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!
Last week, we told Newsflash readers about new wheels coming from Bennett and leaked the news about the Reflex Flywheels now shown in the forums. Now, how about a Silverfish wheel? It would have to be a longboard wheel to make even the cranky faux-core crack into grins...even utter the cry,"Stoked!"...
...and we think it is. Keep your eyes on the 'Fish. We don't have many of these things, they're pure sex, pure skate, pure stoke... 'Fish Balls !!!
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.
The Malarrara Pro Teutonia is the "fastest skateboard race in the world" and it's Oct 20 & 21, in Brasil. Siegrist has been clocked at over 73mph and the speedboard world is there to better it this weekend.
The Guinness officials are, too, so Gary Hardwick's record will be history by Monday. Check out the Brasilian website for photos of the hill and video from last year's event. Click it.
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!
General News 
