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Potter In The States

2008-05-19T11:13:00.002+01:00

No footage just yet, but hopefully soon, there will be an edit of some craziness including Death Skateboards Pro rider Carl "Potter" Wilson to post up here. For now, look at some photos that made their way onto the Sidewalk website.

Click here.

Benson Is Still Ace

2008-05-17T14:28:00.002+01:00

Proof is in the clicking.

MONK IN NEW HARLOW PARK SEQUENCE SHOCKER!!!!

2008-05-15T17:02:00.004+01:00

Monk has always been there to film, drive, and entertain us over the years and he fucking rules. It's about time we showed some love to the big guy!

So when he's not farting, being naked or killing people on his Xbox 360, he's at the new Harlow skatepark farting and thinking about being naked and killing people.

Bluntslide on concrete that was 20 years in the making. Better late than never!

RONNY CALOW!!!

2008-05-15T16:38:00.006+01:00

540 TAILBLOCK BITCHES!!

Now that's a move you don't see everyday!

Scott's In The States

2008-05-14T21:31:00.004+01:00

Thrasher magazine has this article online. Death pro Andy Scott along with other Scots at the DC ramp.

A small video clip accompanied the article too. Click it.

Zarosh And Melcher Dekline Tour

2008-05-13T14:04:00.003+01:00

Two of our finest, Zarosh and Melcher, are on a wee skateboard trip with Dekline touring all over the place. You can check their progress here and here.

White Awadh

2008-05-08T17:54:00.001+01:00

Benson is ace.

Proddy

2008-05-03T14:43:00.004+01:00

I hope you've been keeping up to date with all things Death related like these new boards that feature in the products section in the sidebar. You have? Good, then I won't need to show you them again, right?

Square One Video

2008-05-01T18:28:00.005+01:00

Badman Boots is going to have a full part in a new London scene video called "Square One" due out this summer. Check out the trailer below.

Click To Play

and check out their blog here.

Amoss Gets Kinky

2008-05-01T11:23:00.004+01:00

As promised, here is a little more from Death team rider Adam Moss. Although these two tricks on this kinked handrail are ABDs (already been done) by others, what Adam pulled off later is most probably an NBD (never been done, keep up!), but you'll have to wait for that clip to appear somewhere else.

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The House Skatepark's 10th Birthday - Sheffield

2008-04-28T18:38:00.006+01:00

Hi All, Just a quick event for your Diary.

Try to be there, its free!

Visit them here for more details.

AMOSS

2008-04-27T01:02:00.004+01:00

If you google AMOSS, you'll find the definition "Alarm Monitoring Operational Support System" amongst other things. Well that's all wrong. AMOSS is the given nickname of Death team rider Adam Moss and he's been put on Crossfire's "moves" page with this mega nollie down some mega stairs. Mega!
Click the image for it to go and get bigger. More AMOSS goodness soon.

Save Harrow Jam 2008

2008-04-24T22:17:00.011+01:00

The "Save Harrow Jam" went down last Saturday (19th May). I just stole a bunch of photos from numerous sites. Big ups to Sam Ashley, Twiggy, Paul Mckeown, Crossfire, Tackyworld and all the others.

Click here to watch the video on Tackyworld.

War Of The Thistles

2008-04-22T11:41:00.004+01:00

Sidewalk magazine's online news page has the below clips of the recent mentalness that was day one of War Of The Thistles held at Transition Extreme in Aberdeen, Scotland and day two in Dumbarton. Death team riders Andy Scott and Benson showed some top notch transition skills along with Death Wheels team rider Aaron Sweeney.

Day One

A Special Board For A Special Man

2008-04-21T23:59:00.005+01:00

Cates premiered his new secret weapon at the Harrow Jam on Saturday.

More photos and footage coming soon (hopefully).

It's Almost Time Again

2008-04-17T11:07:00.002+01:00

The annual carnage that is Document Magazine's "Big Push" is almost upon us again. The team's have been announced and of course, Death Skateboards will be there.

I'm sure that by now you've seen Death skateboard's Big Push edit from last year. No? Oh, OK then, here it is again.

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Flight Of The Condor

2008-04-16T19:11:00.006+01:00

Hosted on the Crossfire site is this sequence of Death rider Ben Cundall doing his thing. The sequence was taken by Death's best friend, Styley who will soon be filling up his own blog over in Japan land. Click the image so your eyes can see it proper.

Limited Edition Decks

2008-04-16T19:03:00.006+01:00

Get yourself down to your local skater owned shop and see if you can get hold of one of the 100 limited edition 10th anniversary Death decks that are on sale now.

If you don't manage to find one of them, do make sure to buy one of the many other Death boards available. There's a new "Products" image in the sidebar of this blog so click it to see all the latest Death products.

COD

2008-04-14T21:28:00.002+01:00

Does COD stand for Captain Of Dyeing? Well Horsey could claim that he is just that as he has knocked up another batch of the ever popular Death tie-dye t-shirts as mentioned in a previous post.

Or does it stand for Compulsive Obsessive Disorder? Maybe, he is a weird one.

But COD currently stands for Call Of Duty, Call Of Duty 4 to be precise, on Xbox Live on which he constantly commits murders during the wet weather we are having at the moment. I'm just bitter as I suck at it. Anyway, here he is leaping in America during dry weather.

Sardine Land

2008-04-11T15:01:00.017+01:00

So here is a little story in pictures from a recent trip to the island of Sardinia with Cates, Boots, Styley, our friend John Tanner and myself. Not an official Death trip, more like some mates trying to escape the British winter shitness! Enjoy!

