Happy Holidays

Don't forget to bundle up because, as Billy says, it's cold outside.

Mid West Tour Episode 5

Happy Friday!...enjoy the latest tour video...

Why We Race

World Class Downhill Skateboard Racing from Landyachtz on Vimeo.

An old man is talking

...listen up kids, cause Bertrand has important things to say.

Check out his whole blog HERE.

Introduction: Bear Trucks Polar Bears

UPDATE: The Polar Bears continue to rock my world. The Polar Bears are so good they make my other TKP trucks feel like cheap toys. I have been to the concrete park near me twice so far with the Polar Bears, they are excellent carving trucks and they grind extremely smoothly on concrete. I have been improving my frontside carves on the flow corners; I am now going so fast that I'm flying off the coping on the exit. The 91a durometer stock tall barrel bottom bushings were too soft for a big fellow like myself, so I replaced them with some Venom 97a pink bushings. I kept the stock top bushings to keep the carving sharp. The trucks carve really well with the hard bottom bushings and I am getting absolutely no wheelbite with my 52mm Satori Linked Logo 98a wheels. Everything with the Polar Bears is fast and stable at the park.  The trucks are super stable; bombing some hills I quickly wore the Satori wheels down to about 50mm. The Polar Bear trucks are so good that I don't even bother to skate my other boards now. Wherever I take a skateboard, it is the one with the Polar Bears on it that I grab without hesitation. Traveling is so easy with these trucks, they carve well, they grind well, and it is so easy to ollie with these trucks that I barely set up anymore to hop curbs. Here are some more pictures of the Polar Bears:

Polar Bear 155mm trucks. I'm still grinding my locks in. The heat treated aluminum is so strong that it is taking longer than usual. The Polar Bears grind super smoothly.

Jack the Ripper

Jack Craddock is one of the youngest riders on the team. Living in West Van gives him the perfect terrain to practice and its no wonder this kid is progessing so fast. Totally dominating the Junior 1 division at races this year, this kid is coming after the older guys now.

Get those kids on board!

This little guy will be slaying in no time.

Mid West tour part 4

What took you guys so long?

Euro Tour 2012 Part 3: Land Boat Special from SkateHouseMedia.com on Vimeo.

Skate House Media always puts together great edits. This one happens to feature Team Rider Dillon Stephens in Europe a few weeks back.

Mid West tour part 3

Custom Wolfshark

Some beautiful work by Champstiles Woodburning

Avaliable at Flatspot Longboard Shop

The Parade of Lost Souls

The Landyachtz warehouse and surrounding area was turned into a nightmarish wonderland for Halloween...

Parade Of Lost Souls from Landyachtz on Vimeo.

Happy Halloween From Landyachtz

Thanks to Joel Linafelter for sending us this sweet jack-o'lantern photo! Now do the Monster Mash...

Billy Bones Slide Gloves

Billy shows you all the cool things you can do while wearing his new Slide Gloves.

Mid West Tour Part 2

Straight to the horses mouths...

From Travis:

We landed in Medoza on Thurday and hooked up with some locals and headed to Potrero De Los Funes, where the race is held. All three of us slept in a car the first night, we hit the race hill early, met the locals, and started runs... Such a wild course. It's 2 min + of balls to the walls high speed sweepers, on the verge of drifting. Some crazy fast pack runs, wild course... qualified today with powerful head winds and deceiving rain, it went well for the three of us. We're staying with the Chileans in a cabana rocking Argentinan meat bbq.

From Max:
Snake Skeleton was crazy, Race day had a gnarly tail wind, 6man heats on a 2min + run. Semi finals I was up with dalua, danky, James, niko, and another buddy I cant remember. I ended up snaking a crazy inside line in the last big corner and stole a first, finals were straight stupid, everyone making passes everywhere, elbows up flying  through corners . Danky rolled away first. Dillon 5th and me 6th. All the North Americans destroyed the party.

Words from South America

Travis sent us this...

"yo man, everything is awesome down here. the race was a 3 day festival this year. all practice the first day, 4 qualifying runs in the morning of day 2, and racing on day 3,  dillon qualified 1st, max 8th, me 9th overall. we all met up in the quarter finals and had an epic run with max, passing back and forth, the fucker got me in the end. it rained for the semis, and pisssed rain for the finals. max won the concies, and dillon made a sick pass of switzer for the win. just an epic techy track, tons of spectators and fine ass senoritas. well put together event with food music, the works.. a wild after party, all the spectators and racers were invited. awards, music, cervesas just fucking epic"

 

... and Katie had this to say.

"Well, we all made it to Colombia and needless to say we are having a good time!  The 4 of us showed up separately starting with Max, who came a full week early to attend an event and skate the mountains in Medellin before the festival.  Next up, I flew into Bogota for the third time this year, followed by Travis shortly after, then Dillon, fresh from the midwest tour.  The race weekend was pretty awesome, plenty of dry runs, and as usual some wet, but overall a good atmosphere.  Dillon qualified 1st by almost 2 seconds, then the 3 of them found each other on the start line for the third round of racing.  With Travis stepping out in third, Dillon went on to win the open division for an epic soaking wet final and Max finished 5th overall after destroying the consi.  

The boys are continuing on to Argentina tomorrow and I'll be flying home to Vancouver for some local fun.

Mas Fiesta!!"

Hungry?

Lunch on the run from Hopkin Skate on Vimeo.
NomNomNom....

Everyone has their own style

Mark rides a Peacemaker like no other... Meow are those yellow Monster Hawgs?

The Mid West Tour is Underway

And it looks like the crew is having a great time south of the 49th parallel (north).

Don't forget to check out the rest of the tour dates HERE.

This explains things...

I was wondering why the factory was strangely empty last Thursday. Turns out according to Liam's blog, the bosses paid everyone to play in the park. Looks like they had lots of fun. If only cats could throw discs.