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On May 22, 2011 Mike Smith, Phil Burcher, Steve Andel and Andrew Norman will team up to skateboard across Nebraska in late May. The goal $50,000… the cause giving kids a FREE + SAFE place to skate. The five of us will be skating over 400 miles (from Scottsbluff to Lincoln) to help raise state wide awareness for Nebraska’s...
Results are still coming in but we know how it ended thanks to Jack Smith of The Skateboarders Journal. Today I witnessed the most remarkable athletic event I have seen in my 35+ years of skateboarding. Paul Kent pushed his skateboard 94 miles in 6 hours and 45 minutes…yes you read that correctly. Hr did this in 90 degree heat...
The 56.7 miles of day 2 saw some of the gnarliest bails. 2nd place Jeff Vyain tore open his thigh/butt (pic here for people who want to see!) and race organiser Marion Spears Karr fell and badly injured his knee. 2 of the three hospitalisations on the day. Jeff managed to skate the remianing 40 or so miles. Insane....
Day 1 of the first long distance skate race ever to be held is over. 36 and a bit miles in 80+ heat. Racing at 15mph. Top three: Paul Kent 2:27:15 Jeff Vyain 2:28:54 Joshua Rosenthal 2:40:13 pic taken by Jeff. PK moving out in front. Our Skatefurther team USA man on the ground is Marion Spears Karr, the...
A little while ago, we brought you news of the Paris Ultraskate which will be taking place this coming weekend. It turns out that Romain Bessière won’t be the only ‘distance ronin’ to make an appearance as it has been confirmed that a car-load the best Dutch ultraskaters will also joining the party. Jochem Boer, Jesse Beau (top) and...
New Zealand. What is it about this country? Why do distance skaters want to skate it and why does it produce so many skaters who like going a long way? Well the latest is Daniel Harrison. He is currently 3 days into a 20 day skate of New Zealand’s North Island. Skatefurther’s own New Zealand skater Nat has been...
In a couple of weeks, on the 21st May, during the same weekend that some will be taking part in the Sk8 Challenge 2011 the first Paris Ultraskate will take place: This event has the potential to make big waves as Romain Bessière will be attempting to beat Paul Kent’s current 24h distance record of 250.4 miles (roughly 403km)....
Adam Colton makes an escape. Aaron and Paul fuel up on cookies to catch Adam. The case is on. Diarrhea sickness attacks, Adam and Aaron and they are weak. The team all gets split up. The stretches are long with little to no food. Paul and Adam rejoin and finish the trip to Potosi. Aaron fights a crazy battle...
This one cannot pass Skatefurther readers by without a big mention. Next Friday, March 11th, sees 32 of Longboarding’s most influential vendors congregating upon New York’s Lower East Side. The 2011 Longboard Expo is coinciding with Concrete Waves Award Ceremony and followed the next day by the ‘Warriors’ Push race. PushCulture.com will be streaming the event live and we...
Globeskater Bessiere Romain’s latest skate epic has taken him to Senegal. From the pictures he is posting up on his facebook and GlobeSkater.com website, it looks like an amazing journey. As time goes on, the list of countries traversed by skateboard continues to grow. Bessiere is at the front of this list, where will be next? Keep up to...
