20/80 Night Mission

Featuring McShezzburry & The Red Yeti
A week or two ago, a last minute night mission plan was hatched... 3 of us decided to crack out the street legs and go in search of some new spots. First tho we needed a wee warm up at the new livi indoor skatepark - called the Garage Skatepark, then on towards Edinburgh in search of new street spots. So the plan started off pretty good until 5 minutes into warming up at the indoor, where I managed to smashed my knee to fuck *(ref 1)! At least Benson got a laugh at my retarded fall. Luckily Tam L and Shezz aren't as shit at bailing as me so they were just warming up, ready fur some shralpage of the cold concrete streets.

As most plans I have they either go two ways... 20% lucky as hell or 80% fuck up instantly *(ref 1). We pretty much came up blank with where to actually look for new spots. So we decided to hit a few spots we already knew. First on the list was the high blocks at the Argyl Shopping centre. Where both the LADS managed tae smashed out something....


Tam L - BS smith @ Argyl Blocks


McShezzburry - Tweaky FS smith @ Argyl Blocks

After that Shezz was hyped and wanted to hurt his gangly legs so we headed to the Edinburgh bus depot stairs. Now if you ain't seen them before you don't know that the run up is downhill so it's pretty hard to judge your speed right, you basically overshoot everytime. Plus the landing is angled to boot. But again shit was put down and documented. So somehow, in the end we managed to get some treats for SYB to give to all the shralpers.


Tam L - Crail grab @ Edi bus depot


Tam L - Melon grab @ Edi bus depot


McShezzburry - Fakie ollie @ Edi bus depot


McShezzburry - Half cab @ Edi bus depot

The Div footie machine...

Seems Div is on the rampage footage wise right now.... plus you can't front on some Halloween costume shralping at WSVT. Fucking animal.

WSVT Halloween Jam 2010 from austin mayer on Vimeo.

SYB Friday 666 - 5th Nov

This weeks banging (only fireworks remark am gonna make) sequence comes from the nibble feet of fellow Motherwell lad Ross Hickey. On this, believe it or not, mid-October day it was actually dry enough for a sesh at Renfrew, Hickey and his mate turned up and started firing out the tech shit... altho this was the only sequence I was lazy enough to snap. On a sad note Hickey's chino's took a beating... unlucky mate.

Ross Hickey - FS flip Noseslide Reeves @ Renfrew (insane landing frame included).


Enjoy blowing shit up tonight demons.

SYB Friday 666 - 29th Oct

This weeks 666 is more HELL SESH footie from the SYB Saughton lads. They are fucking churning out some raw n rad wee edits to keep us all happy even tho the weather has been gash. Cheers Lads. This how skating should be all the time.

SYB at edinburgh and Livingston indoor from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

SYB AT OT from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

Benson - Top 5's

SYB caught up with the latest Livi Skater to get his name emblazed on tae a skate plank and asked him a few of personal top 5's. We were also lucky enough to have the privilege of our first guest photographer (and one or two words to go with some of the quotes) from Alex 'Slashdog' Irvine, fucking gid photographer and editor of Kingpin skateboard magazine. So cheers Alex and enjoy....


(Alex) Switch front blunt, Elgin.
Myself, Rattray, Stu, Bense & Cubic took a wee trip up North to go and see what the then new concrete had to offer. By the time we got to Elgin it was getting dark and the park had cleared out. Benson dropped this wee beauty nae bother and we all went for a chip supper and then a sick darts & beer session in ESP Mike’s shed. Mike’s bird’s a copper, which amused Benson no end.

Q1 - Scottish Skate parks?
1- Livi
2 - Aberdeen
3 - Saughton
4- Buckie
5 - Dundee

Q2 - Go tae tricks?
1 - Nollie 360 inward heel gimps
2 - Switch nollie flamingos
3 - Full cab lazer flip
4 - Switch crazy flips
5- nollie flip cannonball - i’ve got that shits on lock!!!

Q3 - Gid things about livi?
We have a skatepark, nothing else in livi is good.

Q4 - Shit things about livi?
We only have a skatepark.

Q5 - All time livi shralpers?
1 - Div ‘muthafuckin’ Adam
2 - Stu ‘when he didn’y huv tits’ Graham
3 - ‘Sven joran’ Leyden
4 - Mark Burrows
5 - John Rattray.

