AS ITS BEEN RAINING YOULL HAVE TO FORGIVE ME -

But I had a bit of a filming session with Steve Fingers, an old mate of mine.
Total ledge domination . . .


J-BEAR

A FEW TRICKS

I cut the bullshit, a little edit from earlier today from my bad boy beast of a new blogging machine . . .

I just wanted to see how it all comes out.

J-BEAR X

happy christmas hold tight london

just found this video so i thought i would spread the hold tight love. i know plankpushers is not getting updated too much recently but there no skating going down and fuck all happening.

on the 9/1/10 there is going to be either the werrics or the off the hook on so if your gaggin for a skate like me, then come down for a full force shred. i will keep you posted.

bigstu

BLOGGER NEWZ & BOXING DAY

Santa has boosted me far into the future and iproved my blogging potential by bringing me one of these bad boys . . .

Meaning this beasts blogging life is over . . . (RIP)


Had to share this photo with you all . . .

This is me in TKMAXX in slough (with my mum lurking) as I tryed on a pair of these size US14 LA Lakers basketball shoes. Perfect for shredding in !

Hope You All Had A Merry Christmas !

J-BEAR

TOPBOY . . .

One of my best mates, a hard core, 100% skateboarder and a fucking TOPBOY is 18 today . . .



HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAH, BLESS & GOODNIGHT

J-BEAR x

feast your eyes on this bitches

Heres an edit i made with james and jake the other day when it snowed...enjoy!!




Also i would like to thank everyone who chipped in or who wanted to chip in for the amazing zip zagger i recieved today, for my birthday which is christmas eve...The shape is insane!! much appreciated everybody! Have a shredding christmas and a breakneck new year!










Arun x

THE VOTES ARE IN . . . .

The results are in and the public have voted and here are the results of the first ever Plank Pushers anual awards . . .

This man, Breakneck (breakchef/stackchef/eric smellington) has been your skater of the year and takes the Golden Foot award and takes home a solid gold breakneck hat.


The hotly conested Golden bench award for lurker of the year goes to . . .
*Drum Roll*


And finally the Young speilberg award for Edit of the year has been like a classic wacky races race with the leader changing constantly but when the poles closed it was Will Bermans Macmillan Day Jam edit that took the title.

Much Love
J-BEAR x

PS- John boy gives topboy arun a shout over at his new blog -
http://most-days.blogspot.com/

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Good evening, Just a quick edit i Made with Matt today, seeing as i couldnt skate on my busted ankle.

Matt O'Donoghue from George Cornwell on Vimeo.

Much love,
Clowntonic x

ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS . . .

this man . . .

Gave me some horrible news today, after waiting for a while he had his MRI scan on his knee and has been told he has to have 'constructive knee surgery' and can expect to be off shredding until the summer.

Im sure everyone wishes him a FUCKING SPEEDY recovery. Chin-up man and keep on with the bro cam diaries.

J-BEAR

NEXT TIME . . .

Your complaining about the local skatepark, or how 'rinsed' your shoes are, take a think and visit this website . . .

http://ugandaskateboardunion.wordpress.com/

and before you start rinsing them because theyre not in bobble hats and Janoskis doing back tails remeber the closet skateshop for them is the other side of the country and the only stuff they have to skate is stuff that people send over.

Respect where its due

J-BEAR

MORE WERRICS NEWS

Was going to do a Friday fours but all my ideas were lame and youtube wasnt playing ball so i allowed it.

The Werrics isnt on this week and it wont be until the new year due to staffing issues. Well the council kicking up a fuss for no reason BUT expect mad footy etc. when it returns.

Off the Hook is on for those of you that want to shred and arnt going to watch little kids rim semi-pros at the worlds busiest skate park a.k.a the christmas jam at Bay66

J-BEAR x

The Werrics Update. ... READ

alright so the Werrics had return from the depths of council red tape bull shit and starts on Saturday the 5/12/09.

i had a meeting with the council about a few detail of the Werrics and here are a few updates to the poster/flyer i posted up.

its going to be every other week not every Saturday so after the 5th the next one will be the 19th

well. we can get in the building at 4pm to set up the ramps and sort out any other safety checks. so if you like skating the Werrics and want to help the night out come down and get the ramps out and set up quicker, for a longer skate.

its also going to be free at the moment for the first few sessions. but a door entry fee might be brought on later. this money collected at the door will not go to the council this is money for the skatepark to help towards funding for the grind box project and other tools like rollers to paint the ramps etc..

