Dean Tirkot.

Dean Tirkot
1. Pat Ngoho, Wellington
2. James McInnes, Bellevue
3. James McInnes, ?
4. Rune Glifberg, St Ives
5. Pat Ngoho, Wellington
6. RJ Barbaro, Hunters Hill
$30 for a set of six, edition of four.

Mike Spittlehouse.

Mike Spittlehouse
7. Forever Rolling, $300
8. Mike’s Will, $50

Pat Ngoho.

Pat Ngoho
9. The Rose Bowl, $400
10. Square Bowl with Diving Board, $400

Graeme Knott.

Graeme Knott
11. Brad Bowman board, NFS

Otavio Neto.

Otavio Neto
12-16. NFS

Glenn Smith.

Glenn Smith
17. Grind Like Trucks, $180

Chad Ford.

Chad Ford
18. Drain it, ride it, $60 each, edition of five
19. Early Release, $60 each, edition of five
20. Dive In, $60 each, edition of five
21. Dive In, $60 each, edition of five
22. Early Release, $60 each, edition of five
23. Drain it, ride it, $60 each, edition of five

Marcello Guardigli (no image)
24. Daniel Cardone, Silver Gelatin Print, $210, edition of 3
25. Ronnie Roberts, Silver Gelatin Print, $210, edition of 3
26. Grind Forever, Silver Gelatin Print, $210, edition of 3
Digital Prints $25 each, edition of 10.

Sky Siljeg.

Sky Siljeg
27. Untitled, $50
28. Untitled, $50

Cam Ward.

Cam Ward
29. Non Compliance, $300
30. 6 Fingers, $300
31. Life After, $300
32. Hanya, $280
33. Bail, $280
34. Pool Snake, $280

Wade Burkit.

Wade Burkit
35-38. Wood Burns $200 each
39-41. Drawings $90 each

Adam Kinsman (no image)
42-44. Real Skaters Get in the Deep End, $20 each

Jake Mein.

Rohan Skilton
45. Love, $150
46. 100%, $100
47. Local Girl, $70
48. Locals Only, $50
49. Skate or Die, $50
50. Praise the Board, $50
51. Frontside, $50

Harry Culy.

Jake Mein
52. Harry Culy, Diptych, $200
53. Fred Shallcrass, Sydney, $200
54. Adro, hand, $200
55. Jack Woodrow, $200

Harry Culy.

Harry Culy
56. K.O.L, $60
57. Ab-seal-utely, $60
58. Fox and Chicks, $60

David Read (no image)
59. Harry Culy, Taupo, 2006, $80
60. Jake Duncombe, 2006, $80
61. Tim Watson, New Lynn, 2010, $90

Brydie Hall.

Brydie Hall
62. Get Rotten, $200

Cut&Run (Sean Aickin and AJ Broad).

Cut&Run (Sean Aickin and AJ Broad)
73. Pop Art Board, $500

Shannon Rush.

Shannon Rush
64-66 Untitled, NFS
67. T-Shirt, $60
68-71, Untitled, Price TBA

James Ritchie.

James Ritchie
72. Fan Boy, framed, $120
Prints available, $80 each, edition of eight.

Gunter Muller.

Gunter Muller
73. Untitled, $100
74. Untitled, $100

Toby Jenkins.

Toby Jenkins
75. Solitude, $900

Joel Middlemiss (no image)
76. Untitled, $500

Sasha Steinhorst.

Sasha Steinhorst
77. Secret Spot 1, $125
78. Secret Spot 2, $150
79. Secret Spot 3, $75
80. Secret Spot 4, $75
81. Secret Spot 5, $75

Che Thorpe.

Che Thorpe
82. Bahomet’s Glory, $300
83. The Blight Woods, $300
84. Void, $300
85. Odin’s Throne, $300

Sean Duffell.

Sean Duffell
86. Untitled, $1000

Adam Kinsman (no image)
87. Deathbox, $200

All sales enquires to Xoe Hall or Dave Smith or phone 021 678 893.

The Lumix and iPad are getting put to work on the Vans New Zealand road to Bowl-A-Rama. More up dates as they come.

