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.