Category: Skateboarding News

The Extreme Channel has a heap of new Skate content coming your way and here are the diamonds waiting for your viewing:

Thursday 20th April

• 10:30 Fruit of the Vine (hell yeah! – pool skating documented at it’s best with no Dogtown style cheese)
• 11:25 Beyond Warped
• 15:35 Thrasher’s: King of the Road 2003
• 16:25 Beyond Warped
• 20:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting! (should be hilarious!)

Friday 21st April

• 07:30 Globe Wildcard Series 2005
• 08:00 Globe Wildcard Series 2005
• 10:00 Beer, Bowls and Barneys (Thrasher)
• 10:30 Skater of the Year
• 11:25 Beyond Warped
• 13:00 LG – Manchester (video preview here)
• 15:00 Thrasher’s: Beer Helmet
• 15:55 Vans Mystic Cup 2005
• 16:25 Beyond Warped
• 17:00 LG – Manchester
• 00:00 LG – Manchester

Saturday 22nd April

• 16:00 Globe Bowlbash 2005
• 16:30 Snickers Bowl: Donington (video preview here)
• 17:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 21:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!

Sunday 23rd April

• 12:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 14:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 16:00 Snickers Bowl: Donington (video preview here)
• 16:30 Globe Bowlbash 2005
• 18:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 22:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!

Monday 24th April

• 10:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 15:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 16:30 Hangin’ with… Rodney Mullen

Wednesday 26th April

• 07:30 Globe Wildcard Series 2005
• 09:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 16:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 16:30 Concrete Carnage (look out for Powley’s bald head in this one!)

Thursday 27th April

• 16:30 Etnies European Championships: Basel
• 17:00 LG – Manchester

Friday 28th April

• 10:00 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!
• 10:30 LG – Manchester
• 13:30 LG Manchester
• 15:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!

Saturday 29th April

• 14:00 The making of Rollin’ Through the Decades (if you miss this, sell your board and get blades)
• 14:30 Rollin’ Through the Decades
• 17:00 The making of Rollin’ Through the Decades
• 21:00 The making of Rollin’ Through the Decades
• 21:30 Rollin’ Through the Decades

Sunday 30th April

• 17:00 Thrasher’s; Skater of the Year
• 18:00 The making of Rollin’ Through the Decades
• 18:30 Rollin’ Through the Decades
• 21:30 Genex – with Dan Cates presenting!

Check out www.extreme.com for more details.

Before the tricks, before the pros and before the endless media, the first thing to impress a kid in a skateshop is the graphics. No single graphic did it for us more than the ‘Screaming Hand’ by fabled artist Jim Phillips.

Skate artists aren’t spared when it comes to trends, so Jim’s talents were brushed off as a new wave of illustrations (or lack of during the awful blank board period) spread across the shelves and Hip-Hop cool bumped the wild times of blood, guts and gore. Oh well…

However, after a good few years, Jim Phillips is back and so are his hair-raising graphics at Pockpistol Skateboards. Pocket Pistol caters for the more roots variety of skater and with Jim’s graphics on-board, you know the goods are good!

Check the website at : www.pocketpistolskates.com

Santa Cruz Skateboards and Jason Jessee have joined forces again as skateboarding’s favourite misfit has signed up with the SCS Veteran Division.

His latest pro model, “The Rape of Liberty” is a winner that reflects Jason’s unorthodox ethos.

Between skating and working on his killer motorbikes, Jason is currently battling it out to get the rights to his auto-biographical movie Pray For Me (www.jasonjesseemovie.com).

You know everybody loves the Marseille Bowl, well things just got for the French Riviera with this new skatepark/bowl in Apt of the Vaucluse region. Those hard working dudes at Syndrom Skateboards, Skatenova and the USSR Coop just sent news of this spot that they found and transformed for good use.

In a previous life, this spot was an already skateable ditch thing, but now it has coping, ledges and a strange cheese formation that doubles as an interesting wallride/ledge jobby. USSR and Sydrome work together to push the local scene and get things done. Their riders are a good mix of ATV and tech skaters, but then what do you expect when you have parks like this on your doorstep?

Check the site at: www.ussr.coop

The subtle subterfuge of the skateboard market in Lyon is starting show its ugly side as the two resident companies and business rivals*, Antiz and Cliché, fly their colours in regards football and the local team’s dominance of the league tables.

In the Blue corner we have Olympique Lyonnais FC affecianados Cliché who have just been nominated for Best Team at the annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards and returned from Sicily on a filming mission.

Whilst, in the Red corner we have the football haters, Antiz who have released a very limited edition Scarf and are currently clocking footage for a new video due to drop this winter. Check their site www.antizskateboards.com for an edit of their recent filming mission to Italy.

