New Cult Leaders trailor

Rolling videographer Harry Reavley has just dropped another trailor for the much anticipated UK dvd 'Cult Leaders'. Cult Leaders is set to be the hottest UK dvd release in recent history and featured profiles on two of Routeone's team riders Paul Bates and Lee Mainland as well as the much talked about Dan Ives.

Routeone rider Paul Bates will have a section to watch out for in the Cult Leaders DVD.

If his breakfast is anything to go by, Lee Mainland's section is gonna be badass.

Check out the trailor at the link below. In Harry's own words

'A collaboration of footage used to put together a concise video using footage that shall not be used in the main feature. If your looking for big tricks you wont find them here. Purchase the DVD for the big boy shit.'

http://vimeo.com/1897404?pg=embed&sec=1897404

Jenna Downing going Nationwide!

Razors Uk team rider and world ranked number 2 female rolling superstar Jenna Downing has been spreading the good word to the masses and helping save the economic crisis by teaming up with Nationwide. Check out Jenna featured on the Nationwide website rocking the Aragon 2 skates and gapping the que barrier! I know where my money's going for 2009.

www.nationwide-jobs.co.uk/graduates

www.nationwide-jobs.co.uk/home/graduate/about-you

Alchemy skates press release

Alchemy skates have just dropped a press release on rollernews and Kingdom with a statement about their company and an edit on newly announced team rider Sam Tuffnell. Check out the press release and edit below!

It’s time to clear up the crap surrounding Alchemy.

As it stands, there is less than a handful of reputable boot companies in the blading world who actually give a shit and put back into the industry. Over the first two years of Alchemy we’ve already sponsored some of the UK’s highest profile comps, help fund skateparks, flowed product to up and coming riders and established the respect of the UK’s most influential characters. Anyone that had their eyes open at this years NASS should have noticed the abundance of Alchemy banners on the street course as well as hammers dropped from our first official rider, Andy Gilbert.

If we wanted an easy ride we wouldn’t bother putting back into the industry.
The cynics may argue that we’re trying to get a quick buck from rollerblading but Alchemy was born from a distributor who has been releasing aggressive skates for the past ten years. And after watching the standard of the UK scene evolve, we realised it was time to develop the first pro level boot company from the UK.

To develop Alchemy, the distributor teamed up with some of the best UK rollerbladers as we knew this had to be a brand for skaters, by skaters. Everyone involved with Alchemy had the same vision; to create a high quality boot company at a reasonable price, from a UK brand with longevity.

Anyone that thinks there’s easy money to be made in creating a boot company from scratch needs to question their own sanity. Especially in the current rollerblading climate where some major boot companies have made their quick buck in the industry’s peak, and left when times got hard. We at Alchemy understand that to get back, you first have to put in.

Instead, we’ve been busting our guts hooking up riders, travelling to comps, shooting edits and developing our skates. We can’t give too much away, but keep your eyes peeled for more news on a full team and future product developments.

Alchemy is here to stay.

Click the link below to see Tuffnell skating the Alchemy's.

http://vimeo.com/1806215?pg=embed&sec=1806215

Alchemy's FKL.1 skate are available from Routeone now!

http://www.routeone.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?CurrentCategory=Departments%7cinline%7cAggskate&ProdId=36367

Zak Buys - Badass? Genius? Both?

Routeone's own Zak Buys is a bearded hammer machine. Unbeknown to most of us he's also a genius. Zak has recently moved to Norwich and is, according to team mate and Norwich local Sam Currie 'doing a masters in some crazy genious science shit at the UEA'.



Most people just eat corn on the cob without thinking about it. Here Zak calculates the exact nutritional value of eating the corn, and whether the energy exerted by calculating it, is now more than he will gain from the corn...should he finish the rest?

Luckily Zak is still finding the time to skate regularly with Sam, so look out for an edit coming from Norwich in the near future.


For an example of the type of hammers Zak drops, check out his Routeone advert in the just released issue 7 of Kingdom magazine.

Keir Lindsay and co. edit

Keir Lindsay and Stephen McCann have dropped another edit for your viewing pleasure. It's called the 'half tape edit' (i'm not excatly sure why) but it's a sick 5 minutes of skating with a good range and mix of spots. Everything from kink rails, out ledges and some really fun looking parks. Click the link below to check out what Keir and his crew have been getting up to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okBcRYTuIDs

Bone Voyage Jam

This Saturday there's a 'Bone Voyage' jam going down at Boneyard park in Chester to wish Hosker farewell and good luck on his travels. For anyone that hasn't been there the park is really fun and as it's Hosker's park, it's built for rollerblading so you don't have to deal with any low square 2 foot long rails. It's all long, round and a few feet off the ground. Check out the flyer and the trailor below which has some savage skating from Frazer, Nick Lomax and Routeone's Andy Spary killing the box.

