What a ride Chris Joslin has been on since he rolled into the scene. If you follow this bloke on social media you will know that he is a non-stop skate machine and finally pro for Plan B today.
This part was filmed in just 12 days whilst visiting China…
Craig Stecyk‘s history in documenting skateboarding is second to none. Desillusion Mag interviewed him to discuss the trip through his life so far.
Get behind the making of Jaws in this documentary that explains why Aaron Homoki likes to hit up the biggest shit out there. Freak of nature? No chance, he just has a taste for it and is the very best you’ll ever see when it comes to leaps of faith, oh..and horticulture.
Grant Taylor, Daan Van Der Linden and Pfanner continue to rip the shit out of every spot alongside the rest of the Anti Hero crew through Europe in the third part of this Monkey-fest. Sick brick bank sesh in this too.
Skateboarding as we know it is dead. It’s time to jump on the RubEx Cube bandwagon to achieve bigger ollies, longer grinds and better skids.
Christian Hart and other heads from Spit and Sawdust in Cardiff have come up with a solution of how to save skateboarding as we know it, click play for his latest short film on exactly how this phenomenon works.
You know this bloke gives everything on a rig, dive into his High Tide part for wallriding bliss and much more from videographer Matt Bublitz’ new flick.
Let’s kick this off by stating that the future pretty much delivered jack shit. If you were a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s where space colonisation, extra-terrestrials, UFO sightings and Metal Mickey were predicted to become part of family life, then you will know how much we were ripped off. The most exciting recent discovery that comes close to all of those technological promises is an image that looked like a lunar three-spurt dick etched into the dusty floor of Pluto. Twas one way of getting a few more ‘likes’ on your Facebook page last month for those who count the digits.
There wasn’t a need for this self aggrandising malarkey that social networking brings back in 1985. Nobody really gave a toss about getting themselves 15 minutes of fame, we were too busy sniffing glue, break dancing and prizing Mercedes badges off the front of cars with screwdrivers – until the Back To The Future film was released. That summer spawned thousands of skateboarders worldwide, mimicking Michael J. Fox’s balancing skills as he held his own on a hoverboard to impress girls and avoid a beating. Once that was aired, every kid in our area wanted one.
Nobody imagined that we would have to wait 30 years to even get a sniff of the liquid nitrogen smoke that pumps out of the Lexus Hoverboard though. Nobody would also have guessed it would be our mate Ross McGouran who would be the chosen one to take it for its first cruise either. Thankfully Ross was skating past our office the day after that hoverboard edit hit the interweb so we asked him to spill some beans on how it all came together.
This was filmed off the cuff in 10 minutes with just an iPhone with a broken screen to hand but should give you a bit of inside info on the shoot that took place. Thanks to Dan Joyce who kindly edited my awful filming.
Rewind back into 1990 when the ollie impossible made an appearance and confused the hell out of everyone amongst a bunch of other really new tricks. Ed Templeton was a fan and stepped up on this part in New Deal’s ‘Useless Wooden Toys’, a video that changed the game somewhat looking back on it.
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Photo by Richie Hopson
Now here’s a treat coming from the archived tapes of Jake Barker from yesteryear featuring our good pal Laurie Sherman. If you knew this man then you’d know that he gives everything and is one of the best pals to have in the back of the car on a trip. His laid back approach to life is slightly different to when he steps on a rig as you will see from this footage shot between 1996 and 2002.
Still got it too. Good work Jake.
Mourn the apparent last of the French Fred tapes with none other than the British wizard of all things skateboarding, Tom Penny. I don’t know whether to first discuss the sadness that Fred Mortagne’s incredible archive of tapes from such an important period of skateboarding has come to an end, or the fact that unseen Penny footage is beyond gold.
The only way of leading out of this is to doff your hat to French Fred as his dedication to filming and photographing skateboarding his entire life is commendable. Thanks for everything.
Find more of Fred’s incredible work explained in our feature with him.