The 2015 World Round Up Freestyle Skateboard Championships at the Cloverdale Rodeo in Surrey, BC, Canada was a hit once again. Everyone skated amazingly in the Finals but only 2 could be named Best in the World – 19 year old Andy Anderson from Canada took the title in Amateur while 51 year old Guenter…
This weekend is the Cloverdale World Freestyle Round up, the competition that brings freestyle skaters from around the globe to one place and show off their skills. Last year we invited freestyle skaters from the Cloverdale Round Up to come to the shop and skate the baby smooth pavement that is the shop floor. If […]
420 ART SHOW: 4.20.2014Grip Tape Pimps: We have lots of griptape at the Labs. MOB, Hammer, Jessup, Monster, Blood Orange and more! Check the amazing work done by Nathan Custom Bishop and Petteri Soyrinki “Our Grip Tape Pimps” at the LABS.
This past weekend Top of the World skateshop hosted Ottawa/Gatineau’s first snowskate contest and open jam. You may have not seen a snowskate at the hill yet, let alone try one, but I assure you that it will have a very strong presence in the near future as this emerging core culture takes its stand. […]
The Concrete Barmy Army is a crew of skateboarders from Austria with a passion for building skate spots made out of concrete. After creating a skate plaza, different ledges, parking blocks and builds at public places we gained expertise during the time working with this material. In this issue we’ll give you a short guideline […]
“Why DIY?” I ask Johannes Whal as we catch our breath between runs in his new indoor spot named “The Cellar”. “Because Vienna has 48 skate parks and 45 of them are garbage, they just build them without asking the skaters, prefabricated concrete, hundreds of thousands of Euros wasted.” Johannes and his friends started to […]
One of my favourite quotes from Kody Noble “Every type of skating helps every type of skating” This is true for a lot of people who express themselves with the various elements of skateboarding. There is a lot of cross pollination of skill set between each style and they all feed off each other subconsciously. […]
When I was a kid and someone asked me what I liked most about skateboarding. For as far long as I can remember, I would always answer: “it hasn’t been wrecked by the rest of the world”. There is something about skateboarding that is just so f**king pure, and that in itself is not always […]
In-shop demo at the Labs with grip tape artist Nathan Custom Bishop. Nathan created 4 new designs and executed one of them for us today. Longtime skater and renowned grip tape pimp Bishop has shown his original creations locally at Hastings Warehouse, SBC Skate Cafe, The Loose Moose and Motion Art Gallery and Stoneworx Gallery […]
Sup, Szeto!! How are you, man? Chillin mang! Just got back from a rad motorcycle run (#twointhebush2014), skateboarding a bunch, and getting things into production. Interview by Jordan Langdon: What inspired you to begin the Maru journey? Maru came out after spending the last 7-8 years being in school and working full time during that period. […]
The vert ramp at the Encinitas YMCA was from the 2006 X-Games. It was 120’ long with two 18” extensions, a 60’ wide roll-in and a hip in the middle. After skating at the Y pretty much daily, I got to know the park staff pretty well, especially Heather, the skate park director. In the […]
Brazil’s Sergio Yuppie first came to the world’s attention in the video “Flow” from Gravity Skateboards. This was well over 12 years ago. His part featured insane slides at speed and combinations of moves that were unique and outrageous. For Sergio, sliding through fire and bombing down giant concrete slabs formed from bridges were as […]