Click this link for the trailor;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnhuFUlTb4

SlammJamm

The words on everyone's lips at the moment are 'SlammJamm' and if you havn't booked your tickets or your hotel then the clock is ticking! (as you can see below)


Brian Aragon, Chaz Sands, Jenna Downing and Steve Swain have been warming up the park for you. Check out these promo edits below and keep a keen eye out for Aragon's hurricane topsoul to 'spin the other way' 360 topsoul cos it's the nicest thing i've seen this side of Xmas. Some of the Routeone team will be heading up to get loose, we'll keep you posted on who's gonna be there...

Edit 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gduLM8HUKOc

Edit 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqhnlG1O9Ko

Crawley skatepark Jam

Kingdom mag have teamed up with Crawley council to put on the first ever inline jam at the still relatively new Crawley concrete park. The Jam happens Sat 7th Aug from 10am - 1:30pm and there'll be prizes and a best trick comp. After 1.30 the session moves on to Horsham park.

Skatemeet no 8!

Dale Travers is back on the case with Skatemeet no. 8 This one is going down at Dagenham skatepark on Sept 14th. After the sucess of Skatemeet no. 7 with over 50 skaters showing up this one is bound to follow suit. Check out the link below for an edit of Sim Warren, Rob Nunn, Rob Webb and the rest of the crew skating the park and killing the down ledge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0yhReQPGeU&eurl=http://dale247.wordpress.com/

More info and pics on Dale's blog http://dale247.wordpress.com/

Dale Travers Skatemeet number 7

The latest in the line of Dale Traver's brand Skatemeet's took place at Harlow skatepark last weekend. It was apparently the biggest turn out yet with 50 plus skaters showing up to session including the usual suspects Blake Bird, Jamie Stenner, Leon Humphries, Mike Welland, Dan Ives and a load more. For a full write up and loads of quality pics, check out Dale's blog here http://dale247.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/skatemeet-no7-harlow/

Jame Stenner - Big stale air at Harlow. Photo Dale Travers

Zak Buys hidden edit

The boys at the acclaimed Scottish Rolling site have dropped an edit of R1 rider Zak Buys, but it's too exclusive to let you see it just like that, so they created an SRC game which you have to beat to unlock the edit! The game's fun and the edit's definitely worth it, check it out on http://scottishrolling.com/

R1 Homepage & Product Review by Andy Spary

Route One Inline team rider and all round legend Andy Spary, takes a look at the all new inline homepage and blows some of his team budget on the products available from it. After giving you a run down of the new stuff, he goes and tests it out, killing Hengrove, UKskate and Hype skateparks and also hitting up some streets in Newport, Wales.
Thankfully Andy was considerate enough to let us film him do all this, and you can watch it all below! Enjoy!


R1 homepage/product review by Andy Spary from Routeone.co.uk on Vimeo.

BHC BBQ Coming Soon!

We just wanted to let you know about the BHC BBQ happening at The Front Skatepark, Weymouth on Saturday 23rd August from midday till 7pm.
There will be an AM comp starting at 1 and then a session with Albert Hooi, Eric Perkett, Al Jones, Frazer Watson and Leon Humphries.
We hope to see as many of you as possible and hopefully we'll be getting good weather. If you haven't been to The Front, check this out.

Paul Bates pics by Joey Yeomans

Paul Bates and Joey Yeomans have been out skating and shooting pics, here's a few of the best ones they've come up with over the last few weeks.


Paul Bates showing he's got one of the oldest and hardest tricks in the book on lock. Sick grabbed backslide coming from the roof on the left.

Whatever it is Paul is doing this royale to 180 mute to the street on, it looks like a lot of fun. It also looks like it's supposed to to be upright. Routeone would like to point out it does not condone tearing down structures and re-modelling the landscape as you see fit (unless it creates spots like this.)

Steezed out backslide up the previously upright skate rail.

Rich Barber

Rich Barber has pimped his ride and been cruising round spot to spot in his customized Routeone VW! When he get's to the spot he straps his skates on, does a huge transfer then get's back in his pimped out car and goes to the next spot. Luckily David Robinson was good enough to snap some pics.




Rich's customized VW.

Rich Huge 1/4 to 1/4 transfer.

Rich getting funky on a Gibbon slackline.

Keir Lindsay's onslaught continues...

Keir hasn't stopped since the last blog, and is still out killing it almost everyday. Here's a couple more sweet photo's from his summer sessions. Click on the photo's to see them in full glory.







Keir -Grabbed fishy stall

Keir - Alleyoop Fish down a steep rail

Skatemeet #7

The dreadlocked Aussie, photo snapping, skate meet organising Dale Travers has organised skatemeet #7 - at which I imagine he'll be snapping photo's...It's at Harlow on August 17th. Check it.

