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NEWS | CREATURE SKATEBOARD!

NEWS | CREATURE SKATEBOARD!

Fancy getting your hands on a sweet new Creature skate setup FOR FREE, well today’s your lucky day! Us lovely folk at The Extreme Sports Company have one up for grabs! All you need to do is click here, and upload the most RAD photo you can find. This could be absolutely anything, from a crazy [...]

May 10, 2013 covanaut NEWS, SKATEBOARD 0

NEWS | SAVE SOUTHBANK!

NEWS | SAVE SOUTHBANK!

London’s Southbank undercroft has gained the reputation as one the UK’s most legendary skate spots – even making the cut to feature (terribly) on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4! Over the past few years the undercroft has slowly been reduced in size, until now when the spot is threatened with altogether relocation. The area is [...]

May 1, 2013 covanaut ART, BMX, NEWS, SKATEBOARD, SPORT, UK & IRE 0

BMX | EXTREME AMBASSADORS KILLING IT

BMX | EXTREME AMBASSADORS KILLING IT

If you haven’t already, pick yourself up the latest copy of Ride UK BMX Mag. The Lifer/Extreme crew have killed it in this months issue – Maryn Tambling snags yet another  cover shot! Alex Leech Northern John (Deprielle)   [...]

April 22, 2013 covanaut AMBASSADORS, BMX, NEWS, SPORT 0

REVIEW | NITRO CIRCUS: THE MOVIE

REVIEW | NITRO CIRCUS: THE MOVIE

I’ve just spent the evening in with Travis Pastrana and his Nitro Circus crew – Yeah in other words I watched the Nitro Circus Movie. It hasn’t had the greatest of reviews by movie critics, probably because it isn’t in subtitles or black and white – I personally thought it was pretty sick! The movie follows the Nitro crew [...]

April 16, 2013 Craig Stevens EVENT, FEATURES, SPORT 0

SPORT | NITRO CIRCUS 3D

SPORT | NITRO CIRCUS 3D

Led by Travis Pastrana, adrenaline addicted motorsports competitor,  the Nitro Circus is a collective of crazy, stunt performers. This legendary event has given birth to the Nitro Circus Movie, a 3D film full of deadly jumps and mystifying tricks. The 28th of February  at the O2 in London the Extreme team will attending the film [...]

February 16, 2013 andrew NEWS, SPORT 0

SNOW | WHY THE SHINY SOUL-SEARCHING CAN DO ONE.

SNOW | WHY THE SHINY SOUL-SEARCHING CAN DO ONE.

I am from one of the saddest corners of the snowboarding community, made up of those who rarely reach the snow in person. However, we’re not willing to admit that snowboarding is just a super fun hobby – something we can do when the pennies are saved and we get the time off work – [...]

January 30, 2013 andrew SNOWBOARD 0

BMX | BF – IT

BMX | BF – IT

 Volt BMX decided to throw a premier for the much anticipated BF- IT. The documentary that follows the life and times of one of the biggest legends in BMX, Brian Foster. It’s pretty crazy to see someone’s Career and influence that spans 3 generations of BMX crammed into a hour so worth of riding and [...]

December 19, 2012 andrew BMX, NEWS, SPORT, VIDEO 0

VIDEO | A SKATEBOARDING HISTORY

VIDEO | A SKATEBOARDING HISTORY

A little history lesson of skateboarding by the skateboarders who made it. Credited with introducing skateboarding to Punk Rock, Duane Peters was not only the first person to attempt the loop, he also invented a host of our staple tricks from the Indy air to the Disaster. [...]

December 14, 2012 andrew NEWS, SKATEBOARD, VIDEO 0

BMX | MARTYN TAMBLING 2012

BMX | MARTYN TAMBLING 2012

Originally we hoped to shoot this edit in around three months but this proved easier said then done; finding days where Martyn was free for exploring spots proved rather difficult in between being a husband, father, site foreman and TM for the Verde UK Team amongst other side projects he does. This alongside the atrocious [...]

December 11, 2012 andrew BMX, NEWS, VIDEO 0

SNOWBOARD | BURTON RAIL DAYS TOYKO 2012

SNOWBOARD | BURTON RAIL DAYS TOYKO 2012

You should definitely have been watching the livestream from the Burton Rail Days snowboard showdown on Saturday, because it was insane.  Held in downtown Tokyo, the competition saw urban snow master Jeremy Jones judge over the next generation of rail destroyers including Jonah Owen, Dominik Wagner, Ludwig Lejkner, Ethan Deiss, Brandon Hobush, Yuma Abe, Benny [...]

November 19, 2012 covanaut ASIA, NEWS, SNOWBOARD 0