The SkatingSouth website has gone live. Three of my best friends, Rob Hanson, Zoltan Nagy and Ben C Hall are heading on a skate trip south. On the 27th July they head off south from Trondheim in Norway to the ’stag party capital’ of Europe, Prague. 3000km later.
Norway - Sweden - Denmark - Germany - Czech Republic
I’m so stoked for this, I was there when we all started talking about and planning this. All three skaters have distance in their blood, they don’t mind a few beers (essential on any distance trip I reckon!) and they are good mates. Its going to be amazing. Keep your eyes on the site, join the facebook page, and as ever check skatefurther.com for more info!
Holesom boards are shipping. All the way to NZ for me. This beauty above is for me. Holesom deck, Chocolate randals and Fireball wheels (more on them in the coming weeks!). As soon as it arrives it will be getting a good working over by me and the members of GCS. Which brings me onto my second bit of news. Christchurch Sessions is no more. Garden City Sessions will live forever!
Only had a couple of skate events over the past few weeks, the weather has been crappy and I’ve been super busy with work and my mum visiting from the UK. We did manage to get a late night skate for Greenskate.org sorted though and had a great turn out. The picture below pretty much sums up the Christchurch scene. Big, wide, smooth streets, rad friends and good times. Thanks to Mark Bridgewater for sorting out the photos (view more on his webpage) Watch out for the write-up in Concrete Wave Magazine.
Apart from that, well it’s all going swimmingly. Need to skate a bit more though, but am loving spending time with my wife and little man.
Now I know you probably think I go on about The Skateboarder’s Journal too much, but Jack has done an amazing job with it. Every week I get sent little nuggets of skateboarding joy. This week it’s D*Face hitting up a pool with Salba….. too good. Thank you Jack!
You can read the original article here. You can, and should, go and sign up on The Skateboarder’s Journal as well. Share stories, videos and pics with skaters all over the world. Take part in discussions, read reviews about products and companies and view the newsshare stories. All on The Skateboarder’s Journal.
I am stoked to announce that the soft-cover version of “The Skateboarder’s Journal - Lives on Board”is now available to order. The book looks great thanks to the efforts of designer Adrian Pina and editor Jonathan Harms, both of whom devoted an incredible amount of time and energy to this project (both are stll making tweaks here and there).
The book is available from a few different sources, which are listed below;
Direct from me - If you would like a signed copy use this method.
“The Skateboarder’s Journal - Lives on Board 1949-2009″
Soft cover with perfect bind. Finish size: 8.5″” x 11″”
Approximately 333 pages
Price: $24.95
Shipping: (United States) USPS Media Mail $5.00 or UPS Ground $10.00
International: USPS $15.00
Payment Options:
Paypal: ID is jack@theskateboardersjournal.com
Check or Money Order:
Morro Skateboard Group
415 Acacia
Morro Bay, California 93442
Also available at Lulu.com - probably the quickest way to get the book, since they are the printer and will ship directly to you.
From Amazon.com - If you usually order your books from Amazon you can order the book by using this link.
For those of you who have pre-ordered the book it will begin shipping in a few days.
I would like to thank all the skaters who contributed to the book. I would also thank all of you who have pre-ordered the book for being so patient.
All the best,
Jack Smith
Seeing as I’m gracing both the cover and a chapter about distance skaters, I’m obviously getting a copy or two. I suggest you all do the same.
A few of us are going to be heading towards Dorney Lake on the 17th (this coming Wednesday) for a lap or two. For those of you not in the know, Dorney is distance skating heaven. 3 mile loop of perfect flat tarmac. Ideal for LDP and amazing for pushing. Just look!
I will be going along to have a good try out on my mermaid with virage trucks (see here for more info) and might have a go at trying for a new time in the the cyber mile or the cyber 5 mile (see records here)
There is a more info about the sesionon the skatefurther forum here. It has also been added as a session on LongboardSesssions.co.uk a new site aimed at hooking people up with all the amazing stuff that is happening across the UK.
Recently I have been beginning to skate over in Portsmouth. There are some suuper smooth cycle tracks which work amazingly well with the mermaid & LDP virages. Eventually I would like to circumnavigate the whole island but i’ve been hitting it at rush hour and the way out involves loads of road riding so i have just been skating down to the Fun-Fair and back. 14 or so miles.
The main path down the coast is a super super smooth cycle track. It eventually stops and there is a bit of weaving in and out of the roads for a while before cuttting through a park and hitting the seafront at Eastney. This is followed by a long mostly smooth skate along the front to the funfair. There and back is 14 miles. Click on the map below to see the details.
This weekend I went to southsea and spotted that the Avenue de Caen road was closed to traffic as a trial pedestrianisation. This road is smooth, flat and right in the middle of Southsea Common next to the legendary Southsea Skatepark.
I have got onto the council as the ‘South Coast Representative’ of the UKSSA with a view to running a competition there. Have a look at the pictures below, looks like it could be an excellent venue.
Now, these are NOT the skatefurther T-shirts we are getting done professionally. You can see Ken from Indigenous Industries wonderful design for those here. They are in the works and will be on our shores pretty soon. These are an attempt at screen printing at home.
Here’s how it works.
1. Print your design onto paper. I did 2 sizes to see which one fitted the screen best.
2.Trace the outline of your design onto the screen using pencil. It wears it out super fast.
3. Fill all the bits in that you want to be printed with drawing fluid and let it dry. Take your time!
3. Use a squeegee and cover the whole screen with filler ink and let that dry. Only do one pass as you still need to see the drawing fluid.
4. Wash out the drawing fluid with cold water, use a toothbrush to help
5. Then finally hold the screen down (with the help of your wonderful wife) and squeegee the ink across the screen onto a suitable t-shirt.
Got the first batch of stickers a few weeks ago. If you would like some, drop me a line nat@skatefurther.com I figured £1 for 5 of each. to cover the costs. The are kinda small but fit well on helmets and nice clean patches on your deck.
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