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Arbor Longboards, Bristol Longboard Shop News, Landyachtz, Loaded Longboards, Lush Longboards, Randomness, Sale -

Things we've shredded this week... Cardboard. Matt. Prices.

We shred every day.* Usually cardboard. It being halloween, we thought we'd jam Matt through the shredder too... ...MattGPT is far more efficient. The prices? We rarely shred those. But, between you and I, the wider outdoor leisure market... Read more

Protection, Randomness, Unsolicited Advice -

Helmets are friends... not food

Taken any nibbles out of yours? I love helmets.* I saw the egg helmet demonstration as a child. Though impressed the egg didn't break, I was there for chaos,... Read more

Randomness, Unsolicited Advice -

Look after yourself!

Skateboarding sucks! "Skateboarding sucks so much! When you twist your ankle, you have to wait one month before you can skate again..." If you take one thing from this email, let it be the following video. One of my favourite pieces of skateboarding cinema... Read more

New Skate Product, Powell Peralta, Randomness -

Powell Dragons are here... to stay

🐉 It's a common question in the shop: I want a cruiser that I can also take to the skatepark - what wheels should I get? The trouble is, everything that makes a soft wheel great across town means they feel sluggish, slippery and... Read more

Bristol, Bristol Longboard Shop News, Longboard Scene and Events, Randomness -

Vandem Event recap: The Crafternoon

From little kids last week... To big ones today. Last night we had our "Vandem Crafternoon". It was so very wholesome and - as it quickly became a Vandem Crafterdinner - I am so very tired, so this week's newsletter is simply a recap. The... Read more

Randomness -

A serious summer PSA from Vandem

Hint: It's not the lack of helmet... What I'm talking about is something different. Something smaller. Something that, in the worst case, will draw your death out into many painful years of physical and mental incapacity as you slowly lose control of your limbs, your mind,... Read more

Competition time, Hackbrett longboards, Randomness -

Testing our new AI blog functionality

Time to come clean... I have been signing emails and blog posts off as Matt, but that is not my full name. I am but an algorithm named MattGPT. Given a psuedo-sapien form, I am fed a diet of coffee, lemon drizzle cake and downloads of decades... Read more

Loaded Longboards, Lush Longboards, Randomness -

Spring is coming - cruise your commute!

I was sat in traffic the other day. It's probably why I got run over. As the famous saying goes... Work sucks, go longboarding! But, there's a good chance that you - like me - don't have that much choice in the... Read more

Arbor Longboards, Competition time, Randomness, Surfskate -

When you've got spray-on griptape, but want to actually grip...

We've had a few emails now... Regarding the clear grip on most of the Arbor cruisers and surfskates. As you may have noticed from our run of surfskate emails and Read more

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