Congrats to Willow for making it into the big league! As of today he's part of the etnies Global team with the likes of Malto, Taylor and Leeper.
Check out his Welcome Clip and his ad.
The etnies website has more info about Willow.
Congrats to Willow for making it into the big league! As of today he's part of the etnies Global team with the likes of Malto, Taylor and Leeper.
Check out his Welcome Clip and his ad.
The etnies website has more info about Willow.
etnies just released a really good video of their UK & Spain Recognition tour, featuring the Global & European Team.
If you are looking for motivation to go skate, do yourself a favor and watch this.
If you've missed the ESC 09 experiment, here's your chance to see what happened in Basel two weeks ago.
The setup for ESC09 has started, the miniramp went up in record time. Streetcourse will be attacked today.
We had a malfunction during an experiment in the ESC video lab this weekend! Check out the result here.
More skateboard research will be conducted August 6 to 9 in Basel....
Charles Collet has nice web interview up on the etnies website. Check out what Grenobles favorite son has been up to.
After a few months of uncertainty, we are happy to announce the etnies European Skateboard Championships, presented by Carhartt, today. As in the past years, ESC will happen in Basel, Switzerland from August 6 to 9.
The etnies Goofy vs Regular will air on April 9 at 20:15 (CET) on Eurosport2. Check a 3 minute highlight clip on Vimeo
The skaters with their left foot forward won the first etnies Goofy vs Regular event in Europe. Check the site for more info from the contest this past weekend in Eindhoven.
The new issue of Swiftfooted is online. Check out their photo issue here.
Spring is still a few weeks away... In the meantime check out the 09 Emerica Wild in the Streets series on YouTube.
etnies is finally bringing Goofy vs Regular to Europe. Area 51 will be hosting the event on March 21st. The top European and Dutch riders will be invited to compete for the supremacy of their stance. More info will be available at the European Goofy vs Regular site soon.
www.ericantoinephoto.com is up, you will find a lot of photos that were in this website but also some different work, landscape, portraits, travel images... Enjoy!
Congratulations to etnies rider Axel Cruysberghs from Belgium for winning the 09 Simpel Sessions in Tallinn, Estonia!
Watch the highlights of the Young EUmericans in California here.
Our full 26 minute TV edit of the European Skateboard Championships 08 in Basel is available on Youtube. Enjoy!
A new issue of Swiftfooted is online for you to enjoy.
Check the ESC 08 highlights in this 3 minute clip.
Thanks to Yummy Industries for the help in making ESC 08 the best one yet! Cardboard über alles!
Check out their belt collection and support their work.
The ESC guide magazine is online!
Congratulations to Emerica Europe rider Rob Maatman to winning the Volcom Amsterdamn Am contest this past weekend!
Congratulations to Jan Hendrik Kongstein who won the EU Final of the éS Game of SKATE in Prague and will compete in the World final this weekend in Orange County.
The next and last stop on the Wild in the Streets tour is Bucharest. The Emerica Europe team will skate the streets of the Romanian capital this weekend.
For some really good skateboarding content on the web, check out Swiftfooted.
The Emerica Europe team will be in Eindhoven this weekend for the main Dutch Wild in the Streets. Check the flyer for the locations and dates.
If you want to see some of the best flat skating in Europe, head to Prague on Sunday June 29 for the éS Game of SKATE EU Final at Stalin Plaza.
Check the trailer for the ESC 08 here
éS Europe rider Stephan Guenther graces the cover of the new issue of Monster Skateboard Mag. Check out his full interview on their website
The Emerica Europe team is about to go Wild in the Streets all over the continent. Check the flyer for the locations and dates.
The info pages for the European Skateboard Championships 08 are online.
Skateboardeurope is looking for an intern for 6 months, starting as soon as possible. The place of work is Basel, Switzerland and you will be involved in the organisation of the European Skateboard Championships.
If you speak (and write) fluent German, English and French, please send your application and CV to contact@skateboardeurope.com
Do yourself a favor and go to Paris on April 5th. The entire Altamont team will be there for a signing at Street Machine Skateshop and a demo at the new Paris skatepark.
The Young EUmericans just got back from a ten day Tenerife Mission. Full coverage coming soon in Kingpin and here on the site. Here's a line of Enis Fazilov messing around....
Switzerland finally has a real skateboard magazine!!
Long live Blackout
The Emerica Europe team pages are up on the Emerica site. Check them out and become a homie!
It's official!! For the eighth year in a row, the European Skateboard Championships will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The date is August 7-10. Mark your calendars.
Longtime skateboardeurope.com friend P-Stone just posted a nice little 2007 clip on the Thrasher site. Keep the bluntslides coming, Loaf!
