Before I passed out I had a solid plan, get up early hit the floors before they filled up and shoot a few things I had missed. As I was crashing at 4am I made sure to set my alarm. Hell of allot of good that did me. I woke at 10:30 to a silent house, my alarm either never went off or I managed to somehow get up, turn off my alarm, and then get back in bed all without bothering to make mental note I was doing it. In no mood to hurry I just assembled my gear and wandered to the Jeep.
The basic plan was to walk the whole floor, shooting anything I had missed and touching base with a few key people. You will find that this final installment of the coverage is a bit fragmented and hardly rational. I can explain this simply by saying; I was burned out like you have no idea. Everything was a blur of boards and broads. A thumping mix of screenprinted fabric and the shining of curved rails. I did the best I could, I showed up.
The second day of ASR finds us tired and torn brains numbed by lack of sleep and an overwhelming sense that there can't possibly be anything we missed. Nothing could be worth wading into the muck and mire of the glamour obsessed masses, scuttling from booth to booth. Not withstandin,g we journey into the frey; and be it luck or fate we managed to run into a few things you may actually care about. Seriously, yea we were suprised too!
Come along with us and check out that we have in store for you, a little bit of our expirience, a good deal of goods worth shaking a stick at and some things that may even bring a bemused smile to your face. Remember tomorrow is the last day so if there is anything in our gallery so far you want to know more about please, get in touch with the editors and let us know. If we are gunna be taking enemy fire we might as well do it for you.
ASR is more than just shoes you will never wear, boards you will never ride, and lables you could care less about. It's about witnessing another persons grasp on their version of the american dream. Be it a well thought out linear line to the perfect design or a half baked egg giving you the runs. Either way it's a display of mastery. Profane, inspired or just downright odd, the point of ASR is not what has been created but how it interfaces with the audience of slack jawed suckers and sellers, rubes in their own right, the masses are the judges here.
This go around longboarding seems to be more accepted, crazy displays of lunacy while still present seem to be fewer and maybe I am just getting jaded but the flesh bags seem, less, how do I put it. Fresh. We actually had a blast today, got to see a great many new friends, not just on the floor but also at the party we hosted. Read on for a few shots of thoughts. See the full gallery of ASR Here.
[This coverage of MHFOS come from Ross at the SLAC]
Maryhill Festival of Speed for me was like traveling in time. It was 7 years since I was last at Maryhill for the 2001 EDI event. So many of the old faces were their and so many new ones. I couldn't believe how well organized the whole event was. Maryhill truly represented a world championship event.
The Award Ceremony was so amazing. We had Never Summer boards being given out people running around having flour wars and a rock concert. Marcus and John even let the SLAC team sell over $760 worth of tickets that weekend for Paskapoo Raffle.
The Speedboard and Longboard Association of Calgary (SLAC) will be running a fundraiser raffle from Aug. 22 to Oct. 1st.
SLAC is the Alberta Non-profit Society that organized the extremely ambitious 2007 Paskapoo Downhill Rodeo.
In 2007 prior to the race a major sponsor (and a few minor sponsors) reneged on a verbal contact after our drop-dead date which in turn forced SLAC organizers to run a deficit or be forced to cancel the 2007 race . Realising that a large number or riders had already booked international flights, SLAC members pressed forward and when the dust settled the event was negative in excess of $20,000. SLAC has been tirelessly trying to get out of the red since.
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