Photo: Jake Mein.

I popped out in:
Christchurch hospital.

Currently I reside in?
Quake city.

Because?
Work, family & friends.

Sponsors?
Stereo, Dekline, Cheapskates.

Outside of skateboarding the bulk of my time is spent?
With my woman and booze.

Backside flip. Photo: Simon Kerr.

One item you want for free but have to pay for?
Tower burgers.

All time favourite cover?
Jimmy Wrong’s switch backside 180 5-0.

You get to choose one person to rule the world, who and why?
Glenn Danzig, need I say why?

Your go to Youtube clip?

One song for the rest of your life?

Pivot fakie. Photo: Simon Kerr.

Vices?
Smoking, gutter mouth.

What makes you nervous?
Hitting Morri up for more stuff.

Current set up details?
Stereo Benny fairfax deck, Theeve trucks, blank wheels, Spitfire cheap shot bearings.

Childhood memory?
Snapping my arm in half 1st week of skating haha

Website?
Manualmagazine.com

Shuvit heelflip. Photo: Simon Kerr.

Top five favourite skaters nicknames?
Frank, Sass, Wolfspine, Rapid beast, Ultra get up.

What is one thing you can’t live without?
Durrys.

5 Skate predictions for 2012
Shit, I ain’t no Moon Man.

Look past the extraneous power slides and the excessive ankle presentation and you have an incredible clip that some pros would take a year to film… Michael Mackrodt does it in nine days.

On the night of October 6, Fusion’s Cuba Mall store got transformed once again into a thriving skate park for a few hours. Fortunately no bone carnage took place this time; instead a casual session went down on the shop’s counter. Thanks go out to Fusion and Gravis for making the night possible. Here’s a video and a few pics from the night.

George Rowe, frontside tailslide.

Part two of the Epicly Later’d series on Menace.

Slice of Life Teaser from Skateboard.com.au on Vimeo.

Leigh Bolton is proving to be quite the workhorse. Here’s a teaser for an upcoming video of his ‘Slice of Life’ available 17th December.

Dane Burman gives a quick rundown of Croatia for the upcoming Fallen video Road Less Travelled.

Ryan Reyes portrait of myself.

Ryan Reyes.

Also in town at the moment is Kiwi photographer, legend and all round good man Dave Chami. He’s brought Austyn Gillette and Daryl Angel with him for a skate holiday. They’ve been staying at ol’ Sparkes’ house, so will hopefully pop in for a few beers this week.

Ryan Wilson got back from the States last week too, as well as Chima. It’s gonna be a pretty full on summer I imagine.

Here are a couple of ads I’ve shot recently. This is a Hurley Ad featuring Ryder Lawson. Ryder is on direct flow from Flip, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. He’s got rubber legs and doesn’t mind jumping down things.

Ryder Lawson, frontside 180. Randwick.

This heelflip of Sammy Winter is a Destructo ad somewhere in the world. Not sure exactly which mags it ran in, hopefully I’ll get a copy at some point!

Sammy Winter Destructo ad.

I shot some pretty tripped out pics for my mates band a month or two back. We got wasted and bashed around in the bush for a few hours, I’m surprised I came home with all my gear.

Spirit Valley

Spirit Valley

www.spiritvalley.com.au check them out! Their instrumental ‘victory’ is amazing. Would work well in a skate vid.

The new season of Eastbound and Down is dropping soon. February 19th (in America), who knows if it’ll ever screen here…

Palace offer up yet another quality clip that encourages going for a roll. Trés Trill.

This summer the crew at Comune New Zealand are giving away this amazing Comune branded Honda CB250 motorbike so you can get on the road and have the ultimate road trip. Head on down to your local Comune stockist and find out what you have to do to be in the draw. The winner is drawn on 15 January 2012 so don’t hesitate. For info on a stockist near you email Comune at scott@stem.net.nz.

Nike SB have just dropped the trailer for the first in a series of three SB Chronicles videos by Jason Hernandez. The full-length flick drops on December 3rd and by the looks of this video will be intense. The diverse team of Youness Amrani, Chet Childress, Clark Hassler, Stefan Janoski, Lewis Marnell, Daniel Shimizu, Grant Taylor, and Wieger Van Wageningen will all have full parts. Click the pic to view the trailer.

