This just in from our man in Europe, Chris Vallender (official welcome coming soon!): “…Tonight 13/02/10 rollerbladers and longboarders (around 15ish) will gather on the Trocadero for a torchlight procession. Then the message Toronto 2010 will be written in torchlight and the procession will continue down the Champs Elyses. All this is happening from around 9 till midnightContinueContinue reading “Olympic Longboarding In Paris!”
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Skate Further Day Trip To The Cave!
Forum members and Skate Further webbies Nat and Laura headed up to North Devon for one last adventure together. Gav, who makes Holey trucks (a favourite of distance skaters), also ran the first UK skateshop – Surrey Skates. He now has a warehouse in the middle of nowhere, stocked with some of the finest sightsContinueContinue reading “Skate Further Day Trip To The Cave!”
How We Skated Further In 2009.
This is a compilation of all the best bits from the distance skating year that was 2009 in the UK. New friendships were forged, records broken, and best of all, fun was had all over the shop! Some amazing, stellar skaters are featured in this vid – and if this year was anything to goContinueContinue reading “How We Skated Further In 2009.”
Liquid Boards: P2P Edit DROPS!
Just a quick post – Sean McArthur, film student from Plymouth, has put together an amazing edit tracking the adventures on the Liquid Boards Plymouth to Polperro (P2P) 2009 trip. Supported by Skate Further and attended by around 40 skaters, this trip was a mammoth ask of all who took part. Eternal thanks go toContinueContinue reading “Liquid Boards: P2P Edit DROPS!”
¡Bribabri! A Rainy Old Day!
Well, the troops came from all over the UK to say cheerio to our dear friend Nat, who’s off to NZ early next year. In the last official Skate Further event of the winter, we set off in the pouring rain from Bristol. Spreading out quickly, the field all made it to a pub nearContinueContinue reading “¡Bribabri! A Rainy Old Day!”
Bribabri – 7 Days
BriBaBri – 21st November.
Forum member Nat is leaving the shores of Blighty to emigrate with his new family to New Zealand. We are organising a final get-together skate as on the 21st of November. Bristol to Bath to Bristol. This adventure is open to all. Come skate, cycle, inline or do it on a pogo stick. In associationContinueContinue reading “BriBaBri – 21st November.”
Plymouth To Polperro Push: A Success!
Would you believe it! 40 skaters managed to transport themselves 26 miles from Plymouth to Polperro in (almost) one piece? In the first event of its kind for the UK, Stew and the Liquid Boards crew welcomed skaters from all over our pretty Isles to sample some Westcountry hills at their finest. Forum members Laura,ContinueContinue reading “Plymouth To Polperro Push: A Success!”
Longboard Sessions
Gav, the man behind the Wrong Way Home trip that happened a month or so back , has been working hard for the last year on a website called Longboard Sessions. Basically it lets you tell like minded people about a session that is happening in your area; be it slalom, sliding, DH, distance orContinueContinue reading “Longboard Sessions”
Skyride London 2009
Some members of the Skatefurther forum headed up to London to take part in the Mayor of London’s Skyride. They joined 65,000 cyclists taking over the streets and enjoyed a traffic free skate around the capital. Tim Peters took a load of pics and you can see them here. There is also a forum threadContinueContinue reading “Skyride London 2009”
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