Final 2010 edit

Well, in a few hours 2010 will be over. It hasn't been the best year for a lot of people...the economy seems to be hitting a lot of skateshops hard this year. Lots of mom and pop shops all over the country have gone out of business in the last 12 months... Fortunately, Columbus has maintained a pretty strong scene. Kids are skating and the local shops seem to be hanging on. I hope you all realize how important it is to support your local shop and scene in general. I know it's really easy to sit at your computer and order that new deck or shoes from some mailorder site, but keep in mind that shops like Embassy, Old Skool, JP Skate, Black Sheep and Trilogy,R&R most likely have what you're looking for. Beyond that, these guys are the ones supporting the scene, providing demos, video premier's, hosting contests and giving you a place to hang out, meet up, watch videos and more... Also we're also quite lucky to have two indoor skateparks in the city. The Flow on the eastside... Skate Naked in Grandview is constantly upgrading and building new stuff to skate. Resident Skateboards is about 2 years old now... We have the Cowtown Showdown coming up..
None of these guys are getting rich....Ok, sorry to ramble on, I guess my point is I'd like you to stop and think about how great we have it here...2011 should be an awesome year for Columbus skateboarding.

Here is an edit of stuff I filmed at Skate Naked over the last two or three weeks.. It's mostly the Embassy guys and friends. Since Eric Barkow from Embassy LOVES all things Morrissey, I figured that he'd love it if I used "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths....

Last edit of 2010 from michael newton on Vimeo.

Dan throw away

Lil' Dan asked me to post up this edit... some throwaway stuff from this year put together for Domestics...

Dan Charlton from Dan Charlton on Vimeo.

Nick Boso edits

Nick sent me the link to a couple of recent edits.. one is mostly footage from the summer and the other is a montage of clips from both Ollies and the Flow Skateparks... a different change of pace for this blog. It's mostly the Grove City crew. I'm stoked to see some clips from these guys.

old camera stuff from nick boso on Vimeo.

Flow and Ollies Montage from nick boso on Vimeo.

Messing with birds...and Rob...

Dan posted a new one... Oj has some good clips about halfway through. Dang, what did those birds do to you?

Totaled from Dan Charlton on Vimeo.

Early December edit

It's cold and snowy. Kind of sucks. looks like it'll only be indoor skatepark sessions for the next few months. This weekend was a busy one at Skate Naked. A grip of guys came up from Dayton. Here's an edit from this weekend. Skaters, Drake, Adam, Luke, Ryan, Jerrick, Mikey T, Franz, Eric and Jimmy...

Skate Naked Skatepark Early December edit from michael newton on Vimeo.

taylor nawrocki vs deanglo harrissss s.k.a.t.e

Brent sent me a link to the footage from Taylor & Deangelo's "ledge" game of skate from last month...

Short November edit

Last Thursday a bunch of guys came up from Cincinnati to skate.. Here's a short edit from the night...Habitat Skateboards Alex Davis and Instrument Skateboards Gary Collins, Ed Kennedy & Taylor Nawrocki skating at the Skate Naked Skatepark. Ben Tolford, Brent Braden and James have clips as well.

November edit + Al Davis + Instrument from michael newton on Vimeo.

Cowtown Showdown 2011 UPDATE

Tedd posted up a video update....

Tomorrow

IGLU night at the park tomorrow...
$6 to skate 8 pm till 12...

2 edits

Here's a couple of recent edits...

The first one is from a kid named Randy Parker. He asked me to post up his footage last week.. The second one is by Dan Charlton, it's pretty long and features a bunch of diffenent spots and parks from Columbus and Cleveland, Skaters: Dan, Natnalie, Nolan, Jacob, Dakota and Chad among others..

Bugguts from Dan Charlton on Vimeo.

Boma party

I guess that last night there was a snowboard video premiere somewhere, I didn't go and I'm not exactly sure where it was..but the afterparty was at Boma Nightclub downtown...the main event was a skate demo on the floor in front of the stage. The skaters consisted of a bunch of Columbus kids...there were a couple grind boxes and a jump ramp to skate. The party was really weird to say the least, a snowboard video playing in the background, skaters and a moderate sized crowd looking kind of bored...Marc-Frank Montoya and some other guys were there. Occasionally some weirdo girls and snowboarder dudes would wander down onto the floor and start dancing on the ramps, providing a majority of the comedy for the evening.. The night pretty much ended when Darius took out a group of the "dancers" like they were bowling pins. I'm amazed it didn't turn into a brawl.