the council have helped out alot getting round all of the health and safety red tape and dew to this the council have said we must use helmets. once me and jake get to know the other member of staff we are going to see how to work round this but do help us out by wearing the skid lids provided for the first session.

i hope quite a few people come to this so i can show to the council it works and we are getting the numbers down so then we can run it every week

signing out
BIGstu

hell yer

It's about bloody time as well!
Im not sure if anyone else is feeling like this but my feet are itching for a skate. The weather is soo naff any skate is going to be a good one. we are going to have the whole youth centre. so that means there a pool table, kitchen, tv and music. i really cant wait its always a blast

one last thing who is up for a plank pushers pool tournament

BIGstu

PLANK PUHSERS AWARDS 2009

Its that time of year where we are looking forward to what 2010 will bring us and also looking back through rose-tinted specticles at what the year has given us, and despite it being the first year for the masters of internet gnar weve decided to run our first anual awards, but dont worry there will be no glittering ceremony where we are all expected to smile and applaude as Breakneck wins all the awards and puts down his brekneck hat and opts for his JedWard hair style.

The catagories this year are simple. . .

The Golden Foot Award for Shredder of the Year, the finalists -
1 - Arun Gogna
2- Matt O'Odonoghue
3- Stuart Welstead
4-Brekneck

The Golden Bench Award for Lurker of the Year . . .
1- Fabeyonce
2- Brass-crepes
3- Rob 'Shit in a Bush'
4- Do Work

The Young Speilberg Award For Edit of the Year . . .
1- James Lillis for his film 'Banana Wax'
2- Arun Gogna for his film 'Bro Cam Diaries'
3- Josh Clarke for his saga 'Pimpin with J-BEAR'
4- Will Berman for his Macmillan Day Jam Edit


Please vote carfully and make this a year to remeber for Breakneck. Voting is open now on the Right hand side.
Good news to follow shortly
J-BEAR

Best of 2009 Edit

Have fun

Josh x

FRIDAY FOURS

just a few drawings, some of people from the park. enjoy

donkey punch

j bear

breakyourself  

kyle

sorry for the wait

joe

Kyle not skating and Matt doing nose grabs

Heres a little something from bay last weekend, the video is shit quality and small becasue it would have taken ages to upload, enjoy.







AJK x

He'll be watching you...

I was in the smoke sunday night and on my way home from southbank came across this. My instant thought when I saw it was to snap a photo.


I might just have to pick up a copy of this just to have on my bookshelf.

Josh x

GRIND BOX NEWS - PART 1

Hello everyone,

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS TO AVOID INEVITABLE QUESTIONS

So yesterday afternoon BigStu and I had a meeting with our boss, Wayne, and , Steve,the bloke weve been talking to from Gravity.
Wayne basically told us we have £9,500 to build the block from start to finish including all of the costs. Now for those of you that think that this is alot of money you mistaken. This has to include a concrete foundation, equipment, labour, transport, raw materials and so on. Therefore this IS NOT alot of money and can everyone please stop telling me that they can build it for cheaper, cause we all know youd build a peice of shit.

Right, now the original block idea was based on the 'T-block' at meanwhile 2 (royal oak) which gravity built, and we wanted to stick with that and sort of had to as that is what the YOF (youth oppertunity fund) gave us the money to build. Now that dosnt mean it has to be identicle. Which was a plus because im going to put my hand up and say the dimensions were all out, but what can I say when your sleep deprived and studying for your end of year exams numbers all sort of blur into one. SO we went down to the park to measure up other ramps to get an idea of decent dimensions. The manual pad at the bottom of the design is going to be roughly the same height as the halfpipe (from floor to manny pad) but a slight bit lower, only by about 4cm. And the top ledge was going to be about the height of the side of the mini-quater but we decided to make it a bit lower so that the other side was easier to skate, and thus came up with the same height as the south bank block leaving it about 25cm heigher than the manny pad.
This is so the whole peice is easier to skate and opening up more lines.

Here is the really interesting news though. Both end of the manual pad are going to be banked slighly to they are wallie-able AND one end of the high wall is going to be wallie-able. So there are loads more lines available.

ALSO

The original placement has had to change. In the original proposal the manny pad was going face out towards the park and the high wall was going to be infront of the bench, but now its going to be the other way around so the manny pad is going to face the bench.
This is for one main reason. When the park was originally built there was no drainage put in AND the park slopes towards the car park. This means that where we had originally planned to put the T-block would be in standing water. Which could either damage it or at least means its going to take ages to dry. By leaving it facing the other way it means the water can run off from the long ledge and leave the manny pad mostly dry and cause minimal damage. There is also a chance a drainage gap might run through the middle of the block for improved drainage.

