Check out this edit by Leo Smith of the Motive Skateboards crew sessioning some skateparks, with footage from the likes of Sean Smith, Barney Page, Rob Selley, Dave Snaddon, Dylan Hughes, Jack Edwards and more.

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Check out footage of the finals of the Red Bull Manny Mania, edited by Andy Evans. Features Sean Smith, Ben Rowles, Joe Moore, Tom Shimmin, Craig Smedley, Kris Vile, Tim Prozorov and the eventual winner Paddy McGuire, seriously check how many tricks he lands.

This years final of Manny Mania was held at The Old Truman Brewery, this is the second year Red Bull have run this event alongside King Ramps. For those unfamiliar with how Manny Mania works, each trick or tricks must be linked with a manual for it to count. Things kicked off about 12pm with a jam session open to the public till about 1.30pm, this gave the public a chance to test their skills on the course before the heats kicked off.

For the heats the qualifiers were separated into 5 groups of 4, each group had a 10 minute jam session to impress the judges.

The groups consisted of:

Tim Prozorov, Dan Main, Joe Moore, Kris Vile
Keith Allan, Ben Rowles, Paddy MaGuire
Sean Smith, Ashton Launcherley, Josh Cox, Will Greenfield
Chris Gibbons, Dan Nicholas, Craig Smedley, Steve Sherwood
David Flood, Tom Shimmin, Brian Esmond, Chris Atherton

There was some high standard of skating going down in the heats, despite the fact it was freezing the majority of the skaters nailed some tech tricks to catch the judges eyes. First time I’ve witnessed Tim Prozorov skate and he does have some serious style to him as does Sean Smith although that’s what we would expect from an MK regular, he pulled out some tricks including a sick nose manual – nollie tre out.

After the heats finished there was another jam session to give the public another chance on the course and after the heats I bet they couldn’t wait. It also gave us a chance to get a hot drink and adjust our position to underneath one of the outdoor heaters. By time the finals kicked off again the cold had really kicked in and you had to feel for the skaters trying to stay warm enough to actually land anything.

The finalists were split into two groups consisting of:

Final 1: Kris Vile, Craig Smedley, Tom Shimmin, Paddy McGuire
Final 2: Sean Smith, Ben Rowles, Joe Moore, Tim Prozorov

Each group was given a chance to warm up for 10 minutes before the two final 15 minute jams kicked of. In the first final sadly some of the bigger names seemed to fold and everyone’s attention was focused firmly on the wild card Paddy McGuire from the Ireland qualifier, his style is slightly rough but he tore up the course with some of the more inventive trick combination’s of the day, there’s too much to list but I will mention that he landed a shuv late front foot flip out of a manual. It’s refreshing to see an unknown come and shut down some of the bigger names, gives hope to the rest of us!

When the second final kicked in you could see the cold had caught up to skaters as they started slowly, struggling to land any tricks of note. Eventually Ben and Joe took charge of this final with Ben throwing down some sick hardflip to manuals and Joe brought some tech to the table with a fakie big flip up the step up to manual pop out, you could see how much he wanted it.

When the time came to announce the winner and the runner ups were being announced, everyone had a pretty good idea who the winner was with Paddy being pushed towards the stage before his name was read out. He deserved to win it, he landed the most varied set of tricks on the day and the most amount of tricks overall, well done Paddy.

The final results respectively are:

Paddy (£2000), Ben (£1000), Joe (£500), Sean(Setup), Kris, Tom, Craig, Tim.

Red Bull put on a great event and King Ramps built a brilliant course, shame about the judges placement though as they did count a fair few horribly scraped manuals which were obstructed from their view, but we’ll let them off. The event would have been so much better indoors as the skater did suffer, although the event benefited from the public popping down to see what all the noise was. The Etnies shoe swap had a very good turn out and the majority of the crowd were rocking new shoes, props to them for doing it.

Roll on next year!

Photos by Josh Belcher.

Motive have posted the full sections from their recent DVD Dimensions on YouTube, check out sections from Sean Smith, Dylan Hughes, Barney Page, Dave Snaddon and the rest!

Checkout SK8UK’s review of the DVD here and go to Motives YouTube page to check out all the sections.

Watch Barney Page section below:

Dimensions is Motives first full length video since they were founded by ex Blueprint pro Rob Selley in 2006, it’s directed by Ciaran O’Connor, many of you will already have come across it on the cover of the October issue of Sidewalk.

The current Motive line up consists of Sean Smith and Leo Smith who you should recognize from DC shoes, Dylan Hughes who had a section in the welsh scene video Who? and Dave Snaddon, Paul Karter, Layth Sami, Jack Edwards and Barney Page.

Jack Edwards opens up the DVD with some smooth and technical ledge work, with his smooth light footed style he floats down sets, not a mind blowing section as we’ve come to expect from skate videos these days, but it proves Motives intentions as a UK board company, a decent start to Dimensions.

Next up is Paul Karter a more aggressive skater, he hacks at gaps and pulls out a huge bluntslide. The only skater who seems to skate any transition and even if its very little at that, not a bad section overall maybe just a little rough around the edges.

Layth Sami’s section is full of bangers! His smooth style flows with some long technical manuals and he has bags of switch tricks to throw down some hefty sets. A short section from Leo Smith is up next, his style is amazing to watch and just makes big sets look so easy, shame there isn’t more footage of him. Keeps your eyes open for the closing tricks!

Dylan Hughes following on from his excellent part in Who? early last year, he yet again proves why he is one to watch. He has a good all round style, showing of his quick feet with some crazy double grinds. Watch out for the frontside flip alley oop over the rail! This is a great section and I’m sure we will be seeing a lot more from him in the future. The friends section filler follows with a bit of excess footage, doesn’t add much to the DVD but worthy of a watch.

Barney Pages another up and comer you need to keep your eyes on, he is full of steeze and he throws down some big tricks, his pop especially in switch goes on for days. Look out for switch front bigspin drop to bank! His rail skills aren’t too shoddy either throwing in tricks like switch 360 front shuv to front board 180 out with ease!

Next up is Dave Shaddon another with a real smooth style. He tares up nollie with a big tre over a bench and the most stylish full cab flips I have seen. In my opinion his closing trick is the best on the DVD!

Sean Smith bring things to a close they way you would expect him to! By flipping in, out, off and over anything. He provides an onslaught of tricks over one of the blocks at the MK theater, his style is so smooth and his standard of his skating shows with some long technical lines, the best all round section in this feature.

It also includes a good amount of extra footage and a feature of their Lille and Brussels tour.

If you didn’t get this when it was on the cover of Sidewalk I suggest you track it down, all the skaters have pretty diverse sections and unlike most DVD’s with Dimensions there are no sections I can’t bare to sit through. The music throughout is instrumental with some nice chilled out hip hop beats leaving the focus fully on the skating! This defiantly raises the bar for UK skateboarding but on the downside it leaves every spot in MK well and truly owned!

By Matt Firmin