Below are a few pics and I made a new edit of footage from the last couple months; including the demo at Boma..

Fall Edit_Boma Fiasco from michael newton on Vimeo.

test edit #2

Here is another test edit from Joe Charlton and his new camera.... It's of his brother Dan shredding the Reynoldsburg park. I can't wait till' Joe puts together a full video.

test2 from Joe Charlton on Vimeo.

Hallobreeds

Brent posted up a Halloween edit... the Snoop cameo is pretty funny..

ORIGIN pics

Here are some pics I took at the Habitat Origin Premiere at Skate Naked Monday the 18th. There was a pretty decent turnout especially for a Monday night.. We counted nearly 70 people.....I'm stoked so many people came out!

Colraine Park

Jacob Greene posted up a new edit last night. He and a bunch ok kids went to the new park outside of Cincinnati. They hit it up before The Habitat premiere in Fountain Square...

burnt rubber from Silly Goose on Vimeo.

mixed breeds 3

Brent posted up another edit this week... Skate Naked and Campus footage mostly. Drake, Jerrick, Dave Wheeler, Brent mostly..

HABITAT ORIGIN COLUMBUS PREMIERE

The Columbus premiere of the new Habitat video is Monday October 18th at the Skate Naked Skatepark. Shop sponsor for the event is Embassy Boardshop.

Habitat's third full length video; Focusing on raw street skating, art direction, psychedelic motion graphics, 'Origin' will bring ten years of skateboard footage into a modern format.
The video will be approximately 45 minutes. ¾ will be all new footage with ¼ being classic and never before seen footage from the last 10 years.

The video should start around 8:30. $5 an additional $5 to skate. There will be some prizes given away for a lucky few...I'd suggest you brush up on your Habitat trivia..

Dan September edit

Dan Charlton posted a new edit of footage from September. It features some extreme pogo sticking and tornado warnings. ALSO some skating featuring Dan, Nolan, Joe, a few Gahanna kids as well as the return of Chad Butler and Ben Perkins. Alex Davis has a couple clips too....

Shresticles from Dan Charlton on Vimeo.

EVEN MORE contest footage

Brent Braden posted up this edit.....

more contest footage

Here is another view of the contest. This is from the "smaller hubba" section..
This edit has some of tricks that Taylor did that I was looking for previously...

Skate Naked Top Shop Contest

On Saturday Skate Naked held it's first Top Shop contest. I wasn't able to go but I guess it went pretty well. Blacklist from Laurenceburg IN won the Contest, Jp Skate came in 2nd and Old Skool rounded out 3rd place. Resident and Alien Workshop were the main sponsors... The JP guys just posted up a pretty long edit...As long as it is, I think there was a lot of other shredding that didn't get captured. For example, I've heard that the ledge area got destroyed by Taylor, but I don't think I saw a single trick of his on here. I'm looking forward to seeing other edits. I'll post up more of them as I get them..

Digi edit

Dan Charlton posted up an edit of footage from the last 2 weeks. Gahanna, Canal Winchester, Skate Naked, Urbana and the OSU parks.. Mostly Nolan Rogers, Dan, Natnaile Mamo and Austin Krohn.

Digimon from Dan Charlton on Vimeo.

Top Shop Columbus

This coming Saturday there is a a battle of the shops happening at Skate Naked. It's pretty much an open invite to any shop in Ohio... Due to my sister's wedding I won't be there. I hoping someone films the event for me. A flyer for the contest is below.

Delaware @ Skate Naked

The JP Skateshop dudes just posted up a really solid edit of footage from the Skate Naked park... I don't know the names of everyone, but Dylan Stover and Ryan Saunier definitely killed it...

Wheels on Fire Skateboard Contest

I just spoke to Moss Miller from Flipside Skateshop in Athens... Tomorrow there is a contest at the Athens park

The 5th Annual Wheels on Fire Skateboard Competition
Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010
Time: Noon to 7 p.m

For more information, or to register, visit:
See the attached PDF or call 740-592-3325

You can see a tentative schedule for the day on the Wheels on Fire page: http://www.athensskateboarding.com

Trophies awarded for all divisions and cash prizes for advanced division and best trick.
1st Place: $250
2nd Place: $100
3rd Place: $50
Best Trick: $50 Street / $50 Bowl

Rain date: Sunday, Sept. 19

The park will be closed for the event and helmets are required.