Crossfire is going to get on the case to try and understand how deep this divide rides in France’s premier skate city. Stay tuned.

*Don’t fret- Cliché and Antiz ARE good friends.

Yep, it’s Easter sucker, so we have decided to help ressurect your feet this year by stealing a pair of the brand new Ryan Sheckler Etnies shoe to give away.

If you are hardened Crossfire visitor you will know that every year we hide an egg on our site and you have to track it down to win a prize.

Yes, the egg in question is situated somewhere in this mammoth site.

We also know it’s a labyrinth in here as we built the bloody thing, but you know what, if you search for the golden eggy boy here and enter the comp, you will be sporting these shoes at your local spot within a week, so be damn quick!

So, when you find the egg, email the link to the page to us at egghunt@caughtinthecrossfire.com and we will pick one persons email from the pile and send you your lovely new shoes in the post. Please note that this competition has no rules other than find the egg, copy the link of the webpage you found it on and send us an email.

Make sure you send us a personal message as it could affect who we pick to win…..

20 successful years of Etnies Shoes was celebrated in New York City this week and promptly shut down due to noise pollution and party mayhem.

The Malarkey was held at the new Etnies store at 29 Greene St in New Yorks Soho area, with pro team signings from Ryan Sheckler, Aarto Saari, Ronnie Creager and Kyle Leeper, Elissa Steamer, Lauren Perkins and Element’s female ripper Evelin Bouilliart who is next up for words on this very site.

The party got out of hand, so says a their new posh neighbours due to street fighting, drug and alcohol abuse and “dumbasses” urinating all over the street. Apparently, the fuzz were called and the party was broken up by a dozen donut munchers. Oh well, sounds like a standard British video premiere get together to me!

The next leg of this Etnies 20 year party shnizzle will be landing in Paris, more about that when we get an invite.

The C1RCA team will be heading for the UK soon to promote the brand new DVD “IT’S TIME” and will be landing in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff in May.

Check out the list below for riders that will also be skating around the country. Ramondetta and Cannon personally flew in for last years Crossfire Xmas Jam with C1RCA being our main allies in one of the best Jams of the Year in 2005 and this trip shows they mean business coming back with a full squad to annihilate the UK once again.

The team riders will all be skating, participating in shop signings and attending all premieres to support this much talked about film, so it should be one to look out for this year, check www.c1rca.com for all the trimmings.

The US Pro Team Skaters accompanying the “IT’S TIME” tour are:

Adrian Lopez
Peter Ramondetta
Colt Cannon
Jon Allie
Tony Tave
Windsor James
Sierra Fellers
Grant Patterson
Dennis Durrant

IT’S TIME VIDEO TOUR LONDON: Saturday 27th May 2006

Demo:
12 – 4 pm (£6)
Bay Sixty6 Skate Park
Bay 65-66, Acklam Road,
London,
W10 5YU
Phone: 0208 969 4669
Email: info@baysixty6.com
www.baysixty6.com

Premiere:
Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place (just off Leicester Square),
London,
WC2H 7BP
1st viewing: 6:15pm (free)
2nd viewing: 7:15pm (free)

After party to be announced.
For tickets & more info, please call Projects Distribution 0117 977 7704 and quote Crossfire

EDINBURGH: Monday 29th May 2006

Shop signing:
Focus Skateboard Store
44 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2LD
Phone: 0131 229 9009
Email: info@focuspocus.co.uk

Premiere:
Filmhouse
88 Lothian Rd,
Edinburgh,
EH3 9BZ

Viewing times: TBA
www.filmhousecinema.com
Afterparty to be announced.

For tickets & more info on demo, shop signings and viewing times, please contact Focus Skate Store

CARDIFF: Wednesday 31st May 2006

Premiere:
Cineworld Cinemas Ltd
Mary Ann Street,
Cardiff,
CF10 2EN

Viewing times: TBA

Phone: 02920 667 718
Fax: 02920 667 745
www.cineworld.co.uk

For tickets, viewing times & more info, please call Route One – Phone: 02920 233 621
www.routeone.co.uk

Emerica pro Ed Templeton has always looked to be as creative as possible and next month he’ll be bringing out a limited edition Emerica series called Ed’s Cul-de-Sac of Awesome.

The series will include four products featuring Ed’s designs – A Ridgemont slip-on show, the popular warrior Heritic 2 shoes, a custom hat and the matching t-shirt.

Emerica also wanted to make sure it is known that no animals were hurt in the making of this collection, which are made with synthetic-based materials. This product will only be available in select skate shops for a limited time only, so make sure you get on it!

www.emericaskate.com for more.