As you could probably tell we lost our internet connection after that one update. Well well, we´re back now so HERE are a few more photos, a little video clip is in the works as well so stay tuned.
//Love
1st Prauge update!
Finally found a good enough internet connection to do some bloggin´, HERE´S some photos from our first day.
More to come
//Love
A "skatepaparazzi" mailed me this picture, apparently there seems to be something going on between the Sweetrider Björn Holmenäs and photographer Robin "Baboon" Nilsen. Dont forget to watch "Baboons monday fog blogg" on the sweet site, it's amazing.
//Johan
Banana Split#3
One of the slovenian skaters told us that in Dubrovnik the dessert Banana Split was named Banana Dubrovnik cause somebody had probably been in Split and thought aha you just put the citys name after banana and there you have it. So now il go out for a Banana Malmö, if you're interested in seeing some touristy pictures go for the lizzard. Ciao
/ /Johan
We´re going to Prauge today. Well, not all of us, anyway, we´ll see about updates this week, it all depends on internet conections and such.
Laters.
//Love
Banana split #2
Punch the banana Split with your mouse and you will see what I caught with my digicam in Split. Jugga has a good ollie and he shows it well in the video but I take the curtains with my double set Ollie, yeah.
//Johan
Anuddadayindemburbz
I haven't skated since I busted my toes at Jonas' housewarming party last Saturday but today I joined a good bunch of rippers just to get close to some roll stuff. I tried to skate a little and got really happy when i realized it didn't hurt too much and I even checked off a super clean ollie manual. I celebrated by shooting a line on one of my favorite dudes/skaters - Isak Ström. Don't accept the shaky filming, send me some threatening mails instead, that should straighten me out. //Martin
One-hand claping!
Boondisplaying one of his many talents after Mika showed one of his.
//Love
Exit in front
By the manual by Love...
Another update on the Kingpin site HERE, Yeah Deeli.
//Love
"BANANA SPLIT TRIP" UPDATE#1
Now I am back on swedish ground again after a week spent in Split, Croatia with Jugga, Tjernberg and Staffan. The Croatian coast is beautiful and the food and beer tasted "mumma", theKarlovacko and Cevapiciis something you cant miss if you are going there. Keep your eyes open for motion pictures but until then go for the dessert.
//Johan
Deeli is in town and did a little post of todays sesh on Kingpins site HERE.
Now check Martins update below this one.
//Love
A Day in That Park
Micke Fihnborg was my skate buddy back in the day. He was a ripper, a true comedian and he really had a way with words. He used to spontaneously translate Swedish words to English and it usually came out all backwards. One time he said that we should go to "The Gate of the Humble". We understood nothing but it soon became clear that he had meant the park of Humlegården, which I think should be something like "Hops Park" in English. Yesterday me, Mika and Love went there like we do every once too often. Look at our day here if you want to.
// Martin
Polaroids!
It has been a while since the last polaroid update so HERE are a few photos of the dudes during different trips. If you prefer to click the photo instead of the link... you can.
//Love
Hunger is a thick gravy
With the team scattered all across the land it's been a little hard to make things happen here at bellowsskateboards.com. So what to do but to put my own scrawny bottom up ones again? And on top of that, it's indoors. //Martin
Here's a little something from two weeks ago when Nicke Svensson was down visiting, and yeah I added an old picture of Martin aswell.
//Johan
Pass that camera!
Jonas, Sami and I used to skate and hang out every day, but then we all moved out of the country. First Jonas went to the U.S and stayed there close to 9 years, then Sami went to Australia to study during 4 years and I went to Spain and France for almost 5 years. Now that Jonas moved home a few weeks ago we´re all back again, stoked. Here´s a tripple line we filmed while passing the camera around at the park today.
//Love
Mika and I went on a Junkyard.se photo shoot the other day. The batterys to my camera died within the first half hour so I didn´t get to shoot that many photos. We did however get one of me flying, it´s true, see for your selves by clicking HERE
//Love
Partyvisit nr2 in Copenhagen.
Weekday opened a new store in Copenhagen and we were there, they celebrated by giving free beers at the store and later on the party continued at a club, there with even more free drinks. It got rough but we all managed to get over the bridge to Malmö alive. Click picture for more photos.
//Johan
Oh yeah, feel free to browse giftorms brand new website www.giftorm.se
//Love
If you somehow haven't seen the latest issue of giftorm but feel HUNGER to see our ad in it, I really mean hunger. click here.
//Johan
Neighbours photos!
I asked Espen Stokke if he had any photos we could post so he sent me these. They are from when we filmed the Neighbours video 2 years ago. Thanks man.
Ola had part of his miniscus removed today, he called me 30 min ago and told me everything went well. He said although he had been awake for 1 hour, it felt like it was 2 min ago he woke up. So 3-4 weeks of rehab and he´s back. Here´s a little something from yesterday.
//Love
Weekend in Trollhättan!
Went to Trollhättan to attend the Sweet premiere this past weekend, HERE are some photos.
On another note: Mr Miniscus Aka Ola Löwbeer is going in for his second knee-surgery tomorrow morning to set everything straight, so you´ll be seeing more of him soon.
//Love
Outdoorsession...
If you think Malmö is all about bowls and ramps you're wrong, yesterday we started the day at this 9 stair. Click my shaky ollie for more.
It´s 03.24 right now in case you where wondering why the captions are kind of weak.
//Love
Birthday Intermission
I don't want to ruin Love's live update or anything but I just wanted to get my little summary of Mika's twentythird year in here. Please click the photo of the little darling //Martin
Birthday lunch.
