Lewis Marnell at 1:53. well done Lewis!!!
Just another wonderful summer day!
Today me & Erik went to Eskilstuna to visit Micke Mupp & his crew. Check out the video to see what we have been upp to!!
WE MISS YOU KRISTIAN!!!
Look what i found this morning. Lets go skate!!!
Today we did a little trip to the new concrete park in norrköping it was really fun. chek out the clip!
I know that you have probably seen this before? But its midsummer and i think all of you need help to decide what kind of wine you are going to drink to night!
Bengt Frithiofsson is here to help you...
Today has been a really great day! it has fnally stopped raining so we have been out skating the whole day. check out the clip...
No explanation needed!
Joel Svärd won read between the lines contest this weekend! Well done joel we are proud of you...
Today i skated Vilda vanadis with Filiip and Kalle, that spot is very hard to skate but they killed the place! check out the video...
The past two days me and Love have been filming a lot with my blog cam, here is the result!
Heres the last photos from prag click at the food to see them. Enjoi...
Here some more Photos from prag, click at the bohemian to see them! Prag video comming soon
Jerry Fowler is back! He has always been one my favorite skater even though i havent seen any footage from him since the early 2000.. Heres a new clip of him and jahmal williams, and he is
still as stiff and stylish as he used to be!
Now im back from prag and it has been a really good trip with aloot of pranks, food, skating, and ice hockey . Click at the beer to se the first photos. Video and more photos comming soon!
Tommow Im going to a place where the beer flows like wine, im talking about a little place called Prag!!! I will update with photos and videos as often as i can.
We had a really funny session in humlan last thursday check it out!
Heres a little video from yesterday, Muff!!!
Its hammertime!!!
Foppa has been in stockholm this weekend, and ofcourse he did some crazy manoeuvers in front of my blogcam. check it out!
The past three days me and Youk have been searching all over stockholm for new spots but we haven't found anything, so yesterday we ended up skating this good old pool for hours!
Aversta photos! Click at the picture of martin in the bathtub to see them...
Today i have been at avesta concrete park With Isak strömming and his crew. It has been a great day, Bbq and alot of skate me and david also had a quick session in humlegården when we got back to stockholm.
It has been a great day today! Sometimes its easy to get stuck in humlan, but today we have been skating all over stockholm. And ofcourse i brought my blogcam!
Heres a clip fom the past days!
Spring is finally here!!!
Monday & the sun is shining! Totte geeeeer Järnet...
Humlan big high (stora höga),
Mört!
Today i went for a walk in the sun, and i found something that made me really happy, this wonderful text is written on the ground at drottning gatan in stockholm!!!
My girlfriend Miranda & my friend Mark organized a surprise party for me on my birthday. Click at the cake to see some photos from the party! Thanks alot to everybody who was there!
Today its my Birthday, Happy birthday to me!!
Good evening its friday again! Lets celebrate that with one of the best youtube clip ever...
Heres a clip from fishuset again. Hopefully next videoclip will be outdoor. Spring is almost here!!!
Heres a little snowboard clip from hammarbybacken & sälen, sorry for the bad filming Erik didn't bring his filmerboard!
I have been in sälen this weekend click at the photo to see some photos!
Heres a little clip from yesterday with the double ripping sandwich! Sandwich nr 2 actually broke his board with his as yesterday but i didnt get that on film!
Me and herr Nilsson had a quick vert session today! Kalle stropp!
J-O?
Good morning! Guess whos now a member on youknuub? Here a clip of Herr nilsson eating plywood in the refrigerator!
Achtung i afton! Im back from mallorca and i had a real good time there! Today i have been out snowboarding in hammarbybacken, some snowboard clips are comming soon!
More mallorca pics! Click at the riddarbiff to see pothos!
Mallorca is great! click the beer photo to see some photos!
Im going to Mallorca tomorrow with the adidas sweden team. But dont worry im going to bring my laptop and blog almost every day!
Watch out for this guy on the roads!
Legal spread!!! well done Filip.
I know that everybody has been waiting alot for the new indoor video! And it seems like im the only one who knows how this website works, I hacked Martins computor and stole the video. click at the picture of Ola to see it all. JIPPI!!!
Morn morn Stenmark! In september last year me Love and Youk went to soumi to film and shoot some photos with deeli from kingpin, but i ended to be the photographer instead! Enis fazilov Noseslide HYVÄÄ!!!
Sunday's can be really sad and boring sometimes! check out this videopart and you will be happy again!
Good morning, morning log lovers! This is the intro and John mcmillens part from the P.U.S.S.Y video! Kebab med makaroner!!!
Millencolin open Photos! Click at Pat channita to se the photos.
Sorry for being lazy with the updates. Photos from millencolin open comming soon!
Its millencolin open this weekend so next update will be on sunday or monday i guess! Tonight im going to the älgen workshop premiere and im really looking forward to see Hans lindgrens part! Hanz gamle bandit!!!
MÖRT ON TALLIN!
A couple of weeks ago me and Måns (lembit) ericsson went to Tallin to celebrate that it has been more then ten years since the great movie Torsk på tallin was made! Here`s some photos from the trip enjoi!!
This is the full story of Sickan and little Nisse! I actually had a dog called Sickan back in the days.
Good morning Mondayfog! only 5 days until mc open starts! while you are waiting for that you can have a look at this photo. Kimmen is following the trend and spread his legs!
Good evening bloggbögar! Today its sunday and im happy!
Tomorrow im going to fryshuset to practise my faceplants in the vert ramp!
Backside smithgrind is a very stylish trick! But when the old stylish backsmith is getting replaced by fucking robots then i get scared, Really scared!
At last I have uploaded the pictures from gothenburg. Klick the piq below for extra everything.
I have been in gothenburg this weekend with Ola löwbiff, Jonas sohn, Jonas lindhal and Sebbe nyberg aka riddarbiffen. Im going to upload my photos from this weekend tomorrow, but i give you a little cliffhanger right now!
Good evening and welcome to my Morning Log! Let's start with a trick I just invented. Big thanks to Lillis for the inspiration!
Our buddy Øyvind Aspen, creator of The Neighbours videohas a new website with clips, art and photos for you to check out, click photo above or THIS link, and do not miss the clip of Aspen walking around at night!
//Love
For those who missed the paper version... HERE´s the web version.
Army of darkness
Erik Abrahamsson spent part of this winter filming a videoclip for the GIFTORM website, featured Bellows riders are Sarah, Mika and Love. Click HERE to watch.
Mika En route to the READ BETWEEN THE LINES contest in Malmö.
Cover-Meurle
That's right, Sarah's all over the place. From Brazilian TV to British actionsports mag Cooler. Don't know much Portuguese and haven't seen the magazine in real life but I bet it's all good.
//Martin
Invite-Ingemar on video
Snowboard legend, frontfoot impossible expert and Bellows invite-artist Ingemar Backman featured in a little summer flick made by Christofer Thelin. Well shot stuff of Ingo skating Göteborg together with GBG-legend Daniel Blasko. Gott potatismos! //Martin
Read between the lines 09! Click IT for more info.
//Love
Love is so interviewed!
If you want to see what Wheelie Wonka-Eneroth is really up to in this sequence you are recommended to go out and buy the new issue of Kingpin. 14 whole pages dedicated to our favorite little sucking pig. Yes, that's spädgris in English.
Want a free trip to CAMP WeSC?
Click the golden ticket for info (only in Swedish, sorry)
//Love
WELCOME JOEL!
Well it's past midnight and we are so proud to have JOEL SVÄRD on the team! Check out his introduction to the right and keep your blue ones peeled for lots more Joel action in the future. The clip was filmed and edited by Isak Lindberg - great work both you guys!
THE BRAND NEW BELLOWS RIDER
Will be unlocked to the right of this column at midnight tomorrow Saturday 18th. Don't touch that dial!
Back in biz
Been a whie since my last update, sorry ´bout that, haven´t had an internet connection for the past 2 weeks that´s why. Thought i´d get back into it by posting two polaroids that i found the other day. They´re from when i lived in Lyon and are portraying Antoine Bellini and Hugo Liard, click HERE for the photos.
ALSO, a new teamrider will be announced any day now (along with a video clip of course)
Cheers
//Love
Kristian Bomholt RIP.
Our thoughts go to the Bomholt family. We will miss you Kristian.
//Bellows
SX70
While in Mallorca I got ahold of a pack of expired SX70 film for my camera, the result came out funky to say the least, check em´ HERE.
Oh yeah, if you missed our new T-shirts you can check them out right HERE.
//Love
Back from Mallorca...
Back home again. The trip has been a blast. Our car was never stolen, only moved a few streets because we had blocked a constructtion site or something. Last two days kind of rained away but all in all it was super. Thanks Måns and Sebbe at Adidas!
Clikck HERE for some photos and HERE for a clip that Martin posted on his blog.
//Love
Turn of events...
The trip has been super good so far, but yesterday Ricky broke his elbow and this morning we came down to an empty parking spot. Hopefully the car´s only towed, we´re trying to figure it out... Anyway, HERE´S a little clip from the good ol´days (a few days ago)
//Love
FREEZETRIED III IS HERE TOO!
Same progressive 80's pop, same street course, same team. Pretty much! Check out our annual dust-breather next to this column. Thanks again to the staff at Stockholm Skatepark for letting us sneak in.
//Martin
NEW BOARDS ARE HERE!
We are very happy to annonce that our new board series arrived a week ago and is now up on the site for you to watch. Don´t miss to scroll down for Ingemar Backmans Invite board... We will do a little feature on Ingemar soon. Click HERE for the boards!
//Love
Even more Sarah news!
Check out Sarah´s photos from last summers Camp WeSC over at Defekt. Click the little squares under the photo for the next one...(too much info?)
I don't know if it was the papparazzi-pressure after the Millencolin Open-triumph and release of her video part, but last week Sarah bolted off to Brazil without a word of warning. But have no fear Sarah fanatics of the world, just check out her most professional blogging at http://saraheeler.blogspot.com/. Right now it seems like she's stranded on a (giggles) beach, out of web-bounds but she has promised to continue the updating on Wednesday.
//Martin
Sarah's introductory video part
Sarah's been on Bellows for some time now, but it's taken us a while to get her welcome-clip toghether. But here it is, everybody, right to the right of this column. Hope you like it as much as we do. Beanies off to Thomas Winkle for most of the filming.
//Martin
Jonas Sohn handled filming duties at the park today, when Martin saw the CLIP he said it should be called "Off With His Head!".
Due to tired legs and general fatigue, last day in Dubai was spent snorkeling at Snoopy Island, not bad at all. Oh yeah, we found a ditch on the way home too... Click HERE for the clip. Some photos tomorrow.
//Love
DUBAI BY NIGHT!
I´ve given up on trying to upload photos... Clips seems to work fine though so here´s another one. Since we´re getting kicked out exactly everywhere by day, we started going out by night instead, works pretty good.
Some more practicing. really good part! (klara spinen)
Just practicing my blogging. check this out!
//Mika
Boots and Ebbots!!
We saw Soundtrack of our lives consert at Circus the other day, it was great! I used my camera there, get booted for photoaction!!!
//Johan
More Dubai!
Well, the internet connection is still to slow to upload photos so instead i filmed som complete RANDOMNESS. We´ve been doing day trips to Abu Dhabi these past few days due to the kick-out factor in Dubai. We pretty much only skated one spot with out getting kicked out in Dubai so far while Abu Dhabi is more mellow.
Martin and Mika went to Frankfurt for the Bright tradeshow while Love went to Dubai with the Malmö boys. The internet connection is way to slow to upload videos at the momentso a photo will have to do. Hopefully some videos tomorrow.
//Johan
DUBAI post #1
Martin and Mika went to Frankfurt for the Bright tradeshow while I went to Dubai with the Malmö boys. The internet connection is way to slow to upload photos at the moment so a short clip will have to do. Hopefully some photos tomorrow.
Another stolen post from Martin´s Blogg Skatefeber.
Since they were changing lights in the street area at the skatepark we were forced to skate the miniramp... Not that there is anything wrong with that. Click HERE for the clip.
//Love
The Scrum Tilly Lush!
The Scrum Tilly Lush is done so don´t miss the premiere if you are in the Stockholm area this Friday. Click HERE for flyer and info, and HERE for the teaser.
//Love
THE T-SHIRT STORE !
Check out this Polaroid tribute design of mine that just came out at the TSHIRTSTORE
10 minutes from the very bottom of the Bellows cauldron
Before we release the beasts of 2009 I thought we'd better finnish off the remains of years past. Watch Johan battle the manny demons, Mika boardercrossing, Ola wiggling his thumb and Love wall jamming. Also appearing is Andreas Engelkes with a long over due birthday present for Jonas Sohn, Kimmen Edin going long distance in Prague, Gabeeb Engelke doing Oslo SF style and Lars Spets smithing my favourite swimming spot. Gott nytt år everybody!
Click the piq! //Martin
Merry X-MAS!
Our buddy Joel Svärd filmed a little something with his new camera while we were skating the indoor park in my hometown, probably no more updates until after the hollidays, or maybe... Who knows? Click Santa or HERE.
//Love
Leftover leftover
This clip was accidentally left out of the Bellows in Finland clip which meens it´s a leftover from the leftovers :) (is this the first use of a smiley face on this site?)
Short on time today, so THIS is all at the moment...
//Love
11 minutes of video!
Apparently my work with Skatefeber hasn't improved my blogging here at Bellows much. But luckily we are of a Lutheran heritage up here in northern Europe which means we are born with a bad conscience for not working enough. Thus I opened up an old shoe box of DV-tapes yesterday, grabbed a handfull of tapes, looked them through and made a little something from the best parts. Kind of pyttipannafilm if you know what I mean? Check out Love - The Vulcanized Scorpion, The French Water Terrorists and some skateboard moves in 'Low and Behold'.
//Martin
BCN DAY 3!
A few Polaroids is all i got photo-wise today. CLICK IT
Got Blogged over at Paul´s again and since we´re in a blog war, i´ll try to get him back tomorrow. HERE´S his post from this morning.
PS: just trying to see how short i can make these things...
Ante of Swedun and Madison sent me THIS so go register, the whole world is invited!
Another Mika update.
No photo this time though... a weird tailslide instead.
//Love
Ass time goes by
Mika is a true poet who knows how to look at the world from unlikely angles. When he looked at this photo that Magnus Gyllenberg just shot of him in the Stockholm Skatepark vert ramp his first comment was "Wow, nice butt shot, Mange".
MALMÖ RIPPER SARAH MEURLE IS OUR NEW TEAMRIDER. Stay tuned for a full profile. Meanwhile, have a look at these PHOTOS she sent us from Barcelona where she has spent the past six weeks.
Halloween special!
This weekend held the third Halloween contest at the skatepark, loads of great costumes, click the photo for just a few of them. We´ll link the footage from Tacky.se when it´s up.
Flow kiddo!
Meet David Stenström who just got on flow for us, and don´t miss the clip of of him here on your right.
Click the piq to see what devilish thing my girlfriend's mom got to raise the temperature in her country house. She assured me that no souls where involved in the transaction.
//Martin
Captain curtain.
Martin went into surgery to remove a dinosaur bone in his heel along with some messed-up cartilage that needed to go early this morning. Since he won´t be skating for a few months after the surgery he wanted to film a little something something, so click the photo or the link right HERE for the goodies.
//Love
20 years deep... first noseblunt. Click da photo!
Constant guest in Kingpin!
Check out Rickys "Where´s your head at" article from Kingpin, now updated with some more photos.
//Love
Vote
A bunch of people, teams and videos to vote for right HERE, no pressure from our side...
