You have ridden the wheels, you have experienced the stoke…now it’s your time to showcase it in the first ever Sk8trip Video Contest! Downhill, ditches, freeriding, carving, park riding, big hills, small hills, you name it…..Anything that gets you stoked on riding...We want to see it!
Starting on Monday, November 9th we will begin accepting entries for the contest.
The contest will end on Monday, December 7th any videos sent in after this date will not be accepted. So get started!
Restless was created with the belief that riders should dictate the way their board’s look and feel. With this guide line in mind, we have always put forth new and innovative ways to allow riders to participate in the creation of their decks. Throughout the years, we have supported locals artists and encourage the youth. This will not change and we shall continue doing so for years to come. It’s in this spirit that we are introducing today the 1st edition of the Rider’s Choice.
What is the Rider’s Choice? It’s an annual longboard design competition. The goal of the contest is to offer anyone and everyone a platform to express themselves. Artist and riders alike will be invited to submit their artwork. A panel of Judges will then select the Top Ten best designs. The polls will open and the public will be encouraged to vote on their favourite design. The top two designs will be chosen for our next season’s lines of products and promoted across the world. Ultimately, the objective is to give the power back to the riders and allow them to control what types of boards and styles of designs we bring to the market.
Monday morning, the clock strikes 9. I get up, put my clothes on, brush my teeth and head outside. I step on my longboard, and get on the skate lane that runs parallel to the vehicle lane all throughout the city. As I pass through the city itself, I stop at various street lights dedicated solely to managing the flow of skateboards. I greet my fellow skaters, (of which there are tens of thousands scattered all throughout), and push my longboard like a madman as usual as I travel to class.
Sounds good doesn’t it? A bit too good, like something out of a Disney movie? Well…that’s because I’m full of wishful thinking (read: crap). My fellow “skaters” are actually all on bikes. I traverse lanes dedicated to cycling and no such street lights for longboarders exist…I am obligated to follow street signs and traffic lights meant for the biking population.
Action Sport Retailers: it's the "Big Show" for the skate industry... or it used to be. "Not so big," was the description from a vendor on the second day this September, despite management's insistence that, "we're big as ever!". Uh yeah. So, our job of finding you the new, the interesting, the cliche and the weird was a little easier this time. Here's our report:
I will start you out with this. A static and obvious sticker job on the side of a construction van, that on other days would be trolling your neighborhood in search of pets to mutilate. Today however; it is in a parking lot, in front of me, at 9:00 in the morning. Something is bothering me. The text and what it says does not match, the text says bling... It appears however to be plain, obvious and without enhancement.
Sometimes what someone tells you or advertises and what is self evident are the exact opposites, in this case; the owner of this van sucks at bling'n #### out.
In 20 minutes I will hear another such lie, as the media girl at the press check in tells me ASR is just as big as always. With the "big" show, at 1/3rd the size and over 20 standard attendees absent (many huge names) things are not as she said. She smiled as she touted the numbers, statistics to prove that the show is strong as ever. They may be lies, but at least this time they were pretty lies with smiling eyes.
No more would I take my bling needing gear to these guys would I attend ASR again unless they do a major retool of the show. Waste of time.
I'm not going to just hate without making recommendations though. Make it cheaper, localize things by standard of activity, increase value added events, decent lectures people care about, treat the press better and most of all KEEP PEOPLE AT THE CONVENTION. It used to be ASR was about the parties because SD is a great place to do that, now? It is nothing but the parties. Please make ASR worth attending, and whoever is helping you guys make decisions should be keel hauled, because you guys have competition and they are damn good at what they are doing change course or all is lost.
Have you got some great digital video footage of a killer speed run in your town?How about that great ditch session?Surely, you’ve got hilarious crash video of your buddy that deserves to be immortalized!Silverfish Longboarding.com has reserved a block of space on Concrete Wave’s Evolutions 5 DVD, for you!If you’ve got good footage of skaters racing, cruising, carving, sliding, shredding, building boards, showing off their Silverfish tats… whatever and wherever in the world, we want to let you show off your skate scene.
Last year, we had to boil a lot great footage down to snippets, and it was tough.This year, we don’t even want 30-second clips…no way! We want a full minute, or (way) more!It’s our present to you:we’ve reserved a lot of space, and hired a pro-level video editor into service and will put the best of your vids into Evolutions 5.Thousands of people receive the Evolutions DVD with their Concrete Wave magazine each year, and thousands more download it from the ‘Fish.
Send us your raw Digital Video format clips and our team of celebrity video editor will compile them into a video and soundtrack it.Click through to see what we want and what we’ve got for you!
How to Submit Video:
Do a pre-edit with your greatest shots to ensure them getting thrown in! If you have an already cut video, please send it in! It will help us edit the video much quicker.
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