Athens Skatepark
701 E. State Street

Brutus!

Ryan, Ben and I were skating the OSU park on Sunday when Brutus Buckeye showed up....Why he as there, I have no idea..It ended up being kind of funny. A bunch of dudes as well as the Delaware crew ended up coming out as well. Here is an edit of Me, Ryan, Ben, Drake and Chris Higgins!

Brutus edit from michael newton on Vimeo.

I thought this is pretty awesome considering how much I hate OSU football.....Ironic maybe..

Labor Day weekend edit

Here's some footage from skating this weekend. Skate Naked, Delaware and West Campus skateparks....

Labor Day Weekend edit from michael newton on Vimeo.

Joe Inglis Delaware photos

We skated the Delaware park on Saturday. It was rad, perfect weather and the park was nearly empty.. Joe took a bunch of photo's I'm making a little video edit that I'll post up later as well...

TAYLOR NAWROCKI, SWITCH PIVOT TO FAKIE

MATT WESTBROOK, FRONTSIDE FLIP

MATT WESTBROOK, B/S SMITH

ME, SMITH GRIND....yeah another smith, sorry...

OJ HAYS, F/S FEEBLE

West Campus

Jacob Greene posted up a short edit of him and Dan (and Dylan) skating the campus park..

Untitled from Silly Goose on Vimeo.

Dayton dudes

Max Spang of skateindayton.com posted up a new montage recently....Dayton spots, the Kettering Skate Plaza and Ollies in Florence.

Four By Three - Skate In Dayton Dot Com from Max Spang on Vimeo.

skateindayton.com

Late summer edit, 3 Block contest

Last night Skate Naked held a small best trick contest on the newly constructed 3 block section of the park. It was pretty spur of the moment so there weren't all that many people there.. That being said, the skating was still really great. Adam at the park put up $50 cash and Barkow from Embassy matched it with a $50 gift card to the shop. Dan Charlton took it with a wallride down the whole thing... below is a video edit from the past month. Including last night's contest as well as some stuff from the Gatorade Free Flow contest at the Flow last weekend.

Late Summer Edit from michael newton on Vimeo.

Going West Continued

So the dudes are still heading west. Chad posted up another video... rad stuff.

leg tre from chadwick butler on Vimeo.

Al in Columbus

Dayton local, Alan Krohn came to Columbus on Sunday and filmed a "one day" part. Filmed by his brother Austin, They went to a ton of local spots and ripped. I'm really amazed at how many places they skated and how many tricks were landed in a single day... Al gets boards from Alien Workshop and also rides for One Love skateshop in Dayton.

Krohn Vs. Bennett from Austin Krohn on Vimeo.

Going West!

For the last couple weeks a bunch of Columbus and Akron kids have been on a skate trip heading to the West Coast. Among the crew is Chad Butler and Embassy Boardshop riders, Max Palmer, Ben Perkins and Dan Charlton. They are slowly making their way across the country skating spots along the way. Some of them are planning on staying out there for awhile. I think Ben said he's going to try and stay out there indefinetly. Dan will be catching a flight home eventually..

Chad has posted up some really good footage from the trip so far. Good luck out there Ben!

first leg from butler on Vimeo.

second leg from butler on Vimeo.

ALL Friday

This friday night is going to be a busy one.. First off there is a benefit show at Ravari Room. There are a bunch of bands playing, but the headliner is ALL! Yes ALL; like all the dudes (except Milo) from the Descendents. Hell yeah. I'm down to sing along and act like a teenager! The show is a benefit for Rob Behler. Rob is a Columbus skater who has been diagnosed with a rare form of terminal lung cancer. Come out support a great cause and enjoy some classic punk rock.
Before or after the show, headover to the Skate Naked Skatepark. The park will be host to the monthly hip hop dance party known as Get Right. These two events are both on the opposite ends of the spectrum I suppose, but they both should be a great time...

Gabe has the best slams

New 'Heavy in the Skreets' promo.

Grove City Contest / Kickstand /Skate Naked...July 31st

There are multiple events going on this Saturday July 31st.

At 10 am the third annual Grove City contest is happening at the GC Skatepark.
There will be beginner, intermediate, expert and advanced contests in the bowl & street areas... expect it to be a long one..Sponsored by just about everyone, there should be some great prizes..

ALSO,
Kickstand Music Festival: The Second Annual Kickstand Music Festival is on Saturday as well.. The event is benefiting Pets Without Parents. A non-profit, no-kill, all-breed shelter for dogs and cats. There will also be live music all day and night (inside and outside). Old Skool is building a mini (outdoor) street course, just like last year. There is a $5 cover, but all outdoors proceeds go to Pets Without Parents. NOTE: Outdoors is open to ALL AGES, but indoors is 21 and over only.

Later in the evening, there is an after party at Skate Naked.

So basically there are plenty of things to do this weekend.

Just Kill Me. Summer Edit

This is a compilation of footage I've shot over the last couple months..New York trip, random Skate Naked footage, Skating the DNA ramp, and the 4th of July.

The second half is footage from yesterday at the AGA contest @ the skatepark in Delaware...... New York transplant Pat Rumney completely destroyed the park. Drake hit his head while trying a hardflip down the stair sand ended up going to the hospital. Hopefully he'll be ok soon. Despite that, the day was pretty fun. Had I entered the contest I would have felt a little cheated considering that the whole thing took place on the stairs...That park is really good. It's a shame the kids couldn't use the whole thing. Still, I think everyone had fun.

Just Kill Me Summer edit from michael newton on Vimeo.

Sorry if it's too long or boring....

AGA Contest

It looks like there is a skate & BMX contest at the Delaware skatepark this coming Saturday July 17. I believe it starts at 4 pm. $10 to enter. It's being put on by something called the Agrenaline Game Alliance. I have no idea really what the AGA is... Sounds a bit XTREME...
From their website:
The Adrenaline Games Alliance is a Michigan based company producing original action sports events. ‘The Alliance’ seeks to support future development for action sports athletes as well as emerging musical artists by hosting new events in venues of all sizes. Seeking to compliment the existing action, ‘extreme’ sports properties, the AGA looks to serve as a development system and authority for athletes of all ages and skill levels.
http://www.aganation.com/

Hit the guys up at JP Skate in Delaware for more info. jpskate.com 740.369.9200

Recent photo's

Here's some photo's I've taken recently...



Ben Perkins: Stalefish......Ben Tolford F/S flip



Dan Charlton: B/S Nosegrind.....Jacob Greene: B/S 360



Kevin Gish: B/S Smith

Taylor Insturment "Spain" Ad

Gary just posted a new Insturment Ad featuring Taylor..switch ollie in Spain.

instrumentskateboards.blogspot.com

Tasty Thursday Three

Brent Braden just posted up a really long edit of mostly Skate Naked, Delaware, OSU campus and Downtown shredding.. I especially like the stuff from the late night wild in the streets session. The ollie at the end is crazy. Good stuff.

tasty thursday three from brent braden on Vimeo.

GO SKATEBOARDING DAY 2010

June 21st was the 7th annual national Go Skateboarding Day. Columbus was full of events this year in honor of the Holiday. Most the shops and Skateparks around town participated in some way. There were contests at the Lancaster and Westerville parks over the weekend. On Monday the Flow skatepark offered a free session for the day and there was a contest, BBQ, and party at the Skate Naked skatepark. After the SN event, about 50 kids went street skating around downtown and OSU.
I went to the Westerville Contest and to Skate Naked park.. Check out this edit of the weekend’s festivities…… Embassy, Old Skool, JP Skate, Resident, Habitat,Alien Workshop and Vitamin Water really helped make GSD great this year. I’ve got some photo’s that I’ll try to post up later..

Go Skateboarding Day (Weekend edit) from michael newton on Vimeo.

Go Skateboarding Day 2010 events

There a couple of events going on around columbus over the next few days in relation to Go Skateboarding Day. Sunday, the 7th annual Fathers Day contest is happening at the Westerville Skatepark. Monday there is a contest at the park in Lancaster. Skate Naked is also planning on doing something on Monday as well.. I'll post those details when I get them... Adam, hit me up with the info.

Habitat "Origin" Trailer

Habitat Skateboards just posted the trailer for their third video. It's called Origin and it should be released in September. The video is a retrospective of the past decade AND will have new full parts by half of the current team.