Press Release: The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1″: an HD video project by Nike SB

“The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1″ is the new feature-length Nike SB video project. It is the first of three films in the “SB Chronicles” video series, and will premiere online December 4th, 2011 at 2 PM EST. Starting December 10th, 2011 it will also become available for purchase on iTunes.

Shot entirely in HD, “The Nike SB Chronicles, Vol.1″ was filmed on location around the world in the streets and parks of Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Dubai, and the United States. “The Nike SB Chronicles, Vol.1″ was by shot by Jason Hernandez and showcases full parts from Nike SB team riders Youness Amrani, Chet Childress, Clark Hassler, Stefan Janoski, Lewis Marnell, Daniel Shimizu, Grant Taylor, and Wieger Van Wageningen, as well as an eclectic soundtrack featuring artists selected by the skaters themselves.

“The SB Chronicles, Vol. 1″ will be premiered at physical locations across the globe (Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, London, Paris, Milan, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo,) as well at SB dealers worldwide. However, anybody anywhere in the world can take part in the simultaneous interactive online premiere by tuning into nikeskateboarding.com/sbchronicles at the world-wide event time of December 3rd, 2011 at 7 PM EST to watch the complete video, get an inside look at the various premieres, and ask questions in real-time to the Nike SB team riders featured in the video, as well as director Jason Hernandez, after the premiere.

I once saw this guy switch pop shuvit UP a gap we were all skating down. Nuff said. A round of applause for New Zealand’s Marcus please. Chey Ataria, the man, the legend. Still killing it in every aspect of life. Respect g!

Chey Ataria. Photo: David Read.

E-Clipse x Legends

Firstly I would like to say, fuck all the Smolik haters! All you cats out there trying to do combo tricks on a ledge like the world is going to end, yet hating on Smolik, can go… well, you get the picture. Hey, I’m not the biggest fan of them new age five hit combos myself, but I ain’t too shy to flip in or out and Smolik was the man that started doing it proper. Have I ranted enough ’bout those combos? And don’t start talkin’ trash about homeboy’s arms either, they are fine where they are. Any how here’s Smolik’s legendary part in Fulfill the Dream from Shorty’s. Oh, and peep the hoody under cap clips. This one’s for Dyer, yet again. “Your party ain’t shit if you ain’t gettin’ drunk!”. Any SAG pants out there?

Fulfill the Dream.

Quick Pick

Many big names?

Homies.

Fine Tuning

So I managed to cop the Elzhi Australasian tour on my earthday in Wellington about a month ago at San Fran Bath House. It was most def’ in my top ten gigs that I have ever seen. I hope all y’all downloaded his free album Elmatic that I posted up a few months back. Covering Nas’s Illmatic is a heavy task to undertake, but Elzhi pulled it off, but not without the help of the live Detroit joint known as Will Sessions. I didn’t expect him to play much of Elmatic in his set as it was a solo gig with no Will Sessions, but he ended up doing the whole thing from start to finish with a few extra add-ons up in there. It was pretty tight! It made me think though how dope it would be to see the Elmatic tour with Elzhi and Will sessions together in one gig. See, Will Sessions are a live funk/jazz group and those guys got game. I had been geeking out last friday night and found out that Will Sessions had dropped an instrumental version of the Elmatic album. I almost internally combusted right then and there. You gotta peep this album. If you enjoy Illmatic or Elmatic or Nas in general then you’re gonna piss your pants when you hear this. You won’t have ever heard any thing like it and to prove it I got a clip of DJ Premier listening to that shit. Cop it now!

Will Sessions The Elmatic Instrumentals.

