Life begins at 40.......

Happy 40th birthday to our mate and all round legend Cubic!!

Have a good one fella......

Blueprint Tour 2006

The summer of 2006 saw the gentlemen at Blueprint go on a mighty UK tour.

Here is Part 1 and Part 2 for your viewing pleasure. Click, clicky.
Also check out the new line of Pro decks here.
Expect good things from Blueprint this year as well as Danny Brady and Nick Jensen parts in the very exciting Lakai video.

Tuesday Playlist-
The Fall - Totally Wired, a Rough Trade anthology.
David Axelrod - 1968-1970 anthology.
And the song from Blueprint Part 2. (whoever it may be? I bet it's big in Landannn)

Spin on your back and spin on your knees........

Stay tuned for an exclusive collection from Nike SB inspired by the B-Boy. Only available in 3 stores in the U.K and of course we're one of them. More to follow tomorrow........

FREEZE!

It's Sale time!

The Focus Winter Sale starts in our Glasgow and Edinburgh stores on Saturday 27th January at 10am. Big discounts of up to 50% on clothing and footwear from Stussy, Volcom, Adio, DC, Etnies and many more. Plus if you click the link below the power of the Internet will take you to some tasty online discounts.

Online Sale.

Cliche X Year Collection

For the past ten years Cliche have been at the heart of European skateboarding. As well as producing some of the hottest skate movies of the past decade they also make some pretty fine product. To celebrate this anniversary they have created the X year collection which we now have in store and online.

There's some very limited clothing available including the super nice zip hoody, a DVD boxset and a special collaboration shoe with Nike SB. Check out the article online at Crooked Tongues for some history behind the shoe.

Cliche X Year Collection

DC Dyrdek Landed.

Here's the two new Rob Dyrdek colourways just in. It's based on the basic Court shoe with extra support and padding. Glasgow has the black/armour one's and Edinburgh the white/red and both are £49.95 and available instore and online now.

She watch Channel Benjie!

Everyones favourite filmaker Benjie Bateman has uploaded, amongst other things, some of the sections from our first (and probably only) video Salt 'N' Sauce. Originally released back in 2002, on those video tape contraptions, it featured the Focus team at the time and was filmed at many of Scotlands finest skate spots. The clip above is Russ Hall, the most entertaining man whilst drunk ever!

Brings a nostalgic tear to my eye so it does.....

Channel Benjie.

Alice Coltrane. Rest in Peace.

1937-2007

Ladies and Gentlemen, Let's Play Darts!

It's the new rockin roll, go on the darts! We've been saying for years we would go to the Lakeside for the world championship, but never made it yet. Game on and interactive 180 signs at the ready. We were supporting Dixy (even though he put a Scotsman out in the semi's), who had an amazing comeback from 6-0 down only to loose in the deciding set. Shout out and cheers to a Stateside Pigsy for the tee, says it all!

Super Sharp Shooter

Here's team rider Bobby Ballie nollie flipping the seven at the BOS, Edinburgh in the latest edition of Document. Look at the catch and the landing, high speed goodness, go on son! If only Dwindle Dist would pull the finger out and hook up that Chocolate sponsorship they've been promising! We are also treated to a truely huge Andy Scott fs tailgrab on that fibreglass ramp in Glasgow. There's Ben Grove and Dan Cates interviews too so go get yourself a copy. The Ballie sequence was taken by our very own Graham Tait. Look out for more LL Golden G photos in the 2nd edition of Trisickle mag featuring Big Mark Burrows. BMB is just back from an Adio trip to Bahrain, more news on that later.

It's fish Jim but not as we know it.....

Originally scheduled for release last year the Jeremy Fish designed Nike SB Classic has been highly anticipated and finally it's here. Due to initial problems with production and some design changes the shoe has now emerged and looks amazing.

Featuring some superb detailing such as the flocked suede on the upper, custom designed insoles and the heel detail you can see above this is sure to be the first of many hot releases for 2007.

Buy and view the Nike SB Classic Fish here.

Merry New Year!

We trust you all had a top drawer festive season and you're looking forward to this 2007th year.

Coming up in the near future we have all new Spring collections from Stussy, Volcom, Fenchurch, Nike SB, Adidas to name a few plus keep your eyes peeled for new UK shoe brand Mcarta who will be dropping their very first range any day now.

Later this year we also have a very special and very limited collaboration between DVS and Focus which we're well stoked about. Watch this space.

Keep checking the blog for product updates and other random crap throughout the year.

Laters!