DC Newsletter N°39. April 2011

N째 39

APRIL 2011

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Sommaire EUROPE Burning Ink New York ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 DC LIFE Studio ................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Michael Sommer latest video .......................................................................................................................................... 5 CPH Pro 2011 ................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Riot Tour .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 DC SHRED DAYS ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Source .............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Kingpin ............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 GERMANY DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY planning next tour/ NY Clip ............................................................................................ 8 DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY COVERS .......................................................................................................................... 8 Xaver Pfriender Videopart ............................................................................................................................................... 8 DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY Coverage ......................................................................................................................... 9 Fabian Lang in Playboard magazine .............................................................................................................................. 9 Monster Skateboard Mag .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Product coverage Place Magazine ............................................................................................................................... 10 ISPO Special Playboard Magazine Germany ............................................................................................................... 10 Golden Ride Magazine .................................................................................................................................................. 11 FRANCE DC skate video ............................................................................................................................................................... 11 Snowfuture board test 2011 ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Marc Lacomare finishes 5th of the Margaret river legendary event ............................................................................ 12 YOP REUNION SURF PRO JUNIOR RESULTS............................................................................................................. 12 Surf session ................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Act .................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Sugar .............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Thrasher ......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 AUSTRIA DC Rookie Contest Kitzbühel ....................................................................................................................................... 14 DC AUSTRIA DEMO Linz ............................................................................................................................................... 15 NORWAY DC ALL IN ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15 New teamrider................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Torstein Horgmo............................................................................................................................................................ 16 Delta Charlie 3 ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 SWEDEN Andreas Sandberg DC skate rider ................................................................................................................................ 17 Grupptryck 3 .................................................................................................................................................................. 17 DC Sweden riders .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Janne Hautajärvi ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 Swedish national snowboard championships ............................................................................................................. 18 DC sponsored Race driver Thed Björk ........................................................................................................................ 19 DC to sponsor Junkyards skateboard games ............................................................................................................. 19 DC are sponsoring a competition in Växjö held by Vxo street Friday the 22th of april ............................................ 19 HOLLAND DC rider Rachida Aoulad Amar is on fire ! ................................................................................................................... 19

News about DC rider Joey Van Essen.......................................................................................................................... 20 RUSSIA DC Kirovsk Lab .............................................................................................................................................................. 20 PORTUGAL DC BMX rider Diogo Santos’ video............................................................................................................................... 21 DC Portuguese skate team in Spain – Tour “Pata Negra 2011 ................................................................................... 21 Tomás Valente ............................................................................................................................................................... 21 Sandro Marcos in Sportv 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Surf Portugal.................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Onfire.............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 ISRAEL DC « come together » skate tour .................................................................................................................................. 23 Alon Daniel’s skateboarding video in USA .................................................................................................................. 23 DENMARK DC rider Andreas Pedersen .......................................................................................................................................... 23 SPAIN Dogway .......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 UK Carve .............................................................................................................................................................................. 24 ¨POLAND DC Polish team at AREA 43 .......................................................................................................................................... 25

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Burning Ink New York

Brand new closing video of the event: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150554842240231&ref=notif&notif_t=video_processed#!/video/video.php?v=10150554842240231&oid=214922170991&comments

Video of the launch of the event : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcCs2-fIN4 New York City, Thursday 7th of April , DC has launched the BURNING INK Art show at Frank’s Chop Shop , one of the most famous and trendy Barber Shop in town.

12 drawings to be tattooed…Or burnt at the end of the Exhibition, on the 28th of April.

Selected happy people were present for the launch to discover all creations and meet Artists such as : Supakitch, koralie, Rostarr, Madluv Co.op , Chloe Trujillo , Spoe ..

X Ghetto’s drawing was already picked by Frank’s Chop Shop‘s Mister B. Artist Jose Parla, French Singer Emilie Simon and Journalist Jamie Brisick came also to have some drinks and share good vibes.

To follow the launch, an afterparty was organised at the Cafe Select, on Lafayette Street where all crowd moved in the evening for more drinks, music and sharing.

Here are some links of the coverage of the event: http://ajanaku.com/dc-presents-burning-ink-art-show/ http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/newsflash/Dc-Shoes-Pres-Burning-Ink-Art-Show/ http://www.lodownmagazine.com/index.php?page=25&modaction=showItem&id=2014 http://shoes-up.com/blog/?p=17820

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DC LIFE Studio

DC is proud to introduce the DC LIFE Studio. For musicians, artists, bloggers, producers, and photographers, the Studio is a unique extension of their personalities, and the creativity behind their work results from the time they spend there.

While studios are each unique, they all inspire.

