Gravis & Staple Black Box Collection

Just arrived is the new Black Box Collection from Gravis. This season they have hooked up with the legendary New York man about town Jeff Staple. Inspired by New York winters, the collection consists of footwear, travel luggage and clothing and comes in 3 different colourways - Fresh Powder, Parking Lot and Wet Cement, which represent the different phases of snowfall. The collection will be available to buy online in the next few days or right now in our Edinburgh store.

Nothing But The Truth DVD now in stock.

Just arrived is Nothing But The Truth the first movie by Nike SB. Starring Brian Anderson, Todd Jordan, Daniel Shimizu, Danny Supa, Chet Childress, Richard Mulder, Paul Rodriguez, Gino Iannucci, Reese Forbes, Lance Mountain, Stefan Janoski, Omar Salazar, Lewis Marnell, Clark Hassler, Wieger Van Wageningen, Dan Murphy and more.

Buy online right here or available in our Edinburgh & Glasgow stores.

Win tickets to the London Premiere of Fully Flared!

To clebrate the imminent release of one of skateboards most highly anticipated movies, Fully Flared, we've teamed up with Lakai to give you a chance to win some superb prizes and also the chance to be at the London Premiere on the 18th of November.

Founded in 1999 by Rick Howard and Mike Carroll, Lakai has become one of skateboardings pre-eminent footwear companies and have assembled an all star team that most other shoe brands can only dream of. The first ever film from Lakai, Fully Flared has been two years in the making and is guaranteed to blow minds. To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is answer a simple question right here.

Stay tuned for details of the Socttish premiere of Fully Flared taking place in Glasgow late November.

Serious news just in......

LISTEN UP!!!

The new Listen dvd 'Viajeros Locos' is now in stock and it's a banger! Nice clean street skating with a mellow funky soundtrack. Full parts from Danny Montoya, Rob G, new Pro Brian Brown (mon the gingers), and the very underated Rodrigo Peterson. There are a couple of ams in there along with a nice friend section.
A bargain at only £11.95. Don't be a Youtube tube, buy this dvd!

Gold box.

Nike SB box number 4 makes it appearance this month in a somewhat autumn like Gold/Black colourway. Inside these new boxes we have three new shoes. From left to right we have the "Skate Deck" Dunk Hi, the brown Elephant Print Zoom Tre and the Violet Zoom Classic. £69.95, £69.95 and £49.95 respectively. Available in our Glasgow store right now and online in the near future.

Earlier today we got a little peek at the "What the Dunk?" errr Dunk that was on sale earlier this week in London. Cheers Al. Tales of burst water pipes, wristbands and mini bus trips across London abound. Answers on a postcard if you can name all the shoes featured.

War Of The Roses

It's that time of year again for the infamous War Of The Roses weekend. This year Skateboard Scotland have taken over the reigns and are organising the transport to get you down there.

Ali sent me the details which you can read below. You can pay your monies at the shop to resevre your place.

Skateboard Scotland are organising a couple of Mini buses to go down the the War of the Roses this year to be held at Interact Park in Burnley and The Works in Leeds. We are only organising the transport so you will have to pay yourselves into the parks (a tenner for each day). The cost is 23 quid to cover the diesel and van hire. This fee must be paid up front to ensure a place on one of the buses. The places are available on a first come first serve basis.

Itinerery:

9.30am Saturday 27th October
Buses will be leaving Focus in Edinburgh

13.00 Get to Interact and shralp til ya hurt.

22.00 Find somewhere to crash. Bring your tents as there will not be much space to sleep in the van and we cannot sleep in the park this year.

11.00 Sunday 28th October
Mission it to Leeds for next day. We hope to be back in Edinburgh for about 11pm (maybe 12pm) on Sunday.

Get in touch with Focus to book your space and pay your fee.

Looking forward to getting down for the session.

Skateboard Scotland

Alatamont.

Just had delivery of our very first drop of Altamont Apparel. Well it actually arrived a week ago, but I've just got back from Milan so as far as I'm concerned it's just arrived. Ok?

Anyway, Altamont is the brainchild of Andrew Reynolds and is one of the freshest clothing lines to come from the skateboard world for some time. Expect to see it in our Edinburgh store and online in the next few days.

Altamont Apparel

T-shirt origami

Bit slack with the old blog updates this month but hey ho.

By my calculations each of us in the shop could save ourselves nearly 2 and a half minutes a year by using the t-shirt folding technique above.