THE BAD NEWS

With all projects like this putting a massive solid block of concrete any where needs careful consideration as to what the ground underneath is like. And the likely hood is that GBH, the people who built that park originally, are a bunch of tight cunts and have made a half arse job of tha tarmac (hench why we always get puddles gathering and there is no drainage). All this means is that a soild survey needs to be done of what we have to build on as we can in no way build straight onto tarmac other wise it would only last long enough for charlie to front shove off it.
If the soils shit a bigger foundation needs to be layed thus costing more £££ if its good no cut backs.

* * *

as you can in this photo im not making it up, from the right you can see all the water coming from the other side of the park and settling right where we want to put the block.

* * *

This is the design with the ammended dimensions. and showing the wallie-able areas. The steepness is going to be like that of 'Summer town' park in Oxford.
for those of you with no-so-good peepers you can see a full size A4 version of this by clicking the 'Ammended design' link on the top right.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR

Well basically in the next week or so Steve is going to draw up our plans properly whilst we wait for out boss Wayne to get soil surveys and park plans etc. and considering the council write up EVERYTHING and the park was built about 10 years ago we can sort of expect it to be a pretty hard job to find all the paper work so we are hoping to wait about a week/2 weeks to get to the next stage.

phew! thanks for reading make sure youve read it a few times before you pluck up the courage to ask a stupid question.

J-BEAR

PART 2 . .

has just been posted


* for those that dont know 'anonimity' is the screen name for the sidewalk editor on the sidewalk forum.

J-BEAR

ANYONE . . .

whos seen the big push watch this . . . .


J-BEAR

JUST TO LET EVERYONE KNOW . . .

Ex store Eton has shut down . . . .


So weve now go NO backing for anything we run.
Oh well

J-BEAR

FAILED FOURS + WERRICS NEWS

Sorry theres no Friday Fours, Speedy-gon-joe was left in charged and promised us some gnarly ass doodles to wet our gunsho apetite.
But as to be expected Itll probably turn up on tuesday. . . .

And . . .

Its another werrics free weekend sadly, another week has gone past with no news about the werrics, 'margret' is the woman this whole project relys on and keeps brushing us. Next week we promise !

J-BEAR
x

GOODBYE !

This man . . .

Will Berman, of HD filming fame, is off to Austria to go film a load of benders who cant do any tricks without attaching there feet to their boards cant take a hard slam so do it on snow, AKA snowboarders.
In all honesty its a pretty sweet deal, live in Austria for a 6 months or what ever. Its gonna be rad. GOOD LUCK MAN !

In other news, I think Im going to run a competition to find this man . . .

The real Sean John AKA Big Dog AKA Big Dizzle AKA zooka AKA Bizzle D AKA aka
The first one who can get me a photo of him and a telephone number without all the usual 'I heard he was using his willy grinds to hunt mountain goats in peru' bullshit will win a mystery prize . . . .

J-BEAR

Jazz + Greek music + gnarls skateboarding = bangin edit !!



filmed and edited by Arun G x

BUT GUYS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PUMPKIN . . .

Right, so your all probably wondering what happened the the Halloween jam Plank Pushers Pumpkin (well, probably not)
I carted it away will promise of a veritable feast of pumpkin based dishes, and so It became . . . .

Pumpkin Curry x1

Pumpkin pie x2
Cream Of Pumpkin soup x2
Pumpkin Cake x1

and im still eating it to this day, cheers josh !
J-BEAR

Saturday Sections

Just an idea. Don't know if it'll catch on but I just thought it was a good idea. Just post a skate part you've been feeling recently. Anyway, this is Richie Jacksons' part from Transworlds 'And Now'.

When I first saw Richie Jackson in 'Escape the boredom' I didn't really like the way he skated, the way he dressed and the tricks he did. But seeing this completely changed my mind. I now realize that he has a completely individual style and does tricks I have never seen anyone else do before. I think this is one of the sickest sections I have seen in a while.

Josh x

100 POSTS BITCHES ! ! !

100 posts of pure internet, skateboarding goodness and to celebrate Friday Fours this week is a re-cap of my 4 favourite video from the Plank Pushers archive . . .

Macmillan Coffee Morning from Will Berman on Vimeo.

PLANK PUSHERS RUNZ TINGS, 100s OF POST YET TO COME, DONT FRONT, BO !

J-Bear x

FRIDAY PHOTOS WITH ARUN G

Here are some pictures i got developed the other day for yall to enjoy , blesssssss

J-Bear

josh loves a bit of muff


gangstaaa

killer bees + a pumpkin = the life of a bear



brotherly love

Arun G keep it irie...peace x

Unused Halloween Jam Footage

Still quite a bit leftover but this is just some stuff..


