Skate park finals:
1. Pedro Barros
2. Curren Caples
3. Brad McClain
4. Rune Glifberg
5. Alex Sorgente
6. Raven Tershy
Street comp finals:
1. Nyjah Huston
2. Paul Rodriguez
3. Manny Santiago
4. Sean Malto
5. Luan Oliveira
Big Air comp finals:
1. Bob Burnquist
2. Mitchie Brusco
3. Elliot Sloan
4. Tom Schaar
5. Jake Brown
Vert comp finals:
1. Bucky Lasek
2. Marcelo Bastos
3. Mitchie Brusco
4. Andy Macdonald
5. Pierre Luc Gagnon
The battle of the Blag Flag’s continues. Watch this new footage of FLAG, which is the non-Ginn party playing My War at Redondo Beach where it all started back in the day.
The brand new Blueprint Skateboards team has been announced today. Pro riders are Mike York, (we never saw that one coming) and Ignatio Morata and ams are Luke Hampton, Josh Love, Cameron Wetzler, Marcuss Carr. You can see their new deck range here.
Ex- Blueprint riders Paul Shier and Nick Jensen announced their new team and skateboard company today too. Read about their new venture here.
This team video dropped today and we have to say that it’s one of the weirdest three minutes you will see this year. Everything BP built over so many years is now something completely different. The music in this edit says it all.
For those of you out there who love a game of S.K.A.T.E and are partial to a mini ramp jam, Streetfest is back this May with both on offer courtesy of Dave Chesson who is organising the malarkey.
Get down to qualifiers for the game of S.K.A.T.E finals at Mile End Skatepark on 14th and 21st April. There will be 32 skaters playing each other for a place in the final 6 games for a share of the £1000 prize money. There are a few spaces left for sponsored skaters to enter so email Dave if you want in.
The Mini-Ramp Jam will be an invitational Sponsored-Pro comp of 20 skaters in a jam format, also on May 5th at StreetFest13 in Herne St, East London.
Mark Baines is running Camp WESC this Easter at Hull, East Yorkshire. The full week of skating with pro riders and learning tricks at the Subculture Indoor Skate Plaza, hanging out having a blast is back on for over 13’s. This year’s camp runs from April 1st-5th for £380, all inclusive that comes with a free deck shoes, hood, tee, headphones with loads more product to be won throughout the week.
Watch the video from last year’s Camp WESC and book here.
Volcom Stone’s Hauling A$$ets jam at ISPO this week was a highlight of the trade show as usual. Stoner rock and some amazing mini ramp skateboarding on what looks like one of the best ramps ever made went down so press that play button for footage of Dannie Carlson, Sox, Glifberg, Rob Smith, Tim Zom, Ben Hatchell, Fernando Bramsmark, Axel Cruysberghs, Juergen Horwarth, Szymon Stachon, Julian Dykmans and many more.
Slam Dunk is back for 2013 with various shows and festivals in May calling at Leeds, Dublin, the Midlands and Wales.
Head to their website for all ticket info.
Those lazer-eyed cats that run Skate Mental have rolled out their Spring 2013 catalogue this weekend. Shane O’Neill, Dan Plunkett, John Motta, Brad Staba and Matt Beach all have new pro decks. A selection of one-off decks are also available alongside a new Evil Cat tee, tees featuring a Girl snogging a Dolphin, Wet T-shirts, stoned dinosaurs, Rainbow Uzi’s, beanies, caps, long socks, Fake Crap wax, Three in the Pink, One in the Stink Wheels and loads more.
There’s some of the new range featured here but find the full set on their site.
Papa Roach frontman, Jacoby Shaddix, slipped up recently about the bands upcoming performance at Download Festival this June.
Festival organiser Andy Copping confirmed himself via Twitter afterwards to clear up any confusion, tweeting “OK @jacobyshaddix does it again! That man just cannot keep quiet! JACOBY!!! Papa Roach are playing #DL2013 on the main stage Friday.”
The Donington Park Festival also recently added 37 bands to the line-up, and released a teaser for the festival (below). Download Festival takes place June 14 – 16 2013 with headline acts Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Awesome, right?
More information and tickets is available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
Death Skateboards kick off 2013 in fine style following the release of their epic ‘Ordinary Madness‘ DVD a few weeks ago. The team welcome two new pro’s to their ranks today. Dean Palmer and Adam Moss, will now have their names on infamous Death wood after some serious dedication to the brand. The Dean Palmer ‘Death dome’ model has been released first with art by Alastair Mooney and a new edit from Down Under that you can watch in this page. Look out for the release of Moss’ deck soon.
Richie Jackson has a new Stoned graphic pro model out this month as an 8.125″, and Patrick Melcher’s new Bottle deck will hit your local skate shop in 8.25″. Both decks have graphics by AyeJay. There’s a brand new Ordinary Madness swirl deck (graphic by JayBone) also winging it’s way into stores in 8.25″ size. Start 2013 with a new rig and get yours ordered today.