Here at Crossfire, we try and keep you connected to everyone, no matter how big or small, so when we peeped the new trailer for a video from Plex Skateboards out of France we had to post it up for all to see.
Also, it has been heard that Plex are looking for sales reps so that they can establish themselves a bit more, but when the video drops that shouldn’t be a problem. Contact info@plexskateboards.com if you want to know more.
News in today regarding the Crossfire’s annual 7-Set Jam next Saturday reveals that new obstacles will be built especially for the jam by The Sound Effects of Urethane boss Rich Holland. New blocks are apparently being shipped into the Southbank in July but this jam will see concrete poured across the cobbles and a mid-sized slide bar installed so you can manual and slide across the acid drop the other side.
Other news in today regarding the jam is that the full Emerica European Team will be joining us alonside Element Skateboards riders plus heaps of pro skaters from across the UK are gearing up for the day in question, so expect it to be one of the best jams you will witness all year.
More as soon as it comes in, send this flyer to everyone today, this one will go off.
Tum Yeto have just announced the cancellation of their Pig Wood Pro skate team. Currently signing on elsewhere are Shuriken Shannon, Ragdoll, Matt Ball, Brian “Slash” Hansen, Adrian Mallory, Sammy Baca and Eric Hamamoto.
However, just because the wood’s no longer good, Ragdoll, Don “The Nuge” Nuygen, Matt Ball, Brian “Slash” Hansen, Adrian Mallory and Shuriken Shannon can still rep Pig Wheels in the ‘hood. Pig will still produce limited runs of boards and completes.
In other Tum Yeto news, Don “The Nuge” Nguyen has scored a spot on the Foundation team.
The DVS team are one busy lot when it comes to touring. After the 4 week Skate More world tour, the boys are back in town with their European Vacation, without forgetting the Search for Chupacabra Bro Brigade Tour that just went down South of the border in Mexico City, Leon, Guadalajara and other south American hotspots. Apparently this last tour was strictly skateboarding and left team manager Gabe feeling slightly confused as to where he was- Belgium or Buenos Aires..?
A whole lot of sick footage is getting clocked up for a future 30 minute feature show on Fuel Tv. Plus, the nice guys that they are, DVS have dedicated an entire series to their homies the photographers, because without them the myth would be nothing but words. The Photographer Series showcases work by Gabe Morford, Atiba Jefferson, Ben Colen, Giovanni Reda and Mike O’Meally. Next time you spot Giovanni, ask him to speak French – “Bonjour Guillaummmeee!”
Why we all accept mini-ramps and not their older brothers, the vert, I will never understand… The level of skating that goes on atop a 15 foot monster is just as amazing as that little combo some street skater pulled, but the adrenaline rush is ten times stronger.
If you want a taste of the action, get yourselves over to Holland for the Halfpipe Horror event that will single-handedly try and resuscitate the Dutch vert scene. A 12m wide, 3.7m high vert ramp stands tall in the centre of Rotterdam at the Westblaak Skatepark and awaits your arrival on the 25th June for a comp that can hopefully pump some young blood back into skateboarding’s roots.
Whilst out at the Etnies 20th Anniversary Party, we managed to get and up close look and feel of the new Ali Boulala shoe.
Still in the prototype phase but looking 99% ready for consumer consumption, the Boulala is a simple and efficient shoe with a slight bit of flair that characterizes Ali very well. Find out where the idea for black lace and red rubies came from very soon in Ali’s second Crossfire interview.
It was a really hot, long and loud Download festival that received the world’s best vert skaters for the annual Snickers Bowl comp. The weekend kicked off with UK Friday- a day dedicated to homegrown talent to shine for a place in the finals with the pros – and Div‘s freestyle no pads mayhem got edged out by the amazing skills of little Sam Beckett. Rodeos, 540s, big airs and consistent style saw Sam win the golden ticket.
The following day kicked off nice and early with a longest grind session. If you weren’t clocking above the 18 foot mark, forget about it. So, Lincoln Ueda ground a whopping 21 feet, with Juergen Horrwarth getting one better on him with 22 feet. Omar Hassan smashed his previous record of 27 feet with a massive 30 foot 5-0 to fakie, but Brian Patch was the man of the hour with a ridiculous 33 foot grind through the knuckle!
During Saturday’s Practice sessions, things stepped up a whole lot when Juergen, Bucky Lasek, Andy Scott and company stepped up to drop in. Lincoln threw a 7ft frontside stalefish to body slam 20 feet below and thast called it a day for the warm ups.
Sunday went off in true form with Neal Hendrix wiring together some very solid and tough lines with Nollie Heelflips and full cab heelflips on lock. Sandro Dias was flying so high that the passengers in the overhead planes could read his sponsors off the bottom of his deck. Bucky was switching things up and Andy Scott was seriously on fire. Before the results were called, the Best Trick comp went down and everyone was pulling out the stops, even injured Lincoln with more hair-raising high flying antics. Despite busting out a nollie flip frontside tailslide up the extension, Bucky couldn’t budge Juergen’s head height fakie 720 tailgrab.
Final results run as follows:
13th: Sam Beckitt
12th: Sean Goff
11th: Terence Bougdour
10th: Renton Millar
9th : Lincoln Ueda
8th : Andy Scott
7th : Benji Galloway
6th : Neal Hendrix
5th : Juergen Horwarth
4th : Sandro Dias
3rd : Brian Patch
2nd : Bucky Lasek
1st : Omar Hassan
For a full detailed report on the Snickers Bowl and Download event that includes more detail on who threw the horns with ‘Double D’ Dave Duncan, who was still awake at dawn, and was spotted signing dildos.
Click over to the features section of the site once it’s up later this week.
If there was one place to be on the night of Monday 12th June, it was the Palais de Tokyo (think famous Paris street spot with huge marble hubbas!) in paris for the Etnies 20th Anniversary Birthday party.
The place was packed to the rafters with free drink and great music played live by some of France’s greatest DJs. Between two complimentary drinks and breather from the VIP area, you could check out the timeline of Etnies Memorabilia that lines the walls. Just looking at what Etnies have done over the years, makes you realize that they are at the top of their game.
The entire Etnies professional team were in attendance as well as just about anyone who’s anyone in the Jet-Skate world, so expect to read more about this event very soon with a full photo feature (as soon as we find out where Zac is!), right here at Crossfire.
Everyone in Britain including your nan knows what a great fella and skater Nick Jensen is, so it didn’t take must convincing for the 4 Star Clothing dudes to get the scruffy Londoner in their threads.
Well done mate!
There must be something in the water of the Hudson that doesn’t agree with the Zoo York team at the moment, because the all star line-up has just lost another rider, Rob Welsh who prefers to rock his San Francisco Giants gear over at Santa Cruz!