The ‘Europeskate General’ Category:
Europeskate Family Grows
June 28th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Hi everybody! I’ve just made it back in front of my computer to check my mail after several incredible days – my baby son Cooper Young was born Friday, June 25th and I am spending ever minute with him and his beautiful mother Maike at the hospital. He’s healthy and looking real good, sleeping and eating well too!
I’m an incredibly happy father and I of course want to let everybody know about this wonderful experience AND now you know why I haven’t been keeping up with the latest skateboard happenings! I’ll be back on the case by tomorrow probably as we’ll be coming home from the hospital. Thanks for all of the good wishes and maybe another skater was born? Only time will tell….
Wiener Melange Or How Good Skateboarding Is In Austria
June 12th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I don’t really remember exactly when I contacted Benjamin Beofsich about the “Wiener Melange” skateboard DVD which he had put together earlier this year but he wrote straight back and offered to send me a copy on DVD.
The DVD arrived a week later and how it sometimes just happens, it got lost on my desk. So several weeks later I finally got around to popping the DVD into the player, grabbed myself a drink and sat down to see what this Austrian video had to offer. BANG! 30 something minztes late I was pretty stoked about what I had just witnessed. I was pretty much surprised with the quite good editing and a bunch of skaters who are not all over any magazines who can lay down some mad lines on that board with four wheels and two big pieces of metal holding it all together.
The 34 minute video gives us a good insight into the skateboarding taking place in Austria with appearances made by Benjamin Zibuschka, Christian Stahl, Daniel Spiegel, Florian Erkinger, Philipp Schuster, Sebastian Binder and Thomas Steinwender. Check out the bonus part with Daniel Spiegel right here and stay tuned as in the next weeks to come a new part will be going online for everybody.
Europeskate April 2010 Get Your Gear Giveaway Contest
April 19th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
*** CONTEST IS OVER – SEND NO MORE EMAILS PLEASE! Congratulations to Eric Milford in Georgia, USA – he’s the lucky winner of the Jart deck and Teenage Runaway wheels + t-shirt giveaway – thanks to everybody who tried to win!
Sun is out, skateboarding is back in the daily “routine” and we’re ready to give you a nice box of new gear to keep your skating going strong. We have a Jart Skateboards deck (Eero Anttila) + griptape, a set of Teenage Runaway wheels and a t-shirt from them as well for the lucky winner!
What needs to be done? Not much, find out after the jump and win! Read more…
10 Tricks With John Tanner
February 18th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Maybe not 18 or 20 tricks like Eric Koston, but John Tanner does 10 good clean tricks with Kingpin Magazine. Read more…
Max Schaaf on Epicly Later’d – Part 1 of 5
October 16th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Lots of updates, videos and more floating around in the Internet this week so I have a lot of catching up to do as well. The Epicly Later’d series gets back to work with the first episode of five featuring Max Schaaf – watch it, Max is cool!
Europeskate Pic Of The Day September 23rd 2009
September 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Crazy number for me, this is my 1,400th post on the site – guess I don’t have any friends and I don’t skate either *hehe* Well, not really, just fun doing this and keeping in touch with the worldwide scene.
This post is all about skateboard photography again and the Europeskate Pic Of The Day for September 23rd 2009 is from Daniel Stephens (check his Flickr account right here) and he captured a smashing shot of a skater named James in the middle of a switch bs flip at the Yellow Brick Road somewhere out there – maybe Daniel will let me know where it was taken as I just contacted him. The photo was taken with a Canon EOS 350D Digital camera.
Europeskate Pic Of The Day August 25th 2009
August 25th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
When you find some time to cruise through the uncountable websites filled with skate photography or just flip through a general photography website, it is always for me just amazing to see the improvement in photo skills and creativity, not to mention the skaters in front of the lense ripping it up.
Today I stumbled across Chris Shields on Flickr with this great shot of “Jake” in the middle of an indy nosebone air between two transitions. These are the type of shots I’m looking for – the ones that make you almost feel like you are in the middle of the air yourself. Chris has a lot of other pictures on his Flickr account so go and check him out. The shot was taken with the following set-up: Camera: Nikon D40X, Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200), Aperture: f/13, Focal Length: 55 mm, ISO Speed: 400.
Europeskate Updates – August 13th 2009
August 13th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Finally finding some time to make a general update about what is happening around here. I’ve been bogged down in work a lot lately but I am pushing the updates whenever I can. The Pic Of The Day should be getting a change a bit more often and I did restart the Europeskate Music section this week – hope to keep that moving as well.
So what’s up for the near future?
- A brand new Europeskate Facebook Page has been created so you don’t have to go reading through my private life. If you like your Facebook – and I know loads of you do – then this is perfect for us to hook up, announce contests, product giveaways and exchange news. So get on over there today as the old Europeskate group is dead as of today!
- Building up the Photography and Music areas even more as the feedback is as always huge for these sections of the site.
- I am looking for people who want to constructively get involved, write articles, interview skaters, push their scene or local spots. I have always wanted Europeskate to continue expanding and this is your chance to get a spot on the site. The best would be contributions from as many different countries as possible so write in and let me know!
- MESSAGE FOR THE COMPANIES: I love to test products, I want to get to know what is hitting the market and what you are selling to skateboarders worldwide. Hardware, clothing, shoes, accessories – whatever it is, contact me and let’s do something through the site. The EUROPESKATE readers love giveaways as well!
Europeskate Pic Of The Day August 6th 2009
August 6th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
New Pic Of The Day in here today and again another photographer who has before been mentioned here: Patricio Conde Mirasso who caught Jesus Fernandez doing a Heel Flip over a gap in a factory near the center of Barcelona, Spain. He always uses a pair of flashes with his Bronica ( 4,5 x 6 ) and a fish eye lens. Enjoy!
Europeskate Pic Of The Day August 3rd 2009
August 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Here’s the first “Pic Of The Day” on Europeskate for August 2009. This one really gets you into the action with Jerry Smythe doing this twisted piece of metal good with a nice portion of grinding. Chris W Patton has been in here once before with a Pic Of The Day which speaks for his photography and a good eye for catching the moment. This picture was taken with a Nikon D70 with 1/125 exposure, an f/5.6 aperture a 10.5 mm focal length and at 200 ISO
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
