Bad News Dept: Montreal's Top Challenge is Cancelled. The '08 edition of this multidisciplinary event has been cancelled, according to event organizers, who reported,"A new comitee to protect the Parc du Mont-Royal has convinced the city to stop allowing permits for events that last more than 24 hours..."
This reduces the major events for '08, leaving only Munnsville for large, East Coast races.
The crew at Ladera Longboards come to us out of a town near Santa Cruz, California. Steeped in the fast, forest lined hills of the Santa Cruz mountains and wild evasions of the vicious campus police at UC Santa Cruz, this team of buddies don't talk a lot of smack, they just ride fast, surf big waves and spread the stoke. Their vid from '05 remains one of the most stoked, fun speedboard offerings out there. Recently, they've updated their product line with a new concaved & cambered deck, updated their website to dazzle your eyes and decided to bro you a t-shirt if you buy a board. Check it out, here's their newest:
The Ladera "Respect Roots 38"
Ladera’s latest hill-slayer, the 38” Respect Roots is essentially an upgraded version of their best-selling pintail, the Ripper. The major difference is a touch of camber, which gives the board a moderate amount of flex perfect for high-speed carves, slides and drift-turns. A kick-tail and slight concave keep the rider’s feet on the sweet spot, and a killer board graphic by David Hale will have you ripping in style.
The boys at Exkate wrote in to ensure everyone on the 'Fish knows about this deal they're offering until the end of July: prices on wheels are cut in half!
Exkate's Moving Sale: Half Off on Wheels!
Exkate has been around since 1998. We are the original inventors of wireless electric skateboards and the famous Exkate torsion trucks. Under new ownership, we've been in the Bay Area for several years and are moving to Lake Forest in Orange County, California. Wheels are heavy and we don't want to move them... plus, we have to make room for our new product line that's due out in September. So, before we show the editors at Silverfish our new stuff at ASR, we're going to offer all of you a special deal on the classic Exkate wheels of racing legend! Our Cherry Bombs and M80s are 50% off until the end of the month, or until we move - whichever comes first. Go to the next page for more information.
NEW PRODUCT DESIGNED TO HELP PREVENT TRAUMA FOR SKATEBOARDERS and SNOWBOARDERS
Scientifically designed wrist guards help prevent most common injury
“Wrist injury is the number one skateboard injury, usually a sprain or a fracture. Skateboarders who have been skating for less than a week suffered one-third of the injuries” says the National Safety Council
Wrist Injury is also the number one snowboard injury, with over 100,000 snowboard wrist injuries per year worldwide. Beginners have 4 times the chance of breaking a wrist as more experienced riders.
Criddle 'Zine is a formerly underground slalom rag, produced by Carl "Mr. Surly" Crider and his band of punk rock, slalom swerving skater buds. It's been available by word of mouth and sleight of hand at races and jams throughout the Southeastern USA, but those things are all about to change...
Criddle: Pump & Disorderly
Goes Electronic
No, we don't mean that Mr. Surly has become a Soft Cell fan. That's totally private and he'll deny it. Go ahead, check. Nope, "going electronic" means you can score Criddle online now, in a downloadable PDF that you can read on your monitor or print out and stash it on top of those Victoria's Secret catalogs you've got in the hall bathroom. Yeah, everyone knows... So, this issue of Criddle has a bunch of cool new stuff. Click through for the Table of Contents, some sample pics from the mag and a link right to the PDF.
Here at Silverfish, the Pressure Drop RD-42 is a favorite deck among the skaters at our garage and speedboarding sessions, among the Longboard Consortium testers that have made the RD-42 a mule for nearly every new product we look at, and with the skaters that take advantage of our loaner board program for races. Recently, owner Shaun O'Brian was stoked to find out how many times his stable, concaved raceboard was hitting podiums, then bemused to find photos of a racer on his board in another company's ad in Concrete Wave. Hey, it happens...
Pressure Drop on the Rise!
Pressure Drop Longboards RD - 42 model speedboard made a big splash at this year’s Indian School Outlaw Ditch Race & Ditch Slap, held in ABQ, N.M. In its first major showing, the RD - 42 was ridden to three top ten finishes, including two podium placements. Timeship Racing / PPS rider Will Brunson took first place on his RD-42 and PDL rider Chris Miller took ninth on his!
Pressure Drop's Chris Miller training on The Bear.
In the Bear Slalom Cross, Joe Lehm ( Timeship Racing owner and legendary race promoter ) took third place on his RD-42, and we’re stoked to see how successful racers have been on our high-performance race deck! In other PDL race news, Kirby Cox (in his first DH race ever rode to a respectable finish at the IGSA CAL DH Series in Bonelli Park, CA. We would like to thank all of these riders, without whose talent, there would be no PDL race news !
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