Giovanni Reda and Eric Koston kick it at the DVS GPH Pro 2008
Ever think your toes could be viciously burned by the sun? I sure as hell didn't. It's by far the most painful thing I've ever experienced outside of having my big toenail ripped clean off. Ok, now...This past weekend the Copenhagen Pro 2008 (CPH) went down and though I wasn't there to witness the contest, thanks to the modern miracle of the internet, I was able to peep the results in print and get a taste of the contests skateboarding magic via YouTube. Technology, you handsome sonofabitch!
Street Finals:
1- Danny Cerezini
2- Diego Oliveira
3- Eero Antilla
4- Jereme Rogers
5- John Rattray
6- Eric Koston
7- Elton Melonion
8- Daniel Viera
9- Matt Beach
10- Rob Gonzales
11- Pontus Alv
12- Willian Seco
From the looks of things, Danny Cerezini was on fire. Peep the video below for some of the sh*t he dropped. Nollie backside flip backlip down the rail? Dude's no joke.
Here's Koston making his way through the finals. Nothing like a good Euro Gap Laser Flip...
Vert Finals:
1-Renton Millar
2-Rune Glifberg
3-Neal Hendrix
4-Marcelo Kosake
5-Anthony Furlong
6-Adam Taylor
7-Nicky Guerrero
8-Alex Perelso
9-Thomas Madsen
10-Christiano Mateus
11-Thomas Kring
12-Nathan Beck
13-Juergen Horrwarth
Best Trick Contest:
1- Diego Oliveira - Nollie Flip fs 5-0 on the rail
2- Danny Cerezini - Nollie Flip fs boardslide fakie on the rail
3- Lewis Marnell - Switch big flip down grass gap
4- William Seco - Nollie heelfip boardslide the rail
5- Jereme Rogers - Switch heel boardslide the rail
Here's some footage from the best trick contest. Cerezini was on fire. Check that Nollie flip front board.
City Skateboards has been juicing up their new video/promo, What The F*&^K Is A Bachinsky for some time now. The video will be showcasing the talent of flip trickery technician, Dave Bachinsky and I assume, the rest of the City team including Russ Milligan, Jeremy Reeves, Alex Klein, Jimmy Cao, Eduardo Craig and Tony Montgomery. David surfaced a couple years back out of nowhere when he kickflipped El Toro. Since, he's been a steady path of coverage, both video and print. Finally, What the F*&^K Is A Bachinsky is set to premiere on Friday July 18th in San Francisco at a bar called 12 Galaxies located on 2565 Mission Street, at 22nd. Doors open at 8PM and the video will be playing at 10PM sharp. Be sure to be there and not be late. This one's gonna be bad ass.
Here's Dave in his last part in City Skateboards' Crime In The City video.
One of the best skate videos ever, Fully Flared, will soon be available in a deluxe bonus edition. The Final Flare deluxe bonus edition DVD set will be a 3-disk set featuring one HD Blu-ray disk and two standard def disks that include the OG Fully Flared, photo galleries, unused scenes, alternate edits, unused clips, top secret film, tapes from the vault, "yo mamas footage" and a 60-minute behind the scenes documentary feature. This thing will be available in skateshops around the world on November 25th. In the meantime, get psyched on The Final Flare Trailer here.
Courtesy Pig Wheels
Nestor Judkins Rides For Pig
Mikey Taylor jumped ship from DVS a while back and has since found himself on Etnies. His first pro shoe on Etnies has just dropped and here's a cool little video made to promote the pair. Enjoi and Adiddas Am, Nestor Judkins has just been appointed to the super sick Pig Wheels team. When Nestor was still riding for Santa Cruz, his part in Guarte was off the hook. As far as I know, not too many people saw that video. Here's his part in Guarte from a few years ago...
Right now in New York, the heat is straight blazing. Though it hasn't quite been diagnosed as such, I think it qualifies as a g'damned heat wave of sorts. It's hot as hell and like an idiot, I'm flying down to Miami tonight where it's most likely 10 degrees hotter.
So I've been playing with the idea of moving to California pretty much everyday of my entire life. And though I've passed up multiple chances to live in the great land of burger chains, I think with the announcement of this new Venice Beach park, it's time for me to move. This Fall, construction on a brand new 16,000-square-foot skate park will begin at Venice Beach and from the looks of the plans, this park is going to be insanely good. The park design was developed by RRM Design Group and some skater and architect, Zack Wormhoudt. Designers with the Santa Cruz-based Wormhoudt Inc. are quoted as calling the park the "premier skate park in the heartland and birthplace of skateboarding." Construction of the Venice Beach Skatepark is expected to begin in either September or October and take approximately 10 months to complete. If anyone out there in the Venice, LA area is hiring, hit this fat guy up. He wants to skate all year long.
Being Tony Hawk's son, you've got some serious expectations surrounding your name. I wasn't that psyched on Riley Hawk's part in Birdhouse's last video, The Beginning. However, this new footage of him is f*&^ing amazing. Goddamn, that kid is killing. Back Smith, tre flip out. Watch this video of Riley Hawk below and get convinced that talent is downright hereditary...
