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DGK release West Coast b-side footage

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DGK have released their West Coast b-sides from the Parental Advisory DVD this morning. Click play for 7 minutes of banging extra footage that didn’t make the cut.

DGK – PARENTAL ADVISORY – WEST COAST from KAYOTV on Vimeo.

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DGK release unseen East Coast ‘Parental Advisory’ edit

DGK Skateboards have unleashed an edit of b-sides filmed on the East Coast for their epic ‘Parental Advisory‘ DVD that dropped back in December. Press play for unseen footage and then go here to find out how the film was made and quotes from the team riders involved in our ‘Exposed‘ feature.

DGK – PARENTAL ADVISORY – EAST COAST from KAYOTV on Vimeo.

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Watch Iron Fist

It seems that the East Coast is coming up with the goods right now. Alex Davis, Austyn Gillette, Brian Wenning, Fred Gall, Marius Syvanen, Stefan Janoski and more all feature in the latest Iron Fist edit from New Jersey.

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Call The Vets – East Coast comp with Suciu, Bachinsky +

Due to the blizzards in the US that are keeping people trapped in their homes, Boston filmer Tim Savage has put together a some old East Coast footage of Dave Bachinsky, Mark Suciu and many more filmed in Boston, Lowell, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Watch: Lowcard’s Worst Skater of the Year

Lowcard Magazine have unveiled their ‘Worst Skater of the Year’ to be none other than everyone’s favourite beer-swilling flatbank destroyer Fred Gall.

To congratulate him on having such a shit year they’ve made this edit compiling footage from all over the shop. We loved him in Origin and Cliché have said he’s the best Gypsy guest rider they’ve ever had, it’s not hard to see why.

Ladies and gentlemen, the magnificent Fred Gall…

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Incoming: The MIA video by Josh Stewart

Welcome to Miami, the MIA Skateshop video, premiered last weekend and is the latest skate video to come from one of the hardest working filmers in the game, and one the biggest advocate of the VX-1000 ever, Josh Stewart.

The trailer for this has been around for some time but the amount of views it’s had on youtube is criminal. His films accurately reflect the passion and effort involved from both the skateboarders and himself, something that very much deserves your support. So while we patiently wait for the DVD to drop sometime very soon here’s the trailer to remind you that there’s definitely one more big banger to ask Father Christmas for this year.

The film features full sections from two rarely seen favourites Ed Selego and Forrest Kirby, as well as other east coast killers, Brian Delatorre, Ben Gore, Joel Meinholz and Paul Deoliveira.

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Zoo York – Chaz Ortiz Three-Peat Deck

Zoo York Chaz Ortiz Threepeat DeckMy interest in sports peaks in whatever novelty crossover Nintendo have got Mario involved in and up until this point, the italian plumber has raced in little cars that gobble shrooms and shit banana skins and has even engaged in tedious golf tournaments; but never has he jumped on the basketball bandwagon, even during the height of Fresh Prince tie-in possibilities. So the word, ‘Three-Peat‘, serving as the name for one of Chaz Ortiz’s trio of inaugural pro models, meant absolutely nothing to me other than it’s a terrible, terrible pun. What’s cute is that I’ve since discovered that a retired basketball coach had trademarked the portmanteau (a posh word sometimes used in place of ‘terrible, terrible pun’) ‘Three-Peat’ for commercial use. Thankfully, in later years, more people realised that making money out of a pun is as intensely stupid as making Mario play mini-golf so Zoo York had no legal trouble using the name for young Chaz’s three-peat success of boards. Fun fact: neither did we writing it in that last sentence. Why? Because it’s just a fucking pun.

Three-peat is the correct term however, as Zoo York have taken the tried and tested plain and simple approach and made three solid models making sure no one misses the point: Chaz Ortiz, the young gun and comp-destroyer picked up by the late legend Harold Hunter himself is a professional skateboarder and you can buy boards with his name on.

I’ve only rode one Zoo York in the past but have been equally pleased with the results. Their shape (and this comes in the glorious street skater’s dream size, 7.75″) is spot-on, complete with expertly crafted dips in the concave that help provide an instant sense of excellent board control, response and subsequently gives you more confidence while skating, which I haven’t noticed in a deck in some time. Feet-on manoevres are so simple with Zoo York, so if you’re out to learn 360s for the first time then it wouldn’t be out of line to give them a go on this. It’s mad durability may take you by surprise too. As someone who favours ugly spots that tear up decks faster than the notorious blue shell I was stunned by how intact this deck has remained. Not a single chip, no pressure crackes, no ugly grom scratches on the graphic from where it looks like I’ve been boardsliding a rock (which I had).

So this one is undoubtedly exclusively for the street skaters, but as the second ZY deck I’ve loved to ride in a row I feel tempted to make a threepeat purchase (hohohohohoho) and can only recommend that you give these a try too. All puns aside, Chaz is pretty ripping, hasn’t let the pro status go to his head yet, is stoked on school and skating. So big ups.

Stanley