Videos Updates
Cones, and a dedicated Cameraman
This video was ready for ages Save for a few seconds of black screen, destined for some proper slalom skating footage.But you know how it is, especially over summer. Busy! We never managed to film any B-roll to get this finished.Step in Ryan, our video... Read more
New How-To Video: Set up your Split Angle Upgrade Kit
It may be almost a year late... But when we bundled up a Sabre 28° baseplate with a few bushings and bolts to create a cheaper option to upgrade to split angle trucks, we didn't think too much about how one makes that... Read more
Loaded Bolsa II Jazz in stock now
To quote a book which I enjoyed, but went largely over my head: "talented surfers think like great jazz musicians, using invention, complex rhythm, timing and spontaneity to turn impossible wave scenarios into beautiful but challenging music" Don't great skaters play jazz, too?It certainly looked like Carlotti... Read more
A Good Hill and No Traffic?
It's that time again... For decades, longboarders have gathered on the day of the Bristol Half Marathon.Not to cheer anybody on, but to take full advantage of one of Bristols most iconic hills being shut to traffic!This year its in 2 weeks time: Sunday 10th May.
Inside the Mind of Vandem
Not just a pretty face... The boss has thirty years of experience in the longboard industry - designing, manufacturing, distributing, riding and the rest.Chances are you - and certainly I - would not be here if it wasn't for the work he's put in over those years.And as... Read more
Vandem Vs Skate Bearing Marketing
Long before AI was a problem People were making up pretty random stuff to try and sell skate bearings.Behind closed doors we refer to this as nano-psychedelic AI bullsh*t.Fact is, most skate bearings in the world come out of the same few factories in China - not Bones... Read more
Cult Chronicles - the best wheel to learn to slide
Not only are Cult Chronicles The best, easiest, most forgiving wheel to learn to slide.They also provided us with our best-performing social post, ever! Whew, over 6,000 likes. We must have sold loads of Cults that weekend, right?Not a... Read more
The only Landyachtz board to ever be discounted... Why?
When is a surfskate not a surfskate? Well, brace yourself.According to a popular surfskate website: I’m not a fan of Landyachtz surfskates at all. While it does pump and carve [...], it doesn’t function well at all. Brutal. So bad... Read more
Orangatang: Amazing wheels, even better names
Otang have the best Google-able names They kicked off strong in 2008 by having us Google "Orangatang In Heat".4President was also up there (did that wish come true? There's certainly orange involved), there's the Dad Bod...Let's not think too hard about... Read more