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An interview with Midlands / Bristol / The North local Joxa, conducted by Ade Cottrell,
A filmer profile on Norfolk-based Jake Hearney concerning everything from growing up in East Anglia, filming full lengths throughout the years and filming for his latest video, Gnarfolk,
Jono Coote’s Defrost Your Mind article, detailing a hike from Leeds to Yorkshire’s oldest DIY spot in Bradford,
Luis Kramer’s Hijinx Nation,
and the traditional gallery, featuring Sam Pulley, George O’Neill, Luke Humphries, Letti, Gareth Leak and Charlie Delaney, shot by Tom Bailey, Leo Sharp, Tom Quigley and Craig Dodds.
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Here’s a preview of Jono Coote’s Take Your Time and Defrost Your Mind; Hiking to Yorkshire’s Oldest DIY Spot
Our next door neighbour keeps asking us if we’ve accepted Jesus into our lives. We had to call the police on her the other day. A dual voiced chant built to a crescendo, invoking a nameless entity to “get out in the name of the lord,” before a piercing women’s scream and then complete silence. I get home as they explain things to the constabulary and we discover, listening intently at the door, that this was all part of the religious process; worried that she might have Coronavirus, she had enlisted the help of a professional exorcist. The shriek we had heard was the physical manifestation of the microbes being flung from her body.
This period of enforced isolation, an extended confrontation with our own psyche, has a lot of us thinking about madness; as I am on the first leg of a hike over to Bradford to check up on the north of England’s oldest DIY spot. Bypassing green meadows and huge country houses, I am struck by the sheer space available so close to the city and my brain drifts back to Oregon, where we camped by backyard bowls and skated huge private concrete parks on improbable seeming properties. If a few skaters with disposable income to burn bought up a few of these, we could create a network of concrete snaking all the way from Leeds to Bradford, connected by a tangled web of rural hillbombs and green fields. It’d take a wad in the way of start-up money, but thankfully I’ve picked a stable career path and writing rambling articles about skateboarding is probably going to make me my first million soon. One of the cows approaches me as I stop to appreciate the view, maybe out of curiosity, maybe out of the expectation of some kind of bovine treat. I christen her Mooey Lewis before continuing on my way, through the kind of villages where every house has a name instead of a number. Hilltop Farm? If it’s accurate then thank fuck, I think this climb is getting to me - when you start naming cows and mentally annexing large swathes of land in preparation for a group of skateboarders to enter the ranks of the noveau rich, it’s time to wonder if the lactic acid has travelled from your calves to your head and started percolating your grey matter. No, I decide; I’ve yet to start calling in the exorcists, I’ve probably got a few steps left before I reach full blown shit-thrower territory.
Amazing miniramp edit from Lovenskate featuring two of the best, Alex Hallford and Jordan Thackeray.
Read our write up on Alex’s Don’t Worry Gordo part.
Read Dave Morgan’s review of the video and interview with Stu Smith and Jackson Davis.
Wales needs a vert ramp! Planning to be installed at Spit and Sawdust, donate here. Check Swales Worldwide’s edit below…
Have a read of Boil the Ocean’s piece on Shiloh Greathouse’s First Love part!
Plenty of lesser-seen flip tricks in Vol. 1 of Zak Watson’s OWP Locals series…
Yet more Winkowski footage, this time on a trip out to the Mammoth park, where we get to see what else is in that park about from the breeze block wall (alongside plenty of great tricks on that wall of course).