This was found on the new Lakai site by the sidewalk guys this morning… I guess it’s official then! Being all mysterious about something like this is really is the best way to build lot of hype  around it. Luckily for us there are still a few unanswered questions floating around in English skateboarding, it keeps things interesting.

Many consider Trilogy to be one most influential videos of it’s decade. The Menace montage, Kareem’s stiff legged push and Lavar’s lines probably all played a major part in this, but its also because of how well it aged. People still love that type of skating, look at Palace’s L.A edit!  Yet strangely most of the guys from this video either aren’t really about anymore (what happened to Maurice Key?), or don’t skate the same way at all ( Jason Dill’s Alien part is slightly different to his Trilogy one). Luckily, some people from the those Trilogy days managed to stay true to the skateboarding we’ve grown to love and Enrique Lorenzo is definitely one of them. He’s one of the few you can count on for sticking to the same old shit: long smooth lines with a good trick selection. He’s put out tons of parts over the years, and I don’t really see the point of posting the one I think is his all time “best”, because they are all so sick that it’s just too subjective. But I will post my favorite of less obvious ones: I always tend to forget about that old Logic part he had, it was mind-blowing. I can’t think of anybody else who could do a 3 trick line that includes a switch flip front crook pop out, let alone without pushing.

Here’s a little bonus treat, he had a minute of footage in Rodney vs Daewon 2. He was killing it during those Deca days, I wish that company was still around…

Be sure to head over to the Slam site to find out what the Palace CEO has lined up for us this year.  Stoked to hear that a full length video is in the works. I’m also looking forward to seeing the footage from that Palace x Polar trip, I hope it’ll drop soon. I wonder if they’ll put it out as one edit with everyone from both teams in it… That would be so sick.

I was also waiting for an excuse to (re)post these two clips. Charlie Young’s mention amongst the top 5 best styles in London seems like a good one: play the videos below to remind yourself why he’s up there with Toby Shall. I hope their new filmer will be cracking the whip, skateboarding needs a full part from this guy.

The official list of nominees for the second Bright European Skateboard Awards is up: go and check it out.

Flip Skateboards, Palace, Blueprint and Antiz are the lucky few that got to bring their designs to life this year and they will all be there to session the shit out of the obstacles and try to claim their piece of the €50,000 prize purse.

There’s going to be some serious heavy hitters there for this year, just check out this list of names:

SAMU KARVONEN
SAM PARTAIX (PRO OF THE DAY, DTSD HAMBURG)
DALLAS ROCKVAM
DOMINIK DIETRICH
JOHNNY LAYTON
BILLY MARKS
MATT BENNETT
DANIEL LUTHERAN
NEIL SMITH
DANNY BRADY (PRO OF THE DAY, DTSD LONDON)
JEROME CAMPBELL
TOM KNOX
DAN CATES
ROB SMITH
ADAM MOSS
TIMMY GARBETT
MICKAEL MACKRODT
PHIL ZWIJSEN (AM OF THE DAY, IN DTSD TORINO, & DTSD HAMBURG)
NASSIM GUAMMAZ (AM OF THE DAY, IN DTSD LONDON)
MADARS APSE
GEOFF ROWLEY
DAVID GONZALES
LUAN OLIVEIRA
LOUIE LOPEZ

See you out there!

Palace = Trill