Smack Deserved

Chris Ault is now officially on the team as mentioned in the new issue of Sidewalk and no doubt on the Heroin website itself very soon (link added, check it). Chris has actually been receiving the goods for a little while now but Fos (Heroin head honcho) had kept it fairly quiet until the time was right. It's well deserved though as Chris has been destroying London recently and racking up quite a part for "The Learning Curve".

Another photographer has joined the Jahlada ranks now too. Richard Pitcock is a young up and coming soul catcher, so check his link in the contributors list. Click images for larger versions.

Chris Ault: Suski Grind
Photo: Richard Pitcock

















Chris Ault: Backside Grab Gap Clearance
Photo: Richard Pitcock

Hiatus Over

Had quite a break from filming recently. First a nice trip to Wales for family birthday celebrations and then back to London to watch the rain fall for several days. Returned to camera duties today though and met up with a rather brown Finn who has himself just returned from a holiday, but in rather warmer climes than North Wales! Got some more footage for him to add to what is becoming a wallride heavy part, but as he says "It's legit to have a penchant for wallrides." Damn straight!

All Terrain Dave

Crossfire are running a Triple Shot article with Styley at the moment so you can nip over there and check out more about the man, the myth, the man of steel. You can of course check out lots of Styley's photos here too and use the link on the right to go to his own page.

Warp To Crossfire

Stoked

After a really disappointing time with crap weather and nothing getting done, the day was saved by discovering that my footage of Josh Roullion made "Trick Of The Week" on the Crossfire website. Make sure you visit the Crossfire site using the link on the right. Cheers Zac and Alan. Stoked! Click image for video clip.

Doh!

Pissed! Took the trip to the old South Bank ledge's new home and the heaven's opened to greet us. I was all ready to get some lines filmed and Leo was itching to skate too. All I got was this clip. Back there VERY soon. Click image for video clip.

So That's Where They Went

I have heard several people asking where the old ledges from South Bank had gone since the new ones had been installed a couple of weeks ago, and now it seems they have found new homes at undisclosed locations around London. Looking forward to visiting these very soon. Click image for larger version.

In Line For Lines
Photo: Gorm

Proper Tweaker

Grey skies and intermittent rain in London prompted a car journey to drier climes today, but a severely tweaked ankle for Chris Ault, upon trying his second handrail trick of the day, left me filming Styley just mucking about. Ended up being loads of fun though so here's a little clip for you. The clip's also added as a link in the new, aptly titled, "Video clips" section on the right of this page. Today's clip is called "Styley's Steez" and I'm going to try to post up little clips there regularly so keep checking back y'all. Click image for video clip.

What A Spot

Styley, Mike and myself met up early on Saturday and after a quick warm up at a local time capsule, we set up camp at an East London spot which, according to a local resident, is soon to be demolished to make way for new flats. We did a bit of construction work ourselves and fashioned a make shift ramp to aid the run up to the obstacle and it turned out quite well once Styley had stuffed it with leaves. The rest of the afternoon was spent fetching water and food from the local shops between short bursts of energy as the sun was really beating down and it was only possible to skate for a few minutes at a time.

Rimmer turned up after a few hours and pulled several of what is jokingly becoming his trademark trick even though he was pretty tired after working an eighteen hour shift the previous day!

We then headed into the city to meet Chris Ault and Finn and after a couple of places skated and photos shot it was time to unveil to them the latest spot to appear in our great city. A perfect wooden bench surrounded by beautiful marble ledges and basically completely unskated, although we did see some friends there the previous night. It's surely only a matter of time until it's completely swamped by London's locals. Chris reeled off trick after trick for Styley's camera and then filmed a pretty cool line for "The Learning Curve". Definitely going back there soon. Click image for larger version.

Peeping footage at the new spot
Photo: Styley

Covert Mission

Mike emerged on Friday for a quick skate at a rather tricky transition spot. Tricky to skate, but mainly tricky because the armed police who were patrolling about twenty metres away had to be avoided or else we were more than likely in serious trouble. Fortunately the masses of tourists present provided a handy distraction and we got what we needed done. Enough clues for you? Click image for larger version.

Mike Sutcliffe
Photo: Ev

And He Earns Up To 26K?

Community support officers usually know their place, but we met one real piece of work today who tried to move us on but simply went about it the wrong way. A bit of respect given usually gets a bit of respect in return but he can't have been taught that when he was being enrolled in "pretend police" school. His lack of authority and powers of arrest really frustrated him after I argued with him so he resorted to blocking us with his mountain bike after we had decided to leave anyway. Hopefully he won't meet with an accident and fall of his bike sometime soon. Finn and Chris got quite a bit filmed today for "The Learning Curve" and the image below was not one of those things. Click image for larger version.

Finn Andrés: Pop shove-it wallride
Photo: Ev