The Kiwi Thread (and no, not the fruit)

**Joe** · 10-23-2007 02:56 AM

I got an email from Nat from skatenewzealand.com. Adam Colton is coming with him!

**oscar** · 10-23-2007 02:59 AM

Yeah i heard that too.
Hey guys, havent been on for a while.. But still skating! Hows everyone doing?

**boomboy** · 10-23-2007 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by Joe

I got an email from Nat from skatenewzealand.com. Adam Colton is coming with him!

Yeah i heard that a few weeks ago, i hope i get to skate with them when they come through Auckland, should be fun.

Originally Posted by oscar

Yeah i heard that too.
Hey guys, havent been on for a while.. But still skating! Hows everyone doing?

I have not been skating much lately, ive been a good boy and studying for my exams next week but the weathers been pretty bad anyway.

BTW did anyone see those $1 reserve loaded boards that were on trademe a month or 2 ago. I was just wondering if anyone on here got one, i got the loaded fish for $204 not a bad deal.

**Carbon8** · 10-24-2007 05:46 AM

aighty... update on skatenewzealand.....
Nat is arriving on the 6th jan, adam on the 7th. departing reinga south on the 11th jan.
I will definatly be going for a skate with them... anyone else keen?

They need some help with transport... theyr having trouble finding a van on a tight budget.. so if anyone can help.....

IM nearly finished uni.. whoop! then its time to get out and skate and surf and get boozed!!! cant wait...

Hey oscar... whats the haps down in gissie for longboarding?!? i will be down there over newyears... any good hills? bowls?

**oscar** · 10-26-2007 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Carbon8

aighty... update on skatenewzealand.....
Nat is arriving on the 6th jan, adam on the 7th. departing reinga south on the 11th jan.
I will definatly be going for a skate with them... anyone else keen?

They need some help with transport... theyr having trouble finding a van on a tight budget.. so if anyone can help.....

IM nearly finished uni.. whoop! then its time to get out and skate and surf and get boozed!!! cant wait...

Hey oscar... whats the haps down in gissie for longboarding?!? i will be down there over newyears... any good hills? bowls?

Hills.. ehh.. Bowls.. ehh..

But a Professional grade 24 foot Halfpipe (same as the Red Bull one). Ohhh Yeah.

**boomboy** · 10-26-2007 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by oscar

But a Professional grade 24 foot Halfpipe (same as the Red Bull one). Ohhh Yeah.

Thats pretty sweet, was it left over from a competition or something.

Whats the surf been like down in Gissy, there hasn't been much swell up here on the east coast.

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-26-2007 09:06 PM

its my b-day in december getting a new dervish and some bennets/zigzags/bearings for my mini for christmas, yeah.

stoked about adam colton coming just hope im in welly when hes here if not im in nelson

**boomboy** · 10-26-2007 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by OMGWTFBBQ

its my b-day in december getting a new dervish and some bennets/zigzags/bearings for my mini for christmas, yeah.

stoked about adam colton coming just hope im in welly when hes here if not im in nelson

That sounds pretty sweet, i was thinking about getting some bennetts for my fish but i think i will just stay with the trackers for now.
What zigzags are you thinking bout getting? i have the 78a red ones, their super grippy.

if you want to buy a dervish complete look at this:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Skat...-123931024.htm

Its alot cheaper than the loadeds on best boards.

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-26-2007 11:03 PM

uhh #### i hate that guy he talks #### all the time he siad "If you are looking for one of the best downhill long boards available this has to be it!!!!!!"about the dervish
and "Randal Trucks out perform any skateboard truck in a downhill longboarding application." i called him a liar and trademe emailed me and told me to stop abuseing him!

anyway im just getting the deck ive already got paris and bigzigs
im probaley going to get lemon or orange zigzags or 88a no skools
getting the zigzags/no skools and bennets off lostboy.co.nz

**boomboy** · 10-26-2007 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by OMGWTFBBQ

uhh #### i hate that guy he talks #### all the time he siad "If you are looking for one of the best downhill long boards available this has to be it!!!!!!"about the dervish
and "Randal Trucks out perform any skateboard truck in a downhill longboarding application." i called him a liar and trademe emailed me and told me to stop abuseing him!

anyway im just getting the deck ive already got paris and bigzigs
im probaley going to get lemon or orange zigzags or 88a no skools
getting the zigzags/no skools and bennets off lostboy.co.nz

Yeah that really annoys me too.