Click HERE for the first live update of Mikas birthday, more to come.
//Love
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKA!
Today is Mikas birthday so stay tuned for a live update from his birthday party later on tonight.
//Love
STRIPES OF LOVE! STRIPES OF LOVE!
Click here to see which great German shoe maker that has adid our Love to their team. Herzliche glückwünchen zum ihr zwei!
//Martin
Singstar+jugge food+rambo=nice.
2 weekends ago I spent 2 good days at Mr Todorovics appartment, the first one included jugoslavian food and singstar, the second we watched Rambo movies. I made a collage so you can see all the fun we had, click here to get there.
//Johan
I am sitting on 2 more lurking class dvd's for the ones who says the right answer in the 360 flip contest. Mail to johan@bellowsskateboards.com. If you feel unsecure watch it here.
//Johan
Long Friday Short Update
In Sweden you're supposed to spend the Friday before Easter doing nothing. By 'doing' that you're paying tribute to the sufferings of the greatest wine maker in history. So I listened to some hymns on TV and then went on to pay tribute to Ed Templeton as well. The ritual is shown in its entirety below. //Martin
The Daily Dane for today didn´t work out as we planed, Kristian sprained his groin while skating so instead he had to take over the filming dutys. Check here.
/Love
The daily dane!
Just a weird interview today, maybe a trick or two tomorrow...
/Love
Brew tried!!!
I am walking in Martins footsteps, he made freeze tried 1&2 now I am battling him with my "brew tried", but it's also tricks from other places then just bryggeriet so the name really doesnt work. Fuck!!! haha. If you want a copy of the lurcing class dvd check out the comp held in the end of the clip. Click the 360 flip and it will get you to the video. Enjoi!!
//Johan
Bomholt in town!
Our buddy Kristian Bomholt out of Copenhagen is in town. We´re gonna try to make a daily Danish update with him until he goes home in a few days, we´ll see how that goes, here´s the first one.
Also!
Since both Johan and Martin posted Millencolin open photos i decided i can´t be any worse, so here´s a selected few.
//Love
Lindgren shows his face in Malmö.
Thats right Hans Lindgren made a quick visit in Malmö. We ate, drank and played pool. Hans has appeared loads of time on this page, here he does it again.
//Johan
More M.O. photos
After spilling my heart out as commentator of the contest I also managed to do some visual documentation. Dig in.
//Martin
Here's an old photo of Martin and a long haired Mika that Martin Ottoson sent me the otherday. I think it's from Millencolin open lots of years ago. CLick here
//Johan
Freeze-tried part 2
As you can see here on the right, Freeze-tried part 2 has now been posted. Enjoy.
Millencolin Open 2008!!!
Mika is an unstoppable stallion:). Eventhough he got lumbago during Friday's practice walking up the bank he managed to win the contest. Congrats Mika we are proud of you. At the party during friday we showed our new video "Freeze Tried 2" that will be up on the site today. I cannot come up with anything more to write. Love and Martin might have some photos and a good story to post later. I got some good photos from the weekend click the three "powerhouses" to get to them.
//Johan
Sorry we´ve been lagging on the updates this week.
The reason is we have been working on this which will be up on monday. You can watch last winters clip here (scroll down)
See you monday.
Millencolin open 2008!!
This weekend we are leaving our hometowns for the classical contest millencolin open. Go to their website here.
It should be ready by tomorrow. Meanwhile, have a look at these photos i found in my Random folder from this past summer.
//Love
Things to do in Nässjö when you are bored.
We got stuck in Nässjö for 3 hours due to debris on the traintracks after the storm on our way back from our demo in Jönköping. No photos from the demo, we will post a short clip instead in a day or two.
The stormy weather affected my trip to Jönköping. This morning I got on the train to Jönköping but due to the storms in southern sweden I got stuck in Hässleholm. There were suppose to be compensationbuses picking us up but it wasn't it was 200 other travellers and no buses. After one hour the first bus arrived and it was war, some of the travellers had been waiting since yesterday. I realized I wouldn't get to Jönköping until late so I headed back to Malmö.Heres two photos from the crowd pleasers.
//JOhan
Bellows going to Jönköping.
Tommorow saturday we are going to Jönköping for their local comp. Heres more info
//Johan
Mika comp settled!
Eva Täljemark of Gothenburg and Christopher Backholm from Tumba didn't need long to figure out that Mika ended his line with the trick that Team Alva's John Thomas managed to make a whole career out of - the magnificent TUCK KNEE! Below you can gaze upon Mr Thomas pro model displaying the maneuver as well as some odd looking martial violence.
Mika comp aint over till it's over
Still no correct answers in the Mika competition leaves me no other option than to give you a hint so here it is: Mika does the same trick in his part in Lurking Class. For your none-scrolling pleasure I posted the clip again right below. Send your answer to info@bellowsskateboards.com and name the mail "mika contest" or something. Come on now, the two Lurking Class DVD's are dying to meet you!
9 hours in Copenhagen....
Last friday me, Danijel Todorovic and Björn Tjernberg made a spontaneous visit to Copenhagen. We meet up with Daniel Schön at the Fashion tradeshow held there that weekend, had a few beers and drinks, ate at a pakistanian restaurant and ended the mysterious night at the Vice party. CLick Danne schön with danish green friends for more photos.
//Johan
Boonphotagraphy.
Our buddy Robin aka Boon has just launched his very own website called www.boonphotography.com so go check it, and when you are done click here to enjoy Martin´s work pose. No need for an ergonomic chair here...