Q6 - Up and coming livi shralpers?
1- Zeigh kyle
2 - Wee lewis
3 - Mini lou
4 - Needledick
5 - Some wee cunt who wears his maws clothes

Q7 - Livi locals that get on yer tits?
Fools who ride the shoes of shame

Q8 - Places to smoke a zoot?
1 - In the bath
2 - In bed
3 - Zootin while rootin
4 - On the sideline at half time
5 - Skatepark

Q9 - Enemies of Uphall FC?
1 - Mid calder
2 - East calder
3 - Torphican
4 - Cross tavern
5 - Broxburn - half the players in those teams want tay kick ma bawz in. (no surprise there then)

Q10 - Places you’ve been tae skate?
1 - Washington Street,
2 - Rote flora bowl, Hamburg
3 - Lincoln City, Oregon
4 – Burnside
5 - Pier park, Oregon

Now here's some mental sequences Alex was generous enough to spew fourth....


(Alex) Boneless super mosh, Buckie.
Same weekend, in fact I think it was the same day as the switch front blunt, we hit up the then new park in Buckie. We had to squeegee the fuck out of this place, I say we, Bense and Stu did absolutely fuck all except smoke fags and watch Me, John and Cube do it all..Livi livin’. Have it mosher.


(Alex) Nosebluntslide revert, Duh.
Tait bit my shit on this occasion, Death or someone ran a still of a stall revert on the Andover, whereby skate etiquette dictates this wasn’t used and never saw the light of day..So it’s sat around my computer for a few years gathering iDust before making it’s appearance here. It’s a bangin trick a shit tonne harder than the stall and so not seeing it run sucked, shit happens like that sometimes though. Fuck it.


Transfer BS tailslide @ Buckie. Yet another a la piss-take banger from up north.


Up to lippy @ America. "You can take the cheeky bastard out of Livi but you can't take the Livi out the cheeky little git." - Benson killing foreign soil.


Corner pocket lien to tail. Yet more proof Benson can kill any concrete transition ye fire in front of him.


Possible NBD for the SYB blog??! Comment if you've seen one of these published before... Transfer up to cannonball BS disaster reeeves - I think, fuck knows?!


Last but not least a Livi ender!!!! 270 Heelfip indy oot the livi line.

For mare info on Benson and Death skateboards cheeck out their website by clicking here > www.deathskateboards.com either that or go give him abuse on facebook. Or go visit it him at at his new job (sitting on a chair) at new indoor 'Garage Skatepark' in Livi. Either way give him some abuse!

Here's his latest board graphic tae...

SYB Sticker tag competition!

SYB is running a wee competition in conjunction with the fine chaps at Focus...! Winner walks away with an SYB tshirt. Here's what you need to do:-
1. Go into Focus Glasgow/ Focus Edinburgh (the one at Saughton)
2. Ask them for a few SYB stickers
3. Fire the sticker on something - it could be skate related, funny, mental, evil, anything goes....
4. Take a photo of it and email it to: shralpyabass@hotmail.com
Then in a month or so time we will pick a winner! May the evil demons be on your side...

Win one of these bad boys....

SYB Friday 666 - 22nd Oct

Wilmot shredding it on the summer SYB England invasion
Another wee treat from the SYB trip down south during the Summer - which feels like an epic length of time ago with all this gash weather. Enjoy those last few sessions of dryness while you can shralpers....

Wilmot - BS lien grab blaster @ Stanground

The SYB demonic gods have spewin' fourth more evil treats!

Yes - just when you thought it was safe for your skate hype to go back to a normal level the Saughton Contingent of SYB have produced more fucking mayhem! A true portrait of the LADS, an amazing park, having a laugh and insane skating! You can't front on that shit.....

SYB BOMB 4 from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

SYB BOMB 3 from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

Mare Hazed Daze's

Shezz has been on a smokey blaze of editing and fired out not 1 but 2 rad edits of Shralping SYB style at Saughton. Good shit.

Saughton daze 2 from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

Saughton Daze...

Ole Shezz has been getting his VX skills out recently and has fired together some footie from the "Skate Paradise - Saughton". All the SYB LADS are giving it hell. Watch then go for shred!

Saughton Daze from Ross McSherry on Vimeo.