With the rise of YouTube and other online video sources, watching any part from any of your favorite videos is too easy. Hell, I don't even pop my DVD's in anymore. It's too much work. I just type in the g'damned domain name, my favorite skaters name and boo yaah...my eyes are making love to the sights and sounds of exceptional skateboarding. Since I just learned how to embed video from YouTube about a week ago, I'm gonna go ahead and dedicate a post to some of my favorite video parts. Here's just a few...
Speed Freaks was a video from Santa Cruz Speed Wheels and was the first video to be put out by a wheel company. The last part belonged to Mike Vallely and was absolutely groundbreaking at the time. Newly added to the SMA World Industries team, Mike skated his entire part atop his classic "Double Kick" Barnyard Board. Mike's powerful style was complemented by Dinosaur Jr.'s classic song "Freak Scene." The part got me psyched on one-footed ollies, that barnyard board (I had two) and made me and my friends Dinosaur Jr. fans for life.
The New Deal was such a sick company. At the time it featured some of the best skaters of the day. Andy Howell, Danny Sargent, Ed Templeton and the man from DC, Chris Hall. Chris' part from The New Deal's second video, 1281. I remember being blown away by how tech he was in this part. I couldn't believe he did a nollie heelflip. That blew me away back then. I barely flipped my board before I saw this part.
When Plan B's Questionable dropped, skateboarding was forever changed. Some guy that nobody ever heard of had the first part. His name was Pat Duffy. Skating handrails with the easy of skating a waxed curb had never been done before. Duffy's backside lip in the rain was straight up insanity. And goddamn...I remember watching his double kink fifty fifty over and over again, wondering how the hell he stayed on a round rail.
Trilogy came out in 1996 and featured the 101, Blind and World Industries teams. It was a good one shot deal, but in the end, the 101 section was my favorite and Gino Iannucci's part was by far the best. That hardflip over the Lockwood hip in Gino's opening run is picture perfect and to this day, defines the trick for me.
Fast forward a few years. The handrail craze had just taken a stronghold on skateboarding and Jamie Thomas was leading the pack. Toy Machine was the sh*t at the time and when Welcome To Hell dropped, people lost their minds. Jamie Thomas had the last part, skated to Iron Maiden and closed the curtains in proper form.
PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life put Jereme Rogers, Ryan Gallant and PJ Ladd himself on the map. It's rare that a single video part raises the bar of skateboarding all together. PJ's part did just that. Flatground, switch flip shifties and tailslide frontside 360 ollie flips out were just a sample of the insanity this dude threw down. PJ was an obscure am on Element before this shop video dropped. After it came out he was a household name.
I had been looking forward to Jim Greco's part in Baker 3 like for a long-ass time. When it dropped, I was into his skating, but hated the song. It annoyed the hell out of me. Not long after the video came out, a re-edit of his part surfaced on the web. It was cut completely different and featured "Bohemian Rhapsody," by Queen. The song went perfect to the part, some new tricks where thrown in there and the whole re-edit was for lack of a better description, sort of heartfelt. One of my favorite parts ever. Back to back nollie backside flips down Hollywood High? Burly.
Anybody see the new Transworld cover? A 360 Flip without a grab over the Mega Gap , courtesy of Danny Way. Holy Sh*t. Way just gets crazier every year. Somebody give that dude his own video game series.
Courtesy Active Skateshop
A Girl, Chocolate & Active Threesome
A couple days after this Fourth of July, some undisclosed members of Girl and Chocolate will be hitting up three different California Active shops in one day. Active Brea, Active San Dimas (like Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure) and Active Rancho Cucamonga (isn't that a Dorito flavor?) will all be on the radar for the Sunday event. For more details go to the Active website.
Erik Ellington apparently has a new backyard mini ramp. The Supra website just posted this footage of Ellington, Muska, DJ Chavez, Lizard King and Cody McEntire sessioning the f&*k out of the thing. Seriously, how good is Cody McEntire? I'd punch myself in the nuts at the beginning of every g'damned hour for tranny skills like that. Only that dude could make late back foot flips look insanely good.
Courtesy Matix
Mo Is Pro
If you're in Simi Valley on July 3rd, you're gonna wanna check out the Matix hosted Mike Mo party at Skate Lab. From 6-8PM, they'll be a public skate session with Mike Mo in celebration of his fall line of signature stuff. They'll be plenty of skating, some giveaways and free Wienerschnitzel. Before you pile into your mom's station wagon and prepare to take the hike, make sure you RSVP to MOPARTY@MATIXCLOTHING.COM.
In some quick team news, it's been heavily rumored that Terry Kennedy aka TK, aka Compton Ass Terry, is no longer riding for the brightest shoe company on the planet, Ice Cream. Word around the cookie circle is that TK has signed onto the Supra team and his pro shoe is ready to go, awaiting an abrupt dropping in the near future. In the meantime, check Terry's part in the new Baker Has A Deathwish Promo.
