Archive for July, 2008:
King of S.K.A.T.E contest hits round 11
July 23rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
As the Germans would say “Die Spreu trennt sich vom Weizen.” – or in English only the best can continue to compete in the King of S.K.A.T.E trick contest which goes into round 11 already this week!
166 skaters are still in the game, 915 skaters started 11 weeks ago…this week Ben Dillinger from the Sykum Team lays down the trick to beat: a SWITCH DOUBLE HEELFLIP. Here’s the video. Watch it. Learn it. Do it.
Zoo York’s AMs Getting Paid final results!
July 23rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Zoo York’s AM Getting Paid contest took place during the same weekend as the Volcom Amsterdamn AM contest, just sort of somewhere else…in Montreal, Canada that is. 120 top ams battle it out at the 4th installment of Zoo York’s Am Getting Paid (AGP) contest. With $10K in total prize money up for grabs, the scene was set for some major ripping of the street course at Montreal’s South Parc Skatepark.
The results are in and ….
1. Antoine Asselin ($5,000)
2. Ryan Decenzo ($2,000)
3. Chazz Ortiz ($1,000)
4. Andrew Langi
5. Dustin Blauvelt
6. Ron Deily
7. Spencer Hamilton
8. Steven Reeves
9. Magnus Hanson
10. Micky Papa
Swiftfooted online mag release issue 007.08!
July 23rd, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
I’ve been following the Swiftfooted magazine out of Belgium for several issues now and as the saying goes: actions speak louder than words. In this case I would exchange ‘actions’ for ‘pictures’. Stefan Remes and his ‘team’ have put togetehr another great collection of photos and words which made me want to keep flipping the virtual pages of this Belgium mag.
This issue includes a report about the European Vans ‘Roll with us’ tour, then moves on to show some of an exposition called street life with some interesting art, throws in a couple of interviews with a Belgium artist and Bastien Marlin, a French skater who has been crossing the border a lot lately. With other odds and ends inbetween, the mag finishes off with some good photography…all in all, definitely worth spending the time to read and enjoy.
- Get the latest issue and all back issues here at Swiftfooted
Danny Cerezini and the 19 tricks video
July 23rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Danny Cerezini has been travelling through Europe the past few weeks, just coming off the big win at the Copenhagen PRO contest, chilling a bit at the Mystic Cup in Prague and hitting the BRIGHT tradeshow in Frankfurt plus the so-called Ghetto-Spot in Frankfurt.
The relatively new German skateboard magazine ‘Place‘ sponsored several brand new marble ledges for the spot and Danny took them apart with 19 tricks (okay, I didn’t count them all, I just believed what Danny said…), check out his video right here. He’s hanging out in Barcelona at the moment and he is still keeping the blog going strong!
Silver Trucks in Barcelona – latest video trailer
July 22nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Keeping it simple today as I have a lot of work to get done, here’s the latest trailer from the upcoming Silver in Barcelona video from – duhh – Silver Trucks!
Etnies 15 minutes of Barcelona video bliss
July 22nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
These videos just keep getting better and better. “Old” and “new” skaters, new technology, ambitious video techniques and good spots all come together in this Etnies video documenting the Barcelona 2008 tour. And yes, it’s 15 minutes long so maybe you shouldn’t watch it during work – take the lunch break 
– unless your boss is pretty cool that is….
Click on the pic below to make the jump to the video. There is also a hi-res download available.
Win a Kärleksgatan deck from Sweden!
July 22nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Kärleksgatan is a small skateboard oriented company out of the great city of Malmö, Sweden (yes, I admit it. I am jealous and I want to have a park like they do!) with currently have three different deck designs and a variety of nice t-shirts with a bit more than your usual skate logo/branded thing going for them.
Daniel from Kärleksgatan (which by the way means “love street” in Swedish – hmmm, need to ask about that one!) was kind enough to offer a free deck giveaway (32×8) here. And all you have to do is answer the following question:
What is on the design of the deck pictured above and below? Is it…
a) a bunch of girls
b) a bunch of bugs
c) a crate of beer
Send your correct answer by Friday, July 25th 2008 to Europeskate (go to the Contact Page by clicking here – www.europeskate.com/contact) with your full name and correct email address.
The winner will be chosen randomly and announced this weekend so take a couple of minutes and maybe you’ll get this nice deck!
Old school glass skate bowl video from the 70’s
July 22nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I had video link sent to me from the current.com guys who once and a while send me links to skate videos which are a bit different than your ordinary skate video. This one sports a glass bowl from back in the seventies (yeah, I was there, were you?) which looks pretty much like a ton of fun to ride. It is a quite cool concept to put the entire bowl out of the ground, supported by steel and slanted at something like 30 degress. You even have to climb a ladder to get to the entry area and yes, it’s all see-thru!
Sure would be fun to ride one of these things – okay, I admit it. I may be from the 70’s but I never did see one of these things in person. Enjoy, I especially like the good old music background with the extended guitar solo…classic!
P-Rod and Shaun White win 2008 AST Dew Tour Cleveland stop
July 21st, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
This contest didn’t turn up on my skate radar until this morning – bad reporting Johnny! – but what the heck, it does have a pretty funny sponsor name ( The Right Guard Open ). For those of you who don’t know the brand, it’s a deodorant company in the States. Hmm, well you do sweat when you skate don’t you? Okay, I’ll shut up while I’m still ahead!!
- Get all of the infos, picture, maybe even videos over on the official AST Dew Tour site.
Vert Finals
1st White, Shaun 92
2nd Lasek, Bucky 88.25
3rd Macdonald, Andy 87.25
4th Burnquist, Bob 83
5th Taylor, Adam 78.25
6th Millar, Renton 75.75
7th Stafford, Josh 74.75
8th Gagnon, Pierre-Luc 62.75
9th Menezes, Rodrigo 51.5
10th Halterman, Buster 50.75
Street Finals
1st Rodriguez, Paul 90.75
2nd Ortiz, Chaz 90.7
3rd Ramos, Rodolfo 88.5
4th Lutzka, Greg 85.85
5th Araujo Jr., Rodil 83.6
6th De Andrade, Carlos 77.45
7th Seaholm, Austen 82.25
8th Sheckler, Ryan 79.5
9th Santos, Fabrizio 73.5
10th Bartie, Chad 67.5
11th Brummet, Dayne 66.25
12th Therres, Mathieu 62.25
September 4, 2010: Ana Garcia
September 3, 2010: sky cottle
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
