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Casino Skates Yarmouth Boys Seth Curtis
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Cover: Charlie Young - Pole Jam
News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 4-6 Seth Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 8-11 Casino Skates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 12-15 Time Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 16-19 Yarmouth Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 20-21 Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 22-25
NEWS First off Emerica’s Wild in the Streets is happening in London this year on Sunday 25th June to sort of co-inside with Go Skateboarding Day on th 21st. Last year’s event happened over in Dublin with hundreds of skaters invading spot that normally are bust with security overwhelmed. This year’s kicks off at Slam City Skates at Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden.
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Globe have launched a line of Pritchard endorsed Sleep When You’re Dead clothing and accessories to go with the shoes. Also check out this video of the Globe Europe team.
New brand from Bump Distribution called Heathen should be hitting shops soon, graphic below. The team consists of Paul Rimmer, Mark Burrow and Colin Adams at the moment.
Eothen Skateboards have a new line of stuff out now Another new board brand check out their website for hitting very sson is Sect from Network UK with more www.eothen.co.uk. Mark Kendrick, Bambi and Lewis Threadgold riding those boards.
Chris Pulman - No longer Wallies at Southbank during his lunch hour from Slam City Skates, but as the Marketing Manager for Blackbox Europe, dealing with Fallen, Zero & Mystery
NEWS Most of the Blueprint team have been keeping themselves busy of late with all kinds of things including: Neil smith, Chewy, Tuukka and Shier all heading out to Russia for a little jaunt, video footage on the Blueprint site. Jensen and Brady the Royal Family have been filming with Ty Evans for Lakai’s Fully Flared. A few new boards including added Matryoshka boards
The Boardroom in Leicester have added a new rail to the street course as pictured to the right with Ben doing a Back Tail on it. Photo: Sam Taylor
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for Jensen and Brady and New line of Rain Supreme boards. And finally Colin Kennedy, Chewy, Neil Smith and Am Jerome Campbell have been on the Nike SB UK tour. Download Festival with it’s Snickers Bowl will be happening this year on the 9th July with riders in attendance including: Brian Patch, Georgio Zattoni and Lincoln Ueda.
DVS Shoes have got a tour running through the UK at the end of June, with Sheffield, Leeds, Stoke and London apperances so keep your eyes peeled for riders including: Jeron Wilson, Jerem Rogers, Torey Pudwill, Zered Bassett, Mark Baines, Adrew Brophy, Paul Shier, Janne Saario and Kristian Bomholt.
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Seth Curtis Lets get started then, the standard questions name, where your from, where your living right now, how long you’ve been skating? My name’s Seth Curtis I’m 29, I'm from Sheffield up North, but I have now been living in London for about 9 years now, and I have been skating about 19 years. What got you into skating, and who did you start skating with in Sheffield? I started skating on an old board my older brother gave me and my little brother Joel when were really small kids, me and Joel just saw how far we could go down this hill at back of our house in the park, with out putting our foot down. I was about 6 or 7. then a couple of years later , about 88 or 89 , me and Joel got our first proper boards. I got a Santa Cruz, Corey
O’Brien and he got a Jeff Kendall. We just started from there really, looking up to the Shipman bros and Dino Squillno, a skater from Sheff who was so good, like the Gonz or something, we skated this place called the warehouse that had mini ramps and the banks at London Rd. I skated there and then Safeway car park with my friend Henry in the early nineties, wearing our boards and trucks down to nothing on the curbs there in massive jeans. thats where we met Chez and later Bainsey etc and our whole crew formed from there, just going on trips to Manchester and Leeds, Wakefield skate park, the Worksop skaters began skating with us to at that time. ➨
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S11 was our post code, so we all lived near each other and could call one another to go skating.
How come you left the city of Steel for the Big Smoke of London? After some college courses I ended up working at Sumo skate shop in Sheffield, Seb the owner and friend was friends with everyone at Slam City in London, he heard they needed a new employee, so I went to have an interview with Paul Sunman around 97 maybe, he said I could start as soon as I wanted. I then went to San Francisco for 6 weeks, with all the Sheffield/ Worksop skaters, then came back and moved to London with a bag of clothes and my board into a friends room in a council flat in Stockwell, near the skatepark. It was so sick.
