The team at Silverfish Longboarding.com is proud to announce the next development in our forums: hosting by experts, celebrities and cool people. We'll let you figure out which is which, but you'll see special hosts with blogs inside our forums, and the committment to help you out with Q&A and tips.
Our first two Hosts are Joe Iacovelli in our Slalom Forum, and Adam Colton in our Tricks & Tips Forum. They'll be posting in their Blogs, giving tips and fielding your questions. Read on for more!
ADAM COLTON, hosting Tricks & Tips.
Adam is well known on Silverfish Longboarding for his amusing and informative videos and helpful posts on innovative board techniques. With a passion for boarding and helping good causes they have worked with both Longboard Larry and Loaded. As well as skating cross country to collect donations for the Green Skate Lab a project to help the youths.
Adam Colton and Adam Stokowski are armed and ready with their LongboardLarry Dancers. Adam Colton will be running a Blog and bringing in Adam S to spread their love of longboarding and help you get the ladies and gentlemen! They’ll be launching new trick tip videos, posted in the Trick Tip section of Silverfish. Adam and Adam will try to post up a new trick tip video every week unless Adam announces otherwise.
Also, stay tuned for a trick tip DVD Volume 1, packed with never seen before trick tip videos and bonus videos!
Head over to the Tips & Tricks Forum
Joe Iacovelli, Hosting Slalom
Joe Iacovelli has been skating for a long time, and is just the kind of stoked dude that we all love to see giving back to the sport! With a solid background in mid-70’s skating, including “local status” at the famous Cherry Hill skatepark, Joe really had a rebirth of his skating stoke in the late ‘90’s when his son, Nick, got into skateboarding. Since then, it’s been longboarding and slalom for these two, and check this out:
“In 2004, I coached the #1 slalom racers in Girls, Young Womens, and the #2 in the Womens division. In 2005, I coached the Womens’ Slalom Rookie of the Year. I’m also very proud to have re-introduced skate legend and Z-Boy Wentzle Ruml to slalom. It’s like hanging out and skating with Joe Namath or something!”
Here’s what to look for in Joe’s columns:
“My agenda for slalom is to introduce it to as many people as possible. Why? I love it. It brings me joy to do. Equal to, or perhaps greater than, that joy is what I get watching the first time someone cleans a course, beats their friend, or (the sadly popular) beating me. Race-wise, I'm solidly in the middle of the pack. Got a B class podium or two last year. Big Deal. Raced all over the US, Canada (I'm HUGE in Canada), and Paris 2004. [Joe just won his class at the Texas Outlaws’ Sizzler and garnered major props from pro racers. –Ed.]
When I started slaloming very few people knew which end was up. I bought all the wrong stuff. I had it set up all wrong. I practiced wrong, had my feet wrong, in short made every mistake you can imagine. I have not forgotten what struggling was like. It SUCKED. I thought about hanging it up all the time. But little by little I made my way.
I can help most riders go from New to Intermediate. Once you hit intermediate, I have to race against you and then the tips stop! Seriously though, slalom is such that the right bushing combo, wedge, or foot placement can make all the difference in the world. You go from plowing cones to cleaning the course with little tweaks and encouragement. With some of my slalom friends here on Silverfish, I’d like to help you get started and keep you up to date on new equipment, opportunities to race, and the best answers to your questions I can come up with.”
So, head on over to the SLALOM FORUM LINK and let’s get it on!