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Competition time, Longboard Scene and Events -

Longboard Events Calendar 2023

Let's skate together... I was meeting people off the internet to go skate long before it was socially acceptable.* But today, you don't have to do that - there are a bunch of events organised by relatively sensible people for you to choose from. Always a... 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

Hackbrett longboards, Loaded Longboards, Lush Longboards, New Skate Product -

New Precision Completes

Precision noun The quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate. LONGBOARD Product, especially trucks, designed to the highest level of accuracy, guaranteeing smoother turns, more stability and dopamine of previously unattainable levels.   And it's not only the dopamine that's more attainable... Read more

Landyachtz, New Skate Product -

Landyachtz Spring Delivery

There's this bloke called Tom who runs this company called Landyachtz Longboards. He designs product, skates when he wants, and has all the coffee he needs in his office. He's come a long way from his days of being a Canadian lumberjack... He was a smart feller.... Read more

Loaded Longboards, New Skate Product -

The new Loaded Chinchiller - now at Vandem

*And bio-resin... and sexy nylon snowboard topsheets! They've got the hottest riders in America... ...the most high-tech, juicy snowboard construction out of Dubai... ...wicked digital art graphics out of Barcelona... But they still needed a name. Don and Pablo of Loaded... Read more

Loaded Longboards, Lush Longboards, New Skate Product, Sale -

These new prices are surely an April Fools...

The one time you'd expect a joke... And we're coming at you with some serious steals. First up, the Loaded Tesseract. Last time we had these in, you snapped up all of the remaining UK stock! We've been waiting patiently for... Read more

Longboard Scene and Events -

Longboard Event Announcement: Tregaron Freeride is back!

And it has been for some time... It's a topic I rarely broach via this blog/newsletter. Common sense says: - It's scary - There's nowhere safe to practise - Won't you get hurt? I can well understand the misgivings. Starting out, many years ago, I couldn't... 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

Bristol Longboard Shop News, Carver, Carver Trucks, New Skate Product, Surfskate -

Carver Skateboards now available at Vandem

*And equal pay. Double whammy! And I don't mean Lucy and Tilly, though they do make a formidable force. No - in a shock occurence, todays post covers two topics. Most important first. It was International Womens Day this week. Keeping it close to home, whilst... Read more

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