Inline clinic at Rampworx

Rampworx are offering an amazing FREE inline clinic from July 30th to Aug 1st. The All star line up of tutors includes Brian Aragon, Chaz Sands, Jenna Downing and Steve Swain. They will be providing one on one tuition and no doubt also showing you what is possible on a pair of skates once your as good as them. This is an incredible opportunity for you to meet and be taught by some the best in the world. Props to Rampworx for hooking it up.

Keir Lindsay reppin hard

Keir Lindsay has been making the most of the summer, getting out and about and skating hard as always, here's a few pics from his sessions. Look out for Keir at the Livingston skate party this Saturday. Thanks to Stephen McCann for the shots!



Keir - Backside Backslide on the square rail.

Keir - Huck over the wall to grabbed makio down the ledge. Prissick Plaza.

Keir - Steezing out a back Royale.

Cult leaders Trailor 2

Cult leaders have just dropped the second trailor for the upcoming video. This trailor will get you even more juiced about the video than the 1st trailor. Featuring Paul Bates, Lee Mainland, Harry Reavley and Dan Ives. Produced by Harry Reavley.

High quality version highly recommended.

Check it out here http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNwI5IW5rSw

Sam and Lee in 'Oh Pari'

Sam Currie and Lee Mainland recently got back from a Parisian skating trip that by the looks of things involved everything you'd hope for in such a trip. A lot of skating famous spots, boozing it up on the streets of Paris and even some some non-skating tourism thrown in for good measure. Looking forward to the edit from the trip coming soon. For a full write up on the guys shinanigans check out the Dirt Box website at http://www.dirt-box.com/blog/photophonebooth.html




Skating the infamous 'blue wave' ledges.

Sam 'tasting' the French wine.

Bercy skatepark just next to the IMYTA ledges.

Sam and Lee having a long hard think about what they'd done the night before.

Razors P-Rail YouTube Contest

Just a quickie for you to think about over the weekend:
Razors are inviting skaters around the world to compete at the Razors P-Rail YouTube skate contest.
Submissions must be posted as a reply to the video on YouTube.com. Deadline is August 1st, midnight PST. Edits should not exceed 30 seconds.

1st Place - $500
2nd Place - $300
3rd Place - $200

Prize money paid to the person (YouTube channel) that submits the edit.

Any skater can compete and submit footage, so get your rails out and get filming, this could be the break you've been waiting for...

The Super Size Sale Is On!!!

What are you waiting for? The Route One Super Size Sale has started and you're invited to join in the fun! Rammed to the gills with more savings than you could shake a deck shaped stick at, the sale has got literally tons (we've not weighed it all, but it probably is...) of unbelievable bargains.
With most shoes from £19.99, (some at £4.99!), T-Shirts from £4.99 and decks from £19.99 amongst loads of other amazing deals, there is something in there for everyone.
You may have received the catalogue in the post recently, but don't forget that it is just the tip of the iceberg, as the website is the place to go to see the whole sale. Make some time though, there's a lot to see!

NASS Inline Edit

Here's an embedded version of the Route One Inline Team edit. Featuring Keir Lindsay, Andy Spary, Zak Buys, Rich Barber and Paul Bates, it's an absolute beauty, so sit back and enjoy!


Routeone Inline team at NASS 08 from Routeone.co.uk on Vimeo.

NASS Report By R1 Rider Keir Lindsay

NASS 08 was, as expected, a riot! After a quick 8 hour train journey from Glasgow, Scotland we (Me and my friend Stu) arrived at Shepton Mallet Showground on Friday evening at around 8 O'clock.

After signing in we went for a wander and were swiftly diverted to the 'Relentless Athlete tent' where we were assured we would be 'looked after'. On arrival we were pointed to the bar where we could get some refreshments and the best part was they were free!

I met up wth a few of my mates from Leicester; Cal, Jock and Dan Mac. Big Jock had already had one refreshment too many by the looks of things and everyone was in good spirits chilling on this big balcony. At this point I was introduced to Sam Currie and Lee Mainland (both Route One Riders) for the first time. With them I also met Paul Bates (Route One Rider) who I had met briefly in London at the Chris Farmer DVD premiere. All very pleasant gentlemen! Zak Buys (Route One Rider) was also there with the young Jamesy, both holding it down for the Kingdom of Fife.



Click here to read the rest...
After a pretty good night we went to the Route One Stand in the morning where we got to meet all the staff working at the stall, which was packed to the gunnels with bargains and all sorts of goodies. Loads of people had also been signing up for the shoe competition which was happening every hour.


Rich Barber (Route One Rider) and I decided to start stacking boxes to see what the limit was that we could get to to jump. I think the highest we got was 6 boxes and about chest height! I’ve never jumped that high and I’m sure it was because it wasnt a brick wall or metal pole so I wasn't suffering from the fear factor. Shows you how much skating is in the mind.

