Loaded teams up with the 'fish for this one of a kind board. A limited quantity of this silver embossed Loaded Fish are now available for the holiday season, it is a one of a kind item that sports quality qear like an RTS/RTS Abec11 Striker setup with PT Bearings and Edger Griptape on the foam kick. Get them before they are gone.
The fourth competition in our ongoing Board Builders' Series was titled "carving boards" and intended to be a broad invitation to experiment with size, shape, materials and designs. Every episode in this year's series has drawn out innovative builders and inspiring designs, but this one is over the top...
Cutting Edge Carvers
Board Builders' Series #4
Salvaged antique furniture, spliced into a pintail that takes your breath away. Race-derived concaves and the creaking of bolts in a mold. Contours that no commercial board maker could ever contemplate. The perfect board for your own hills. Wood from Katrina, metalflake from the auto paint house, the fret board off a banjo and hardwood flames. What is all this stuff? Proof that board building is bounded only by the dreams and ideas of incredible skateboard builders. It's the fourth round in the Silverfish Longboarding Board Builders' Series. Twenty board builders submitting their best, all for the thrill of presentation, the challenge to build something you've only dreamed of and the opportunity to win a set of Paris Trucks. Check it all out: click here to see the entries.
Readers of the slalom forums at the 'Fish know that Martin Drayton recently set a World Record for 50-cone courses in skateboard slalom. What you may not know is that he'll be a household name in China for this one or that he did this on wet asphalt. Here's the full story...
Drayton Earns Guinness World Record for Slalom!
Recently, China's largest television company (there are only 15 stations for 1 billion viewers in Asia!) wanted to film a new “skateboard record” for a show they call “Record Breakers”.They did the logical thing, and contacted the Guinness World Records organisation for ideas.After discussions with British slalom racer Paul Price, they came up with an idea:a 50 cone slalom record could be perfect for television!Working with Price, the Guinness officials and television producers arrived at a standard, found a place and set the date for October 2, 2007.
The standard would be 50 cones @ 1.6m (5ft 3in.) centre-to-centre, on the flat with a clean run! This is tighter than most competitive slalom courses, but similar to the “Cyber Slalom” standard that was so popular a few years ago.Guinness made it clear:any dislodged cones would disqualify the run. Usually in races a downed cone attracts a 0.1 second penalty, but GWR was adamant that it would be clean or not at all.The location would be Hyde Park in London.2005 World Amateur Tight Slalom Champion, Martin Drayton, was selected to make the runs in the event.Everything looked good, up until the day of the event, when everyone awoke to a light, but steady London drizzle of rain!
In speedboarding, there are few absolutes.The “gnarliest downhill”, the “fastest course”, the “best road”…these are all subjective measurements when it gets down to it.“Highest Speed” is different.The quest for who can and does go the very fastest isn’t about finish lines, railing a corner or made-for-tv illusions, but all about using gravity, technique, the right equipment and brass balls to run up the speedometer while standing on a skateboard.On October 20 & 21, 2007, the eyes of the speedboarding world will be on Teutonia, Brasil, where event organizers will setup a speedtrap to “Guinness Book Standards” and Gary Hardwick’s record will likely be officially eclipsed on that now famous hill...
Colorado'sanswer to Teutonia.
In the meantime, others pursue speed their own way, and in their own backyards.Recently, Silverfish and the skateboarding world have been blown away by a series of reports, videos and photos sent in by Brent “Dubester” Dubendorff and Kevin “K-Rimes” Reimer as they visited a relatively unknown track in Colorado’s high country that may be even faster than the Brazilian road.Dubester recorded GPS data well over 70mph and called up K-Rimes:“Get down here!” was all it took…
You may have seen the photos and the videos in the forums(don’t worry, they’re coming at you, again!), but we thought you’d like to read what Dubester and K-Rimes have to say about the days spent breaking new (unofficial) records, what it’s like to skate that fast and what the hell they were thinking…
So, we went to Maryhill and nearly forgot about ASR. Was that real recent? Y'all are persistent, we'll give you that. Here's the second half of our walkthrhough at the September ASR:
The Silverfish ASR Tour, Part2
One of the calmer moments. Seriously.
So when we last left you in our photo tour of September’s ASR, we’d shown you a few boards, some trucks, several nice young ladies in various stages of action sports uniforming and a few kooky products.Now, it’s time to continue our tour of the Big Show and to include a detour or two for some extra-curricular fun. Don't be expecting vast displays of barely-clad flesh this time, though. No, no...your momma called and told us to cut that stuff out. This time, we'll stick to the facts, as few as they may be...
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