Styley organised and drove the hire car, something which is essential in Sardinia. Thanks Styley!!
It really makes a difference driving to a spot rather than walking miles everyday and being too tired to even stand up, let alone skate! (Rather like our Istanbul skate/hiking trip we went on two weeks later. Blog coming soon!)

Our accommodation was pretty ghetto, we wouldn't have minded but the room Boots and I were sharing had seven blankets on the bed, which caused some confusion til the first night- Below zero temps, window and doors with huge gaps and NO HEATING!

We were also woken up at 6am every day with what sounded like chickens and a heard of goats on the roof.

Boots ruined his ankle the very first time we tried to skate! Rested for three days (Torture on a trip like this) and then rolled it again! Luckily it was nothing too serious, he's fully better now.

No coping? No problem!

DITCH!!!

A mini broom for a mini Cates.

Sardinia RPRZNT!!!

Boots tried setting up a new board to cheer himself up....

...it didnt work.

Here you have the standard rewind huddle, with the added bonus of it being Styley who was getting his shred on for the camera.

It never feels like you are on holiday until you get in the sea. Fucking freezing.

A Cactus

An out-of-season water park is the stuff dreams are made of! Unfortunately too much mess, not enough hours of light, too many miles to drive back and too many weird farmer/inbred lurkers around. A real shame, we tried our best!

This restaurant was next door to the ice hotel and made up of loads of hollowed out tunnels. We had pizza for dinner here everyday! Eight euros with a beer, so rad.

Poser of the month! We looked for this hubba high and low. Captain Styley found it on the second to last night! Dan recreates a photo that was taken here once, shortly before Boots tried skating on his balloon ankle one last time and did one of the best things i have ever seen in my life.

Well, see ya later!

Here We Go Again

2008-04-11T14:56:00.006+01:00

Following the hot success of the last batch, I got back into my tie dye HQ

and whipped up another load of 100 lickidy split

go get one before they sell out again!

Darloooooo!

2008-04-06T17:05:00.026+01:00

I've been talking about doing a write up for the Death Blog for ages and being the lazy get I am and coupled with it snowing outside I thought it'd be a good idea to start.

I had the idea of going home (Darlington) for a day and skate some of the old spots I used to skate when I was a kid. Thought it'd be nice taking Jonny McNair and Moggins with me, also a crew consisting of Scott Hardy, The Brow, Rob from't House and Chung. The idea was take some photos and film some sick shit.

The day starts the night before, I answered the phone to Moggins, he backed out, some thing to do with an injury, I personally think he's a bit soft and wasn't really up for skating the rough streets of Darlo. Fuck, 1 down, I thought I'd make sure Jonny was still in and sent him a don't get fucked up message "it's still on, early start!".

The morning came, it was pissing down in sheffield, I had been checking the weather forecast the week prior and it was always going to be hit or miss, Unfortunately Jonny thought it was definately off and went out and got fucked up anyway, Glad he got my message! I had spoken to Rob earlier, (he is of course a proper adult and when he says he's doing something he's definately doing it), He came and got me and we collected what was left of Jonny.

And headed up to the Brows

After an hour or so on the road we arrived at Darlington and after a few phone calls to various people we managed to get quite a little crew together and headed down to the South Park, this is a place I grew up in as a kid, its got funny little bowl which I hadn't really skated before so what looking forward to it.

Rock 'n' Roll

Jonny post hangover.

The one and only Mr Scott Hardy

We were running a tight ship so couldn't spend too much time there, I could've spent all day. We had other places to check out so we decided to go street skating the old Blockbusters (formally comet) Bank was the first spot. Just as good as I remember.

Wallride Shuv

The weather pretty good all day apart from wind.

Jonny and his coat.

Chung, taking a break from shooting photos and enjoying a kickflip.

Danny was there. Ollie to Road

We were a bit worried about light and everyone fancied a change so we went up to Prissick in the Boro, again the wind was a nightmare but we had a good laugh.

Angry Drop-in from Jonny

Wallie Wall Ride

Scott destroyed this rail, Nose Grind

Lipslide

Krooks

Jonny wiping his nose on the hubba

Started to loose light by this point and thought we might as well check out one last spot, Ladies and gentlemen I present to you:

Hurworth
Halfcab Blunt

Scott Ollie

The Brow, Pivot fakie.

Hurworth is always a treat to go to but to light it up like that was amazing. We got footage of the whole day and as soon as Rob and myself get some time well put a little edit together and link it through.

All the photos but 1 were taken by Chung

See you fuckers later!

Oh and a special thanks to Rob from the House for all the driving etc.

Pritchard On Skysports

2008-04-04T18:06:00.004+01:00

Any of you eagled eyed viewers out there may have noticed a certain Mr. Pritchard being interviewed today on Skysports News as his beloved Cardiff are in the semi-finals against Barnsley over the weekend.

I'm not convinced of Pritchard's football credentials, in fact I'm sure they were looking for some semi-famousish Cardiff peeps. Will post link when I find it.

Here's an artist's impression of him in his early playing days.

A Moment With Melch

2008-04-02T10:42:00.003+01:00

Rather than posting here on the official blog, Death Pro Patrick Melcher has gone and done his own blog. Take a look at his world of weirdness and his fascination with facial hair.

Save Harrow You Diiiiicks!

2008-04-02T01:59:00.004+01:00

Well, I don't really know all the latest Harrow Skatepark details, all I know is there's a sort of save Harrow/get boozed up/make a tit of yourself party coming soon (19th). Get there or be a mug. "Day Release" are playing I think and Mark Nicolson will be there. Do'nt miss out!!