Category: Skateboarding News

The summer is soon upon us and that means touring, traveling and generally having a laugh with your mates on the road.

People who aren’t averse to a little game of smelly sardines in a tour van are the guys at Foundation Skateboards who plan to drop by Bay 66 Skatepark in London on the 17th May. Woo hoo!

The bretheren that have been given the Queens permission to shred her backyard are Angel Ramirez, Corey Duffel, Mike Ruszyck, Ethan Fowler and a handful of Euro special guests.

Be there or be square!

I think the title is a bit of a lead… You see, Eastpak and Vans are currently on their Freewheelin’ Tour through Greece with riders Chris Pfanner, Hugo Liard, Tomas Vintr and more.

These guys mean business when they roll up on spots, so if you want to keep up with the action as soon as it happens visit www.eastpak.com or freewheeltour.thespot.gr for daily news and pictures.

I don’t really know what to say about this lot of weirdoes, but their local scene site www.beastmangoat.com is chock full of obscure and absurd pictures, graphics, quotes and more.

Head Beastmangoat, Dave sent a messenger to inform us of some sweet updates including the Roadkill and Skulls gallery!

Staying true to his roots, Craig Robbins has nurtured his baby Eothen, and has built himself a small but efficient skate team. This independent skate company is now being repped all around the United Kingdom by Brighton ripper Jack Ryder (c.f. www.levelarmy.com), Tom Davey from Newton, Wales, and Benny Bucklee from Great Yarmouth.

The goods are top knotch (manufactured by the same people who make Ricky Oyola’s Traffic boards!) and the threads are of good quality too. Naturally Crossfire will be supplying a review of some Eothen goods soon, but you don’t have to wait for us to tell you to go try some out.

For more info and orders visit: www.eothen.co.uk

The Bowlbash series is underway and Malmö, Sweden, is the next place to be if you want to witness some ridiculous transition skills.

From May 14th to 15th the brand new Stapelbaddsparken skatepark built and designed by Euro outfit Placed to Ride Inc. opens it’s doors to some of Europe’s gnarliest park riders to get hot, smelly and dangerous together. Of course there will be live rock music for fuel, and the organisers have put acclaimed Henry Fiat Open on the top of the bill.

This event is a prelude to the grand Bowlbash final which will be held at the new Area 51 skatepark in the Netherlands on the 13th and 14th October.

For more info visit: www.globebowlbash.com or www.stapelbaddsparken.be

I don’t know if we can call this a scoop because it’s more like Skateboarding’s worst kept secret… But hey! For those of you who like to ride your boards instead of log onto them – Eric Koston now rides for Lakai Footwear!

Even if you couldn’t care less, I think you should because Lakai are busy at work on their first full length video, Fully Flared, and a project the can bring together Koston, Guy Mariano, JB Gillet and Anthony Poppalardo (to name but a few of their exclusive riders) is definitely going to have an effect on Skateboarding. Now you know.

Gary ‘Woody’ Woodward has just added two brand new sponsors to his CV.

Woody can now be seen tearing things apart on his Independent Trucks and A Third Foot skateboards.

“The Destroyer!”

Yep, you guessed it, a dark and brooding shoe collaboration endorsed by Death Skateboards and designed by Vox Footwear is about to hit our shelves at some point in time. Probably not available in pink…

Check out www.deathskateboards.com and www.voxfootwear.com for all the fun.

Heroin will make your eyes bleed this summer when they drop a box set of all their DVDs, video footage and ads since their conception.

For those who need reminding, this means, Good Shit, Eveything’s going to be alright, the first Osaka Daggers video Infection and much much more.

In the mean time, Fos is busy getting a second shoe design onto the shelves, as well as a possible bit of footy with Tom Lock, Snowy and Joey Crack out in New York.

Oh, and Rory Milanes has taken his skate skills over to Landscape.