DVD RELEASE IMMINENT

Wednesday 20th May

Right then here we go, sorry for the lack of action up in this gaff for a while, Its been all hands on deck finishing this damned DVD off. Click above to check the teaser and fnd out more about the HTL DVD and the ever imminent HTLVOL12.

Saturday 25th April 2009

SO last week end was mean to be the deadline for the video, instead i ended up at the new Mile End park, I know what our thinking - "park footage on the hold tight site? what is the world coming to?" but footage of Steph Khou is hard to come by and this is a gem.

Wednesday 1st April 2009

HOLDTIGHT PASMORE VOL2

Sorry no updates for a while, I been glued to my computer editing our soon to drop HTL DVD. Passmore's come through with some more offcut snaps from our recent filming endevours and I even got a sequence at the weekend!. Lucien also provides a slowmo throway above.

Saturday 21st March 2009

Spare a thought for our man Karim who fucked his ankle today, however prior to this he managed to demonstrate how he would normaly use said ankle to get "the ill pop". Potter aka "The Mayor of MK" also makes an offcuts apearance with a simlar gem

Wednesday 18th March 2009

HOLDTIGHT:PASSMORE

Ian Passmore of "Hello Coco" fame has been out missioning it with us for the past few weekends, hes swapped his VX for an SLR and is currently working on a HTL article for a future issue of Sidewalk. He sent me a couple of offcut pics for you lot to have a gander at. Also Myself versus John Tanner is the latest Slam Game of Skate up click here

Saturday 14th March 2009

T-Dawg has produced some offcuts from today's excursions south of the river.

Saturday 7th March 2009

Mr Joe Sivill was on it enough today to muster you some webclips. Switch pop shuv's beast bruv.

Friday 6th March 2009

Another little offcut for your bored eyeballs, courtesy of the feet of John Tanner deep in south London

Tuesday 3rd March 2009

BIG SMOKE BANTER: JOHN TANNER

T-Dawg gives us his thought on life in the Big Smoke

Friday 27th Februry 2009

BIG SMOKE BANTER: SHAUN WITHERUP

The first of many, Shaun Witherup gives us his insight into life in the Big Smoke

Wednesday 25th Februry 2009

ZOOTALOR

London's finest export Mr Shaun Currie was back down chilling with us this weekend, he didnt skate too much (I wonder if you can guess why) but he oversaw a couple of offcuts tricks from Steph and Sevill.

Friday 20th Februry 2009

Couple of offcuts lines for you eyes from Howsey at Shoreditch blocks

Monday 16th Februry 2009

Right so here you go, if you look to your left you should see a little teaser of things to come in the near future. "The Remix Video" will be released on DVD alongside high res versions of all the orginal edits as well has loads of unseen footage and extras. The Main feature of the DVD however will be HTLVOL12... but more on that soon! 

High res Trailer (ipod)

Sunday 15th Februry 2009

Some of you are probably wondering "where the hell is Shaun?" Shaun actually fucked his knee towards the end of last year and has been chilling ever since, He reckons he'll be ok by summertime so lets all wish him well. Don't worry though, pre injury Shaun racked up a load of choice footy for HTLVOL12. Even when he's riding a board with no nose or tail (check above clip).

Friday 13th Februry 2009

Been slow to put this up, but as any of you who read Sidewalk would have noticed, HTL's John Tanner just got his first Cliche ad... and its a banger. Tanner has been racking up the footage for the pending HTL12 DVD release dropping in Easter, which is shaping up nicely. More on this matter very soon...

Wednesday 11th Februry 2009

Man its been cold lately, I guess you all had fun in the snow so heres a clip of Lucien ollieing a big pile of some. Oh and a little offcut from htlvol12.

Saturday 7th February 2009

I love kicker ramps, we set this bad boy up today from stuff from a building site. Lucien and Tanner come through with some doubles action offcuts.

Thursday 29th January 2009!

Damn sorry guys i been slipping with this blog, its been a hectic few months but don't worry, we've been on the grind working away on htlvol12, as we couldn't quite get it out by christmas i've decided to hold out till easter when were gonna put out a 15/20 minute promo with a twist (all will be revealed soon). As well as the under wraps main feature you will get all the first 11 edits in full quality as well as a remixed full length video using all the footage logged up from the htl edits from last year. So keep you eyes peeled for more info and keep checking back here. Today, heres some offcuts of Joe Sevill who you might know broke is arm at the UKSA championships and is getting back on it, check the scars...

Tuesday 9th August

Safe guys, sorry there ain't been any updates recently I been pretty busy updating the document website, but I haven't forgotten about HTL! Quite the opposite actually, I'm cooking up something special for Volume 12 I'll just tease you a little bit and tell you that theres gonna be more than one edit and a little twist which I will reveal later on in the month, were actually aiming for the project to be finished around christmas time and its gonna be delivered to you lot in a solid round form. A trailer should be apearing in the next few weeks so check back and keep you ears to the ground for any gossip.

OK so here it is, the penultimate episode of Hold Tight London's monthly web edits, as for whats going on for the final installment we're not gonna give much away yet but rest assure we got something a bit bigger planned watch this space for more info. So heres 11, featuring skateboarding from the likes of Shaun Witherup, Joey Pressey, Scott Howes, Joe Sevill, Jak Pietryga, John Tanner and more...

Ipod version up tommorow.

Monday 14th July

HOLD TIGHT LONDON TEN

Sorry for the delay but myself and Morph were off filming the Big Push with Landscape and Blueprint respectively. Some hot shit went down so look out for the next issue of Document Magazine. So here it is, Volume 10, featuring skating from all the usual suspects, click above for the quicktime, or here for MPORA, or here for the Ipod Version (right click to download) but you should have already subscribed to our podcast. Haven't? Shocking, catch up here mate. Peace.

Wednesday 11th June

As promised the ipod version is now available here (if you have quicktime it means you can watch it in your browser and its twice the sie of the one to your left) also if you haven't already subscibed to our Podcast click the button above. if you have then it should have already downloaded onto your Itunes. The Mpora version is also available here. Hold Tight.

Tuesday 10th June

HOLD TIGHT MOTHERFUCKAS

Sorry for the Delay, but here you go HTL VOL 9. This months edit is Brought to you by the lovely guys at Girl Skateboards and has been extended to 4 minutes. VOL9 features UK Girl rider Shaun Witherup alongside the usual suspects, Shauns having an Omens in the next issue of Document Magazine to don't foget to peep that. Ipod and Mpora version up tommorow.

Monday 9th June

Sorry to all of those tuning in for Volume Nine, the edit is done I'm just sorting out a few irritating techical problems and should have it up by the end of the day or tommorow fingers cross, trust me its worth the wait but here's an offcut from Shaun to tide you over. Also Tanner has a Last Order's up on the Sidewalk Website so give that a peek too.

Tuesday 13th May

Another banging weekend in the sun, gathering up footage like nobodies business. Expect a suped up HTLVOL9 (yeah thats right 9 already!). Tanner and Shaun have some roll on offcuts for you above. Also if you havent already seen it check the document website, which I am now video blogging for, for HTL's second 'Offcuts from the Undercroft'. Alternatively view the quicktime here.

Friday 9th May

Mr Greg Conroy of the Concrete Poets returned back from 3 months in Australia a little later than planned after leaving his passport in the cab on the ay to the airport. Hes back now though and to mark his return, executed one of the most suspect desents down the bank ever seen at SB.

Friday 2nd May

Thats right its that time again, I know things have been abit quiet on here recently, its cos we been on the grind, firming the shit weather so we could pull HTLVOL8 out the bag for your veiwing pleasure. Enjoy.

IPOD VERSION (RIGHT CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)

Monday 28th April

Yo people sorry for the techincal difficulties we've been having, all sorted now don't watch that. HTLVOL8 is on its way soon. As you will have seen from VOL7, we spent a lot of time at the 2 set ledge in elephant and castle, heres a little offcut from Shaun that didnt make it into the edit.

Wednesday 9th April

Hope you guys are enjoying HTLVOL7, remember you can download or watch a better quality version for your ipod by clicking here. If you hadnt already noticed, the SLAM CITY clothing range is growing and growing, check out there new tees, including a special HTL one featuring a slam logo tampered with by yours truly. Pop in to Slam, pick yourself up one and rep hard.

Monday 7th April

VOLUME SEVEN!

Suprise Suprise, heres your monthly installment of London's Loudest, HTLVOL7, ahead of schedule. Also I've finaly got my act together to get an Ipod version sorted for you lot CLICK HERE, previous edits to follow.

Wednesday 2nd April

If you frequent the sidewalk website then you will have already seen this but I Thought i'd post it up here just incase, its just some offcuts footage from the mighty southbank so give it a watch get hyped to skate and start licking your lips for htlvol7 which is dropping in under 2 weeks.

Sunday 30th March

MINI STEPH!

Steph showed me this the other day, its a little edit his brother Andy put together of mainly pre Hello Coco footage, Steph looks so small! Andy kills it too.

Thursday 20th March

Weather's been stinking lately, i'm sure you'll agree, but htlvol7 is already under way. Here's Karim with another trick over the sb block, this time the often overlooked heelflip.

Thursday 13th March

If you hadn't already noticed, HTLVOL6 went up on the Kingpin main page a few days ago, cheers to Greg Finch for hooking it up, unfortunately its only available in Mpora format at the moment as that is how Kingpin do all their videos. Once the video is no longer featured on their front page we wil put up a quicktime format in our library.

Monday 10th March

Shaun learnt nollie front crooks the other day at shoreditch, and promptly decided he now had them on lock.

Don't worry people we haven't forgotten about htlvol6, infact its quite the opposite, this month our monthly edit is presented by Kingpin Skateboard Magazine and will be hosted online as their featured video, the usual three minute edit has been extended to four and a half to honour the occasion and expect to see it up on the kingpin site by tomorrow or Wednesday latest.

Friday 7th March

Mike who? Jak ups the anti in the Trey flip department.

Sunday 2nd March

Another day of filming, constantly getting conflict from either security guards, the police or old ladies. Still joe had fun with this switch front nose, before almost lossing his manhood.

Monday 25th February

Fuck me it was cold at the wasteland the other day, so Shaun kept warm by doing what he loves most - spending longer than necessary on two wheels.

Saturday 9th February

As you all may well have noticed, Jak has been going off lately, with some substancial footage in the last 2 edits, here's and offcuts line from MK's buzy.

Wednesday 6th February

Thats right, its that time again, as promised here is HTL VOL 5 fresh out of editing It can be found directly below or download it from above. Enjoy.

Tuesday 5th February

What do you do when a random piece of outdoor furnitute apears mysteriously at South Bank? Skate it of course! Which is what Lucien, Smithy and Cheah did. Hold Tight Five is almost finished and gonna drop by tommorow night so check back then for our latest helping of wiz planking from the streets of London Town.

Sunday 3rd February

Sorry we haven't had much in the way of offcuts to feed you recently, everyones been getting to much legit shit! Anyways heres another Shaun trick, flipping from pitch black to pitch black, via an illuminated pile of crap.

Tuesday 22nd January

HTL's still at it filming hard for the next edit and for Slam. Today we can witness Shaun's first ever switch heel down a set of stairs. Not bad, even with the interesting dismount!

Wednesday 16th January

Another productive day of filming with some serious shit put down by Lucien for the Slam vid. He also managed to sneak in this security evading ollie in the dark.

Tuesday 15th January

Hope you guys are enjoying HTLVOL4 which can be watch just to the right of this. Heres a few cheeky little lines at Shoreditch with from Jak Pietryga and Sheffields loudest - Shaun Currie. Expect to see something sheffield related hapening on this site in the near future.

Monday 14th January

HOLD TIGHT LONDON VOL 4

Sincere Apolagies for those of you who have been checking back looking for an update. Its been a busy month for us, working hard on several up and coming projects and especially to come through with HTLVOL4 for your veiwing pleasure. Its Online now so check it out the right, or on youtube. Also Online are a couple of mini interviews of myself and Morph, Rye at Sidewalkmag.com asked us both to sum up 2007 and how it was for us so check that out while you wait for Vol4 to load!

Tuesday 25th December

We'll we've managed to muster you a Present for the day in the form of a Howsey offcuts line. Merry Christmas.

Monday 24th December

Merry Xmas to you all, sorry no footage update as I'm in LA at the moment but as HTL's gift to you we have completely redone the site, its a bit simpler but looks better we think. Enjoy and be sure to join our facebook group. Just to piss all you Londoners off - its about 22 degrees C here and i've been skating all day and managed to get a tan!

Monday 17th December

Thats right its that time again, HTL VOL 3 has just dropped check it out just to the right or click above...enjoy!

Thursday 13th December

Man this cold weathers a killer, so hard to get anything done, so we've dug deep to find you lot an update clip, here's a few clips from Steph, Greg and Shaun Currie that are unusable becase the camera glitched, or as Currie likes to say, I pressed the Glitch Button by accident.

Thursday 6th December

Morph has put together this edit of Joe Sivill, with all his old and new footage, just for your viewing pleasure.

Also heres a couple of Lucien offcuts clips from htlvl1

Friday 30th November

Sorry for the lack of updates but as you all know its hardly stopped raining so footage is coming in abit thin at the moment. Heres John Tanner though to cheer us all up with a switch 180 to manual to come out slightly earlier than expected.

Saturday 24th November

Todays clip is brought to you by Chewy and MK

Thursday 22nd November

This is a clip from that ever so short summer like spell we had around July/August time. Its after an escapade involving Luciens tail connecting with the camera and knocking the lens clean off onto the floor, hastily we decided to super glue the front of the camera back on but in our rush managed to steam up the lens with fumes from the glue. So the footage above is looking rather hazey because of it.

Also peep the new Issue of Kingpin and flip to the 'Enjoy the Silence' part, Hold Tight London seem to have taken it over with so baging shots by Marley of Karim, Chewy, Smithy, Lucien and an absolute hammer from Nugget. We'll try get some scans up on this site in the next day or two.

Monday 19th November

Sorry for the wait, we think its worth it though, so here you go volume two...enjoy.

Dont forget you can catch up on volume one on our video page.

Tuesday 13th November

Apolagies for leaving it a whole week without updates, we've been having technica problems which is also hampering putting up the next Hold Tight London Edit. Hopefully things will get sorted out by the end of the week and you will be able to check volume 2 by friday. For now we will let Mr Chewy Cannon give you 2 tricks for the price of one.

Tuesday 6th November

The nights are drawing in, so out come the genny and with it - Shaun Witherup to show us all how to do a proper varial heel flip. The trouble with filming in the dark is you dont see whats in front of you till its almost too late.

Friday 2nd November

Smithy skates some plastic.

Thursday 1st November

Those of you who frequent South Bank will have noticed that over the last 3 weeks one of its steaziest inhabitants has been absent. Yappa's been working for Slam in the temporary Niketown store on Oxford street. Hes literaly been working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week. Luckily hes finished now and is back to ripping S-Bizzle as if hed never left. We should also mention Aussie Will (who leaves these shores today), Dude and Jordan who also slaved away everyday to make the Slam/Nikestore a hit.

Monday 29th October

Thats right the Concrete Poets video is finaly hitting shops this week but you can order your copy direct from the Concrete Poets new online shop for a fiver, as well as being able to catch up on the first 3 Story Film Maker's Guild issues for 10 quid. If your able to get to Story in Shefield by 6 today they will be having a little northern premier so go and have a gander.

Saturday 27th October

Lucky for you people Shaun Witherup is on a hype ting and is reeling off the offcuts whilst racking up the footage for the Slam Video and the next Hold Tight London edit, dropping in 2 weeks. Shaun had no intention of doing the above trick when he approached the cheese block so this is basically what happens when Shaun fucks up. Also check this little sequence curtesey of Chris Morgan.

Wednesday 24th October

Leytonstone's finest, Joe Sivill demonstrates good form and the proper way to do a pop out.

Monday 22nd October

So South Africans are good at Rugby, apparently their good at skating road gaps too.

Saturday 20th October

If you haven't seen The Harmony's new video, its worth buying for Jak Pietryga's part alone, hes a sneaky mofo too, as he's managed to squeez in this kickflip down London's most "impossible to get even a go" double set.

Meanwhile, Its cold and Karim is at SouthBank freezing and bored, so feel free to drop by and entertain him, like Lucien and John last night.

Tuesday 16th October

Greg, back from 6 months of ankle injury

P.S. Shaun Currie's in town, lock up your emo daughters.

Sunday 14th October

Rory and Steph (or Steph and Rory, depends which one you talk to)

Friday 12th October

Bloblands Ekse?

Thursday 11th October

I know everyone wants footage so here you go, a rather three stripe related update today, Firstly an old clip of Chewy from earlier on this year when we were blessed with an abandoned warehouse to skate for a few weeks. Also a cheeky clip from Shaun Witherup who also has his first ad for King Clothing in the new copy of Sidewalk Magazine.

Wednesday 10th October

Welcome to Hold Tight London, the exclusive place to see whats going on in London's Skate Scene. Check back for videos, photos, links in our regular scene news updates. We also intend to release an exclusive edit once a month, HTL Vol. 1 will be up soon featuring skating from the likes of Jak Pietryga, Chewy Cannon, Shaun Witherup, Joe Sivill, Karim Bakhtaoui, Scott Howes, Steph Morgan, Lucien Clarke, Rory Milanes and many more.

For now take a look over at www.concretepoets.com, "Writer's Block" a London Scene Video is about to hit shops, peep the trailer and find out when its out.