Watch the trailer here: http://www.habitatskateboards.com/exhibit/field-log

or here:

Night of the Living Shred

Last night was the first of the Night of the Living Shred events at Skate Naked. Ryan Moya pretty much single handedly put together this great event...Skate video's were projected on the wall.. Anthony Fischetti DJ'd playing classic punk rock and a ton of dudes showed up to "shred" over the course of the night. Awards were given out for best slam, sketchiest skater, best trick and ultimate badass of the night. Alien Workshop, Habitat, Resident, Five Points, 70-71, Smelly Curb, Effort, Embassy and Old Skool all provided prizes...

Video of the night:

Night of the Living Shred from michael newton on Vimeo.

NOTLS!!!

Ryan Moya has organized a skate jam, party, BBQ event this coming Saturday night at the Skate Naked park. It's going to be held in the back room by the ramp. They will be projecting skate videos on one of the walls near the ramp.. The event is called NIGHT OF THE LIVING SHRED.

From Ryan's Facebook page:
a night of mayhem with epic skate videos projected on the walls, a dj spinning classic old school skate rock, and we shred the f'ing bowl @ Skate Naked til 2a or later. We have this ramp to ourselves, so enough said... BBQ grill-a-thon and product giveaways from Resident Skateboards, Five Points Skates, Embassy Boardshop, AWS & Habitat, 70-71.com, Domestics Clothing, Rubbish Hardware, Seagull Bags, Smelly Curb, Effort Skateboards, Thrasher Magazine and more TBA!!!THIS IS NOT A CONTEST



More info here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=116759371686999&ref=mf

Alix Reese

This past Thursaday night my friend Alix was was shot while driving her car. The bullet struck her in the neck hitting her spinal cord. This random and sensless act of violence has changed this amazing girl's life forever...She's already had one surgery with more to come.

Please take a minute and go to the website below. A paypal account has been set up for donoations to go towards her medical bills. If you have the means, please donate something, anything to help her out.

Upper Decker contest and street room footage 5.22.10

Last Night at the Skate Naked park Rob Turner hosted an event for the release of Upper Decker Zine's 5th issue. There were a few contests and a BBQ. I got there a little late and missed the street room contest. I did manage to film the ramp contest. 1st place went to Nick Boso with Max Growick getting 2nd. After that I filmed some stuff in the street room. Check out Joe Charlton's F/S 270 nollie heel over the hip and Jerrick's 360 flip down the stairs.

Upper Decker Ramp contest from michael newton on Vimeo.

Upper Decker Zine #5 release party

Rob is hosting a skate jam, BBQ, best trick contest this Saturday May 22 @ Skate Naked. It's scheduled to start at 8 pm.

Resident: A Walk in The Park

At midnight tonight Columbus based Resident Skateboards released a 3 minute long promo edit shot entirely at the Skate Naked park. Filmed and edited by Joe Charlton. It's short but pretty solid...Everyone on the team has at least a few tricks. I was pleasantly surprised by Jason Hogue's section... I really wanted to see more Joey Penry footage... Anyway, go to http://www.residentskateboards.com/News.html to check out the video or all things Resident. For the lazy, I've also posted the link below:

Resident Skateboards - A Walk In The Park from Resident Skateboards on Vimeo.

Skate Nated opening weekend. Video #2

Yesterday a group of us got together at the park to celebrate Kevin Krahel's birthday. We skated the new ramp for a couple hours. It was actually a pretty mellow session. People are already getting used to the ramp and are starting to kill it...

Video: Taylor Nawrocki, Dave Duvarney and Kevin.

Skate Naked ramp opening weekend, Sunday 5.16 from michael newton on Vimeo.

Skate Naked Ramp is open!!!!

The new ramp at the park opened this weekend. They did an outstanding job building it. The transition is really tight making it very fast. Here's some footage of one of the first sessions....
Skaters: Ryan Moya, Gracie Bails, Dan Charlton, Michael Newton, Tony Montell, Natnaile Mamo

Skate Naked ramp opening weekend (Saturday 5.15.10) from michael newton on Vimeo.

bakerized...

I recently received a facebook friend request from a new Skateshop in Columbus called “Bakerized”. Everyone I know who rides a skateboard seems to have received the same request within a period of a couple days. On the same day I received the request I got a message from a couple shop guys mentioning the same thing, They both thought it was somewhat fishy…
I did a little digging, very little in fact.. but I did find some interesting info… It looks like these guys are a rollerblade shop that has decided to jump into the skate game. This fact is NOT
mentioned on their Facebook page. (link here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Bakerized-Skate-Shop/100000152773913#!/profile.php?id=100000613989060 )

They DO have another Facebook page that DOES… although none of the skateboarders have received a friend request from this one…
(link here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Bakerized-Skate-Shop/100000152773913#!/profile.php?id=100000152773913 )

Here is their bio:
We sell Rollerblades and Rollerblading Clothing, DVDs, Wheels, etc. Company is owned by a dedicated Rollerblader of 13 years.
We are operated by a Rollerbladers. It's what we love! We also just picked up a few skateboard brands for the local shop for those
of you who enjoy both activities.

Other sites you might find interesting….
http://www.bakerized.com/blog/
http://vimeo.com/user2537694

Something to digest…….

video updates

It's rad to see that so many people are motivated to shred and film lately...
Here is some stuff that I've either looked up or has been sent to me recently:

Embassy rider, Max Palmer and friends in NYC. via IGLUCREWHAT


Dan, Natnaile skating the long lost Lancaster park....via Joe Chalton


Finally, Brent Braden posted another Skate Naked edit..

Skate Naked ramp construction

The ramp/bowl is almost done. nearly all of the masonite is on and the coping is being put on as I type this. Should be fully skateable this weekend. So stoked on this. I took this photo of Patchuck last week.

Video clip: Jerrick Beardsley, Kevin Krahel and Dave Coyne...

Skate Naked ramp construction from michael newton on Vimeo.

Brent, Skate Naked edit

Brent Braden has been putting together a ton of little edits lately. Usually the Clintonville kids at Skate Naked. Here is his latest. Features Jerrick and Drake for the most part....

Dan. Domestics Footage

Dan Charlton posted some really rad footage for Domestics Clothing on YouTube recently.. Check it out here.

Look for it here: www.domesticsclothing.blogspot.com sometime soon.....

Skate Naked Dispatch Article

Jerrick, F/S Bigspin

This past Wednesday, the Business section of the Columbus Dispatch did a pretty big article on the Skate Naked Skatepark in Grandview. The article is pretty good. Seemed pretty fair. Adam's interview was good, it was nice to hear some of the history of how the park came to be. Both of the photos are of SN rider/Embassy local Jerrick Beardsley. Nice to see them get some exposure.. Columbus is pretty lucky to have a park like this around. Speaking of that.. I've been slacking lately. I haven't been there in a few weeks. Hopefully if I can shake this cold I have I'll head up there this weekend to skate the new ramp.

Here is a link to the article online:
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Blueprint Video Premiere

This Sunday may 2nd, Blueprint Skateboards will be premiering their latest video "Make Friends With The Colour Blue" at the Kickstand Pub near Ploaris...
Check the flyer for details. See you there at 6pm.

Habitat Weekend

This past weekend I went skating around Dayton and Cincinnati with some of the Habitat team. DNA sponsored a "win a trip to Habitat headquarters" and we took the two winners around to some skate spots. Stefan Janoski, Silas Baxter-Neal, Guru Khalsa, Alex Davis and Habitat International Rider Gunes Ozdogen were all present…. Here are some photos I shot and a little edit of the weekend.

Stefan, Back Tail @ the plaza

Silas, Wallie f/s 180 over the trashcan

Gunes, Half Cab to Nose Blunt

Habitat weekend from michael newton on Vimeo.

Taylor in Spain

Here is some footage of Taylor's trip to Spain. He was fortunate enough to travel around with the Habitat team. Al Davis and Marius have a few tricks....

Photo's here: http://epiclytaylerd.blogspot.com/

Polished Terdz 8

Franz, CJ and Taylor shredding the Campus park.



Also, Taylor just returned from Spain. He was travelling with the Habitat dudes.
Check out his photo's from the trip here:
http://epiclytaylerd.blogspot.com/

Kickstand Best Trick

The Kickstand Pub will be hosting a best trick contest once a month for the next four months. The first one is tomorrow night...check the flyer for info.

Chad shredding

Here is a short little clip of Chad Butler tearing up the Canal park.
via Rubbish Hardware

Battling the wind.

Ryan Moya and went to the CW park to check out the contest on Saturday.. we arrived around 12:30 and it was already over. This was actually a good thing because it was nearly empty. The bad part was the wind. Holy crap..it was brutal. We skated with Dan, Joe, Tedd and Natnaile....

