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26/05/2024

Skateboard Truck Info – What Skateboard Trucks Should I Choose For My Setup?

Deciding which Skateboard Trucks to buy can be a tough decision, and with so many options available, at all kinds of varying prices, we hope that with this blog post we might provide a few bits of info to help you with your decision.  Trucks are an extremely important part of a Skateboard and how it performs, and certain trucks offer certain attributes that might make them more suited to you than others.  To start, we’re going to look at our two most staple trucks, Independent ( Indy ) and... Read More

15/05/2024
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Santa Cruz Summer 24 Reissue Skateboards – Roskopp, Toyoda, Corey O’Brien, Kendall Jagermeister

Santa Cruz Skateboards have dug deep in the archive and came through with some rad reissue skateboards this Summer season. These reissue Decks are a blast from the past and give people the chance of owning their favourite deck from back in day without having to pay inflated collectors prices.There are 4 Decks available this season, check them out below. Toyoda –The Toyoda Mitsugu Deck is another from the back catalog that has never before been reissued. Sometime’s know as the ‘Toyoda Rat’ it is on a newly replicated OG... Read More

09/05/2024
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Read And Destroy Skateboard Magazine Archive Book – Skateboarding Through A British Lens

If you were skateboarding in the UK in the Mid 80’s you’d have no doubt been hassling your newsagent to get you a copy of RAD Magazine. It was ‘The’ UK Skateboard Magazine giving you the low down on who was who in the UK Scene (and abroad), new product, how to do tricks, the Where? Spot Guide, Music Reviews and lots more. RAD Magazine was first issued in May 1987, headed up by Editor and Photographer Tim Leighton-Boyce. Together with a team of photographers they began to document the... Read More

29/04/2024
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Skateboard Lessons In The North East Of England

It’s 2024, and skateboard lessons are bigger now than they ever have been, and the North East is no exception to this. Lots of beginners are starting to find their way in skating through the outlet and guidance of lessons. Skateboard lessons are still relatively new to the skateboarding mainstream, and we’d like to shed a bit of light on the availability of lessons in the North East, so we’ve spoken to the people who conduct them, to give a bit more info on how they operate, and how they... Read More

06/02/2024
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Skate Shop Day 2024 Limited Product Incoming! Krooked, Real, Grimple Stix x Lance Mountain

Skate Shop Day 2024 – February 17th Saturday 17th of February 2024 is Skate Shop Day! For us every day is Skate Shop Day 🙂 but with the help of the guys and girls at Deluxe Distribution this day is going to be a little bit different. Deluxe house some of the greatest Skateboard Brands in the world and this year for Skate Shop Day they’ve made some super limited product that you’ll find in Skate Shop’s all over the world. Mark Gonzales Limited Shop Keeper Decks – Available in... Read More

02/02/2024
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SOUR SOLUTION III SKATEBOARD PHOTO BOOK BY GERARD RIERA

Sour Solution III released in May 2022 and was the third full length instalment from the Sour Skateboards crew.Like many others, the video was my favourite that year, combining the perfect mix of gnarly skateboarding with interesting and crusty spots, what more could you want! Now in the start of 2024, the heads at Sour alongside skateboard photographer Gerard Riera, have released a beautiful book to celebrate it, featuring 280 high quality pages, on hardback with full colour print, the book gives you an intimate look at the team while... Read More

26/01/2024

@Nice_Footage Instagram Interview

We recently hit up the man behind Nice Footage (a skateboard footage Instagram page that’s gaining some serious momentum) with a quick few questions. Hello Mr Nice Footage, would you like to introduce yourself? (As best you can, we know your identity isn’t public info)   Hey I run @nice_footage on Instagram a page where I post ‘nice footage’ haha. Can you give us a bit of background on your relationship with Native? Since we’ve known you since your grom days  My relationship with Native started through my dad really, children’s... Read More

15/12/2023
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Treatment Skateboard Collective – Ross Zajac Interview

Treatment Skateboard Collective is an up and coming new skateboard brand heralding from the depths of Glasgow and beyond. They serve up such a diverse and talented roster to the table, with skateboarding that can be appreciated and enjoyed at any level. Spend as little as 5 minutes with these folk and you can tell they’re a tight knit group of homies, forever on the shred and dedicated to the cause. We fired over team rider and co-owner Ross Zajac a few questions. Firstly, would you like to introduce yourself... Read More

04/10/2023
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‘Those Bloody Kids’ Tyneside Skateboard History Book by Shred The North

“Those Bloody Kids – A look back at Skateboarding on Tyneside” Local Grassroots Skateboard Organisation Shred The North have put together a fantastic new book entitled “Those Bloody Kids – A look back at Skateboarding on Tyneside”. The book documents various local skateboarders tales of yesteryear dating right back to the 1970’s. Northumbria University Lecturer Mike Jeffries got the ball rolling by interviewing a bunch of the local skateboard scene a couple of years ago as a follow on to an earlier project mapping skateable landmarks in Newcastle Upon Tyne.... Read More

24/03/2023

Wastey Summer ’22 By Khuslen Enkhjargal

Hot off the press and coming in at approx 22mins long we have ‘Wastey Summer ’22’ a mega montage filmed during the summer months at Newcastle’s ‘The Wastey’ DIY featuring the talents of Connor North, Phil Stevenson, Scotch, Sean Tracy, Jamie Cairns & various other Newcastle heads We fired Khuslen (Martin as he is more affectionately known around here) over some quick question to get an insight into his filming style, process and what’s next for him… Hope you don’t mind me saying but you’re relatively new to this whole... Read More