Through mountains and fields of sheep, Skate New Zealand 2008

Nat Halliday, Adam Colton, Jestah Carnie, Sheldon Lessard and Kari Grebe will be skating 1,500 miles across New Zealand for Lowe Syndrome and CanTeen (helping kids with cancer) January-March 2008. Follow along and see the sights and hear the sounds at www.skatenewzealand.com.  The site will be regularly updated with super rad videos and pics from the road. The journey starts SOON.

Please log onto skatenewzealand.com today to read funny little interviews from each of the team members and see pictures.

CHARITIES

Lowe Syndrome

We are raising money to support medical research in Lowe Syndrome, an incurable children's disease that affects the brain, eyes, kidneys, bones and muscles.  This charity has been a big part of many long distances skate trips including Jack Smith’s Skate Across America, Dave Cornthwaite Boardfree journey across Australia 2005, for the Beats Walkin Europe teams journey across Europe in 2007, and now for the Skate New Zealand team 2008.

CanTeen

An organization supporting young kids living with Cancer in New Zealand.  We hope to meet up with CanTeen during the trip to put on a longboard clinic with the kids and spread the joy.  The main mission of CanTeen is to promote fun.

DONATE

From one longboarder to another please help us out and make a small donation to Lowe Syndrome and CanTeen and show us that you support long-distance skate trips.  You can personally help us reach our goal of 5,000 pounds, $10,000 US dollars by just donating $5.  Donating $5 will take 5 minutes of your time and your name will appear on the donation page and it will make us happy.  If any of you have done distance skate trips before you know how hard it is to push 50 plus miles not to mention doing this day after day. Every donation counts, thanks for your support.  Donate securely here, http://www.justgiving.com/skatenewzealand

Look for articles after the trip in the Concrete Wave, Naphte and Line-up.  Please help spread the word on this journey across NewZealand and get friends and family to donate.

Big hug,

Skate NZ Team