Raw footage from the Stee video featuring Nisse Ingemarsson has been released this weekend. Take in what it took to get his section down on tape.
Watch his section with Jimmy Cao here:
This weekend’s Vans Downtown Showdown in Paris looked fun. The Element crew came good with the overall winnning team award, Sweet Skateboards came 2nd, Flip in 3rd. The individual competition results are below and the official edit from the full weekend has all the highlights.
Palace Obstacle
1 Luan Oliveira
2 Louie Lopez
3 Yuri Facchini
Element Obstacle
1 Pedro Barros
2 Sylvain Tognelli
3 Louie Lopez
Cliché Obstacle
1 Josef Scott Jatta
2 Luan Oliveira
3 Louie Lopez
Flip Obstacle
1 Nassim Guammaz
2 Karsten Kleppan
3 Chris Pfanner
Monster Quasimodo Prize: Evandro Martins
Best AM: Nassim Guammaz
Best Pro: Luan Oliveira
Dutch ripper Douwe Macare has unleashed his official welcome edit to Fabric Skateboards this morning alongside the dulcit tones of Charles Bradley.
Douwe Macare – Fabric Skateboards from fabricskate on Vimeo.
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The New Level, Brighton video
Ed Hubert has dropped a cracking edit of Brighton’s locals skating the new Level Skatepark this week. The park has received much praise since its launch this summer thanks to the handywork of Freestyle skateparks. if you have not seen this beast yet, then click here for a gallery.
Watch footage of Amir Williams, Zak Miller, Al Hodgson, Rafi Sayer, Rich West, Matt Ransom, Joe Lewis Collins, Mitch Wheeler, Justin ‘Pasty’ Ashby, Oska Sullivan, Stacy Ansell, Lee Karakashian, Patch Sullivan, George Terry, Niall Birnie, Finn Casey Knight, Jake Wisdom, Will Greenfield, Dan Emmerson, Aaron Revell and Louis Antoine.
Fullpipe skating is discussed in this week’s Loveletter’s by Grosso, Duane Peters and Salba who look back into the history of missions that discovered the pipe dream.
This weekend’s Vans Downtown Showdown is being streamed live from Paris. Tune in today to watch the Element, Palace, Blind, Sweet, Antiz, Death, Flip, Cliché, Isle, Radio and Metropilitan and teams get stuck into various bespoke obstacles.
Teams:
Cliché (EU): riders: Kyron Davis, Flo Mirtain, Kevin Bradley, Lem Villemin
DROPDEAD: Pedro Barros, Rodolfo Ramos, Evandro Martins, Guilherme Trakinas
METROPOLITAN: Steve Ramy, Vincent Bressol, JJ Rousseau, Lee Smith
ISLE Skateboards: Nick Jensen, Chris Jones, Sylvain Tognelli, Tom Knox
RADIO Skateboards (US): Lenni Burmeister, Octavio Trindade, Valeri Rosomako, Bastien Marlin
PALACE Skateboards (EU): Lucien Clarke, Chewy Cannon, Rory Milanese, Olly Todd
BLIND Skateboards: Kevin Romar, Tj Rogers, Sewa and Sam Beckett
FLIP (US): Geoff Rowley, Ben Nordberg, Luan Oliveira, Louie Lopez
ELEMENT (EU): Ross McGouran, Phil Zwijsen, Nassim Guammaz, Karsten Kleppan
DEATH (EU): Rob Smith, Adam Moss, Mikey Patrick, Moggins
ANTIZ (EU): Sam Partaix, Dominic Dietrich, Samu Karvonen, Dallas Rockvam
SWEET Skateboards: Gustav Tönneson, Josef Scott Jatta, Jonas Skröder, Nisse Ingemarsson
Geoff Rowley is the latest Battle Commander over at The Berrics who drops a sick Beatles approved bunch of tricks with guest cameo appearances from Hawk, Gonzales, Koston, Thomas and Appleyard.
