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THIS LITTLE 6 YEAR OLD KID RIPS! HE’S EVEN GOT STEEZE!

Check out this short video of local Swansea skater Ryan Olsen rippin’, filmed by Joe Maggs. I haven’t seen him skate for a good few months and he’s progressed loads over that time, this video really blew me away. All the young dudes seem to progress way faster than us old guys did back in the 90′s, luckily they are still plagued with bad knees and ankles so we aren’t bitter, haha.

Check out Joe’s other skate videos here.

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…

This is a cool little video made by a dude for a school project “The concept was to create an announcement trailer for a fake video game. SK8-bit is a 3D “game” with a 2D pixel art visual style thing. the footage was rotoscoped BY HAND in Photoshop; no crazy video filters or anything like that.”

SK8-bit from cluto on Vimeo.

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!