The Hose is (almost) back
Mika, Hazze and Johan must have made quiet an impression on Jonas Sohn whilst visiting him in the U.S. because he accompanied the trio back to his second home land. And as if that wasn't enough, the absence of sun and heat seemed to please him to the point where he has decided to move back to Stockholm after many a San Diego year. Well, the fact that his wife lives in Stockholm now might have something to do with it too... Jonas has now returned to S.D. to get his laundry or something but he will be back in no time. I guess the number of Swedish people missing Jonas' skating over the years is legio, so I filmed a line on him one morning in Stockholm Skatepark. You can easily watch it below. Welcome back Slangen! //Martin
TF´s
Johan brought some compact camera footage home from his and Mikas trip to the U.S, check it here.
Music quiz winners.
The second Music quiz was held at El-Amir this past saturday. Questions included everything from Huf´s year of birth to who rides for DGK but since our teams age ranged from 22 to 46 we had it all covered, I have to say that Simon Stenborg was without a doubt MVP so thanks to him we´ll be enjoying a free dinner tonight.
Here´s some photos I found from last weeks Junkyard office/showroom opening.
//Love
Mika contest still on!
We have not yet received a fully correct answer to what trick that ended Mika's line. Our good west coasty friend Henrik Svan is without a doubt the one getting the closest so far and here's his answer (in translation). "Long back arm, heavy front foot and light but energetic back foot, there can't be anything else than a benihana that ends the line. Yeah!" Yes, "Bling" certainly knows his skateboard physics and will be rewarded with a Lurking Class DVD. That means that the two remaining copies are still up for grabs so send your best guesses to info@bellowsskateboards.com as soon as possible. I got so happy when I got Henriks answer that I had to make a little clip of him skating Paris from a trip that we made a few years back. It's just a couple of millimetres below. //Martin
Monopoly at Juggas.
After we skated yesterday we went home to Jugga and played Monopoly, check it out here.
Bellows sales rep Hans Lindgren works with Swedish skateboard distribution, they opened their new office here in Stockholm this weekend and celebrated that with a party, click "telgetokarna"(people from södertälje) Martin Karlsson, Jonas Sohn and me for pics.
Below you can see Mika doing a cute little line in Stockholm Skatepark. Now, if you would like to get your clammy ones on a Lurking Class DVD you only have to guess what trick Mika did after I decided it was enough and hit the rec button. Send your answers to info@bellowsskateboards.com and name the mail 'mikacontest'. There are 3 DVD's in the pot and the contest is on until next Friday. If no correct answer comes up I will decide who's gotten the closest. //Martin
Hasse Lindgren VS Jonas Sohn in madness!!!
Tomorrow morning we are going back to sweden:(. Here is something funny, the other day Hans lost a 100 dollar bill. As you could see earlier I caught him fighting a chair. Now it is Jonas turn, when we met him at the ASR he had two sets of new SKF bearings he was really stoked on. Two hours later when we were in his car going back to his place he realized he had forgotten them at the tradeshow. When we came home to his place he flipped, totally flipped check it out here.
//Johan
Ok, we have some winnners!
The correct answer to who was pictured in front of the pyramids was Øyvind Aspen and the first 3 to get it right was: Albert Jalap, Nikos Plegas and Sebastian Österman. Congrats! Lurking Class will be sent out in the morning.
Still no correct answers in the polaroid competition. Who could this be? Here´s a hint. If you have been following the updates the last few weeks it should be really simple...Send answers here.
Thin hard line between Johan and Chet?
Soon Mr Florell will be back hardflipping in our outstretched country but until then dig some his flattety-flippety from his last visit to Stockholm. Will the future bless us with an indy version? //Martin
Exclusive!!! Ringström interview.
We still have a few days left in the U.S. This weekend it was the ASR tradeshow, pretty hectic. There we hooked up with Jonas Sohn and went to a party friday night and he took us skating saturday. If you liked the pictures of KarateHans taking out his anger you will like the ones coming up later. In San Diego we have stayed at Mathias's house, I thought it would be a good opportunity to make an interview with him. So click the photo to read the interview and see the video Mathias edited exclusivly for bellows yeah!!.
//Johan
OK, so here´s the competition!
This polaroid arrived in my mailbox the other day. Who might it be a picture of(first or last name is enough)? The first 3 correct answers wins a copy of Lurking Class. Send answers here. Don´t forget to write you adress in the mail.
//Love
A little competition where you could win a copy of Lurking Class is coming up real soon...
Now we are back in San Diego after our 3 days journey to Huntington beach. We went to Huntington beach were Hasse used to live in the 80's we stayed at a hotel there and just strolled around town, went out eating and bubbled in the hotels jacuzzi until we were wrinkled as raisins. During sunday we made a quick visit to Venice beach and walked the whole beachwalk. We skated a litlle bit in the venice park and the curbs that are there. It was fun to see all the strange characters that hangs around that beachwalk. Monday we headed back, on the the way back Hasse visited a few brands that he sales and me and Mika skated the Volcom park. Click Mikas 180 nosegrind for photos.
