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.

November 21st, 2009 in Downtown East Lansing, Michigan (48840) beginning at 8pm

http://www.gogreenlongboarding.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13

Entry fee: $5

Additional Info: Helmet Required and bring some gloves yo

RULES:
-Kicking rules will vary per garage.
-We’ll throw some buttboarding in there for good measure.
-Spin in 5 circles and bomb.
-4 man heats
-Arrive in front of the Auditorium at 8 PM (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ad … code=48824)
-If you don’t have a helmet and gloves don’t come. I’m sure we have gloves to spare but I don’t feel like leaving behind brain juice at garages.

Garage #1 (Bessey) – Long and slow with all left turns. You can kick down the whole thing.
Garage #2 (Hamster Cage) – 5 floors and fast with all left turns, stop on the 2nd floor or die. You can kick the whole first down.
Garage #3 (Grand River) – I’m gonna have to check this one out before I define it.
Garage #4 (Comm Arts) – 4 floors and fast with 3 rights and a left. You can kick until the line, then kick and pump the whole bottom flat section.
Garage #5 (Wharton) – We have some leeway here, I’m thinking all rights, all lefts, and hit 2 cutbacks. Kick status pending.

They have sponsors but are looking for more if anyone’s interested!! Please contact the original poster on the gogreenlongboarding website.