RIDING THE EDGE OF THE OASIS: FEAR AND STOKE IN PALM SPRINGS

Having the opportunity to skate the water park was like no other and I knew I couldn’t pass it up. The loop is a lot bigger and scarier in person but damn it was fucking sick! Good friends, good vibes and big water slides.

Under the Bridge in the Canary Islands

I had the idea of shooting a wallride from an angle where you are able to see the canyon, the houses above the street, and of course the bridge and somewhere down there, somebody on a skateboard, doing something in this wild place.

Shaun Ross

“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.

Andreu Grao. Melon to fakie. Photo: Tono Garcia

Casa Maccaroni – mini ramp and guesthouse – Canary Islands

Casa Maccaroni is a guesthouse made for people who want to live in an international community, inspired from art, surf and skateboarding, surrounded by the Canary Islands environment. We comes from skateboarding and we restored an old and typical majorero’s farm. As DIY skateboarding carpenters, moved by real passion, we fixed this house to make a guesthouse where you can feel a true atmosphere, relax and have a skateboard session after the beach.

Joe Marrara. Ollies above the lip of the boat hull. Florida. Photo: Ken Forsyth.

Skateable boat hull – Florida

After a session at the new Bradenton park a local asked, “You want to skate a boat hull?” A short ride later we arrived at the nearby industrial park to find the “hull” is actually a mold with a huge open seam running the length of it. – Ken Forsyth

Ikaria Mini Ramp project – Greece

Now i’m a greek-surf cynic, so when I discovered a mini ramp on the surfy beach where we planned to spend most of August I felt a genuine jolt of excitement. This was short lived however as we soon discovered it was in the kind of condition a flimsy wooden structure would be in if it had been left to endure the weathering of a beach environment for an entire year. Which it was. And it had.

The Ianire Elorriaga interview

Ianire is one in a million, a golden girl, a female who always skated because she loves it, a daring chica that swims against, anti fashion, for Iani, no time passes – she’s still able to win international championships with a humility worthy of praise…. Ianire is definitely special.

Skate photo of the trip was with my old Nikon F4 film camera. Johnners. Frontside grinding the big round bowl at Park Radical. Photo: J. Hay

Whip’s surf & skate bachelor party – Portugal

Sometime around the beginning of last year I received an email from my buddy Whip in England, whom I had met through my friend Scott Madill in London while skating and couch surfing around Europe back in 2005-2007. Unfortunately, Scott tweaked his back hammering some concrete a week before departure and had to miss the trip. I was honored to be invited to Whip’s “Eel Do”, which in colloquial terms is a bachelor party where him and the lads from Cornwall and London were heading to southern Portugal in search of waves, skateparks, and some boozing before he tied to knot.