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Vans day seven… The final installment…

Vans — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:22:12 +0000

The final installment. The Angels were at the end of their journey. Much had been done since they had set out, one week short week that seemed like a lifetime. They had driven through the night and were finally at their destination. They pulled the van up and slowly climbed out. It was close to the end. They knew the mastermind was in the building in front of them – Holiday Inn Express – a cunning hideout

Cautiously they crept towards the hotel. Inching forwards the Angels advanced until they were finally at the corridor’s end and kicked the door of room 666 open wide to reveal….

TO BE CONTINUED IN BIG PUSH – COMING TO AN ISSUE OF SIDEWALK SOON.

Angel Collins chillaxing outside the hotel.

Vans day six… those weird coconutty biscuits

Vans — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:17:09 +0000

Their minds reeling, the Angels left the smelly mosher with his luke warm sausage rolls and teen angst and piled back into the van to make their way to the final destination – Nottingham. In order to confront the evil mastermind behind the whole plot, to stare their destiny in the face, to put their years of training to the test. But first they had to stop at the petrol station to get some of those weird coconutty biscuit cake things that look proper rank but always seem kind of appealing in petrol stations. Its probably something to do with the lights they have in there. Besides, you never want to have a row without some kind of snack in you, why do you think there are so many fights outside kebab shops? Exactly.

Once they’d filled the van back up with weird coconutty treats the Angels phoned the Boss to explain the story so far: they updated him on the clues they’d found and their meeting with the weird insider mosher and waited for further instruction. After a spell Powley explained exactly what they were going to do to thwart the whole plot. And so they began.

Czech George stocking up on sickly sausage rolls

Vans day seven…close enough to smell the musk on his Slipknot hoody.

Vans — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:15:02 +0000

You wouldn’t believe the number of people that wear D3′s in Leicester, there were hundreds of them, hundreds. Nev got a clip around the earhole for going up and asking a team of D3 wearing gothy moshers if they had anything they wanted to tell him. They just looked at him blankly through their mascara-y eyes. It probably didn’t help when Nev winked at them and said “Well,
what you got for me?” That was when the clouted him. The weight of their bracelets gave him a headache. He wasn’t happy.

Time passed, moshers came and went. When out of Greggs the Angels heard someone hiss at them. “Pssst” they heard “Oi! Pssst” as a shady figure came lurching out from behind the luke warm sausage rolls. He didn’t look like he knew a lot. In fact he looked more than a bit ropey with his moustache all matted down with Sausage roll grease and his fingers all yellow from quavers. But he had D3s on and he had a pipe. So he was the man. He said he was the forum lurker who had leaked the story in the first place. And then he drew them in close enough to smell the musk on his Slipknot hoody.

And he started talking and then… The Angels finally had the truth. But do they have the time to stop it before its too late?

Shaun gets in training in case the Angels run into some Kung Fu treachery.

etnies day seven video blog… Percy just got back from California and met up with us. Of course there will be beef if you have two photographers on a trip…

Etnies — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:44 +0000

Big Push: etnies video blog day seven >>

etnies day seven… this rail’s got cracks!

Etnies — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:53:26 +0000

This rail in Sheffield has a bad crack in the run up. Fortunately we found some wood to fix it. Left it there for the next team as well...

Caradogs ankle is worse than we thought. Fortunately we found a wheelchair for him.

Sean almost missed the trick on the rail, due to his camera overheating. English summers are not what they used to be!

Converse day seven… Grip Love…

Converse — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:51:59 +0000

Broken dreams.

Street loungin'.

Grip love.

DC day six… What! Why?

DC — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:25:35 +0000

What! Why…?

Community botherer

Grip & stink

Masses of Hair and geggs

Food at night…

Leo could eat eighteen of these

etnies day six video blog… Axel is practicing to break the World Record for the longest 5050…

Etnies — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:58:18 +0000

MPORA Action Sports >>

Converse day six… waking up in Steel City

Converse — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:56:15 +0000

We awoke in Steel City, Sheffield.

Yann and Rory went swimming...

Whilst Jerome bombed hills.

Tasks get handled...

etnies day six… speedbumps and parking fails…

Etnies — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:29:58 +0000

This is what you get if your big push driver is from a country where they drive on the right side of the road. Parking fail!

Shortly after this photo was taken, Caradog flew over a speedbump and twisted his ankle.

Jim was amazed by Taylors biceps. We were impressed by the intense look on his face!

After an exhausting week in the UK, this is what Axel is doing next.