Paul Schmitt has more experience and knowledge of making skateboards than anyone else on earth so when he was set a task to make a deck made of cardboard, it was odds on he would probably be able to pull it off. Tony Hawk tests the final design in this new engineering feat.
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.
Powerslide your way through Scottish headlands with German skater Markus Blessing as he rolls through the elements filmed by Daniel Mildner and Dennis Götz. Their short film vision is to capture his skating across lands that have never felt urethane before, whatever the weather.
“This unbelievable country carved its everlasting imprint on my mind. And only that one thing underneath my feet lets me know, I got to go. Ahead.“
Now is the time indeed, although it could have quite easily been 1992. Yonnie Cruz and Brendan Carroll have ledges on lockdown and join Trevor Thompson in being unleashed to the interweb with their dope joint section from John Valenti’s Local Express flick.
Look out for cameos from Kevin Coakley and more in this Organized Konfusion.
Ph: Phil Skills
Thrasher are right in the thick of it out in Copenhagen on their annual CPH romp. Sessions are going off and by the looks of it, Raven is charging it. Fully lit footage.
“When people remix video parts they tend to rearrange things to highlight how they view the way someone skates.… When Clark came to us with the idea of remixing Caswell’s footage, we were all for it…and to be honest didn’t really know what to expect. Welcome to the world through Clarks eyes, Welcome to CLARKAVISION!”
Ph: Jeremy Leabres pushes an impossible shot by John Bradford.
Get some of this new footage of RVCA reps Curren Caples, Greyson Fletcher, Jeremy Leabres, Julian Davidson and Nestor Judkins shredding Japanese demo’s, parks and street spots.
Heath Kirchart joins Greco’s Hammer Hall of Fame today looking back on his amazing highlights within almost 10 minutes of golden footage from the bloke who had the lot. Edited by Joey Sinko to Nirvana too.
Politic rider Dave Caddo flew into LA this winter to get away from the snow and came back with this raw edit from Andy Licardi.
You should know that Paul Regan has arguably the best pop in the country and packs a plethora of technical prowess. With those two feats in mind get stuck in to his full bonus part from the Hull scene video Hull Metal Jacket. It’s possibly his best footage to date.
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