LBZ MAG #02

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KEVINREIMER WEFUNK JUANRAYOS LONGBOARDING GIRLZ EKOSLIDEGLOVES PATTIMCGEE

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LONGBOARDBUILDING wefunk

12 EXPRESSYOURSELF eko slide gloves

18 OLDSCHOOL patti mcgee

heidi germann

INTERVIEW kevin reimer

16 PHOTOGRAPHY juan rayos

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ON THE cover

JOﾃグ MARTINS

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LBZ MAG CREW pedro fernandes eduardo guimarães josé antónio leão gonçalo rodrigues susana torroais AGRADECIMENTOS BIG THANKS TO alex luxat kevin reimer joão carreira juan rayos patti mcgee alexandro murgia mathias lessman jessica corchia kristina engstrand katie neilson anel v.d. walt marisa nuñez fee bücheler amy london chin ho paula carmona ines sanches CONTACTOS lbzmag@gmail.com thelongboarderz.com thelongboarderz-forum.com

SHUT UP AND SKATE The year 2010 has passed, and what a great year it was, lots of new stuff happening here and there, new boards, new designs, new wheels, new tricks... everyone giving their best to push things forward.

Our longboard culture has reached a whole new level, and it’s amazing to see all of this happening.

The key is pushing! Going for it! Believe!

And you know what? We believe that 2011 is gonna be a sick year for longboarding!!!

So no more blablabla, let’s just GO SKATE! Have some FUN! Hey but first read the mag! If you make till the last page a big and yummy cup of icecream will come out from the screen... for real!!! share the love. enjoy.

LBZ Crew www.thelongboarderz-forum.com lbzmag@gmail.com

JUNTA-TE À FAMÍLIA!

longboardbuilding

WEFUNK

by gonçalo rodrigues

Hi Alex...Apart from being the brain and builder behind Wefunk Skateboards, you are also an avid skateboarder. Tell us more about the way you entered the skateboarding world.

What got you into this?

Hi LBZ! Skateboarding has always been a very important part of my life.

I bought my first plastic banana board at a fleamarket in the late 70´s. But I think I really started in ´82 when I bought a used 28x10“ G&S Doug Saladino „Pine Design 2“. We built our first quaterpipes from tabletops from broken school tables. Strangely enough a lot of tables broke in our school during that time.

I think those years were the best when we spent our summer afternoons building at the quaterpipe and pulling our first kickturns and onewheelers. Pure good clean fun! In my teenage years (especially in the darker part of puberty) skateboarding always was a welcome pressure control valve to release aggression. Nothing is a more healing experience than a good slam and a bleeding knee when you are frustrated about school or your parents. You feel that you are alive and you know where to put your energy and your revolting testosterone.

The addiction for building started after I had lost my first real job as an industrial designer (for lamps). Though I was pretty successful and won several international design awards I was not really happy and deeply depressed after losing my job. I then started a small design bureau and workshop with a friend. Without a good business plan this was a sure ticket to disaster (economically).

Just as a sidegig I started wefunk and together with my partner built the first ash/fibreglass decks -- mainly very flexy cruisers. This was 2003.

What motivated you to start with Wefunk?

What characteristics had the market at the time, and how did you combined them with the Wefunk style boards?

The first boards we built for ourselves cause we were pretty broke but still wanted to have nice boards. I never cared about the market but what I „needed“ to have and what I knew was possible to build.

Then we saw slalom foamcore decks like the PocketPistols and I thought I could do as well or maybe better and bought a used vacuum pump from ebay. (I still use this pump.) At this point I had no clue about vacuum lamination, how to build a proper foamcore deck or advanced composite Since when did you start having that little processing. It was learning from try and error. addiction for building skateboards? What kind The skateboard building was a pastime but of boards were you building at the time? became my single mean of (meager) income.

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Being broke, still depressed from losing my job, my son born early, my uncle and grandma died and it became all too much for me. I got seriously sick (on the soul), broke up with the mother of my son and nearly became a bum. The boardbuilding and the feedback of the community was what kept me sane and kept me going. Not giving myself up entirely. Yes, I can say: skateboarding saved my life. (and it took me more than 4 years to get my life back together and repair the damage I had done.)

I ski since age 4 and snowboard since ´86.

So I know that the more serious you take your sport the better the equipment you want to use.

Compared to skiing, snowboarding or every other sport skateboarding is mostly considered a kids game and the boards we can buy are produced to sell at a toy´s price. When you pay a toy´s price it will buy you -- well -- a toy.

(Not to say that you can´t have fun with it.)

I wanted to have more. I didn´t want a toy but a board that could be compared to the snowboards I was racing or freeriding. I wanted a lightweight Even looking at the entire market of responsive ride, vibration dampening and a look longboarding, i think it’s fair to say that your that made it clear on the first glance: This is not a company makes “lá creme de lá creme” of all toy! skateboards...The technology and complexity I really got fascinated with the possibilities of your builds, along with its materials and of composite design and soaked up as much designs, always leave everyone stunned! knowledge as I could, reading articles, looking What is the story of your formation, to become into racecar, yachting and aerospace designs. the expert on composite skateboards?

This all resulted in the design of the „speedbone“ Wow, it´s nice to get compliments like that. and it´s triple-torsionbox construction in late 2005.

Thank you.

This was definitely new and it was also new that somebody charged 300+ Euros for „just a deck“.

It worked and it was the only thing that could work for me: As a one-man-band I only could build a small number of decks. So my niche was to build few but the best I could -- no matter what the cost or working hours.

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We know you were 2 years on the Toyota F1 team, on the composites department.

What were the main things you took away from that experience, from what concerns to skateboards?

The 2 years at Toyota taught me a lot: Carbon prepreg processing which really differs from wet layups (and not just in the layup process itself). Knowledge about new materials. How to avoid over-engineering. And now most important for me with my far-east production of the Funkster series: A really tight quality management and control.

deck than most decks. You get a deck that is light, tough, stiff yet damp and it won´t get weak (and eventually break) after a few hours in the sun. Of course the materials, the finish and the exclusivity have their price.

But when I look on my 20+ working hours and the effort that goes into the Roadmasters I think they are still too cheap.

How and why do you see the market changing in the next years? And where will be Wefunk in the middle of that?

We all see that with longboarding (and it´s subcategories) skateboarding is growing again Have you already made some prototypes and diversifying very widely. In the early 80´s with the recent knowledge you gained by when skateboarding was quite underground working with the Toyota F1 team? How do it was all about wide ramp decks. Then they perform differently? streetskating (still on wide decks) grew more My „Roadmaster“ series wouldn´t have popular because the skateparks of the 70´s been possible without learning at Toyota. closed down and it was easy for everybody The vacuum-heatcuring process I use is my to build a small flyramp or find some stairs own invention and as far as I know I´m the to jump in the neighborhood. Then it became only one right now who can press and cure a an unhealthy hype when in the 90´s the focus carbon-prepreg/foamcore deck under vacuum was on streetskating only and you just had at 100+°C without an autoclave oven. The one type of board with just different graphics premium carbon prepreg I use costs more per from 100s of labels. Industry had maneuvered LBZ MAG I #08

itself into a dead end alley.

Now after S9 (as the largest SKATEboard producer of the world) sold for 45 mio. US$ to Billabong even the last streetlabel recognized where the market moves. Even those always laughing that longboarders are no „real“ skateboarders have understood now that they missed a big chance.

You´ll see hundreds of labels producing generic shapes with just different prints every year. A lot of former streetbrands now remember their roots and reissue 70´s shapes.

There will be a HUGE product range to chose from. I think the biggest chance skateboarding has in the next years is diversification and specialization. This is also the chance for small labels like Wefunk to find their niche.

There definitely will be a market for hi-end boards for racing and serious sports and a huge market for general purpose „leisure“ boards for cruising and commuting.

Wefunk will try to have a stance in both

sectors: Premium handcrafted composite boards made in Germany and highest quality wood/composite boards made in China to offer incredible value and to tackle the competition in the market. =) (A little bit like Volkswagen producing popular quality cars for the people as well as handbuilding the very exclusive Bugatti in France.)

Thanks a lot for the interview...all the best from the LBZ family in Portugal!

Thank you for the opportunity to share my thought and ideas.

Cheers!

www.wefunk.de

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KEVIN REIMER

by gonçalo rodrigues

Kevin, it is from public knowledge the achievements you had in the sport in the last years, and for that we give you our congratulations. But tell us more about your early days...

Longboarding took me by surprise when I was about 13 years old. I was down by the beach and one my older friends had a brand new Landyachtz Chief with blue Kryptos. I got to ride it around the parking lot and I was instantly hooked. I had been riding a street skate for quite awhile but it wasn’t very useful for traveling around the city and going up and down hills. I had always loved getting around on my street skate snapping ollies here and there but the smooth fast roll of a longboard was addictive. I had to have one and so I saved for about 6 months before I could afford it. I ended up getting hit by a car about two weeks after buying it and it was destroyed… Had to spend a long time saving for my next one! Man, my parents were pissed.

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there and I really wanted to do well. I just wasn’t experienced enough at racing to really do well, but I ended up 20th and that was fine with me! It was wet / dry and I had never ridden in those conditions.

Now, I’m never really stressed at a race. I of course want to do my best, but I realize that a lot of luck is required to win a race these days.

Whats your story with Rayne longboards and Colabo?

Rayne Longboards makes the absolute best downhill boards (and skateboards in general) and I love the owner, Graham. He’s been a huge help over the past few years and really helped me believe it what I do. I was “riding” for Landyachtz years past and they wanted to keep me on board by offering me a sponsorship package that was quite healthy for the time. I ended up going with the small guys. Rayne. My first sponsorship offer from them was….. THREE BOARDS. And there was a maybe that followed it. Sticking to my guns really helped me though… Look where I am now! Riding Being a professional DH skateboarder, it my own design made of the best materials. makes sense to know when and where was your first race. Do you remember the emotions Its very consensus the fact that you have from that day? been very responsible for the technical evolution of the sport in the last years, both in My first REAL race was Danger Bay 4. It terms of the technique ridding a board and the was scary! Hahahaha. All the fastest guys were gear technical development. How do you think LBZ MAG I #12

interview

“ We all can be fast, so why let someone

else take all the fun?! Going super fast is sort of like going regular fast… But faster.

It’s an amazing feeling to reach the “wall” where you cannot go any faster.” these two balance out? In what stages did you you may know, I had a severe knee injury where I felt more towards developing one instead of smashed into a guardrail at quite a speed. I ended another? up slashing my patellar tendon and that was no fun. At the time, we knew a bit about sliding, but As far as the technical evolution goes… I’ve couldn’t use it to our advantage in racing situations. always been a driven person. I knew we weren’t I had a long time to think about WHY I crashed and at the top of anything in downhill. Equipment, the thing that kept coming up was… “If you knew technique, all of it, and I saw what we COULD how to pre-drift, this wouldn’t have happened”. So I be doing from people like Clement Carne and the learned and I spent the time dial in my techniques to French riders, so I took it upon myself to learn the point where they were usable. Soon, everyone it and learn it better than anyone else. I think was doing it! The way I see it, it is more challenging technical SKILL will always be more important that to slide than footbrake, and at the same time, can equipment. Equipment “feels good”, but won’t win be so much faster and stylish. I knew it would be the race. When I was younger I wanted to be the the future, and so here I am, loving the drift. I’ve best slider in the world (I still want to be, and I’m realized over the past few years that the footbrake not yet), but these days I feel like I can apply my has some uses as well. For a long time I believed mind to products as well and that gives me a lot of that SLIDING IS ALWAYS FASTER, but now I positive feelings at the end of the day. I will always have learnt that some places require a quick little be driven to win and will do whatever necessary, footbrake rather than a heavy slide. On flatter turns but the product stuff is something like the icing it is nearly impossible to take the same speed with AND cherry on top. a slide.

You were one of the first guys introducing the concept of “pre-drifting” in the racing scene. How and why did you thought that this new technique could outcome the classical style at the date, of footbraking? How do you see the pros and cons of each?

Sliding rules! It’s so much more fun. As some of

The killswitch has been a great success.

How do you feel for being the developer of this board? And its not everyone who has its own Pro-model! What were the main characteristics that this board came out with, that no other board on the marker had? Did it covered all the issues you wanted to see sorted on your dream board? #13 I LBZ MAG

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The Killswitch is my love, especially topmost!

It’s the board I’ve always wanted. I wanted a board that was positively ergonomic. Something that truly worked in symphony with the skater to make for the best feeling ride out there. There is the special nose and tail concave that holds your feet in like no other board, and the W is very special in the way that you can stand on top of it, but not have it interrupt your pushing. It is perfect in every way for how I ride.

The Aera trucks are a 100% Kevin Reimer LBZ MAG I #14

product! From the technical side, trucks are the most complex working part in a skateboard!

What were the main issues on all?

