Jeff Thorburn has posted his video, August, on his website along with some new photos. The video features Kevin Lowry, Sean MacAlister, Tyler Warren, Riley Boland, and many other Calgary skaters. Click here for the photos and watch the video below:
Shredz Skate Shop in Cochrane is showing the Shake Junt video, “Chicken Bone Nowison” at the shop on November 25th. Check the poster and trailer below for details:
Rob Thorpe posted this great montage of Devin Morrison recently, including the clip of Devin’s Transworld Skateboarding cover.:
Calgary skateboarder Levi Switzer got on Transworld Skateboarding’s “Wednesday Woe” this week with a bad bail. Don’t watch it if you are squeamish.
Levi spent some time in the hospital, recovered, and has since been hit by a car! We’d like to wish Levi a speedy recovery– hopefully we can get the full story when he’s up and skating again.
It seems that every small town within a few hundred kilometres of Calgary is getting a great new skatepark. Well, it appears the town of Vauxhall is not so lucky. Although are getting a park, they’ve hired Canadian Ramp Company to design it. All evidence leads us to believe that this will be a modular park (movable pieces with steel/wood frame ramps). We feel sorry for the skaters of Vauxhall but at least there won’t be another small town with a better skatepark than Calgary’s! Here’s an example of a modular park, courtesy of Skaters for Public Skateparks: