On the cover of this month’s issue we’ve got Adrien Coillard taking out Geoff Rowley on Lyon’s famous hubba for the second time. Yep, the little guy who casually gap to bluntslid the beast in issue 110 went back for more.

In related “Bon Voyage” news, we covered Brophy, Flo, Joey, Pete Eldridge and Sammy Winter’s trip to China. The article should give you a good idea of the standard of skating we can expect from this new Cliché video. Only 4 days to go!

Since Element Europe are also working on a video (Hold It Down) we decided to send Sam Ashley to Morocco where Karsten, Nassim, Madars and Phil were out on a filming mission. Needless to say they absolutely killed it. With a crew like that what else would you expect?

We even managed to fit in Michi Mackrodt, Kenny Reed and globe trotting photographer Alexey Lapin’s recent  trip to the Balkans.

As you can tell from the titles on the cover we’ve also picked the brains of some pretty funny characters this month. I’m sure a lot of you will find the Pearls Of Wisdom with the one and only “Give your life to Christ”  Christian Hosoi quite interesting.

Samu Karvonen gets the first interview slot and tells us about organising a skate flea market, why he eats food from dumpsters and what he knows of Quicksilver’s plans for the Euro skate team. The second goes to Element Europe’s Jarne Verbruggen who came through with 16 pages of all terrain savagery. Finally we’ve got an Effect with Tom Day. Those of you who (like me) haven’t seen very much of him before this are in for a shock. This guy destroys some seriously unwelcoming terrain. Can’t wait to see the footage of these tricks in Heroin’s “Video Nasty“.

Now that you know what’s in there, go and get yourself a copy!

Here’s the second episode of Michi’s career retrospective Element Europe produced to celebrate his ten years with the brand.

Watch the first instalment here.

Element Europe have put together a 2 part retrospective of Michael Mackrodt’ ten years on the team. Keep an eye out for the second instalment, it should be dropping on the 15th of April. The amount of footage this guy has accumulated over the years is pretty insane…

How good was this? I had completely forgotten about it, I guess some of the footage will be in part 2…

Visualtraveling – Meet The Stans from Patrik Wallner on Vimeo.

Wieger Van Wageningen:

Tomas Stejskal:

Neil Smith:

Michael Mackrodt:

Max Genin:

Bastien Salabanzi:

Josef Scott Jatta:

Manu Margreiter:

Chris Oliver:

Javier Sarmiento:

Flo Marfaing:

Roberto Alemañ:

Chris Pfanner:

Albert Nyberg: