Issue #8 features interviews with:
Frank Shaw, Sox (Wales), Zombie Stu, Mike Neider from B’last , Lovenskate in Bilbao (Basque), Ramp Jam 4, Belgium, Scene Report – Cadiz, Spain plus DIY skate spot check outs DIY Skate spot check outs: Bluestone (Australia), Port Land (Switzerland), PFK Skate support center (Japan), Bangkok Bowl (Thailand).
Driving down Melrose Ave. I saw a quiet little spot, perfect for a narrow quarter pipe. I knew there is no way I could build there so I started thinking about prefab DIY….
Words + photos: Fred Ferand When a friend dies, he always leaves a big hole … Keep reading
Futaba tunnel is one of the closest skate spots from the Fukushima nuclear plants. It was a hard and fun spot.
After we had built a sweet kidney pool in the lovely seaside resort of Mers les Bains on the northern french Atlantic coast last year we were invited to come back this year for more. The plan was to extend the street area with some kind of pump track around the whole park and mixing some street obstacles in there and just try to open up as many lines as possible.
Skaters have long held the torch of adopting the most awesome of the misappropriated religious festivals for Australia. Dress up in satanic garb, get a bit intoxicated and play skateboards? Fuck yeah!
The killer Halloween bash was another epic success at The Humpbowl.
Two years ago I started digging a pool in my town Lodi. The city authorized the skate association to do that but after a while I found asbestos in the dirt.. it’s not toxic but really harmful if you inhale it. I don’t know if you have that shit where you live, but it’s pretty big in Italy though. Somebody hid the asbestos back in the day. I quit with that. I wasted six hundred euros…
Frank Shaw, featured in Confusion Magazine issue #8 (as well as shown on the cover of the same issue doing a hurricane grind over the door at San Pedro) has a new video part for HOAX MFG premiering exclusively on Confusion Magazine, right here, right now.
“Shaun “the Boss” Ross is a bad ass. Shaun loves skateboarding, his family and surfing. Unfortunately shortly after his Thrasher intro part and his “Hall of Meat” clip came out, he blew out his knee. So here we are now, all healed up and starting to roll around again.
It’s called Mini only because in the late 90`s there was a miniramp and everyone … Keep reading
It’s about a Satanic Goat with a gas mask, which is a skate truck. Also this mask is to protect the toxic smoke of skull of scooters. These are burning and at the same time it forms a satanic star inside the skull which is a skate bowl. Artwork by: Bec Negre