That's right, the six week old father makes his first update just to let everyone know that the new family is having a blast; pooping, puking, wiping and rocking all around the clock. Since everyone is naming their kids Love these days, Ola would get delusions of grandeur and Johan wouldn't like the pressure, we decided to name the little pearl MIKA! About skateboarding in fatherhood, the tricks feel pretty much the same but the lines seem slightly altered.
Got some help from Deeli with an update over at Kingpin once more. Big day tomorrow as Mika will premiere as a blogger and do his first update on this sight.
Since i´m one day behind on the bloggin´, This link will take you to yesterdays photos including a cliffhanger for tomorrows post.
//Love
Hel day 2!
I know i said i was going to update everyday but i´ve been working on the new series so i´m one day late right now. Deeli helped me out by posting a little something from yesterday on his Kingpin blog.
Oh, yeah, Mika arrived today...
More to come tomorrow.
//Love
Off to Helsinki!
Erik Abrahamsson and I left for Helsinki this morning. Gonna try to update every day if i can. Not much happened the first day since we got up way to early... Click the plane for photos.
//Love
Last day of filming!
So, Mr Evans has been here for three days and is off to the next filming destination early tomorrow morning. Last session photos.
Since last time ended like this after only one day... Philip Evans came back to get some more footy for his Super 8 video The Scrum Tilly Lush. Some Photos from day 1
//Love
Skate.nu posted the minirampage clip from the other day. They post new clips everyday. They are also holding a photocontest (For all the Swedish viewers)together with Giftorm. Check the link for info.
//Love
Oslo bowl comp!
Mika, Ricky and I went to Oslo over the weekend for the WeSC bowl comp, click Mika´s keyhole photo...
//Love
JUAN LA TORRE Y JOSÉ "PALI" NEGRIN RAMOS!
Muchas gracias por la regalos. Nos vemos este invierno amigos!
//Love
Two ramps in three days!
There are two really good indoor ramps located in Solna (part of Stockholm). Check out some photos and a little clip right HERE.
//Love
The Scrum Tilly Lush.
Check out the teaser for Philip Evans´ film due out this winter. It´s entitled The Scrum Tilly Lush and is shot entirely on Super 8.
Also, check out Martin Ander´s newly updated website mander.nu
//Love
Inbetweener!!
Before heading to Malaga I had a pitstop in Stockholm. I sat Martin behind the digicam and did my best in front of it. If you want the result of our teamwork go for fishing Hans Lindgren.
A whole bunch of people went to Trollywood for this years Junkfest. Get the full story by clicking the THE (the photo works too)
//Love
CELLPHONOLA!
So, the clip is here. About 2 years ago I filmed some clips using THIS cellphone that i had at the time, thinking i would make a little cellphone video. Needless to say i forgot all about it when i got a new phone. I found those clips about a week ago and voila, a fun Ola and Ricky part with a few clips of Stefan Toth, Dan Emanuelsson, Mika, Mr. Florell, Eniz Fazilov, Casper Plass and Joel Svärd as a mix part in between.
Click Mr. Sky Pilot for some photos and a short Q&A
What the...? You can click the photo if you want.
Just got news from Web champ, he says his internet is fully operational again which means that the little video clip I was talking about the other day will be up in the morning.
//Love
Sky pilot.
I just received a text from Mika saying -I just jumped out of an airplane from 4000 meters!
I´ll try to get the full story along with some photos tonight.
//Love
Breaking news from Ola!
Since a few days ago, Ola is now riding for Adidas Skateboarding. So from now on he will be getting his shoes from this LION disguising as a leopard.
Another thing, as soon as our web-champ Andreas´internet connection is back functioning(hopefully friday), i will post a clip with Ola and Ricky Sandström plus a few others. But more about that later...
//Love
New Family member!
Big Congratulations to Head of ideology Martin and Lotta who became proud parents of a baby boy yesterday.
Camp WeSC podcast!
Check out Transitions Podcast from the WeSC camp featuring a few Bellowsers and a few others. All you have to do is click THIS link, choose the Camp WeSC episode(which is the first one) and click the button that looks like this .
VOILA!
Mulliga Malaga
Reporting here from "Mulliga Malaga using the connection from a terrific internet cafe(Ironi). Lot's of swedish skaters has resided here in Malaga over the years but now it's thining out. Daniel Spängs, Tobias Eriksson, Philip Leander and Stefan AKA Steke are the ones I know. Maybe there's someone hiding under a rock I dont know but what I do know is that I caught Daniel Spängs with his "classiker" moves. Go for the possie picture to see.
//Johan
SUMMER SUM Yes, it's one of those one-day videos. It's got steam ships, sportsmanship and some skateboarding too. Mika was competing in Norway so we quickly recruited Steve "Stig" Forstner of Antiz Skateboards to stand in for him. Endulge to the right.
//Martin
Last Week was kind of hectic so here´s a bunch of photos covering it all! Click the cars...
//Love
Back In Malaga!!!
That's right I changed Malmös bowlcoping for warmer flatground sessions in Malaga. The normal thing to do in this update would be a clip or photo from Malaga but i'l just stick with another Malmö "flip" so to go there go for the "Tapas".
//Johan
Martin+Koffe+Love+Günes=Confusion on the first (up)date?
Just got home from the the Boutique Fräsh Show where a lot of people exhibited stuff. That was all very well and it made me want to squeezeout a small clip of me doing a trick at the Lord of the Lines contest and two from comicly good Koffe Hallgren at the Bright Tradeshow in Frankfurt. Yes, that old Bright bag was deeper than anyone could imagine. Click trade show heroes Eneroth or Özdogan for the goods. //Martin
Recipe for a Friday update
-Meet Mika at Stockholm Skatepark.
-Enjoy the fact that you've escaped the Swedish monsoon.
-Skate and sweat a few litres (the park got some kind of chronic monsoon going too).
-Film Mika rehabing his injured hip in the quarterpipe (his legs are almost the same lenght again!)
-Go to see an unexpected Buzzcocks gig with your girlfriend and film it.
-Add a moment of Jerry Svensson and mix all ingredients in a big bowl.
-Click the logo below.
//Martin
Just because a day starts out really good dosen´t necessarily mean it has to end that way.
The internet connection at the camp site was not fast enough to upload pics so click the Bloggin´it sign for 2 weeks worth of camp photos. However, most of them are from the weekend between the 2 camps...
//Love
Kingpincovered the camp as well, look out for an article in a coming issue.
Fashion Statement
My buddy Hannes just told me that a kid came up to him the other day and asked him: "WHICH STANCE ARE YOU? GUCCI OR REGULAR?" I laughed for a long time when I heard it. Then I cried a little. //Martin
One-time grill, sunshine and sibbarp( or some other spot).
Is an unbeatable combination, try it!! Me and jugga did that 2 sundays ago and we got some smaussy tricks filmed while enjoing the combo. Actually I lied, we didn't grill that day but I did it the friday after so It was half true. Here's the video Ps We rode our bikes to the park.
//Johan
Driving the Stripes - The End - Extended Version
Finallyhome again, a bit worn down but happy to having cleared all of those miles. Miles that would have have been so much longer if it wasn't for the comic talents of Måns and Sebastian. We're celebrating this with a porky photo and video update that will appear if you just click the image of Gothenburg below.
Driving the Stripes - The Sequel
When you reach Gothenburg you always feel obliged to sum up your trip so here goes something. Since our first update we got to skate with all the happy campers at the WESC camp in Linköping which ruled. We then bolted off towards the west coast, got there and checked in to yet another Scandic hotel that not even Sebastian's I-Pod could fill with soul. Måns promised it's the last hotel of this kind and that the next one will have both a bath tub and a mini bar. Now click the lipslided logo for still and moving pictures.
Driving the Stripes
Only one month since I got my drivers licence and I'm already reaping the rewards of that great but late accomplishment. Thus I have been called in as the designated driver for an Adidas sales trip through the south of Sweden. Me and Adidas super dudes Sebbe and Måns we will enjoy a full week of truckstop food, skateboarding and whatever may come in our way. Adidas is paying for the wifi so expect loads of updates. Click the sticker job below to get to the first one. //Martin
The bumpie ride continues!!!
Yes it's time for flip nr2 and you cannot guess which flip it is. I think you've never seen me do it before NOT!!!(Irony).
//Johan
More wurst anyone?
Well, it was a great weekend to say the least, so please act like a good nephew on Christmas and look through this last batch of photos from our Bright Tradeshow-vacation. Just click the alcohol abuse below. //Martin
During the Bright show, Johan was talking about manly or old men´s backlips, i´m not entirely sure i understand what he was talking about but HERE´S a clip featuring said backlip plus a few other tricks. Oh, there´s also a clip of Julian Dykmans of Antiz in there. //Love
So, we are back from the tradeshow, HERE´S a bunch of photos, more to come tomorrow.
//Love
Bellows Goes To Bitburg
Not really, but at least me, Love and Johan have gone to the Bright Tradeshow in Frankfurt to strut our stuff. For a meaty photo update of our first day click the currywurst below. //Martin
Celebrating new videoplayer with flips.
That's right, I made an account at Vimeo to see if it works better then youtube. My neighbour Martin Ottosson claims it's so. So we celebrate the new player with a BUMPIE KICKFLIP. Hold your eyes open for more flips in the near future. A thank you to Christian "crippual" Sjöberg for filming and Martin Ottosson for sending the clips and recommending vimeo.
CHeers//Johan
There´s a first time for everything.
Our buddy Bemo has been learning the ancient art of tattooing and untill last night never received the chance to practice on anything else than pigskins and oranges, along came Stig to solve his problems. Check it HERE.
//Love
Stig...
Steve Forstner (or "Stig" as we call him while he is in Sweden) of Antiz skateboards is in town for a visit, i promised an update with him so HERE´S som assorted photos from this past weekend, more to come tomorrow.
//Love
Kingpin!
Go pick up the lastest issue of Kingpin to find out where Mikas head is at.
Also, Steve Forstner is in town so there´ll most definitely be an update with him within the next few days.
//Love
Don´t miss THIS if you are in Stockholm this weekend...
I´m pretty sure it´s from the midsummers party this past weekend, have a looksie.
//Love
Mika lineage!
Mika is all about having fun, HERE´S a little display from the other day. Notice the widescreen effect... have no idea how that happened.
//Love
Go skateboarding day!!
The official skateday was celebrated last saturday. Me, Ottosson headed to Sibbarp were we hooked up with a few others, there we did some grilling on the "one time" grill, played football and of course we got some skating done. Here's photos from the "SKateday" but I'm sorry to say that I didn't manage to get any skatephoto, hehe.
//Johan
The replay of last years greatness.
I don't know if Martin&Co celebrated this years midsummer skating but they sure did last year. If you remember Martin made a video from that day called "A midsummer night's stream". Go for the pizzaphoto to see it.
//Johan
Raining cats and dogs!
Some random photos taken while seeking shelter from the rain. CLICK IT
//Love
Bowlriders weekend
Bellows had one rider representing, it was Mika who entered. Mika ripped the park so good that he placed 2nd in the qualification, alot of people including me where impressed of how good he cruised it. Rune Glifberg won the whole shit and there where free beers in the Vip area. Here's a video clip when me and Mika skated the park in Sibbarp and some photos from this weekend.
//Johan
The HI is back
Just wanted to let any worried souls out there know that I'm back from my Malta vacation. The little mediterranean piece of rock was a really nice one and on top of all the sun and snorkeling I also got my first jellyfish sting, it felt like a good lash of a brännässla, right in my arm pit. By the way, since me and my girlfriend moved to a new apartment a while ago, I still don't have any internet access of my own so I'm making this update guerilla style, out in the hallway from someone elses wifi and believe me, sitting here is a good way to get to know my new neighbours. Sadly it will be another couple of weeks before I can get back to some real updating business again, but perhaps I can squize some boring Malta photos in here soon. //Martin
The scissors is back
Hello there, this weekend bowlriders comp is breaking loose in malmö and hopefully the weather will be on our side. Mika is in town, it's really nice to see him cause it's been a while since last, I took him around the city and if you go for the slice you can see photos and that I am competing with "Baboon" in whos the "scissors master".
//Johan
Soccer fever!
So, today was the first Swedish game in the European Championships and we won.
We had a little gathering to watch the game at the Swedish Skate Distribution office(which from now on will be refered to as just OFFICE). Click HERE for a study of a soccer game viewing.
//Love
Behind the scenes special + a polaroid!
THIS is how the Plank A´lla NssonAD happened and HERE´s a polaroid with a little story that goes with it
//Love
2 things today.
Mika is backa from Berlin. You can watch the comp and a short interview with Mika by clicking this HERE link(scroll to the bottom of the page for the street comp).
Deeli was here to shoot some more photos for Kingpin this weekend. He brought two rippers fom Finand with him, Eniz Fazilov and Samu Karvonen. Due to a heatstroke I only remembered to bring my camera on the last day so THESE are the only photos i got.
//Love
Adidas Skateboard Clash IV.
Mika will be going to the Adidas contest in Berlin this weekend. Kingpin will have a Live Webcast where you can follow the contest. Check this countdown link for info on when it starts.
//Love
Mikas first coverage!
Mika sent me his first published photo, check it out HERE.
//Love
Random piging and Girlskatecamp!
I invited Björn "Bönne" Tjernberg over for fotball and pizza. It was piggy as always, here's photo proof. I you want more info about the girlskatecamp held in Malmö this summer click here. //Johan
A Day With Giftorm - The Clip
If you're gonna skate with snakes you've got to stay low. Here's our day with Nicke in the moving pixels version, embeded from the Giftorm site. Down it or sip it!
A day with Giftorm.
Nicke Svensson wanted to film "a day with Bellows" for the Giftorm website, which will be up sometime tomorrow. So we figured why not post a behind the scenes update for it here on our site? You´ll find a few priceless filming poses and a short teaser right HERE.
We´ll post the link to the actual clip when it´s up.
//Love
Lot's of Stapelbäddsparken right now, it's a good park so why not. Here's the story of the Hurricane!!!!!!
//Johan
More tee's
Click here to examine Love's latest design for WeSC. There's so much hidden meaning in that print it kind of scares me.
New T-shirts are here!
Don´t miss the Martin-madeLast night tee and the new logo tee, THIS is what they look like.
Exhibiton time.
Olle Andersson put together an exhibition called Hinder that started this past friday and will continue til june 15th, go check it out if you have the opportunity. Only two photos from the actual exhibition plus a few from when the obstacles were beeing built made it out of there, go check em´ HERE
Don't Ola It a Comeback!
Today was Ola's first day of skating since his knee surgery. He said it felt alright so I took the opportunity to film a few little somethings of Björkagen's Baddezt.//Martin
NEW "INVITE" INTERVIEW!
Fredrik Forslind, our new "Invite" artist has been interviewed. Go check it HERE.
//Love
STAPEL VIDEO
I am really sorry to say that due to the perfect wheather we have here in Malmö I have been able to make a Stapelvideo. ALso try to get a copy of todays Metro cause Mika is in it
//Johan
DUCKBARDS VIDEO
About two weeks ago me, Mika and Love hooked up with Simon Stenborg and Mika's brother Kimmen and headed to Prague for a week of pilzner, poultry and skateboarding. Here's a clip filmed with my digi cam and yes, it is a tribute to one of the best skateboard videos ever made.
//Martin
NEW BOARDS ARE HERE!
Check the new series HERE and don´t miss the Bellows/WeSC COLLAB DECKS by scrolling down. In stores any day now.
Prauge 2, the sequel
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" inEnglish. 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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