Listen Family
Volume No.1
Issue No.6
August 2005
From the road
This month’s news letter will be done a little differently since
we are on the road in Europe and have been for the past 3 weeks. Usually
these news letters are written with the inspiration I get from looking
at new skate mags and checking skateboard websites, but when you are traveling,
you are on a different schedule, usually a hectic one that consists of
multiple shop signings
in one day, demos, shooting photos, or spending 3 hours trying to film
a line at a place that you might never get to skate again. And all of
this usually occurs in one day, so you never get to check your own email
as often as you would like, let alone icelounge. With that being said,
enjoy this month’s news letter courtesy of the free internet station
in the lobby of our hotel in Copenhagen. Oh yeah, since the internet is
free here, everyone is on it all the time and there is only one computer
to use, so you can probably guess that I am doing this at 4am, the only
time everyone is sleeping.
Mags
New ad campaign. Our first look at the new ad campaign came when we arrived
in the office of our Denmark distributor, Slide Distribution, in Copenhagen
after a 17 hour over night train ride from Paris. Seeing the ad in the
new Kingpin, woke us up out of a coma and was a nice start to a great
week in Denmark. Danny Montoya has the first ad of this campaign which
can be seen in Kingpin internationally and in Thrasher, Slap, and The
Skateboard Mag Domestically. The new Thrasher also has a photo of team
manager Vern Laird pouring beer on Dylan Reider's head during the awards
ceremony of the damn am contest at the 3rd lair park in Minneapolis. You
can see Rob G’s new LRG ad in the new Transworld. The Mexico trip
featuring Danny and Rob should be out soon in the next Skateboarder mag
according to the email I just received from editor Brian Peech. The Skateboard
Mag has a new Brain Brown Adio ad and a split ad with Eastern Skate Supply
which features Danny Montoya. I would also like to take the time to correct
the mistake made by The Skateboard Mag. The origins of the nollie article
is a photo of Rodrigo Petersen, not Rodrigo Lima.
Trips/Tours
We currently are in Copenhagen, Denmark. We started off our Europe trip
in Holland where we met up with Miesj over at Left Distribution. Miesj
was super busy planning stuff for the big contest that was to be held
that weekend in Rotterdam, so we just hit the streets on our own. We spent
our time street skating some amazing spots and met some cool skaters.
Check out our website for the euro look alike contest. From there, we
took a train to France to meet up with Franz and the rest of the crew
at Class X distribution. We started of in Lille, which is a small city
in the north of France. From there we went to Paris and Soy Panday was
our tour guide for the week of skating there. After Paris, we went to
Rouen for the Carhartt King of wood contest. It rained a lot in Rouen,
so we headed back for some unfinished business in Paris. This time JJ
Rouseau joined us and on our way to the skate spot, The Skateboard Mag's
Ian O' Conno,r went down on a huge crack and cut his chin up to the point
were he had to get stitches. With Ian in the hospital and Vern filming
Brian, Rob G was left to shoot a sequence of Danny. Vern set the shutter
speed and apature for Rob and then let him do his thing. Everyone will
have to wait and see how Rob's flicks turned out. Atiba look out, Rob's
coming up! From that session we had to hustle to catch our 17 hour train
ride to Copenhagen. Ian was still in the hospital getting stitches so
he had to catch up with us the following day. Which brings us to where
we are now? There is an awesome ledge spot right by our hotel and you
can skate there all day, well at least until it gets dark because there
are no lights. We also got to leave Copenhagen for a few days and went
to a city called Aarhus which is the second largest city in Denmark. We
stayed at a place known as the country club which has a nice 6 foot mini
in a barn. Now we are back in Copenhagen with one more day of street skating
before we head to Münster, Germany for a shop signing and then a
demo straight off of an 8 hour train ride. See that crazy symbol over
the u? I love European keyboards. There are all kinds of crazy letters
and symbols. It took me forever to figure out how to make that thing appear
over the u, but now I got it down. I also wish there was a word I can
use that has this letter in it ø. Anyways, we have had an a amazing
time and we would like to thank all our international distributors and
tour guides for making this possible for us. Next month's letter will
have the Germany and Italy parts of Europe.
Contests
Donnie Mitchell just missed winning the last west coast es game of Skate
before the big one at the ASR trade show in San Diego. Donnie got 2nd
place, and if we would have won, we would have won an invite to play in
the big at the trade show. Check the active mail-order website for more
news on this story. www.activemailorder.com
WSR05 in Rotterdam was all it could be and more. There was a great turn
out of pro skaters from the states and Europe, as well as a great crowd
turn out for the large skate scene over in Holland. Miesj and the crew
put in a lot hours to make sure their event went over well and everything
was great. Night life included free shows from Ray Barbee and band, Frank
Hirata and band, Helter Skelter and Rahzel from The Roots. There was also
a street photo contest the week before the skate park contest. Crews of
skaters went out with a photographer and took to the streets of Rotterdam
to win 10,000 euros, which is more than $10,000 for those who don't know,
for the best photo. The photos were then displayed at the park, and everyone
got to vote on their favorite. Well we didn't win the photo contest or
the park contest, but it was a great week. Rodrigo was the only one from
our camp to enter the contest in Rouen, France and in classic Rodrigo
fashion; he rolled his ankle right before his run. This has been happening
to him at every contest for the past 2 years. Maybe we'll just have to
keep him away from contests.
Videos
The new 411 has hit the shelves. Danny Montoya is featured in the Italian
Job article. He also has footage in the chaos section along with Rob,
Rodrigo, and Brian. The new Adio DVD is out and we are giving those away
with every Danny Montoya pro model. Danny and Brain share an amazing part
in this video. This is until supplies run out, so act fast and get yours
today.
Misc.
Congratulations go out to Chad Tim Tim who will be getting
married long time girlfriend, Lindsey, on August 20th. This months Birthday’s:
Brian Brown (the big 21st), Marty Kish
THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June '05
July '05