Push: Lorna Goldfinch

Painting DIY spaces, skating through your 40s, the importance of slappies, and dam busting in New Zealand with Lorna Goldfinch. Originally printed in Issue 15!

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Push: Lorna Goldfinch

Painting DIY spaces, skating through your 40s, the importance of slappies, and dam busting in New Zealand with Lorna Goldfinch. Originally printed in Issue 15!

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📆MAY ‘24📆
The Year in Review.
Swipe through here 👉 for some Insta highlights from May, when Spring picked up pace resulting in @dadlandscarpark taking over @rollersnakesshopderby for the third time, @keeprolling_co and @citymillskate brought the hype to East London, we released @slew_den’s ‘Twenty F**king Years of @gnargore’ video, @thatkellikat gave us a rundown of @thepioneerclubskatepark’s mammoth history, @dominic_marley unveiled his photo book Naughty, and plenty more besides!
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@bournbrookdiy clip features @miarbrts @chutzpahclang & @ewenbower
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📖FELIX📖
Felix Owusu-Kwarteng - the roots of the Wildflower - locks into a backside pivot nosegrab at the (now sadly departed) Derrics DIY, Huddersfield, as printed in Issue 16 📚 Pick up a copy of Issue 16 now, available from newsagents, skate shops and skateparks nationwide, or order yours online via the link in our bio!
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📆APRIL ‘24📆
The Year in Review.
An Insta look back at April this year, where we released issue 14 with Jake Snelling on the cover, joined @vans_europe to wear test the AVE 2.0 at @downside_diy, checked out the all new @tr7skatepark, Kerr Melville went to @thehighlandhideout for the first Halfpipe Hero game of SKATE, we released @deathskateboards latest video ‘13’, and plenty more besides! Swipe through here 👉 for some highlights.
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AVE2.0 clip featuring @tom_delion @daryl.d0minguez @manhead @realbadtime @cass_son & @ajago22
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📆MARCH ‘24📆
The Year in Review.
Swipe through here 👉 for an Insta overview of March this year, when the injury plagued Scots invaded Manchester, Tim Smith and the Huddersfield crew sought refuge at an indoor TF in Bradford, and Dean Greensmith made a flying visit to Peckham!
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🎄COPELANDS🎄
Friday and Saturday saw the good folks at @copelands_sp properly embracing the looming Christmas proceedings with their 2024 Festive Jam. Across Friday and Saturday there was a festive tombola, live music, lessons and socials, alongside various skate comps, which Stuart Clapp was present to document! Have a swipe through here 👉 for some Yuletide highlights from Peckham…
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📆FEB ‘24📆
The Year in Review.
A look back at February this year, a month where we released @christophermemery’s latest full-length ‘Just Drifting’ alongside Dead Dave raw files from Baghead Crew and ‘Take the Edge Off’ with the @skateboardgb crew in California, visited @pittstskatepark for @keendist’s Industry Invitational, and dropped by Hereford to check out the new @betongpark_ltd built extension. Swipe through here 👉 for an assortment of Instagram posted highlights!
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Hereford edit features @jeffruffell @blendumb @benbroyd & @jrtwoodley, Lola Curtis clip filmed by @conniegascoyne, all other skaters, photographers and filmers tagged on each slide!
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📆JAN ‘24📆
The Year in Review.
Winding the Instagram clock back to the start of the year, have a swipe through here 👉 for some highlights that were posted in January, a month where Issue 13 was released, with Dale Starkie on the cover, Lilly Strachan and Alex Hallford sought refuge indoors, we dropped by Bournbrook DIY for a pre-Just Drifting premiere session, and plenty more besides!
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Bournbrook clip features: @blendumb @seeyouenntea @bambi_price @miarbrts @darbygough @rob_whiston @jono_coote @yung.mongo & @krisvile
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📖DEAD DAVE📖
The great deceased @deaddave_ travels across a DIY channel via the lesser-spotted one foot Greyslide, as seen in the @heroinskateboards ‘Bilbao Blex’ article for issue 16, penned by @blendumb 📚 Grab a copy of issue 16 now, available nationwide from independent newsagents, high street and travel branches of WH Smith, your local skate shop and skatepark, or order a copy online via the link in our bio!
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📸 @taylor___ballard
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@lornastration:
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“It’s like finding a backyard pool: you might spend three hours emptying it to skate it for half an hour before the sun goes down and it gets slippery again. But that, to me, is worth a million times going to the skate park. It’s the whole shared experience you have, with a few select other people, to create something weird and special, and say ‘I can’t believe this is my life.’”
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Lorna Goldfinch and Jessica Holland discuss painting DIY spaces, skating through your 40s, the importance of slappies, and dam busting in New Zealand, for Lorna’s Issue 15 Push interview. If you missed this one in print, it’s just gone LIVE on the site, so go read and get properly inspired - link in our story!
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✍️ @_____j.h._____
📸 @sharphoto
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📖JIRI📖
Rad dad twice over Jiri ‘Our Kid’ Bulin - @i_usedtoskate - aims for the lens as he squeezes a contorted Spanish grind past an imposing Mancunian tree, as printed in Issue 16’s Broadcasts gallery 📚Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or order your copy via the link in our bio!
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📸 @reeceleung
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📸TWO$EXYTWO📸
Swipe through here 👉 for a selection of photography gathered throughout the filming of @twobit_skate_co’s latest Bristolian iPhone masterpiece TWO$EXYTWO, which is still waiting to be enjoyed in full over on the site!
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📸 @lee_fade_raw @tomdleigh
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📍OXFORD CIRCUS📍
Highlights from the grand opening of Vans West End last night, with @jthaxx_hys @sequeltheprequel @ilkarogers @albieedmonds @leoturnerrrr @hugowretling @ajago22 @minckia @benbroyd and @baz_dan giving the travertine setup its first public seeing to.
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📖LOUIS📖
When the spots are as plentiful as they are in Cambridge, sometimes you’ve got to take matters k to your own hands. Makeshift wallie into downhill treachery, taken from Louis Nixon’s Issue 16 Push interview, conducted by Ted Meyer Sonin 📚 Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or order a copy online via the link in our bio!
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📸 @charlie.foulkes @c.e.foulkes
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@betongpark_ltd’s very own site foreman Felix Parker - @felixenstein - crailblocks in Horsham, taken from Issue 15s Betongpark ‘Manufacture’ article 📚 Limited copies of Issue 15 remain on our online store - get yours whilst you can!
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📸 @alx_irv_photo
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📖THAT WAS THEN📖
Up on the site now is the full Issue 15 article That Was Then: The Iconic Images of @readanddestroy, featuring written contributions from @timlb @bod.boyle @scienceversuslife @stevedouglascfc1 @samuelashley @mike_john_shoots @beeps1973 @felixthepelix @mikemanzoori @nickzorlac @seangoff_toddtwist @ericdressen @johncardiel & @geoffrowley, talking about the legendary photography the graced RAD’s pages and helped inspire a whole generation (and beyond)! Swipe through here 👉 for a few of the classic selections on offer, then go dive into the full piece for the rest - link in our story…
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📸 @timlb & @mike_john_shoots
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📖GABRIEL📖
Gabriel Alexandre - @g_4lexandre - charges into London’s Square Mile with backside 180 fakie 5-0 revert into the road, as printed in Issue 16’s Broadcasts photo gallery 📚Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or grab a copy online via the link in our bio!
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👑ALICE👑
A look back through the Alice Smith archives: 2021 - 2023.
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📼TWO$EXYTWO📼
Live on the site now is TWO$EXYTWO, the latest iPhone masterpiece from Bristol’s resident (largely) mid-30s @twobit_skate_co crew! Enjoy some highlights here then go enjoy the full 30-minute video to witness three years worth of road trips, stunts, laughs, largs and all the rest…!
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📹 @balallday @russ_heideman @twobit_skate_co
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📖CHRIS📖
Battle in East Sussex is named after, and contains the site of, the Battle of Hastings. It’s also where, 958 years later, Chris Collins found and conquered this no-margin-for-error 5050, taken from Chris’ Issue 16 Push interview 📚 Swipe for the footage, featured in the excellent Debris by Tom Pickard which was released by @greyskatemag earlier this month. Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or order a copy online via the link in our bio!
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Taking flight on a summer’s afternoon, Tom Rosedale - @trosesale - spins a residential backside 360 off of a traditionally janky West Country wall, as printed in Issue 15 📚
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📸 @yo.where.this
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🎉🐊MACKEY🐊🎉
Highlights from @epmdave’s 50th birthday lock-in at @spitandsawdustskatepark on Sunday evening. Swipe 👉 for more!
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📸 @sharphoto
📹 @ryan_m_gray
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📖SOL📖
@sol.dhariwal takes some artwork of his own creation for a fakie 5-0 at the @lovenskate HQ, taken from Sol’s Issue 16 Push interview, conducted by @locktomlock 📚 Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or order a copy online via the link in our bio!
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📸 @_humanshit
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📖AMANDA📖
A match made in the Midlands. Coventry’s beloved dish comes into contact with @destroyedbrains’ impeccable frontside layback, as printed in Issue 16 📚 Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, or order your copy via the link in our bio!
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📸 @rob_whiston
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WE HEART WOODLEY
Assorted @jrtwoodley clips from recent times…
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📹 @ryan_m_gray
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📕DRAWING BOARDS📕
Adam McEvoy takes you on a guided tour of the hot-off-the-press Drawing Boards book, covering 20 years of inspired, thought provoking, and often amusing graphics! Head to the site now to read our exclusive interview with Adam about the 88-page, hard backed book, and get a taste of the printed radness that awaits - link in our story.
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📸 @simon_bernacki
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🇲🇾📖JAKE📖🇲🇾
A pig on a pipe in a pipe in Penang. Jake Collins - @collinsboss93 - frontside 5050s for Not That Hot, the Issue 16 article covering @cardiffskateboardclub’s mission to Malaysia to visit @don.1rfan and the @cabhardware crew 📚 Issue 16 is available nationwide right now, from 450 independent newsagents, high street and travel branches of WH Smith, your local skate shop and skatepark (for free), or order a copy online via the link in our bio!
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📸 @thisisdieselmike
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Push: Lorna Goldfinch

Painting DIY spaces, skating through your 40s, slappies, and dam busting in New Zealand with Lorna Goldfinch. Originally printed in Issue 15

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