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Chris Hall, Jamie Palmore, and Jeff Ward Stuff

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

The Chrome Ball Incident has an interview with Chris Hall. Osiris has an interview with Jamie Palmore. Typical Culture has some Web Trash with Jeff Ward.

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Funk For Free with Del The Funky Homosapien

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

Arnette and Osiris are starting ASR off right with Funk For Free featuring Del The Funky Homosapien at 923 Dive Lounge in San Diego on Wednesday, February 3rd.

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Girl Goes Down Under

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

The Girl team is going Outbackwards in Australia and New Zealand starting February 19th in Auckland, NZ.

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French Fred, Reda, Manderson, and Slash Videos

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

Reda and French Fred at on the Crail Couch. Mike Anderson is Zip Zinging. Slash speaks at the Altamont web site.

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Etnies War Of The Roses 2010

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

Etnies ‘War of the Roses’ returns to Leeds and Blackpool on February 20th/21st with this years event seeing the Etnies…

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More From Neck Face

Posted on January 29, 2010 with Comments Off

Artist extraordinaire, Neck Face, aka Dead baby, has posted another clip. This one features the skating of Dollin, Reynolds, Braydon and The Goat himself, Shane Heyl. Nasty Neck even gets a few clips skating in the video. Check it out below:

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12 Year Old Alex deCunha Skateboarding Skills Are Mad

Posted on January 28, 2010 with Comments Off

Another young skateboarding gun gets ready to take the world by storm – watch this video clip!

It’s not like it is a huge deal these days that the skills of younger skaters is growing stronger at much younger ages. I mean just look at the media coverage, the strength of the skateboarding marketing power to push the idea of how “cool” skateboarding is as well as amount of money involved in this market. It’s come close to mainstream – I’m holding back saying it is mainstream as it hurts a bit – with large supermarket chains selling skateboards and the clothing/shoes being worn by all types of people who have nothing to do with the ideals behind skateboarding.

Also growing up seeing the new tricks the pros and sponsored skaters are doing in magazines and in videos, the kids are surely not going to go and try out only old tricks. But still it happens that some of these kids show that bit of incredible talent at a very young age. One of these skaters is 12 year old Alex deCunha out of Milton Keynes, UK. He’s sponsored by (according to his MySpace page) Death Skateboards, DVS Shoes, Quiksilver Clothing and he represents the Boardroom skatepark in Leicester. Look out for him in the near future – this kid makes me want to go learn some tricks right now!

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Arto Saari At Home And On The Road Video

Posted on January 28, 2010 with Comments Off

Take a ride with Arto Saari through some days in his life.

I usually keep my opinion to myself, especially about skateboard products unless I like them and want to test them myself. Gravis Footwear is a difficult piece of product terrain to talk about when it comes to the shoes they have put out on the market. Okay, I haven’t actually had any of the series in my hands to look at or even worse on my feet to really test. But some of the designs which have ppeared looked more like bad business shoes for an even worse suit and I’m not even talking about the sole of the shoes.

Let me be fair – you have to test them to know how they feel like. And I believe that shoe developer can try to come up with a skate shoe which doesn’t look like the generic skate shoe. The Gravis shoe series just didn’t work right on me from the beginning. I have though seen some of the newer versions and Arto Saari is getting his own signature shoe in February 2010 so I’m looking forward to the new shoes – maybe the right contacts at Gravis will hear this cry for a resolution of my shoe problem and let me test some of the shoes soon.

While we’re waiting, enjoy some of Arto’s great skating in this video:

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Skateboarding Chaos Video In Madrid, Spain

Posted on January 28, 2010 with Comments Off

Watch this long list of skaters taking to the streets of Madrid, Spain…

No big skateboarding introduction – the video tells the story. Looks like a mixture of different cameras, many different spots and it features skating from Adrian del Campo, Peter, Sergi Nuñez, Dylan, Alex, Jorge Masó, Jorge Carlos, Sergio Muñoz, Jura, Ruben, Pota, Ben Skrzypek, Borja, Burrito, Ra, Fer, Castañeda, Pichu, Pow, Jimmy, Mauricio, Darrel, Sergio, Biso, Scott, Malandro, David Fernandez, Juanchi, Alvarito, Miguelex, Hassan and Gejun.

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John Cardiel Checking Spots In Sacramento

Posted on January 28, 2010 with Comments Off

Ride along with John Cardiel in Sacramento checking skate spots in this video…

A legend in skateboarding, John Cardiel has not let himself be brought down by his accident which did not allow him to return to pro skateboarding. Join him in this 6 minute video as he cruises throught the streets of Sacramento, California on one of his fixed gear bike creations checking out spots he has riden telling his stories and possible street spots for everyone to discover, rip and ride away smiling.

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