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FREEScience SkateboardsWild in the StreetsManrodeoAnd All The Regulars

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News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 4-6Wild in the Streets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 8-9Manrodeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 10-13Time Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 14-17Science Skateboards . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 18-23Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 24-27

Cover: Scott Howes - BS FlipPhoto: Rich

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News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 4-6Wild in the Streets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 8-9Manrodeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 10-13Time Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 14-17Science Skateboards . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 18-23Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 24-27

Cover: Scott Howes - BS FlipPhoto: Rich

I guess the big thing thismonth should be the XGames but I’m not toobothered by it so just letyou know Chris Cole wonStreet, Sandro Dias wonVert and Elissa Steamerwon Girls Street. More atexpn.com.All the Blueprint team arecurrently on tour so expectupdates on their site. AlsoDocument’s Big Pushdrops soon with a partfeaturing guest Brophy.

The UK Zero team did alittle trip round the countrytaking in the sights ofStoke, Leeds, Glasgowand everywhere between.Although they were a littletroubled by missed flightsand rolled ankles. They stillmanaged to impress.Bastien Salabanzi is nowoff Flip, German skaterWillow has left Alis to joinFlip. Danny Garcia has leftLakai and Koston is nowriding Independent trucks.

Andrew Reynolds isstarting a clothingcompany called Altamontafter the AlternativeWoodstock that TheRolling Stones organised.Its through Soletech whoalso do Emerica shoes, socontact Afour here in theUK.

John Rattray - Nollie down the Stoke Big 3 4

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I guess the big thing thismonth should be the XGames but I’m not toobothered by it so just letyou know Chris Cole wonStreet, Sandro Dias wonVert and Elissa Steamerwon Girls Street. More atexpn.com.All the Blueprint team arecurrently on tour so expectupdates on their site. AlsoDocument’s Big Pushdrops soon with a partfeaturing guest Brophy.

The UK Zero team did alittle trip round the countrytaking in the sights ofStoke, Leeds, Glasgowand everywhere between.Although they were a littletroubled by missed flightsand rolled ankles. They stillmanaged to impress.Bastien Salabanzi is nowoff Flip, German skaterWillow has left Alis to joinFlip. Danny Garcia has leftLakai and Koston is nowriding Independent trucks.

Andrew Reynolds isstarting a clothingcompany called Altamontafter the AlternativeWoodstock that TheRolling Stones organised.Its through Soletech whoalso do Emerica shoes, socontact Afour here in theUK.

John Rattray - Nollie down the Stoke Big 3 4

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Adrenaline Alley is the newindoor skatepark in Corby.Aeon Footwear is going todistributed along with Yardclothing in the UK bySecond Level Distribution.The Boardroom inLeicester has now got anew surface for its bowl.They also held a little shindig which some UK Adioheads ducked over fromManrodeo for.

Duffs and Plan B riderAdam Howe won the besttrick at the CrossfireSouthbank 7 jam alsoplacing 3rd in the UrbanGames earlier this year.Couple of notable videosthis month include theamazingly funny This nThat which will have yourolling on the floor inlaughter, Tapestry Bitch!(Will make sense once youwatch it.) The other video

to watch is Almost’sCheese and Crackerswhich is the Chris Haslamand Daewon Song MiniRamp project, this videowill blow you away BluntTriple flip in is all I need tosay really!Skate comp at BecclesSkatepark in Suffolk on27th August for morecheck outwww.smashskates.com

Sam Taylor - Melon Fakie - Boardroom’s Old Bowl

WANTED!Writers and Photographers

If you shoot skate photos or are willing to write articles then we arewilling to publish your work in this magazine, so long as it’s goodcontent, we will run it and give you full credit for it too.

