Terell Safadi (featured in issue 9.2) will be peforming along with industry heavy-hitters Madchild (Swollen Members) and Redman on Saturday October 15th at Gossip. Tickets and more info are available here. Tickets will be $25.00. Get them soon, this show will sell out!
Just a little teaser to welcome Matt Berger to the Underworld Skate Team...the full video is dropping October 13th at 4 PM EST, so STAY TUNED!
Niall Mcclelland has a new website which features all his amazing commercial design/illustration/graphic art projects!
The first annual Color Magazine Jamcouver contest went off this past saturday, during Olio Festival, to great success. Through some devine miracle the clouds were parted and the sun shone throughout the day.
Cameo Wilson, gap to five-o (feller photo) // Cameo also took Best Trick on the QUIKSILVER pyramid with a 360flip 50/50 and Best Team ($1000) with fellow Supra Dist. skaters Nick Moore, Derek Swaim, and AJ MacAllister
With a packed field of some of Canada's best skateboard talent, all the obstacles received a critical dose of shred. Starting with the Girl skateboards 5ft quarter pipe to massive Girl logo wall ride, it didn't take long for bodies to fly. DC's Sascha Daley, Cameo, and Colin Nogue took care of most of the destruction but in the end Sheldon Meleshinski took the top trick prize with his melon grab wall ride to fakie after taking a bone crushing slam a couple tries before.
Cameo was up to his usual gimmicks on Quiksilvers mayan pyramid obstacle, launching both kickflip to backside tailslides and lipslides before taking the cake with his 360flip 5050 grind. Honourable mentions as well to Brett Stobbart for his unique ride on grind techniques and Cory Wilson for his mecca kickflip manual down the hubba.
Colin also took the VANS "OFF THE WALL" Best Trick in the Barrier Penta-Bowl with frontside ollie channel transfers to regular and to fakie. His general shredding all day, literally being amongst the few people able to skate the Penta-Bowl as it was intended, earned him his spot. Not to mention a show-stopping ollie into the arm of the Girl OG doll.
The Vans barrier bowl was by far the more difficult of obstacles to skate and the anguish of it all was showing in some of the skaters. Nick Moore didn't seem to have too much difficulty landing a handful of tricks including a lofty air to backside nose grind and lengthy hurricane grind across the barriers. Hats off have to go to Colin Nogue for his ultimate destruction of the bowl. Airing every corner and channel, and lines for days, he took best trick here by leaps and bounds.
Sascha Daley, fs 360 w/ Nick Moore (feller photo). Sascha Daley also took Best Trick on the DC SHOES EAST VAN RAIL with a full cab fs board to fakie
Last but not least was the DC EastVan handrail and gap. Tricks were flying over down and across this so fast it was hard to keep up at times. Sascha Daley certainly made good use of both the gap and rail with both backside and frontside 360's down the gap, and a picture perfect fullcab to frontside boardslide down the rail. Other mentionable's include Derek Swaims nollie heel down the gap, Micky Papa got a kickflip crooked grind, and Chad Dickson rolled away with a casual noseblunt. Dane Pryds took the cake however with a 180 nosegrind and eventually Bennett grind (not pictured) which won him the SCION best trick of the day award.
Dane Pryds, backside 180 nosegrind
Sheldon Meleshinski, melon grab wallride to fakie (feller photo)
All in all Jamcouver went off with a bang of skateboarding sending the crowd wild time and time again. Big thanks to all the sponsors who helped to put this on. Don't forget to take a look at all the photos and video below from the days event and stay tuned for info on JAMCOUVER 2012!
Supra Distribution Team Manager, Dane Collison, stands aside MVP Cameo Wilson to accept the coveted "Best Team" prize
Once the contest was through, mother nature closed it's doors too and skaters found shelter in the Waldorf Hotel lounge while judges Wade Desarmo, Wade Fyfe, Gordon Nicholas and Mike Quesnel tallied up their scores.
10 winners and runners-up got to take home a one-of-kind Awards Plaque deck made by local Folk Skateboards with engraved baseplates and were greeted by Emcee Cyrus Thiedeke and the vocal stylings of Wade Fyfe.
Sandro Grison and Sascha Daley - photo op
Spitfire just dropped the second part of their Fall catalog. Check out the radness!
The kind folks at Deluxe sent over this 20 Year Tommy G. deck. As someone who had the original board it's an awesome/nostalgic feeling to see this graphic re-done. Nice one!
From 'eS Shoes, Bobby Worrest puts his new shoe through the paces.
Andy Jenkins (Art Dump, Bend Press, Crailtap) has a new Giclee prints, 50 available! Get one before they are gone.
Weren't able to get to the awards night in the Waldorf after the contest at Jamcouver 2011? Here are the names of those who got called to the stage to accept their splendid award (by Folk Skateboards) and their piece of the $5000 cash-money!
1ST - Cameo Wilson
2ND - Colin Nogue
3RD - Sascha Daley
Dane Pryds, bennet grind - SCION Best Trick ALL DAY
Brett Stobbart - PUSH.ca Creative Sportsmanship
Supra Dist. (Nick Moore, Derek Swaim, Cameo Wilson, AJ MacAlister) - BEST TEAM
Best Trick - DC SHOES EAST VAN RAIL: Sascha Daley, full cab fs board to fakie
Best Trick - GIRL SKATEBOARDS QUARTER DOLL - Sheldon Meleshinski, melon grab wallride to fakie
Best Trick - QUIKSILVER ALL-SEEING-EYE: Cameo Wilson, 360flip 50/50
Best Trick - VANS "OFF THE WALL" in the Barrier Penta-Bowl: Colin Nogue, frontside ollie channel (+to fakie)
A Huge thanks to all the competitors and skaters who came out just to shralp. Stay tuned for more details, photos and videos to be released this week!
The two best names in keeping your feet comfortable have released a new item. Check your local Stance and Lakai dealers or the STANCE site to get a pair.
