The ‘Check Out’ Category:
Who, How, Now: Bryce Kanights
July 19th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Photography and skateboarding go hand in hand – there are just some of those magazines with special pictures that stay in memory forever it seems and that’s when you know a photograph speaks louder than 1000 words. Bryce Kanights has been involved with skateboarding for a very long time, both on the board and behind a camera. Nemo Entertainment has put together a three part series (well 5 part including the two bonus videos) which lets us take a look at a what Bryce Kanights does and his ideas behind his work and life.
Part 1 of this series features Bryce Kanights and Kevin Kowalski driving to a foreclosure house in Portland to grab a photo at a secret backyard pool.
Part 2: Bryce Kanights and Kevin Kowalski visit Mark Conahan’s home to check out his new bowl.
Part 3: Bryce Kanights takes his dog to the park, then meets up with Chet Childress to skate.
Part 4:Bryce shares some old memories about his early days skating with his SF Crew The Sick Boys, first years at Thrasher mag, and some insight into what skateboarding is to him.
Part 5: BK explains his dedication and passion of skateboarding and shares his time capsule of magazines and memories.
Bryce Kanights Skatedaily.net website
Nemo Entertainment website
Daniele Galli is a working class hero
June 18th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Daniele Galli is a full-on skateboarder and he definitely shows his skills in his part of the “Working Class Hero” video with parts from Brazil, Italy, the US, Switzerland and Greece. He rides for Stereo(flow), DC Shoes(flow), Bastard Clothing and Autobahn Wheels. Thanks goes out to Albo from Mayday Distribution for this good video tip!
Carlos Zarazua Mag Minute
June 16th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Carlos Zarazua is featured in this week’s Skateboard Mag Minute and he packs the minute full of street wizardry – damn smooth, big jumps and his pockets full of tricks. Yet another skater to watch out for!
Tim O’Connor and the new Venture Truck move
June 12th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Tim O’Connor lays down a “Scoliosis grind” for us in this online interview with skateboarding’s funny man. He talks about his ads for Venture, the weird name for his trick, his being funny and a few more anecdotes are thrown in for the heck of it. Learn to read and enjoy his humour – just click right here for the whole interview.
Tom Kelch gets Epicly Laterd – Part 1 and 2
June 4th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
James Kelch is one of the best known Embarcadero scene personalities who put down his footprint on skateboarding big time – watch the videos and make sure you catch up on his skating in the older videos. Mad everything that can still be done when certain people are “in another dimension”…he’s got the skills for sure!
Pools story or Ryan Sheckler interview?
July 20th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Strange title huh? Yeah, I didn’t know how else I could combine two articles I found thanks to Skatedaily.net which are both good reads.
The first one is titled “Pools” written by Lance Dawes which goes through the history of pool riding and integrates a bunch of quotes from well-known skaters dealing with the topic. Nice pics and good viewpoints will suck you straight into this article
- Read Slap Magazine’s ‘Pools’ article by Lance Dawes
Or if you want to read another look-behind-the scenes article about everybody’s favorite “hate”-skater Ryan Sheckler, than you’ll take the hop over to the ESPN site where a Ms Allison Glock followed along for a day with Ryan. It is a good read as maybe some will actually understand a little bit more about the guy. Sure, there’s a lot that just isn’t really good for skateboarding, but he does have some good points. And he’ll get older and look back someday – he’ll have to do that, not us.
- Read ESPN’s ‘JUST ANOTHER LONELY MILLIONAIRE SKATEBOARDER’ – article about Ryan Sheckler
Danny Cerezini blogs to the world
July 7th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The winner of the DVS Copenhagen PRO street contest 2008 has discovered his his interest in writing about his daily escapades as he travels the globe, skating contests, enjoying new cultures and countries and all the time being filmed for the next Blind Skateboards video.
Danny Cerezini’s blog is a fun read and lets us all see that this guy not only skates really well, he knows how to enjoy life. Bookmark the following link and keep up with Danny and his adventures with Winkle the videomaker, Pablo the photographer and Felipe the interviewer as they travel through Europe.
http://www.cerezini.blogspot.com/
Theotis Beasley at the Berrics skatepark
July 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Time to return to The Berric’s, Steve Berra’s and Eric Koston’s skatepark ( if you didn’t know yet 
) and they have been busy as usual. Well what do you expect actually, them not skating their private park?? Of course not.
Their latest recruit, Theotis Beasley, has got some smart footage up on the site currently. He is one good tech skater, packing out loads of different flip, manual, 360 trick in the book and more on top with some of the most perfect and non-sketchy landings I’ve seen. A kid to watch – yet again. Ummmm, that’s probably why he’s the recruit of the day, right?
Find out more about Theotis in this interview over on the Active Ride Shop website and click on the picture below to watch his slick video part at The Berrics….and while you are at the site, check out the many other videos. Steve Berra is still ripping it very well is all I can say.
Take a peek at ÜBER Skateboards and Rockers Hardware
June 24th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Last week I hooked up with some of my mates over at the Hamburger headquarters of ÜBER Skateboards and Rockers Hardware for a look around their place of business and to dig my prying eyes deeper into what is going on with this fast growing company.
Basically the roots of these companies come from Manuel Weschenbach (editor’s note: Manu, tell me if I got this wrong!) who’s a skater living in Hamburg. He started selling boards through the AllYouCanSkate.com site – which could be another topic to pick up on of course as many skaters have quite different opinions about blanks – and this has evolved into selling trucks, wheels and boards from other European brands.
One thing lead to another and the decision wasn’t that far off to use the company’s own printing press to start their own board company, ÜBER Skateboards. The idea started off in the middle of 2007 with the first boards hitting the market at the beginning of this year. The name of the new brand means “above” in German which could be misinterpreted as being obnoxious but me knowing the guys means that they had a different reason for the name.
Thomas Tröger, the marketing man behind ÜBER and Rockers tells his view about the company: “ÜBER stands for being above the rest because skateboarding doesn’t have a language or a country – it’s just more than that. ÜBER is not a German company. We see ourselves as a European brand. That’s why our boards are printed on the top in five languages. Actually, the name was inspired by Willow as he uses the word ‘über’ a lot and we already had the idea of doing something with him through Rockers Hardware”
They sure have some heavy hitters in the two team, just check out the pros and believe me, I’ve seen the ams skate and they are way up there on the level scale as well. All in all a very down-to-earth bunch of guys completely dedicated to skating and supporting skateboarding itself who are working hard on building skate teams that will get a lot of notice in the future – watch out for them!
ROCKERS HARDWARE TEAM:
PRO: Willow / Jo Lorenz / Soy Panday / Julian Furones
AM: Limbo / Max Prause / Nino Ullmann / Simon Schulz / Sebastian Witt / Christian Krause / Maxim Rosenbauer and introducing: Denny Pham!
Flow: Julien Budnik
ÜBER Skateboards TEAM :
- Christian Krause
- Simon Schulz
- Mack McKelton
- Valeri Rosomako
. . . still building
La Familia :
Limbo
Max Prause
Flow :
Felix Lensing ,Kenny Hopf ,Philip Tittelbach
2008 Skateboard Deck review from Transworld
June 24th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I have always been really interested in checking out the newest skateboard products hitting the market and these days it is getting harder and harder to keep up-to-date with the many different companies grabbing for a piece of the skateboard market pie.
Transworld Business has put together a very nice gallery of skateboard decks coming out 2008 which you can take a look at below. They will be updating the decks so make sure you bookmark this page to have a reference point for the future. And while you are at it make sure you read up about what manufacturers have to say about what is going to happen in the market (read the article here with the first 10 opinions)
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