I too was thinking about just buying the deck and using my randals off my drop carve but i think i might look at buying a gravity pool board instead.

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-27-2007 09:25 PM

hey all you welly boys ill be down at the water front till 7ish cum down if you want

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-28-2007 01:17 AM

today was cool i met a guy down at the waterfront who moved over from england in febuary hes riding a lush mako with holeys and avalanches anyway we got talking and he said he was looking for a few guys to go and sesh with but hadn't seen anyone he has a silverfish profile but hasnt used it much i told him to come on here and try meet a few guys. I had a go on his mako(my first decent ride on a bigish deck thats not sector 9) and now i cant wait to get a dervish, cross-stepping is so much easier than on a 22 inch mini!
he is also the first longboarder ive seen not riding a sector nine or gravity

**Marty_McFly** · 10-28-2007 05:19 PM

that was me! so im still hoping a few more welly longboarders will creep out of the woodwork!

**BrooklynNZ** · 10-28-2007 09:04 PM

that was me! so im still hoping a few more welly longboarders will creep out of the woodwork!

Its not woodwork, we only come out at night

**Marty_McFly** · 10-28-2007 09:59 PM

ahh! thats why i've never seen anyone then brooklyn. So do you have any places you session most? Im keen to hook up with some people and get riding again now the weather is improving!

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-28-2007 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Marty_McFly

ahh! thats why i've never seen anyone then brooklyn. So do you have any places you session most? Im keen to hook up with some people and get riding again now the weather is improving!

hey i know you!

also just for eveyone my cell number is 0211824217 if anyone wants to sent me a text bout a session or something

**boomboy** · 10-29-2007 06:33 PM

Another update about skate new zealand in the loaded newsletter.

It says that Adam would like it if anyone on the Loaded newsletter is from NZ, please shoot him adam@loadedboards.com an email so we can plan on meeting up and possibly help them fundraise.

Just thought id let you guys know if you wanted to send him an email and help out.

**BrooklynNZ** · 10-30-2007 12:14 AM

ahh! thats why i've never seen anyone then brooklyn. So do you have any places you session most? Im keen to hook up with some people and get riding again now the weather is improving!

We a bit busy wit study n whatnot till exams are over in a couple weeks, but yeah theres a few nice hills we quite like.
Not sure what its called but the road that comes out in front of the Zoo is QUITE nice, wont be hittin it from the top till we get some decent safety gear an stuff but.
Again, not sure of the name but the hill in Berhampore that goes past the hockey stadium isn't bad. I can't be bothered thinkin of anymore.

Oh yeah does anyone know whats up with this dry spell? All my dealers have been raided hear its the same all over. You guys heard anything?

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-30-2007 12:32 AM

hey brooklyn i live on the hill by the zoo
the one that gos past the stadium looks good to(mt albert rd) its like 10 minutes walk from my house

any of you welly boys gonna come skate with nat and adam c. when they're here?
Also, im so stoked walked into cheapskates today and lo behold strikers! they've recentley upgraded they're longboard selection, now they've got like 25 sector 9s 4 gfhs 4 gravitys some ops and a bunch of no brand stuff.i had a go on some sidewinders and they turn insane! they would be mad for pumping.yay im tempted to buy those strikers.

**boomboy** · 10-30-2007 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by OMGWTFBBQ

Also, im so stoked walked into cheapskates today and lo behold strikers! they've recentley upgraded they're longboard selection, now they've got like 25 sector 9s 4 gfhs 4 gravitys some ops and a bunch of no brand stuff.i had a go on some sidewinders and they turn insane! they would be mad for pumping.yay im tempted to buy those strikers.

Thats awesome i think i might have to go down to cheapskates 2morrow.

What gravity's did they have?

BTW i found this cheap GPS type thing on trade me, looks pretty sweet.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Skat...-125077411.htm