from theyre comment

“Hey Longboard Mike, we own a Longboard Company based in Grand Haven, Michigan maybe you’ve heard of us, SMOKINMADLOVE! We’ve been growing for a few years working hard at a pure true hearted grassroots company and are totally stoked to bring boards into the hands of our loyal clients and friends.We have a unique design which is just smokin mad loves and not a cookie cutter board, our 6 shapes bring new love in Longboarding that we are excited to share!!! We have a shop we will be doing awesome stuff & all new & the first ever MidWest Longboard Exclusive Shop, called the SmoKiN Mad LoVE LaBOARDatory!! We are located at 5 North Seventh Street in Grand Haven, Hope you will come and visit us and get a shout out on your page, let us know what we can do to help spread the word about your site as well!!! CHEERS & PEACE!!! JON AND BLAIR BUTLER >>> SMOKIN MAD LOVE <<<<<”

First off, being the nerd that I am, I love their website. This comes off as a great company and I want to get one of their longboards personally. Grand Haven is great for longboarding and it’s companies like this that really push the envelope of this culture. LOVE IT!! LOVE LONGBOARDING!! YESSS

from the about

“sMoKiN mAd LoVe is a company dedicated to providing a quality, American-made product, all the while being mindful of and responsible to the environment. We’re also dedicated to helping foster self expression and peaceful co-existence between all humans. And oh yeah – our boards are pretty cool too. We are sMoKiN mAd LoVe!”

On that note, there are definitely some cool things in the world of longboarding. Let’s start off with my boy Reid’s longboard trip across the US for charity! Here’s a little info he sent me. They are raising a lot of money and they need all the donations they can get. What a great cause!

We will be longboarding from Murphy, in the mountains, to Manteo, at the coast, for a total of 700+ miles. The trip will take about 2 and a half weeks depending on our if we can keep a 50 mile a day pace. We are doing it for charity: water. Charity: water is a 100% non-profit organization raising money to drill wells and provide clean drinking water for people in Africa. $5,000 funds an entire water project that provides an entire village, of about 250 people, clean drinking water. God has laid the number $10,000 on my heart to raise so that is our goal. In doing so we can help make in difference in 500 peoples lives. To help kick off the trip we will be holding a DH race and Slide/Jam Session in Asheville. There whereabouts and details of that are not yet ironed out, but once we set firm dates for when to start the trip that will be taken care of. To donate go to http://mycharitywater.org/longboardacrossnorthcarolina and to anyone interested in the trip they can go to the group page I made: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_126420644094552&ap=1 Thanks for helping to promote this and once I get some more firm details about when the trip will start and about the slide/jam/race I will let you know. That kick off event will hopefully be big and I need it to be so I really appreciate you promoting all of this because I know that you will help to make a difference with all of this.

Okay, so I thought there’s never been a rap track about longboarding and boy was I wrong. This song has a ton of rhythm and it fits the video perfect. It’s a little dark feeling, but it gets the point. Feeling. Longboard Living is a Longboard Blog / Manufacturer that I just stumbled on. Check out their boards, there is a zombie apocalypse one that is REALLY dope. Definitely worth it. Check out their website, learn up some Canada Longboarding and keep pushin yall!!!

The mastermind behind the Longboard Living Movement, Ryan Rubin, shows us the art of THE PUSH. He doesn’t slide, he doesn’t dance, he pushes day in and day out..

This is toronto push culture. Orginal soundtrack by two SSS riders The eternal Feedback feat: BLOCKA…. ghetto ass closet productions.

Video film and edited by Jonathan Nuss… JONATHANNUSS.com

Starting at 1:13 Brian Bishop kills a manual. Back to working on my own manuals. Someday I’ll learn how to Nose Manual too!

Original team rider Brian Bishop 360 flips longboarding off the sidewalks into the air and onto the streets of Boston, Mass on his Apex 37. Go Longboard and celebrate the up-coming release of the new Apex 37 with Original.

I bet you want to see cool tricks on a longboard. I bet your looking for dope music to longboard to. Wanna start spinning? Doin your tiger claw? Get some bounce on your board? Hell yes you do. That’s what longboardings all about. You start off, you have fun and then you just want to start doing it more and more. Pretty soon, you’re selling your house for 10 new longboards that you cant even ride, unless you stack them together and do it like a London bus. I don’t have a Loaded Longboard but I sure as sugar (lol, trying to keep the language kid appropriate) want to get one ASAP. It’s fall over here in Michigan, which to me, means MORE longboarding. Everything looks so beautiful and I want to hit the slopes (for freeee, because its a Longboard remember! )

Live vicariously through his sick boarding spots, or get out there and bomb some hills and master your skate tricks.

Adam S. is back and busts out some smooth moves on the Tan Tien longboard flex 3.

Artist: J-Walk, Song: Soul Vibrations.

http://www.loadedboards.com

More info about the video here, http://www.loadedboards.com/loadednews/index.php?post/2010/09/22/New-Adam-S.-Video:-PROPELLER

“Excerpt from the more info page:

by Adam Stokowski

I recently had the opportunity to go to California and hang out with everyone at the Loaded office and some other fun people. Big thanks to Don and everyone at Loaded; it was a super awesome time. While I was there, Adam C. filmed a little video of me ridding the Tan Tien called Propeller; thanks again to Don for the name. We pretty much just skated around the Venice Beach area looking for things to mess around with and tried to avoid backpack-eating dragons who eventually caught up to us. It’s just a fun little video playing with the surroundings. Adam C. did an amazing job with the filming, lots of depth of field and some smooth camera movements. Big thanks to Adam C. for filming, editing, and letting a smelly Virginian sleep on his floor with a sweatshirt stuffed in a bag for a pillow. I got to go make sure my potatoes aren’t boiling over. Catch y’all next time.

Adam S.”

“On the evening of May 16, 2005, Ian and several friends were skateboarding down Hercules Ave. in Clearwater, FL on a hill known locally as Cemetery Hill. As he was making his last run down the hill that evening his skateboard suddenly stopped and he was thrown headfirst onto the pavement. Ian was NOT wearing a safety helmet and as a result he suffered severe traumatic brain injuries. Ian never regained consciousness and died 10 days later on May 26, 2005. Our beloved son was 28 years old. When people hear Ian’s story many ask with shock and disbelief “he died from falling off a skateboard”? We truly believe our son’s death could have been prevented by simply choosing to wear a helmet.”