Posts Tagged ‘United Kingdom’
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.”
Crossfire X-Mas Jam 2009 December 12th in London
December 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Getting a bit of the Alzheimer in my older days – I almost forgot to post Crossfire’s annual X-Mas Jam which is taking place tomorrow, December 12th 2009 at the Bay 66 Skatepark in London, England.
Skating gets started at 12pm and goes on until 6pm with an unsponsored best trick competition and pro skater contests taking place in this time. Later on after what promises to be a great session the party goes on at The Metropolitan later on. I’m not going to waste my time copying and pasting the names of all ofthe top notch skaters who will be showing up, head over to the Caught in the Crossfire website to read all about it. Oh yeah, it costs 10 or 12 pounds to skate! Want to wet your appetite? Then check out some of the action from last year’s event!
Shaun Currie In Focus With Science Skateboards
December 7th, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Shaun Currie gets a video clip for Science Skateboards out of the UK. This one landed in my mailbox this morning, thanks to Chris for that. Filmed by Chris Morgan and Sam Palmer plus additional footage from Max Nerurkar, Matt Hirst and Tom Davies. Seems that the music shouldn’t be in there *hehe* so if you don’t feel like watching this like the old silent movies, then head over to the Science Skateboards website right now!
Sean Smith In The Motive Skateboards Dimensions Video
November 22nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
And what a way to get your Sunday started – check out 20 year-old Sean Smith out of Milton Keynes, UK in his video part from the recently released Motive Skateboards full length video “Dimensions” (which was available along with issue 157 of Sidewalk Skateboard Magazine by the way…). Just check out how he smacks the board down to land every trick – he really knows what he is doing. Good clean style with an attitude and a bunch of sponsors who know what they got (DC SHOES,SILVER TRUCKS,OBJECT HARDWARE,EDYAONER BEARINGS,TRAVEL WHEELS,ZOO YORK CLOTHING,SKULL CANDY,ARKOLOGY.CO.UK). Watch it and then get out and learn something new…
» check out the Motive Skateboards website
UK Mini Ramp Champs 2009 Video
November 17th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Just this past weekend the best mini ramp skaters from around the United Kingdom swarmed in on the town of Skegness to test their skills against each other at the X-Site Skatepark for this year’s UK Mini Ramp Championships 2009. 1000 Pounds were up for grabs and the skating was off the hook – watch it right here and dream about what you’ll be doing the rest of the day!
Etnies Recognition Tour Stop – The Works, Leeds, UK
May 25th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The Etnies Recognition Tour made a stop at The Works skatepark in Leeds, UK yesterday May 24th with Jose Rojo, Tuuka, Davis Torgersen, Sean Malto, Ryan Sheckler and several others like Julien Furones (yeaaah!). Watch some of the flipping, grinding, switching action and sorry for all of those Sheckler haters – the guy has the tricks in his pocket and quite a few left over to kick some ass on his board. Whatever he does may not meet approval, but to be honest, who cares? Bring it on…
UK Vert series in Blackpool May 3rd 2009
May 2nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Umm, yeah that’s tomorrow by the way. Too bad really with the timing – same day as part two of the War Of The Thistles 2009 but that’s life. So if you want to watch the top bunch of vert skaters in Great Britain battle it out in part three of the UK Independent Vert series 2009 then head on over to Blackpool and the Ramp City skatepark tomorrow, May 3rd 2009.
Gyppo Army Update
April 17th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
There are just some teams in skateboarding that really represent the fun and attitude that makes skateboarding what it is and should be – fun. Gyppo Army not only does that well, they can also pack a punch with the skating skills in their team. Not sitting on their asses like me, they have been up to a lot of good as you can see in this video edit below – kick back and enjoy!
- Visit the Gyppo Army blog site here…
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Harmony’s Pissing in the River video
March 10th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
First off thanks to the guys over at Sidewalk Skateboarding – I found these video clips in one of their latest updates and just to spread the word I’m posting the same video. So make sure you check out The Harmony skate team and of course, head over to the Sidewalk Skateboarding website for their daily updates as well!
First the outtakes and then the Pissing in the River trailer.
The UK Vert Series 2009 dates
March 1st, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The first contest already took place yesterday in Cornwall in the Mt Hawke skate park – no news about it just yet but it’s a must for Europeskate to make sure everybody knows when vert contests are taking place…I’ll be adding them into our contest sheet as well.
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