100% is right! I do everything. Design, construction, shipping, packing, accounting, everything! Aiiiieeeee! I had ridden everything out there beforehand and I was just never that impressed. Everything else failed to turn, or was restricted somewhere in the turn. I was tired of bent axles and heavy trucks. I wanted something that I could freeride on AND race on… And thus

this is what Aera Trucks is all about. Shredding the gnar. I’ve made quite a few changes. The first design was simple and clean, but the newest is far more complicated. It was a huge process. I also changed manufacturers and that was a big step. After the change to the new design, I’ve changed the materials, the processes, and slightly changed the design several times over to improve, strengthen and lighten the design. Currently, it is the lightest downhill truck on the market and I am planning on lightening it EVEN FURTHER in the new year.

much, other than it will be the fastest wheel ever made. BIG THANKS TO ABEC11 FOR THE OPPORTUNITY!

Mischo is a fast guy, no doubt about it. I know that one day, I will make an attempt on that record…

Whether at the same location or not, I do not know.

We all can be fast, so why let someone else take all the fun?! Going super fast is sort of like going regular fast… But faster. It’s an amazing feeling to reach the “wall” where you cannot go any faster.

What are your expectations towards the future, in term of your involvement in the sport?

How do you think the racing scene wil change in the next years? What is the natural progress of it?

Racing is an interesting scene to be a part of.

How can people be friends if they’re fighting for the top spot? It’s definitely no freeride. I’m happy to see that the world of racing is growing and growing. I think that it will stabilize soon and that Mischo has recently set the skateboarding the same people will be going all around the world world speed record, beating your unofficial day in and day out. It’s a pretty special scene so I world record, not too far from his mark. hope NOTHING changes. I think that we will see a Do you feel tempted to beat his achievement? new racing association come into view very soon What are the sensations of travelling at that and show the world what racing is REALLY about. speed on a skateboard?

BC racing for life.

I hope to stay within downhill for many more years. I’m one of the very few people who is allowed to live it and I want to show people how special that really is. I’m so grateful and happy to Very recently, came out the news that you be where I am. I hope to design more and more were moving to ABEC11. What motivation does products for the world to see, use, and love and this project give you?

I hope that people will support me as a skater because of it. I really hope to see the market of The opportunity to truly develop new and better precision trucks stabilize! It’s so hard for me to wheels for all of you riders. Orangatang was a fun compete with companies with low costs. I make company, but at the end of the day, they weren’t the best products in the world, and people need to able to satisfy my desire to work hand in hand support them! with production and make things perfect. I have a technical mind and I love to make my products the From your trips to Brazil and your friendship best on the market... The only way I can do that is with Dalua, you started to do some “tricks” with a company that is interested, and focuses on with the Portuguese language. Care to give us PRODUCT. This, is Abec11. a word.

Besides, working with Chris Chaput is excellent!

He’s a skateboard mastermind and has a lot of Eu gosto muito de falar no português! E uma great ideas with a boon of knowledge to back it língua muita bonita. Eu inciar português por que up. He’s the man. pessoas ai no Brasil nao fala NADA de inglês.

Para entender o que pessoas falar eu precisava Redesigning wheels? New shapes? muito trabalho mais isso e justo. Pessoas ai e muito legal e adjudar eu muito.

I’ll definitely be helping to develop new Muito obrigado pelo seu entrevista! wheels, including a pro model wheel. I can’t say Kevin #15 I LBZ MAG

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EKO SLIDE GLOVES by joão carreira

Como sabido entre todos na prática do Longboard o uso do capacete é entendido como um pequeno artigo no diário da república, uso obrigatório. O desporto é divertimento mas a nossa segurança deverá estar sempre em primeiro lugar. A velocidade é um dos aspectos importantes desta modalidade o que muitas vezes implica o uso das mãos como ponto de apoio e a base para muitas das manobras. Como tal o uso das luvas é indispensável, assim como a sua qualidade, algo que se consegue verificar com alguns rides.

O que mais se encontra em videos na internet, é um dos passos que todos deverão dar , a criação do seu primeiro par de luvas. No entanto, com o tempo, o velho par de luvas será substituido por um de melhor qualidade algo que com dificuldade se consegue fazer manualmente em casa. Estas luvas no mercado apresentam sempre uma preço acima da média não sendo acessível para muitos, pondo de parte muitas vezes a ideia de possuir umas. Na maior parte das vezes as mais acessíveis revelam-se quase sempre como sendo de fraca qualidade, e rapidamente se deterioram.

Deparado com esta situação um rider do porto, Eduardo Guimarães, por nós conhecido como “Eko” ligado à area da produção de produtos em couro, começou a produzir as suas luvas como hobby e para os amigos que rapidamente espalharam a palavra da sua existência. Com sua qualidade muito apreciada por todos e o preço apelativo, rapidamente fez com que estas começassem a ser requisitadas por várias lojas.

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As it is known amongst all longboarders, the use of your helmet when riding, like the laws written in the constitution, is to be abided by. This is a great sport, and a lifestyle for many, but our safety has to come first. Going fast is a big aspect of the sport, and high speeds are regularly hit, and the use of our hands to maneuver our way down a hill and bust out sick moves require another essential piece of equipment: Slide Gloves. For a downhill longboarder ‘slide gloves’ are key, thus quality and durability are sought after to allow for a smooth and safe ride.

Everyone has made their own pair of slide gloves at home at one time or another, either being their first pair of gloves, made out of pure excitement to be able to pull off that first slide, or due to not having the cash to buy a pair from the store.

Online there are hundreds of videos showing us how to make a homemade set of slide gloves, allowing everyone that loves this sport to be able to make their own. But as time goes by, inevitably the home made pair get worn and torn. You either make a new set, or go after the more accessible brand name ones. Although the majority end up wearing and tearing as much as the first pair you made at home. Most of the time the most accessible gloves that are out there on the market end up reveling to be of poor quality, deteriorating rapidly.

Having experienced this situation, after purchasing a number of gloves, a rider from Porto, Portugal, Eduardo Guimarães, better known to us as ‘EKO,’ who is involved in an industry that produces leather products, decided to start making slide gloves as a hobby for himself and fellow riders.

The word started spreading, and soon longboarders from all over Portugal were talking about Eko’s Slide Gloves. The quality and accessible price of the gloves became known to the longboard family and soon enough local skate shops started approaching Eko to place orders.

“Having received good reviews from riders from all over the world was motivator enough to turn this hobby into a dedicated project.”

Actualmente as EKO slide gloves chegam ao mercado com qualidade testada e melhorada, produzidas manualmente usando produtos naturais, sendo o seu principal objectivo que todos as usem e apreciem a sua qualidade. Um dos grandes orgulhos da marca foi a presença numa das provas do mundial de Longboard do IGSA, onde estas foram usadas por vários riders mundialmente conhecidos no desporto e que tenham sido devidamente reconhecidas. O reconhecimento das luvas em si, foi a principal fonte de motivação que fez com que um pequeno hobby se tornasse em algo de dedicação total, podendo oferecer ao mundo do Longboard um produto da sua autoria como retribuição e agradecimento pela presença que actualmente este desporto tem na sua vida.

Currently Eko Slide Gloves are on the market, tested and approved, handmade using natural products, for everyone to use, appreciate and enjoy the quality. One of the proudest moment of the brand was to be able to be present at one of the IGSA’s world cup races, where the gloves were used by many riders. Having received good reviews from riders from all over the world was motivator enough to turn this hobby into a dedicated project, being able to offer a product with his name and approval to the world of longboarding, as a thanks for the impact that longboarding has had, and will continue to have, on his life. eko.eduardog@hotmail.com

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JUAN RAYOS

madrid. photographer. videomaker.

art. music. feelings...

LIFE.

“i’m not looking for perfection. my dream capture... who knows... I’ll tell you when I find it”

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FREERIDE BELAGUA

by josé leão

Para todos aqueles que praticam o Downhill Longboard e sentem que as mesmas estradas onde se treina em fins de semana abençoados pelo sol por vezes não chega, eventualmente , descobrir novas e desafiantes descidas tornase pois uma necessidade para todos nesta comunidade.

Com um pouco de vontade se encontram alguns freerides que se organizam neste nosso País vizinho, e assim aconteceu com a nossa viagem a Belagua, mais propriamente nos Pirinéus, a qual tivemos conhecimento através da newsletter do calendário no site gotokaina.com.

Cinco amigos com vontade de andar e uma autocaravana com gasolina foi o necessário para que esta pequena viagem acontece-se. A umas horas de casa e no alto das montanhas dos Pirinéus com temperaturas que rondavam os 5 graus chegamos a um ambiente bastante diferente dos habituais rides em casa. Assim que deparamos com a estrada na qual íamos passar este nosso fim de semana aquele formigueiro que antecede sempre a primeira descida do dia apareceu rapidamente dando as boas vindas a um cenário de riders, com um estranho à vontade de descer, algo que para nós era desconhecido. Fomos no entanto, com alguma rapidez, calorosamente recebidos pelo pessoal, encontrado com alguma frequência nestas actividades, já considerados família como a malta da Toxicworld e lachicadelacurva.

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For those who practice Downhill Skateboarding, there will always be a time when the roads they ride on a daily basis simply won’t be enough...even in those perfect days, of sunshine, warmth, no wind, they will be aiming for something more.

That’s what happened with us.

With ease you can find various freerides on our neighbor country, Spain, and this story, tells a bit about our journey to one of them! The Belagua Freeride, in the Pyrenees, which we got to know through the gotokaina.com schedule!

Five friends filled with the joy and will to have a great ride got together, and that plus a car and gas was all that was needed for this little trip to take place!

Few hours from home and in the top of the Pyrenees Mountains, there were 5 degrees! The look was completely different from our spots back home!

As soon as we saw the road itself, that little nervous in the belly started to be felt!

As we made our first run thru the hill, we were riding together with guys with a strange comfort on their way down...a few guys have been practicing DH for years, and that was really something new for us!

We were very well received by all the people out there, people that are today an extension of our family, guys from Toxicworld and lachicadelacurva.

Como em tudo na vida a primeira descida não é fácil, as curvas não saem como desejado mas com o passar do dia tudo vai ao sítio e a vontade de descer aumenta assim como o bom espírito entre todos . Sucessivas descidas vão sendo feitas ao longo do dia por uma estrada toda protegida com fardos de palha e colchões, e todo o medo e receio desaparece dando lugar a adrenalina e diversão partilhada por todos. Diferentes modalidades entre elas o Luge e os patins em linha foram também praticadas, mesmo entre os nossos riders.

Do mais experiente ao iniciado a vontade e disposição é a mesma, todos descem e todos sobem para descer mais uma vez, numa carrinha que esperava pela descida de todos para levar de novo ao inicio da pista. Espírito este que se espalhou por dois dias, dentro e fora da pista, separados por uma noite onde todos jantamos juntos e partilhamos histórias das diferentes descidas do dia e especulando o dia seguinte.

As inscrições geralmente incluem refeições e as subidas nas carrinhas, restando apenas as despesas de deslocação e dormida para os mais esquesitos, sendo o campismo uma opção. A organização tratou de tudo no que diz respeito á segurança da estrada assim como o bem estar de todos os riders e até de pessoas que apareceram para aplaudir exaustivamente todas as pessoas que por eles passavam.

As everything in life, things are way harder in the beginning! That’s what happened with our firsts descents! Turns are away from ideal line, footbraking out of spot, but as the day goes by, things start to look better, as well as the general mood among everyone!

We continue to go down, up and down, in a mad loop! The road covered by hay bales, makes the fear go away, and in its place, a huge amount of adrenalin comes kicking in, shared by all!

All over the mountain you could see skateboarders, inliners and lugers. What a view....

From the most experienced to the less ones, the spirit is the same.

For 2 days, was a constant up and down the road, great atmosphere in and out of the track!

The night spent at the Belagua Freeride was no different than any other event of DH skateboarding! Sharing thoughts, experiences, commenting that run, that overtake...

The inscription usually covers meals, a lift van, missing only the costs with the trip and places to sleep overnight.

The organization took extreme care about our safety.

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Dois dias diferentes e divertidos, e acima de tudo educativos na prática do Downhill. Um “Must do” para todos os apaixonados independentemente do seu nível no longboard. O contacto com este ambiente diferente e pessoal que partilha desta mesma paixão foi de todo positivo e elucidativo na matéria desta modalidade, e por isso, importante para todos aqueles que a praticam, quer se trate de alguém que já o pratica há muitos anos como para um iniciado com vontade de andar, que no fundo se trata do aspecto principal para que estas iniciativas e respectiva participação aconteçam.

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These were 2 days completely different from all others, but above all, where we learnt a lot about DH Skateboarding.

A must do to all of those who love and live the thrill of going fast on a skateboard!

It was the great mood, friendship, love and fun that make this kind of events worth to happen and to visit every time!

stoked!

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PATTI MCGEE by pedro fernandes

How did skateboarding appear in your life not exactually what i expected him to say. (actually and what motivated you? his wife was being Aero Vac-ed from Mammoth with a broken leg & he had 3 little kids at home.)