The shoe has been elaborated with 7 bloggers in New York.

Maurice Ajanaku ,Euro Blogger from Netherlands , will be added to the DC Studio program .

AJANAKU was founded by Maurice Ajanaku to talk about the latest creative trends in fashion, design, art, music, and more, while seeking to inspire an international readership www.ajanaku.com.

The article and the videos have been well relayed by many medias and blogs.

Check out the videos ”My Studio session” http://mystudiosession.marcustroy.com/ http://vimeo.com/22471614 http://vimeo.com/22766611 http://vimeo.com/22453865 http://vimeo.com/22905286

http://thegoodiebagblog.ca/dc-life-the-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 http://www.nicekicks.com/2011/04/dc-life-my-studio-session-by-eric-johnson/

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Michael Sommer latest video Check out that video just posted yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rXYeJrhZI&feature=player_embedded

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CPH Pro 2011

Skate contest in Copenhagen sponsored by DC, coming soon...

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Riot Tour From 12th to 28th June, riders as Chris Cole, Madars Apse, Nice Dompierre, Antony Lopez...coming to Rotterdam, Cologne, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Malmö

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DC SHRED DAYS Many releases, videos and articles have been published by the press and by riders themselves, especially Torstein Horgmo and Lauri Heiskari. His video ”DC viva la France” succeeded to sum up the good atmosphere there, chillin and havin fun, with some great tricks.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150155749628516

Lauri Heiskari’s video: DC viva la France http://vimeo.com/21728406

Onboard’s release and video: http://onboard.mpora.com/featuredcontent/dc-international-team-rip-les-houches-park.html Whiteline: http://whitelines.mpora.com/videos/wltv/lauri-heiskari-dc-shred-days-edit.html Torstein’s video serie: http://vimeo.com/21961030

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Source DC double page advert with Marc Lacomare and Ondrej Leskovians ki

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Kingpin DC t-shirt in buyer’s guide

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DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY planning next tour/ NY Clip • DC Germany Team Members Ingo Bremmes ( TM), Stephan Günther and Fabian Lang and maybe one or two other riders are currently planning their trip to LA. They will stay with skateboard photographer Mikendo to shoot for interviews, galleries and probably a story in Monster Skateboard Mag. • Their DC Germany in NY clip had 20754 view on MPORA so far http://video.mpora.com/watch/HDq8E7naY/

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DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY COVERS •

TWO COVERS IN ONE MONTH

• Fabian Lang scores new cover of Playboard Magazine • Ben Dillinger scores new cover of Monster Skateboard Mag

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Xaver Pfriender Videopart

Xaver Pfriender’s (DC Germany teamrider) videopart of the 58 shop video is online

Check it out on MPORA:

http://video.mpora.com/watch/wLPo2lU7r/?utm_source=all-front&utm_medium=Promo&utm_term=all&utm_content=wake-up-part-8&utm_campaign=Promo

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DC SKATE TEAM GERMANY Coverage

• Ben Dillinger from the south of Germany with a 7 pages Interview in Monster Skateboard Magazine

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Fabian Lang in Playboard magazine

Fabian Lang from the south of Germany with a couple of photos from the Playboard trip to Las Vegas in Playboard Magazine

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Monster Skateboard Mag

Danny Way pro model featured in the product section and Patrick Bös, DC Germany Teamrider full page

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Product coverage Place Magazine Jet Setter 2 travel bag featured in the Place product gallery

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ISPO Special Playboard Magazine Germany

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Featured board Biittner Ply

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Golden Ride Magazine

Lea Schairer, DC Germany Teamrider full page, Spring 11 DC Girls Product featured in current Golden Ride magazine -

DC Bella TX, DC Judith Pant, DC Birmingham Jacket DC Banked Frayed jeans short

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DC skate video The French team was in Luxembourg to shoot for the video.

Good mood and big tricks as the image below of Sebastien Simon on the stairs… !

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Snowfuture board test 2011 This year was the 8th edition of the snowfuture in Piau Engaly. Lots of brands such as Apo, Burton, Flow, Nitro, Bataleon etc… were there on the 9 and 10th of April to make people test the new range of 2012.

Despite the lack of snow and the weather on Sunday, the few people who came were really looking for testing new DC boards. About 40 boards were tested all week end long with really good feedbacks specially on the Ply !

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Marc Lacomare finishes 5th of the Margaret river legendary event Considered one of the world's best Under-21 surfers and already both ASP European Junior and Open Men's champion, multi ASP Pro Junior events winner, Lacomare once again matched expectations finding his way through to the Quarterfinals of an intense event that saw a majority of ASP Elite members attend.