Last week I visited our web-wookie Andreas. He treated me to coffee and chocolate and then made me very happy by tagging along with me to the skatepark. Andreas had not rolled since summer but there seemed to be a very small amount of rust in his bearings. I knew that I would become Johan's hero if I got some footage of Andreas so I forced him to produce a line. Click the photo of Andreas and his skyskraper hair for the action. //Martin
I can feel the cheese all upp my throat from the food we eat. We are having a good time here in San Diego, we have eaten alot!! This is the places we have tried: Taco Bell, Hensleys bar, Islands, Wahoos, Tin fish, Surfers Teriyaki and that cosy place at the beach + a few more. Today we are hedding up to LA. Besides from that we have been to the indoorparks that the brands here have. The ones we have visited are DC, Adio, Plan B and Tony Hawks ramp. Feels good to skate inside when we are in sunny California. Mika went crazy shopping and bought a waterproof camera and an Ipod. Hopefully we will se Mika update the page someday. Click Hans and Mika at the beach for photos.
As you can see, someone hacked our site and posted LURKING CLASS. Whatever, it´s fine by us.
However, we strongly recommend that you try to get a hold of a DVD-copy to watch on a bigger screen than this one.
Another day in the promised country...
Our first plans was to go to Los Angeles and be there for a few days but Mattias Ringström is so friendly so he let us stay at his place in San Diego, thanks for your hospitality. So today he took us skating the Plan b warehouse. After that we went to the DC ramp, Mika did some fs airs and we got to see Pierre Luc Gagnon skate it, that was sick!!!! Click my breakfast for photos(Enchilada and a chocolate donut).
//Johan
United States of America here we are....
Ok now we are here or I am here for the first time, fells nasty. We arrived at 17:30 San Diego time and that means 2:30 in the morning in sweden, we were pretty tired by then but managed to stay awake until 23:00 San Diego time. To not fall asleep we went downtown and had a fishtaco and a few beers but when we arrived to the fancy motel6 it didn't take many seconds until the head banged the pillow. The time is 9:30 now and we are going to Dennys for breakfast so hasta la vista. For photos click me and Mika.
//Johan
Don´t call it a comeback!
Since you couldn´t tell much from the photos i posted of Ola the other day, here´s a little clip from his first day of skating in 4 months. Nice one mate!
//Love
Johan is about to understand the true meaning of JETLAG. Him, Mika and Hazze is sitting somewhere over the atlantic right now on their way to the United States. Since this is Johans 1st trip "over there" he wanted to get a haircut so that customs would let him enter the country. Here´s the result.
//Love
If you are 20 or older and live in Malmö or nearby dont forget "practice" during saturday nights. I were there this saturday and got Pontus Alv on film click Pontus fs air to get a hold of him.
//Johan
Ola´s recent absence on this page is due to his knee injury. Today was his 1st day carving about in 4 months so i thought it was time for a proper Q&A questionnaire. Klick photo.
Also, The Jugga is in town.
//Love
Funny thing, Martin and I went to the WeSC office today where i ran into... myself
//Love
Love for president?
Earlier we posted a link to the caughtinthecrossfire page with Love frontblunting a curb. Now you can Vote for Loves fs bluntslide as the coolest trick of the year. Do it here.
When I moved to Malmö I wasn't sure if I was going to see snow here, but two days ago I did. It mealted away really quick though but here you have a picture prooving it.
//Johan
Mr comeback himself Mark "Pullis" Pulman turned 30 and new years eve knocked on the door.
Less then a month ago Mark turned 30 and throwed a big party(thanks Mark). It was held at the restaurant "El Amir". We all had a good time and it did get late, see the photos I managed to shoot. During New Years eve we also ended up at "el amir" eating a supper, it was lovely. Later that night we were on a boatparty. View it all by clicking mr Pulman.
//Johan
Finally got it open. Didn´t taste much, well well. If you click the photo you´ll find a somewhat odd interview with Aspen who made the Neighbours video. Cool
//Love
December in photos.
To have a "The year in photos" would take way to much space so you´ll have to do with this December in photos instead.
The Photo above is actually from The 1st of january so i couldn´t put it in the folder. I bought a coconut and i can´t open the damn thing. Martin told me to use a hammer and a screwdriver... We´ll see if that´ll work. Just click the photo.
//Love
In betweendays shopping and relaxing at Mark and Loves recreation centre.
I were around town with Mika during the sales after christmas. I got good photos of him while shopping the same way as the girls on "Sex and the city" does. We also spent an evening at Mark and Loves recreation centre. They have at their appartment. It is not a real recreation centre but Mark likes gadgets alot so there is alot of stuff you can have fun with. Click Mika to go to photos. Happy new year!!!
//Johan
Martin goes "frontside" in Fryshusets miniramp.
//Johan
Hohoho Santa is bringing you a line for christmas.
This is the plaza in Malmö where they have an old monument with a swedish king standing. While I am Lineing Martin "Kingen" Nilsson is both filming and discussing which king it is. I now know that it is Karl Gustav the 10th.
Merry Christmas//Johan
A Merry Mika Christmas
From all of us to all of you, a long clip that managed to stay out of Lurking Class.
//Martin
Hazze footy!
Please check out our sales rep Hazze from when he earned his money popping bebops and landing cross foot. Hazze is the one in the white painters cap. Click the image of Hazze and Love for the action.
Check out this funny clip I found.
The mondayfog is slighty disappering. It was a hard weekend here in stockholm. Mika did it again, for the third time he took 1st place at Lucia Classics. I placed 4th Wiihhuuu.
//Johan
Bellows has been caught in the crossfire
Check out caughtinthecrossfire where this weeks trick of the week is a clip from Lurking class. Stay tuned cause there´s more to come...
Thanks Zac
//Love
Back in Stockholm.
I am in the capital area visiting. On saturday Lucia Classics will be held, for more info www.luciaclassics.com. Me and Mika got caught on film while practising for the comp the other day. The music in the clip keeps rolling after the last trick, didn't manage to fix it. And yes the little text I wrote is in swedish so I have to translate it, actually I don't know if we have any viewers from other countries but since we always write in english I will translate this to: Fuck! what you are slaming Johan! Get a hold of yourself. CLick the word VIDEO to see the VIDEO.
//Johan
GRAND Ben photos.
Our dear host while staying in Paris Benoit Alègre, aka Grand Ben, Dark Ben, Darkos and so on sent me these photos from when Johan and I was visiting him. Thanks Ben. He´s in Stockholm for a 10 days stay now by the way.
//Love
Mika on Vert
It has been a while since I made an update but better late than later so here is the very first footage of Mika skating vert and showing off his vert rump. I have now joined Mika on this mission on transition and can be seen perfecting my knee slides and rock to fakies regularly. The obvious question now, besides when I will be seen soaring like an eagle, seems to be is it really vert it?
//Martin
Almost forgot. Don´t miss the last two episodes of Tidens minne. #11 and #12 contains Boulala and our webmaster Andreas Engelkes and you´ll find them HERE.
It has been a while since i posted any polaroids so click the camera for some random images. There´s a Olaroid in there as well.
//Love
Björn Tjernberg+Malmö=True
Björn lives in Malmö and he is a good friend and a clean skater. So I thought lets make a little interview with him, a few questions and some tricks. But I didn't get any tricks only answers on the questions. We tried to film yesterday but he couldn't come up with a trick he wanted to film, or my theory is that he couldn't handle the pressure filming. No just kidding, but I did get two good clips of Johan Linö Waad and "Snoken" so watch them and björns interview by clicking Björn.
//Johan
Yesterday we sessioned the newbuilt flatcurb at bryggeriet, chech it out here.
As I posted earlier there were a streetlab/We party in Malmö this weekend. It doesn't matter which town you're in there is always a We party. This weekend it were held with streetlab. They released a t-shirt together and that called for a party. Is there a party for every t-shirt they make? :):). No seriously i'm only joking. I didn't bring my camera to the shop but I got it with me when we rambled through the streets of Malmö. Click balloon photp for evidence.
Kingpin blog Updated with some photos from last fridays premiere.
//Love
Yesterday was thursday which means there´s a new episode of Tidens minne to be found right HERE. This one has endless lines of Mark Pulman, young Lewis Marnell, Amadi Oduya and a real gem, David Larsson.
//Love
Streetlab/WE party!!! wihhuuu. So there are We partys in malmö too. cool. Click to go hugeor at least a little bigger.
//Johan
Jonas Dalesjö shines up our site with a beatiful fs flip.
//Johan
Part 8 of Tidens minne episodesis HERE. This time it´s The Jens, Jobby, Fredell and Pontus Karlsson of WeSC in a mix part plus my part. Nostalgia.
There is also a new interview on the Invite artists page, you can find it if you click the products button, or you can just click HERE if you´re too lazy. This time it´s with Andreas Glad.
//Love
Lurcing Class premiere and practice at bryggeriet.
It was a hectic weekend in Malmö:). Lurking Class premiered during friday and practice at bryggeriet saturday night. The premiere went smooth, Martin Ottossons website defekt is posting photos both from the sthlm premiere and the malmö premiere click here too go there.
From 20:00-22:00 during saturdays bryggeriet is opened for skaters over the age of 20. They call it practice and yesterday was the premiering night, it was great, live band and good skating. Too see my photos click Jonn Magnussons fs air.
//Johan
HOW SOON ISN'T LURKING CLASS?
The video premiere of the year is only hours away now. What? There's another video premiering today too? That's cool, the best of luck to them then. Anyway, Mika called me up yesterday at 22.30 just to say that he had made himself an egg sandwich and a beer for supper. I really liked that because like "Mika Modin" I'm a big fan of the Swedish tv-show Mäklarna (The Brokers) and there's a brilliant scene in one episode involving the mentioning of an egg sandwich and pilsner. He also sent me a photo for proof. Thank's Mika, as long as there's people like you around there will be no premiere butterflies in my belly.
See you tonight. //Martin
New T-shirts have arrived, you can see them on the products page, under clothing. If you´d rather have a shortcut you can click HERE.
The annual Contest Lucia Classics will be held in Stockholm this year so if you want to winn €1076.81(as of right now) you better book a flight soon, it´s in a month from now, here´s a FLYER.
2 weeks ago Mika won the Analog open contest in Trollhättan. Now you can read a story, see photos and clips just click the words in fat text.
//Johan
Mr.Hugo Liard sent me the boards i made for Antiz today, thanks Hugo. Click the photo for a larger image and some bonus photos. I bought a new camera the other day so i thought i´d post a few pics from when i tried it out.
//Love
New feature on the site!
Click HERE for some info and Q&A with our first Invite board artist Mander. This page will be updated every time there´s a new Invite board, i´ll post the artist of our latest Invite board, Andreas Glads Q&A in a couple of days.
//Love
Volcom wild in the parks.
Yesterday the volcom comp was held in Bryggeriet and this is the results. Junior comp 3rd place: Christian Sandell, 2nd: Fernando Bramsmark and 1st: Filip Almqvist. The old boys 3rd place: Enrico Petralia, 2nd: Fredrik Grundberg and 1st: Josef Scott, He skated so good he did flip fs lipslides and smooth bs smiths. Click Martin Pennlowe and Enrico for pics. It was alot of good skating and over 100 people entering the comp. Crazy collisions.
//Johan
Check out the very nice photos of Norwegian photog Espen Stokke
The product page has been updated with our new wheels and different colors on the boards. New t-shirts are on the way...
Also, yesterday was Thursday which means that there´s a new episode of Tidens minne available HERE
//Love
Analog open Trollhättan 3/11 and kebab sauce novellen.
Our own Bellows rider MikaEdin won the Analog contest VIIHUUU. Congratulation Mika, we are really proud of you. More results to see if you click the Kebab pizzas. For me the trip was not only the contest it was alot about the kebab sauce. Both me and Björn Tjernberg loves kebab sauce the way it is made in trollhättan and Södertälje. It is like a mixture of the White and the red sauce. The color gets more orange. We both have been in Trollhättan before so we started to talk about sauces even before we arrived. During friday night we decided to go for a pizza and we did not get disappointed. When we got the Pizzas Björn thought it was'nt enough sauce on it, so he asked for more. The guy behind the counter pointed at the table where you take the pizza salad and look there it was. A sport bottle filled with kebab sauce so you could put as much as you wanted it was like a dream. As you can see on the photo I accidently over used the sauce.
//Johan
There will also be a premiere on Saturday 17th at the WeSC shop in Stockholm starting 13.00 for those under 18 that can´t enter on Friday. Bellows boards will also be a bit cheaper during friday night and this day, Wooohooo
Loic Benoit of Antizskateboards sent me a link to his photoblog, click HERE to check it out. It contains photos of his trip to Stockholm, the Antiz crew, Vietnam, me with long hair, Boulala and a whole lot more.
//Love
Tidens minne...
Get the third episode of Tidens minne podcast here.
//Love
Martin doesn´t eat lunch anymore! Only breakfast and dinner, there might be the occasional snickers bar in between though.
//Love
Mika Sliding long and there is a contest this weekend.
Found this excellent clip with Mika bs lip sliding the rail in Humlegården, long and smooth. Dont forget that there is a contest held in Trollywood this saturday 3/11. I will go there and Mika aswell. Ola is still recovering from his knee surgery but I heard he has rolled a bit on the board though. Love will not attend cause he has sprained his ankle, he will be up on the board soon. for more info about the comp click here.
//Johan
Breaking news!
After only having skated vert 3 times, Mika landed his first bs air two days ago. He also did fs airs but i think the bs ones are the hardest to do so that one will get all the attention. I shot a photo of it with a friends camera but i haven´t received the photo yet so the proof will have to wait, sorry.
I got a link to Pascal Strüwers film Tidens minne which is now available for free as podcasts at Transition.se. The film is divided into 12 parts and a new one will appear every Monday and Thursday so if you are interested in seeing some Swedish skateboard history, click HERE to download it.
//Love
Fredrik "Benhög" Nilsson birthday party!!
Last saturday I was at Streetlab owner Benhögs 32 year party. That's correct Fredrik is getting old, I gave him skinlotion. There were only guys invited so there where a lot of talk about the new Iphone and who was drunk and who was not etc etc. It was a good party, thanks Benhög. During the sunday we got some skating done in Babsan, check out Juggas combo and photos from the party by clicking the photo of Jugga BS180nosegrinding.
//Johan
Need a new camera!!!
I just got back from a video comersial production for junkyard.se and i had brought my camera to shoot some photos but for some reason the memorycard would be full after shooting THIS only photo. I´m gonna get a new one asap. We were filming some downhill runs for the comersial in the rain which was interesting, there were some slams but nothing too serious. well, that´s it from me.
Don't forget to visit the remaining Nike premieres that is held around in Sweden this week. I went to the one in Malmö. Click Jonas Dalesjö and his Nike sticker to see all the CRAZY photos I did get.
//Johan
Home From the Range
“I made it through the wild, wild west” didn’t Madonna really sing but I do now since I’m home again, far from fangs, fur and flawless service. A few days after my last update winter came to Wyoming, making my production of skateboard footy even more of a struggle than usual. But after a few days in Yellowstone, some hiking, a deserted wedding party and a littlebingo playing, the sun decided to shine upon the town of Jackson Hole again. This gave me and my personal videographer Lotta one day to rack up some slappy slippin’, a lot of unsorted weirdness and a most surprisingly, a milligram of pool skating. The pool would’ve been skateable if it wasn’t for the water in the deep end so until my next visit I have added some buckets to my K-Mart shopping list. Click the photo of my bison steak (it was crazy good!) for the show. Charge!
//Martin
New concrete parc.
This weekend held the grand opening of a new concrete parc in Avesta, Sweden. The parc is big and looks really good. Mika went there to try it out and was mighty stoked, he sent me this photo of a back smith in one of the bowls shot by Anders Neuman, thanks dude.
I was also sent a link by another Photagrafer, Jens Andersson. The Jens had an idea about shooting skateboarding from the birds eye view so we went out to give it a try. Turned out really cool i´d say. Here´s the result: http://www.thejens.com/page31.html
First up is Mika nosbluntsliding some banked curbs, the Head ideologyst Karlsson is frontside 5-0-ing on a bank to barrier then me doing a back lip on the water front.
//Love
Here they are!!!
Click here to check out our new serie, one board got delayed during production but it´ll arrive in a week or so.
//Love
New graphics arrived.
A few days ago the new bellows boards arrived. You will be able to see them on the site soon. But until then you can see one photo of my own board. Last night I decided to celebrate that the new boards arrived so I baked a frozen cheesecake. Click the cheesecake to see clips from when I cruised Malmö with Tobias Henriksson and Martin "kingen" Nilsson.
For those of you that missed the premiere of Tidens minne. Since my camera wasn´t working i linked our favorite web mag Defekt for the photos.
