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Chris Joslin vs. Tom Asta tough battle to advance at BATB X, large bag of flatground tricks, check it out!
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DC shoes is would like to announce the "Arrival" of John Shanahan, Alexis Ramirez, and Chase Webb to the DC team. Enjoy some insane skating!
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Get ready for some serious good skating, Pyramid Country videos are so epic. Check for yourself on this awesome 30 mins video length featuring Dave Engerer, Robbie Brockel, Jack Olson, Kevin Braun, Aaron Goure, Ryan Townley, Blue Headey, Eric Dowswell, Justin Modica, Klay Andersen, Tyler Franz, Chase McIntyre
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Take a look to the dope skatepark specially built by California Ramps for this contest.
Also some of your favorites skaters has already confirmed like Tyler Surrey, Vinicius Santos, Cristian Vanella, Aurelien Giraud, Neverton Casella or Cristian Sánchez. No invitation needed to enter the contest so what are you waiting to sing up
The contest consist in three different categories: Open, Women and under 16 with many cool activities around the event, from a spot battle contest to a Bowl party at Nervermind Bar. Take a deeper look at the provisional schedule of BEO and find out more
Make sure to save the dates June 15th to 18th to enjoy this cool Barcelona European Open event that it will take place at Forum, Barcelona.
Check out the teaser below featuring Pol Catena!
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A sunny weekend in Barcelona is a tough act to beat, drop in 15 top AMs, a kicking sound system and a concrete skatepark next to the beach and you would be hard pushed to top the finals of the Nike SB Barcelona AM at Skate Agora, Saturday.
The finals format was simple – 5 x 3 man, 3 minute, jam format heats. With only one visit to the park for the skaters there were no opportunities to play around for anyone who was hoping to end the day with a pocket full of prize money.
Mathias Torres from Chile passes by Barcelona every few months and has clearly got feel for local lines, showing smooth flow and smashing an inward heel down the stairs, but the standard was high at the Badalona park. Gustavo Ribeiro, a second place finalist from last year had his eye on taking a step up the podium by bringing home a bigspin fs blunt to fakie down the rail but couldn’t hold the rest of his run together enough to retake a top spot.
Justin Sommer’s skating over the last couple of days showed he was going to make a point and demonstrated the fact by bringing a hard flip front board on the rail to the party and closing down 3rd spot. Last year’s winner Jorge Simoes was back in the final mix, on form and looking good for the double, snapping into a frontside ollie to switch krook on the volcano and taking a bigspin fakie nosegrind to the bump to ledge. Young Tim Debuche, 15 from the south of France, had other plans though, and a 360 flip lipslide to fakie and kick flip to front nose grind on the bank to ledge was enough to turn the judges heads and award him the overall title.
1st Tim Debuche / 2nd Jorge Simoes / 3rd Justin Sommer
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The Nike SB Barcelona AM is the first stop Nike SB European Series that holds events in Paris, London, Berlin and Copenhagen over the course of summer.
See what’s going down here
Enjoy below a dope photo gallery
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The European capital of skateboarding, the proving ground for AMs, Barcelona, once again blessed us with sunshine and a perfect temp for the qualifiers of the Nike SB Barcelona AM on Friday afternoon.
Many of the skaters who had travelled into Barcelona, got in the mood for the heat rounds with a classic ‘Hill Bomb’ from the top of the city down to the newly opened Barcelona Box creative space situated on Barceloneta Beach.
Stadium bleachers and screens set up around The Skate Agora skatepark in Badalona down the coast, added to the intense session atmosphere as the 120 registered skaters from across the globe threw down for the biggest AM skate event on the continent.
With only 20 skaters advancing through to the semis to meet the 20 pre-qualified riders, 3 man, 3 minute heats flew through in a blaze of fierce skating.
15 made the cut for the Saturday finals that saw a bunch of big hitters missing the grade in the insanely tough field.
Getting through with some man size lines, was Londoner Casper Brooker alongside Norwegian child prodigy Jonas Carlson, who showed the flow maturity of a skater a decade his senior. The top three from the semis were Didrick Galasso with trademark relaxed effortless cool, Mads Christensen solid and textbook as ever and going through in the top spot big man Alexander Risvad showing super consistency throughout the day.
Full list of results
For those that didn’t qualify there was consolation in the fact that they could let loose in town and take in the launch of the Marcel Veldman’s solo exhibition ‘Definitely Not the New Fluff Exhibition’ - skateboarding in its purest form.
The overall winner will also leave with a ‘ticket to fly’ pass getting them an invite to the Nike SB Berlin Open at the end of July
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Dope edit by UK Spitfire Wheels crew featuring Harry Lintell, Manny Lopez, Dylan Hughes, Joe Gavin and Ollie Lock ripping up at the streets of Barcelona, enjoy!
Filmed and edited by Austin Bristow
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Two big contenders Chris Cole vs. Nick Tucker battling to advance at BATB X, check it out!