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YOP REUNION SURF PRO JUNIOR RESULTS Final: Maxime Huscenot (REU) 15.80 def. Dimitri Ouvre (BLM) 15.40 Two DC riders in final of a 3 stars asp junior event in La Réunion.

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Surf session

Marc Lacomare, Aritz Aranburu and new French rider Xavier Leroy in double page

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Act

DC french rider Dimitri Biau and double page advert with Travis Rice

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Sugar

Buyer’s guide and a day with Georges Agonkouin (4 pages article)

• Thrasher Far’n high: skate contest sponsored by DC

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DC Rookie Contest Kitzbühel 2nd edition of DC Rookie Contest in Kitzbühel, March 19th, 2011 • Snowboard only contest • For competitors up to 18 years • Presented by DC, supported by Planet Sports and Pleasure Magazine • Speaker: Christian Öfner ( Pleasure Magazine) • Judges: Fips Strauss ( DC Germany), Miriam Hofmann ( DC Germany), Manuel Bernert ( DC Austria), Marco Smolla ( Planet Sports) • due to bad weather contest format was changed • Jam sessions on different obstacles and best trick session on the wall ride

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DC AUSTRIA DEMO Linz

The DC Austria team did a demo at the skatepark in Linz in cooperation with Radix Skateshop and Last Try Magazine • Check out the video clip on MPORA http://video.mpora.com/watch/sgxHXrBJT/ • Featured DC riders: Mathäus Zingerle, Manuel Niuculovic, Patrick Pittl, Christopher Scherscher

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DC ALL IN In late march we did DC ALL IN event in Trysil mountains in Norway.

Combining snowboarding, surfing & rally, we created the perfect crossover event in the Norwegian Mountains!

Check video at: http://vimeo.com/21227082?ab The lost interviews with Dex Carrington, DC`s Lifestyle representative: http://vimeo.com/21146544?ab

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New teamrider 15 year old Ole Christian Hagen is our new DC rider in Norway.

Check his welcome video here: http://vimeo.com/20648211?ab

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Torstein Horgmo Updates from Torstein on Torstein.net: Latest stunt with fellow Norwegian Gjermund Braaten: http://vimeo.com/22753724

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Delta Charlie 3

DC Norway video Delta Charlie III has been premiering part by part on Kingpin.mpora.com. Really good feedback and thousands of views. http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-henning-braaten.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-daniel-oynes.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-steffen-austerheim-section.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-intro.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-michael-sommer-section.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-herman-stene.html

http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-nicholas-hansen-section.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-magnus-eriksen-section.html http://kingpin.mpora.com/videos/delta-charlie-3-lars-monsen.html The whole team has been on a two week roadtrip through California. The result is a 30 min roadtrip documentary premiering this Friday. It will also premiere on kingpin.mpora.com soon after. The tour is also documented in a 8 page article in Playboard magazine, coming out this week.

The team is now ready for the second annual Guru of the Granite. DC and Monster real street contest in Oslo.

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Andreas Sandberg DC skate rider Swedish DC teamrider Andreas Sandberg and his crew Curbsquad released a tour video 18th of april. The video can be streamed at www.tacky.se Andreas has a full part with some great footage! Linkt ot Andreas part:

http://www.tacky.se/skateboard/video/?id=181089

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Grupptryck 3 DC Rider Josef Scott Jatta and Joel Svärd teamed up with Koffe Hallgren and Christian Ingelhammar and won the competition ”grupptryck3” The competition was arranged by Streetlab and held in Malmö. Pictures from the event can be seen at this link http://www.tacky.se/skateboard/imagecollection/?id=14984

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DC Sweden riders On the youtube channel for Skateout/DC sweden Josef Scott Jatta has a new clip and Johan Foppa Forsberg and Janne Hautajärvi has footage from a trip to Norrköping. Also Joel Svärd has some new tricks on camera that can be seen there.

Link to the channel is: http://www.youtube.com/skateoutab

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Janne Hautajärvi

He is keeping busy and bulding a new DIY park in Fagersta. The park is getting a lot of attention!

DC rider Karim Arfaoui has a part in the new Streetlab movie. The movie premiered in april and a trailer can be seen here: http://www.tacky.se/skateboard/video/?id=173160 BMX Rider Emil Eriksson is back in Sweden after spending the winter in Spain. He is working hard on filming for a new video part that will be releases soon. He said he been saving a lot of great material for it so look out for that!

Johan Karlsson broke his arm recently but has now gotten rid of the cast and is super stoked to film some more before the snowboard season ends, this new footage will be a great addition to all the great material he already have filmed this season. Tobias Larsson got a a concusion from a bail at practice on the national snowboard championship but has now recovered and is also filming some last minute footage for this season. Both riders footage will be shown in a new snowboard film by quite alright productions.

