Archive for January, 2009

Just announced by Rome snowboards, for the coming 2009-2010 season, the Rome SDS is expanding the idea behind the Artifact SK (Shop Kid) snowboard that it has made for the last two years. It’s taking the one SK board and turning it into an entire SK Collection. And this time, the shop kids will be doing the graphic design.

In 2009, for the second annual Artifact SK, Rome collected base graphic ideas from riders who work in shops to replace the “Live Nude Girls” on the inline Artifact board. In the end, they were unable to decide on just one winner so they picked the two most “appropriate” inappropriate ideas that got emailed in.

For 2010, Rome is expanding the SK concept to create the SK Collection:

1. Rome is adding a snowboard boot (Libertine) and a glove (Movement) to go with the Artifact SK snowboard to create a collection of SK product.

2. Rome is giving shop kids more control over the collection and letting them create the art, colors and materials for the graphics of each of the models.

3. The winners of the board, boot and glove categories win $$ and two free models of the product they designed.

4. As in the past two years with the Artifact SK board, the SK Collection will be available only to riders who work in shops through Rome’s Operative Program.

If you work in a shop and want to design art for the SK Collection, go to www.romesnowboards.com/skcontest to download the design templates and entry forms, and learn about all the details of the contest.

All art needs to be submitted to Rome by March 31st, 2009. Once Rome receives the art, Rome riders and artists will pick one winning design for each of the products. The winners will work with Rome designers to finalize the art. So, what are you waiting for, get scribbling!

Since when was Daniel Day-Lewis in the battle at the berrics, more to the point when did he become a pro skater!?!

Check out this weekends first installment of battle at the berrics pitching rail technician Billy Marks (Toy Machine skateboards and Fallen Footwear) against tech wizard Brandon Biebel (Lakai Footwear and Girl Skateboards). The winner goes through to face either berra or MJ, so either way it’s going to make a ridiculous semi final. Super close round this one, enjoy!

the berrics

Remeber this?? P-Rod’s banging section from Girls 2003 release Yeah Right!! can you beleive its 6 years since that skate video came out? jesus i just called it a “video” for gods sake! Any way, came across it today and i never really paid much attention to the paul rodriguez section when it came out for some reason, but upon todays re-visit i couldn’t help but stick it in as a clip of the day.

P-Rod gets a bit of stick from pundits here and there filing his skating style under “robot”. well, i’m having none of that, the guy has steez and that’s the end of it. if anything his style should be filed under “casual”. anyway enjoy this blast from the past and don’t get down on your self when you start thinking about how old you were when you first saw it. furthermore, try not to then start thinking about how old you were when you saw girl skateboards mouse, that’ll really mess with you……

Never ones to be detered by rats or back ally london lurkers, slam city are putting on a game of skate featuring 32 slam city heads and affiliates. check out slam city’s mini site for updates, new games posted wednesday and friday. may the best alley cat win!

New for spring 2009 DC shoes unveil the Bruce Irons signature sandal! Bruce Irons is the first pro surfer on DC to get a signature sandal and according to DC it was “built from the ground up specifically for bruce”. Being the longest standing surf pro on DC shoes bruce irons is definitely the right choice for DC’s first pro sandal. The sandal features a tough rubber outsole with stamp hawaiian islands graphic on the bottom. Also, the foot bed is anatomically correct to fit your foot better and wear more comfortably. Available in three colours black, grey and brown, and should be hitting all good board sports shops this spring!

Check out the Bruce Irons DC commercial!

Also out this month is this killer collab from Supra footwear and Deathwish skateboards. Deathwish is the latest project from camp Baker where Andrew Reynolds and the crew seem to know exactly what they are doing when it comes to cross brand collaberations!

Two Supra shoes get the Deathwish treatment, the Greco suprano in not so conservative red leather and the Ellington diablo in black / white with yellow Deathwish detailing. Both shoes look great and should be with us in all good skate shops in a few weeks.

Source: Complex mag

We’re back! It’s 2009 and well, on your marks…. go!

After the holiday season full of turkey, booze and plenty of films you’ve seen a million times before but for some reason don’t seem to get old, there is nothing like the first day back at work to bring you crashing back to earth!

That’s why we decided to kick the new year off by showing you a quick preview of Nike SB’s January release. 5 shoes two of which are the new style the Zoom air Veloce. The Veloce is introduced in two colours, white / black and black / white, featuring aspects of the Zoom Tre AD, like the sole and tongue, but with a different twist.

In addition to this we have Nike give us a new colou in the ever timeless Nike dunk hi with colours by Mai Do. The p-rod (paul rodriguez 2) gets the forest green and lemon drop treatment while the classic Blazer premium SB comes in a really smooth purple with white out sole, definately our favourate of the collection! The Zoom Air Veloce looks interesting and is not so classically skate, then again neither was the Zoom Tre and look how well that did!