Archive for June, 2008:
King of S.K.A.T.E – Round 8 – new trick
June 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
New trick, new week, here’s the news straight off the contest site. 447 participants are left in the contest. Like I have said before, you can’t enter to win the prize money but it sure is a good site to practice some new tricks so have a look right here:
Round 8 – finally! For weeks we are looking forward for this week and first of all for this trick. Skippy sets up for Emerica: NOLLIE KICKFLIP ONE FOOT LANDED – you´ll learn to love or to hate it. To reach the next round you have to roll out this trick for min. three board lengths on the front foot till it is controled. The week prize is a Emerica Package consisting shoes, tee and cap. Good Luck!
HellFest 08 skate rock n roll in France!
June 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I popped over the the Antiz Skateboards website today and there’s a good little post about the HellFest 08, a heavy metal festival in France, which took place June 20th till the 22nd in Clisson, France. With a massive line-up of bands (Slayer was there, so that would have been good enough for me…really now, loads of good bands were there!) the French metal fans were ready to get blasted away.
Not as if that was good enough. Vans and Carhartt hooked up with Matt Grabowski (Minus Skateboards) to build yet another very original looking pool landscape which resembled on the outside an old ship! Most of the Antiz team showed up as well as friends from the Yama Skateboards team. The whole weekend looked like it was a blast, what more do you want to have in life?
I knicked the picture off of the blog from L.B. Fotos so do this guy a favor and check them out there:
- L.B. Fotos blog
NUEU Ride With Us UK tour 2008
June 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
After being such a success last year supposedly (I wasn’t there so I will have to take the word of mouth and believe it…) the next NUEU Ride With Us tour is taking place this year from July 21st till July 26th. They’ll be meeting up with you – if you want – at 11am on July 21st at The Works skatepark in Leeds and end up somewhere not being told at the moment.
All you need is transportation, money, a skateboard and somewhere to sleep. And probably a lot of solid nerves to go traveling with people you don’t know! Sounds like a lot of fun though so if you have the time, go and enjoy. I’d love to hear some first-hand details if someone is interested!
Maloof Money Cup sends four ams to the contest
June 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Maloof Money Cup team and REELcomp.com – a sports video site – have been searching for the past month for 4 amateur skaters to show their skills on video and winan all expense paid trip to compete in the Maloof Money Cup this July 11th – 13th. Well the wait is over and the judging panel of Don Bostick, Jake Brown, Mark Waters (etnies) and Mark Cernosia (REELcomp) broke down the selection to two skaters in both vert and street categories.
Here are the videos of the lucky winners!
Vert 1st place – Morgen Burgess
Vert 2nd place – Dalton Dern
Street 1st place – Collin Hale
Street 2nd place – Mike Berids
- The Maloof Money Cup official website
2nd Annual Copenhagen PRO results and more
June 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Wow! I was off doing my own thing this weekend, leaving the computer be so I just found out this morning about what happened in Copenhagen at the 2nd annual CPH PRO contest. Big word up to Renton Millar who actually pushed through to first place in the vert contest.
As the guys from Tackyworld have yet again done a great job of covering the event, get over there to check out the words, pictures and videos from the event.
- Tackyworld.com complete 2nd Annual Copenhagen PRO coverage
Final Results
Vert
1. Renton Millar
2. Rune Glifberg
3. Neal Hendrix
4. Marcelo Kosake
5. Anthony Furlong
Street
1. Danny Cerezini
2. Diego Oliveira
3. Eero Antilla
4. Jereme Rogers
5. John Rattray
6. Eric Koston
7. Elton Melino
8. Daniel Viera
9. Matt Beach
10. Rob Gonzales
11. Pontus Alv
12. Willian Seco
Best Trick
1. Diego Oliveira – Nollie flip frontside 5-0 on the rail
2. Danny Cerezini – Nollie flip frontside boardslide fakie on the rail
3. Lewis Marnell – Switch big flip down the grass gap
4. Willian Seco – Nollie heelflip boardslide on the rail
5. Jereme Rogers – Switch heelflip boardslide on the rail
European Skateboard Contest Madness Weekend
June 27th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
This is one completely (over)packed weekend in Europe for skateboard contests so if you are itching for some action and real good skateboarding, I’ve put together the list of events I know of that are taking place.