SYB Friday 666 - 15th Oct

Tom shimmin - SYB Glasgow night mission 1. A wee while back we went on a night mission to some pretty insane spots hidden about Glasgow. Stupidly to warm up I thought it would be good idea to hit the banks at John Wheatley College, first go I fucked my foot. Tom on the other hand ollie over the hip that is unbelieveably hard to skate, looks good in photos but its just plain mental. lucky Shimmin is robot and we got some good footage that night.

Tom Shimmin - hip ollie @ JW college

Div - shralping some american crete

Good to see the ginger bearded scottish shralper killing it (and himself) at some random parks in america.

The Coven's Second coming

SYB loves all things demonic and especially likes a good hell sesh. So we suggest you have a view at this latest Witchcraft Skateboards clip. It's demonic, there's a hell sesh and there's fucking D.I.Y ramps in there!!! Get inspired and start building shit!

Witchcraft Skateboards - Second Coming - Jake Snelling from Sam Bailey on Vimeo.

SYB Friday 666 - 8th Oct

Another Livi Beast - Stu Graham
This Fridays 666 goes to another Livi local who managed to break out and shralp the shit out America, earning himself a pro board in the process. It just goes to show if you can shred Livi you can skate just about anything. If you haven't been in a while I suggest you head thru for a hell sesh. And in other news it seems Benson and Ben Leyden are involved in a new indoor park in Livi called "The Garage skatepark" that looks to open late november, from what i've seen so far it looks fooking sick and well designed. More on that soon.

Stu man handling a tricky boneless into the Cradle backwall @ Saughton.

SYB stickers

The gid news keeps on coming - We got our 1st batch of SYB stickers in. If you want some there are 2 options:
1. Wait til ye see me shralping somewhere and ask me for some or
2. Email me (SYB email on blog) and you will be emailed an address, where you can post a envelope with self addressed envelope with a stamp on it to. Then i'll fire it the self addressed envelope back with some stickers inside.

10,000 SYB slayers deep and counting

10,000 hits - Fucking hell!

It's been a good few days for SYB and the blog. Over a pretty short period of time SYB (along with all the other gid scottish blogs - ye know who you are) has hopefully helped to spread the good word about the Scottish Skateboard scene and how it is ripping right now. Anyways as a cheers here's a photo for everybody that has taken the time to view the blog,

'Man Mountain' Mark Burrows fires a lofted yin into the darkness @ Saughton

DIV is a beast

Just incase you forgot - here's a reminder.... click here to witness > Ginger bearded killer

SYB Friday 666 - 1st Oct

RAW-DOGGGGGG!
Another dude that has been ruling Saughton gets this SYB Friday 666 post - the LAD with many guises; Ruari / Carlos / Fakie / Raw-dog / The mexican / Transfer...etc. As a welcome home for him and Wilmot - back from a Euro 'Hell tour' SYB style - hitting up england, Marsielle, Barca, Germany and the Dam - Lucky bastards! I thought it be the least I could do by giving one of them a 'welcome back to the pish weather' 666.

Here's a sequence from the Falkirk Jam.

Raw-dog - ollie up to 5-0 extension into the steepie.

Product Review - Superdead 8.5 deck

With SYB our main aim from the start was to highlight and represent all the Scottish Shralpers that are making our scene up here fucking gnarly.

For the shralping to get this good tho we need decent Skate Companies that will supply our wooden weapons of choice, provide foot cushions to shield our mangled feet, sew plaid fabrics to cover our battered swell-bows, stitch denims tae hide our scabbie knees and make shit to cater for all our other shredding needs.

That's why SYB is stoked to sample a Superdead deck for it's first Product Review. Superdead Skateboards rose from the dark demonic north of England in the early summer, much to the surprise of alot of people. No shitting about, straight off the bat they manage to spew out a serious team that meant business. With the legendary nonchalant human that is Andy Scott, mancunian good lad - Eddie Belvedere, street destroyer - Harry Lintell, grown-up asbo - Josh Parr, nimble footed ripper - Chris Barrett and new squire - Ben Rowles.

Now that the SYB history lesson is done, I can tell you about the 'Just 4 Jenna' 8.5 Fresh size board....
First and foremost the graphic itself is definatley an instant classic, as I can't say I've ever seen a demon of a Scottish Schralper bare so much for his love of Skateboarding but Stu did! After swallowing the little bit of vomit back down on closer inspection of the board you also notice the actual Supedead logo - which I gotta admit is rad, simple yet rad.



Being an 8.5 this deck will definately suit the park/taller/hesh skater, personally with size 10's it makes a world of difference having a little more width when rollling away from a trick or heshing about on transitions. The build quality of the board is top notch tae, proper wood, finely shaped, equal and symmetrical finish. The nose concave is medium(ish height with a nice fat rounded shape meaning you have a nice bit of give for your feet to stay on the board or more sweet spot to get yer tech gnar flick on. The tail, ever so slightly more rounded seems to let you snap real nice.

Overall this board gets the SYB seal of demonic approval, not because we are biased or this is our first review - but just because it is a DAMN FUCKING GOOD Deck and a DAMN FUCKING GOOD British Skateboard company. Go out and buy one of these boards if you get the chance, you'll be supporting a British Skate company and have yourself a fine piece of wood at a fine price.

Find out more at: www.superdeadskateboards.com or check their facebook page to see where you can pick up one of their boards.


Superdead logo detail


Tail concave


Nose size


Nose concave and shape

SYB Friday 666

Since Saughton has opened it has seemed to just blow the transition skating levels up another level. Some of the SYB LADS pushed themselves and started calling out 'Hero Gaps' after scoping out the most insane transfers and lines they could invisage. And saw it fitting to call them 'Hero Gaps' because they were fucking huge!

One said gap was called out by Aaron Wilmot one thursday evening at the park. The good omen for him to try it came in the form of a blood sacrifice from a BMXer who smashed face into the concrete and had to get ambulanced away!

Aaron Wilmot 'Hero Gap' transfer over chasm @ saughton

Fresh Heathen website

The Demonic shredders over at Heathen have just updated their website. And I gotta say their new graphics look fucking rad. Plus there is some new footage and photo's of Cannibal Col on there tae. Go and check it out since the weather outside is gash!

http://heathenskateboards.co.uk/

SYB Friday (tuesday) 666

Due to birthday sheannigans this is running a bit late on the blog! Last Thursday night a few of the LADS went on a mission deep into the ghetto's of Glasgow to find some lesser seen street spots and some unused ramps. Rad shit went down - and here's a sample of some of it!

Keep your eye on the blog over the next few days. Got a Benson mini interview and some product reviews. Plus some more good news!

Blunt to Happy

It only seems fitting that I post a photo of Kerr tonight. Usually between tearing the hell out of the bowl at Saughton he is making me laugh and snigger with his take on the world. Be it through song, spaz dance, hell scream or some weird rant to his mum over the phone. Anyway let's hope this little gem from the SYB trip downsouth, a while back, will ease the shitness of the weather tonight.

"Chad Bartie mate, Chad Bartie is having a fucking partyyyyyy!" (repeat in your best aussie accent quick to get the full affect)

"kerr - Blunt pop out to fakie on mr happy @ Stanground, Peterborough"

SYB Friday 666

FUCKING YASSS!!!!! At last we have managed to get on top of things at SYB and are delivering on time. For your retinal scan this friday we have a still photo of none other than Livi's cheekiest bastard of a prodical son. Always the one to rip you as soon as you arrive for a skate but there's a reason he can - he fucking shralps like fuck on a board!

This photo also coincides with this years 'killing the kirk' which was well organised at short notice by none other than our first 'Legendary Concrete Slayer' Youngo. The Event went down well, altho you could tell there has been a recession with the shortage of prizes. Hats off to Youngo and Skatebeard Scotland! On a side note there was some insane footage later on that night with the SYB lads, a bag of NBDs went down. They will be worth the wait to see!

Anyway here's Benson blasting a big smokey eyed, not even trying head height floater over the hip @ Falkirk

Night Boob at kirky

A few weeks back, the night demons forced us out towards Kirky (kirkintiloch) skatepark for a session. The red dusk creeping down alot quicker in the autumn the decision was made. After a few runs I managed to smash my wrist for about the 10th time and 2 weeks and was sidelined to taking some photos. Good thing Tam was in the mood for giving the boob a fresh tickle.... Enjoy.

"Tam knows he's gonna tickle that boob good"


"Tam - Boobllie @ Kirky


"Tam - Boobllie one foot @ Kirky


"Tam - Boobelon grab @ Kirky


"Tam - Boobelon grab from another angle @ Kirky


"A word or warning to all SYB's - when you're having a good session on a fun bag it will usually get you to fuck - if you've played with it too much!