When two ambassadors of whole different epochs of French skateboarding Soy Panday and Jérémie Daclin catch up again, they skate (obviously), banter (obviously) and drop a Film Trucks colorway (obviously). Less obvious now: Bastien Regeste, from Montpellier, on camera duty (remember "B(EE)R" if you can), as well as the refreshing subjects tackled during the interview and the spots punctuating the clip too, in fact; lots of classic Paris gems in there, formerly skated on the daily by the most worthy of their respective generations, and you can count on Soy and Jérémie to refresh their pins on the map. Finally, as we await further advancement in our study regarding potential influence of the nosewheelie position on a subject's introspective abilities, let's reminisce about this older Soy interview in a rather similar format, for Posca, brought to you by the sweet, sweet Seb Charlot: he's one of the co-shamans behind French skate podcast Big Spin, with Arnaud Dedieu, by the way.
Would have qualified as nothing but a crime to pass on saluting the return of the great "TRAFFIC REPORT" series (courtesy of Traffic Skateboards, as one may have guessed), via Theories of Atlantis, especially given that the newest episode, featuring Josh Feist, is especially memorable in how the improbability of the spots contrasts with the man's apparent ease, if not elegance. The last trick in particular is quite the epitome of seeing spots where they barely exist, and then doing something great out of them.
In other Traffic-related news, despite the relatively recent releases of "LOOK LEFT" and then "LOOK RIGHT", the brand has already been crafting and dropping a brand new full-length: just in case you might have missed it, "THIRD SHIFT" can be peeped in full here!
Don't tell us nobody warned you! It is over five years now, that we have been telling you the Dutch homies at Pop Trading Company were faking no funk, and here their way to send that fact home is, finally getting to the wood trading business, with the very same gang, and while staying true to their main motto: keeping it homegrown!
"SECURITY LEVEL ∞" is the title of the newest contribution from the Japan-based Tightbooth to the screens and feeds of all those in-the-know, consisting in four minutes testifying of how difficult urban skating in Japan really is due to the omnipresent police and security, directly in spite of how easy the locals usually end up making everything look regardless. Obviously on the menu here, the usual perfect filming and razor-sharp editing and also some damn fine maneuvers courtesy of some heads with great style the crew otherwise only highlights ever so often. Shinpei Ueno really knows who to work with and, while the most avant-garde of hypebeasts may already be lurking the web in search for the retail price of those silver Tightbooth decks, some others will instead be inspired to dust off the backside boneless, too. Oh and just like last time, the soundtrack is by Killer Bong.
A couple universes away from the next Olympics, there it is: Milanese magician Ruben Spelta just earned himself the medal of professionalism via Magenta, and "IL FANTASISTA" is the title of the seven-minute clip officially testifying of said newly-acquired honorific title. Just like last time, behind the camera can be found normally Bordeaux-based Andréa Dupré at operating duties and, as far as subjects, we of course get our fair share of Ruben skating; but also Soy and Vivien who opted to join in and around Milan, obviously well over the abuses and excesses from the New World Order and in need for escapism. And so some beautiful kickflips and choreographed lines did go down in the city those times, also to the beat of many other locals' pushes. This should inspire you to go out and skate too, and also to add cultivating the ideal of suave feet to the list of your personal ambitions.
This in-depth piece of journalism by the always on point Quartersnacks reminds us of two facts… One, Los Angeles, depite its superficy coming with an insane aount of the bits and pieces that make a city might not be the street skating paradise we all secretly dream of when gazing at our local waxed curb! That, and the fact that Mister Van Engelen is one hell of a psyshopath, and the world is lucky he decided to channel his inner tenacity via a skateboard, and not a less positive activity!
LIVE has already been introducing you to Switzerland-based Arthur Du Sordet's video productions under the sign of local Crans City Club, before, notably via this particular edit that singlehandedly caught our attention and redirected it towards the scene in Nyon. Since then, it's no less than a full-length video Arthur has been working on: "TROIS TROIS TROIS", a thirty-minute slice of local urban skateboarding, stolen out of Chronos' mouth thanks to the almighty power of Mini-DV. You can expect the Premiere on LIVE, soon; although, Arthur has already been sharing a few sections on the Crans City Club YouTube channel. So today, we're featuring the latest one to date: Yannick Eberhard's segment - goofy-footed since the first step - in the occasional company of Robin Fankhauser, but you can also explore and watch the ones of Albert Lopes and of Loïc Beirnaert (co-featuring Tom Armand). Catch a sneak peek and get excited for more, soon!
And to keep in touch with Japan even better, may we recommend again the UGLY WEAPON videos, featuring a few heads in common - most especially, their latest piece of output for now: "SAMMY".
It's been since the very beginnings of LIVE, pretty much, that we've been sharing the corrosive edits from Budapest's finest, the Rios crew and for an undying reason, too: it's been almost a decade since they started regularly mailing the Internet their unique brand of audiovisual anthrax, every time representing all the urgency of a skate scene that's forever been boiling in spite of the spikes of quite the antagonizing local sociocultural context. The inhabitants don't get it, the bystanders get pissed, the cars freak out on the road first and then their drivers too, in the YouTube comments. A landscape dipped in stress, yet one which doesn't suffice to block the movement of several generations of skateboarders who persist to grow and blossom in between the local pavement cracks, constantly stealing clips from destiny.
Mátyás Ricsi is one of those; and, if you may have distinguished his silhouette before in earlier Rios edits or in Push Periodical's "PARTIAL WORLD TOUR", today, he's the main star of the five minutes of footage on the menu. Well, that would be underestimating the role of Bence Bàlint, behind the lens capturing all the moving but also still images - since he also caught many of the tricks in photo form. You can check out a gallery of that, as well as a great interview with Risci on the Grey Skate Mag website. Speaking of which, as Henry Kingsford rightfully observes, most of the spots are bound not to look familiar, regardless of how many Rios clips one already might have watched; that's only testament to the intensive scouting from the crew, focused on exploration before exploitation for close to a decade now and counting.
For more things Rios, one can still (re-)read this interview with Bence for Magenta, here; and since just one skater being featured in one of their releases is so rare, might as well send you back to this five-year-old other instance in particular, still as fantastic as when it first dropped and featuring the genius Attila Fehér.
Lucky should be considered those who can already claim knowing the name of Antti Heikkinen, Finland-based filmmaker under the "ASPHALT JAZZ CLUB" nick and corresponding Vimeo page, and also, himself, a skateboarding magician pairing up intuitive creativity with a discreet profile, notably scheduled as featured in the upcoming "BORDEAUX EXPOSURE 3" but whose approach on the plank you can already witness in other local edits more or less affiliated with Magenta - as he's been spending some time with those guys, at the pace of his personal travels throughout the years.
And so today, Antti strikes back with a new project: "FUN CITY", which you can already follow on Instagram and peep this first video from, here. On the menu: thirteen minutes packed with unique spots and prowess with, amidst plenty of locals on fire, just so happens to include a certain Clément Chouleur! Now, about how this all came about, here's what Antti himself had to say...
