Glasgow is on the move again.....

After almost 10 months in Queen Street our Glasgow store is on the move again. Our short walk away, our new store at 220 Argyle Street (under Central Bridge) will open at 10am on Wednesday 8th October. We've got a few special product releases planned for the opening week and we'll also be hosting a little opening party on Thursday 16th October. If you fancy coming along, just drop us an email at glasgow@focuspocus.co.uk and we'll hook you up with details.

Hope to see you at the new store and of course expect the same quality product as always.

Linkinator X

Added a few links to the blog sidebar, so check them out if you're not familiar with them:

YouWillSoon: skate blog from Canada, nice if you're often baffled by the popularity of the likes of Ryan Sheckler and the X Games, and have a fondness for the 90s side of skateboarding.

Boil The Ocean: On a similar note to YouWillSoon but a bit less cynical and a bit more 'deep'. Take from that what you will.

Police Informer: Another one for the 90s fans, Police Informer consists mostly of Mr. Police Informer himself posting scans of old ads, interviews and photos from the likes of 101, Menace, Girl, Billy Valdez, Jason Dill... The list goes on, click through and check it out.

Gino Iannucci Epicly Later'd Episode 5

Episode 5 of the Gino Iannucci edition of Patrick O'Dell's Epicly Later'd show is now up on VBS. If you haven't been following them since the show returned to the site two weeks ago, this installment brings us half way through the 10 promised episodes of Gino goodness, and goes over his move from 101 to Chocolate, and one of the reasons for his apparent lack of footage in Mouse.



Bigger version available over at VBS.tv, plus all the earlier episodes. Go check it out if you're bored, skiving, or just plain don't know who Gino is. In fact, watch all the episodes, especially the John Cardiel ones.

The Shadow Gallery

Heads up people! Just received a link to Edinburgh based The Shadow Gallery which we'd highly recommend checking out. Interviews with Hunter Gatherer, Morning Breath, Tommy Perman and whole lot more.

theshadowgallery.co.uk

Fall is upon us

Huge drop of new Fall clothing, accessories and some choice cuts from the Gravis IV range now available in store and online. Click the snake-tastic Fenchurch Lemmy belt below for the goodness.



P.S. If anyone knows the whereabouts of our Glasgow A-frame, which was left outside (d'oh!) and stolen (gah!) on Wednesday night, do let us know. We're operating an amnesty policy, so if it appears out of nowhere no questions will be asked, guv'nor.

Nike SB Mystery Tour - Scotland

Nike SB Mystery Tour” Leg 1
September 12, 2008

Nike SB present the first leg of their Mystery Tour 12th-15th September, 2008. A knee jerk reaction to the conventional tour format; A haphazard, last minute, off the cuff decision to hit the streets and parks of Scotland.

Protocol - Infinite whirlwind Shred around Scotland in three days.

The crew: Daniel Kinloch aka Snowy, Joey Pressey, David Mackey, Colin Kennedy and Korahn Gayle.

Date and Times - Coming in hot for a wee session at the following destinations, join us if you can.

Friday 12th September: Edinburgh, Bristo Square minus the upright Cow. Approx. 12-2pm.

Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park minus the neds wi' bucky(aye right!) Approx. 6-Darkness. Here.

Sunday 14th September: Aberdeen, Transition Extreme Skatepark minus the inclement weather. Approx. 6-8pm.

The rest of the time we'll be toiling with the weather on the streets....look out for clips on mpora in the upcoming weeks.

....to tape off the scene of the sack race!

Quality.

Don't mess With the Glasgow Diamonds!

Nuff Said!

Van Wastell R.I.P.

Just heard that sadly, Van Wastell passed away in the last few days.



Rest in peace.

Tke Tht

TKE THT! from akeem turner on Vimeo.

Air Yeezy

Kanye West has been spotted wearing these bad boys of his most recent tour. They have been called the 'Air Yeezy' and are totally Mexico!
Straight off Marty McFly's feet and onto Kanye's. I hope they release these as they're well dope.

Star Wars like you've never seen before.

Superb!

Don LaFontaine R.I.P.

The man who brought you thousands of epic movie trailers, Don LaFontaine, passed away yesterday.



R.I.P, Thunder Throat.

