http://media.putfile.com/george-T

Southsea - Saturday 17th June = Skate / Sunday 18th June = BMX

Epic - Birmingham Saturday 10th June = Skate / Sunday 11th June = BMX

X Site skatepark - Skegness Saturday 24th June = Skate / Sunday 25th June = BMX

Rampworx - Liverpool Saturday 8th July = Skate / Sunday 9th July = BMX

Y2SK8 - Peterborough Saturday and Sunday 27/28th May = Skate / Saturday and Sunday 22/23 July = BMX

A good friend of mine pointed out this video link.
Take a look and prepare to be humbled.
Is your life really that bad???

Og DeSouza

You get the idea, salt ash is a cool park.

The trailer for the new issue of Shook is up and looks like another really well crafted bit of graft from Chad Shack and Chronies. Its to be distributed by Paddedcall over ere, but i imagine it wont be ere yet so go watch the trailer a few times untill you get to play with the real thing.

Keith the eclectly dressed owner of Epic is orgainising a street jam with a slight difference to the norm. As soon as I receive the flyer I'll get it posted, but in the mean time see below.

This will be a new type of event for BMX … combining street riding with a massive social session at Epic and even some orienteering. This is how it will work:

- Teams of three - two riders and a driver/filmer.
- Teams win the event by scoring the most points.
- Win points by visiting each spot, with some spots worth more than others.
- Teams score the biggest points by doing the best tricks/riding at each spot and recording this on film.
- No-one knows the location of spots until everyone meets on Saturday night at Epic. No-one knows the points values until Sunday morning.
- On Saturday evening each team is given an envelop with a list of 20 street spots around Brum, including some new ones created specially for the day. They are also given a start time for Sunday morning.
- Saturday night is a BMX only all night jam with a late bar and basic sleeping accommodation.
- Teams start on Sunday between 10am and 12noon
- Teams have 5 hours to collect as many points as possible
- For every minute over the time limit on returning, you lose a point.
- The more spots you visit, the more points you get
- Spots with a greater sense of risk (just dangerous to ride, security guards or access issues) are worth more.
- More spots than you can ride, forcing you to choose say any 6/7 spots from the 20 on offer.

Once back at Epic, each team will be asked to show its film to the judges. Marks will be awarded to for spots visited, riding captured on the film and bonus events (fights with Chavs, security guards, the police, other teams).

When the judges have selected the top 3 teams, their films will be shown in the bar and a voting system will allow all riders to vote for the winning team.

Domain skate park in plymouth is worth a visit. its differnt, small but cool. mainly aimed at skateboarders but its not bad

Park contest
Rushden
Northants

19/20th August 06

senditmofo@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.etniesbmx.com/blog/2006/05/18/is-it-all-the-same/

Passion Issue 3 is now online and ready to download. www.passionbmx.co.uk/issue3.pdf

A couple of video trailers. The Make Clothing, Click here to view

And some footage of Tony Neyer, for Dave Jacob's company, Micreation. Click here to view, scroll down the page a bit for the link.

Got these photos off Toby Forte, the scene down at Green Machine the other day. Roundabout Tour in progress.

http://www.profileeurope.co.uk

Peace

Yep its that time again i've made another compilation of te clips from my camera and put some strange tunes to them. The first and last mp3's were found through www.resonancefm.com. Hi didilee de was found on my hardrive. On Eengoedide this time so you can save it if you like but you'll have to sign up!. Ere

Some photos and results from Nik Fords Love Metal Jam at Falmouth Skatepark. Photos by Rich Brake.

Little Rippers
Joint 1st - Jack Williams and Angus Vowles.

Rookie Street
1st – Jay Shears
2nd – Lee Pentecost
3rd – Adam Pope
4th – David Payn
5th – Chris Czako

Pro Street
1st – Toby Cresswell
2nd – Mark Theaker
3rd – Lee Carter
4th – Ed McEwen
5th – Adam Galt

Highest Hop
1st – James McFarlane and Lee Carter

Longest Skid
1st - Dave Detain

Here's a newer version with more readble text.

Date: May 27-28, 2006

Location: Decoy Park, Devon, UK

Info: Now in its third year, and charging £5 to compete, proceeds from the Jam will go towards “The Decoy Misfits BMX Dirt Club” - a local skate/bmx park for the whole community. Bringing pro’s and amateurs together, over 180 local amateurs are expected to attend, with another further 10 pros’ competing, including international names such as; Bas Keep, Scott Edgeworth, Steven Murray and the Forte brothers! And whilst the point of the event is to generate local support for the park, there will be prizes kindly donated by Oakley, DC and Seventies, but to name a few. Starting on Saturday 27, the event will commence with an amateur dirt and spine competition, followed by ‘highest air on dirt’ - complete with an ambitious 8ft lip to jump! Whilst Sunday will see the pro’s take to the trails, as the ‘longest 180’, ‘pro dirt’ and ‘best whip’ take place

my dslr breaking has made me get back in to film in a big way. my frige is filling up. going to start using infa red film as soon as the filter turns up. so maybe i will get some images on here.

