Getxo Bowl-A-Rama 2014 pt.-3

Thursday 2014.09.04 –Day 4 at the Getxo Bowl-A-Rama 2014

On Thursday not only the kidney pool was sessioned heavily but the concrete halfpipe also got it´s share of good use.

Overview: Alex Sorgente – tailslide on the hip
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Danny Leon – body jar
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Giorgio Zattoni – floats an backside ollie
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Chris Russell – FSA
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Omar Hassan – lien to tail
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Murilo Perez – backside air
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Filipe Foguinho – frontside boardslide
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No post without a grind fom a pool contest. Ian Campbell – smith grind
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Cory Juneau – goes high on this FSA into the dark sky above the La Kantera kidney pool.
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Peace – artwork by Txus
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Getxo Bowl-A-Rama 2014 pt.-2

Wednesday 2014.09.03 -Day 3 at the Getxo Bowl-A-Rama 2014

The sessions are heating up as we get closer to conest day. The Brazilian crew was killing it, Salba had the lines wired on his first day, Chris Russell smashed some desasters, Rune Gifberg and Giorgio Zattoni were getting their first runs in, Sky Siljeg had crazy lines all over the pool, Cory Juneau was flying head high on his frontside airs and tried a a few 540°s, Alain Goikoetxea showed his local lines and with boardslides around the whole shallow end, high frontside airs, monty grinds, inverts and more.
Livestream is on on Saturday if you can´t make it to the La Kantera pool in Getxo.

Salba – tailslide
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Rune Glifberg – smith grind
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Omar Hassan – lipslide
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Sky Siljeg – grind
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Pedro Barros – stalefish higher than most
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Huge crowd
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Thanks for all the fish
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Weekend Report: 2er on Fire, Kassel, and the will to succeed

Weekend Report: 2er on Fire, Kassel, and the will to succeed

Hannover, Germany
So, basically, if you were not in Hannover on Saturday, you were as missed as Geronimo (Have you seen him?).
2er on Fire is by far the funniest, rowdiest, glass-breaking-iest party of the year in Germany and it brings together people from all over the world (India, Europe, USA to name a few) who want to celebrate building their own shit and skating it. 2er is a DIY park occupying several million square meters (I do NOT understand the metric system, btw) in Hannover and each year the good chaps hold a “team contest” and party.
Johannes Haist won 2er with his nose blunt on the cradle, and the Koloss team proved they were by far the most wasted… to no surprise. Many people got cut like hell by glass: Ari and Brody both needed stitches in a serious way. The Lifeblood/Unheard crew showed up super late (their loss), but still entertained the crowd on arrival, and apparently skated the next day (they also helped clean, which was cool).

Next Johannes and I went to Kassel to lift a hand and shoot some tricks. Mr. Wilson is a fun indoor park in the center of Germany. The proprietors have been, literally, working day and night to finish the DIY back-yard park in time for the skate-club’s 25th anniversary. That shit goes down on Saturday the 30th and you should be there. FO REAL. The DIY hosts granite ledges, barriers, a pool-like structure called a jaccuzzi and the whole lot.

Giant thanks goes to Baumi, Bo and the entire 2er crew! Also to Matze at Mr. Wilson and the builders. I can’t believe the progress of the DIY there. Last shout out goes to all of the people who showed up and helped out with 2er on Fire. You are the real MVPs!

-Lenore

Geronimo is still at large
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Mr. Wilson grand opening flyer
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Johannes cleans the doorway- with style
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Chet Childress tries to blend into the local surroundings
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2er on Flyer
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Overview of the new part of mr. wilson DIY
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Malmö Ultra Bowl VI – Pt. 3

Sunday session at Bryggeriet
As it was raining all day on Sunday some vert hungry skaters were more than happy when John Magnusson opened up the Bryggeriet skatepark for a night session on the vert ramp.
– Riley Stevens was shredding hard on his first session on a vert ramp.
– Chris Russell did frontside hip-hop inverts… wow, try that, threw some eggs and did head high frontside airs.
– Willis Kimlbel was flying over the ramp with boned out bs airs and tall andrecht handplants.
– Tyler Edtmayer showed some high airs.
– Mark Scott caused some chaos.
– Alex Sorgente smashed the coping with his body jars.
– Björn Lillesoe had nice bonelesses.
– Neal Hendrix stalled inverts to fakie and blasted some high airs.
– Sean Goff did smith grinds, sweepers and laybackairs.
– John Magnusson dropped in a few times and just did perfect runs with a ton of tircks.

Thanks to John Magnusson for the great session and a fun weekend in Malmö.

