Jaime Thomas has come a long way since Thrill Of It All, Zero’s first video. 10 years infact!
So, to celebrate this milestone, the Chief and co. are releasing a special 5 DVD boxset with all the videos – Thrill Of It All (1997), Misled Youth (1999), Dying To Live (2002), New Blood (2004) – and more.
Take this section from Sheldon Melinski‘s new part in the bonus New Blood DVD. Ouch!
November 4th saw the 10th annual Make-a-wish skate jam at Southside skatepark in South Houston, Texas. This session gets loads of pros and ams together to shred for a good cause.
This year’s winner was DVS rider, Torey Pudwill who shut down the main obstacle- a huge orange sofa ledge- with backside nosebluntslides, nollie crooked grinds and a silky smooth nolli heelflip crooked grind. Torey donated his $2,000 cheque to the MAW Foundation.
If you’re passing through Ireland, anywhere near the town of Wexford to be precise, you might want to make a stop st the soon to be finished Gorey skatepark. It’s 420 square metres of transition and banked hips laid out to allow good flow and no lack of speed.
Hailing outta Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, the D-Block skate crew are wrecking shop.
Featured skaters: Dave Caddo, Bobby Puleo, Jimmy Barnes, Dan Pensyl, Billy Rohan and loads more here.
Over the next 3 weeks we will bring you up to date info on this years Crossfire Xmas Jam scheduled for Saturday 9th December in London at Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark.
So far we can tell you that Globe Shoes are our headline sponsor and will bring riders from their UK and European Teams.
The jam will also see members of the European Blind Skateboards Team, and riders from the Blueprint Skateboards, Landscape Skateboards, Heroin Skateboards, Death, Karma, Casual, Plan B (uk riders) and Kill City Independent Trucks, have all confirmed their involvement with riders ….watch this space for more.
Watch last years jam here:
Kanye West has apologised for his outburst at the MTV Europe Awards in Copenhagen last week when he ranted about losing the best video award to Justice v Simian.
He came out and said: “I don’t have anything against the group that won. I’m gonna download their album right now. I didn’t mean to be offensive in any way. I love you guys. I never heard of you [but] I am your friend.”
Muppet.
Charges of gun possession against G Unit have been dropped after the investigations found that they had not been in possession of weapons when they were arrested last year in New York.
Officers had claimed that the two men, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks, were in a van that ran a red light, and once stopped were seen to be in possession of weapons. Lloyd Banks said of the matter:
“This whole experience reminds me of the title of my new album – ‘Rotten Apple’ “.
Pete Doherty has been fined £750 for his assault on a BBC reporter in March. In addition, he’ll have to pay a further £450 to cover court costs and compensation.
He pleaded guilty to kicking a microphone out of her hand and also guilty to assaulting her, though he had originally pleaded not guilty until his lawyer had seen the footage. However, Doherty will be paying his fine next week instead of this, as he only had 27p on him at the time.
After having sold out the Astoria in London last week, Enter Shikari are continuing their live dominance with some more dates starting at the end of the month. The dates are:
November
29th – Arts Centre – Norwich
30th – TJs – Newport
December
1st – Academy II – Bristol
2nd – Speakeasy (afternoon all ages show) – Belfast
3rd – Voodoo Lounge (afternoon all ages show)- Dublin
5th – Leadmill – Sheffield
6th – Rock City – Nottingham
7th – Cockpit – Leeds
8th – Charlotte – Leicester
• Daniel Cardone – Gap to FS tailslide. Sequence c/o Eric Antoine
• Chris Cole – Willy grind.
• Alex Mizurov – Switch bigspin heelflip.
• Adam Hardman – 540 boneless.
• James Rerez – BS 5-0. c.f. One day with…
• Tommy Wisdom – Switch heelflip BS 50-50.
• Daniel Cardone – Boneless.
• Petr Horvat – Switch 360 flip.
Top 5 Pros who let their skating do the talking:
1. Dennis Busenitz
2. Gino Ianucci
3. Guy Mariano
4. Tom Penny
5. Heath Kirchart
And a Top 3 of those who don’t:
1. Terry Kennedy
2. Bam Margera
3. Rob Dyrdek
Photo of the Week:
Lawrence Cooper captured his main man Mike Harris getting fresh on the black rail of ye olde Stevenage.
