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Skateparks are finally starting to pop up all over Britain, some in the most unlikely of places. Some councils are awesome and have gone to great lengths to provide park facilities for skaters, bmxers et al but it seems that others just aren’t trying very hard at all, my local council, Swansea, for example. Efforts have been made for many years to sort something out but nothing has been achieved, this isn’t entirely the councils fault though! Skaters need to pull their finger out and make it known that they need a park, they need to turn up to meetings, write letters, contact the paper etc.

Anyone out there that lives in a city without a skatepark needs to watch the videos below of the amazing parks being built by Maverick Industries around the UK. Maverick are absolutely killing it with their parks, the designs are second to none and if you want something like this to skate then get in contact with Maverick on any of the links at the bottom.

Maverick Industries on YouTube
Maverick Industries Facebook Page
Maverick Industries Blog

Have you been to a Maverick skatepark? What did you think? Hit up the comments…

As someone who has always used a Mac and never owned a Windows PC I obviously like most of what Apple put out there and the iPhone 4 is no exception, in fact I may be more excited about this one than anything else they have ever done. But then Jason Groundnut posted a link to this on Facebook earlier…

…Apple’s design and graphics are second to none and this may be the biggest mistake they have ever made (even worse than the G4 Cube?!) That kid is clearly pushing mongo (back foot on the board, front foot pushing), which is seriously uncool both aesthetically and functionally. For all you kids out there that push mongo, and many people do when they start skating, you need to sort it out AND QUICK. No decent skaters push mongo, if you want to be a rubbish skater for ever then keep it up but if you want to progress the first step is learning to push properly, until you can do that pretty please stop trying to ollie and kickflip, I’m begging you!

Apple, you have let me and millions of other skaters down, please fix this photo!

This is probably the weirdest thing you will see this week…

Haroshi is a skateboarder and an artist, he has taken old decks and turned them into some killer pieces of art.See more over on Haroshi’s site

Check out this Carhartt collab with Charge Bikes. It’s a fixed gear and you’ll find more info over on my other site.