Photography by gerdrieger.com

Riley Stevens – FSA.
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Young Gun Tyler Edtmayer – bs air
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Chris Russell – eggplant
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Willis Kimbel – bs bone air
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Malmö Ultra Bowl VI – Pt. 2

Some more pics from the weekend.

Heavy clouds were hanging over Stapelbaddsparken skatepark all weekend with a short shower here and there but on sunday the rain just would not stop so it was decided to go with saturdays semi final results as the final results.

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Murilo Perez – lien cross bone with style and power

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Björn Lillesoe – boneless boost on the tall bank, hiding behind his board

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Cory Juneau – fs noseblunt on the bank.

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Ruari Britee Steer – flying in from Scotland with this FSA

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Josh Rodriguez – boneless into the corner

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Nick Peterson – crailslide

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Alex Sorgente – powerful tailgrab

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Oskar Rozenberg Hallberg – corner grind

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Chris Russell – good buddy

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Results:
JUNIORS

1 KEEGAN PALMER 84
2 KALLE BERGLIND 82
3 OSVALD HARRYSSON 78
4 TYLER EDTMAYER 73
5 HERMAN MÖLLER 71
6 HUGO BOSERUP 69
7 ALANA SMITH 60
8 SIMON SAL 58
9 LUDVIG HÅKANSSON 56
10 MARKUS LINK 54
11 JONAS BÜNGER 53
12 ALESSANDRO MAZZARA 52
13 GABRIEL VIKING 51
14 LEON RÜB 46
15 AXEL KÄLLMEN 43
16 CARLOS THÖRNBERG 40
17 JAKOB KRISTOFFERISCH 39
18 WILLIAM PERSSON 38
19 LUDWIG LILJA 37
20 MILO WADSTRÖM 36
21 FINNIAN ROCILLO-MARTIN 30
22 CARL ÅSTRÖM 29
23 FELIX KÖPPE 29
24 NILS CERVIN 23

GET SET GO
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1 ALANA SMITH US
2 JULIA BRÜCKLER AUT
3 EMMA FASTESSON LINDGREN SWE
4 MIMMI LECKIUS SWE
5 AMELIA BRODKA US
6 LOIS PENDLEBURY UK
7 SARAH MEURLE SWE
8 HELENA LONG UK
9 TONJE PEDERSEN NOR
10 MARY SWEET FRA
11 KATTA STERNER SWE
12 JOHANNA JUZELIUS SWE

PRO/AM

1 OSKAR ROZENBERG HALLBERG 90
2 ALEX SORGENTE 85
3 CHRIS RUSSELL 83
4 CORY JUNEAU 82
5 BJÖRN LILLESOE 80
6 MURILO PEREZ 79
7 DALTON DERN 77
8 DANNY LEON 77
9 CODY LOCKWOOD 76
10 JOSH BORDEN 75
11 NICK PETERSEN 75
12 SIMON KARLSSON 72
13 JOSHUA RODRIGUEZ 72
14 KEVIN KOWALSKI 70
15 ALEX HALLFORD 70
16 FERNANDO BRAMSMARK 69
17 GUILLAME MOCQUAIN 68
18 WILLIS KIMBEL 66
19 MATTIAS INGERSTEDT 64
20 JULIEN BENOLIEL 63
21 HUNTER OKANO 64
22 DAVID STENSTRÖM 64
23 STEFAN BOUSSAC 62
24 DRAKE MOHR 62
25 SKY SILJEG 61
26 MARTINO CATTANEO 61
27 RILEY STEVENS 60
28 ROBBIE RUSSO 59
29 DANIEL VARGAS 58
30 DANNY TUMIA 58
31 ANDREAS LINDSTRÖM 56
32 VINCENT MATHERON 54
33 FRANK FARIA 53
34 ADAM HOPKINS 51
35 BALDER LEHMAN 50
36 DANIEL CUERVO 48
37 TREVOR MORGAN 42
38 JEREMY TUFFLI 41
39 CHRISTOPHER BAJO 39
40 STEVEN REEVES 0

Malmö Ultra Bowl VI

Some pics from this years Malmö Ultra Bowl.
Everybody was looking forward to todays finals at the Stapelbaddsparken but due to some heavy rain the finals have been canceled and the results from yesterdays semi finals are the final results
See results here
More photos and info soon

Cory Juneau, indy air

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Chris Russell, fs ollie

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Riley Stevens, FSA into the corner

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Björn Lillesoe, fs ollie

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Weekend Report: Leipzig, Selb, and Blackriver

