Marc has been part of the British skateboard scene for a long time, he got sponsored by Vans in the mid 90's and was part of the UK Santa Cruz team for years, when Creature restarted from the same camp as Santa Cruz he got put on the UK team and when the Creature guys saw the skating he had been doing he got on the direct team from the U.S. As well as attending pretty much every major event in the country Marc also designs skateparks for Gravity, helping to bring quality concrete parks to places all over the UK.
All time favourite skaters: John Cardiel, Tim Brauch, Chet Childress, Jason Jessee, Greg Nowik, Don Brider.
Favourite current skaters: Chet Childress, Jason Jessee, Greg Nowik, Don Brider, Jed Cullen, Al Partenan, Sam Hitz.
Favourite skate videos: H-street Next or Born Dead at the mo.
Favourite music: Punk- Metal- Folk- Industrial- Opera- Jazz- Indie all played at once loudly!
Favourite street tricks: Pushing, 360 flips, No-complys.
Favourite ramp tricks: Frontside grabs, Back tails, Back smiths, Carving.
Latest tricks: Everything since nearly killing myself in a car crash.
Favourite skateboarding memory: Skating all the Oregon parks last year for three weeks and the random nights away when Nowik was drinking.
Why skater owned shops: Cos you get what you ask for and the money is going back into the right place.
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: Forever!
Anything else:thanks to all the people who have helped me on my why skateboarding.
shred till your dead!
don b is god!
Greg Nowik
Stalefish
Greg has been killing it for years, he was on the cover of the first skateboard magazine I ever bought and when I first went to the Mayflower skatepark a random chav looking guy used to turn up and kill the mini ramp, it turned out the chav was Greg and he had been having a hiatus from skateboarding, he doesn't pay much attention to mags or videos and just skates for the love of it. Greg is currently travelling round the world skating anything in his path, which pretty much all happens to be be quality skateparks, saying Greg is the one of the best mini ramp skaters in the world is a big claim, but if you get to see him skate in person you will see its fully justified! Look out for some footage of Gregs travels on the Reskue remix video!
Age: 34
Years skating: 21
Current sponsors: Wight Trash Skateboards, Globe Shoes, Death Urethane, Split Clothing, Independent Trucks (Flow)
All time favourite skaters: Danny Way, Andy Scott, Don Brider, Jed Cullen
Jed is one of those people who is annoyingly naturally gifted at skateboarding, he set his roots skating Mayflower mini ramp with Greg, which meant his skating came on very quickly, he got sponsored by Globe pretty early on and was on Birdhouse for a few years, but as his skating has matured he landed a spot on Real. Jed always perseveres with any trick he is trying which unfortunately meant he recently hurt his knee, he is having an operation soon though and you should hopefully be seeing a lot of Jed in the future.
Favourite skateboarding memory: Winning the Mayflower comp.
Why skater owned shops?: Because they are better.
How long will it take for the Reskue video to come out?: Years if the shop is still open.
Mark Tidbury
Smith Grind
You might not have heard of Mark Tidbury, he doesn't attend a lot of events and prefers skating with a few friends. I have skated with Mark since he first got a board and in recent years has made a lot of progression in skating transitions, footage often doesn't do ramps justice but people that have seen Mark at their local park have started to see how good he is.
Age: 29
Years skating: 11
Current sponsors: Spencers flapjacks
All time favourite skaters: John Cardiel, Jason Jessee
Favourite current skaters: Chet Childress, Peter Hewitt
Favourite skate videos: Any Consolidated Video
Favourite music: Punk Rock
Favourite street tricks: Heelflips
Favourite ramp tricks: Frontside Rocks and Frontside grinds, all day
Latest tricks: I’m into wallies at the moment
Favourite skateboarding memory: Learning wallies with Tosh, I destroyed a table.
Why skater owned shops: Because they actually skate
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: A year probably
Curtis has been injured for a while now, but is going to be back skating soon and should have a full part in the Reskue video, Curt has a clean smooth style and hates letting out footage if it is even slightly sketchy. check out some of the footage from this years Winchester Jam including some late flip action.
All time favourite skaters: Reskue team, John Cardiel, Jason Adams, The Gonz, Don Brider, Jason Lee, Mike Carroll, Stevie Williams and Loads More!
Favourite current skaters: Theotis Beasley, Eli Reed, Lucas Puig, Dennis Busenitz, Silas Baxter-Neal, Jon Allie, Bobby Worrest, Joe Gavin, Wieger Van Wageningen, Justin Brock, Lem Villamen.