Stomping Grounds

Much like the Stevie Williams DC pro model that I never could skate in but was the best shit ever, this is DC’s first ever Kalis pro model. It is another one of those shoes that Zee Baron (Shane Mathewson) would rock all day that I just wanted to try out so bad but never had the pleasure of doing. Give me them joints and a 7.4 down at Love park and a good few tries at three flippin’ that bin off them tiles and I would be a very happy man. It’s yet another case of you love it or absolutely cannot stand the sight of it. You be the judge. Oh yeah, one of the dopest things about these kicks is the box they came in, with the official sequence of the tré flip over that bin! I provided a still of the aforementioned tré so you can get my drift of how gully this man really is. How captivated is the dude in shorts in the background, hope he wasn’t too blazed to remember that glorious day!

DC Josh Kalis.

Josh Kalis, 360 flip.

Here’s the first installment from Manual‘s Argentine excursion. We arrived this past Sunday and Diego Casal has been showing us around the endless sprawl of Buenos Aires. Enjoy the pics, more soon.

Click the image above to check a video and photo gallery from Dave Chami’s Fotograph The City show at FTC, San Francisco.

Dan Kelcher, crailslide.

Some photos by Andy Brown and video by William van der Vliet from the recent Canterbury Regionals. Head over to the Skate Skool site for the full photo set and results.

Clip number three from the build up to Nyjah’s 11.11.11 video release from Element Skateboards. This one features a cool but calcuated line that would make the final cut in most pro’s part, but to Nyjah it’s just fodder.

Fotograph The City is a solo show of skateboard photos from San Francisco shot by New Zealand’s Dave Chami. The opening night is October 13th, 2011 at FTC’s Haight St store. If any of our kiwi brothers and sisters are out there lurking in the streets of the bag city then be sure to go along and show your support.

Charles Collet shreds some terrible looking bitumen in this clip for RVCA.

The boys, and girls, of DGK taking care of business (AKA chilling) for their latest range. In Da Playground of course.

The Four Corners series continues, this time the Vans Europe team heads to Isreal.

Sick of losing your dice in the snow? Well, we have just the thing for you…

Press Release: September 1 2011

World’s first ‘Snow Dice’ App released for the iPhone.

Today ‘Send it! Apps’ from Wanaka, New Zealand announces the launch of the official ‘Snow Dice’ App for snowboarders worldwide.

What is ‘Snow Dice’? Originating from the skateboard world of ‘Skate or Dice’, the game would consist of  a physical set of several dice. Each pair of dice would have a variety of trick options written on it which, when rolled, would create a trick combination that the rider would get to attempt. This concept then extended into the snowboard world, and now with the release of the official ‘Snow Dice’ App on the App Store, any snowboarder with a iPhone or iPod Touch can play.

The ‘Snow Dice’ App is NOT a video game. It is designed for real snowboarders to use on the hill as they are actually snowboarding.

Using the ‘Snow Dice’ App is simple:
- Download the ‘Snow Dice’ App
- Launch the App when your out on the snow and ready to throw down
- Physically shake your iPhone to ‘Roll the Dice’
- Read out the trick that the ‘Snow Dice’ randomly selects
- Go and try the trick!

‘SNOW DICE’ : Shake – Roll – Go!

Can you only spin a 360? No worries! A huge advantage of the ‘Snow Dice’ App is the ability to choose your own difficulty settings. This means no trick is out of reach and you are in total control. With Jump and Rail modes, spins options of up to 1080′s and 8 different grab varieties – ‘Snow Dice’ has EVERYONE covered.

You’re sessioning a street rail – SNOW DICE! You want to bet 5 bucks against your buddy on the beginners jump – SNOW DICE! You’re lapping the park and want to try something different – SNOW DICE! The ‘Snow Dice’ App is aimed for any freestyle snowboarder who loves jibbing and jumping – full stop! Weekend warriors, broke snowboard bums, shred ninja’s, coaches, instructors, Am’s and Pro’s alike can all use the ‘Snow Dice’ App to expand their bag of tricks, challenge their buddies and have a smile on their dial.

Proceeds of the ‘Snow Dice’ App will go towards blacked out staff Range Rovers with 24 inch rims, ‘team building’ heliboarding trips in Alaska and the hiring of blonde Swedish models as ‘assistants’.

The ‘Snow Dice’ App is made by snowboarders – for snowboarders and is available NOW on the iTunes App Store for $1.99.

For more information please visit www.snowdice.net