Mack gave me my very first fingerboard on my birthday a few days ago, so naturally I had to use it. Where do the top fingerboarders from around the world flock? No, not the glistening, sandy beaches of Tahiti; but rather misty, rural Schwartzenbach, Bavaria. So that is where “Fingy” (my fingerboard’s name), Gerd from Bailgun, and I marshaled. First we checked out the Leipzig park in Conne Island, an occupied party-land with a Minus Ramps park. I basically got mo-murdered on warm ups, so we packed the rig, and rallied to Selb for the opening of the new wavepark. Built in 11 weeks, this new creation from +Blackriver Ramps+ was formed by a handful of volunteers and cost roughly €30K. Now kids and adults alike can cruise around a flowing, fast, flawless park near the Czech border. We hung out for the opening, partied like hell, skated in the morning and then cruised to Martin’s backyard pool in Schwartzenbach. MVP of the weekend definitely goes to Herwig König for his bottomless trick back and energy to skate all day and night. Runner up MVP goes to the Schinkenbier (smoked beer, tastes like bacon…. email me for details) for being there when no other beer was. Honorable mention goes to the DOUBLE COPING on the Selb vert ramp. Why have just one coping? Giant thanks to Martin and his lovely family for everything, you guys are truly the best. Also big thanks to the Nuremberg crew, Kaktus and the Selb crew, and to Chicken, for being cute.

Text: Lenore Sparks
Photos: Gerd Rieger and Lenore Sparks

Herwig König testing the new Selb park with a dump truck on the bank
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The Mayor of Selb with the crew who instigated and built the park with a lot of other helping hands.

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More supporters of the project

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Local ripper with a tailslide transfer.

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Some nice tile work.

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Herwig smith grinding the corner

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The session/party lasted well into the night

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More fun!

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More work from the Foculo team

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Herwig back D on the extension.

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Leipzig Spotcheck

Overview

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Lenore frontside grinds the „pizza oven“

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Schwarzenbach

Martin Ehrenberger carve grinding his backyard bowl

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Lenore: „Herwig, skate better!“
Herwig: „Lenore, Film better!“

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And then this happend: Herwig, backside kickflip to back-D to smith stall.

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Herwig was on fire – front blunt

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NBD coffin grind by Mike Prößler with Herwig and Johannes Jahrreis
joining in on the fun.

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Lenore enjoying an after session monty grind

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Thanks to Martin for the FUN session at his bowl.
Martin, Chicken with new friend Mike Prößler and Noah on the swing.

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BANDSALAT featuring Randy Holden

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Hello Dear readership. This is the second installment of „Bandsalat“, courtesy of Bailgun. And today we’re bringing you some serious „Stoner Rock“! Randy Holden! It really doesn’t get much heavier than this as far as guitar gnarlers go. One of the first bands he was in was „The Fender IV“ who did this burly rendition of
„Mar Gaya“, a ripping surf guitar instrumental. He went on to play in a bunch of other bands after that, but it wasn’t until he joined Blue Cheer, maybe the first Heavy Metal band, that he really started to stretch his stoner wings. In 1969 he formed a band with one other guy and called it „Population 2“ as it was just the two of them. The record is nearly impossible to to find even on CD, but if you’re into Stoner Rock or heavy duty guitars then you might want to give it a shot. Until next time, this is Bandsalat saying „Get stoned“!

Denver – One Gathering contest

For the past few years, the Stronghold Society has been hosting the One Gathering – Skate for Life event at the downtown Denver Park. Not only is this event significant for its root cause: to bring skateboarders and enthusiasts of varied backgrounds together from Colorado and neighboring states, and to draw attention to Denver’s historical ‚D‘ Park. People of all ages and all walks of life head down to the skatepark to enjoy a beautiful day in the amazing weather. The event is extremely unique because it is blessed by the Native American tribes of South Dakota and also hosts some of the Tribes’ best skateboarders!

Here are some of the highlights…I am already looking forward to next year’s event!

Photos and text: Kim Cook

Geoff – tailblock
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Derek Scott – backside blast
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Mickey and Deb
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Zach Cusano – bean to fakie – Photo by beaker
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Lee Wilson – Monty grind
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Bryce Stark – high stalefish
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Kathrine Reese – ankle bender fakie
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Lindsey and Terell
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Zine check: Grip #1 and Humbug #3

GRIP ZINE comes from Dana Point Ca. and is done by Kristi Sanders with a lot of love for skateboarding.
Grip is diffrent than most zines because it has no photos but some cool illustrations telling little stories and
you can tell she put a lot of work into this zine so check it out if you can.
See GRIP ZINE online here

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Humbug Zine is from Germany and features a lot of cool photos manly black and white with a few color pages thrown in the mix and some well written stories.
See HUMBUG ZINE online here

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