Posts Tagged ‘Quiksilver’
New Quiksilver Skate Park Gets A Maximum Session
May 5th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The new Quiksilver skatepark is just massive and some of the amateur team skaters enjoyed every single obstacle in the park with quite a few amazing lines – watch the following video for the proof! Read more…
Quiksilver Roam Through Israel
February 6th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Quiksilver skate team in the Middle East – watch this Roam video episode by Bill Strobeck. Read more…
12 Year Old Alex deCunha Skateboarding Skills Are Mad
January 28th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Another young skateboarding gun gets ready to take the world by storm – watch this video clip! Read more…
Quiksilver And Transworld Skateboarding The Program Part 2
December 11th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The Quiksilver / Transworld Skateboarding “The Program” video series continues with part 2 featuring skating from Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Omar Hassan, Justin Brock, David Clark, Kyle Leeper, and Austyn Gillette. This time around the mountain and wave logo gets some transitions and a bank. Justin Brock wins for me with a trick at the end plus a frontside stalefish in the tightest transition.
Quiksilver And Transworld Skateboarding The Program Part 1
December 5th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
TransWorld Skateboarding Magazine and Quiksilver got together to film the Quiksilver skate team at a unique location with the Quiksilver logo built as the obstacle to skate and edged with concrete. The end result looks a bit like the TWS Skate & Create videos, just a lot less went into the construction. Alex Olson, Omar Hassan, Reese Forbes, Justin Brock, David Clark, Kyle Leeper, Austyn Gillette, and Danny Garcia took up the opportunity to shred it with every slide, ollie and manuel possible. Enjoy the smooth ride in the first part of three videos entitled The Program.
RACE to SKATE with Kyle Leeper
March 9th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Race to S.K.A.T.E video contest with is running on the Shred or Die web platform (sponsored by Quiksilver) took off last Friday, March 6th 2009 with Kyle Leeper putting down 5 tricks, starting really easy and packing in – probably for most of you out there – some harder but still tricks can be landed. Check out the video and test your skills. I’ll be working on it as well 
Quiksilvers Race to SKATE video contest
March 4th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Starting this Friday, March 6th 2009, Quiksilver and the Shred or Die website are collaborating to bring everybody with a video camera, access to the internet and of course the necessary skills the “Race to S.K.A.T.E.” contest. Here’s what it’s all about…little hint: the following pro skaters are involved…Kyle Leeper, Danny Garcia, Reese Forbes, Alex Olson and Tony Hawk!
Quiksilver will upload a video of a different Quiksilver pro doing five tricks. Your job is to film yourself doing those same five tricks earning yourself one letter per trick spelling S.K.A.T.E.
Upload your video to Shred or Die with the title “Race To S.K.A.T.E.” The first five skaters each week to successfully do this will win a prize from Quiksilver and ShredOrDie.com!
Rules of the Race to S.K.A.T.E.
1. Tricks can be done all at once (in a line) or separately, but all 5 tricks must be in one video upload.
2.Tricks must be done exactly the same as the pro trick; a backside turn in the trick must be done backside for the skater stance, if the pro is goofy and you are regular you must turn the same rotation for your stance.
3.Tricks must be landed cleanly; land the trick and ride away, no toe drag, no hands down on ground to keep balance.
And what can you win?
Prizes
1st PLACE A signed board from the pro you are playing against, rare signed Remastered 20th Anniversary Paul’s Boutique vinyl record, one Quiksilver backpack, one pair of jeans, two T-Shirts, one sweatshirt, and a Quiksilver/Shred Or Die sticker pack.
2nd PLACE One pair of jeans, two T-Shirts, Remastered 20th Anniversary Paul’s Boutique CD, and a Quiksilver/Shred Or Die sticker pack.
3rd PLACE One T-Shirt, Remastered 20th Anniversary Paul’s Boutique CD, and a Quiksilver/Shred Or Die sticker pack.
4th PLACE One T-Shirt, Remastered 20th Anniversary Paul’s Boutique CD, and a Quiksilver/Shred Or Die sticker pack.
5th PLACE One T-Shirt, Remastered 20th Anniversary Paul’s Boutique CD, and a Quiksilver/Shred Or Die sticker pack.
Get all the info over on the Shred or Die website, click here…
Skateboarding time-warps back to the 80’s
December 7th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Not all of the skate news has to be about another street competition, another huge gap jump, another mega-industry sponsored, sold out arena filled with families who would usually go watch a baseball game. And that’s good that once and a while a good idea still comes through and turns to reality.
So what the heck am I rambling on about? This past Friday and Saturday, December 5th/6th 2008, the Quiksilver All Day All 80s Vert Challenge took place in Huntington Beach, California which had a bunch of old vert skaters meet up and ride on 80’s boards AND a typical vert ramp built in 80s style. Now I bet a lot of the people reading and coming back to the Europeskate site have not grown up riding on boards which all had different shapes, which were a lot wider, which had real tails, rail guards and a bunch of other accessories which just are not needed / wanted anymore.
Just like Tony Hawk himself says, it was a lot harder to ride these boards and do the tricks in the ramps back then. I won’t say I miss it now, but it was a lot of fun and it’s good to see thes pro riders getting together to relive the “good old times”. I’ll put up the results once I get them…
Swedish Pirate Cup 2008 starts today
July 4th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Sweden is really getting a lot of coverage lately and right on time I found out about the annual Pirate Cup which is starting today with it’s first stop way up north in a town called Örnsköldsvik. Just to get your geography knowledge up to notch, have a look where this place is:
It’s a ten stop cup event with the finals taking place at the Stockholm skatepark some time in October, the date wasn’t set yet. The whole event is sponsored by Pirate Skateboards, Quiksilver and Adio Footwear and if I picked the info out correctly I think the first place spot gets you a sponsorship with some or all of these event sponsors…not bad indeed!
