Caught in the Crossfire

The Concrete Carnival went down last weekend in Penzance with Nicky Cornell taking the honours for Kill City Skateboards.

Expect a little feature on this event over the next week on this site.

1st Nicky Cornell
2nd Marc Churchill
3rd Ross McGouran
4th= Cov Luke and Ollie Tyreman
6th Cov Sid

Masters

1st Sean Goff
2nd Dave Davies
3rd Jim the Skin

Snickers Best Trick

Lee Blackwell f/s corner air.
Nicky Cornell roll in off the edge of the extension into the hip.

One of Europe’s finest street skaters at the minute, Janne Saario, can handle a drawing board and measure just as well as he can hold onto long manuals. The young Finn recently designed a brand new skate plaza for the Northern capital, Helsinki, as part of his architectural work.

Well, now the park is open and everybody is super stoked. The park is sponsored by Element and free for all to enjoy. Let’s hope Janne can design a few more, or even inspire city councils to turn to skaters when it comes to designing and building the landscape.

Check out footage and pictures here.

Don’t forget the world premiere of Elementality Vol.2 which will broadcast live on September 1st by visiting this link: www.elementskateboards.com/audiovisual/

Almost rider Chris Haslam has finally joined Globe Shoes this week after waiting a while for the break due to interest from various companies.

He recently delivered his half of the menu in the most delicious Cheese and Crackers DVD that was released last month where together with Daewon Song they annihilate a mini ramp in a warehouse with every possible combination of tech wizardry.

Congrats to Chris on his new venture with Globe, expect news of a pro shoe with personality soon.

The first European leg of the annual Es Game of S.K.A.T.E. was wrapped up on July 30th at the Willy-Brandt Stadium in Frankfurt, Germany with skaters flipping and tripping over their boards from as far as Dubai, or as near as Austria. However, only one skater could win a chance to take part in the grand final held at the ASR Tradeshow, San Diego USA on September 9th.

All it took (!) was a few switch one foots, double 360 flips and double kickflips (Where was urban legend Julian Molyneux when you needed him???) for Alex Misurov from Germany to dust off the competition. Will this Euro wildcard beat the best in sunny San Diego? Crossfire will keep you posted as soon as the news drops.

For more info check out www.esfootwear.com and www.gameofskate.com

Fellow sole-tech rider (Etnies) and German skater, Juergen Horwarth came first in both the vert and mini ramp comps at the European Skateboard Championships held in Basel, Switzerland. It must be the German engineering or something..?

Keeping the scene together, The Works Skatepark in Leeds will be staging comps every first Saturday of the month – 5th August, 2nd September, 7th October, 4th November, 2nd December – which will ensure some great prizes from the like of Globe, Blind and Hawk Clothing, some sick skating and some pure talent breeding for the region. Such a good idea, but such a silly name… “Saturdays”!

www.theworksskatepark.co.uk

The Muckefuck Skateboard team has just added Andi Fugger and Mathäus Zingerle to the squad, and shall be supplying them with hot new product like this.

I swear if those crazy Austrians weren’t carrying skateboards, I’d expect to see them on the set of blue movies with names like that!

Check out Andi’s skills with long and hard wood here.

The bad boys over at Puzzle keep the European fire stoked with their soon to be released Fall 06 issue. Go visit www.puzzlevideo.com and watch the teaser with the mad antics of Daniel Cardone, this summer’s MVP, at the Italian Slam Trick contest.

Also, see how the Globe Euro Assault jashed out a beating on the old continent, spot Phillip Schuster’s extraordinanry skating as well as the prowess of Danish Simon Pendersen and Swiss Severin Von Ow. Owwww!!!!

Plus, there are numerous teasers, promos and other footage to feast your eyes on, so get clicking!

The public limited company and fraternity that is Project Rad returns from an eventful summer of resitting exams, shagging alternative birds, drinking and laundering insurance money. Oh! And they also managed to skate a bit too!

The man-amateur, Yousef, is currently working on an all night party in his hometown of Brussels with video projections, silly comps and refined hop and barley brews. Expect a video to drop once Koston quits one of his sponsors in search of a more Radical Project.