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The Couch Potato #7
Get the teas on, get your feet up and sit back and enjoy a selection of the latest long playing skateboard videos that are currently streaming online. Some are so new that they didn’t even make the news this week yet, others are classics primed for a viewing.
WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
In 1999, Tim Brauch (RIP) went on a skateboard adventure with Chet Childress, Jason Adams and Jai Tanju. They brought a video camera and documented the trip. The tapes from this trip have been lost and unseen until now.
MANOLO’S TAPES – 20 YEARS OF GIRL SKATEBOARDS
13 minutes of amazing video reminiscing with various Girl Skateboards team riders featured in Goldfish, Paco, Mouse, The Chocolate Tour, Yeah Right!, Hot Chocolate, Fully Flared and Pretty Sweet.
BRONZE
Following their 56k feature, Bronze hardware have released a new 21 minute edit this week featuring East Coast skating from Aaron Herrington, Billy McFeely, Derick Ziemkiewicz, Dick Rizzo, Jason Carrol, Joseph Delgado, Josh Wilson, Kevin Tierney, Rob Gonyon and Shawn Powers.
BLACK WATER
Everyone loves a road trip. This one set in South Carolina and beyond in the US is made up of 10 skaters in an RV and a quest for street spots, ditches, backyard ramps and more put together by Steve Marino.
CHOMP ON THIS – REMASTERED FULL VIDEO
Pirates have remastered the classic video ‘Chomp On This’ from the bedroom. Click play for a reminder of what was going down in 2001 with Eric Koston, Jamie Thomas and many more.
THE HYPE TRAIN
D.I.Y. Skateboarding film by Zack Dowdy. Featuring Chris Russell, Skreech, Greg Zamarripa, Frank Shaw, Chris Gregson, Brendan Keaveny, Connor Getzlaff, Ricky Holderby, and Little Chris.
CREATURE – ‘CSFU’
One for the gnar lovers. Creature always come good with their video’s. CSFU has the lot.
BARRIER CULT
Get your balaclava’s ready for this.
It does what it says on the tin. Hit the play button for one of skateboarding’s most interesting characters.
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BL’AST!
BL’AST!
Blood!
Southern Lord
Some olden day bands attain cult status and reverence, whilst others just disappear smack off the radar. Santa Cruz’s BL’AST! fall in to the former category and it’s not so surprising. These young dudes knelt dutifully at the Temple of Black Flag, and honed a sound sturdily built around the driving powerful Hardcore grooves, as laid out on “Damaged”.
On encountering BL’AST! Henry Rollins derisively noted in “Get in The Van” that “every song they play sounds like Thirsty and Miserable…the rest of The Flag are watching them and laughing when they aren’t looking”. Harsh words. History has taught us that Flag may have initially mocked BL’AST! but soon liked ‘em enough to sign them to their record label SST.
Now, the origins of this demo, unearthed recently by guitarist Mike Neider are scant, and the main point of interest is the songs (recorded pretty much live in the studio) capture a short lived line-up to feature a second guitarist William Duvall. He now fronts Alice in Chains, but, more interestingly, pre-BL’AST!, was in Neon Christ, whose self-titled ’84 EP is real decent slice of Thrash Attack. The session, as served up on “Blood!” is pretty much a replica to the 2nd BL’AST! album (‘87’s) “It’s In My Blood”, with “Look In To Myself” replaced by “Your Eyes”, that later appeared on Flipside of the “School’s Out” 7”. The whole recording has been tarted up by long-time fan Dave Grohl at his 606 Studios in L.A.
So, you are not gonna find anything new for your bucks here, but you do get an absolutely banging collection of stunningly executed primal Hardcore jams, drenched in molten guitars with fired up rabid vocals, and a battering ram rhythm section. If bands like (early) COC, Aggression, Uniform Choice and latterly Annihilation Time mean shit to you, then this will too. SST owner Greg Ginn has sat on much of his back catalogue refusing to re-issue it, so this release will go someway to exposing BL’AST! to a new generation. Killer Music. “Thirsty and Miserable” my arse!
Pete Craven