How’s skating different in London compared to Sheffield? When I moved away I found the sense of community hard to leave behind, we all lived in the same area in Sheff, S11 was our post code, so we all lived near each other and could call one another to go skating. But the spots in Sheffield are limited, where as when I moved here the crew I skated with was more transiant, but way better spots. Now we have an amazing crew here in London, it feels like it did in Sheffield all those years ago , its so good, plus most of my friends from up there have moved here now to. Except Bainsey Rob and Blank! ➨
So your now the team manager, euro scout come corespondent for Zero? Yeah I started at the beginning of the year as european tm for all the Blackbox brands Zero, Mystery and Fallen. Its going well, I'm just working from home at the minute, but its cool. How did that come about? I left Slam City about a year and a half ago to work at NDUK , the biggest UK distro of US products at the time. I got to work closely with Jamie Thomas on a few things regarding marketing, tours and promotions, as that was my role there. My good friend Fos is mates with him to, as Fos does graphics for Zero at times, so I hung out with Jamie a bit on the trip they did here and in the states with Fos when we went to LA and SD a couple of times to. Jamie came over to visit late last year after my wedding, and with NDUK out of business, he offered me the job starting in Jan this year.
What are you looking to do with the Zero, Fallen and Mystery brands here in the UK / Europe? My role is to indentify riders that are most suited to the brands throughout Europe, and get them on the teams if possible, and try at get together a tiered team, like an A list rider/s on each company in each country. and also working in conjunction with distributors on flowing a B list of riders to bring through.
Who have you lined up for the team already? On Zero Europe theres Conhuir Lynn from Ireland, hes so sick, he came over recently for a week and killed it. Also, a kid called Thomas Nielsen from Denmark who is gnar for how young he is. He has got a part coming up in Puzzle, so watch out for that. Plus I just got this kid on flow called Fabian Verhaghe from Belgium he rides for Circa Europe to, he is sick - a rail chomper. â–
Any Thanks? My Wife Bev, My Family, Friends to many to list, all at Slam City Skates past and present, Fos, Warlocks, Jamie Thomas, Blackbox staff, Kelly Bird and Lakai, photos of the East Coast from Slap Mag from 93-98, Blueprint, all at ClichĂŠ. Cheers. Seth 11
Featured skater owned shop...
Casino Skates
Leicester
So this month’s shop was a logical step at some point, as Casino been around since 1997, under the careful watch of Leicester head Andy Simpson. Also because one of the riders, Sam Taylor has been helping Revert out shooting photos for the last few issues. With fellow Casino rider Wilko grabbing the front cover, last issue. Cheers Sam!
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details address: Casino Skates 22 Malcolm Arcade Leicester LE1 5FT tel: 0116 251 63 62 web: www.casinoskates.com
Sam Taylor - Major Style Ollie at the Boardroom before the weather cleared up.
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Rider: Sam Taylor So how did you end up on Casino? I think Andy (Simpson) saw Me and Wilko skating and wanted to make his team bigger, he just asked us if we wanted to get on. And of course we wanted to be on, so we were on. haha
What’s it like riding for Casino? The best thing ever. Everyone who works in the shop and all the team riders are friends so it’s just like some big family.
Would ever think of riding for any other shops? Did you put together any No way, Dice for life. footage for Andy then? Tell us a little about the Nah, he just saw skating and other riders on the team? knew who I was. No tapes, There all amazing. Paul stays well I gave him some footage in Bristol a lot so I don’t see once I was on but it was all him that much, Josh and filmed shite, word of mouth John live in Hinkley so it’s the Isuppose. same with them. But I see Andy, Luke, Eric and Wilko loads, its cool.
Sam again with a Frontside Flip over the Quay gap.
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And lastly any thanks? Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Who else?!
Brief History Casino started life at the end of 1997 right here in Malcolms arcade, the same arcade that we’re in today but back then skateboarding just wasn’t big enough for us to pay the rent! So instead of closing down, we decided to relocate to a smaller shop on the top floor of Silver Arcade, where we stayed for a good year and a half!
But then in the year 2k Silver Arcade was forced to close so Leicester’s only skaterowned skater-ran store decided to move back to Malcolm Arcade but in a bigger, better position. It was only another year before we got the chance to take on the space next door and expand the shop further, becoming the Casino you know today! Below - Eric Thomas - Shifty at the Poly Drop.
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Moments from the
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Yarmouth Boys Chewy and Ben Bucklee
The Borough of Great Yarmouth encompasses the town of Gorleston which is on the south side of the river with its own beach front. Which is less packed with tourists like Yarmouth itself. Although a lot of people who live in Yarmouth and the Surrounding area will moan about the town, very few are willing to leave with Chewy only leaving for London just before turning pro but still Chewy - Nollie 5-0 Revert
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saying that he “likes living in London but it’s not Yarmouth!” and Greg due to be moving back to Great Yarmouth. Ben Bucklee still lives in Yarmouth and says he wouldn’t swap living in Yarmouth for London, as it’s too busy and hectic. Perhaps that’s the key it’s just real laid back up there!?
Ben Bucklee - Switch Nosegrind
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Glen Cone - Back Lip - Leiston
Ash Lever - Lowestoft
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Seth Marshall - Ollie Photo: Paul Musson
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th Chips - BS Feeble - Bournemou tty Pra to: Pho
James - Kickflip