Episode 11

Episode 11

Greetings from Podland! This month sees the beginning of a new segment on the pod, "Useless Wooden Questions" Where the lads ask two listeners or friends of the pod to answer nine questions about themselves and Irish Skateboarding, this time its with Christian Hunter out of Belfast and Tom O'Brien from Cork who lives in Galway.

Because of Ryan and Tony's unpredictable schedule and the pod not always being recorded at the same time every month a couple of events got missed out, In Belfast Jonny McConkey organised a jam at the new Belfast hot spot, but unfortunately they had to retreat to bridges, due to shite weather. In Galway a Girl Skate Day and all ability and gender event was organised on the 26th September, they to had to retreat to the skatepark but not because of the weather because of the fecking Police.

New park news, Carlow is now home to a brand spanking new skatepark and soon to follow, Kilkenny's park is under construction, keep an eye out on Kilkenny Councils Twitter for updates. If your in the Cavan / Longford area on the 24th of October, The Cavan Concrete Surfing squad have organised another event, a game of skate using different obstacles, hit the squad with a DM to get exact location. Belfasts own James Ferris recently got the nod from Boarder Co Skateboards and is now a fully fledged member of the team, Big up the BCO family!

New shit from the Island, Fawk Yeah Skateboards put out a new colour way of their FYS x Hephee graphic, head over to their website to cop and check out some of their soft goods while your at it. Killing Time Skateboards have released their 'Fall 20' line, called 'Times Change' , which includes a new board graphic, a tee and a cap. Paro Gentlemens Club a new soft goods company out of Dublin, have a range of T's out called the 'Vandal Edition', keep an eye on their insta for new shit. More new products out of Derry/Londonderry, Iron Skateboards released their first board graphic 'The Patriot' give them a holler on insta to see what the craic is. Nah Clothing have a few new bits and bobs over on their website, tee's caps and tote bags.

Footy alert, Sid Hassett organised an event to raise money for the Simon Community at The Maradyke skatepark in Cork called 'Skate 4 Simon', Tnt Media were on site and have knocked up a 10 minute edit of all the shenanigans and can be seen over on their Youtube. Slanie Brown long time video maker from the north coast has put another one of his classic vids on to youtube 'The War Against Tourisim' with footy from Portrush, Sydney, Rovinj and Belfast. Big Phil Evans, our man in Malmo, keeps killing it in the dork zone, this time comes Dark Zone, a 22 minuter, with all sorts of Malmo locals skating on every terrain under the sun. Last but not least Ross Doyle and Craig Dodds have teamed up again and filmed another part during lockdown called 'Co-Video Phase Two'  hit the link to see Ross fuckin up them Barcelona streets.

The podcast gets finished off as usual with listeners questions, Whats your go to post skate meal? What International pros have visited Ireland? Do you think Dodds would shave his head for 50 sheets? and loads more.






 

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