Posts Tagged ‘England’
Footage From The Crossfire X-Mas Jam 2009
December 15th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Caught in The Crossfire and friends blasted the Bay 66 Skatepark in London, England away this past weekend with everyone who’s anyone in the UK skateboarding scene – check out With Ben Raemers, Daryl Dominguez, Greg Nowik, Nicky Howells, Sean Smith, Ben Grove, Gav Coughlan, Jess Young, Dave Snaddon, Jak Tonge, Neil Smith and many more right here…
Globe 2009 EUNITED Tour coming to an end
October 9th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Chris Haslam, Rodney Mullen, Ryan DeCenzo, Eero Anttila and Philipp Schuster have been ripping through 4 European countries in the last couple of weeks, putting on demos and visiting various skate spots as they enjoy some European culture at the same time. Since yesterday they have been in Berlin, Germany with a demo taking place this evening in the Skatehalle skatepark. Watch a few videos of the action right here…
Vans Skate Europe video series features England
May 14th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
There are loads of skate videos out there and more turning up every day. The quality is getting better and better but sometimes when watching them many just look the same as others. I found out about the Vans Skate Europe 4 part video series which is really informative about the English skateboard scene now and in the past. Make sure you watch all four as they take you on a tour through Great Britain and it’s skateboard history!
Here’s what the makers of the video series have to say about the development story behind the scenes.
Oh no, another skateboard show on VBS! Not really, Skate Europe is more like a TransEuropean miniseries tour, starting with Britain. We went to the UK to meet with a healthy cross-section of English skateboarding. In London, OG The South Bank locals like Winstan Whitter and Ben Jobe were nice enough to talk us about there beloved spot, and in Bristol we had the pleasure of chitchatting with high-ollie-ing champion Danny Wainwright about his home town. We even managed to scrounge up Ben Nordberg and Kris Vile to represent the new guard. Both of these guys are on their way to a long future in skateboarding, so it was nice to have a chance to talk with them about before they got all jaded and old.
Gallows – Grey Britain out tomorrow!
May 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Gallows – underground hardcore band out of Watford, England made a major amount of noise with their debut album “Orchestra Of Wolves” in 2006 with their slightly different take on what is hardcore and how to go about making it heard.
With their move over to Warner Records many believed this could be the next great band to lose it to the machinery of big business. Ooohhh how wrong could they all be with that prophecy. A smooth intro with “The Riverbank” takes you straight into the typical shout / sing-along chorus that we all love about this band. The record comes across as a lot smoother and that is nothing bad – it rocks just as well and the power is as always present. Always changing speeds, riffs and Carter’s shouts just make you want to hear it again and again..I love it already! Hear it know on the MySpace page and make sure you buy it. This band deserves the support! And yes, they are on tour right now in England, heading over to Europe and then the States for the Warped Tour 2009!
- The Gallows MySpace site
- The Gallows homepage
London’s Meanwhile 2 spot Rebirth session
August 18th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Ahh, it’s great to be able to be back here catching up with what is goign on around Europe and the world in skateboarding AND being able to go for an afternoon skate session myself today. So while I’m drinking my morning coffee I checked out the action which took place this past weekend at the Meanwhile 2 skate spot in London.
The session was packed and looked really intense, I personally love the bowl area with the bank leading up to it for some sweet transfers and the damn large gap – not sure if I’d even make it over that thing but guys like Dan Wileman did a perfect bigspin flip over it and Dave Snaddon did a really good looking backside flip over it as well. The good old Gyppo Army was there as well with Aaron Sweeney pushing the limits yet again with a rad 360 backside transfer from the bank into the bowl area.
Definitely a spot to hit if you make it to London, the only video I could find up till now is over on the Tackyworld.co.uk site:
- Video of some of the action
- Caught in the Crossfire story
Blackpool Seaside Session 2008 videos
May 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Here’s some video footage fro mthe Blackpool Seaside Session 2008 with both A and B groups. Footage of the A-Group comp from Seaside Sessions at Blackpool ‘Ramp City’. Sam Beckett, Sam Bosworth, Sean Goff, Wingy, Jim the Skin. And a great choice of songs in there – Naked Raygun with “Treason” and Pegboy with “Strong Reaction”
And more vert fun with the B-group ripping the vert ramp!
And here are the results of this skill-packed vert contest:
A-Group Vert
1st Sam Becket 247 points
2nd Sam Bosworth 239 points
3rd Alex Halford 235 points
4th Sean Goff 229 points
5th Jim the Skin 218 points
6th Jacob Anderson 214 points
7th Wingy 211 points
8th Jim Langran 206 points
B-Group Vert
1st Reece Douglas 214 points
2nd Mike Day 208 points
3rd Nick Hansen 200 points
4th Rob Fuller 193 points
5th Chris Spencer 178 points
6th Rob Ayton 169 points
7th Zac Kutz 159 points
8th Batfink 158 points
Keep up to date with the contests over on the UK Vert Series MySpace page
Hold Tight London Volume 8 ready to watch
May 5th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The next episode of the monthly video installment “Hold Tight London” has reached number 8 and is now available for all of us to watch. Another good piece of skateboarding, filming and editing, enough said, check it out! Some times I just wonder if a lot, lot, lot less people were skating 10 years ago or if a lot of skaters have just turned really good in the past few years. The level of skating is pretty insane here, let that be said.
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Get all of the episodes right off the Hold Tight London site, just try this link…
July 26, 2010: Ricardo Batista from Portugal
July 23, 2010: Julie Barnes
July 18, 2010: marcus smith
July 17, 2010: kage hughey
July 17, 2010: Bill