Windy day at Canal Winchester from michael newton on Vimeo.

Canal Winchester Contest

Rebels and Rogues skate shop is sponsoring a contest at the new skatepark in Canal Winchester tomorrow Saturday, April 3rd. Get up early kiddies.. registration starts at 8am.

Consumed by Fire Art Show

Longtime Columbus Skateboarder Adam Lowe and Local tattoo artist Scott Santee are having an art show this Saturday April 3rd in Columbus Ohio during Gallery Hop....

From Adam's blog site: http://www.adamlowephotography.blogspot.com/
"Since 1994 I have been shooting punk, hardcore, and metal shows. Shooting live bands is how I got my start and bearings in photography, so I am super excited to be showing between 200-300 pieces at this show. Scott Santee will be showing some amazing paintings of black metal portraits. From what i have seen so far, I am super stoked to be doing a show next to this dude. Ed Ostrander will also be adding a live display set up and sound design."


Short North Tattoo:
http://shortnorthtattoo.com/

1042 N.High St
Columbus,OH
43201

Natnaile Mamo X Resident

Tedd emailed me this morning...Resident has added a sixth rider to their roster..Natnaile Mamo. This kid can do back smiths on tranny better than you.

Got word that his "welcome" video will be posted up really soon.
http://www.residentskateboards.com/News.html

Canal Winchester park is finally open

The Canal Winchester parks and recreation people have finally opened the park. Taylor and I drove out there yesterday to check it out. It was super crowded.. I was amazed to see how many kids skate that live out there. I grew up about 10 minutes away from Canal and back then I'm not sure if there were ANY skaters... the park is ok. I understand that there was a limited budget, but it's way too small. They did managed to put a lot of obstacles into a tiny space.. The place will be a lot more fun on days that no one is there. Definitely worth checking out, however I know I'll only go there occasionally.

Canal Winchester is on the far South East side of Columbus. From downtown, take 70 east to 33 towards lancaster, turn right at Gender Rd, left on Groveport Rd. The park is 1/4 mile on the left.

Canal Winchester skatepark opening weekend from michael newton on Vimeo.

Dan Charlton x Resident

Speaking of Embassy dudes comin' up.... As of last night; Dan Charlton is the newest member of the Resident Skateboards team! If you read this blog often or you go to any of the parks around Columbus, you know this kid rips. He's always filming and getting photos. Below is his "welcome" video. Congratulations dude.
http://www.residentskateboards.com/Family.html

Polished Terdzzzzz 7

Taylor Nawrocki posted up another Polished Terdz edit yesterday. Alex Davis gets a flat. Check it out. Oh yeah... In addition to riding for Embassy and Insturment skateboards, Taylor is now officially getting flow from Gravis Footwear and Analog Clothing. Hell Yeah. He's alo got a pretty big trip coming up next week. More about that later.

more blueprint

The Blueprint guys put up a little edit from their demo in Columbus. FYI, It was filmed by Joe Charlton... he didn't get a credit on the website. Freddy Gall has a few tricks as well. check it!
http://www.blueprintskateboards.com/2010/03/columbus-ohio-4/

SMELLY CURB RE-BIRTH

It's back. Columbus skateboarding icon Donny Humes has brought Smelly Curb Zine back from the grave yet again. Donny has been doing the zine on and off since the late 80's. Donny was a part of the original Westerville crew, worked at Windbreakers and Sunsports back in the day and ran Dodge park all through the 90's. He's a skateboarder through and through. He moved away a to Georgia a while back but last year he returned to Columbus. This is issue # 40.

From Donny's Facebook page: "SKATEBOARDERS OF THE WORLD...SMELLY CURB 402010 HAS BEEN RELEASED. IT IS AVAILABLE AT EMBASSY BOARDSHOP AND THRILL VULTURE TATTOO. IT'S 36 PAGES OF VISUAL ONSLAUGHT FOR $2. YOU CAN GET INFO IN THE ZINE FOR PURCHASING T-SHIRTS AND HOODIES"

Photos:
- SCZ40 Layout...
- Donny, Tailslide by Martin B.

Stuart Inamura

Since Stuart placed so well in last weeks contest I figured I'd post up his part from the "Ginger Video". A lot of the footage is pretty old..but yeah, Stu is pretty rad.

