MAGS 2011 CHALLENGE

Just saw this flyers seconds ago on facebook. Someone tag a friend on the photo album which was upload by Melaka Action Games Society (MAGS) 2 day ago (so short notice). Anyway, you must be a membership of MAGS to compete the comp today at 5pm @ Melaka Mall Skatepark. So that means you must be a local (Melaka) skaters. Enjoy and Happy New Year 2011!!!

More details on Melaka Action Games Society (MAGS) on facebook and here too

HZ SKATESHOP SALE!

The first SALE from HZ Skateshop. Sale started few days ago on 25th Dec and will end on the 4th Jan 2011.

Skaters from Ulu / Lembah Kelang area, what are you waiting for? Why wanna go far or go thru all the traffics in the city. Just drop by at HZ Skateshop near Gurney Compleks (NOT Gurney, Penang) near by Dato Keramat or the easiest way is by LRT and stop at Damai Station. Check the map below.

Click HERE for HZ Skateshop website or HERE on facebook

JUNGLE SKATEPARK EVENT (BORNEO)

There's going to be 2 day event at the famous Likas Skatepark aka Concrete Jungle Skatepark, Sabah.

Here's the date:
BBQ TILL DAWN - 31st December 2010
7pm till 3am
event page on facebook

Game of SKATE - 1st January 2011

10am till 5pm

event page on facebook

SINDROM MAG

Remember we posted about Sindrom fotofreak a year ago? We'll this time they are back with a new look and also a new website too. Here's the story....

Sindrom Mag is a new free online skateboard magazine founded by 2 skateboarders from Serdang. Started in 2005 with the name of Sindrom.fotofreak and now have expand their hard work and effort thru photography and journalism in term to promote the local scene. Good news is they just launched their blog-site few days ago and you can download their first issue there now. Download them now and send them your honest feedback!!!

DOWNLOAD SINDROM 1st ISSUE HERE

Sindrom Offical web blog / Sindrom on facebook

TRON LEGACY + SKATEBOARDING

In honor of the TRON: Legacy premiere, members of ENESS (Interactive designers based in Australia) created an amazing interactive half-pipe to bring skateboarding to the grid / future. The riders utilized an iPod and ENESS’ custom-built app to measure air-time and trigger visual graphics upon the ramp’s surface.

Made to look like a fantastical Tron world, the illuminated skate ramps (fabricated from steel to support a floating platform) are absolutely epic. Watch the video below to see the ENESS skaters take the premiere by storm with their sci-fi skateboarding.

Skateboarding has to do with Tron? The answer is nothing, just as most skateboard demos at Seaworld, Six Flags, or halftime displays at professional football games. The last video below was 3 years back of Tony Hawk doing Tron Promo commercial "I am Sci-Fi"

via Skate and Annoy

QUIKSILVER ALL 80'S ALL DAY IS BACK

Yes the All 80's All Day event is back!! Have you guys ever seen guys wearing pink tshirt or shorts? Well it's not unusual to see them back in the 80's. That's what 80s is all about. 80's skateboarding has bring us back so many good memories and fun!

Check out some photos of the previous event here in our forum posted 2 years ago.

Check out more about the event here from Quiksilver

Here's a recap of last year and last 2 year ALL 80'S ALL DAY footage

SKATEVENTURE

Here's another one about longboarding long distance (distance skateboarding) adventure charity.

From the love of longboarding and the passion of adventure travel, Skateventure was born.

On January 2011, Troy Bilbrough & Huw John are skating 3200km across Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Their mission & journey is for the benefit of Canteen New Zealand, which supports teenagers and their families who are living with cancer.

Skateventure will begin their journey on January 15 2011, in Pai Mae Hong Son; Northern Thailand. Then from Phuket they will be skating down the west coast towards Malaysia; and enter Malaysia through road 4184 and longboard down the western coast towards Kuala Lumpur and end in Singapore.

They have plan to skate the smaller roads as is it is illegal to skate on the highways in Malaysia. While in Malaysia, they will meet up with The Longboarders Guild and the Malaya Street Bombers and skate some of the local spots. They might drop by at Wheel Love Skateshop too.

Read more about them on their web!

Skateventure Official Web / Skateventure on facebook

TITIWANGSA COMP RESCHEDULE

We were told by the Cheras Skate Team that the event which was supposed to be going on 26th December this Sunday has been reschedule to a new date and venue. Sorry for the inconvenience. Stay tune and check back here again for latest updates.

EVENT PHOTOS UPDATES!

Click HERE to view the whole event photos (by Hanief SHOWROOM)

Click HERE to view the whole event photos (by Lehud Leonidas)

KTN GAME OF SKATE RESULT

1st - Nik Mohd Ridzuan Kamarudin aka Burung

2nd - Azlan Naem aka Naem Besar

3rd - Amir Muharam aka Apek

Click HERE to view the event photos by Muhammad Shuhairi

Thanks to Wak Kuantan for the info

MONSOON MAYHEM SLIDE FEST

Slide Fest! What is downhill slide skateboarding? Well it's not definitely something new. If you happen to watched Powell Peralta Bones Brigade video back in the mid 80's, then you might notice downhill slide skateboarding section featuring Stacy Peralta himself doing freestyle sliding with legendary Cliff Coleman and friends (see video below).

Besides USA and Canada, the Brasil skateboarding scene have a huge popularity amongst downhill slide category. Check the video below!!!

Stoked enough?? Well come and join the slide fest, a side event of the Monsoon Mayhem on 7-9th January 2011 at Desaru, Johor. Organised by Bigfoot Industries. Lastly, helmet, knee pads and slide glove is compulsory.

Click HERE for Monsoon Mayhem #7 on facebook

SKATE ROCK

Skate Rock for those who knows how to rock and skate this upcoming new year's eve! Organised by Drug Free Youth Malaysia. Venue will be inside the futsal arena of MBSA Extreme Park. No competition just jamming!!!

Skate Rock Event Page on facebook

RESULT: PUTRAJAYA EXTREME GAMES 2010

1st - Nor Fadely aka Wak - Blunt Slide to Fakie

2nd - Mohd Fikri aka Usher (Billabong) - Kickflip BS 50

3rd - Haadi Zaharin aka Joey (Converse) - Kickflip BS 50-50

4th - Azreen Azman (Vans)

5th - Qhusairy (Cnopsis Skateboards)

6th - Muhamad Ezwan

Congratulations to all!!!

MAMBU GATHERING TIME RESCHEDULE

MAMBU have reschedule a new time for this Sunday gathering. It's not 12 noon any longer but 2pm. Please take note. It's 2PM!!!

Check HERE for more info

PCP EXTREME GAMES SCHEDULE

HERE is the schedule for this Saturday event at PCP. Please ignore the previous schedule posted 2 days ago. That was not mean for us. Sorry our bad.

Thanks to Pa'Din for the schedule

MAMBU BOARDS GATHERING

Date: 19 December · Time: 12:00pm - 20:00pm

Persiaran Alam Damai, Alam Damai, Cheras. (Click here for the meet up place)

You are all invited to the event as MAMBU will be having a gathering and this will allow you all to meet other Mambu owners and even the potential owners to get to know each other better. This event is not just for Mambu owners but to all longboarders that wanna join them!! You are all invited.

Also on that day they will be announcing the winner of the EXPRESS YOUR BOARD competition! So good luck to whom that is still in the running!!

This Mambu session will be having BBQ and potluck session as well. To people that wants to share their home cooked food, may it be big or small, please do bring. The more the merrier.

Details of the place will be announced soon. Just make yourselves available on that day and plan on what food you'd like to bring and share with everyone.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS EVENT IS TO GET PEOPLE TO MEET THEIR PEERS AND FRIENDS IN THE LONGBOARDING COMMUNITY. ERATKAN SILATURRAHIM.

And for those who wanna learn and see the longboarders that are more experience and crazier out there, here is your chance to meet them!!

MAMBU gathering event page on facebook

PCP EXTREME GAMES 2010 FORMAT & SCHEDULE

This week competition will be a best trick format. Only tricks on the ledges as shown above. No handrail. FEES is RM10! More details at Facebook event page

PRIZES :

RM500, RM400, RM300, RM150, RM100, & RM50. All placing come with products from SHOWROOM

GRINDBARU 2 "NIGHT BATTLE"

It's back once again. Organised by our local known skateboarder Haris Mansor. Click the flyer above for more details.

1st Jan 2011 (Saturday), 8:30pm

MBSA Extreme Park Sec 13, Shah Alam

Click here to discuss and share your ideas about this event

LONGBOARD - LONG DISTANCE FOR CHARITY

In the summer of 2006 a lone British longboarder, Dave Cornthwaite, has pushed off from Perth, Australia, with a world record 6,000 km of coastal road stretching ahead towards his final destination, Brisbane for charity.

Check it out more media coverage and videos on Board Free or Dave Cornthwaite or at youtube

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Early 2010, Swedish couple Jim Petersson and Maria Larsson went to skate about 4000km from Chiang Mai (Thailand) down to Singapore (passing thru Malaysia thru East Coast route) to raise funds for the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Read all their journey here at MrJimp Blogspot, or Mr Jim On Longboard Blog or MrJimonLongboard and tons of photos here on facebook.

They also featured on The Star on 6th Feb 2010 and a couple of other newspaper in Thai on Phuket Gazette, another one here and here.

Another Skate A Thon is coming on January 2011. Watch out for Skate Venture (tomorrow)!!!

METAL BAND MEET SKATEBOARDER

Remember Children of Bodom (COB) X Cole Zero skateboards last year. Well they are working out together again.

This time COB just wrapped shooting on a high energy music video for the brand new song “Was It Worth It?”. In the video, COB joined forces with two-time X Games gold medalist and two-time Thrasher Magazine “Skater of the Year” Chris Cole as well as noted pro skaters Jamie Thomas and Tom Asta (the current #1 Amateur skateboarder in the world). “Was it Worth It?” will appear on Children of Bodom’s as-yet-untitled seventh studio album, which is slated for a spring, 2011 release via Universal Music.

