The recent hype on the various edits from the DC Embassy in Barcelona has reached it’s peak as it’s now time to vote over there. Personally, I think that Albert Nyberg’s section is a league ahead of the rest and should go through on merit, but I will be voting for the two British skaters that have been involved in this without a doubt and you should do to.
Watch Chris Oliver and Neil Smith‘s sections here and give them the support they deserve.
A new edit featuring Blueprint’s Tom Knox, Danny Brady, Dave Mackey, Neil Smith and Jerome Campbell at the new Ramp Rage skatepark down in Colchester is now live for you to watch. Press play for speed trials and more from this late night sesh at the office for Wilson and co.
Find the new park at www.ramprage.co.uk
The Blueprint Skateboards team have been skating in Japan this month. Watch Sylvain Tognelli’s video blog from the trip featuring Neil Smith, Danny Brady, Tom Knox, Paul Shier, Sylvain Tognelli, Matt Price and Marty Murawski.
Some of the Blueprint Skateboards team have arrived in Japan this week to tour various parts of the country. If you would like to keep up to date with the travels of Marty Murawski, Danny Brady, Paul Shier, Jerome Campbell, Neil Smith, Sylvian Tognelli and Tom Knox then head over to this blog where you can view photos from Tognelli’s lens.
Slam City Skates have been working on a new video to celebrate 25 years of servicing London’s skate scene and have dropped this amazing taster of what’s to come.
The production is being taken care of by Henry Edwards Wood and features a plethora of local skaters that includes Karim Bakhtaoui, Daniel “Snowy” Kinloch, John Tanner, Lucien Clarke, Casper Brooker, Neil Smith, Jin Shimizu, Joey Pressey, Rory Milanes, Olly Todd, Scott Howes, Rob Mathieson, Danny Brady, Nick Jensen, Steph Morgan and Darius Trabalza.
Watch the ‘City of Rats‘ promo here and look forward to the full release this Christmas.
Joleon Pressey and Mark ‘Fos’ Foster have launched the Stella Supply Co this week, a new hardware company that will be supplying bearings, bolts and clothing to your local skate shop.
The UK team that has been announced this week includes Joe Gavin, Nick Stansfield, Joleon Pressey, Snowy, Benny Fairfax, Karim Bakthoui, Chris Oliver, Nick Jensen, Olly Todd, Charlie Young, Louie Jones, John Tanner, Lucien Clarke, Jin Shimizu, Will Ainley, Rory Milanes, Casper Brooker, Craig Questions, Neil Smith and Dan Wileman.
Watch this brand new promo video put together by Hold Tight Henry that was released this morning.
Blueprint Skateboards have released a fresh video edit today featuring Neil Smith.
Watch this footage from Essex’ finest that is Edit of the Week here and look out for his pro model in your local skate shop this month.
On May 25th 2011 we all headed over East to Dagenham for a private skate session organised by Nike at The Pool, a local swimming pool that had been redesigned for a cracking BMX comp.
Here’s Alan Christensen’s footage from that secret session with skating from Andy Scott, Chet Childress, Aaron Sweeney, Lee Blackwell, Ben Nordberg, Mike Wright, Neil Smith, Carl Wilson and Sam Pulley. Click here for the write up and photos from Brendan Ryall.
The best news of the day has surfaced from the Blueprint Skateboards facebook with the announcement that Neil Smith has his name on a skateboard once again:
“Huge congratulations to this man right here. We are stoked to present him with his pro board again. Hard work and graft forever from Mr Smith.“.
You should know by now that Neil is one of the most talented skaters in the UK and has dedicated everything to The Colour Blue through thick and thin so with that in mind, get stoked on the fact that this pro model will be in your local skate shop next week and order one today.
Neil was also skating Tuesday night at The Pool.
Last night (25th May), a select few skaters were invited to skate The Pool, Nike’s latest impressive press stunt that took over a swimming pool in Dagenham and turned it into a fun palace. Brendan Ryall and the boys went down there to enjoy a secret session and came back with some footage and a few photos.
Let’s start this short insight into The Pool by saying that this place is GIGANTIC. The transitions are all monsters. Look at the size of the extension compared to the guys on the platform to work out that we are talking up to 13ft or more from the bottom! This particular part of the park was sessioned a lot. Knowing everyone had only 3 hours to skate this place meant that figuring out the transitions and lines was hard. The session was a tad frustrating for some as a lot of individual tricks were being performed on individual areas rather than free-flowing sessions. When those runs were go they were amazing but not all who dared had it in them to get round the park, mainly because of others dropping in to take tricks home. It was carnage.
Joe Habgood spent the whole night trying to ollie up the roll in slide thing which is massive, and he made it at the end. Ben Nordberg was on fire as you would expect. Andy Scott was making it look like a mini ramp and all the vert/transition guys were grinning all night. We also saw some gnarly slams due to how slippy it was in there. The surface of the wood seemed to be fine for wheels but as soon as you ran out of tricks it was an ice rink which made skating this even more fun.
Special guest Lance Mountain hurt himself at the protec pool party this weekend, so he was a no show unfortunately. But Chet Childress made the flight and was there charging through the Pool like a caveman pulling the fastest blunt back disasters on the extension amongst much more. In my opinion, the transitions are a bit too long for skateboards. Everything was oversized due to the swimming pool mainly being custom built for BMX’s but there was a fun mini ramp built in there so the tech ninjas were loving those long tranny’s and some good shit went down.
Overall Nike put on a good night out with plenty pizza and drinks to keep everyone fueled and charged so thanks for the hospitality. Have a peep at some phone footage of Habgood’s make here from Paul Carroll.