Last Rainy Days of the Year

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Desperate to get a last skate in before New Year we seeked sanctuary in a small undercover spot out of town yesterday, who said curb blocks aren't fun!? Happy New Year!

Filmed by: Russ, Dave and Steve
Edited by: Russ
Music: The Mindy Set 'For Tonight'

Essex Tour 2001

Part 1 (11MB, quicktime)

Part 2 (27.8MB, quicktime)

Part 3 (13.3MB, quicktime)

Part 4 (17.1MB, quicktime)

Part 5 (17.9MB, quicktime)

As a Christmas present we've uploaded the rare Monster Network video 'Essex Tour 2001 (It Came From the South)'! Back in the summer of 2001, thanks to LBD's planning, friends and OG Monsters came together for a 4 day tour around Essex and a little bit of Suffolk. It was weather stricken and boozy but it was also one of the best times bringing a large group of friends back together to skate, drink and goof off. Raise a drink this Christmas to skateboarding and friendship and to the English summer!

See you all in the new year!

Edited by Russell Cowling and Barry Ewers

Russ' Long Lost Video Part...

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Heres Russ' section from a High Wycombe scene video 'Pay The Price' from around 1999/2000 that never got finished for various reasons (in fact it didnt even have music till this week). Check out that skinhead!

Smithy's Close Call

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Sorting through some old tapes we found this clip of Smithy nearly taking out a passing car during the final few weeks of filming for I.T.F. "MIND THE MOTOR MATE!"

World/101/Plan B/Prime/Alien Workshop at Romford 1994

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Back in the early/mid 90s there used to be the big Radlands summer comps that would draw over most of the American teams and pros. If you got lucky and went to Romford on the following Monday there was a good chance you would see alot of the pros skating an almost empty skatepark before going up to Harwich for the ferry to Europe for the rest of the summer comps. In 1995 in was the Santa Cruz team but in 1994 it was the World Industries, 101, Plan B, Prime and Alien Workshop companies that showed their face at Essex's finest old skatepark. Good friend of the Network ChasOne was there filming and alot of the Monster Network OGs were there in attendance. An incredible day. Markovich's snakerun ollie still leaves people in confusion. The photo taken by Big Brother's Rick Kosick was used for the tour article in Big Brother magazine. Kosick also took a posse shot of the Network crew although sadly that has never seen the light of day!

Filming and Editing : Chris Thomas/Chas One.
Skaters: Colin McKay, Natas, Hensley, Markovich, Dill, Kareem, Caine Gayle, Jeremy Wray, Fred Gall...

Can anyone name anyone else? Other skaters there that day were Mike Crum...can anyone remember anyone else who was there? Comment your memories of the day...

p.s. Awaiting LBDs embaressing story...

Catchup

Sorry about the lack of updates, everyone has been super busy in the last few days. The Harmony's Danijel Todorovic has been in town for a few days, word is alot of old (and new!) Colchester spots have taken a Scandinavian beatdown of the highest order. Russ took care of the video duties, expect to see Colchester's beautiful spots and Danijel in the upcoming Harmony flick in a few months.

Next up, LBD will be back in the UK over Christmas! Miniramps are quaking in their boots at the thought of the backside disasters slapping their coping in the next couple of weeks...

Last but not least, Dave is having an art exhibition in Colchester. It is at the Schomberg Gallery in St Johns Street. Go look.

Little Ramping...

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A very wet, cold, wintery Friday afternoon meant only one local spot to escape the nasty seasonal elements, the new Colchester mini.

Skating and Filming : David Dixon & Paul Gonella.
Editing : Paul Gonella.
Music : The Clientele 'Jamaican Rum Rhumba'.

Into the Archives

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Whilst looking through old tapes from I.T.F we found a few extra bits from a day out we had at Dunmow fly over banks at the end of last April. A few of the clips you may recognise from the DVD but everything else has never seen the light of day. See if you can spot Veran pulling his best "Blue Steele".

Skating : David Dixon, Veran Tull and Russell Cowling
Filming : Russell Cowling and Paul Gonella
Editing : Russell Cowling