Och aye.

Man, Scotland is a weird place. Good street though, you should all go and check out Glasgow if you get the chance!

Some bits I missed out posting up last week:

Tom Dugan's a bit of a character. Riding's awesome though, and the video's pretty entertaining throughout in one way or another...



Just happened to check out Facebook and saw Lloyd Wright posting that he was now on Kink Pro. Awesome news, and very much deserved - Lloyd is rad in every way, even when you've been driving aimlessly around Wales for hours and it's raining the whole time...



The trailer for this video got posted some time ago, and now it's finally out - Almond's "Skanks and Bodyshots" video has dropped. Ben Hucke, Jared Washington (bonus gun show from him too) and Shane Weston do some cool bits 'n' bobs in this. Hop nothings look like the weirdest trick ever...

Infoburst.

Clash of the shoe companies? Two 10 minute (ish) videos, two sunny locations in Europe, two teams with awesome riders, two totally different budgets/setups/ideas. All good though...



Almond...



Etnies...

Pat King is amazing. This is from Banned 4 and... well... you just need to watch it. Now.



I'm sure there's more, but I'm completely burnt out. If I can function properly tomorrow I'll attempt to resurrect things... Bye for now.

Continued...

Yet more Almond news.

Brad Simms is absolutely ridiculous.



Nike aren't shy of sending people around the world.



...and that's about it, really.

No wai!

BMX shoe company in "Doing things properly" shocker? Probably a fairly (and un-necessarily harsh) way of starting that, but hopefully it got you reading. WTP are awesome, Eclat is awesome, and as a result you'd expect their shoe company to be awesome. It certainly is, from the sounds of things. They were floating the idea for the company about, and bouncing ideas around, back when I was in Cologne 4 years ago - probably why their shoes appear to be pretty dialled and they're still not released yet. Doing things properly = all good.

Spotted this over on the Nice website earlier - an edit from a good few months ago of John Ivers. Watch this, then go check out some of Nice's products, and maybe some of Solid's too.



Cards on the table time - if I put a video up on here, it means I've watched it. I don't really see the point in just propogating mediocre videos so I usually, unless stated otherwise, watch everything and just try and put up things I think are good. I'll be totally honest and say that I haven't watched all of this video. In fact, I don't think I got past the 1min mark. It's from Motion, so that should give people who know me some kind of reason why (i.e. park footage), but I'm sure some of you out there will like it. The editing's pretty full-on, but no doubt once your eyes become accustomed to it it should be fine.

Enjoy the pre-rolls. Man, I hate Mpora so much...



Bit of copypasta here for tea:

“Get a chance to win a Vans X WTP shoe. Watch the vid, find Bruno’s trick, then send your answer to info@frenchys-distribution.com. 10 people will be selected and wil win ton of stuff from Vans & WTP.”



Snaking the park dudes with the "Is that oppo or hard way?" issues at the end there. Cover your bases, "Smith to 180!". While I'm being sour - people need to stop using that same filter that gets dropped in this video when Bruno picks up the mic. I mean really - enough is enough. Definitely worth taking the time to point out that Bruno's getting pretty tech-serious on street now.

Lastly: Corey Martinez apparently owns the rights to the twist to smith. So smooth.

Keep it like a secret...

So yeah - last weekend was a banger, many thanks to Nike 6.0 and all the locals! Photos up soon...

X-Games is over - Garrett Reynolds won Street, Daniel Dhers won Park and Jamie Bestwick won Vert. Winners.

This is out of hand:



Scotty Cranmer is pretty good, as this video on FFWD shows.




Lastly - Almond have a new 'look book' (Or "Website" as they used to be known) to show off their new stuff. Some of their formatting is not so hot, but hey ho - some cool stuff in there anyway. Cue all the classic "That's just a Chukka!" or "That's just a TNT 2 Mid!" comments.

Not much to say?

Although those shirts could spell out "HIPSTER" and be as relevant to the scene portrayed in it, it's still a pretty good concept and I'm still keen to see what Almond come up with. WeThePeople and Eclat are both awesome, so there's no reason Almond shouldn't be.

Speaking of shoes - Vans have consistently been the best things I've attached to my feet for the past few years, and - again - this combo with WeThePeople should also be good. Cup sole instead of vulcanised, but hey ho!



If you're thinking of buying a new complete any time soon, MirraCo have updated their range. Ride have the scoop.

By the way - if you haven't watched it again today, the Dave Thompson video below is still totally awesome.