Detroit Last year members of the European Carhartt team travelled to New York City to meet up with the US 5Boro team. The two teams skated the city for a few days before driving to Detroit, a city not often visited by out-of-town skateboarders, much less foreigners. The trip resulted in a special publication with [...]

Palace Skateboards recently launched a new line of clothing inspired by the 1990 football World Cup and in collaboration with English football brand Umbro. A short film featuring many familiar faces from the London skate scene was released to coincide with the launch of the new line. We caught up with Lev Tanju, creative force [...]

Portrait Lex Kembery Harmony and Nike SB rider Jak Pietryga is the interviewee in the current issue of Grey Skateboard Magazine. Here Jak talks us through his Three Clips. Mark Suciu, Cross Continental We’ll kick things off with the most recent part I’ve seen that really impressed me and got me hyped. It’s long, but [...]

Portrait Nils Svensson We asked man of the moment Pontus Alv to choose his Three Clips. If you haven’t already, make sure you watch Pontus’ Polar Skate Co. Promo and check out the Polar article in the latest issue of Grey. Ocean Howell, Next Generation Style king and ahead of his time. Rick Ibaseta, 1281 [...]

2011 was the year of the web clip. Like it or not, full-length skate videos are now a rarity, with the majority of companies preferring the economy and immediacy of shorter web clips. While older skaters prone to nostalgia mourn the age of the skate video, this shift does have its benefits: lots of new, [...]

Our second Berlin edit is released to coincide with the online launch of issue 06 (the Berlin issue) and is filmed and edited by Jacob Harris. A Berlin Jaunt features Boots, Gustav Eden, Will Harmon, Tom Knox, Horsey, Jacob Harris, Kieran Heinemann and Dan Clarke. Enjoy.

The first of two edits to accompany the Grey Berlin issue is a Flip cam edit by Rob Mathieson featuring himself, Sylvain Tognelli, Nick Jensen and Chris Jones. A couple of tricks from the Berlin issue also pop up in the recent Sylvain Tognelli Wooden Nickels episode.

Amigos is an underrated and largely forgotten video from clothing brand Forties, released back in the mid-nineties. The video featured music by Tommy Guerrero, and skating from the likes of Carl Shipman, Ethan Fowler and Julian Stranger. You can watch the full video here, or check out the two montages below. Thanks to Chops for reminding [...]

Grey Skateboard Magazine was invited to Barcelona last week for the launch of the Nike SB Paul Rodriguez V shoe. For the wear test, the hundred or so people attending the launch were divided up into teams – each comprising a filmer, photographer, Nike SB global rider, European rider and local guide – and sent [...]

Fitkin Skate Film is a short film by Jacob Brown featuring Chris Pearson, Will Harmon, Nick Jensen, Rory Milanes and Lucien Clarke.

Portrait Henry Kingsford We asked Familia and DC rider Steph Morgan to pick his Three Clips. You can watch him in the Familia promo Feeder here. Danny Renaud, Mosaic This is the first part I saw of Danny Renaud and I think it’s his best. He has such a good style and he skates so [...]

Portrait Lex Kembery Issue 05 of Grey Skateboard Magazine is in shops now and features an interview with Death and Adidas rider Boots. To help celebrate the release of this issue, we asked Boots to pick his favourite Three Clips. Enjoy. Geoff Rowley, Sorry Sorry is one of the best skate videos ever made in [...]

Jai Tanju is a photographer from San Jose, California. He is the man behind Film Por Vida, an international photographic print exchange program. Photographs sent and received by Jai through the program are currently on show at Wayward Gallery in London. We caught up with Jai to find out more. Interview and photography Henry Kingsford. [...]

Portrait Henry Kingsford We asked Heroin and Emerica rider Casper Brooker to talk us through his Three Clips. Check out Casper’s Up in issue 04 of Grey Skateboard Magazine here. Heath Kirchart, This is Skateboarding To me this is one of the best sections ever. It’s just unreal; the guy kills it. Heath took skating [...]

Portrait Henry Kingsford To celebrate the online launch of Grey Skateboard Magazine issue 04, Enjoi and Adidas rider Will Harmon gives us his Three Clips. You can read read Will’s Local Knowledge from issue 04 here. 1. Gino Iannucci, Snuff I must have watched this part a bajillion times. My friends and I were so [...]

Portrait Guillaume Anselin We asked Magenta and Adidas rider Leo Valls to pick his Three Clips. 1. New York City section, Eastern Exposure 03 This is one of the sections I think I’ve watched the most. The feeling is amazing and the aesthetic of the old camera, night skating, and the Miles Davis song all [...]

Portrait Lex Kembery We caught up with Australian Adidas rider Kurt Winter to find out more about his board sponsor Hype and his love of London. Competition details below. Interview Henry Kingsford What have you been up to? I’ve just been skating around back home in Melbourne since I’ve been back for the last few [...]

Portrait Andrew Mapstone Volcom and Real rider Dennis Busenitz talks to Grey about the new Real video, his winning Tampa run, and his favourite skater. For details on how to win free Volcom gear, answer the Busenitz trivia question following the interview. Dennis, how did the SF premiere of Since Day One go? Do you [...]

Portrait Henry Kingsford Raphaël Zarka is a French artist whose work addresses the history of skateboarding and skateboarders’ preferred spaces. In February Zarka showed his film Species of Spaces in Skateboarding at Tate Modern and earlier this year his book On a Day with no Waves, a Chronicle of Skateboarding 1779-2009 was published by Éditions [...]

Henry Edwards-Wood made this edit of night skating to coincide with the release of issue 04 of Grey Skateboard Magazine. We recommend double clicking to watch full screen. Enjoy.

Portrait Lex Kembery Stevie Williams was in London recently for the opening of One at Slam City Skates. We caught up for a quick chat about riding for Supra, Love Park back in the day and what we can expect from Stevie in 2011. Interview Henry Kingsford How did the Supra thing come about? Supra [...]

Thanks to everyone who entered our Cliché photo competition. Hundreds of photos were submitted, many of them excellent. Winner – Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, Backside Noseblunt Slide (Josh Campos) We liked all of Taylor’s photos (you can see a couple more below), but picked this one for the simple yet strong composition, graphic quality and the abstract, [...]

Lev (on the right) and friends in London. Photo Henry Kingsford. We caught up with Palace founder Lev Tanju to discuss his new clothing line and find out what he has planned for 2011. How are things going with Palace? Fantastically! Just been working on our new website and a video thing that drops next month. [...]

JB Gillet, Frontside Bluntslide. Photo Benjamin Deberdt. Résumé is a photography book chronicling the history of Cliché Skateboards since it was founded back in 1997. As a collector of photography books, I am probably more critical of books about skateboarding than most. Maybe this is because skateboard photography generally does not fit the context of [...]

Portrait Henry Kingsford. To help celebrate the online launch of issue 03, we asked Blueprint, Elwood and Lakai rider Sylvain Tognelli for his favourite Three Clips. 1. Ted DeGros – North There is something about the Canadian skateboard scene that makes it taste special. It might be the real winters, or guys like Ted De [...]

By Will Harmon. Getting By, filmed and edited by Ross Lidgey, is the latest skate DVD to come out of the Big Smoke. Judging by the DVD cover photo which shows an assortment of pence, a hot wrap from Pret, a child travelecard half ripped for roach, a mobile from around 2004, and an open [...]

To coincide with the recent release of Grey issue 03, we give you John Tanner’s Three Clips.

Three Clips will be a new regular feature for greyskatemag.com in which skaters featured in the current issue discuss their three favourite skate sections on YouTube. Simple.