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Dylan Rieder - Shred In Peace

So, cancer’s a cunt! Dylan Rieder, 28 died on Wednesday after a battle with leukemia. That fucking sucks! 28 years old, style for miles and a fucking cool dude, gone before his prime. Dylan fucking killed the skate game for so long and it’s such a shame to wake up to such shitty news.

Dylan developed a style of skateboarding that is still popular to this day, not many people can say that and whether you like the style he created or not, it’s a pretty fucking cool style of skating. He had huge pop, a deep bag of tricks, a load of white vests and enough black nail polish to make any goth jealous.

He will be remembered for a very long time, even if it’s just for swearing at Street League every time the camera was on him, I found that funny as fuck! Seriously, though, you skated with a style and grace that many have tried to copy but no one can do it as good as you did it.

He did it his way and the world either hated or loved him for it. Whatever your opinion of his skate style was, I think we can all agree that cancer is a fucking cunt! Thank you, Dylan Rieder for killing the game and giving it something new, you will be missed! Shred In Peace! - Scott Partington

This piece was originally posted on https://goneskatingblog.com/

Brian Anderson is gay and why it matters

"Hearing faggot all the time, made me think at a young age, that it was really dangerous to talk about it." - Brian Anderson

Last week VICE Sports released a video titled; 'Brian Anderson on Being a Gay Professional Skateboarder', in the moments and days that followed my Instagram feed was awash of people posting screenshots and praising BA for coming out. I'll be honest I had mixed feelings; not about Brian Anderson being gay, but more the reaction from the wider community of skateboarding.

For a start, I thought we (skateboarding) already knew he was gay, if you watched Pretty Sweet from 2012; Mike Carroll's GAY! t-shirt in BA's section was at least a statement of sorts or at least a hint if you didn't already know. Shit VICE originally wrote about it in 2009! Whether people did or didn't know, my main issue was the fact that its 2016, is someone sexual preference really an issue? It's 2016, do we really care?

When you look at statistics like the 5,597 hate crimes against gays and lesbians in 2014-15, a rise of 22 % on the previous year recorded by the police, even I can see my view is naive. I choose to surround myself with like minded people who aren't prejudice, but cannot be blind to the fact that skateboarding has been full of homophobia:

"There's a lot of homophobia in skateboarding, there's a lot of homophobia in everything. It's not just skateboarding, you know, it's the world." - Mike Carroll

I hope that Brian Anderson coming out, and the wider skate communities wholly positive reaction goes some way to help others feel confident to 'come out', and show others that the culture as a whole has moved on. There isn't room for homophobia in skateboarding, as Jake Phelps says in the video it's about skateboarding, "who gives a fuck if you're gay!"

Set aside some time today and enjoy watching a show of unity and support from skateboarding, for the love of Brian Anderson, for change.

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This was originally posted via http://matlloyd.com

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The Thinking, The Striving, The Breathing

Discipline TM Mat Lloyd is interviewed in the latest episode of a great new podcast called, 'The Thinking, The Striving, The Breathing'. It aims to showcase inspirational personalities (their words not ours) and delve into what drives them. We always assumed with Mat is was coffee and peanut butter, turns out it's not.

The host (Toffy) and Mat discuss careers, skateboarding, smoking, spoken word, inspiration and much more. Listen to Mat say the word 'like' way too much and the host slip in a mum joke, keep your eye out for that one! The podcast is positive and just long enough to listen to on your morning commute.

Listen via iTunes or soundclound, and don't forget to subscribe!

iTunes direct link:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/thinking-striving-breathing/id1132990729

Soundcloud direct link:
https://soundcloud.com/achristofi/002-mat-lloyd

Ginge's Column - Go Hard, or Go Home

Scott 'Ginge' Partington has been part of the Discipline family for years. When he's not on his skateboard he's a widely published freelance writer and avid woodworker. This is his semi/regular column, enjoy.

Well its nearly the weekend, not for you as I am writing this in the past, yes I am a time traveller.

I can not wait to skate this weekend. I have no idea where I am going but I want to have a heavy session. I want to have a session that after its done, you are sore, bloody and smiling.

You know that type of session, when you are on the way home, and all you can do is talk about the session and all the 'what the fuck' moments you just witnessed!When your mates are killing it and you step it up and you all serve up a can of whoop ass to the spot. That's the session I would love to have this weekend, who wants to join me?

This weekend, let's all go hard or go home. It is a mantra that we should all live by, it is this mantra that makes the skate world such a wonder world to live!

A little advice before you ask; Do you sponsor?

I'm always stoked when someone takes the time to contact us direct. And we (Ginge also mans the eMail) are normally pretty swift to respond. Discipline has been going for nearly nine years and our boards have been sent all over the UK, also as far as France and Australia. We are pretty honest and don't hide the fact that we are small, and UK based.

Since we started back in 2007 Discipline has sponsored a small number of riders and have always listed them on our website. We've put out edits and promoted each riders individual projects; Ginge runs Gone Skating Studio, Simon is the drummer for Saving Sebastian and if you've ever spent time with Damian Todd I'm sure he'll tell you the story about that time he did Adele's video...

I suppose this is a round about way to point out that if you're thinking of asking for sponsorship, it's probably best to do your research. I now work for VANS but previously I worked at DC, Ive seen plenty of sponsor me emails, letters and even a DV tape sent in the post. I've seen people get flowed, get on the team and simply get sent a box full of product because the edit they sent showed potential. I've also seen people send one line emails saying 'Sponsor me', yep just that, no video links, or pictures or even reasons why you want to ride for 'insert company name here'.

Years ago when I went for my interview at VANS, what do you think I wore? Yep VANS! When I did my presentation to the management, do you think I slipped in a picture of me skating in VANS, damn straight!!! Had I researched the company history despite having worn VANS for years, hell yes, the more info the better!!!

What I'm trying to say is, if you want to get sponsored, don't start your pitch with 'Do you sponsor?' what that says is; you know nothing about the company you want to represent. In regards to Discipline it says, you haven't even checked out the website.

For me a good 'Sponsor Me' email includes videos/photos of the skater repping the brand they want to ride for, this shows that whether sponsored or not, you're really are into it. Otherwise it just looks like a cut and paste from yet another person looking for free shit, rather than supporting the scene.

Check out Transworld Skateboarding 8 Steps to an airtight sponsor me video
For more tongue-in-cheek look at Sponsor Me tapes check out Jenkem

Mat Lloyd

Mat Lloyd is the Team Manager and Genereal Mouth Piece for Discipline Skateboards. He's also a published Poet and Spoken word Artist. Find out more at www.MatLloyd.com

Ginge's Column - Street league we ain't

I have been thinking about this for a while.. The act of training to skate, is quite an odd concept in my opinion because whether you are having fun skating or 'training' you are simply skating. Your mind set may be different during these sessions but what you are doing is the same thing.

I much prefer to have fun while I skate rather than train. I do not try the same trick over and over again daily to perfect the tricks that I can do, I just skate and I am sure that many of you are the same. I am not saying that training is a bad thing, if that's the way you want to skate then have it.

I guess what I am saying is that for me, the fun side of skating is just simply skating. Not driving myself crazy all the time if I don't land bolts on all the kickflips I do in a session. If I land one kickflip bolts a session and have a laugh with my mates, that to me is a Street League gold medal.

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