Wild In The Streets LA re-cap

Here's the official video re-cap http://emerica.com/news/2011/07/05/wild-in-the-streets-2011-los-angeles-2/.

WITS LA photo gallery

June 21st, 2011 - The day skateboarders took over Los Angeles at Wild In The Streets! Here's how it went down http://emerica.com/news/2011/06/21/wild-in-the-streets-la-photo-gallery/.

WITS LA

5,000 strong ripped the streets of LA. More coverage later but for now check out http://emerica.com/news/2011/06/21/wild-in-the-streets-los-angeles-went-off/.

Emerica's Wild In The Street Montreal

More footage to come, but found these link http://tinyurl.com/3dlykrc and YouTube for now http://youtu.be/QIMFI4J7ViM.

Wild In The Street Edmonton

The Emerica Canada team got in the van to drive Edmonton to face rain, monsoons, sun and other calamities. In the end the skateboard community of Edmonton represented and a lil rain never hurt nobody. See more photos on FB http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235867183094349.77743.111571668857235.

Emerica's Wild in the Streets

Come early to our Edmonton meet up and snag yourself one of these limited tees. Only 200 made, so don't miss out! Also peep the map for the day.

Wild In The Streets Edmonton

Join the Timebomb fanpage to stay up on the meeting place etc. http://www.facebook.com/TimebombTrading and also join the event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201575839883803su.

WITS Montreal

Sunday, June 19, we re-create some of the fun from last year's incredible WITS. More info on the FB event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168255653237111&pending

Top of the World WITS Montreal Video

Here's a little video recap of WITS Montreal from the folks at Top of the World.

WITS Montreal Official Recap

Everyone likes official statements. Here's the official recap out of Montreal. Also, the official WITS Montreal video is up, so peep that as well.

Montreal was one of the lucky cities to be on the official Wild in the Streets stops. This year’s edition was the 5th one to happen in the province of Quebec and it was the first time the vent was going global in multi locations. Beside Montreal, Tampa, Madrid and London were also under the radar of this amazing skateboard event.

With the support from the Emerica crew and global team riders Heath Kirchart, Brandon Westgate, Justin “Figgy” Figueroa and Canadian riders Mike McKinlay, Dave Nolan, Justin Allain and Brad Sheppard, it was by far the best one ever with double the crowd of the previous years gathering over 600 skateboarders from everywhere in Quebec, some from the Maritimes provinces, Ontario. B.C., and the USA.

Emerica decided to come down in Montreal to support a new cause in the Quebec Skate Plaza Foundation launched by Montreal’s living legend Éric Mercier. The skate parks situation in Quebec is really poor and way behind the other provinces. This is where the foundation wants to act; to bring resources and expertise in the future projects development and assure a healthy scene in the province.

After launching the website earlier this year, it was a first public event for the foundation and what a way to bring awareness toward it and the skateboard scene of Quebec in general. The rain might have scared few skateboarders since it was pouring hard only two hours before the peaceful rolling manifestation. Skaters started to show up right after the rain and within the time to gather everyone in front of the monument at Tam-Tams (the bottom of Mont Royal) the pavement was all dried up and ready to receive thousands of wheels.

Lead by Oliviero Fontana, a well known and respected skateboarder in Quebec, we all went down in front of the meeting point to turn on Mont Royal Street where people were amazed by the sound and camaraderie of all skaters being pictured and filmed by hundreds of mobile devices. People were literally applauding the commotion; even 70 years old ladies and politicians were spotted giving props to the event. When the police saw and heard this rolling crowd, they immediately followed the skaters and escorted the parade to make sure no one was getting injured or in trouble with surrounding cars. We taught they may ask to stop the gathering and make sure we were not going to skate private location, but it was the complete opposite. They asked us where we were going so they can protect all of us by escorting the whole route and even blocking streets where we were skating spots. They were a huge part in the success of the event and we’re proud they were as much cooperative and making sure this day would count no accidents.

We skated the gap to ledge at Lafontaine Park, then destroyed the rail at Camillien-Houde arena to roll after to the Old Montreal cegep near a crazy gap over the fence to downhill, like really downhill. From there we got to our final spot; the Peace Park, a park where a plaza should be instead of drunks and junkies. They get to be there all the time with no problems, but if you’re on your board, you better watch yourself because it’s an automatic ticket. At least this time was a symbolic stop since the cops were there to make sure we can skate it with no hustles. They then modified our course to let us pass in bigger streets blocking the traffic so we can easily make our way at Underworld skate shop downtown Montreal where a BBQ organized by the shop and royal agency was waiting for the crowd.

It was also the first time the event received this amount of coverage, many links have pop up on the Internet, CTV did a special report on the event and already 3500 readers have seen the push.ca article. For sure this day will be reminded and hopefully more skaters will joined this great event in the future.

It was a perfect day, Wild in the Streets has allowed the foundation to raise around 2000$ during the day by the sales of an Emerica limited edition t-shirt, Olymel / Lafleur hot dogs, Red Bull beverages and water from royal agency and Timebomb Trading. But it is not done; t-shirts will still be available to buy in local shops in the Montreal area as well as on the foundation’s blog.

Thank you, to everyone who came out to support the event and the cause and if you still have never experienced the Wild in the Streets event, make yourself a favour and try it next year, or even better, plan yours with your friends and the skateboard community in your region.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121462447893184
http://www.push.ca/blogs/guest/archive/2010/06/21/montreal-gets-wild.aspx http://pegshot.com/event/1cce81de/eb7ia93e8/

Mathieu Boutin
LeBon Marketing

Wild in the Streets London Recap

Sunday June 20th was a great day for skateboarding in London. The sun was out, Emerica pros Braydon Szafranski, Aaron Suski and Kevin ‘Spanky’ Long, together with Euro riders Eniz Fazliov & Ante Aiello + UK riders Tom Knox & Chris Ault, were in town and approximately 300 kids were amped to go Wild in the Streets together with them. Emerica would like to thank everyone that was there and helped make this day one to remember.

The video edit from Dan Magee captures the spirit of the day and the essence of Wild in the Streets perfectly.

WITS London’s aim was to raise money and awareness for Southbank.
In 2006 The Side Effects Of Urethane art collective gave the space at London’s legendary Southbank skate spot a new lease of life by installing skateable sculpture blocks. However having been skated heavily over recent years, the blocks are now in desperate need of updating. Toby Shuall, one of TSEOU founders, has been given permission to replace the blocks with updated versions, and is actively raising funds to create brand new and improved skateable sculptures at the Southbank.


It’s an ambitious project which will require significant investment to pull off. During WITS London Emerica collected a few hundred Pound Sterling. More is needed though to get the new block at Southbank. Therefore, for the next week, you can still order your Emerica tee in Green or Black through Slam City to support Southbank.

Wild Dans la Rue

That's french for Wild in the Streets. The folks over at King Shit are a classy bunch that enjoy a fine wine and cordon bleu on their nights off. Check the shots of WITS Montreal on their site. They were all courtesy of our very own Judah Oakes. Hey Jude! That's all I got, listen to the Beatles if you want more.

Wait, There's More WITS Coverage!

The boys at Push.ca have some in depth coverage of WITS Montreal. Get your click on and head over to check out all the words and pictures. There's a link to the gallery at the bottom of that as well.

WITS Montreal on YouTube

Check the raw follow cam footage from one of the kids that was out at Wild in the Streets this weekend, Part 1 and Part 2. Man, I need to make it out to Montreal one of these days. Life's rough for an intern.