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Sunday Service: ‘Czech Me Out And Czhill’ (c.2002).

Ryan — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:00:32 +0000

“Tweaked fakie ollie down some (think of another word for stairs and insert)”
Tom Brown ‘Haunts’ interview, May 2001. Photo: Leo.

The early 00′s Manchester Wisdom crew head to Prague for a good old fashioned knees up/skate mission in this long lost edit from the one and only Stu Bentley. With Tom Brown, Garry Woodward, Si Ashton, Gez Magus, Eastbourne Ben, Keith Millar and more.

“80% Manchester, 20% Leeds, 100% Czech…”

Sunday Service: Leo and Jody Smith – Reaction “Creation” (2001)

Ryan — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:00:13 +0000

“Jody switch kickflips plant life, whilst Leo chooses a swizz heels.”
Leo and Jody Smith – Twin Haunts.
Sidewalk 55, April 2001
Photo: Wig

The Smith Twins set about various parts of the UK during their first section proper, taken from Reactions first and only VHS release ‘Creation’…

Sunday Service: Tom Penny/Chad Muska – “Collage” (2001)

Ryan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Voting for this years Big Push is now closed! Whilst we tally up the votes and figure out whether Nike SB, Vans, Etnies, adidas Skateboarding, Shiner, DC Shoes or Converse are the winners, involve youself with a lesser seen minute or so of Tom Penny footage from the mid-90′s Huntington Beach era courtesy of Danny Minnick’s 2011 ‘best of’ style compilation “Collage”, with some rare Chad Muska footage on the end and appearances from Remy Stratton and Rune Glifberg.

The Big Push 2011 winner will be announced on the cover of Decembers mag, pay attention!

Tom Penny/Chad Muska – “Collage” (2001)

Sunday Service: Frank Stephens – “Day in the City 1″ (2001)

Ryan — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:00:43 +0000

The marriage of Frank Stephens hitting up the streets of London, an Aphex Twin soundtrack and some madcap antics/filming/editing meant that Frank and Richard “Badger” Holland’s entry into the very first Day In The City VHS release back in 2001 was a definite highlight of the project.

Here’s a couple of paragraphs from Badger about getting the edit together…

“Having a real time schedule for this was no real challenge for me and Frank, we both don’t own a camera so up to Thursday, the day before, we were going to each other “f*ck”. We then got three digital cameras and thought we were saved but none of them worked at all, on the Friday we managed to get two with one battery each, so halfway through the day we had to go and recharge. It was OK though because we had a nice cup of tea.”

“Video making secrets? Well the screen is 768 by 576 pixels at 72 DPI. And the edit machines are made out of gold with little people running about inside throwing sticks at each other. Some colours you need to make broadcast safe, and it always takes ages to render, the Unabomber video had a total of 75gigs of footage.
Frank’s hair is not real.”

This oddity has been much sought after by Frank fans over the years, so enjoy the fact that this eccentric nugget of UK skate history is finally online after a decade of floating about in obscurity – click play below to get watching…

Sunday Service: Paul Silvester – Unabomber “Headcleaner” (2001)

Ryan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:00:46 +0000

The Big Push 2011 is officially over! The teams from Etnies, Converse, Nike SB, Vans, Adidas, Shiner and DC have been heavily blogging over the course of the last week or so, so catch up with what each of the crews have been up to as they made their ways around the country – head on over to the Big Push mini site for more!

Anyway, this weeks Sunday Service is Paul Silvester’s end section from the 2001 Unabomber VHS “Headcleaner”, click the play button below to get some decade old Man action in your Sunday!

See you next week…

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Sunday Service: Mark Channer – Unabomber “Headcleaner” (2001)

Ryan — Sun, 01 May 2011 09:00:15 +0000

As this bunch of text reaches your eyes, we should, if all goes to plan, be on our way to Transition Extreme, Aberdeen, for the second leg of this years War Of The Thistles weekender. If you’re lucky, footage from yesterdays comp at Dumbarton might already be on the site – head back to front page to check. Be sure to keep an eye on the site over the next twenty four hours for all the highlights from todays stop in The Granite City too.

Anyway, for something completely unrelated to the weekends Scotland antics, we decided to once again honour the sheer brilliance of Mark Channer’s low key London skateboarding, bringing you his last full part proper that appeared on the second full length Unabomber production, “Headcleaner”, released a whole decade back in 2001. Engage your eyes, sit yourself back and click play below to get involved…

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Sunday Service: “Kenobeds” – full Liverpool scene video (2001/2002)

Ryan — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:00:02 +0000

To coincide with the epic Liverpool scene article that can be found occupying a large chunk of the latest issue of the mag, Ash Wilson from Lost Art Skateshop has hooked us up with a copy of the infamous yet super rare 2001/2001 Liverpool scene video “Kenobeds” to share with the world. Featuring never before seen footage from the likes of Mackey, Ash Wilson, Howard Cooke, John Dalton, Kingy, Joel O’Connor and plenty of others, Kenobeds was only produced in two runs of 50 and mainly circulated amongst friends, meaning copies of it barely left Liverpool.

Ash tracked down “French” Fred Bezombes, the man responsible for the creation of Kenobeds, to get a few words on the video…

“Kenobeds was a never meant to be a real video. I started filming my friends every now and then as a memento of my time in Liverpool. I had very little footage as we were more busy skating and having fun than filming. One day I dislocated my foot so I knew I wouldn’t be able to skate for a long time as it kept popping in and out of place.

Spring was there and summer was coming so I went out to skate spots to hang out and I started filming a lot for something to do. I decided to get at least one clip of every single one of my friends; some people managed a few clips, some have one trick, some were killing it. My foot slowly healed and I was able to film some clips too. I know since then a lot of us went different ways, I’ve lost touch with most people in Kenobeds but every time I think of that video it brings back good memories from my old friends and it will always put a smile on my face. And to all my friends from that era, thank you for the good times.” – “French” Fred Bezombes, 2011.

Get involved now! Set aside twenty minutes of your Sunday, click play below and, for the first time, enjoy Kenobeds in full!

Serious props to Ash Wilson and Fred Bezombes for hooking this up!

Kenobeds – part 1 (Joel O’Connor, Kingy, Nollie Dan, French Fred, S.A Shawn, JOC and friends.)

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Kenobeds – part 2 (Metal Mike, Big Ash Wilson, John Winter, John Dalton, Howard Cooke and Mackey.)

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Resurrected: The Vans 2001 UK Tour Video

Ryan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:06:30 +0000

Vans and Alan Glass have resurrected the long lost footage from the 2001 Vans UK Tour, featuring decade old antics from Chris Pulman, Dave Chesson, Emilio Arnanz, Olly Todd, Marc Churchill, Dan Cates, Mark Channer, Pete King, Chris Oliver and various guests.

Old faces, friends, classic spots and vintage radness awaits…

Neil Urwin – Mischief “Ignite” (2001)

Ryan — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:00:22 +0000

Over the course of the weekend we’ll be bringing you a handful of sections from Bingo’s Mischief shop video catalog – this is by no means intended to be an extensive anthology of Bingo’s videography, but from now until Monday there will at least one section appearing daily from each of the three shop videos that he produced – Ignite (2001), Industrial (2003) and Northbound (2006).

See below for Neil Urwin’s short but banger part from the very first Mischief video “Ignite”, released on VHS ten years back in 2001.

Sunday Service: Mark Baines and Joel Curtis

Ryan — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:00:33 +0000

Well, it’s pretty much been a Mark Baines themed week on the site, so we thought we might as well carry it over ’til today as well.

So earlier this week we brought you Mark’s “Through The Eyes Of” edit, which, in amongst the variety of football related antics, saw Mark, Jerome Campbell, Danny Beall, Tom Harrison, Ash Hall and several others get the first session in at the new Sheffield DIY spot “Baineside” (or Jeromeside or Beallside depending on who you ask…), and today we bring you Mark and Joel Curtis’ joint section from Neil Chester’s classic 2001 VHS release “Steady”, predominantly filmed in and around Sheffield and South Yorkshire with a cameo from the one and only Scott Palmer.

Get more Baines in your eyes now – ram your mouse directly into the ‘play’ button below…

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