Please send digital photos (JPG’s 4+ Mega Pixels) to

[email protected]

Please send articles, news or reports to [email protected]

Revert Magazine42B BlyburgateBeccles, Suffolk

NR34 9TFTel: 01502 713888

Mob: 07917 391197

Photographers:Stephen KeableJames Prattent

Sam TaylorPaul Musson

Richard MurrayMatt Clarke

Editor:Stephen Keable

Art and Design:Stephen Keable

Sales andMarketing:

Stephen Keable

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Adrenaline Alley is the newindoor skatepark in Corby.Aeon Footwear is going todistributed along with Yardclothing in the UK bySecond Level Distribution.The Boardroom inLeicester has now got anew surface for its bowl.They also held a little shindig which some UK Adioheads ducked over fromManrodeo for.

Duffs and Plan B riderAdam Howe won the besttrick at the CrossfireSouthbank 7 jam alsoplacing 3rd in the UrbanGames earlier this year.Couple of notable videosthis month include theamazingly funny This nThat which will have yourolling on the floor inlaughter, Tapestry Bitch!(Will make sense once youwatch it.) The other video

to watch is Almost’sCheese and Crackerswhich is the Chris Haslamand Daewon Song MiniRamp project, this videowill blow you away BluntTriple flip in is all I need tosay really!Skate comp at BecclesSkatepark in Suffolk on27th August for morecheck outwww.smashskates.com

Sam Taylor - Melon Fakie - Boardroom’s Old Bowl

Emerica’s

Wild in the Streets

If you read Document you willhave seen a sequence buthere’s Woody’s Nosebluntfrom another angle.

Sunday 25th June sawskateboarders from acrossthe UK and some fromEurope descend on thestreets of London, allorganised by Emerica.

The day started with 400skateboarders filling the tinyspace of Slam City Skatesand Neal's Yard, thenleading on to HolbornViaduct Banks which gotshutdown by three carsworth of police. So back tothe streets to roam over tothe Millennium BridgeBanks, where French riderMaxime Genin won somecash with styled ollies andkickflip to tails on the bank.

Next up, the London Bridgesteps, for one of the bestsessions of the day withAdam Stoddard taking thecash at this stop for frontsideand backside nollies alongwith a cab backside nollie.Off along the river to theMayor's Building for a protestskate in and around theamphitheatre, which saw thesecond police turn out witharound 15 policemen arrivingwith screeching sirensmoving skaters on.

Last spot of the day wasSouthbank with sessions onthe bank to block and downthe stairs. Along with wedgeto wedge outside on theesplanade. The bank toblock saw Woody lay down aollie up to noseblunt,followed by Si Skipp'sfrontside 5.0 to fakie. Cashwas handed to Jo Lorenz fora backside nollie 180 andKris Vile for a 360 flip bothbetween the wedge ramps.

Emerica’s

Wild in the Streets

If you read Document you willhave seen a sequence buthere’s Woody’s Nosebluntfrom another angle.

Sunday 25th June sawskateboarders from acrossthe UK and some fromEurope descend on thestreets of London, allorganised by Emerica.

The day started with 400skateboarders filling the tinyspace of Slam City Skatesand Neal's Yard, thenleading on to HolbornViaduct Banks which gotshutdown by three carsworth of police. So back tothe streets to roam over tothe Millennium BridgeBanks, where French riderMaxime Genin won somecash with styled ollies andkickflip to tails on the bank.

Next up, the London Bridgesteps, for one of the bestsessions of the day withAdam Stoddard taking thecash at this stop for frontsideand backside nollies alongwith a cab backside nollie.Off along the river to theMayor's Building for a protestskate in and around theamphitheatre, which saw thesecond police turn out witharound 15 policemen arrivingwith screeching sirensmoving skaters on.

Last spot of the day wasSouthbank with sessions onthe bank to block and downthe stairs. Along with wedgeto wedge outside on theesplanade. The bank toblock saw Woody lay down aollie up to noseblunt,followed by Si Skipp'sfrontside 5.0 to fakie. Cashwas handed to Jo Lorenz fora backside nollie 180 andKris Vile for a 360 flip bothbetween the wedge ramps.