Slades skatpark is pretty cool. i went to bournmouth for a interview at the uni about 6 weaks ago. i got accepted so i will be down that end for 3 years. i am looking forward to it. will be good to go somewhere where i havnt riden/explored properly. sorry the quality of the photos arnt that good. i just scanned the print on a flatbed at collage.

Leo and Toby at the trails the day after Kyes wedding. Lazy photos with the current flavour of the month Photoshop X Process action script.

The current set up down at Decoy, this photosop stitching did look a lot better until the computer crashed and I lost the finished piece, so lazy mid save version uploaded.

"The Circle" cover art

Here we have the cover for a new uk video "the Circle" made by Jamie Cameron, here's the link to the Alans product page if you wanna pre-order your copy as its not out there yet but as the youtube promo say's, dropping june 06!. Should be good'un.

The Veracity skatepark includes street funbox section, a generation gap and a gapped wallride leading into a hipped quarterpipe. The skatepark is in the Veracity recreation ground in Sholing Road, Southampton.

Redditch Skatepark Spam Jam is on Sunday 14th May starting 12 noon. The annual skate / bike and Music event. The day will consist of a skate comp on the small street course and new microramp. There will be a BMX comp which has got better each year on the large street course with a new jump box and course alterations to suite. There will be the usual product giveaways. Music will be headed by the finest local Bands and DJ's. This event celebrates Sponsors local skate and BMX shop Suspect Sports 5th Birthday. It's a £5.00 on the door and all proceeds go towards helping keep the skatepark going.

Owen manualling a longe ledge to drop in a line

A few photo's from a few rides i've been on lately with some gnarmeisters. They're on that blogspot thing of mine with the cringeworthy name again. I could just call it The arsehole but TheOpticvortex is close enough.

Josh Suhre sent me this link to a trailer of a video they are working on in Ohio.

http://media.putfile.com/From-Nothing-Commercial-April

Cheers to Lee, Homer and Mike for being patient while tried to look like I knew what I was doing and ferrying me round Brum last night on a mission to get some photos for today. Lee got a parking ticket and I made Homer do way too many lookbacks, sorry fella.

Just a few photos from a night ride in the newly built area next to @Bristol.

Here's a change from the usual misc photos and contest press releases. 10 questions with Mark Noble. Hopefully I will try and get more stuff like this in the future. This post was one off being post number 666 on this site!

1. How many photos roughly, do you think you look through each month?
Enough to fill a medium sized cardboard box - this is how we file the new issue. Each article has a large envelope with everything in it, and the box is then full of envelopes - looks a little old-school, but it works! These days though, more and more photos come in on disc - as old fashioned as it sounds, I still like looking at colour slides on the lightbox and a nice contrasty large B/W print with rebates in place.

2. Do you still ride much?
I try to. We have a ramp in the office, which I'm really into - nice and simple 4ft mini - but often it's covered in product stuff, and it doubles up as our photo studio area. Right this moment it's covered in new point-of-sale mag boxes which Joel and Chris are hand-screening for the bike and skate shops that sell the magazines, so it's not ridable every day. I'm really into my friend's local trails, really nice scene there - need to make more time to ride those as well... I'd like to ride more than I do to be honest!

3. Issue 100 is not far off, got any big plans or is it top secret?
We'd better start scanning in all 100 covers! That's all I can let out the bag right now...

4. A tough one, but favourite riding photo of all time?
Damn! I don't know... Out of my own photos, one that comes to mind immediately is a b/w shot of Jason Davies doing a no-handed disaster on our old local outdoor midi ramp in the early 90s; I shot it shot silhouette style straight into the sunset, he's wearing a cowboy leather jacket with full-on tassels on the arms, totally spread out... Nice. B/W rules. Out of other people's photos, maybe the cover of the first BMX Action I got from summer 1982; a pack of pros blasting into a flat turn, feet out, awesome. But there are so many amazing photos...

5. Anything you would like to do with the mag but can't because of technical restrictions?
Technically, the world is our oyster - it's just budget restrictions more than anything that holds us back. Our printer can do pretty much anything, it's just a case of whether we can afford to! Otherwise, we could have 260gsm embossed covers with foil blocking, die-cuts, eleven colour printing, spot varnish, fold outs, metallic inks, neon inks, the whole shooting match. Right now, I think we're doing great, with what we have in terms of production qualities. Not many people know that we use stochastic screening for our printing, for a start.

6. There must be some desirable parts kicking round the 4130HQ, what's the most treasured item?
Hmm... We have a ton of old-school parts, new parts, BMX magazines that are filed and go back to 1982, BMX photos that go back to 1981 - so it's hard to pick. I don't know really, maybe... A pair of Oakley 3s still in the packet? An extra large BMX Action magazine sticker? Something daft like that maybe.

