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Here We Are Again – Big Push 2010
August 24th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Back again (what, another year has already passed on by??) with the Big Push 2010. If you don’t know what this is then catch up right here with the words from the people running the contest and check out the video introduction plus last year’s winning video edit from the VANS team below.
» keep looking back for updates on the official Big Push 2010 page
“This year we have an extra team with I-Path joining last years six. We’ve also slimmed down the challenges and dropped the specific regions in favour of dividing the UK into North and South to give each team more time and space to simply go out skateboarding.
Each team is tasked with a variety of missions, including 10 obscure tricks for points, a possible three NBD tricks at famous spots in their assigned area (North or South) as well as a highest ollie competition, which will happen on the road.
As with last year, points accrued from completing the challenges set will count for half of each team’s individual score, with online voting accounting for the rest. Your votes will be added to these pre-existing scores to determine the overall winners – you are voting for your favourite edit – nothing else, so use your vote wisely.
The winning team of this year’s Big Push will score themselves £2000 prize money to share between the participants, as well as the cover of the Christmas mag and internet fame beyond compare.
The Big Push DVD will be cover-mounted on the October issue of Sidewalk, due out in shops on or around the 19th of October.
All the Big Push edits will be online from November 1st to allow those who haven’t seen the magazine to get involved in bigging up their favourite crew of shoe humans. Online voting will close on the 15th of November so don’t hang about.”
Transworld Skateboarding Skate And Create 2010 Videos
August 20th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Transworld Skateboarding is back with the Skate & Create competition in 2010 with the Adidas, Fallen, Etnies and Lakai teams delivering the goods (Lakai Footwear’s video coming August 23rd!).
What’s the deal?
- The four teams are made up of a total of six skaters—four pros and two ams.
- Each team is given nine days in a warehouse with the same set of obstacles.
- Each team is allowed one art director on site.
- Each team is assigned one TWS photographer to shoot a feature article for the magazine.
- Each team is allowed a film crew to produce a video for skateboarding.com.
- The final photo and video product is judged by the TWS edit staff (minus S&C coordinators Skin Phillips and Josh Brooks) on the level of skating, creativity, the use of obstacles, and overall image and video quality.
- The winner gets the cover of the magazine and will have a spot reserved in Skate & Create 2011.
My personal favorites from the three available videos. adidas for an estheticallly well filmed clip and etnies very cool idea to head back to the past and add no frills to the video. Let us know what you think is the best video – just add in your comment!
The Big Push 2009 – All Videos Right Here
November 22nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Some comments have been coming in, asking just about if I have been sleeping while the Big Push 2009 has been all over the media. Easy answer – no, I wasn’t sleeping 
I’ve been reading the Sidewalk Skateboard Mag, watching videos and just enjoying it while thinking for myself: who am I going to vote for. Six teams involved, the judges points are in and now it’s up to us to help decide which team wins fame and fortune. What was the difference to last year?
a) Each team was allocated a specific geographic area – hopefully meaning less repeated spots and a more comprehensive sessioning of the country.
b) Each team were set regional specific tasks – i.e. everyone doing certain tricks at certain spots, set concrete parks to visit and film a line at, obscure trick list to fill out and, most importantly NBD challenges at one iconic spot per area.
c) This year the winner will be chosen 50% through online voting and 50% through points garnered through completion of set tasks.
That’s all folks – voting will close on December 10th 2009 and for all of those who don’t have a copy of the latest Sidewalk Skateboard Magazine, I’ve added all of the videos in here (thanks to Mpora.com) – 6 videos to choose from. The link to the voting page is after all of the videos, click on the following link to watch all of the videos!
Wednesday Skate Video Clips
September 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Must be the weather changing back over to autumn, the sun showing itself less or generally me just chilling for a few days to gather some energy – whatever, let me show you a few new videos on this Wednesday early afternoon!
Starting it off is the welcoming video from Osiris Shoes for Chad Bartie who gets a lot of good skating packed into just under two minutes – great skater, loads of style on every terrain, watch the video here!
Next up is the adidas Diagonal Tour video clip featuring skating from Barcelona, Berlin and Stuttgart with a bunch of top-knotch skaters. No words from me, just enjoy watching the video right here!
And to make you want to just leave your school building, job or whatever you are doing right now and go out skating, watch this StrangeNotes Click for Mayhem video right away – pretty mad stuff going on!
The Big Push 2009
September 14th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Just making sure that one of most traditional 5 day contests in the UK is getting started tomorrow, September 15th 2009 and it runs until September 19th 2009. Here’s the “official” announcement from Sidewalk Skateboard Magazine which has taken over as the host as Document Magazine had to close shop:
Now in its fifth year, the Big Push is a well-established and highly anticipated part of the UK skateboard calendar. Created by Percy Dean of Document magazine, the Big Push aims to pit the premium skateboard teams in the country against one another on a whistle-stop tour of the hottest and most iconic skateboard destinations that the UK has to offer.