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Lay back and enjoy this epic FTC Revisited by Manolo´s Tapes. A compilation of the first two videos "Finally" and "Penal Code 100a". Never before seen footage alongside extended versions of some of the lines... melt your eyes...
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Gnarly two songs video part by David Gravette, ripping up at everything and he makes it looks easy, check it out!
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Milton Martinez destroying everything on his way on this awesome Creature video part, gaps, ramps, walls, you name it
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Nike SB introducing the Dunk Low Elite designed by Oski with this awesome video part. From his home skate park Stapelbäddsparken in Malmö, Sweden to San Francisco's gritty streets, Oskar Rozenberg handles anything and everything in front of him. Watch and you'll see how.
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Another dope video part from the Creature Skateboards video, this time Jimmy Wilkins ripping up in vert, enjoy some gnarly moves in an awesome B/W edit!
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Hammer time on this awesome Creature video part by Peter Raffin, enjoy some gnarly skating with a smooth style.
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Gnarly part by Chris Russel on the Creature Skateboards video, get ready for Rock & Roll!
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Dope game of skate featuring Paul Rodriguez vs. Chris Colbourn, tough battle on this one, check it out!
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adidas Skateboarding continues to draw its inspiration from its favorite cities around the world. Transitioning from the mystique and gritty streets of New York City, the three-stripes brand kicks off its London arrival with an all new skate edit, entitled London, Meantime.
Showcasing an all-star cast, the edit features skating from adidas’ Blondey McCoy, Daewon Song, Gustav Tønnesen, Mark Suciu, Rodrigo Teixeira, Alec Majerus, Benny Fairfax, Marc Johnson, Na-Kel Smith, Kevin Lowry, Günes Özdogan and Lucas Puig, enjoy this one!
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Youssef Abaoud
Designer & Constructer
Levi’s® Skateboarding proudly presents: ‘The Byrrrh & Skate Project’, a local DIY skate build in an old factory close to Gare du Midi, Brussels, designed and constructed by Youssef Abaoud; a local skater from Dour, Belgium.
First started 3 years ago, following the closure of the infamous Roller Park in Anderlecht, Belgium, skateboarders were left with nowhere to go when the weather turned bleak. Trying to find an empty, sheltered spaced space without security guards was tough, and skateboarders were shunned everywhere they went. Because of this, Youssef started collecting scraps of wood, waste materials as well as old skate ramps and built a number of pop up DIY ramps in old abandoned buildings to enable him and his friends to skate during the winter months.
This was around the time that local skateboarders found themselves having to build places outside of the city so that they wouldn’t get caught by the local authorities. Not long after the Roller Park closed, some skateboarders built a DIY spot under a motorway with cement which was a cool idea but was hard to skate and even harder to get to if you didn’t drive. Throughout this time there were also lots of DIY attempts around the city where local skateboarders would assemble miniramps in their favourite spots but you had to know the right people, in the right space, at the right time to drop in.
One day whilst on a job in Laeken, Youssef came across an abandoned warehouse that he used to work in. It was empty, dry, lit-up, had smooth floors and was vacant until further notice. Over a number of weeks, Youssef and his friends set up some ramps and as word started to spread, more and more people were eager to visit and lend a helping hand. This was the start of The Byrrrh: a name that was founded from a sign that hung over the doorway of the warehouse; a popular French aperitif.
The Byrrrh was a space open to all and all that was asked for in return was a couple of euros to keep the ramps in shape and the fridge stocked. For two winters The Byrrrh was going strong until the property had a change in ownership and everyone had to vacant the premises.
The second phase of The Byrrrh took place further afield in Evere; a quiet suburb more commonly known by the skaters as a place to skate marble forecourts and curbs of local businesses on weekends. Here, Youssef and his friends came across an old, expansive television studio where there was space to build bigger and better obstacles like a corner quarterpipe. The old fridge found a new home in one of the small rooms where a bar was set up to serve food and drink to all who visited. One of the small adjoining rooms was also used as an art studio where old boards were used as a blank canvas and exhibited within the space. Everything seemed to be falling into place nicely until unfortunately the building was needed once again and so everyone packed up and moved out.
Since then, Youssef and his friends set out on a mission to create a permeant community based indoor skate park where all skaters from Brussels and beyond could visit throughout the year. Made up of donated wood, confiscated skate obstacles, recycled waste and concrete, the 945m2 park underneath the railway arches is an open space otherwise known as a ‘Byrrrh’, that offers itself to all skaters: any age, any level, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
On Saturday 6th May, Levi’s® Skateboarding supported the launch of The Byrrrh & Skate Project by hosting The Byrrrh Jam: an event that officially opened the park to locals and skateboarders from across Europe. Throughout the day, Levi’s® skateboarding holded a number of small events and activities including; an under 18 skate competition, live music by La Jungle, a photography exhibition about Youssef’s work to date and The Byrrrh story and a 18+ cash prize skate competition as well as food, drink and good times!
Enjoy an awesome photo gallery by Al_Bo below to watch what went down during the opening day!
Photography by Al_Bo
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