Favourite skate videos: Public Domain - Rubber Boys, Welcome To Hell, Tent City, Mouse, Fully Flared, Label Kills, Sorry, Mindfield, 6:57!
Favourite music: Punk Rock and Hardcore.
Favourite street tricks: Frontside Shove-it Heelflips, Front Boards, Smiths, Frontside Feebles, Wallrides and Wallies
Favourite ramp tricks: Tailslides, Smiths.
Latest tricks: Feebles on blocks.
Favourite skateboarding memory: Finding the pool near Bournemouth for the first time
Why skater owned shops: Skaters know the most about what they are selling, makes sense really.
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: Depends how motivated everyone is!
Josh hasn't filled this out so I thought I would do it for him, Josh wants to be Chris Cole and when I saw the vid he had made attempting to emulate Cole it was clear he was pretty good on a skateboard, then after skating with him and seeing his mega pop I thought he should be on the team, look out for his section on the Reskue remix video, out soon!
Age: 20
Years skating: 6?
Current sponsors: Reskue
All time favourite skaters: Jamie Thomas maybe
Favourite current skaters: Chris Cole, Corey Duffell
Favourite skate videos: Any Zero video
Favourite music: The Hellacopters, Rock n Roll!
Favourite street tricks: Nollie Heelflips, flip noseslides
Why skater owned shops: Because the money is going straight back into skateboarding and skateboarders rather than to men in suit and corporate pigs - stolen from Darren
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: hmm.
Here are a few old tricks of Josh:
Darren Tate
Kickflip Wallride
Taters is from the Isle Of Wight, and with the lack of spots on the island got used to throwing himself off anything he could, when he came to Southampton for uni we saw him skate in person and put him on the team.
Age: 21
Years skating: 9
Current sponsors: Reskue
All time favourite skaters: Wieger Van Wageninegen, Ed Templeton, Louie Barletta, Jerry Hsu, Biebel, The Gonz, Jason Lee
Favourite current skaters: Joe Paget
Favourite skate videos: Bag of Suck, Straight to Video, That's Life
Favourite music: Cher
Favourite street tricks: Ollie and Nollie Heelflips
Favourite ramp tricks: N/A
Latest tricks: Meat Spin
Favourite skateboarding memory: Jockey's Drop Sessions
Why skater owned shops: Because the money is going straight back into skateboarding and skateboarders rather than to men in suit and corporate pig
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: I don't know, but it's going to be ready for the hood.
Darren will have a part in the Reskue remix video, out soon. Here is a throwaway line of his:
Joe Paget
Nosebluntslide
Joe has the face of Boris Johnson and the neck of a dinosaur from Land Before Time, yet is still getting good at skateboarding quite quickly. He learns tricks quickly, probably because his mind is empty of things like common sense, leaving more room for skateboard tricks. He has seen pretty much every Youtube video that has skateboarding in, and is definately one to watch out for in the next few years, Joe will be having a part in the Reskue remix video.
Age: 16
Years skating: 6
Current sponsors: Reskue, Zoo York flow, Thunder flow.
All time favourite skaters: Jerry Hsu
Favourite current skaters: Davis Torgerson, Mike Barker, John Motta, Shane O'neill
Favourite skate videos: Mosaic, Yeah Right, A Happy Medium
Favourite music: Radiohead, Sonic Youth, MF Doom, The Kinks, Wu-Tang, The Smiths
Favourite street tricks: Front Blunts, Back Smiths
Favourite ramp tricks: I'm rubbish at ramp
Latest tricks: Front blunt bigspins
Favourite skateboarding memory: Meeting Darren Tate
Why skater owned shops: Because they are also skateboarders
How long will it take for a Reskue video to come out: As long as it takes me to get footage
I wanted to hook Cam up a while back, but he was moving to New Zealand and I didn't fancy sending boards out there! He spent his time killing all the spots and parks NZ has to offer and now he is back, Cam is like an Andover Shane Cross and can flip off pretty much anything he wants with ninja steez.
Age: 19 and 12 months
Years skating: 6?
Current sponsors: Reskue
All time favourite skaters: Shane Cross, Lem, Alex Mizurov, Kenny Hoyle, Queenstown Locals
Favourite current skaters: Nick Tucker, Josiah Gatlyn
