Archive for March, 2007

I have Winner! The Longest Longboard!

The two previous Longboard Skateboard World Records I talked about were impressive and I thought they would not get any longer. But no! Here is the official longest longboard ever built!
Longboard
WHO:
Moshe Arazi / Aaron Lyon / David Micley
WHAT:
9.17 m (30 ft 1 in)
WHERE:
Newton, Massachusetts, USA
WHEN:
2005
The world’s longest skateboard measured 9.17 m (30 ft 1 in) [...]

World’s Longest Longboard Part 2!

Thanks to “Nervous Ned” on Silverfish I found someone who would actually road an 100 INCH beast. Ned said that it was in 2005 at the New Jersey Fatboy Garage Fest. So it’s no longer an 88 INCH record, we are up to 100 now.
A guy called George won the “longest board” contest by riding [...]

Free Advertising for Longboard Vendors and Manufacturers

If anyone out there wants their NEW longboarding products advertised infront of hundreds of longboarders a day. All you need to do is: 1) Have a brand new longboarding product (decks, setups, trucks, gear, anything!). 2) Comment this post (click "comments" next to this post title) with your request. [...]

Go Longboarding Day

Longboard Skateboard dayOk so there is an official “Go Skateboarding Day” out already. Where is ” Go Longboarding Day”? Is there one in Europre or U.S already? How hot would that be! 100’s-10,000’s longboarders cruising the street in a convoy!
Anyway in New Zealand it seems that only one of the cities are holding a skateboarding [...]

Bombing Hills In Cape Town, South Africa

Longboard Slide
If you were looking for somewhere new on earth to bomb a hill and you spun a globe of the world, and ended up with your finger on Cape Town, South Africa, fortune would have led you to a good place. For a start, the city has got some craggy, sheer mountains towering [...]