My mate Gerd Rieger has been really quick this time around with bringing out a very cool contest magazine (yeah, a whole mag about one contest!) about the Best Of Both Bowls contest which took place October 25./26th 2008 at the Pavel Skateboards headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany or better known as the Factory Bowls. So what’s [...]

More contest news floating in today as I discovered that the OMSA pool warehouse which now has two wooden pools will be the place to be October 25th and 26th 2008. Two days of terror at the Düsseldorfer Factory / OMSA bowls starting at midday both days. Two starting groups are available, entry fees are 30 [...]

Part of the VOX Footwear team consisting of Peter Watkins, David Gravette and Dan Drehobl ended up in Norway sometime this summer and ripped the new and I almost have to say “delicious”-looking bowl landscape that is now part of Oslo…I couldn’t find it on the map but I think it is called the “Gamlebyen [...]

I popped over the the Antiz Skateboards website today and there’s a good little post about the HellFest 08, a heavy metal festival in France, which took place June 20th till the 22nd in Clisson, France. With a massive line-up of bands (Slayer was there, so that would have been good enough for me…really now, [...]

Life in skateboarding these days is almost like a dream it seems. There’s not a day passing by without news about some great looking skateboard ‘facility’ floating in here and now this one piece of news comes in from Milano, Italy from the guys at Bastard (who do some really nice clothing by the way…) [...]

Halfpipe corner at the Area 51 skatepark in Göteborg I got back just last Sunday from Malmö, Sweden which has the incredible Stapelbäddsparken concrete park and another park which is being built right now which was looking like a whole look of fun. While I was at the contest, I hooked up with Magnus Olsevik, [...]

There are more than enough contests around for those hungry to prove their skills against other skateboarders in front of hoards of practiced spectators and to maybe even gain some fame and fortune - at least for a bit. Then there is the Old School Skate Jam 3 which integrates 3 different concrete spots/parks/pools - [...]

This coming Saturday, June 7th 2008 will see top pro and amateur skaters converging on the Encinitas YMCA skatepark for the “1st Annual Pro-Am Street & Pool Invitational Masters” (hmmm, yeah I know, one shouldn’t be so picky, but how can it be annual yet when it’s in the first year - already booked [...]