7. Being so involved with BMX day to day, what other stuff are you into to as an escape?
Just riding, really. Riding with my young sons and watching them learn, riding on my own, riding with whoever locally. Aside from BMX, it's the usual stuff - keeping the home together, family stuff, that sort of thing...

8. Biggest misconception of Ride magazine?
That we're some sort of untouchable unapproachable corporation? People always seem surprised when they visit the offices anyway - whatever they were expecting, it's not. Sometimes they expect a big flash office, sometimes they expect a tiny run-down place, either way people always seem surprised when they visit 4130 towers. Well, we do what we can... I wish it was bigger and flasher, that's for sure! Or at least, tidier.

9. Ever thought about doing a downloadable version of issue 1, there must be a lot of people who would like to check it out.
Watch this space! (Personally, I don't like looking at our old magazines though. It's almost a little embarrassing at times...)

10. B&W, 35mm slide, medium format or digital?
Digital for sheer convenience.
B/W for art.
Medium format for pin sharpness.
35mm slide for that good old fashioned Velvia feeling...

Cheers to Mark for taking the time out to answer these. Keep up to date with all the latest at the Ride Blog

We only managed to scratch the surface of the concrete in Scotland, here is one we did ride in Stevenson. The guys running it even kicked everyone out for an hour so we could ride. A stop at Livingston was also made, probably the most amazing thing I saw there was Mitch Yates going over the wall after over cooking a fufanu. Somehow he managed to run down the back of it and got away with just a swellbow.

Been on the road for the last week (van on the last day with someones souvenier), cheers to Kye and the crew for having me, Chik at Unit 23 for really hooking us up and Souter and family for the BBQ. Here's some news, some of this stuff is a bit out of date, some not.



4Down - The website has been updated and there is now more than just a homepage there. News, who they distribute and more to come.

www.4downdistribution.com

Mutiny Bikes - All the frames are back in stock in new colors, each frame is now available in flat black and a color, there is
also the new versions of the chicago bar in a updated 11 butted version, the double butted spokes came in too. The ever popular Mid kits are back in stock too. For spec's please see

www.mutinybikes.com

New shirts design and are about to ship to distributors, all shirts are printed on fruit of the loom 50/50 and are available in small, medium and large.

Sprite Urban Games Press Release - The Sprite Urban Games is back with a vengeance. Gearing up to showcase the world’s best in skate, BMX and B-Boy action along with headlining music acts, Sprite Urban Games 2006 promises to be an unmissable freestyle festival.

Taking up residence on Clapham Common, London from Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July, this three day action sports fest brings together the world’s finest, all performing to the backbeats of the hottest urban and rock music around.

For the 8th year running 20,000 people are expected to descend on the Common for non-stop urban street culture. Not only will you be able to see some of the best action sports on the planet expect an amazing music stage with headline acts to get you pumped up, and in the mood for the summer weekend.

The festival promises to be the most exciting yet, with TWO streetcourses, tailor-made for skate and BMX. The bespoke courses will be the biggest and best yet (200m² larger than last year), designed by BMX legend Shaun Scarfe and skate expert Pete Turvey and ridden by World Champ and multi X-Games winner Ryan Nyquist, last year’s champion Colin Mackay, and a host of other confirmed names. And wait for it - the biggest vert ramp ever seen in the UK is coming! This brand new, purpose-built ramp, is based on skate superstar Tony Hawk’s ramp, and is drawing in the cream of international talent including Ronnie Remo, Pete King, Dave Allen and Matt Fairbairn. Expect awesome demos and a thrilling selection of gravity defying stunts.

There will be a monster £40,000 prize money on offer, so expect fierce competition as the best athletes in the world compete to nab the winnings in the International Skate (Street and Vert) and BMX (Street, Vert, Dirt, Flat) competitions. For talented 12 – 16 year olds, there is also the chance to emulate the pros, with serious prizes up for grabs for the best on the vert ramp.

The new British Skate and BMX Championships look set to shake up action sport history, with a British Champion being officially crowned in Skate Street, BMX Street and BMX Dirt Jumps. To be held alongside the existing Sprite Urban Games contests, the British Championships will have a separate prize purse, and entry system that is only open to UK entrants. This will give our home-grown talent a high profile stage on which to perform, that has a global audience of over 10 million people.

Sprite Urban Games wouldn’t be complete without the B-Boy arena. It’s set to rock Clapham once more, offering visitors the chance to see the crews battle, lock and pop their way to one of the top titles in the UK. An absolute must is the VIP b-boy pass, avoid the queues, and guarantee yourself a seat at every session with this golden ticket.

And remember the Sprite Urban Games aren’t just for pros, with a public streetcourse for kids and adults alike, so everyone can have a piece of the action. Cruise the awesome Retail Zone, and pick out the best gear from a selection of the coolest brands and retailers. After all the extreme action, there only one thing to do but grab a drink from one of the bars, chill out on the grass and watch the sunset.

Ticket Hotline Number: 0870 380 0136 or buy online at www.spriteurbangames.com