Manrodeo 2006Maples Street and Arnold Bowl, Nottingham

Craig Smedley hoists akickflip fakie at Arnold Bowlon day two.

Manrodeo 2006 kicked off onthe Saturday at Maples StreetSkatepark, a beauty of a parkrecently built in a bit of asketchy area of Nottingham,but does give the kids analternative to smashingwindows of nearby houses,although some still were onthe day.Loads of people turned upfrom all over, the park wasjam packed.

This session carried on allafternoon until early eveningas people slowly peeledaway, in the general directionof The Old Moot Hall whereIcon teamrider Mark Vasey’sband Das Ragworms wereplaying the offical Manrodeogig.After which around 50 plusskaters most of which heavilyunder the influence by thispoint, descended on RockCity to complete the night.Next morning, well afternoon,came the hangover sessionat Arnold Bowl. With peopleslowly turning up through theafternoon as the effects of thenight before wore off.This session also saw thehelmet competition with someamazing efforts from severalpeople, some not so practicalfor skating in however.Roll on next years Manrodeo!

Manrodeo 2006Maples Street and Arnold Bowl, Nottingham

Craig Smedley hoists akickflip fakie at Arnold Bowlon day two.

Manrodeo 2006 kicked off onthe Saturday at Maples StreetSkatepark, a beauty of a parkrecently built in a bit of asketchy area of Nottingham,but does give the kids analternative to smashingwindows of nearby houses,although some still were onthe day.Loads of people turned upfrom all over, the park wasjam packed.

This session carried on allafternoon until early eveningas people slowly peeledaway, in the general directionof The Old Moot Hall whereIcon teamrider Mark Vasey’sband Das Ragworms wereplaying the offical Manrodeogig.After which around 50 plusskaters most of which heavilyunder the influence by thispoint, descended on RockCity to complete the night.Next morning, well afternoon,came the hangover sessionat Arnold Bowl. With peopleslowly turning up through theafternoon as the effects of thenight before wore off.This session also saw thehelmet competition with someamazing efforts from severalpeople, some not so practicalfor skating in however.Roll on next years Manrodeo!

Stalefish Galore. Above ColinAdam pulls a super fast one,to the right Rees tweaks hisout. Both at Maples Streetpark.

Visit www.beastmangoat.comfor more photos and other manrod antics.

Stalefish Galore. Above ColinAdam pulls a super fast one,to the right Rees tweaks hisout. Both at Maples Streetpark.

Visit www.beastmangoat.comfor more photos and other manrod antics.

Moments from the

It was an unusually warm daydown at South Bank, beforethe official summer and a fewof us decided to hit up someother spots to skate, one ofthe people there that day wasChris Morgan. My shrapnellined pockets dictated how Iwould be travelling; on theTube; to reach thedestination, sometimes I feellike a kid and surely myyouthful appearance wasenough... I only knew ahandful of the skaters atWaterloo station and I startedspeaking to one of them whowas about the same oldschool age as myself, Chris,a quite spoken friendly guy.Little did I know then, at thatchance meeting that heowned a skateboardcompany called ScienceSkateboards and that a fewweeks later I would beworking with him.

The next time I saw Chriswas down at South Bankselling Science decks out ofhis backpack. I spoke to himabout the company andoffered my services as awriter, knowing in the back ofmy mind there are a hell of alot of skateboarders that dographic design, photographyand work in other creativeforms dealing with images,but not that many that write, Iwas right. After a few chilledout meetings, hanging out infree places like coffee shopsand parks discussingScience, a connection wasformed and writing for thewebsite began.

The Essence of

Science Skateboards

Scott Howes - Switch Frontside Heel

Photo: Rich

It was an unusually warm daydown at South Bank, beforethe official summer and a fewof us decided to hit up someother spots to skate, one ofthe people there that day wasChris Morgan. My shrapnellined pockets dictated how Iwould be travelling; on theTube; to reach thedestination, sometimes I feellike a kid and surely myyouthful appearance wasenough... I only knew ahandful of the skaters atWaterloo station and I startedspeaking to one of them whowas about the same oldschool age as myself, Chris,a quite spoken friendly guy.Little did I know then, at thatchance meeting that heowned a skateboardcompany called ScienceSkateboards and that a fewweeks later I would beworking with him.