Well ....My Sk8Boarding life started in 1962 with Soooo...I Looked after Hobie’s Family & I was my Little brother Jack McGee swiping the Chicago included in his planes. (GETTING PAID made me wheels off my rink skates & yelling at me to “GET the 1st Womans Pro skater)- So...i went to work OUT HERE IN THE DRIVE WAY & TRY THIS” when he got back from N.Y. with the Promotion.

The rest is History.

How did you become the first professional woman, and what changes did it bring to your What are the best memories you have from life? that time?

I had won the “1964 1st National Woman’s Skateboard Championship” At the Santa Monica Recreation Park & i was looking to do something with the title. By chance i had changed a tire for this lady on the freeway up by Santa Monica while cking out the surf & she gave me $10. for gas money for my 56 VW bus. So i headed to Dana Point to find Hobie Alter of HOBIE SURF & SKATE. I Just ran into him on a late afternoon as he was pushing his way out the door at his Dana Point shop In a SUIT & with his arms full of folders, brief cases & Skateboards. Of course i was nervious & He was in a hurry. Any way there I was with my 8 x 10 b/w glossy photographs & my new “Womans Nationl Champion SK8board “ Trophy, all full of hope to try out for his team & he’s almost late for the airport for his big Biz trip to Macy’s Dept store in N. Y....Hobie says to me “CAN YOU BABY SIT”??

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Well ,In the course of 1&1/2 years i traveled somewhere in the USA almost every week to many different citys to Demo the “SuperSurfer” & “HOBIE” Skateboard & to be hosted by the big Toy reps was a treat. Landing the “Life Zine was EPIC & after that was shot & hit the stands & i was on the TV shows “Whats My Line” / “THE Johnny Carson” & “Mike Douglas” shows i kind-of felt like a celebrity with all the kids I came into contact with.

I got to work with Dick Clark “World Teen Fairs” during a couple Spring Breaks & meet lots of Rock groups. *Grin* I had already been involved with 3 “Beach Movies” as a stunt girl before that & i’ve got to say the “HOLLYWOOD” is a TRIP!!

Then came the Biggie..The cover of “SKATEBoard Magizine” YES!!!! Very Memorable!!!!!!!

How was the equipment at that time, before

the urethane wheels?

good! Warms my heart

The My Hobie decks where made of Laminated wood (no grip tape).

The trucks where in their experimental stage & the clay wheels had just started getting their own labels. “GEAR” wasn’t a product yet, ya know Helmets & Pads.

What are the main differences of skateboarding from the 60’s and 70’s compared nowadays?

lets see... n the mid 60’s we never even dreamed to SK8 a pool. Matter-of-fact the 4th issue of Skateboard Zine i was on was the 1st Zine cover Vintage Decks are subject to large demand with a pool in the shot (it was full of water) but from collectors, do you still have some material it was THERE! We challenged the new Parking from your professional days? lot garages & jumped over stuff, limbo sticks / SK8boards / each other & even a old MG car a Oh Yea! I have my original Quiver. & God Bless friend had. We found impossible hills & i loved my MOM.. she saved all the new paper clippings. being towed by a motorcycle in the parking lot. Of I also Have my team Jackets.. *Grin* course now days the word “EXTREAM” has put a new demention to it. “If you can’t die doing it, it’s Did you ever imagine that skateboarding ain’t Extream” That’s the biggest Differance, don’t would become the phenomenon, on a global you think? scale, that it is today?

Currently, skateboarding is divided into OH heavens NO!! But i’m so pleased. I have countless disciplines, from freestyle to street, FaceBook & MySpace friends from all over the Slalom, Downhill among others, what is your planet. favorite?

I’ve seen U-tube clips of kids with SK8 parks where their isn’t even cars. And they are Really I LOVE watching it ALL!!!! #29 I LBZ MAG

Are you still connected to Skateboarding?

YES!!

In many ways... My Daughter, Hailey & I have a screen printing Co. “http://www.facebook.com/l/ ff9c5BYOIRTzFF_Kwpznp0nwGcQ;FirstBetty. com” that started out with our 1st line being reprints of my original old photos & is now expanding as we speek to include GEAR! I’ve been invited to SK8 Parks all over just to go & be there (fun).

Hailey & I are regulars at the http://www. facebook.com/l/ff9c5wfFPz1XyLceZ4HXueXl7a Q;Skateboardmoms.com event “THE MIGHTY MAMA SKATE-O-RAMA” on Mothers day in Calif. besides we print the shirts for the event.

Hailey & I are also involved with the “Silly Girls” Sk8 group in Calif. (we do their shirts too) I attend the “OMA” Annual BBQ & Do their buttons.

I also do the Buttons for Peggy Oki’s fund raiser project to “SAVE THE WHALES” I’m semi active on a few web forums, The **”TSJ” (The skate board Journal) ** “The Old Kooks”

etc etc.... And at times totally consumed on Face book & you know how EZ that can creep into your existence.

Do you still ride on a regular basis?

I started SK8-ing again about 10 years ago at the age of 55. Very carefully i might add. Nothing fancy.. but i get out there all padded up & roll around. Freaks out the gnoms.. Haha What do you feel about longboards?

I just got a really sweet Longboard for Christmas 47” & i’m going to start cruising this nice hill behind my house.. more on that as i progress.

What’s it like being the first woman to appear in the Skateboarding Hall of Fame alongside such historic names as Tony Alva, Bruce Logan, Danny Way and Tony Hawk?

I”M STOKED!!! of course *GRIN* It’s been a long time coming & it’s nice that i didn’t have to die before the opportunity arrived. A huge Thanks i might add to Todd at “Skatelab & Skateboard Museum” & the “ICSC” That are the industry collective that has initiated “INTERNATIONALGO-SKATEBOARDING -DAY” That has given us all a world holiday of our very own! Yippeee.

How do you skateboarding?

imagine

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future

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It can only get better.. Can’t wait for SkateBoarding to be excepted into the OLYMPICS & Back to the future “HOVER BOARDS” What message would you leave for female skaters?

I’m going to give some Motherly advise as well..

“Watch your back!! Don’t put yourself at risk” EXCEL at your level & Do what you will but wear your GEAR! It only takes a second to crack your head or your knee or tear a rotor cuff. Be proud & have a the Time of your life!!

That goes for the guys too.

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girlz girlz girlz LONGBOARDING GIRLS AROUND THE GLOBE by susana torroais Since my first days on a longboard, I’m always trying to get my girl friends into this amazing way of living, some came, some went away, and always end up myself riding with the boys, don’t get me wrong guys, I love to ride with you all, but having our girls there, is just a completely different feeling.

So for 3 years now this has been my goal - Get the portuguese girls longboarding!!!

That eventually took my eyes off boarders and got myself keeping connected with all that is happening out there.