Filmed on location at central Pennsylvania’s residential Action Sports compound Camp Woodward and directed by Dale Resteghini for Raging Nation Films (Pink Floyd, Santana, Mötley Crüe), the “Was it Worth It?” video was shot guerrilla style, sans treatment; honing in directly on Children of Bodom’s high-spirited fire and the skaters’ eye-opening execution.

Check out the link below to read more

Metal Hammer, Guitar World, Children of Bodom Hate Crew site, Metal From Finland

BONES BRIGADE DOCUMENTARY IN THE WORKS

In 1984, The Bones Brigade video show was released. Once you went through the trouble of finding somewhere that you could spend the $30 bucks to buy it, you had to find someone who had a VCR to let you watch it with. But once you saw it, you would see skateboarding in a totally different light. Other important Bones Brigade videos were Future Primitive and The Search for Animal Chin. The Bones Brigade was made up of different personalities and different styles and they dominated skateboarding both on vert and street in the early to mid-eighties. Why it took so long to create a documentary on the interesting creation and ending of the Bones Brigade is strange, especially with all the hype on the Dogtown skateboard scene a few years ago. Like Dogtown, Powell Peralta were masters of imagery and marketing - the signature style and intense detail of the Vernon Courtland Johnson deck, t-shirt, and sticker graphics are highly collected and are still the benchmark for what skate art can be today. Not too many skate crews have had an impact like the original Bones Brigade.

Beginning in February of 2011, legendary skateboarders Stacy Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, MIke McGill, Lance Mountain and Tommy Guerrero will be working on a Bones Brigade documentary film. If you haven’t seen Stacy's Crips and Bloods doco, you definitely should. Plus other such Dogtown and the Z-Boys, Riding Giants and more.

On November 29th, these seven influential guys got together and sat down at Los Angeles International Airport, to discuss work on a documentary of their experience as skaters.

Simultaneously, a Powell-Peralta coffee table book is in the works. It will include the Bones Brigade, but also other things you knew and didn’t know about Powell-Peralta.

Check out the link to read more on this important time in skateboarding progression.

Powell Peralta

SCULPT OR DIE

Ehren Bienert is a sculptor who used to work for McFarlane Toys. He’s also a skater, and for the past three years or so he’s been sculpting some skateboarding personalities. His work is pretty amazing. He even makes the boards himself. He sculpts them in wax first, and makes a mold for a plastic resin cast. Check out Sculpt or Die.

TAIWAN - ASIAN EXTREME SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL VIDEO

FINAL RUN FORMAT


BEST TRICK FORMAT

Video courtesy from Shinfu of Paranoid (Taiwan)

KUANTAN (KTN) GAME OF SKATE

Date : 18 December 2010

Venue : KBS Kuantan Skatepark, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Category : Game Of Skate (for Pahang skaters only)

Thanks to Firdaus Putra from Skate Timor for the info

TAIWAN - ASIAN EXTREME SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATES 2

PARK FINAL RESULT:

1st - Luk Chun Yin (HK)

2nd - Johnnie Tang Chun Yin (HK)

3rd - Taiwan Skater

4th - Mohd Farris (SIN)

5th - Sutat Siriwat (THA)

6th - Adam Zari (MAS)

7th - Pevi Permana (INA)

8th - Mohd Nazeer (SIN)

9th - Jakkarin Petchvoraphon (THA)

10th - Iqbal Mohammad (INA)

BEST TRICK RESULT

1st - Geng Jakkarin (THA); 2nd - Chun Cha Yin Luk (HK); 3rd - Mohd Nazeer (SIN)

Vert Final:

1st - Mohd Farris (SIN)

2nd - Lai Jun Hao (TAI)

3rd - Pevi Permana (INA)

Photos HERE (will upload tonight)

Thanks to Warren X-Fed for the results. Thai X Games and AXF for the photos

TAIWAN - ASIAN EXTREME SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATES

Yes Adam Zari made it to finals!!!! Meanwhile Am Cheras end up number 14 during the prelims on day 1 (its ok Am...having you there make us proud already). Check out the 14 minutes clip!!!

KUL SIGN FEST SKATE COMP DETAILS

Please come for registration and practice tomorrow at Pasar Seni LRT station. Judges would be Danial (Denster) and Hariz (both PUSH rider). Competition format would be best trick on GRIND BOX!!!

Competition on Sunday!!!

More info check KULSIGNFEST web

STREETBOARD PRO IN TOWN

photos above courtesy of Rampworx.com

World most popular pro snaker / streetboarder Sergei Nicolas from Barcelona, Spain was in town yesterday after travelling from Vietnam and Thailand. He might be ripping your bowls near Shah Alam or vert in Kiara by now. So make your way to your nearest skatepark and give him a nice warm welcome.

What is a streetboard? Remember snakeboard that was invented back in 1989? I bet you guys heard or seen it before. But streetboard is an updated / advanced version of snakeboard (some people call it pivotboard). Click the link below to learn more about it.

Streetboarding / Snakeboard & Streetboard / Streetboard.org

Videos of Sergei Nicolas

SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL

Check another entry of Skateistan in NBC's recently on 25th November. Click HERE