Get all of the information you need from these guys as I won’t try any more Swedish translating…
info@pirateskateboards.se
www.pirateskateboards.se
Quiksilver Bowlriders 2008 Finals Round-Up
June 17th, 2008 / 3 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Now how do you round up an entire weekend in one sentence? Let me try it out. Ummm, it was awesome! Yeah, that works. That’s when you can really use the cliche American word ‘awesome’. The Quiksilver Bowlrider 2008 final in Malmö, Sweden brought all of the good factors together and made it work. I’ll bring in the results first if you don’t want to read all of my ramblings! Go Denmark!!!
Pro Results
1. Rune Glifberg (DK)
2. Arron Hamoki (USA)
3. Benji Galloway (USA)
4. Andy Scott (UK)
5. Ross McGouran (UK)
6. Mathias Nylen (SWE)
Legends Results
1. Nicky Guerrero (DK)
2. Chris Miller (USA)
3. Pat Ngoho (USA)
Juniors (15 and under) Results
1. Alex Sorgente
2. Love Rydstem
3. Werner Sandoz
4. Fernando Bramsmark
5. Stephan Boussac
6. Filip Nilsson
But let me start from the beginning. My trip up there began in Hamburg, Friday June 12th, at a local train station called ‘Neuwiedenthal’ – never been there before so you don’t need to know it. Funnily enough, while I was waiting for Wolfgang Toth and Gerd Rieger (Bailgun.com) to pick me up, Arne from Boardstein Magazine (well known independent German mag) turned up as well so our car was ready to rumble with some experienced skate travellers.
As Sweden is reknowned for its expensive alcohol, we hit the ferry’s shops to get some cheap booze and ended up taking something like 8 to 10 crates of beer with us (should I mention that we already had other liquor in the car? Hmmm, wasn’t this a skate trip?). With this additional weight, we got the car down a few inches lower and arrived in Malmö at the Stapelbäddsparken skatepark in the early afternoon. Just to make sure you understand, the park itself is big already and with all of the grandstands, tents and things going on, this was one big event for Europe! So once we got in, got our accreditation etc. I started just to understand how many amazing skaters were actually going to be at this event. So we watched a lot of the guys take the park apart and while taking some pictures we somehow (I don’t know how to be honest…) hooked up with Reese Simpson and Ben Schroeder (!!!) and later we all headed to the parking lot where we basically had a pretty funny party with the above mentioned and guys like Jimmy the Greek, Magnus Olson (man, I’m bad at names, please correct that one!) and tons of others. Great way to start the contest. And no, we didn’t hit the ‘Amore’ party with the Nike SB shoe launch – it was hotel, in the room, hit the bed and conk out for me. I don’t remember much but luckily I woke up not completely painted up with markers and ready to go the next day.
We started the day off with Axel from Skateanddestroy.de who lives up in Göteborg, Sweden (to be honest, I didn’t even know he was the guy who runs the website until later that evening!) who showed us a DIY looking park being built in Malmö as well which was halfway finished and looking really fun! Only small transitions, loads of bumps and hips and a pretty large area located in a park right by the beach! These Swedes just do it right. After chilling there for a while we headed back to the park for another full day of insane skating. I may be some skater wimp (I don’t really think so..) but I still don’t understand how these guys just all skate without any pads, doing transfers into 8 foot deep transitions over a 14-foot distance or McTwists in the deep-end of the main bowl…so be it, it is damn gnarly! And Dave Duncan talked the entire weekend, MCing the contest and the statement of the weekend has to be “criss-crossing craziness” which always was spoken when the jam sessions went off and they did go off. Being a lazy bastard, I decided to let the others be media crazy with their cameras, boxing each other out of the way to get the best photo spot while I relaxed with many others in the grandstands enjoying the beverages, exchanging thoughts and shouting our respect out to the skaters. A very good laugh it was indeed! The band Concrete SS is also worth mentioning, they ripped out some good tunes and you always have to love those bands wearing pulled up white socks and masks – nice one!
Back to the parking lot for the second evening and this is when Wolfgang Toth, a legend here in Germany just about, just about went insane. If you don’t know him, he has the most incredible laughing fits and once he gets started he can’t stop. Add some (or a lot) of alcohol and you have a dangerous combination. I think he laughed for 45 minutes straight (I’m not exagerrating here, it was nuts!), rolling on the floor, throwing beer a people and getting beer poured all over himself. By that time we had attracted pretty many people who were all enjoying the “Hamburger” show, sharing drinks and many laughs. Thanks to all of you, it was great again. I stuck Wolfgang in a taxi later and that was about it for the evening.
Sunday, final day. What can I say? We hung out with guys like Christian Hosoi, Pat Ngoho, Benji Galloway, Nicky Guerrero and many, many more. Talked old stories, laughed and enjoyed another day full of great skating. Nicky Guerrero is just plain amazing. He rips like he hasn’t gotten a day older than when I first saw him back in 1986 at an indoor halfpipe contest in Konstanz, Germany, respect! And just to mention two others – they were all great – Arron Hamoki with his wealth of tricks and the blunt to kickflip fakie on the big wall: no words necessary. Mathias Nylen just shredded the place and his several attempts to transfer into the big bowl – insane!
Here’s a list of other sites with loads of pictures, videos and more, enjoy and get there next year: you won’t regret it!
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
