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Bright European Skateboard Award 2012

January 26th, 2012

Last Friday in Berlin took place the first Bright European Skateboard Award.

Bright Show in collaboration with the Kingpin, has invited about 300 people in the auditorium of the former Stasi headquarters to reward the winners of 10 categories chosen by 70 members of a jury composed of respected people who work in the European skateboard scene.

Each judge had to choose his three favorite nominations for 10 following categories:

best skater, Kingpin’s readers choice best rider, rookie of the year, best video, top brand, best trick, best photographer, best skate shop, best cover and hardest slam.

The “black tie event” was presented by Sally Braid and Lennie Burmeister, and saw the participation, among others, of TWS’s Editor in chief Skin Phillips, who awarded the “Best Photographer” and of Ray Barbee who awarded the “European Skater of the Year” and played guitar for the audience.

A funny night with people coming from all over Europe who enjoyed the music, the burlesque show, the drinks and the atmosphere of the first ever Bright European Skateboard Award.

Find below the winners of the ten categories.

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Mark Baines interview.

January 18th, 2012

Mark Baines

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Jacopo Picozza interview – Murder Skateboards “GENERATION WASTE” – Teaser.

January 6th, 2012

Jacopo Picozza, fs nosegrind.

Jacopo is a young and talented skateboarder from Latina, a city not far Rome, he spent the last year skating around and filming for “Generation Waste” the new Murder Skateboards video.

Last night we catch up on the web returning home from a concert and we exchanged a few words with him…

Enjoy.

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Sven Kilchenmann’s Birthday Party Part – video.

January 5th, 2012

Sven, heelflip.

Sven Kilchenmann’s Birthday Party Part.

Yeah Sven!!!

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Four Corners: West – Episodes 1 and 2 – videos.

January 4th, 2012

Ross McGouran, fs ollie.

NYC is a unique city when it comes to skateboarding and the Vans Euro crew relished the opportunity to experience it first hand. Check out Ignacio Morata, Sam Partaix, Ross McGouran, Nassim Guammaz, Phil Zwijsen, Danny Wainwright & Kris Vile shred Big Apple.

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From the mag / abg issue 10: Blast the Border Tour 2011 – Video.

December 30th, 2011

Blast the Border tour is the annual edition of Blast! Distribution Tour across the borders of Italy.

For the 2011 edition Luca Crestani, Marco Lambertucci, Mauro Caruso, Carlo Cassan, Fabio Colombo e Melkior spent one week skating between Liguria & Cote D’Azur acorss the French Italian Border.

Full article on abg issue 10 and below video report.

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From the mag / abg issue 02: The Land Of The Sun – Sicily Tour 2010 – Video.

December 28th, 2011

Filmer Andrew Zolin presents his new video filmed during a trip to Sicily in 2010 with Mauro Caruso, Danny Galli, Peppe Romeo, Davide Cattaneo and Luca Crestani.

Read the article on a brief glance issue 02.

VX 1000 still rules.

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