Welcome to Skate Further! If you are interested in what is going on in the world of distance skateboarding, that's good, because so are we! We LOVE:
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You can get hold of us very easily. Try looking on the about us page and if that doesn't work, drop us an email! nat@skatefurther.com
We are:
Nat Halliday (NZ): Web & Content
Sam Benson (UK): Web Design & Site Maintenance
Ben Colchester Hall (UK): Product Testing
Tom Lewis (UK): Site Maintenance, Forums & Memberships
Laura Hatwell (UK): Web & Content
Christopher Vallender (SUI): Europe News
Marion Karr (USA): Team USA
Nik Randall (UK): Team UK
Here is a great write up from what looks like a really successful trip in the USA. Blake and Daniel got inspired and skated the miles. Skatefurther. Talk to Daniel and I 10 months ago, and we’d tell you doing a long distance longboarding trip was just a dream. Doing something that would impact our community was something that we...
3rd place finisher in this years Broadway Bomb Katie Fry hits up Skatefurther with an exclusive write-up! Katie is sponsored by the wonderful Holesom Longboards. The most anticipated event of the NYC Push Scene was held with a record breaking number of participants estimated around 1,500. Starting at 116th street in Harlem, skaters pushed down Broadway completely shutting down...
Nat recently got asked to answer a few questions for the web-based magazine Skateboarding Photo. Click on the picture above to go and have a read. Some amazing photos from Rob Thomson and Adam Colton.
Adrenalina Skateboard Marathon have been running a series of interviews in the run up to the New York Race this week. The latest is Jack Smith. It’s a really great interview about the 3 skates across the US, his set-up, the Marathon World Tour and the IDSA. Well worth a read.
In the distance skating world, Jack Smith is pretty much a legend. He has skated across the States an amazing 3 times, in 1976, 1984 and 2003. The 2003 ride across America was inspired by the death of his son, Jack Marshall Smith in May of 2003. Jack was born with Lowe Syndrome, a very rare genetic syndrome that effects...
Adam Colton, the man behind many a long distance trip has interviewed Troy and Huw for the Loaded website. We get a good mention as does Skatefurther’s very own Nat, Jim Petersson and distance record holder Rob Thomson. Heres a bit If you were to encourage others to get into distance skating what is the simplest way to get...
Just had a bit of a chat with Troy from Skateventure: Southeast Asia. Looks like they have had a couple of days off earning some food and keep playing drums and guitar. They get back on the road tomorrow. Troy and Huw have skated over 200km in 23 days, got food poisoning, been put up in a 5* hotel...
Got an email from Adam this morning pointing us over the the Loaded blog where they have got Part 1 of the latest Longtreks Concrete Wave article. Part 2 will be along soon!
Bustin Boards rider and Broadway Bomb 2010 ladies winner Sara Paulshock has exploded onto the push scene in fantastic style, by blasting female participation in distance and endurance skateboarding events to new heights. Taking an awesome 8 mins off the existing ladies World Record time set by Skate Further’s Laura Hatwell back at Goodwood in 2009, she owned Adrenalina,...