Click the little squares under the photo to see the next one...
//Love
Sorry Love if I make an update the same day as you. I dont know if I will be able to use the internet tomorrow so I take the oppurtunity now. Click The fs noseslidding D-boy to view indoor clips from Bryggeriet. Outdoor clips will arrive aswell.
//Johan
WeSC camp photos.
Can´t remember if i allready linked these photos from WeSC´s skatecamp this summer, pretty sure i didn´t. Anyway, here they are.
Ps: You have to scroll down to the one named skatecamp 07...
//Love
Mika the posterboy.
I was at Mika and his girlfriend Mirandas place for a taco dinner and some soccergame watching the other day. We had a great time and i saw that Mika had nicked one of his TV ads from the metro windows plus he told me this really funny anecdote, so click HERE for the ad and a funny story.
//Love
JACKSON HOLE VIDEO
So, here's the story. My girlfriend Lotta who is doing her PhD in biology got sent to the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming to visit some fellow scientists. I figured that this was the chance I've been waiting for to get to see another side of the great country than the urban wastelands of southern California. So I tagged along and now I'm here for a two week visit and believe me when I say that this place rules! The town is small with some 9000 inhabitants and is elevated more than 2000 meters above sea level. It's located on the border of the Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park is just a short drive away (we're going there today) so I don't have to tell you it's pretty scenic out here. Of course the town has a skatepark and if you click my photo of the mountain sheep you will see me tear it to pieces. Big credit to Lotta for filming - great job! There is also some shaky bonus footage of two mountain sheep climbing a rock that I shot yesterday while taking a bike ride in something called the National Elk Refuge. More Jackson updates to come! //Martin
So, last night held the premiere for Pascal´s retrospective video Tidens minne. Loads of people showed up to share laughs and old stories, it was a night of nostalgia basically. Good job Pagge. For those of you that missed it and want to see it i heard a rumor that it will pe posted as a podcast somewhere, not sure though but we´ll link it if it happens.
Sorry to say that the flash on my camera didn´t work for some reason so there are no photos to post, but here´s a little something just for the sake of posting a photo.
//Love
No update but....
I have nothing to make an update with. But I know Martin went to the States a few days ago. So Martin if you read this. Post a note on what you are up to overthere.
//Johan
Mask serie
I have painted a series of boards for Antiz skateboards whom i used to ride for and they are about to hit the stores in a few weeks so keep your eyes open for `em
Now I am back in Malmö and I have to say that the trip was a really good one eventhough we were unlucky with the weather. I think we had two days without rain, but that didn't stop us from having fun. We went to the Effiel tower twice, the first time the sun showed up right when we arrived so we headed home directly to get our boards. The second time we got up in the tower. Here you can see photos from the tower and all the other stuff we did. And once again a big thank you to Ben and Biblis for letting us stay at their place.
//Johan
Nostalgia, you mega midschool banana!
Yes, it's finally time. Jean-Pascal Strüwer has put his last touch on the much anticipated film "Tidens Minne" (The Memory of Time) and it will be shown for the very first time at Boulala's restaurant El Amir on October 11. The flick is a retrospective covering the 1990's skate scene in Stockholm so expect a few tears and beers spilled. Be there, even if you weren't there then. Click the flyer for trailer. //Martin
Domestic Drama!
Last week I ended my post saying that I smelled something nasty from the kitchen. Click the image below to get the answer to that mystery plus some other freakyness that entered my home that day.
//Martin
Paris update.
Only this video clip of Love from these transitions that are pretty neat today. The weather has been good...
//Johan
Paris Update.
So, here´s a bunch of photos from our first three days in Paris. We´ve been to the opening of the new WeSC shop, skated in hurricane winds and went touristing when the rain came. Today was a nice day though so there was some actual skating happening. To view the photos click the photo of me and our precious hosts Ben and Biblis.
a toutaleur
//Johan
HOUSE MANIA VIDEO!
Long time since I updated our little lighthouse in the world wide web sea, but here's finally a little video I just edited. It's entirely from a session at the House Mania squat in Oslo where Per from Gothenburg has built a great little skate park. It's filmed by Lars Gartå and the locals that we're trying to keep up with are Gabeeb, Tony and Claes. Thanks for letting us skate Per. Click here. Have to run now, something's smelling a bit to hot from the kitchen.
//Martin
This is me doing a Nollie flirre berra lirre.
//Johan
Me and Johan are off to Paris tomorrow morning on a filming mission, photos when we get back...
Here´s my photos from our Oslo trip. Click the bird. I shot this photo from gabbes window. He had an amasing view.
//Johan
More youtubing
I found these 3 clips of me, Ali and Philp Leander the other day. They have been posted by Jevan Hollis, a friend from OZ that hung out in Barcelona and stayed with us at the Antiz house in Lyon. Super cool to see old clips again, i have no idea how he got ahold of all the footage of me though.
Thanks Jev
//Love
Camp WeSC
A video from the WeSC skatecamp this summer has been posted. Go check it here. Features 3/5 of the bellows crew plus the constant guest... Who could that be? Wait and see.
//Love
The longed for Nuke Em banquet.
