Death Skateboards have a new deck ready for the summer that should see your tre flips hits the clouds. The extra long longboard is crafted from Brazilian rosewood and is available in your local skate shop for £299 (with £149.99 postage and packaging). Please note though that Death do not warrantee this product against entanglement with overhead cables or low flying unicorns.
A new edit featuring Dan Cates, Rob Smith, Craig Questions, Sam Taylor and others skating the Death mini ramp has been released today.
This edit ties in with a feature in the latest Sidewalk Mag that is out now. Pick it up on your travels.
Thw Wayward Gallery in london has an exhibition featuring the graphic work of Hannah Horn who contributed her works of art towards the last Death Skateboards deck series. The exhibition runs until March 10th, check info and address details from www.thewaywardgallery.com
Australian Death rider Troy West has video blogged a collection of memories from his recent trip to the UK back in October 2011 this morning which is an eight minute montage of madness that surrounds the Death Skateboards crew based in Harrow and surrounding areas.
As you may already know, you are never far from fun hanging out with the Death lot and various, strange things tend to always happen when in their company, so enjoy this mash up from Troy today and take in what he saw on his travels over a week long period with Steak, Dan Cates, Adam Moss, Calow and more.
Death Skateboards pro Boots takes you through the process of learning a good nollie flip in this clip from the XC.
Patrick Melcher, Dan Cates, Benson, Dave Allen and Rob Smith all have new pro decks this month on Death Skateboards. The Horror series is the latest in Death’s Spring deck run illustrated by artist Alex Duke “who shreds hard as well as being a rad artist.”
Speaking to Zorlac last night, footage is steadily coming from all over the globe in for their forthcoming Ordinary Madness DVD. Zarosh has just hand screened a new run of his custom shape ‘Bleeding Heart’ decks. You can see the new top screen print below. Dan Cates is celebrating a fan tattooing his signature on their arse cheek. Manchester’s Rob Smith is getting better from a back injury due to a nasty slam and Dave Allen is enjoying the new skatepark down the road from his house in Atlanta. Last but never least, Australian trick machine Richie Jackson just got a Slap Pals questions feature that you can see if you scroll down this page.
Visit the Death blog for all updates.
We spoke to Zorlac last night for an update of what’s going on in at Death HQ. The team are currently preparing the Ordinary Madness video as you read this so expect an announcement soon on when it will be screening. As the footage gets cut, the rest of the team are busy out there on a daily basis. Richie Jackson just won the Helliez Award under the category ‘Biggest Treat of 2011’ with that amazing firecracker kickflip out down a set of stairs that was highlighted on our homepage for a month last year.
Dan Cates just got a photo skating a UK backyard pool in the new Thrasher mag whilst at home, a new 8.0″ Team Issue deck has been released into your local skater owned shop so keep an eye out for the hazard sign when visiting. Death am Dean Palmer enjoyed his stay here in the UK and trips to Spain and America on his recent vacation and is now on his way back to Australia. Before he left he found time to film amongst other things this ‘How To 360 Flip’ at the XC park in Hemel Hempstead. Watch it here.
This short film featuring Death Skateboards Zarosh Eggleston made for fun viewing today. Filmed and edited by Pete Koff, Zarosh travels to the USA to find classic spots from yesteryear and the delicacies to survive on route.
Death Skateboards have issued a tribute deck to Dean ‘Bod’ Brodrick who sadly passed away last month. This graphic was the last Bod designed for Death before he passed. Royalties from the sales of this deck will go to Dean’s partner Sarah and their daughter Poppy.
Look out for the Death team at the Crossfire Xmas Jam next Saturday, 10th December.
Death Skateboards have released a limited edition Sexton Ming collab deck this week. Ming is a founding member of the The Medway Poets, a poet/punk band (that also has Billy Childish in their ranks) and also co founded the Stuckists art group famed for their promotion of figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art.
100 of these limited edition decks will be available so grab one quick.