http://www.europeskate.com Connecting skateboarders Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:16:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is why I just love skateboarding and photography - you will never reach a point in time when you can say, that's all folks. I've seen it all. The mega ramp is one of those topics in life which just help me remember why being alive is so much ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/28/pedro-silva-barros-on-the-mega-ramp/ Big companies sponsoring big contests - that's the name of the game since big business has discovered just how lucrative skateboarding can be to push the interest in products. This weekend will see a lot of big names in skateboarding landing in Berlin, Germany for the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds contest ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/28/top-pro-skaters-hit-berlin-november-29th-and-30th-2008/ Seems to be the season to say goodbye to some print magazines. The German "Boardstein" mag will have to stop the press soon and we all have been following what will be taking place with SLAP Magazine. Well, the final print issue is out now and the people behind the scenes ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/26/the-last-slap-print-issue-ever-out-now/ The Nike Skateboarding team is getting a lot of media push in the last couple of weeks with plenty of good videos popping up on the Nike SB site. The following video features Grant Taylor, Justin Brock, Shane O'Neil, David Clark and Nike SB flow rider Dan Plunkett taking Atlanta ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/26/nike-sb-team-shred-atlanta/ Cliche Skateboards has grown in the past couple of years into one of the most influential skate teams out there. Period. And December 5th, 2008, the latest video effort "Cle" will have it's premiere in Lyon, France starring skaters like Joey Brezinski, Lucas Puig, JB Gillet, Ricardo Fonseca and many ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/25/cliches-cle-live-and-unplugged-trailer/ Bigger, faster, wider - yet again, whatever one thinks about Ryan Sheckler and the direction he is taking skateboarding, the guy knows how to skate. With the quite obvious support of Red Bull, he's got a private skatepark now which has several obstacles which are insanely large and yet another ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/24/ryan-shecklers-private-skatepark-preview/ As I was up to other things in my life other than skateboarding for a few weeks (how dare you?!) I didn't keep you out there up to date with the reoccurring explosion coming out of the video central called Epicly Later'd. This time the focus is on Lakai Footwear and ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/24/lakai-footwear-and-the-epicly-laterd-series/ Vert skating is still going very strong in Scandinavia and this past weekend another episode of the Quiksilver Vert Invitational was held at the Stockholm Skatepark with a solid backing of good skaters. Hope to get up there next year as the whole concept just looks like a lot of ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/24/the-stockholm-2008-quiksilver-vert-results-are-in/ ...drum roll, Silas Baxter-Neal! Thousands of votes later he was chosen among many others to carry this prestigious award (at least among skaters...) and December 12th, 2008 will see a bunch of pro skaters getting together to celebrate this talented guy. Have a look below at the speech made by ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/24/the-2008-thrasher-skater-of-the-year-is/ Daewon skates a duck, Jeron frontslide flips a house and MJ slides a cat. Marty Murawski, Mike Anderson and Torey Pudwill are also part of the fun in the latest Matix Clothing commercial series "Progress Tangram" which will be airing on FUEL tv. The whole idea behind these simple looking ... http://www.europeskate.com/2008/11/19/behind-the-scenes-the-matix-progress-tangram-commercial-series/