Ok, now I have to tell you how it all started with the banquet. This is how it goes. Nicke Svensson helped me, I think 5 times fixing my Puch Dakota. I wanted to make it up to him so I told him I wanted to take him to the Czech restaurant Soldier Svejk. So me, Martin and Nicke met up at the restaurant, ate and had a few beers. Nothing strange. Then Nicke said "I think the Nuke Em guys (Per Magnusson, Pyssling, Mattias Nylen and Nicke is also included in Nuke Em but he was already with us.) are nearing Stockholm. And yes they were, half an hour later they came. 2 hours later I had drunk 4 or 5 beers and 3 or 4 Fernets. After that I got pretty round under my feet or I think everybody got. See the photos for proof. The day after that was the day we were leaving for Oslo. So when we meet up Martin said to me "So what did you think of the Nuke Em Banquet yesterday?" That's the story, nothing more nothing less.
Click the menu for photos.
//Johan
Malmö related Update:)
Yes Love I moved to Malmö yesterday. Feels good so far, but I havent really met anyone yet. Tried to call some people last night to go out for a beer but nobody answered or maybe they didn't want to answer. Anyway I saw this morning that I had a missed call from P-mag(PerMagnusson) and he had spoken in a message on my answering machine saying something like. "I heard you moved to Malmö. Now you have to play by our rules, come drink with us so we can see what you are made of". Sounds dangerous but I guess thats the way it is in Malmö, hard. Other than that I forgot the cable that goes from the digicam to the computer at Loves house so I am not able to update with photos right now. But he will post the cable today so I will have it here soon. I have good photos from both the Oslo trip and the "Nuke em banquet" where you can see more action from P-mag and their team.
//Johan
Ola update.
Since Ola went under the knife 2 days ago, i thought i´d ask him a few questions to see how he´s doing, so go ahead and klick the photo.
On another note, Johan is moveing to Malmö today so expect some Malmö related updates in the near future.
//Love
Today´s the day Ola is going in for a knee surgery. It is the meniscus that needs some finetuning so he´ll be back in no time. Good luck Ola.
We are done with Oslo for now but we're by no means through with that rippers delight of a city. A thousand thanks to Gabeeb, Tony and Aspen for being the greatest hosts and thanks to the locals, especially Lars, Per and Stian for showing us the town. For more moving pictures, click on the photo of Gabeebs father consecrating his new bath tub.
Oslo 1
The first day of our Oslo trip is now history. As you can see below we hit the ground running and we´re not planning to lose a fraction of a percent of speed on this supersonic journey into radness.
New axe.
Nice stance Martin. Is that part of your new dance routine? For something completely different, click the photo below.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, we´re all leaving for Oslo tomorrow morning on a filming mission, so expect a longer clip in about a week...
//love
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Murphy's law is the theory claiming that everything that can go wrong will go wrong and it is supposed to explain why a dropped sandwich lands butter-side down most of the time. Well, last Sunday, while trying to carry to many things from the kitchen to the living room as usual, it was proved to apply for other cuisine as well. Click picture.
//Martin
Trollywoood update.
Junkyard.se held their annual junkfest this past weekend so we hopped on a train to Trollywood...
This is Ola´s first contribution of photos for the site. Due to the fact that Ola is pictured in many of the photos you might think it was taken with someone elses camera but this is not the case. Good job Ola.
//Love
Malaga people and swedens proudest bottom (Björn Holmenäs) in Stockholm.
Two weeks ago Björn Holmenäs visited Stockholm to film for the upcoming Sweet video. I got to spend some time with him and I was also blessed to hang out with Malaga Locals Koffe hallgren and Daniel Spängs. They have been living in Malaga on and off for at least two or three years. I think they are going back to Malaga tomorrow actually. Björn used to live in Malaga but now he has moved back to his hometown Trollhättan. Press on the group of people too see Björns rowdy days in Sthlm, sleepovers, slams, work and beer.
//Johan
Young Millenium
Polaroids and perfect exposures are all very well Love, but click on the image below to see what lifestyle photography was like in 2002. Big thanks to Jean-Pascal Strüwer for the pix. But wait, what's that dangling from Reynolds neck? Are we so far behind we're ahead, or... I remember Love being a huge Drew-fan back then which explains yesterday's update or am I starting to lose sense by now?
//Martin
New old camera
This is an old polaroid camera that Aspen (who filmed the Neighbours video) gave me for my birthday. I finally found some film for it so Ola had to act model along with Martin Pennlowe so i could try it out, the photos were a bit over exposed. but still pretty cool. Click the camera to see them...
//Love
Häggvik Hegemony video
This Saturday, Love had planned for the whole team to go to Häggvik and skate the concrete trannies. Unfortunatly, Johan and Mika was on spa-weekend in Söderhamn while Ola had to take care of some dog, a sore neck from sleeping between the bed and the couch combined with very untimely knee pains. But shame on the ones who give up, which means Love had to make do with me, his homeboy Dan from Karlstad, Bemo and Lars Spets. Not exactly the Bellows team but not exactly the worst pack of diagonal sailors in the business either. Press mouse button on the polaroid below to see all the fun we had.
//Martin
New ad!!!
This here to the right is our new ad -->
Najs (swinglish for nice)
Söderhamns Slotts weekend.
Me and Mika visited Söderhamn for the famous barbeque battle contest. I took 2:nd place in the street comp and Mika 3:rd. I just have to say I am really proud that I placed better in the contest than Mika:). This year they had built a bowl, Mika came first in that contest. We arrived at thursday but it was rainy so we did other stuff than just skate. Click here to see all different kinds of photos from the weekend.
//Johan
Wonderwall...
A while ago, me and Love where out skating and filming. I talked to him about frontside wallrides from flatground, how timeless, cool and hard they are and how badly I would like to learn them. He agreed, and then did his first ever in three tries:
Being moderatly talented and skating with the prodigies is hard too.
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