Then at about 10 o'clock we headed through to the skate park where the competition was being held. Stu Game was trying to get a few clips but it was pretty hard because there was like 300+ people everywhere, most on bmxs. 1 or 2 bmxers kept going and just doing massive tailwhips and tail 360s: it was intense. A photographer for Route One was also there taking photos of the team.


At 11.30 the rollerblading started to take the course and we got about a 1 hour session before the am comp started.

My 1st run consisted of 1 540 then I fell and walked off. It must have looked like I threw a right wee hissy fit but the truth be known you have to be super consistent in these comps and one fall is not really allowed. So for my second run I was intent on not falling. I had a pretty good run; 540 the litte picknick table box 360 the lunch box front farv to flat on the far quarter, backroyal the driveway to flat then over for a cab 5 then a we 360 over the hip beside the wallride finnishing with a 270 backackslide on the rail.


Loads of sick American skaters were there and I found myself liaising with Brian Aragon on the little rail but he only did a few tricks because he was obviously quite limited on it compared to me.

Chilling with Eric Bailey and Stockwell is always fun because these guys have some good banter. I also got to meet Brent Hicks and Demetrious George for the first time, so thanks for making the long journey over guys.

Look out for me and my boy Dre Powell negotiation the size of the Vans tour bus in the next razors podcast: gotta love Dre man - he's such a cool cat and possibly one of the most friendly people I have ever met.

Then we went and skated the Gibbon Slackline out at some pavillion, with Paul Bates, Rich Barber, Zak Buys and Gibbon Slackline world champion Scott Quinn. Much to the amusement of Chaz Sands!!


After that we went and skated the rail outside a toilet then we skated a drop rail with a 2 inch run up. Then it was about 10 o’clock at night and I still hadn’t had my breakfast. Oops!

When I woke I watched the pro comp, ate a bit of my friends cornish pasty and started to feel sick. Then I had a 12 hour drive up the road being sick out the side of my mate’s car. I had to go to hospital and have been here for 2 days. I'm still in here and writing this from the hospital. Stay away from pasties kids. Nass 08 sick as ever!

Thanks Keir, you rock, check out his profile right here.

NASS Report By R1 Rider Sam Currie

We're back from NASS and here’s a little post to let you know what we've been up to. We didn't do too good on the photo front I'm afraid, there were loads of good friends there we haven't seen for ages, so our time was consumed with good conversation and many a brewski. There was a massive turn out this year and they had really hooked it up for the riders too, we had a massive athlete lounge complete with X-Box's, foosball, tiger skin rugs, massive couches and bean bags everywhere, free fruit, free beer, free nandos, a DJ and a hot tub.


Click here to read the rest...

The competition was fun, the park was pretty tricky but everyone managed to squeeze some nice tricks out of it. Lee (Mainland) decided he couldn't be arsed to compete and when they called his name he scampered off and we didn't see him for three hours. I enjoyed watching the bmx guys shred the course. (it was designed for them as usual…)

We hung out at the Kingdom booth and mooched around the trade stands a bit, this is where Lee discovered his natural talent for snakeboarding. He couldn't quite master the random roller skate style skateboards though.


The nights were wild, we kept ending up in some random drum and base barn. Lee also spent half an hour trying to convince a bar lady to accept a completely ripped in half fiver and eventually succeeded by taping it together with stickers he found on the floor.


We managed to leave just in time because it p****d it down pretty much as soon as we got in the car. The journey home was super slow with loads of traffic on the motorways. We hit up little chef for some traditional bad road food and when we eventually got back we hung out with Lee's dogs for a bit and then parted ways for some much needed rest.

Cheers Sam, check out his profile here.

All taken with much thanks from the excellent Dirt Box website

NASS Winners Announced

For those of you that came to NASS on the weekend, you'll know we were running a rather tasty competition and we've got the winners right here. All you had to do was fill in a card and slot it in our massive golden box and you were in with a chance of winning a pair of shoes EVERY HOUR!
So here are the names, a massive thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to those that did, you'll be getting your free shoe invite any time now!

You're a winner!
Aaron Roberts, Adam Skinner, Adam Winchester, Danielle Arund, David Davis, Elliot Stock, James Gibson, Gary Roper, Jack Turrell, Jake Harris, James Robinson, Jo Foy, Joe Johnstone, Josh Gideon, Olly Beha-Burr, Owen Jones, Sam Barnes, Simon Rose, Stacey Smith, Thomas Rees, Tim Bickham and Wayne Norton-Hill.

NASS at R1 Edit

NASS 08 went off this year and the routeone inline team, were there to enjoy it. Check out this little edit of some of the tricks that went down. Featuring Keir Lindsay, Andy Spary, Zak Buys, Rich Barber and Paul Bates.

http://www.vimeo.com/1203458

Full NASS write up and photo's below!