_Hans in Switzerland

Our European Correspondent Hans Hirsbrunner is visiting relatives in Switzerland for the summer. He just uploaded a mini-edit of him skating a small skatepark, which is available in HD:

Thanks for the edit Hans, its crazy to think that even in the middle of the Alps you can find a couple of practise rails strung together, although its funny that they’re surrounded by electric fences! We look forward to more edits soon, keep them coming.

_CJ Wellsmore is my new favourite skater.

One of my close friends from the UK, Dom West recently took some time out after being a super university genius to explore Australia. While there he filmed the Australian Open and has now put together an incredible edit of CJ Wellsmore which hit the interwebs this morning.

CJ Wellsmore from Dom West on Vimeo.

CJ has the best style and effortlessly carries on the Australian tradition of being both a park and street killer from the same vein as legends Tim Ward and Matt Salerno. I hope this leads to bigger things from him! He deserves it, I have so much respect for skaters who are this versatile.

Here’s one of Dom West’s more recent sections- from MV ‘Manifest’ 4.

_Roundup of the weekend

So, where to begin?

Dave Ghent’s labour of love The Brampton Competition was a total and utter success- Mike David smashed it with a royale to gap drop from a planter and a true front unity on the rail, Erik Burrow skated faster than anyone else and landed everything, and Gyom Latrompette 540′d the massive platform into the bowl, sticking it perfectly. It rained just enough to cool everyone off, for the most part the natives, although restless, did as they were told and stayed off the course during the competition and a good time was indeed had by all.

also, THIS JUST IN- Deshi is no more! Due to some major (and quite logical) restructuring at the Conference, USD will absorb the Carbon skate into its current range, due mostly to lots of the USD pro skaters wanting to ride them.

More details HERE for those that want the full story.

_Skating some street downtown

We went street skating the other day, and decided for film some clips. I put together an edit of the best clips. Hope you like it! By the way, you can find all these clips on www.daveghent.com/BladingFootage

June 9th street session from dave ghent on Vimeo.