Lessons in Skateboarding with Jak Tonge

Adam Keys and Jak Tonge

About 18 months ago or so we featured the locally produced 6:57 skate video by Rob Crawford which featured local skaters from both the Portsmouth and Southampton areas. Rob recently uploaded the video in sections to YouTube, below is Bored team rider Adam Keys’s section plus an unseen edit of Jak Tonge ‘offcut’ footage filmed at the same time as the 6:57 video. Radness!

Jak at Petersfield

Always happy to see Bored team member Jak Tonge skating, this time it is at the new Petersfield concrete skatepark. That concrete wave looks fun, that concrete bowl looks scary.

Actions speak louder than words

New Jak Tonge Footage

Bored‘s skate team member Jak Tonge has been busy on tour with the rest of the Drawing Boards team (be warned, there is some swearing in there, as well as loads of amazing skating at some Portsmouth spots).

Check the recent photo too, killing it.

Jak Tonge for Drawing Boards

Proud father Jak is well and truly back in skateboarding (not that he really left) and seriously killing it. Jak is one of the most naturally talented skateboarders I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and if you know skateboarding then you know this little shut down edit from Ads over at Drawing Boards is insane. Too many bangers to list, but the back smith stall to sad grab in is just bonkers. Always a pleasure, keep it up mate.

Fresh Blood – Jak Tonge

Local skater and Bored team member Jak Tonge has a little interview over at the Crossfire website and includes some amazing video footage too, be sure to check it out. Good work Jak.

(Photo by Ranny)

Bored Roughcut – Transition

Bored have put up a new roughcut of footage filmed between 2008 and 2009, this time its transition. The edit includes footage of Jak Tonge, Adam Keys, Toby Taylor and Tom. Keep an eye on the Bored Blog for more edits in the future plus news from the shop.

Drawing Boards – Czech My Puss

Local ripper Jak Tonge was out in the Czech Republic with the rest of the Drawing Boards team recently, here is a ramp and park edit they just uploaded with a tonne of Jak footage:

Some Skate Photos

A spot of self-promotion (apologies), but I put together an article for the new issue of Tweaker Zine full of skate photos I’d recently taken in Portsmouth, thought maybe I’d post a link to the article in-case anyone is interested in seeing them all. There are also some out-takes over at Forever Circling too.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage