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Zero and Matix Tours Messer and Sheckler Interviews

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

Zero is going on a Halloween tour. Matix is headed across the pond on the Purple Spain tour. Typical Culture has a Dylan Messer interview. Etnies spends three minutes with Ryan Sheckler.

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Birdhouse, Free Lunch, Combat, Bachinsky, Vans, and Girl Videos

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

Birdhouse demos in Florence, KY. Jordan Hoffart gets Free Lunch. Combat has a new Know Your Flow with Thomas Bonilla. Dave Bachinsky and friends get down indoors. Peep the trailer for the upcoming Vans Downtown Show Down. Girl has Outbackwards Tour outtakes.

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Kayo Holiday Catalog

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

The Kayo Corp, home of DGK, Expedition, Organika, and Gold Wheels has a new holiday catalog to take a look at.

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The High Five

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

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CJ Tambornino 5’s at the Familia TF

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

For a refresher on who CJ Tambornino is, watch, or re-watch his Mag Minute right here. Next, head on over to the brand new Familia website and watch his 5’s.

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Chaz Proves He Is Composed Beyond His Years

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

What was the biggest mistake you made when you were sixteen? If you’ve yet to reach that age, then what is the biggest mistake you’ve made so far in life. For most people the list of big mistakes in their sixteenth year goes something like: bad grades in school, a fender bender in your parents car, or maybe getting caught experimenting with some substances. For a few of you on the high end of the gnar scale it could be the creation of a life, or a jail stint of some sort. But for the most..

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Reynolds vs. Dollin In Backstage Skate

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

Ever wonder what goes on backstage when a band full of pro skateboarders is playing. Of course games of skate, duh. Check this game out Dustin Dollin vs. Goat guitar player, Andrew Reynolds, getting their S.A.T.E. backstage at a Goat show. Dustin seems like he had a few drinks, and Reynolds doesn’t drink, so it was like Drunkard vs. Sobered. Dollin purposely breaks the board, and claims he won. Check it:

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Chaz Skates All Day

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

Chaz Ortiz has been on a roll lately. A second place finish at the most recent Street League event follwed by a win at this past weekend’s stop of the Dew Tour, The Toyota Challenge in Salt Lake City, UT. He’s a contest machine, but in between contests Ortiz also films real street skateboarding, and consistently gets clips clips. Check out this Chaz Skates All Day video courtesy of Gatorade:

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Overkill By Jamie Thomas

Posted on September 22, 2010 with Comments Off

A year or so ago INsight clothing became part of the Black Box Distribution family. Translation: Enter The Chief, aka Jamie Thomas. If there’s one thing he knows how to do it’s skateboard and keep a a skateboard company in the black, in more ways than one.

Thomas started Zero skateboards more than a decade ago, which was followed by Black Box Distribution in 2000, and the rest is history. Fast-forward ten years and the distribution company is going strong with brands such as:..

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Music Tip: OFF! Featuring Keith Morris

Posted on September 21, 2010 with Comments Off

I’m sure that I have a pretty narrow “target group” with the music recommendations I post on Europeskate but it’s the music I’m into so I won’t be venturing off into electronic wastelands or trying to show you how down I am with hip hop etc. Just mostly guitars, drums and loud vocals for me.

I just found OFF!, a great band which was formed in Los Angeles, California in late 2009 by Circle Jerks/Black Flag singer Keith Morris, Burning Brides frontman Dimitri Coats, Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald, and Rocket From The Crypt/Hot Snakes drummer Mario Rubalcaba. This means A LOT of experience gathered in one band and I have to say, if the video to “Upside Down” is a good representation of the rest of the music that these guys are putting together for their 2010 autumn release entitled “First Four EPs” (the collection contains sixteen songs divided amongst four releases), I’m already excited to get my hands on the goods!

The video features skating from the Slave Skateboards team by the way…

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