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50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 18: Not the Final Chapter

I have to admit something that most of you will find quite remarkable. When I started this manifesto, I wasn’t quite sure where it would take me. But back in May, something happened that took things in a whole new direction. You must understand what happened because... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, Longboard Scene and Events -

Thank you ❤️

Bristol Board Meeting 2025 is a wrap! But as good as wraps are, fellow skaters and humans fighting cancer often benefit from other, non falafel-based forms of support.It is with heartfelt thanks therefore that we can tell you that the total raised for Macmillan... Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 17: The Wheels Come Off

If that last chapter has you confused, join the club. The truth is that it's been over seven years since I sold Concrete Wave Magazine, and I am still processing what happened. In the 2011 edition of the mag, I wrote "statistically, only 10% of magazines make... Read more

Longboard Scene and Events -

'Twas the night before the BBM, and all through the shop

MattGPT was whirring Spitting out some wordslop....but it's far too late to try and make this whole thing rhyme.The Bristol Board Meeting is tomorrow.Prizes are in.Raffle tickets are ready.QR codes to the JustGiving page are printed and burgers are in the fridge.The only... Read more

Arbor Longboards, Bear Trucks, Carver, Cult Wheels, Hawgs Wheels, Landyachtz, Loaded Longboards, Longboard Scene and Events, Lush Longboards, Orangatang Wheels, Sabre Trucks, Santa Cruz, Videos -

Are you free this weekend?

Final preparations are underway As we ready ourselves to welcome hundreds of you to the south west this Saturday for the annual Bristol Board Meeting.I can confirm the BBQ works. Last year we were promised a months rainfall on the day so we're... Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 16: Career Opportunities

  It's somewhat difficult to explain my life from about 1993 to 2003 because it was a blur. But this was not a "fun blur" that you might see in the movies  - it was twenty years of career mayhem and side helpings of uncertainty, fear and... Read more

Lush Longboards, New Skate Product -

Fill in the blank: Black Fr...

You already know we vehemently oppose every part of Black Friday.But I have to try and get people to click these newsletters somehow, and what we've got is objectively better for you than some questionably cheap tech. Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 15: Almost Less Than Zero

Chapter 15Almost Less Than Zero As some of you might recall, back in 1996, I decided to host the world's first "old school skateboard reunion." Despite getting a listing in a major newspaper and having 10 minutes on Breakfast Television here in Toronto, ZERO people showed up.... Read more

Carver, Longboard Scene and Events, Videos -

This Weekend: Surfing, Sambas and Suffering...

Josh, hold this and look stoked will ya? Josh: Good effort, mate.But this weekend there will be true suffering, for those who are into that kind of thing.Castle Combe Circuit near Chippenham will host 100+ skaters of all types for a 6 hour race... Read more

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