“This year, the Big Push sees the reins being taken by the UK’s largest skateboard publication Sidewalk and aims to be bigger and better than ever before. With teams from Vans, Nike SB, DC, Adidas, Etnies and Team Shiner, and pre-assigned area specific tasks for each team, 2009 should see the most varied and explosive Big Push yet.”
Adidas Skateboard Clash 2009 final results and video
May 25th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Another big contest is over and the final results are in from the 5. Adidas Skateboard Clash in Berlin, Germany from this past weekend. The man of the weekend has yet again come back to surprise many: Bastien Salabanzi rolled into first place in the street contest. Check out the latest video from the Sunday action and all of the results below!
Final Results Street
1. Bastien Salabanzi (F) 3.000€
2. Axel Cruysberghs (BE) 2.000€
3. Thomas Weber (D) 1.000€
4. Yannick Schall (D) 400€
5. Maxim Genin (F) 200€
6. Mack McKelton (D) 100€
7. Ruben Rodrigues (P) 100€
8. Helder Lima (P) 100€
Results “Death or Glory Bowl Jam”
1. Martin Jurasek (CZ) 500€
2. Jürgen Horrwarth (D) 300€
3. Anders Tellen (D) 200€
4. Julian Dykmans (D) 100€
5. Seb Daurel (F) 100€
6. Jan Tomsovsky (CZ) 100€
Best Trick Pier 7 Manual Pad
Helder Lima (P) 300€
Best Trick China Banks
Andre Gerlich (D) 300€
Best Trick Double Set, Rail, Ledge
Klaus Bohms (BRA) 300€
Sneak product previews from the ASR
September 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
All courtesy of Transworld Skateboarding, here is a slideshow of some of the products you will be seeing in skate shops in 2009. Supposedly quite a few companies missed out on this year’s tradeshow but it’s something to look at…
Silas Baxter-Neal joins ADIDAS team
September 5th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Probably one of the most talented and hyped skaters of the year 2008, Silas Baxter-Neal has been turning quite a few heads among fellow skaters and in the industry. He was crowned Transworld’s Rookie of the Year 2008, had an 18-page interview in Thrasher Magazine, took the covers of several top skate magazines and has been showing his skill on video (Sessions 4 and Toebock).
Things are looking up for Silas – turning pro for Habitat and now he made the move to the adidas skate team. Hope to see a lot more of this guy in the future and I am sure we will. Here’s the Welcome to the adidas team video:
- check the adidas interview page with Silas Baxter-Neal
Adidas Skateboard Clash footage from Berlin
July 25th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Not the newest of news but hey, I’m not a news broadcaster. Whenever I find something I like and think could be cool for you all to read or have a look at, it lands here. The Adidas Skateboard Clash took place at the beginning of June in Berlin, Germany with a bunch of great skaters battling it out on the street area and in the bowl.
Check out the video below for a glimpse of the mad action that went on that weekend including Dennis Busenitz, Jürgen Horrwarth, Lem Villemin and many others that just took the place apart. By the way, the skatepark also has a huge halfpipe if you are interested!
adidas skateboard clash 2008 in the fourth round
April 29th, 2008 / 5 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I had this in my inbox for a while already so it’s time to get the news about the fourth adidas skateboard clash out which will be taking place May 31st and June 1st at the Berlin Skatehall in Germany. The street and bowl event will see 60 invited street skaters and around 15 bowl riders from all over Europe fighting it out for the $10,000 ($9,000 is going for street so if we do the difficult mathematics you’ll see a whole thousand bucks left over for the bowl riders…)
15 further riders will have the chance to qualify for the street event through the open pre-qualification. Current European bowl champion Juergen Horrwarth (GER), last years winner of the Street- Event Philip Schuster (AUT), Bowl- Shredder Seb Daurel (FRA), Daniel Cardone (ITA), Ivan Rivado (ESP), Alain Goikotxea (ESP) and Nicky Guerrero (DEN), Street- Ripper Lem Villemin, Alex Mizurov and Jeremy Reinhard have already confirmed their participation.
Live broadcasting on Freecaster.com and Place.tv Besides the skateboarding action there will be enough extra activity going on at night for everyone who loves to party. Saturday night will be dominated by beats. After the premiere of the latest PLACE release, the „born to roll“ crew will play just about anything between the good old styles of hiphop to the latest styles in grime. Moreover, The Tom and El Pogo will rock the second floor.
Schedule:
Friday 12:00 – 24:00 Open Practice
Saturday 10:00 – 12:30 Pre- Elimination Street
14:00 – 18:00 Elimination Street
18:00 – Open End Juergen Horrwarths Bowl Jam
Sunday 12:30 – 14:30 Semi Final Street
15:00 – 15:30 „Dirty Ticket“ Street
16:00 – 17:00 Final Street
18:00 Prices
Get all of the information you need from the skatehall website : http://www.skatehalle-berlin.de/
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