Caught in the Crossfire

Ever since your motor neuron skills gathered enough ability to grab that crayon in kindergarten, you could scribble. You work you’re way through life scribbling signatures, post-it notes, telephone numbers and usually tags if you’re young. Scribbling isn’t very artful though. That’s why you need to open your minds to one of the UK’s leading stencil activists, PARIS, at The Workshop (1-2 perry Road , Bristol) on Friday October 6th. Open from 6 to 9pm with drinks and good vibes, this Wet Shame Crew artist has some flavour for you.

Check these links for more:
www.wonderfulworkshop.com
www.kuildoosh.com

So, London has been waiting for a decent skatepark for what seems like an age thesedays and it looks like we are about to get something that will please everyone finally. Check this shot sent in thanks to Jeremy Donaldson.

The bowl has been nothing more than a virtual reality computer model dream until now. (Sure, it’s been a fat hole in the ground for a few weeks but that’s not the point). To see the lines check out in concrete reality is a great relief and totally relied on the skill of the crew .

For those of you that don’t know, Nick from Wheelscape paid for Dave North to come out from New Zealand to lead the concrete pours.

The crew bust their balls on the hard labour of concrete finishing from 7 am to 10pm or even midnight for two weeks including the weekend.

The shaping is spot on. Dave is a stubborn, hardworking perfectionist and it shows in the park. We owe them much gratitude for turning the dream into a reality.

Please note that the bottom of the bowl will be poured this weekend (8th October) and concrete takes 28 days to reach only 70% of it’s final strength.

ie: a bailed board or bike could take a chunk out of it.

Can’t deny that the wait will be hard but DO NOT SKATE THIS BOWL UNTIL THE OFFICIAL OPENING DAY. The Contractor says it’ll be mid-November. There’s also some drainage work being carried out to. But now you can see this beauty in it’s prime, you know we are gonna session this place to the death London!

Watch some footage of people skating the banks here:

For more pics and info visit Cantelowes official website here.

Crossfire caught whiff of a new Street park that got built in the French Jura region, Morteau to be more precise, and apparently it’s so good that people are coming from up to 200km away to ride it!

The boys at Syndrom/Skatanova took just under a year to complete the park, from the first shovel of earth to the last tree planted, and this is the sort of fun you can have there.

www.ussr.coop

Keeping it rootsy, Pat Smith and his pals at Coda Skateboards have just released a new batch of sick boards built for all terrain thrashing.

Still waters run deep, so don’t sleep on the New York underground scene!

www.codaskateboards.com

This news is only interesting for those of you that live in Lyon, or are thinking of passing through there between the 6th to 11th November. Cliché are holding their annual sale where good deals are the order of the day. In association with four Lyon skateshops (Wall Street, ABS, Namasté and Ballz Out!), make your way over to Cliché HQ and pick up a board, sweatshirt, jeans or socks for half the price.

Cliché HQ, 29 Rue F de Préssensé 69100 Villeurbanne (metro Charpennes) – Exit metro and walk up Cours Emile Zola until you reach Rue Jubin on your left. Walk up Jubin and take a right on Cours André Phillip/Rue F de Préssensé. Cliché is on the left hand side of the street. Open from 10am till 7pm.

www.clicheskate.com

Little wonderkid and all terrain vehicle, Ben Raemers has just been approved full International team status over at Consolidated Skateboards.

The odds are looking good for Crossfire – we’ve had money on the ripper for quite some time now. Now you know!

Watch a raw edit of Ben’s skating here. And don’t forget that the footage on the Consolidated site is in his section in This N That.

www.consolidatedskateboard.com