What’s like in other countries? Is there a lot of girls riding? And you know what?

There are!! And these ladies are amazing!

Bammm! That just gave an idea for a cool article - this one! haha So I’ve got in touch with several girls around the globe to take a glimpse of their stoke.

And you? Care to take a ride and get to know this beautiful selves?

HAHA Let us go then!

CHIA S 28 YEAR U.S.A.

COR JESSICA

When and how did you get into longboarding?

Gas in New York City is very expensive.

Regardless, I still needed to get around from point A point B. Longboarding seemed to be the cheapest way to get this done. One day, I asked myself “How the hell do I stop?” Soon I discovered sliding. Luckily in Brooklyn, every Friday night Team Earthwing gets together to rip a hill in Prospect Park and they took me under their wing.

What moves you beside skating?

Any music with a beat. (Born Drummer) How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

Honestly, it’s not nearly as big as I’d like it to be. However, there is a crew of girls who slide, rip, and compete with me. I love them like they’re my sisters.

What does longboarding mean to you?

Longboarding is skateboarding, which means

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release... It’s who you are, it’s violent, organized chaos. It’s jazz music on acid.

Favorite disciplines... Sliding, touching the ground, going fast.

drifting,

Competition or free riding?

I hate competing, I never think about it.

However, I join them to meet people and get my name out there. I never take them seriously. I just ride to have fun. In my eyes competition and free riding are one and the same. I place better when I don’t care.

Music... Is my life, it’s my original passion. My parents met in a rock band. I am a product of that.

It’s in my blood.

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A message to all the girls...

Skate it like you stole it!

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TRAND S G N E A S KRISTIN 22 YEAR N SWEDE When and how did you get into longboarding?

I dated a guy when i was about 17 for a couple of weeks. Before he dumped me he had said that he liked girls that went longboarding. So, of course i went to buy a longboard the same day he left me behind to try to get him back! But, after a few days of riding i had forgot about him, all i could think of was to keep on skating.

What moves you beside skating?

I love art and music and hang out with friends and try new stuff and see new places. Therefor i found my passion in life, where i can combine all these stuff - Creative project managment.

Beside skating i cant live without doing projects where i can express my artforms or just do silly stuff.

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How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

I have my longboardscene in both sweden and norway. The norwegian girls are on their way up and are soon ripping the scene i think, most of them do downhill. In sweden the hole scene has been down for a couple of years, but there was once this girlteam called asphalt amazons. They actually got IGSA to arrange women competitions at the big events!

Competition or free riding?

Both. In norway i love freeriding. There we are allowed to go skate where we want and cars stop and let us pass. We have this amazing mountains that brings you rides that long for 25 minutes on an average speed of 75 km/h.

But i love comps. The people, the atmosphere, the adrenalin and the fuckin feeling after having a good run!

Music reggae, dupstep, drum n bass and som good What does longboarding mean to you?

For me its my on/off button. Skating isnt just for deep hip hop fun, its also something i need to do to feel well, Sponsors on the outside and the inside. I need skating to turn off my mind when there is to many desicions King of the hill, stoneboard and myself! to make, or projects to finish. I need skating when i want to turn on my mind, so i can find inspiration A message to all the girls...

Dont look back and more importantly, dont and work harder and better. Longboarding is my everything. It made me to who i am today, and worry about what other people think about you. also got me the confidence to succeed in other ever become just the girlfriend or the one who does what everyone else are doing. give yourself areas of life. time to find out what you really want and need and desire. it sound silly but its true. Its what you Favorite disciplines choose to think of that comes true.

DOWNHILL!!! but also just fast city cruising!

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EIL KATIE N A

CANAD

When and how did you get into longboarding?

I got into longboarding after a hell of a long time on a skateboard. I was always facinated with skateboards. A few years back I was skating alot of flow bowls and when Winter in Vancouver rolled around, it was wet so I started going to an indoor. Turns out this indoor had a longboard shop connected to it and the rest of the story could be appropriately imagined from there.

How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

The chick longboard scene in my country... province...city....suburb....is crazier than yours.

You have to come visit us if you want a chance in hell to catch up...no offence.

What does longboarding mean to you?

Longboarding means my life to me. Today I am holding the most money in my hands EVER thanks to Prize money because of skateboarding.

Money is not the real issue though...That is just a bonus on getting to meet my multiple soul mate friends around the world that otherwise I would Never have come across. Downhill skateboarding is a hell of a drug.

Favorite disciplines What moves you beside skating?

Favorite Discipline? Fuck the World fast as fuck What moves me besides skating? Thats a good freeriding! Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle my sailors mouth? Fastest question. I have suffocating stage fright, but I can Freeriding in the world CLBC 4 LIFE sing and play guitar. I admire girls like Clit (charlie) and Renee who can sing and play in front of people Competition or free riding? on top of bombing hills. I sung OH CANADA infront competition...tehee :) freeriding, fuck yeah. of over a 100 people tonight though, so thats a pretty big step.

Music Arch Enemy(Heart of Darkness) Black Label

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Society (name any album I love Zak Wylde) and Britney Spears, FTW (toxic etc.)

I’ll do one or two comps. I’m not too serious about racing though...just want to ride.

Sponsors Music Landyachtz, underworld-shop.com, venom Wow, anything with a beat that doesn’t repeat bushings, monkae trucks gives me love and my itself over and over and over...I love when music becomes emotions...when it gives you family/friends same shit different pile...LOVE! goosebumps, makes you want to dance or sing or tumble hiehie...

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D ANEL V. SOUT

Sponsors Well basically Raoul has sponsored all of my gear...either as birthday or christmas presents or just because presents...nothing major as I’m not racing. Yet.

When and how did you get into longboarding?

A message to all the girls...

My Boyfriend, Raoul van den Berg, is into You don’t have to be a Tomboy to longboard, Longboarding big time, he got me on a longboard it’s not made for the guys. As soon as you jump on even before we started dating. your first board you will feel the attraction and the thrill everyone keeps coming back for!!

What moves you beside skating?

Tumbling and Gymnastics!! Fitness, music... music makes me feel free, it lets you think or laugh UÑEZ N A S I or cry...and then there’s Raoul, haha ;) R S MA

23 YEAR

How is the girl longboard scene back in your PERU country?

Virtually non-existent, there are only about a hand full of girls that we know of. Hopefully when I When and how did you get into move down to Cape Town (Downhill skating capital longboarding? of SA), and get more into it, more girls would see I got into longboarding when I was in my senior that it’s not just for the guys. year of high school, because of a boyfriend who was a surfer and skater and he let me borrow his What does longboarding mean to you?

