Not all skate shirts are black! Check out the Silverfish Gear Page . There are new men's, women's and kids' shirts! (Some are even black.)
We're using "spreadshirt", so you order straight from them. Dig through the listings and you'll find some classic 'Fish designs, including shirts with art taken from member Ryan's art-pen drawings. Have an idea for a shirt? Send it in!
Written by Crystiana Baca-Bosijevac and Devon Talley-Bailey
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Battles in the Desert: Santa Fe Outlaw Series
Written by Crystiana Baca-Bosijevac and Devon Talley-Bailey
For those of you who don't know, New Mexico is a large state nestled between Arizona and Texas (yes, it's part of the U.S. and no you don't need a passport to visit). Among those aware of our existence, New Mexico is known for many things: aliens, the International Balloon Fiesta, and green chile. Thanks to the hard work of David Price though, New Mexico is gaining more recognition as a hub for great skaters and variety of skating terrain. Although many skaters who come to New Mexico visit Albuquerque for its legendary ditches, the plethora of downhill runs in and around Santa Fe remain somewhat unknown to most. Despite the large variety of downhill terrain to skate in northern New Mexico, the scene is rather small, nothing like Vancouver, BC, Southern California or Colorado. As a way to help grow and unify the downhill scene, Price has been organizing a series of downhill outlaw races in Santa Fe which have attracted riders from Colorado, Texas, and Arizona.
The Lyons Urban Assault started 5 years ago and hasn’t become any less ridiculous since. 11km of downhill bombing followed by 14 grueling km of cross town endurance racing. In the 5th installment of the Landyachtz Eh-Team we’ll cover the legendary cross city event held by the commissioner, Bricin Lyons of Coast Longboarding.
Starting at the top of Cypress Mountain, at 4:20am, and finishing on the other side of the city at the Molson brewery, this is truly a one of a kind event. We’ll check in with Landyachtz riders Meatball, Nate Lang, Liam McKenzie and Hoodie to get the inside track and hear what they think of the event. We’ll also shed a little light on the controversy that developed during the so called “no-rules” event!
Making sure no one is left out and everybody gets their roll on, the 9th annual “Longboarders take over the Seawall” cruise starts the same day at 4:20 pm. We’ll join in on the cruise and see what 300+ longboarders look like on the trails of downtown Vancouver.
The annual tradition of transforming parking spots into skate spots for a good cause continues as California Bonzing Co. and the SF Skateboarding Assoc. team up for PARK[ing] Day 2009
San Francisco, CA: On September 18th, 2009, California Bonzing Co. and the San Francisco Skateboarding Assc. willl team up for the annual PARK[ing] Day celebration. This event is available to anyone, offering free skateboard ramps, mini pipe, and rails, as well as free food. The event, being held from noon to 5pm at the Civic Center, is being hosted to support the building of more San Francisco skate parks. This worldwide event is made up of artists, activists, and citizens, who collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces; temporary public parks.
Rayne's Ride the Giant went off this weekend and we've got fresh news and killer photos for you from our man on the course. Check out the stoke, and check out the shots!
Race Report:
RIDE THE GIANT 2
A legend is rising in Canada. The Okanagan Valley in British Columbia is already a legend, a mecca for summer vacationers who pack the highways with their caravans eager to enjoy the massive Okanagan Lake and the panorama of vineyards and orchards. Summerland is a little town in the middle of it all, nestled into the mountainside. And there, in the middle of this unassuming farmland, rises an unmistakable landmark, a towering mountain of ancient volcanic rock. This is Giant's Head Mountain, the home of Rayne's "Ride the Giant" freeride, over two kilometers of steep, unpredictable, narrow switchbacks.
The city of Brasilia was constructed in the middle of nowhere in Brazil’s Central Plains region almost 50 years ago. All it took was a stubborn president (Juscelino Kubistchek, our JK), a couple of brilliant architects (Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa) and some really hard work in order to make the dream come true. Even though the majority of politicians who live and work there seem to live in another planet, the city itself is a cradle for people arriving from all over the country, and up to this date the Capital is regarded as a land of opportunities for the newcomers.
All this introduction was to point out two characteristics of most people who live in the newest capital of the American continent: they’re determined and daring. So it’s no surprise that the best organized contest in Brazilian downhill skateboarding happens in this city.
Overmeeting Skate Downhill is THE annual contest for longboard freeriding, DH slide and slalom, our own “festival of speed”. It all started when a skateboarding militant girl, Christie Aleixo, moved from Rio to the city. She couldn’t be conformed with the fact that the local DH community would only have one contest per year, and started to make the Earth move in order to make the best contest possible. As years went by, she moved away from the city but the seed she’s planted way back in 2003 has cropped into the best contest for the DH skateboarding scenario.
Two guys are responsible for the organization nowadays, Walter Junior (owner of OverStreet skate shop) and Renato Rebello (who owns RT2, an event promotion firm). They’ve gone beyond all boundaries to make all the participants happy at all times, from skaters to the public to the crew. You know the kind of contest that puts smiles in everybody’s faces?! That’s the one. To put it short, those guys kick ass!
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