Sunday Service

Mr Kennedy recieves this weeks Sunday Service from the lovely guys at Sidewalk Magazine.
Head over to the Sidewalk site to check out his featured skate sections.

Did he just say caveat?

Just spotted young Mr Toby Paterson on Newsnight there. Lad did well.

Incoming.....

Instore in the next few days.

Who's the daddy?

Shhhh! Don't tell anybody but.........

.....we're expecting a delivery of these in the not too distant future. Only available in store. We'll keep you posted.

The Man Who Cycled The World

If you didn't catch this programme last week on BBC1, I'd highly recommend watching it on the BBC iPlayer.

Mark Beaumont from Scotland broke the solo round the world cycling record earlier this year and what an achievement it was. 18,000 miles in 194 days, completely unassisted. Quite astounding.

Watch The Man Who Cycled The World.

August Nikes.

Bit later than expected is the arrival of August's Nike SB's. Some tasty morsels this month including the all new P-Rod 2 High and the magnificent Unfutura Dunk Hi's.

See and buy online at www.focuspocus.co.uk

Mad Skillz

This guy is pretty original. What do you think?

Benson Front Cover!

Congratulations to Benson for making the cover of the Big Push issue of Document, thats one of the sickest photos i've seen in a long time.

Also in this issue is Edinburgh's very own Beans!

Will be available in both store any day now.

redvision

Was linked to this short on Vimeo the other day, a clip of some skating at that French spot that was quite prominent in Menikmati. What makes this a bit different is the fact that the footage was shot on a Red One camera, which shoots in ultra high definition at 120 frames per second.




Also, it seems that Elwood shortened some of the clips on the team page I linked to in the last post, but luckily someone was savvy enough to rip Kenny Anderson's full clip and fire it up on yoochoob:

Elwood

Elwood have just done a massive update on their site and have footage up from all the pro riders, great stuff too considering it's just throwaway web clip stuff. Kenny Anderson in particular has a sick clip, and John Rattray has a daft trick at Paisley Square, not one I've ever thought of myself anyway.

Check it out at Elwood's website.

On a side note, I hadn't seen this until today:



Geoff Rowlet is insane. Frontside flip.

Gravis IV Skateboarding

Just arrived at Focus is the first installment from the Gravis Skateboarding project. Have a wee gander below to see what it's all about.



For over a year we have been working on a new project here at Gravis, part of our brand’s DNA since day one. We feel that it is now time to confirm the rumors.

Welcome to Gravis IV skateboarding.

Over the last few months our dedicated product team has worked with Arto Saari to develop our first ever performance skate footwear collection. Over the next year we will introduce four deliveries of product exclusively created by our team of skate athletes.

The first product released under the Gravis Skate program is the Viking Hi LX Ltd, a limited release of the Viking, designed and built from the ground up by Arto Saari and Gravis. This product line will be sold exclusively in skate shops around the world.

Over the next few months we will build the content and update the next additions to the IV skateboaring team, stay tuned.

The stamp of approval for all products specifically built for skateboarding is the Gravis IVsk8 word mark and IVsk8 icon. This is the official emblem of the Gravis skateboard team.

Welcome to Gravis for skateboarding.

Buy Gravis IVSK8 at Focus here.

Savoir Faire

New in this week, Savoir Faire. Available in both stores now at the bargain price of £4.95.

Featuring our very own Div Adam. Check it out!

New Blueprint goodies

Both stores just got a restock of Blueprint's new Pachinko team series decks, a bunch of nice new brightly coloured graphics to match the.... less than bright Summer we've been having. Still, it's gonna be nice and sunny tomorrow, so I'm gonna set one of these bad boys up and get my evening shred (read: many games of SKATE) on after tomorrow's shift.

Also, look out for the new Flourish pro series decks in the next week or so:



And if you haven't done so already, go and check out Blueprint's 'Tales Of The Black Glove' team blog over at http://www.blueprintskateboards.com/feature.php?id=113 too.

Have a merry fun weekend troops!

Ray Underhill R.I.P

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-lee-doo-BOO!!!

The end of an era.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7526290.stm

7 + 1 - 3 X 5.......

92 til infinity

Here's a sequence a shot of Mark '92' Thompson a few years back. It was used in Sidewalk a few years ago, i was stoked.