andre Genovesi – Switch flip to switch bs 50-50 down the hubba
Chris Pfanner – Caballerial Transfer over the pyramid

Overall Street winner:

Daniel Cardone

Vert:

Terence Bougdour – Rodeo Varial
Renton Millar – Bs 270 fakie pivot revert
Jess Andersen – Flip Melon to fakie over the Channel

Overall Vert winner:

Jürgen Horrwarth

Big Air:

Terence Bougdour – 3 Meters!

Peep the footy here courtesy of www.skateboardeurope.com :

http://www.skateboardeurope.com/news/videos/slamtrick.mov

Get your S.K.A.T.E. on at this year’s Urban Games on Clapham Common, 2nd July 4.30pm to 6.30pm

This is the UK finals with a chance to win a place in the Euro finals held in Frankfurt at the BRIGHT Tradeshow on July 30th. Then, whoever wins that gets flown out to the American ASR to fight it out with the best.

No hand drags, toe touching or tail scraping allowed!

www.gameofskate.com

You know how much we all love good graphics- even if they do get scratched off in less than 5 minutes. Well, A slick trio of artists in association with Element Skateboards will be touring through Europe to display their work and chat about paintbrush techniques and the importance of colour in our lives.

Just kidding, but I’m sure the Elementrio that is Don Pendleton, Todd Francis and Matt Irving will have a few cool things to say and show you all.

Here are the details:

-London, Arches : runs June 30th-July 2nd , opening June 30th at 7 pm.
The Arches
Bateman’s Row, Shoreditch
EC2 London, UK

-Paris, Streetmachine : show runs July 6th-July 8th, opening July 6th at 7 pm.
12, Rue des Halles
75001 Paris
France

-Brussels, No New Enemies @ Recyclart : show runs July 10th (one night only), opening July 10th at 6 pm.
8, Rue des Brigittines
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium

-Berlin, Bread and Butter at Street Culture: show runs July 14th-16th, opening July 14th at 7 pm.

Nigel Ellway from Putney, Matt Clarke from Northants and Jeremy Jones from Twickenham have all won the Crossfire Golden Tickets for the DVS demo and dinner tmrw night!

All 3 of them will get free entry, DVS shoes, a signed DVS t-shirt, a ltd edition Crossfire t-shirt plus they will skate a secret sesh with a the team with no one else in the park and end up having dinner with them after the demo.

Congrats to all 3 who won, we will see you at the demo tmrw night at Bay Sixty 6 skatepark from 6pm where the European team with a handful of US pro’s will be there to skate amongst you, so get down there and check it out.

Swiss street technician Guy Kampfen has stepped back from the industry limelight to gather his thoughts and launch his own skate company, Aprel.

Despite being a ‘Swiss’ team, so far the only person from Switzerland on the team is the boss – Guy! The rest of the team reside stateside – Jason Jones, Scott Christiansen and Brandon Evan.

Check out www.aprelskateboards.com for more info and footage.

In front of 700 suited business men, Jaime Thomas accepted the Ernst & Young Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Consumer and Business related Products on behalf of Black Box Distribution.

That’s one hell of a step away from sleeping rough on the streets of San Francisco with a cardboard sigh reading “Will drop hammers for money…”!

The kickflip kid, Ryan Sheckler is definitely a force to be reckoned with! Last weekend, Sheckler won the Dew Action Sports Tour aswell as the Skateboard Park Finals.

That should round off his end of the month nicely, and perhaps pay for some stronger windows in his SUV after blowing them out at the dealership with his $90000 sound system!

www.ryansheckler.com

Well, what can we say?! Crossfire’s annual Southbank7-Set Jam went down in style on Saturday with incredible skateboarding and special guests from all over the world.

The 7-Set Jam was won by Plan B rider Adam Howe who licked the £200 cash with a switch 360 shove it. He was followed by Reese Westlake in second place with a shove it late flip and Australian Enjoi Skateboards rider Richard Flude came in 3rd with a fakie flip shove it.

Enjoi pro Louie Barletta won the bank jam with a blunt frontside flip out on the block which was insane, Alai UK pro rider Chris Oliver won the manual/rail jam with a straight ollie that cleared the entire manual area and the rail plus some pretty swift manual skills. For the record, Blueprint’s Neil Smith was the only skater to 5-0 the rail that was set up on the day for the jam.

The cheese block jam was won by Richard Flude with a kickflip nosepick from the bank although Australian Quiksilver rider Josh Roullion came close with a fast nose grind into the bank from block and unfortunately Element rider Lucien Clarke or Chris Oliver could complete what they wanted to get down as the Crossfire minutes melted down on the clock.

The Southbank was rammed with over 400 people, spirits were as high as usual and the atmosphere was electric thanks to all the people who came down and supported the event.

Also , big thanks to all of you who skated down to the mayors office to protest about the state of UK council funded skateparks in the London area. The secret 5 minute jam was a total success, winners to be announced in the feature.

Look out for a full feature on this site as soon as we can russle up the footage and photo’s. If you have good pics, please send them in to info@caughtinthecrossfire.com.

The event will be featured on Genex at the Extreme Sports Channel on August 3rd.