Gabe gets a heel bruise

If you happened to notice that Gabe Peterson didn't enter the contest this weekend, this is why... last Tuesday he tried to do a wallride over the rooftop box at the Skate Naked park about a billion times bruising his heel in the process...

Enjoy his slams.....

Gabe gets a heel bruise from michael newton on Vimeo.

Cowtown Showdown contest video

I made an edit of both days from this weekend's contest. Saturday was basically a big skate jam. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an appearance; posed with some kids for pictures and made a speech. Towards the end of the day the Blueprint guys along with Habitat's Fred Gall did a demo. Sunday was the contest. Between the beginner, advanced and sponsored divisions there were nearly 200 kids competing. It made for a really long day..But I think everyone had fun. I'd like to thank Wally and Tedd for managing to pull this thing off. I think that it went pretty well overall. I'm looking forward to seeing how this event grows over the years.

Nick Adams/Cowtown photo's

My friend Nick Adams sent me some photos he shot this weekend at the Cowtown Showdown

Fred Gall, pivot to fakie

Taylor Nawrocki, Kickflip over the gap

Taylor Nawrocki, Wallie

DNA Distribution / Embassy boardshop booth

Jason Hogue at the Resident booth


You can see more of Nick's photo's here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisimaging

Cowtown Showdown pre-party

On Friday night March 5th there was a pre-party for the Cowtown Showdown entitled "Boards,Bikes and Babes" @ the Kickstand Pub near Polaris... The night was pretty fun. A ton of people showed up. Besides the skaters, the crowd was pretty diverse. The Blueprint guys and Freddy Gall were in attendance. I saw Taylor get in some kind of fight with some rowdy chick and Fred ended up fighting his friend Don towards the end of the night. Check out this video I put together documenting the night....

Cowtown Showdown pre-party from michael newton on Vimeo.

ARNOLD / COWTOWN SHOWDOWN UPDATE!!!!!

There have been a ton of questions this week about whats happening, when, where to register? etc...

I spoke to Tedd today and he provided me with the answers..

Instead of the Top Shop contest there is a Shop Sponsored / Flow rider division. Personally I think this is a way better option...


Saturday 6th: Pre-Registration: 9am to 4:30 pm

Advanced and Sponsored Open Skate: 10am to 4:30pm

Blueprint skateboard demo: 5:00 to 6:00pm



Sunday 7th: Check in and Registration: 9am to 2:30pm

Beginner warm ups: 9am to 11:30am

Beginner contest: 11:30 am to 1:00pm

Advanced Warm ups: 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Advanced contest: 2:00 to 3:30pm

Sponsored warm up: 3:30 to 4:30

Best trick: 4:30 to 5:00pm

Sponsored Contest: 5:00 to 6:30pm

Winners for all contest announced.

All registration is at the door. There will be tables there that will direct skaters to the right spot in the lobby. If you're in the contest then you get a pass for two days that lets you hang out at skateboarding area and all of the other events for Arnold too. They have a tram that will take people to all of the events. Anyone there to watch the event will have to buy a all events ticket which they can get at the lobby of vets too. That pass is day to day but covers all of the events as well.

So basically if you register on Saturday you get an entire day to practice... Sounds good to me.

Official Website: http://arnoldsportsfestival.com/home/sports-and-events/skateboarding.html

embassy @ the park

Joe made another edit. Basically the Embassy kids destroying the SN park. I'll shut up now.

ALIEN WORKSHOP / HABITAT GREAT LAKES TOUR

This last weekend I had the great opportunity to travel around with Heath Kirchart, Mikey Taylor, Kerry Getz, Silas Baxter-Neal and Habitat flow rider Steve Perdue. The teams did demo's at Krush Skatepark outside Chicago and the Modern parks in Grand Rapids & Royal Oak, Michigan. I made this little video... check it out if you're bored.

AWS / Habitat Great Lakes tour from michael newton on Vimeo.

Ely Phillips took some great photo's of the tour. Check out the Thraser website to see them... http://www.thrashermagazine.com/index.php?%20option=com_content&task=view&id=3670&Itemid=77

Paul Giovis Photos

I met Paul a couple of summers ago through my friend OJ. He is a student at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Paul's a rad Illustrator, Designer, Photographer and Skateboarder. He sent me some recent photos he took at the skatepark. Check them out. You can see more of his work at: http://ccad.digication.com/paulgiovis/Welcome/published