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Europeskate Pic Of The Day June 1st 2010

Posted on June 1, 2010 with Comments Off

Kicking off June 2010 with this fun looking obstacle at the Bethune Skate Park at Daytona Beach – Dalton Dern floats a frontside disaster up on top of this concrete wave which was caught on film by Andrew Bawtinhimer (check out his Flickr gallery here) Photo infos: Nikon D80 with a Sunpak 555 camera left / Vivitar DF-383 camera right.

via EuropeSkate

The Berlin Clash 2010 Skateboard Contest Results And Video Clips

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Berlin, Germany was the target of skaters around Europe just this past weekend as the Skatehalle Berlin hosted along with Relentless Energy the Clash 2010 street and bowl contest. Some of the top names from the past weren’t present this year ( Jürgen Horrwarth, Dennis Busenitz and last year’s winner Bastien Salabanzi ) but the list of skaters particpating still had it’s share of top names including tech wizard Chris Haslam, Tom Penny, new Flip amateur Andrew Langi, Vince del Valle, Yannick Schall, Thomas Weber, Alex Mizurov, Lem Vilemin, the man of the moment Youness Amrani and one of my personal favorites out my town of Hamburg: Michi van Fintel.

After all of the madness of a contest weekend with the crash-inflicted injuries, last year’s third place holder Thomas Weber came out on top of the street contest. Check out the results right here push the video clips from this weekend!

via EuropeSkate

X Games Asia Skate Wrap Up

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X Games Asia 2010 is a wrap. Darkstar’s Pierre Luc-Gagnon was the big winner taking home gold in both vert and Mini Mega while Forest’s Tyler Hendley took home gold in street. World Industries’ Andrew Cannon was our man on the ground getting video interviews with the skaters and giving you his impressions…

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Zoo York Rodney Torres video

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Zoo York recently released a video to mark the release of Rodney Torres‘ The Master Division deck.

The New York street skating legend can be seen working on the new skate plaza in Corona Park, Queens for the Maloof Money Cup alongside Dan Carrera and Rob Campbell and talking about how the project began.

You also get to see some classic footage of Rodney in action.

It’s great to see skaters being more proactive in securing facilities for their local community.

via HuckMagazine

éS ‘Postcard from London’ video

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éS recently released a video featuring some of their amateur team shredding the streets of London.

Postcard from London features such skaters as Kellen James, Jimmy Carlin and Josh Mathews hunting the capital for spots to destroy.

The group also manages to take time out from killing curb gaps and stair rails to witness the changing of the guards and take some photos of Big Ben.

The éS team are currently on their European tour with stops at  Adrenaline Alley in Corby, UK on June 2, Prime Skatepark in Plymouth, UK on June 4 and Riot Skatepark in Bordeaux, France on June 6.

via HuckMagazine

LRKRVSN RAW: Sheckler Make A Wish contest

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calling all haters: I was down at the Etnies park this weekend to see the Sheckler Make A Wish contest where a bunch of your favorite pros were killing it. went down there with just one camera and no agenda… this is what I came up with.

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Creature, Blueprint, and Traffic Videos

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Creature Bro-mixes Sean Conover’s Hesh Law part. Tom Knox (a new one) rips the Malmo park for Blueprint. Mark Wetzel stars in the lastest Traffic Report.

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MMC X NYC Part Two

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VBS continues their series about skateboarding in NYC and the Maloof Money Cup coming this weekend.

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Brooklyn Banks Last Day

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It looks like today is the last day to be able to skate the Brooklyn Banks before its’ extended closure starting tomorrow, June 2nd. Via: NY Skateboarding.

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Miller, Etnies, Chima, and Typical Culture Videos

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Matt Miller drops his first pro model for Expedition. Etnies has video from Skate For A Cause. Real has the second installment of Chima Ferguson’s leftover footage. Typical Culture has a new montage.

via TheSkateboardMag