Steve Forstner is back in Europe after spending a few weeks in the US. Hopefully not all the pool sessions went like this one...
If you happen to be in Barcelona in December, make sure to go check out "Que corra el aire" at Ikara Skateshop. The show features artwork by etnies rider Javier Mendizabal and Fernando Elvira. With a bit of luck you might be able to get a hold of the limited edition tshirt
We still have some éSpecial DVDs for you to win. Send an email with your full name, address (street, ZIP code, town & country) and email to contact@skateboardeurope.com
Entering this contest will put you on the éS newsletter database, you will periodically receive news about éS by email.
Win one of 100 éSpecial DVDs, featuring the éS Team and a bonus part with the éS European Team riders. Send an email with your full name, address (street, ZIP code, town & country) and email to contact@skateboardeurope.com
Entering this contest will put you on the éS newsletter database, you will periodically receive news about éS by email.
Making vert skating look better than your average supermodel. Check out Juergen Horrwarth
Some serious flat skating went down in Milano at the éS Game of SKATE European final in August. Check out the 3 minute clip.
Filmed & edited by Jean Feil
For those of you who haven't been lucky enough to see the ESC 07 on TV, here's a 3 minute clip of the highlights.
Edited by Jean Feil
Mizurov did it again!
Alex won the éS Game of SKATE EU final this past sunday in Milano, Italy.
Click here to check out some pictures from the event.
The new éS video called éSpecial will premiere on Sept 8 at the ASR tradeshow in San Diego. Click here to check out the teaser.
If you happen to be in Milano, Italy this coming Sunday (Aug 26) make sure to come by the European Final of the éS Game of SKATE
Check out the flyer here
Click here to see the location on a Google map.
In less than two weeks, the European Skateboard Championships will be in full effect.
If you are looking for information about the event click here.
After two highly original and stylish video parts and four years as Am, etnies Europe rider Julian Furones is getting his first pro model from Antiz Skateboards.
Look for it at a skateshop near you soon. Congratulations Armadillo!
If you are going to the Bright Tradshow in Frankfurt this weekend, don't miss the Skate Styles exhibition, featuring photography by artists from all over Europe.
etnies Europe rider Charles Collet is on the cover of the latest issue of Sugar Magazine. Nice one Loulou!
Congratulations to Emerica Europe rider Max Genin for his 1st place at the King of Wood contest in Rouen. etnies Europe rider Axel Cruysberghs grabbed third place and beat quite a few people twice his age.....
Photo: Jean Feil
After some technical difficulties ESC Tickets are finally available online at Ticketcorner
If you are in Barcelona between the 6th of July and August 3rd, check this exhibition out:
The second etnies Girls Get on Board Skatecamp in Basel is going on from August 4 - 12. It's open to female skateboarders of all ages.
More information and signup at www.etniesgirl.com and www.pumpwerk-bs.ch
Check out the flyer
Skateboarders will take over the city center of Stuttgart, Germany this Sunday, June 24. Meeting point for the Emerica Wild in the Streets is at the Nuttenpark-Skatepark, Pfarrstrasse in Stuttgart at 14:00
If you plan to come to Basel for the European Skateboard Championships click here for more information. Check out the Trailer here.
If you didn't make it to the Teenage Tour final in Hyeres two weeks ago check out what you missed
here.
Here's a nice little clip from the etnies Wooden Waffles Tour in the Netherlands, featuring the Dutch etnies team, Willow the energizer bunny from Germany and Belgian wunderkind Axel Cruysberghs.
The V7 Teenage Tour is in full swing at the moment. Lyon today and the final this weekend in Hyeres! Go there to see some of the best young French rippers and the Emerica Team in action.
The Emerica Europe team just completed a ten day tour of Portugal. Ricardo Fonseca, Helder Lima and friends did demos all over their homeland. Check out some pics. Full article coming soon in Kingpin and here on the site.
The big fundraiser party for the Blackcrossbowl is tomorrow, April 28, from 14:00 afternoon to 04:00 in the morning. Check out the flyer and the Blackcross Blog
Basel got busy this past weekend. The second part of the Blackcrossbowl is done. See you there on April 28 for the grand opening.
More info on the Blackcross Blog
Good times, bad times......
coverboy Gauthier Rouger broke his wrist in Holland this past weekend.
6 weeks of cast, good luck with the smell!
Congratulations to Gauthier Rouger for his first cover! The latest issue of Sugar Magazine features a picture perfect switch heel by the stylish Faultier.....
éS Europe rider Ricardo Paterno just got surgery on his elbow yesterday, to fix a break that occured in a freak accident last week.
Get well soon Ricardo!
