Hey you the Jock Steady Crew, show what you do make a blog make a move.. sorry! This is the Weblog of Edinburgh and Glasgow's Focus Skateboard Store. Bringing you relevant news, happenings and random musings, details on some of the fine products we sell and anything else that crosses our collective minds when we should be doing real work. Cheers. Focus 2011.
Massive congratulations go out to Sibs and Gillian who have just had a baby girl! Weighing in at over 8lbs, super healthy and with a full head of hair. Name to be decided soon. Sibs' picture is from the Supra suite in Manchester at last months buying trip. All Muska'd up and i'm sure rockin the same expression right now! Go on.
It's about bloody time! That's what Perry Thompson's video should be called. I think i've seen at least 6 different names and trailers for his up'n'coming project that's been about 3 years in the making. Well, here's another one, and it's the best one so far. Don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself!
Seems like UK skateboarding is hot news at the moment. Emerica footwear has teamed up with Blueprint skateboards and Heroin head honcho Fos to bring you the two shoes you see in front of you. The shoe at the top is called the Trans Em and was designed by Blueprint rider Vaughn Baker. Featuring some of his distinctive artwork, which you might recognise from Blueprint deck artwork and part of the profits from the shoe will go towards helping Vaughn pay off his medical bills due to injuries.Next up is the Fos designed Ridgemont. Simple shoe nice pictures.
Praise the Lord!! The darkness of winter is banished for another six months! The clocks go forward tonight and if by magic we have some nice wrist clocks in our Edinburgh store from the good folks at Nixon.
I was at my big brothers the other night and he was telling me about this new show thats out in the U.S called 'Entourage'. He watches a lot of crap telly so i take what he has to say with a pinch of salt. 'I'll show you a clip on You Tube' he said.
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Just in time for spring we've had a nice little delivery of the Adidas Skate line. From left to right we have the Mark Gonzales designed Stan Smith (£74.95) with felt detailing, the Callisto Superstar (£54.95) and last but by no means least a very simple Skate shoe (£69.95).
Next up we have part of the Good Vs Evil collection. This is the Good Track Top (£64.95) and the Superstar of the same name (£64.95). Everything will be available to buy online in the next day or two and don't forget there are only 7 stores in the UK stocking this range and only two in Scotland. It's called limited.
Now here's one to get a bit excited about. The Girl DVD boxset will be available from April with five discs featuring - Goldfish, Las Nueve Vidas De Paco, Mouse, The Chocolate Tour and over 1 1/2 hours of bonus footage. The boxset will come in at a fairly hefty £49.95 but to me it's worth it for the Rick Howard forest scene alone.
Our mate Derek aka Chuck Kowolski aka 2 Tins has just opened the first branch of his soon to be global juice empire. Juice Almighty is located just aff Princess Street on Castle Street and is serving up a fine selection of pulverised fruit and such like. Be sure to mention that we told you about it so we can rinse the free juices this summer!!
Here we are at the Wallopers first practice in a wee while before this Thursday's gig at the Left Bank or what ever it's called now. How do ye work this amp? How does it go again? Where's ma double bass pedal? Don't be fooled by these fools, they just don't know how starved the general public are to skate/punk/rock. Col listenin to the timing of their next cover on his phone n Stevie D dancing the fandango with his effects pedal. Watch out for bassaxe D Mo's gutteral vocal's that will get that smokers plaque viberated off yer teeth! See ye there.
That's a few of us back from snowboarding in Morzine, France. Col the Walloper hit Dirty Thirty when we were there and we spent no expense in this Bucky ring, he was stoked! His senior years did nothing to stop him ripping all holiday. I managed to pivot on my head and neck giving me a double Stevie Cab neck, it's like wearing blinkers, don't do it! The weather was really hot most days and the snow went heavy n slow later in the afternoon esp the parks, just clearing the kickers was an effort. Halfpipe in Avoriaz was massive, Col and our host Youngo killed it. What is it about the backside walls, frontside nae bother. We hit up the Swiss side one day which was awesome, fresh lines and loads of drops and gulleys. Think we broke a record for fitting 7 people and snowboards in a Fiesta, needs must. Here's Youngo not setting the oven on fire this time and just about to serve up a gratin. Big shout out's to him, Anna and Mike for their suberb hospitality, see ye next year!
Now this is almost too much for my pea brain to comprehend, but..... if you go to this website, download the seti@HOME program, then every time your computer is lying idle it joins a network of millions of other idle computers to help analyze data in the search for extra terrestrial life. How this all works is beyond me but it makes me wonder what you could achieve if we could harness all those moments of human downtime during an average day. Learn a language? Learn to knit? Or just watch more YouTube?
All new footwear now in stock from Supra. Check out the Skytop on the top right from Muska and our personal favourite the denim Tom Penny (bottom left). Get yourself down to the Glasgow store to see them in the flesh. Thanks to our second favourite rep Ben Bodilly for hooking us up.