Josh x

Halloween photo

here are a few photo of the plank pushers Halloween jam at Windsor of course.



the night before me and jake painted the ramps and gave them a fresh bloody look.
when i returned to the park in the evening to turn the light off it was rainy quite heavy and helped the paint run abit more.... ok alot more .... yer it pretty much washed it all off.





on the day it rained in the morning but it dried up enough to skate later in the afternoon and this guy was there dressed up which is a little more then the rest of the people that came . you lazy cunts.



fabio was there with a mask not quite the full shabang but at least something.



mat had a gas problem



although he didn't have a problem with flying though the air and grabbing his nose



sam was there and arun's knee its getting better so he will be back in action soon.



ball ride to fakie. my knee is almost higher then my head that must be a good thing.



i would like to thank everyone who came down to Windsor for the skate jam as we have lost all council funding so this was our first truly solo event and we can't wait to run some more. it was the last night of working at Windsor skate park so if you hurt yourself now tough shit.

that all for now but ive got some more photo to post up here later in the week so keep checking back.
BIGstu

HALLOWEEN EDIT

offcuts, out takes and skits to follow

Josh x

SHITTTT . . . .

Its raining!
It could be the powers that be up stairs punishing the people of this world for letting this man get past his teenage years . . .


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES AND WE HOPE YOU SHRED FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS !

J-BEAR

EXCITING NEWS !

First off, the Halloween jam tomoro . . .
Dress up, bring cans, get gnar or go home and if it rains were fucked!
(in all honesty if its rains alternative details will be posted here)

Secondly (this is the proper news PLEASE READ)
After weeks, months and years, ALOT of hard work and persistance from a select few we finally heard the news today . . .

We have had our grant application accepted for a concrete grind block !

The details of when itll all be getting sorted and when work will start and if the park will be closed etc. etc. will be posted on here asap.
This is the design we proposed at . . .

The dimensions are still to be finalised at the moment but its based up on the block peice at Meanwhile 2 at Royal oak in London and we have based our grant proposal on a quote from the company who built the original.

Also, everyoen has been awaiting the return of . . .

we have been plagued by set back upon set back from health and safety to fat bellends who work with pikeys but we have now been given a date, the 7th of November.
Its yet to have been given the 100% go ahead BUT we are 90% that its all go.
Look out for Shredapedia Saturdays

check back for birthday based updates tomoro and fingers crossed the weather holds out . . .

J-BEAR

YOU BUNCH OF CUNTS

dont forget . . .



Note -
if you dont dress up properly your a batty man, and I dont just mean a mask !
I wana see some effort.

J-BEAR

KILLERRRR

Pfanner is a Pfucking beast
J-bear

Emergency!

everybody bring shoes to the halloween jam, the shoes that were in the tree are no gone ... so if its possible could everybody bring a pair of shoes to put back in the tree thank you.

love tom x

Matt O' sess

"Matt should get sponsered"


from tom

SUNDAY FOURS . . .

So Joe failing Four weeks in a row wasnt really a decent Friday Fours and I know literally ten(s) people tune in to see Four Fantastic Follies of the internet/skate world and here is where I decided to deliver you a crazy mad selection of famous skaters skating/shredding stupid set-ups . . .

#1 - Gonz and Pops


#2 - Chris Haslam


#3 - The King of Crazy Boards himself DAN CATES


#4 - Bottle opener Boards


J-BEAR

FRIDAYS FOURS

was yet again left in the hands of this man . . .

Fast-joe, but due to scanner/brain problems he had failed again . . .

Today I was meant to bop into the big smoke with manswede to film a few things for his up and coming film project but due to water falling from the sky and inevitably wetting potential skate spots I took up an offer from another filmer, this man . . .


Wills be offered a season long aprenticeship with Method Magazine a snowboard magazine and so was with them at the London Ski and Snow expo and invited me down to kensington olympia, it was pretty busy . . .

We sat at Method stall . . .

opposite the sweet ass DJ booth . . .

and some guys drawing sweet pics on walls . . .

we also went off and filmed for a Method mag episode . . .

we also met Jenny Jones, X-games snowboard gold medalist and british buff head and saw her new film 'Stance'. I fell in love. Female snowboarders are all tidy as . . .

Finally ive been sitting on this rad pic for a while, its the number plate of a car down my road in Reading . . .


My blogging machine is slowly dieing and the quality of it seems to get worse day by day, sorry guys !

J-BEAR x