Sector 9 for a while.

It’s awesome to know that I can beat some guys What moves you beside skating? at at least at this one thing. Haha... but generally just the freedom of flowing down a hill with no noise Other than skating, I love photography, art, except the wind and your wheels, with beautiful concerts, and dancing. I LOVE to dance lol. scenery all around you. Its something I can share with Raoul..much better than going to the movies How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

I think..

The girl longboard scene in Peru is not too big, I know Favorite disciplines of a couple of girls only who skate and 1 competes.

Anything from commuting to bombing...sliding It’s growing though, I’m sure that next year, Tarma is a lot of fun!! will have more girls competing and representing Peru!

Competition or free riding?

Free riding for now, as the last year I’ve been What does longboarding mean to you? focusing on my tumbling. But next year hopefully Longboarding is my passion, it is just so much LBZ MAG I #38

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a part of me and my lifestyle. I feel so comfortable and you will see a good outcome. and free when I am riding. I skate only for myself, Be the trend-setter, not the trend-follower. not for anyone else. I have the best time when I Have confidence in everything that you do, and skate by myself with my headphones and just jam love yourself for who you are. A confident girl is a to my music. Soooo goooooddd... pretty girl. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t or shouldn’t.

Favorite disciplines My favorite discipline would have to be downhill SKATE BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT!!! speedboarding.

Competition or free riding?

I like both, competition and freeriding. I like to start off the day with alot of freerding and then end it off with a nice race.

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Music My favorite music genres are: roots reggae, trip When and how did you get into hop, dubstep, classic rock, latin rock, and anything longboarding? with a good bassline.

I was a snowboardjunkie and some time i think in the year 2004 or 5 Sponsors one of my dudes showed me longboarding My beloved sponsors are: Skatera/Abec11, i get addicted from the first time DaddiesBoardshop.

What moves you besides skating?

A message to all the girls... snowboarding, tai chi, my work.

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your country? i think it starts to getting interesting but i haven`t any numbers how much girls we are in freiburg where i live are really a lot of girls.

What does longboarding mean to you? it`s my existence my breath.

Favorite disciplines mhhh depending on what for whims i am Competition or free riding? freeeeeeee Music i-shine, the womb and a lot of more Sponsors Hügelherzblut, Crail Trucks Sixxa Clothing A message to all the girls... do what you want and learn to feel the flow of flying through the corners.

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DON S 19 YEAR D ZEALAN

N AMY LO NEW

When and how did you get into longboarding?

My dad got me into skating at a younger age, but I was drawn to cruising rather than tricks. Around 2006, while surfing the internet I found what looked like a giant skateboard, and I had to have it. This was my first introduction into longboarding. It wasn’t until late 2009 that I started really getting into the sport as I came across downhill/freeride.

What moves you beside skating?

Not to sound cheesy, but my beautiful girlfriend Tina who moved across the world to be with me.

She always motivates me to be who I want to be, and to do what I want to do.

There is also my family and friends, and their endless amounts of support. This may sound a little mundane, but it’s the truth!

How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

It’s getting there, slowly! When I first started out, I found it difficult to find, or even hear of other girls on longboards. My solution to this was getting my girl mates into the sport, which seemed to work.

Throughout New Zealand now, it’s definitely not rare to come across chicks on longboards, but I still get overly excited when I see them. The scene is expanding, and it’s awesome!

leg) but my first outlaw will be in December, I’ll have to let you know how I feel then, hah.

At the moment, I bomb as much as possible, trying to improve my skills in downhill while also improving my sliding skills on the side. You can’t beat a cruise along the beach either.

Music I can’t help but bounce around to some good ol’ 80s pop. Nothing gets me going like the sound of some fake drums, and the thought of massive hair and shoulder pads.

What does longboarding mean to you?

Longboarding means a lot to me, and so does Sponsors the feeling that comes from it; Stoke. It’s addictive, Ultimate Boards - www.ultimateboards.co.nz and contagious. If I don’t get my weekly, or even BTS Longboards - www.btslongboards.com Hügelherzblut - www.huegelherzblut.de daily amounts of stoke, I almost feel depressed!

Haha.

It has become a huge factor in my life. As my A message to all the girls... passion, it’s hard to think of every thing else.

Go out and shred!

There is also a feeling of family among the Don’t let pressure get to you, you’re doing this longboard community, which I love so much. You for no one but yourself. Give stoke and be stoked, could meet someone for the first time and feel as the way it should be, baby! though you’ve known each other for years.

Competition or free riding?

I have yet to compete (thanks to breaking my

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CHIN HO S 22 YEAR IA MALAYS When and how did you get into longboarding?

I picked up my first longboard after my bike got stolen 2 years ago! I needed another way to get around the city and to uni when I was in Melbourne and I figured this would be way more fun than riding a bicycle. After a few months, I had my first carpark session and I was addicted to the speed and that’s how I started getting into downhill skateboarding as well.

What moves you beside skating?

My people and my music.

How is the girl longboard scene back in your country?

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longboarding but I’m pretty much skating with guys 99.9% of the time!

What does longboarding mean to you?

Everything! I wouldn’t know what my life would be right now without it. It’s the main thing I look forward to every weekend after a long week at work. When I’m riding my board down that hill all my worries are gone and nothing else matters anymore cause you’re just having too much fun. I’ve met so many fantastic people through longboarding we’re all one big happy family. It doesn’t matter where you’re from what age you are, everyone gets along and that’s the one great thing about this sport.

Favorite disciplines Downhill of course!! I also enjoy a good carpark garage skate whenever I get the chance. I’m not much of a “freerider” I really suck at pulling off slides but I’m working on it as we speak!

Competition or free riding?

I love going to competitions mainly to meet people. It’s great to meet and ride with so many people from all around the world. Of course, it also feels good to push your limits and test how good

When and how did you get into longboarding?

Music My interest about skateboarding started thanks Currently listening to alot of songs from Four to Thrashin. I remember watching this 80’s skate Star Mary, Rilo Kiley and Streetlight Manifesto. movie one time after another. Since then I tried to practice street skateboarding but with any success. When I came to Zaragoza to study I feel Sponsors I’m part of the Stoked Skateboards team at the attracted to snowboarding. The mountains were moment. so near that I had no excuse. I never heard about longboarding and didn’t saw one until I saw my A message to all the girls... close friend Jorge from lachicadelacurva riding It’s great to see more and more girls getting into one. Can’t say if it was because of its length, this sport. I know it may get a little discouraging at its soft urethane wheels or because of the year times being in such a male dominated sport but I spent practicing snowboarding, but I can say remember the important thing is to have fun and that once Jorge let me ride his longboard I knew skate safe! See ya’ll on the hills. this “toy” was going to provide me huge fun and really good moments. Since then I’m in love with longboarding, it doesn´t matter their length, their shape or either if they have flex or not, I LOVE A N O M MY QUIVER. CAR S R PAULA A E Y

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Beside skating, my future occupation, medicine, is one of my preferences. I swear not Why do bees and wasps feel attracted to my red- to tell any of my patients to quit skateboarding hair? I suppose they follow me around because of due to a longboarding fall or telling them they’re my bright happy coloured hair. too old for this kind of sports. This has happened you really are.

