Skateropolis

DVS’s recent Skate & Create feature, Wood, is the second video masterpiece of its kind. This year, DVS took a more minimalist approach to twisting together skateboarding, art and landscape by using good ol’ wood as the vehicle. Although last years montage was truly amazing, I think this one takes the cake.

(I am sure that many hours were spent in the choreography and editing of this segment).

Enjoy!

Six European skate companies (Alai, Blueprint, Cliché, Element, Heroin, Trap) were invited to compete in Vans’ Euro debut of the DownTown Showdown on September 12, 2009. It was the first transatlantic Showdown and it rolled off with style. The Element team unofficially split their purse with Trap Skateboards from Hamburg Germany. Richie Löffler, pro rider for Trap said, “Sometimes politics go over skating, but then again sometimes the Skaters go over the politics.” [Classic!]

Anyhow, here is some sick footage of the teams skating 3 obstacles designed by Alai, Heroin and Cliché:

And here is some more great footage by the Alai team:

This summer’s ASR show in San Diego was recently kicked off with a Volcom-hosted mini ramp jam session, courtesy of Jim Bell Skateboard Ramps. JBSR is a San Diego-based skatepark building team who specialize in wooden mini ramps. This mini looks to be quite nice!

Steadham is throwin’ down a skate contest in Anaheim on the 19th of September. Here is some info on that.

of course it motivated a search for some old footy of the man himself. Here is what we found:

“Make It Happen: Lowcard“, the mini documentary of the San Francisco skateboard company, Lowcard, premiered at the Skateboard Film Festival on August 14, 2009. Lowcard started out as a independent magazine in 2003 developed by Rob Collinson and is now a clothes line among other things.

…And here is some footage of the 2009 Annual Chili Bowl Contest that was created by Rob’s friend Toad. This year the event was presented by Lowcard and held at Potrero skatepark in the Mission area of SF.