Posts tagged with “Kensington Skatepark”

Skateboard culture is deeply rooted in this fine city of ours. Not only does Metro Vancouver produce some of the world’s finest wood-wheelers, it’s also a major migratory destination for skaters from all over Canada. The Weekly Ledge(r) exists to update you on skate-related news and happenings in our town. Know the ledge, it’s not just used for sitting…

Coquitlam’s Micky Papa not only has an awesome name, but he filmed his entire Mo’ Mondays part for Bones Wheels in one day at the Vancouver Plaza. Rain? It just don’t matter to Micky (hit mute and let the skating do the talking if you can’t hang with profanity-laced rap).

The 17th annual Bowl Series is wrapping up this weekend, with an event on Saturday at the Squamish park, and the finals on Sunday at the Whistler bowl (details here). Last Saturday’s contest at the Kensington bowl (well, pool) had a great turnout, and you’ll find photos and the top 3 finishers right here, as well as some video footage here. In the web interview department, there’s one featuring Stacy Gabriel in regards to his “Light Wallet Lifestyle” (complete with a raging comment-debate) right here, and another featuring the one and only Daniel “Alien” Nelson.

Vancouver’s Kitsch Skateboards teamed up with the Island’s Instrumental Skateboards squad for a little bro-down tour of Nanaimo, Courtenay and Vic from Aug.7-9; a full web feature from said excursion can be found right here. Some flawless footy of Wade Desarmo from years back is online, and Ryan Decenzo manhandled Hollywood High in this clip for Orion Trucks. East Van’s Ian Beer is an avid collector of unique cameras, and authored a feature called “The Format Sampler” for the Concrete 2011 Photo Annual. Check out the online version of the feature here, and take a look at a sample video he made for the cause using a Digital Harinezumi 1 at the Hastings bowl with Mikey Klinkhamer as the subject:

Skateboard culture is deeply rooted in this fine city of ours. Not only does Metro Vancouver produce some of the world’s finest wood-wheelers, it’s also a major migratory destination for skaters from all over Canada. The Weekly Ledge(r) exists to update you on skate-related news and happenings in our town. Know the ledge, it’s not just used for sitting…

Photographer Brian Caissie spent a month in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China with a grip of Vancouverites earlier this year to shoot a comprehensive “China Report” for Concrete. He brought the Sony “Bloggie” from the office with him for some homie-cam action, but returned sans-Bloggie (it was swallowed by a massive Shenzhen nightclub). Above you’ll find a cut of the salvaged B-roll footy. Caissie also recently reported from the first leg of the cross-Canada RDS Deadliest Skateboard Tour.

Events o’plenty. There’s a video to watch of last weekend’s Underworld x CONS Game of L.E.D.G.E., which came down to a close finish. Tomorrow at 1pm it’s UW’s Get Tricks contest at the Railside park in PoCo. The Bowl Series #17 poster has also been released, so now you’re informed.

Leading up to Color magazine’s 3rd episode of C1RCA Canada in Texas, they’ve released a short video featuring Nate Roline, who was left behind due to passport issues. Even though Ryan Decenzo was edged out of the X-Games Real Street final by a 2% vote margin, he got to skate the Double Rock park in SF with his Darkstar brethren. Cariboo Beer helped out with some sundown sips at Kensington, and a killer Plaza montage is how we’ll end ‘er this week…

Skateboard culture is deeply rooted in this fine city of ours. Not only does Metro Vancouver produce some of the world’s finest wood-wheelers, it’s also a major migratory destination for skaters from all over Canada. The Weekly Ledge(r) exists to update you on skate-related news and happenings in our town. Know the ledge, it’s not just used for sitting…

It’s a Good Friday indeed. As mentioned in Ledge(r) #33, Concrete Skateboarding magazine released Issue 112, and earlier this week they released a commercial to go with it.

East Van resident and SUPRA Footwear AM Spencer Hamilton customized a shoe in their Three Amigos pack, which you can check out right here. In joining-the-team news, Magnus Hanson and Bradley Sheppard are on Quiksilver Canada (and SBC Skateboard posted a “3-Minutes…” video where Bradley chats about that and more…). In skatepark news, you’ll find a comprehensive feature right here about everyone’s new favourite: Queensborough in New West.

As for events, the Vancouver premiere of The Deuce from Montreal’s Dimestore Crew is happening tonight at Fortune (doors at 9, video at 10pm) as part of their Happy Ending Fridays. The first stop of this year’s Street League is happening in Seattle on May 7-8. V.I.A. contributor Jef Choy will be attending and providing us with an exclusive report from the arena-based street skating series that features 24 top pros competing for a 1.6 million dollar purse during the 4-stop season.

In the vid department, Concrete Issue 112 cover guy Ian Twa took part in a Puerto Rico trip earlier this year with his Chicago-based board sponsor, Affiliate, and this link will bring you to the video. Paul Machnau handles an ad deadline for Dakine in Palm Springs while Sean Lowe, Chad Dickson and Caleb Davies tackle Kensington’s perimeter (hit mute if you can’t handle harsh rap lyrics). As a solid closer, here’s Don’t Sleep Productions’ entry to the 72hr. Filmmaker Showdown at the Telus Festival in Whis. It’s called Squambladesh and it’s awesome:

The new Kensington skatepark (Knight and 37th) is looking good-to-go, and rumours have been swirling that it’ll be open to skate this Sunday, July 4th…

Skateboarding-wise, there’s a lot going on this weekend in Vancouver. On Saturday, July 3rd at 1pm the Vans Roadblock is taking place on Granville Street, where 4 Vancouver skateshops bring a unique obstacle they built and set their respective teams loose in a best trick contest. Click here for more. Once that’s said and done, the premiere of TransWorld‘s latest flick, Hallelujah, (featuring our own Ryan Decenzo) is going down at the Vogue.

Ground has been broken for the new skatepark at Kensington Park, which is at 37th and Knight, and they are motoring. Based on the design below, brought to us by the VSBC, it looks like it’s going to be a ton of fun for everyone this summer.

Vancouver gets top marks in the world of skateboarding, and one of the many reasons are facilities like this. In a pretty direct way, skateboarding is what brought many of the contributors on this site to Vancouver, and was a common thread which got this site off the ground.

Thanks again Vancouver for keeping this city rad for skateboarders….

Just as a refresher…here’s the rest of the parks in Vancouver proper: