Style Jam in Southampton (organized by
XSS) went down really well with a great turnout despite the rain, check out these sweet couple of videos from the event.
That same weekend a few of us made the trip to most heavily UK rider attended freeride I've seen to date!
Houyet Spring Session, as run by the
Blutcher crew.
Despite the heavy rain & windy conditions the UK massive took to the hills which resulted in quite a few soaked pairs of trainers & funny bails.
Riders from all over the UK travelled to make this event: Bristol, West Midlands, London, Bo Peep way & even an Aberdeen local (working out of Holland) managed to make it down
As always, riding your skateboard is a risky pursuit & our very own Brad dislocated his shoulder at the end of a seemingly perfect run.
I decided to duck out of the rain in the wonderful motor-cottage to save myself for the following weekend.
Here are some videos from Houyet including Brad's POV when he popped his shoulder, rest up well dude!
Make sure to check out the
Summer Session in june
The following weekend we were off again, this time the weather was with us!
The Bear Awakening, organized by
Longboard Magazin
After a few of us attended the last event at this location last August, we suffered from withdrawal symptoms all winter, quite simply it's the best downhill track we had ever skated.
Here's Marcin & myself skating down 1 section of the track last year.
This year we came back en masse & rented a huge ass people carrier to fit the 7 of its who had come in on the same flight.
The crew for this trip consisted of: Christine, Kami, Marcin, Duncan, Tim, Brendan & myself.
We also met Chris & Uldis who usually reside in Aberdeen (who had driven from Holland)
We were met in Osilnica by friends old & new, partied hard then hit the track on Saturday morning.
Needless to say dropping into corner 1 is always a wake up call & by the time corner 8 is behind you you're pretty wired for the rest of the day.
Due to works on the mountainside to reinforce it & a landslide, the track was cut short, finishing at corner 13 instead of 17.
Here's the lads on the last run (I was still slaying by the end & not keeping up)
That said 12 corners were still more than enough to completely blow newcomers minds as well as a few people blowing out their cores (shearing)
Here's Marcin's vid for the trip:
Here's Hertler laying the smackdown on the track, ripping it up on Cult Traction Beams
The
DTC family were representing en masse, with one of the heads of the assocation, Alexandre Ulrich, also tearing up the mountain on some DTC 75mm protos! check out their event report
here.
Newtons Nation, was happening the same w/end as the Bear, not organized by us, honestly....
Crew rider Josh Monk had been down under for a while, tearing it up throughout the Australian summer & topped it off with this sick race that usually chews people up & spits them out into several pieces, giving them a year to recover before trying it again.
Here's a clip of Josh leading a practice run & getting drafted out of the last corner.
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If you want to know what I'm talking about in terms of utter bodily destruction, watch this video:
Upcoming events
We've been busy on the stock front too, with some recent top ups & stuff inbound from abroad all the time.
Bushings
We've had a top up on the wicked
Reflex Bushings, quantities have been limited but we managed to snag a decent amount for you in most duros. More to come in the following months.
Sabre Bushings also make an appearance on Newton's & as standard, you can buy just a single bushing instead of a pair, but only what you need, that's how we roll.
More bushings brands are inbound so keep an eye out!
Boards
We received stock across a fair few brands recently,
Original Freeride & Apex 40 models are back in stock.
Earthwing supermodels & other boards have landed & represent amazing value & construction quality. We even have the
Frequent Flyer available as a complete option now too.
Rayne boards have been restocked too, with the latest models arriving this week (available for
Preorder at present, Vandal/Rival/Supreme) the Amazon to arrive in the not so distant future.
20th Anniversay
Barnets are now in stock too, coming marked with the sick medallion!
Lush Longboards Legend & Wizard models are in stock (at the time of writing) Symbians though are super hot & sold out within days, no dates on a restock just yet but we're on it!
Wheels
Earthwing's slide A's are in stock in all sizes at present, that's 62/65/72mm & we now have some Smokers in stock too (images coming soonish, honest ;) )
Abec11 Flashbacks will be back in stock this week from the looks of things, CenterSet freerides are flying out like hot cakes too, def. my favourite wheel after lot's of abuse at The Bear Awakening recently, think mini flywheel with better depth.
There's a fair bit more, but that's it for now.
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Alex @ NS
As soon as i got the wheels out of the packaging they went on the board. First few slides on them felt very rough but thats normal for most wheels finding the slide point and breaking them in. Anyway after breaking them in they slid perfect and feel sooooooo good! havent really been on the abec11 thane for a while ,only really the really old thane years ago. So far the wear hasn’t been much for on the freerides and they still going strong still looking new.
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