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to me in my last visits to the doctor.

I`m also very interested in photography and lately I`m hearing the call of video filming. I hear voices whispering “take your camera and film something” “go ahead”. Obviously this is due to Juan Rayos (sk8cinema) and Alberto Alepuz (Perropro), their videos are so amazing that I feel like trying to record.

Cooking is other of my hobbies, you should taste my Lasagna, mmmm. I find really enjoyable fixing things, I must say I have a small Mc Gibber inside. I love looking for mushrooms, blueberries, figs... or anything you can eat. I used to love driving my car but since I ride my longboard my mind is in longboard mode, so while I drive I look for possible spots to shred them with my longboard. Isn’t longboarding the best way to move from one place to another?

How is the girl longboard scene in your country?

The girl longboard scene in Spain in growing healthy. Its happening all around the world. It’s surprising the huge number of girls who are starting to practice longboarding, a good example of this is LGC (Longboard Girls Crew) in Facebook. I’m proud of having taken part in the filming of the LGC video by Juan Rayos, it was an incredible and unforgettable experience. We had the chance of showing to everyone that longboarding it’s not just a male sport and show how fun can it be, which we did. Mission accomplished!! I’m used to meet more male longboarders but I always tell them to bring their girlfriends, I’m sure they will love the sport.

What does longboarding means to you?

Longboarding is all about fun “girls just wanna have fun”. Always I came back from riding there’s a huge smile in my face and sometimes some bruisings in my body but with the smile yet in my face. I’m not sure what does longboarding means to me, I just can think about that SMILE. Favourite disciplines Sliding, carving, dancing… all the styles.

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What I most like is going around the city with my long and if it is in company of other longboarders, much better. One year ago I used to ride completely alone here in Zaragoza but now we are “longboarder family” who communicates through our Facebook Profile (Longboard Zaragoza). Nearly everyday someone join us, and we are hungry of doing interesting things and off course hungry of asphalt.

Competition or freeride?

Both of them, I love the atmosphere of the competitions, that mixture of skate and good vibrations between competitors, makes me crazy and full of energy. I also enjoy hugely riding with out a purpose, just riding, any day and at any of the incredible spots in Zaragoza. I also love traveling with the car full of longboards (definitely I need a van) to other cities to meet their locals and ride different spots.

Music This one is easy, I like all kind of music. I love music and think there is a hit song for all the music styles.

Sponsors lachicadelacurva, a spanish longboard company with a good variety of longboards for all the disciplines and Ludwig Van, a textile brand from Argentina with amazing designs.

A message to all the girls...

For those who ride “keep having fun with all the good feelings while you longboard” and for those who feel attracted to longboarding “just try, don’t be afraid neither be shy, you’re gonna like it. That’s for granted”.

Just to finish I will like to thank Longboarderz and specially Susana for giving me this opportunity. Thanks a lot!! Keep riding!!! ;)

Em breve iremos realizar os primeiros Longboard Games, já o anunciámos, mas do que se trata afinal?

Trata-se de uma competição que irá abranger diversas vertentes do longboard, tem tudo a ver com versatilidade, mas não só, também com camaradagem e com espirito de equipa.

Uma competição em que a vontade de aprender mas também a de ensinar pode ser determinante para conduzir à vitória.

Soon we will realize the first Longboard Games, already announced, but what is it?

It´s a competition that will cover various aspects of longboard, has everything to do with versatility, but not only, also with camaraderie and team spirit.

A competition where the will to learn but also to teach can be essential in leading to victory.

Soon all the details, stay tuned.

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LBZ ANUAL MEETING.10 No inicio do Outono, como que a marcar a reentré da época, deu-se o 3ª Encontro Anual Longboarderz, este ano novamente em Belas.

Tivemos a sorte de ter um dia limpo, algum calor e um grande ambiente.

Por volta das 12h começaram a ouvir-se os primeiros acordes. O som vinha da carrinha da Classics Rad Shop, e foi já com a música no ar que a Rutilva, os representantes portugueses da Pro-Tec deitaram mão à obra para montar o seu stand.

Por esta altura começava já a sentir-se um feeling festivo, muita troca de impressões, de informação, muita experimentação de skates.

Finalmente vemos ao vivo aquele deck que nos habituámos a ver nos ecrãs do PC, sentimos os côncavos, as rodas e as suas virtudes, fazem-se críticas e elogios, venera-se o desporto e a Red Bull dá uma ajuda ao distribuir latas fresquinhas.

Foi o mote para lançar o primeiro Workshop dos Longboarderz, e que surpresa! A procura superou e muito as nossas melhores expectativas, e é bom saber que há muita gente nova interessada em aprender e evoluir no longskate.

Foi um dia muito agradável que cimentou amizades! Deu para curtir umas descidas, uns slides e fazer uns cones, mas que essencialmente valeu pela camaradagem e pelo reencontro dos vários elementos da Família Longboard Português espalhados pelo território!

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In the beginning of Autumn, as to mark “la reentré” of the season, the 3rd Annual Longboarderz Meeting took place, once again in Belas. We were presented with a clear and translucid sky, some heat, and great overall environment.

Around 12am, the firsts chords were being heard. The music was coming from the Classics Rad Shop van, and by that time, the Rutilva Crew, the Portuguese representative of Pro-Tec, was already setting their tent.

By this time, a tender feeling of a festival mood was starting to be felt. Swap of impressions, informations and boards experimentation. We finally see in real life that board we usually see on our pc monitor, we feel the different concaves, we are aware of its true length and weight, discuss the pros/cons of wheels. Critics and compliments are spoken, we worship our sport, while Redbull makes an appearance distributing fresh cans!

This was the great opportunity for the launch of our first Longboarderz Workshop, and what a surprise it was! The attendance was much more than the best of our hopes, which is a sign that there are a lot of new people interested in learning a bit more or developing their technique.

It was a very pleasant day that made friendships stronger. Everyone trashed some descents, slides or cones, but essentially its biggest value was the overall brotherhood and reunion of the Portuguese Longboard Family spread around the country.

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