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A great piece of the _italian skateboarding history_ narrated directly by Zampa and Paolo Nelzi of Graw Skateboards. Enjoy [italian language only].

Good news in Jart Skateboards.

After more than three years a new full length video is coming. “All you need” is the name of the video, edited by Jesús Gómez and featuring all the Jart team riders, from Ivan Rivado to Bastien Salabanzi. Enjoi the trailer.

On team side, Bastien Salabanzi got the 2nd place in the first stop of 2012 street league, Kansas City. He is the newcomer in Street League, but he’s not afraid of competition.

The Marcin Day 2012 will take place on sunday, May 20th at the Cineskatepark in Rome. Skate, music and friends, the best way to remember our friend Marcin Solecki, who left us too soon.

The More the Merrier.

Cineskatepark, via Pasquale Stabilini 1, Rome.
May 20th from 11,30 AM

Check the Marcin Day 2012 official facebook page for further information.

About a year ago, while skating the bastard bowl, Daniele Galli got injured.

An average person would require physical therapy for the recovery process. He would there find physical therapists, nurses and advanced machinery to do the job.
We can safely say that Daniele Galli is not your average person since what you see here was his way to recover from a nasty injury.

Enjoy.

We are happy to introduce the first bastard school line that is distributed in the best stationery shops throughout Italy and sold online in the School section of the bastard store.

Production and distribution are handled by Biembi S.p.A. of Milan.

Todd Bratrud, after enjoying Milan’s Design Week, flew back to his “cave” in Grand Forks North Dakota, deep in the US Mid West.

Thank you Todd, and thank you Winston Tseng for letting us enjoy the incredible works of this American artist.

His precious bag of prints, silkscreens and stickers is luckily still in Milano and its items are available for purchase at the bastard store Limited Editions section.

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Todd is a rare beast in a world of manic art…

Geoff Rowley

Nike SB and bastard present I Hate – The Art of Todd Bratrud, book release and art show at bastard store, via Scipio Slataper 19, Milano.

Grand opening Wednesday April 18, at 6:00PM, presenting the first book dedicated to Todd Bratrud’s artwork. Todd and Winston Tseng, co-author of the book and art director at Enjoi Skateboards, will be present at the opening.

Todd is one of the most prolific artists working in skateboarding. After getting his start at Consolidated, he’s gone on to produce work for companies such as Flip, The Skateboard Mag, Nike, Volcom, Enjoi, Teenage Runaway, and of course his own company The High 5.

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Here’s a fresh and gnarly skateboarding video at the DC embassy in Barcelona featuring the JART pro team: Ivan Rivado, Mark Frölich and Bastien Salabanzi.

A restyled 6:00AM just got freshly printed. New paper and matte cover for an uprising Daniele Galli.

We always knew that skateboarding was born in the 50’s in California by surfers moving on the city sidewalks… what if we suddenly realize that in the Nazi Germany of 1943, Goebbels’ son was using something really similar to what we ride today?

In this video documentary of National Geographic that recently went public on the italian television a skateboard is shown, with tail, trucks, wheels and a proto-ramp for dropping in. Dogtown leftover?