Congratulations to etnies rider Juergen Horrwarth for getting 1st place in the bowl and second place in the vert contest at the adidas Skateboard Clash in Berlin this weekend!
We still have some Antiz Z Movie DVDs to give away. If you would like to receive a copy of the best European skate video of this year, send an email with your full name and address to contact@skateboardeurope.com
Win one of twenty 12 Pack DVDs, featuring Evelien Bouilliart, Louisa Menke and more European Etnies Girl riders. Send an email with your full name and address to contact@skateboardeurope.com Contest ends January 31.
Antiz did it again! As a follow up to the surprise smash hit Antizipated, they released Z Movie last weekend in Lyon. The critics agree on two thumbs up!
Check out this 7 minute video from the éSX-mas tour with the Dutch éS team.
© Sander "Schoft" Ferdinand & Simon Ruesink
February 2nd will be a night to remember in Basel...... Planet Moustache
Check out our favorite Tscherman on the cover of the new Limited Magazine. Nice one, Willow
“Günther, 16 ans”
an exhibition of Eric’s photographs opening dec. 15th.
So hot right now!
Gauthier Rouger in Hyeres.
Pontus Alv and Nils Svenson present the Le boxx Art Show in Malmo, Sweden from December 1 to 31.
Longtime Emerica Europe rider Vaughan Baker recently designed his own version of the Trans Em shoe. Parts of the proceeds from every shoe sold will help him deal with the medical bills he faced after getting a torn ACL fixed. The Vaughan Baker Trans Em will be available Spring 07 at a skateshop near you.
Congratulations to Emerica rider Maxime Genin for taking 4th place at the Volcom Damn Am contest in Costa Mesa.
Small boy, big board.
Axel Cruysberghs on the world's biggest skateboard.
Daniel Cardone, Jo Lorenz, Evelien Bouilliart and Axel Cruysberghs are all on their way to California to compete in the Goofy vs. Regular contest at the Etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest this weekend.
Mooooore beer!!!
Yeah Preston!
The Etnies European Open in Rome is coming up soon.
Check here for more info.
See you there for some skating, pasta and pizzas.
No joke in the deep end!
Check the Blackcrossbowl blog
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GYPSY BROTHERS!
Jo Lorenz, Danny Lorenz, Andi Welther and Thomas Tschopp just won the Regio Team Challenge in Mulhouse, France (1.-3. Sept).
For more information check Totalitystreet.com
The Etnies European Open in Paris will not happen in September, we are looking at dates in October to make it happen.
More info will be available on this site soon
What the hell is Evelien doing there ???
Only 14 days to go before the start of the 6th edition of the European Skateboard Championships in Basel!
Click on the logo below for more information.
GO to our friend Stefan Marx exhibition opening !!!
The 2006 European Final of the éS Game of SKATE will be held in the center of Frankfurt, Germany on July 30th at Willy Brandt Platz. Click below for more info.
Slam Trick is one of the best contests of the year. For those of you that missed it, here's a little clip with some of the action.
Click on the image below for a glimpse of what happened last week at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Happy B'day Etnies!
Congratulations to éS rider Daniel Cardone for winning the "Machine" award at the Slam Trick contest in Marina di Ravenna (Italy) this weekend. Daniel made it easy for the judges by flying all over the course and pulling some crazy transfers.
Chris Pfanner won the "Killer" award with a caballerial over the big pyramid.
Etnies invites you to come celebrate 20 years of dedication to skateboarding on June 12 in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo
If you are in Paris next Sunday, make sure you head to Chelles, to the Cosa Nostra Skatepark to see the final of the V7 Teenage Tour presented by éS Footwear
Congratulations to Daniel Cardone, who won the Quik Bowlriders event this weekend in Malmö, Sweden!!!! It's good to see nice guys like Daniel win instead of some brainless superstars.
If you feel like skating this park, make sure you head to Munich in the next two months. Starting Friday May 19, the park of the Etnies European Open will be accessible to the public for 4 Euro per day from 14:00 to 21:00
Thanks to Pascal, Frank, Schuetzi, Etnies and Element for making this possible!
The results of the First edition of the Etnies european open in Munich are now online here
Right before hurting his knee, Etnies rider Steve Forstner shot the photo for this Limited Magazine cover. His knee is fine now and his part in the Auf Achse video by Ingo Bremmes is rumored to be really good.
The hospitality award of 2006 goes to Haris, Chris, Nikos, Lena, Marianna and everybody else we met in Thessaloniki. Thanks for treating us like family members.
Ricardo is one of the funniest guys i know and an amazing skateboarder. 
Click here to see the video clip.
Julian Furones is collecting French magazine covers.....
March 21st is the first day of spring! Say goodbye to all the snow and ice....
