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Julien Benoliel, kickass bowlrider and marseille local (the two things often coincide) just got into the Warriors family.

Actually a few months ago, watching him at the ISPO in Munich as he was getting tattooed the warriors bat/logo on his neck, i thought he might fancy the Lugano crew, captained by Yari Copt ;).

This is his welcome video. Enjoy.

Lately I am listening over and over to the latest record from Gil Scott-Heron. The great African American singer and Godfather of Hip Hop is eventually out of jail, and if he doesn’t make any more troubles he’s going to perform in Vigevano next week. Today I was checking out the video of one of my favourite songs of the album: Me and The Devil. Hey!… Who are those guys? The Warriors?

A little bit of a typical Warriors roughness together with the polyhedral genius of Yari Copt gave birth to this clip to present the new shades that fit well with the clothing line developed with bastard.

Warriors Skateboards, our favorite Lugano crew, announces with this trailer the upcoming release of their last video project Come Out To Skate. By knowing them and through this preview we know it’s gonna be hammer time… Watching this reminded me a little of Zero videos: they litterally make you hold your breath in between gnar tricks and gnar slams.

Since they have an active collaboration with the bastard JAMMIN’ Warriors Skateboards, on issue 26 of the bastard CataZine there is an article on them. Browsing through it you can come across, besides a few tasy images, the words of Yari Copt, deus ex machina of Warriors Skateboards, who shares his vision of the present skateboard business scenario.

Pirates, warriors and tatoos?

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Warriors Skateboards proudly announces its first presence at the ISPO tradeshow in Münich (Germany) from February 7th through February 10th, Hall A2 – Booth 348A.

You will find the Warriors just behind the MiniRamp, so that you will easily enjoy the runs of Igor Fardin, Kevin Blaser and Martino Cattaneo.

The warriors will have a little booth with many surprises… need anticipations? Pirate Bar with free drinks for all visitors, tatoo area with pirate girls ready to tatoo Warriors logos all over the place, and last but not least, Warriors WAR OF THE WALL contest, on the wallride build by IOU Ramps with whom we had a collabo out in FW 2009.

Besides these tasty entertainment sessions, Warriors will be presenting the skate series Myths, 5 artists for 5 decks inspired by mythological creatures, and the new bastard Jammin collection FW 2010, of which we offer a peep preview below.

Issue n° 25 (codename Lazy’s Health) of the bastard Catazine is now available at the bastard store, featuring Lukas Goller dealing with pre-ski exercise on the Anti-Cover.

Fortyeight pages that offer an inside look on the things we did in the last six months and the people we collaborated with for making the clothes we’re wearing this winter, JAMMIN’ e ARTISTUFF in particular.

La company di skateboard truck più celebre al mondo si appresta a festeggiare il suo trentesimo compleanno. Ten distribution, che distribuisce Indy in Svizzera, ha pensato di organizzare un bel tour in giro per i quattro cantoni. Il tour inizia il 6 giugno alla Black Cross Bowl di Basel e terminerà il 23 settembre con un mega evento a cui parteciperà il Pro team Indipendent tra cui militano Haslam, Navarette, Hewitt, Lizard King, Guzmann e Gravette.

In attesa vi segnaliamo che sabato 7 giugno il tour farà tappa al park di Lugano, terra di caccia dei Warriors e di molti italiani di confine. In programma best trick sia in bowl che in street, demo del team Vox e tutto si concluderà con il Warriors Toga Party con la mitica “piggia di birra” termine indefinibile letteralmente ma ben conosciuto da chi ha già vissuto l’esperienza…

Ci saranno i nostri Daniele Galli, Marco Mina e Yari Copt, se volete accodarvi non avete che da seguire il van bastard, partenza all’alba da Milano,

“SKATE IS NOT A SPORT” this is the name of the documentary about Yari Copt’s life. Produced by RTSI (swiss television) was on air last monday night. I really like it, it talks about Yari’s way of life, about him as a skateboarder, as a singer of Those Furious Flame (his band), about his fight against the cancer, about the Warriors (his crew), his work and his dreams… What else? just Yari….

In seguito ad una caduta al Trinity durante le finali del CIS Yari si è spaccato l’omero sinistro. E’ stato portato all’ospedale di Lugano dove lo hanno subito ingessato ma poi ieri, visto che la frattura non si riduceva nel modo giusto i dottori hanno optato per l’operazione. L’intervento è riuscito perfettamente, hanno messo una stecca di metallo dentro l’omero e fissata con delle viti di modo che l’osso si ricostruisca bello dritto e nel modo giusto. Diciamo un paio di mesi di stop e con una buona riabilitazione tornerà meglio di prima.

Yari è un duro, è abituato a ste cose, diciamo che la vita lo mette spesso alla prova, ma lui risponde, ha la mente di un warriors ma tutto il resto fa da se, non conosce la paura ne sà il dolore che cos’è, lotta cade e si rialza, sempre vincerà! come il grande Mazinga