- SlamTrick 2008 in Marina di Ravenna – ITALY at the Oasi Skatepark
I actually haven’t even written anything about the contest, silly me. The contest starts up at 3 in the afternoon at the Oasi Skatepark and already at 5 the party action gets started with the Freak Out Beach Party going all night long. Sunday the action gets started at the great time of 4 in the afternoon.
- Copenhagen PRO with $70,000 dollar prize purse
Copenhagen is already filling up with skaters as this pro skater only contest with the largest prize purse this year in Europe is already underway starting today. A live webcast will be up on Tackyworld.com, Saturday June 28th from 18:30 till 22:00 and on Sunday June 29th from 14:00 to 19:00. Make sure you don’t miss it!
- DVS Copenhagen PRO website
- Copenhagen PRO MySpace website
- Carhartt King Of Wood 2008 in Rouen, France
Head on over to Rouen, France for the annual King Of Wood 2008 contest with € 15,000 in prize money waiting for the best street skater and bowl rider. Find out more right here.
- Rumble In The Park in Gmunden, Austria
If you are in football fever and you want to skate then head on over to Gmunden, Austria and try to win € 1500 Euros in the street and mini ramp contest.
- Europeskate ‘Rumble In The Park 2008′ report
- Rumble In The Park 2008 website
- Cracow Bowl Challenge in Poland
A good looking wooden pool indoors and $2000 up for grabs? Get over to the nice city of Cracow this weekend and put your plank of wood to the test against the local skaters.
- Europeskate Cracow Bolw Challenge report
And last but not least in this weekend full of skateboarding…
- Skatexpression 2008 in Bilbao, Spain
The action takes place Saturday, June 28th and here’s a post I did about the contest also with a map.
Enjoy the weekend!!
Independent Truck anniversary tour picture blog
June 27th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Independent Trucks team have been traveling through the United States since May 25th celebrating the 30th anniversary of the company and their great trucks. Over on the Thrasher site there are six pages of updates and great pictures documenting at least parts of this major tour. And of course there is an Independent tour blog.
Have a look, makes me want to jump in a car and just go driving.
- Thrasher Independent 30th anniversary tour blog
- 30th anniversary Independent Trucks tour page
FKD Bearings with new team rider footage
June 27th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Start off the weekend with some video inspiration from the FKD Bearing team riders Ryan Sheckler and P-Rod at the Panasonic Open in Baltimore last weekend (Ryan came in first and P-Rod took home second). On top of that check out Felipe Gustavo’s clip as well.
- DEW Tour / Panasonic Open in Baltimore 2008 highlights
- Felipe Gustavo video clip
Supra Footwear Fall 2008 products
June 27th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
More new shoes ready to slip over your weary feet, this time from the guys over at Supra Footwear. I personally haven’t had a pair of these yet and it would be pretty fun to try out the Skytop or Vaider releases to see how good they are to skate (even though I don’t like the look of those!). The Suprano or Vulk Lows are a bit more my style but as usual style is a personal concept so it’s up to you what you want to wear.
Check out the Supra Footwear website to have a look at all of the Fall 2008 shoes.
Fidelity Sweatshirt Giveaway Contest
June 27th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Ahh, finally another fine way to get yourself some new gear and we have teamed up yet again with our good friends from Fidelity to give away 3 sweatshirts!
And to make it really easy to win, all you have to do is send your complete name, email address and home address to:
freestuff (AT) europeskate (DOT) com – you have to type the (AT) and (DOT) character, just avoiding those spam machines…
Send your email by July 1st, 2008. Yep, that’s it. No questions, no thinking, nothing. Okay, whenever I get around to writing a newsletter you will be bombarded with Europeskate advertising. But don’t worry, only one newsletter has gone out to date!
Make sure you include ALL of the information. Anything missing and you are not in the final draw. Good luck everybody!
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