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Swedish national snowboard championships

The Swedish national championship in Snowboard was held the 7th to 10th of april in Kläppen/sälen. DC was one of the main sponsors. The event was a great sucess for DC and its riders.

We did board test for the visitors with the W12 Boards and had a great respons! Especially the PLY board. DC rider Måns Hedberg won both halfpipe and snowboardcross and 2nd place in slopestyle.

Unfortunately both DC senior riders present at the competion where injured and could’t comepete but they will be back!

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DC sponsored Race driver Thed Björk He’s competing this year in a racing event called Camaro Cup. Thed Björk is one of Swedens most famous race-drivers. The camaro cup events is about to start and the 15th of april was the first test-driving of the car. Thed said after the test that the car feelt great! Maybe it’s the DC logo that does it.

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DC to sponsor Junkyards skateboard games

The next big thing coming up is the Junkyard Skateboard Games. This will be one of the biggest skateboard competitions ever in Sweden. DC are one of the main sponsors and we have a DC obstacle on the course. Josef Scott Jatta and Wes Kramer are a few of the great skaters that are entering the competition. The prize money is 10000 euro, more info on this event can be found at www.junkyardskateboardgames.com

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DC are sponsoring a competition in Växjö held by Vxo street Friday the 22th of april

We are starting a collaboration with one of swedens biggest skatestores, boardstore, and are sponsoring the crazy Benjamin Glaad. Watch out for new footage of him shreeding big gaps and stairs in DC outfit soon!

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DC rider Rachida Aoulad Amar is on fire !

Last week the Dutch championships snowboarding were held in Laax!

We are very proud to let you know that our team rider Rachida entered the contest and became third at slopestyle, first at halfpipe and first at big air! You can find the results at www.snowfest.nl Moreover, this weekend she became first in the Salomon Backyard Bang.

Read more on http://www.tacky.nl/snowboard/article/?id=111814

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News about DC rider Joey Van Essen Joey got a part in the next dutch snowboarding movie “Momentum”, sponsored by DC. Check out the teaser on: http://vimeo.com/22970911?ab He also came back from a trip in Oslo where he got some good photo shots. You can have a resume of the trip with photos on: http://www.themustachio.com/2011/04/13/new-territory/ To end up, he became third last weekend in the Game of Snow (Oberjoch).

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DC Kirovsk Lab DC Kirovsk LAB is the Russian spring snowboard camp. The camp goes from 23 till 30 of April in the Kirovsk city behind the Polar circle (not so far from Norway).

We have built the biggest snowboard park in Russia. We have collected here best riders, blended lot of funny stuff, make crazy night parties.

Now at the event 2000 people.

Check out the videos:

http://vimeo.com/22759406 before opening http://vimeo.com/22878853 second special day cooperated with our main client Skvot boardshop. http://vimeo.com/22930486 fourth day including Red Bull jib contest Woody Mood http://vimeo.com/22984368 fifth day including girls contest Marmelady

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DC BMX rider Diogo Santos’ video

http://vimeo.com/20667778

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DC Portuguese skate team in Spain – Tour “Pata Negra 2011 http://www.skatebyte.com/shtml/noticia752.shtml

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Tomás Valente GO-SURF # ATLANTIDA - Somewhere in Atlantic Ocean http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4552263/PROMO%23PGM55. mp4

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Sandro Marcos in Sportv 3

Sandro Marcos (Moto Mx) was in the program “Second Skin” in Sportv3.

They want to know how it started, his objectives, he person behind the pilot

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Surf Portugal

Show room : DC Products, DC advert

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Onfire

Surfers Tomás Valente and Vasco Ribeiro

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DC « come together » skate tour The video from Ceaseria, was a video clip from the first stop of the COME TOGETHER skate tour.

In this tour DC Israel team along with Zion Skateboards team are taking once a month their skate session to a different city in either a skate park or a street spot.

In the skate session the team riders skate TOGETHER with the local skaters in their spots and hand out DC & ZION goods to outstanding local skaters.

Sometimes it would be a for a best trick and sometime it will be for the all around outstanding performance.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150143505006455

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Alon Daniel’s skateboarding video in USA Check out his video summing up his year in USA

http://vimeo.com/22676386

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DC rider Andreas Pedersen New part of the DC Denmark skateboarding video with Andreas Pedersen.

Check out on http://vimeo.com/22026219

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Dogway

Landau in buyer’s guide and DC Europe rider Antony Lopez

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Carve DC advert with Marc Lacomare and slaps in buyer’s guide

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DC Polish team at AREA 43

http://vimeo.com/22103260