The next time I saw Chriswas down at South Bankselling Science decks out ofhis backpack. I spoke to himabout the company andoffered my services as awriter, knowing in the back ofmy mind there are a hell of alot of skateboarders that dographic design, photographyand work in other creativeforms dealing with images,but not that many that write, Iwas right. After a few chilledout meetings, hanging out infree places like coffee shopsand parks discussingScience, a connection wasformed and writing for thewebsite began.

The Essence of

Science Skateboards

Scott Howes - Switch Frontside Heel

Photo: Rich

Ten years ago Chris startedselling t-shirts emblazonedwith Science designs but thename Science which comesfrom the Latin word scientiawhich means knowledge, goback even further for Chris,“It was my science class inschool, my chemistry teachertold me about the meaning ofthe word and it always stuckwith me, it made animpression, i thought it wascool.” Chris worked as headdesigner for Eclectic Breaksfor four years giving a 100%to it and attempting to givethe same to Science at the

same time. He decided hewanted to be his own bossand left to focus solely onScience. An aspect of thecompany that seperates itfrom being just anotherskateboard company is thatthere is a design consultancyside to it, Chris has alreadyused his skills in creatingdesign work for amongstothers Danny Wainwright’sUK skate shop 50:50 andrevered graffiti collective‘They Made Me Do It’.

Preferring ‘skateboardgraphics over graphics onskateboards’, Chris harksback to a time when,“Skateboard graphics likerecord sleeves of the lastgeneration were crafted,unlike today where a largeamount of skateboards arelike cd’s and have a shortshelf life with the graphicsproduced as a means to anend!” This nostalgic notionhas prompted him tocollaborate with other artistswho have some connectionto skateboarding and believein the quality over quantityview in creating works of arton board graphics andclothing for Science. Theartists doing the collaborationrange from and fit the criteriaas, “Artists whose work I aminto to and giving people withtalent a break, but it alldepends on how real theperson and their design is,I’ve not chosen anyone whois a follower!” Thecollaboration is as follows:the illustrators Stevie Gee,

Jethro Haynes, Mr Gauky and Jon Burgerman anddesign company ‘I Love Dust’. Also included isthe highly accomplished French artist Koadznwho was one of the 100 artists participating inTag The System art event that took place inParis this year, also involved is the designcompany Hype Type who are responsible forthe design and publication of the book onskateboard art by the gifted skateboarder andartist, Andy Howell.

From the visual side of Science is Rich andHenry from Concrete Poets - the aptly namedskateboard collective creating skateboardvideos with a lot of time and effort poured intothem - Rich is the photographer and Henry isdoing the filming and editing for the Scienceskateboard video along with additional filmers,the video is now in production.

The skateboard team consists of two skatersfrom Sheffield who are on flow, Fran Sprengerat 15 years old the youngest on the team, and16 year old Mike Burns. From London the two17 year olds are Dan Tomlinson, and brandnew to the team, Scott Howes. Also hailingfrom London is 22 years old South African ex-pat, Shaun Witherup who used to be sponsoredby Expedition one and Island Style shoes inSouth Africa and in his time in Liverpool he wassponsored by Lost Art skate shop and Insane Boards. Atpresent he is being helped out by DVS shoes.

2120Dan Tomlinson - Over to RoadPhoto - Chris

“skateboard graphics overgraphics on skateboards”

Ten years ago Chris startedselling t-shirts emblazonedwith Science designs but thename Science which comesfrom the Latin word scientiawhich means knowledge, goback even further for Chris,“It was my science class inschool, my chemistry teachertold me about the meaning ofthe word and it always stuckwith me, it made animpression, i thought it wascool.” Chris worked as headdesigner for Eclectic Breaksfor four years giving a 100%to it and attempting to givethe same to Science at the

same time. He decided hewanted to be his own bossand left to focus solely onScience. An aspect of thecompany that seperates itfrom being just anotherskateboard company is thatthere is a design consultancyside to it, Chris has alreadyused his skills in creatingdesign work for amongstothers Danny Wainwright’sUK skate shop 50:50 andrevered graffiti collective‘They Made Me Do It’.

Preferring ‘skateboardgraphics over graphics onskateboards’, Chris harksback to a time when,“Skateboard graphics likerecord sleeves of the lastgeneration were crafted,unlike today where a largeamount of skateboards arelike cd’s and have a shortshelf life with the graphicsproduced as a means to anend!” This nostalgic notionhas prompted him tocollaborate with other artistswho have some connectionto skateboarding and believein the quality over quantityview in creating works of arton board graphics andclothing for Science. Theartists doing the collaborationrange from and fit the criteriaas, “Artists whose work I aminto to and giving people withtalent a break, but it alldepends on how real theperson and their design is,I’ve not chosen anyone whois a follower!” Thecollaboration is as follows:the illustrators Stevie Gee,

Jethro Haynes, Mr Gauky and Jon Burgerman anddesign company ‘I Love Dust’. Also included isthe highly accomplished French artist Koadznwho was one of the 100 artists participating inTag The System art event that took place inParis this year, also involved is the designcompany Hype Type who are responsible forthe design and publication of the book onskateboard art by the gifted skateboarder andartist, Andy Howell.

From the visual side of Science is Rich andHenry from Concrete Poets - the aptly namedskateboard collective creating skateboardvideos with a lot of time and effort poured intothem - Rich is the photographer and Henry isdoing the filming and editing for the Scienceskateboard video along with additional filmers,the video is now in production.

The skateboard team consists of two skatersfrom Sheffield who are on flow, Fran Sprengerat 15 years old the youngest on the team, and16 year old Mike Burns. From London the two17 year olds are Dan Tomlinson, and brandnew to the team, Scott Howes. Also hailingfrom London is 22 years old South African ex-pat, Shaun Witherup who used to be sponsoredby Expedition one and Island Style shoes inSouth Africa and in his time in Liverpool he wassponsored by Lost Art skate shop and Insane Boards. Atpresent he is being helped out by DVS shoes.

2120Dan Tomlinson - Over to RoadPhoto - Chris

“skateboard graphics overgraphics on skateboards”

It was a coincidence that introduced me into the world ofScience and to analyse a realisation that I have known forsome time, that in the hearts and minds of most, if not allskateboarders next to, below or even above the expressionthat skateboardeing portrays is a desire to communicate inother forms of creativity. As an individual whose love forskateboarding and art, Chris Morgan and all those involved,share this vision and are very aware of how these twomediums have impact seperately or can be blended to formthe essence that is Science.

Shaun Witherup - Wallie 180Photo - Chris 2322

For more information:-t: 07843 417 984w: www.scnc.co.uke: [email protected]

It was a coincidence that introduced me into the world ofScience and to analyse a realisation that I have known forsome time, that in the hearts and minds of most, if not allskateboarders next to, below or even above the expressionthat skateboardeing portrays is a desire to communicate inother forms of creativity. As an individual whose love forskateboarding and art, Chris Morgan and all those involved,share this vision and are very aware of how these twomediums have impact seperately or can be blended to formthe essence that is Science.

Shaun Witherup - Wallie 180Photo - Chris 2322

For more information:-t: 07843 417 984w: www.scnc.co.uke: [email protected]

25Sam Taylor - Hardflip - Leicester Photo: Matt ClarkeTom May - BS Heelflip - London24

Lewis Sharman - Ollie - Milton Keynes

25Sam Taylor - Hardflip - Leicester Photo: Matt ClarkeTom May - BS Heelflip - London24

Lewis Sharman - Ollie - Milton Keynes

26 Ash Lever - BS Smith - Leiston Ben

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