Silverfish Longboarding.com is a team effort. Our crew work hard to bring you great content, a fun place to discuss skating and a venue to spread the stoke. If you’ve got a question about how to set up your board, or what we think about a particular product, please post in the Forums. If you have forgotten your password, have a glitch you want to see fixed or some perceived misconduct to report, please use the Site Suggestions and Bugs forum, or click right on the offending message to report it. Our team of Moderators will help you out! If you are in the Forum and scroll down, click on “Forum Leaders” to see our full list of Team Silverfish Moderators.
If you need more than Moderation, or are interested to work with the ‘Fish with events, to support us (and you) with advertising, to have your product tested and reviewed on the ‘Fish (ask about our prototype program, too) or just want to talk to our point men, then see below. We’d tell you the “buck stops with them”, but they might turn their pockets inside-out and ask where it went! Seriously, though, click through for the core Admin Team.
Team Silverfish Adminstrative:
Malakai Kingston
Gonzo Event Coverage, Advertising Contact, Technical Support.
malakaikingston@silverfishlongboarding.com
Contact Malakai Kingston if you’d like to support your business, and our hobby, by advertising on the ‘Fish. He’s got ideas and the technical tools to maximize your effect while you show Silverfish members that you support skateboarding and a stoked place to talk about it. Malakai is your man for our “Friday PR Program”, which is free to vendors and manufacturers if we think what you've got is interesting. Hit him with ideas and submissions for articles, requests for technical assistance and matters for “discipline” in the Forums that cannot be resolved by our excellent Moderator team.
Malakai is one of the foulest beasts to skate the lands. A die-hard longboarder, his absolute disregard for the status quo is only exceeded by his lack of self-preservation instincts. He’s skated all over North America and has recently been populating the shimmering hills of Denver, convincing police to let his crew skate free. Generally disheveled, he’s always trying new slides that tend to leave his clothing appearing as though he’s been a pitbull’s chew toy.
As a Longboarding literati, Malakai Kingston visits the many cultures of longboarding and reports on them all with the flair of a concussion victim. A half-dazed look in his eye indicates he is thinking. About what? Who knows, but it’s probably not fit for publication. Malakai is married to an ER nurse that skates and slides with stoke, and both strongly support the use of safety gear, having seen and experienced the results of failure to do so.
Kingston is well known for his exploits with San Diego’s Ninja Bomb Squad skate crew and their unique mixture of on-skate aggression with off-skate stoke and friendliness to new skaters. He's skated with the NoVA Bombers, the Mile High Rollers, extended the Ninja Bomb Squad to Denver, Colorado, ripped and stoked at SlideFest 1 and 2, raced slalom at Pump Station, rolled the Central Park Pusher in New York City, bombed Maryhill, huddled in the rain at Danger Bay and helped judge the first slide contest at Top Challenge. An experienced member of The Longboard Consortium, Malakai and his crew push skate gear to the limit and beyond. Little crosses the path of the Ninja Bomb Squad’s “Twin Dragon” that doesn’t end up twisted, worn or broken, but with tabulation, measurement and observation. Malakai is also known for perpetual sleep-deprivation and a foul demeanor before the sun crosses the sky. Drop him a line, but don’t expect a reply before noon.
EBasil
Managing Editor, Event Coverage, Sponsorship Contact, Product Testing/Review.
ebasil@silverfishlongboarding.com
Contact Erik “EBasil” Basil if you’ve got an article submission, are looking to promote your race or event, have race reports, are interested in a joint-promotion with the ‘Fish or have gear you’d like to have tested and reviewed. EB can make your article read great, give advice for online participation and ensure your events receive coverage by professional-level photography and writing.
A cranky old dude, EBasil’s been skating since the 1970’s and used his un-naturally long toes to grip his deck and vault over hungry velociraptors. A dedicated cruiser, carver, latenight garage bomber and board-builder, EB also dabbles in slalom racing and DH, “so long as he can get to work in the morning”. An avid father, husband and mountainbiker, EB is one of the driving forces behind Silverfish Longboarding’s support of skate clinics, board-building classes and the Boarding for Breast Cancer Foundation. Married to a girl that skates with the Downhill Divas in San Diego, EBasil’s also got a young son that’s a familiar site at slalom and DH events, playing with skaters’ kids or bombing hills on a 48” Phat board while his parents scream, “Brakes!!!”. If he’s not on the hill, EBasil can often be found setting up a skaters deck, “so it can turn.”
EBasil is the coordinator for Silverfish Longboarding’s well-known testing group, “The Longboard Consortium”. He says it’s like herding cats, but uses experience and contacts in various industries to enable the Consortium crew to present the best gear reviews in the skateboard business. Manufacturers interested in putting their products “to the test” should contact EBasil to get started. With a wealth of knowledge, he is and has been an asset to many companies in regard to product development (ask about our prototype program) that help the overall ride of a deck. A ruthless editor, he uses too many commas. Send him an email, but spell-check it first so the old guy doesn’t blow a gasket.