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!
The premier North American gravity festival is back for 2009. This year’s event will go on, without participation or support from the City of Goldendale where you all paid for skatepark renovations after the Mayor’s scandal, but the races are on, the hill is open and the owners of the road are stoked to have you come race, camp, freeride & party at the Festival of Speed!
2009 Maryhill Festival of Speed
REGISTRATION OPENS IN JUNE
If you were anywhere near your television, a computer or a decent skateboarding magazine in 2008, you know all about what went down at the Maryhill Festival of Speed. The endless freeriding on 28 banked curves over a nearly 3-mile course, hundreds of gravity racers, eating, camping, partying and enjoying live bands, killer local hospitality and perfect weather… captured well by NBC’s Jeep World of Adventure Sports and the crew at Orangefiist (see vids, below). If you know what the Maryhill Festival of Speed is all about, then your only two questions are whether it’s going down again and how you’re going to make it there. Well, the town with an overwrought, imaginative Mayor isn’t any part of it (officially) but the locals are supportive and the Festival of Speed is coming to Maryhill on September 2nd to 6th. Registration is as last year: “Priority Reg” opens June 21st, and “Open Reg” opens the First of July. Details and more, below…
Yes my friends ! Following the cancellation of Almabtrieb World cup, we tried to find a solution to keep you an entire Euro trip with 3 world cups in a row. We found it and we are happy to announce that there will be an IGSA world Cup event from 23 to 26 of july to replace almabtrieb : The Graveyard Call.
The race is the homespot of famous french riders as adren Barat, Loic Zaccharo or Xavier Hoareau aka Twix. It will take place in Argonnay (France) in the french alps. this is the program : 22 th of july afternoon : freeride on the first third of the spot (1 km on the 3 km long approx.) 23 th to 25 of july : trainig and time trials 26 th of july : finals 27 th : freeride on the short part of the track.
It will be organized by the french assocxiation, D173.
Registration should open at the end of april. he race format will be "dual", as in Teutonia brazil!
So take your flight tickets to europe and stay tuned for more infos to come !"
Do you remember when the only coverage of IGSA racing in Concrete Wave was whatever the Silverfish guys sent to me or published in their column each issue? EBasil used to tell me over and over, "racing is the ultimate extension, put a speedboarder on the cover!" and I'd just smile, knowing he and Malakai would cover things on their own. As time passes and the infectious stoke you Silverfishers exude has had an effect on me, we've now put TWO speedboarders on our cover, to great acclaim by all types of skater and the feedback from the Silverfish coverage of 2007's Festival of Speed convinced me to give IGSA's Marcus Rietema his own column in Concrete Wave. -- M.Brooke, Publisher.
IGSA's Year End, 2008
To read and see more, click through to the full article.
Justin Boast always brings us some of the most epic event coverage on the 'fish and this time is no exception. Amazing downhill racing, stunning scenery, epic hill and a pack of arrogant baboons. What more could you ask for in a downhill competition.
HOT HEELS AFRICA 2008
Final IGSA World Cup Event of the Year
Pics taken by Sharon le Grange & Ben Malherbe
It's 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening and I'm trying to pack. We leave for the "bunker" in the Kogelberg Biosphere nature reserve tonight, and as always, there's too many things that still need to be done. T-shirts and race day information sheets still to print, boards, leathers, clothes, food and beer packed. By 11 everything's done and our convoy consisting of Anton Pratt, Richard Dweza, Ben Malherbe, Tibor Hery, Glen Phllips and myself hits the road. We arrive after midnight at the pitch-black bunker. The scene is erie, real horror movie stuff. The bunker's up in the middle of the Hottentots Holland mountain range, a South African Navy relic left from the old days when this area was used as a missile testing ground. There's no electricity or hot water, but we manage to find some candles for light and get a fire started. This'll be home for the next two nights. We unpack our gear and chill by the fire.
Comes now the heralded IGSA, reporting herein the Go Fast! Speed Days, '08, from jolly old England.
Go Fast Speed Days '08
For the full text, read Concrete Wave magazine, Holiday '08 edition. Oh, you're too cheap to subscribe to the only mag that covers skateboard racing at all? It's too far to skate over to the only bookstore in your town that sells CW, so you can poach a view and then put it back with the pages stuck together? Well then, navigate thyself yonder to your gracious hosts' CW Downloads area and readyyour sorry ass to receive bequest of the article in PDF format. Being a cheapskate, you already know you can view it in hi-res with the free PDF viewer from Adobe, but we didn't need to tell you that.
IGSA Coverage 
