Eh Team episode 4

Packed with deadly racing footage.

Landyachtz is heavily involved in downhill skateboard racing. It’s the ideal way to push ourselves and our products to the limits. We’re constantly developing and tweaking products to ensure they are the best they can possibly be. We work with our team at races to learn a ton about wheels, trucks, construction methods, all the way down to minor shape changes, hardware, grip tape and bearings. What we learn about our products while competing at the highest level gets engineered into every board, making everything we build better for all disciplines.

Attack of Danger Bay 8; the worlds longest running, biggest, and arguably most-difficult-to-win Downhill race. It should really be called a festival, it’s so packed with wicked events and parties that the race is now just part of the fun. The festival takes place on the Sunshine Coast, a ferry ride North of Vancouver. It has grown from a 12 competitor, 40 spectator event in 2002 to an over 200 competitor, several thousand spectator event in 2009. This year marked the most diverse racing field ever, athletes traveled from Brazil, Dubai, Puerto Rico, Australia and of course across the US and Canada to partake in what has grown into a week long festival of everything longboarding.

For the first time ever, a legal race was held on Jake’s Rash, a well known high speed drafting track also on the Sunshine Coast. Manny riders extended their stay on the coast, relaxing and freeriding for a couple days before suiting up for the inaugural race. This was a perfect addition to ADB, the course is entirely different than the slower, more gnarly Danger Bay course.

Unkle.ca and Coast longboaridng along with Landyachtz worked together to create another new addition to the festivities, the Gold Rush Challenge. The track is incredible, very fast with tight switchbacks and steep straights, the fastest and most technical race to take place in BC.

This Episode of The Eh Team brings you all the wicked action from these events, please enjoy!!