Posts Tagged ‘Sweden’
Vert Attack IV Contest Finals Videos Turn Up
February 2nd, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Just what I’ve been waiting for – footage from the Vert Attack IV final runs showing the vert carnage! Read more…
Mika Edin Footage For Bellows Skateboards
December 28th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young

Either I’ve been out of the info loop or it has been a bit quiet with Bellows Skateboards out of Sweden – whatever it was they are back on my radar with a nice six minute video featuring Mika Edin and filmed by Erik Abrahamsson during the summer months of 2009. And they have a brand new site started up as well, all perfectly understandable for everybody speaking English – well, except for many comments.
Vert Attack IV in Malmö Sweden – January 30th 2010
November 13th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
As the vert fever continues to rage in my body and mind, great news out of Sweden has been announced: the Vert Attack halfpipe contest series will continue in 2010 with the fourth annual contest being held January 30th at the Bryggeriet Skatepark with 1000 Euros up for grabs – the money is definitely not any reason for being their, I expect to see loads of vert skaters from all over Europe turning up!
Watch the action from last year’s event after the jump below – over 36 minutes of vert skating!

Vert Session at the Stockholm Skatepark
November 11th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The guys over on vert.nu are always busy getting the visual proof of what they’ve been up to online nice and fast. Last night after my vert fun I popped on over to their website and flipped through a bunch of nice pics documenting a good looking vert session this past Monday, November 09th, at the Stockholm Skatepark. For all of the pictures from *drumroll* I don’t know – who took these pics guys? Well, just click on the picture below for the entire gallery!
Vert Attack 3 – Fläsk TV Documentary Clip
October 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young

If you haven’t noticed yet, I admit that I tend to try and add in news/videos/whatever about vert and bowl riding a bit more than the usual street clips – just personal preference and it always gets my blood cooking for more when I see where vert skating is headed.
For the past three years, the skateboard city of Malmö in Sweden has rounded up vert skaters from around Europe to let the world see that vert skating is very much alive. Fläsk TV recently put their short documentary of the Vert Attack III from January 2009 online – here it is, making me hungry for more!
BACON team in the Nordpool bowl in Stockholm
August 16th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Back in here with a pretty hectic bowl session video in the Nordpool bowl in Stockholm, Sweden from the end of July 2009. Fun looking bowl…
Avsnitt 76 from Oh SO PRIMITIVE on Vimeo.
Loads of Ultra Bowl 2009 pictures
August 5th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young

Ahh, this is something I have been waiting for as I – yet again – missed out on the Ultra Bowl 2009 contest in Malmö, Sweden but luckily my friends from the vert.nu website (David Östlund is the man behind the lens) put together two large galleries of photos so head on over to check them out, really nice pics here. The Bacon team and many other top skaters were there mixing it up.
- Ultra Bowl 2009 Photo Gallery One
- Ultra Bowl 2009 Photo Gallery Two
Skateboard weekend contests updates in words
July 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young

…because I really haven’t found any video evidence online for these contests just yet so here’s the quick round-up for you.
At the Ultra Bowl 2009 contest in Malmö, Sweden Benji Galloway walked away with the win and the German contingent got some up there in the top 8 as well. Word up to Gerd from Bailgun.com making 7th place in the Masters division. What’s up with Wolfgangsta?? Hope he wasn’t partying like last year again, puking between trees and stories like that *haha*
Pros
1. Benji Galloway (US)
2. Steven Reeves (US)
3. Stu Graham (GB)
4. Johnny Turgesen (US)
5. Kevin Wenske (DE)
6. Tim Johnson (US)
Masters
1. Txus Dominguez (BAQ)
2. Nicky Guererro (DK)
3. Anders Tellen (DE)
4. Mattias Svenson (SE)
5. Jan Loften (SE)
6. Mark Munson (UK)
7. Gerd Rieger (DE)
8. Will Taylor (US)
Crossing over the Atlantic again we make a stop at the Zoo York sponsored AM Getting Paid 2009 in Montreal, Canada where Magnus Hanson grabbed first place followed up by Manny Santiago and Mickey Papa. Get all of the updates over on the Zoo York AM Getting Paid blog
And finishing this blog post off with the invite only Coastal Carnage bowl event sponsored by Converse with a 50,000 US dollar prize purse which did not get any mentionable media coverage in this day and age -weird but that’s the way it is. The amateurs stole the cake away from the pros at this contest with Raven Tershay taking first and 10,000 bucks followed up by Curren Caples and Kevin Kowalski (I though for some reason that he was in Malmö – obviously not informed correctly!). Best trick went to another favorite amateur skater of mine Aaron Jaws Hamoki with a Blunt kickflip to fakie on top of the taco – maybe we’ll get some video footage to back all of this up really soon!
















