| Now offering a great new deal in conjunction with Board Free Project USA! Go Like their Facebook page and read the Information section, after following the instructions any skateboard or longboard complete you purchase from us, you will also receive a free t-shirt or accessory of your choice! | ||||||
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| Alright guys, so the event is close now and here's some things to know! - Weather should be sunny out so rock your best costumes but bundle up so you aren't freezing! - When you first arrive to the event please check in at the table; you will receive an ID number and ID tag. These numbers will be used for the costume and competition judging! Checking in also gets you a ticket for a chance at the prize table at the end of the event! - As far as skating sessions we are letting everyone skate and have time to show up for the first hour and half, and then will branch into the first round of competitions (Slide & Speed) around 2:45. Following the first round of competitions we will have sign ups for the Best Trick competitions and also voting for the best costume and more free skate. Then we will give another hour of free skate and try to start the last round of competitions around 3:45. Then scoring and prize drawings! - We have water bottles and trash bags, please be respectful! |
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Met up with Adacia Boards, LLC. today to gather some more product toss for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam, this Saturday is approaching quickly!! Thanks again Adacia! |
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Great sponsor package in the mail today from Seismic Skate Systems!! Thanks again Seismic, perfect gear! Looks like everything is accounted for from event sponsors now and our organization for the event is complete. Now just time to get out and shred this Saturday! Very hyped for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam, it couldn't get here any faster. Come out in your best and throw down some urethane tracks! |
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The beast has been unleashed! Major ramp skills by the guys at XVD Longboards putting together this kicker for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam! Possibly making another ramp at a lower height as well, just for a little practice before we slam down tricks on this one at the jam! Thanks again XVD! November 5th, this Saturday! We will be there, XVD will be there, this ramp will be there, where will you be? Better be here! |
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| Florida area fans, it's coming! This Saturday, November 5th, the Fall Monster Jam will throw down. Get out there and skate your legs off! | ||||||
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We are thinking one giant skate video submission! Spread the word on the love of skating through this great organization and let the world see the thrill of the sport and it's culture! Who would be down to send in video submissions to us after skating on 11.11.11, we edit the video and give this organization a great submission?! Send us an e-mail if so! |
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The Shlooped team has our Eagle Longboards in their hands and are almost ready to head out on their cross-country tour! Time to put the quality of our boards to the test; our Eagles can handle it! Best of luck Shlooped guys, stay safe! Everyone go give their Facebook page a like to stay up to date on where they are at on their journey, spread the hype! |
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New Technical Slide System (TSS) wheels: 62mm; 92a, 95a, 97a and 101a. Who's hyped for some technical sliding?! |
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| Skate The East is now sponsoring our Halloween Costume Skate Jam!! They will be doing event coverage for us on their website afterwards and possibly trying to send out some gear for prizes! | ||||||
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| Looking into graphics for our SBS (Snowballs) and CDS (Color Dyed Snowballs) Wheel sets! After this succeeds, last thing to finish developing are the new model of slide gloves and then our product line will be fully customizable and ready to rip! | ||||||
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Looks like a possible idea for our next event...Boardwalk Bash! Line up and race down the boardwalk of Virginia Beach, followed by a fun skate session to conclude the day at the WRV Skatepark a few streets away from the oceanfront! How's it sound?! As for a time, no deciding thoughts yet, starting to get cold so might push this back to spring time. Any other beach boardwalks we should raid?! |
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It's starting to get cold out there, bundle up with one of our super soft hoodies!! *Tons of color options available Unisex Pullover Hoodie in pink with the "Logo" graphic! E-mail us at twatson@sketchskateboards.com to put your order in for one of these warm, snuggly things! |
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Made some changes, and here's what we have so far for the newest Vulture Longboard model! *Drop Mount, 8plys of nice sturdy maple, 43" x 9.75" and a symmetrical shape; the perfect bird of prey to attack some steep hills for downhill longboarding, sliding and free riding. Leave your thoughts below on whether we should make this official or not. Now looking into a new sturdy top mount shape, let us know what your preferences are and we will work them into a board model! And don't forget, we always offer custom shaped longboard decks for a great price! |
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| Going to be constructing new tests for our slide gloves this Thanksgiving holiday to allow for velcro and replaceable pucks, even though our pucks are so solid they pretty much take FOREVER to wear down! Stay tuned on the updates! | ||||||
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| Received Storm Longboards prize box for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam!! Very awesome and interesting box, thanks again Storm for helping out with the Skate Jam and becoming a great company affiliate of ours! | ||||||
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8" skateboard decks not doing it for you? need more room?! We now have 8.25" and 8.5" skateboard decks in stock! Due to the low quantities of these demanded they will be based on special order, so if this is the size you skate and have been waiting for us to stock it, contact us now at twatson@sketchskateboards.com to set up an order! |
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Sorry to say that we will no longer be offering the current models of the "Hawk" and "Vulture" Longboards. We will be doing more research and development into a board shape that riders will be able to obtain the fullest extent of performance and style of riding that they so choose. Last chance to get the first and only model of the current "Hawk" Longboard model will be at the Halloween Costume Skate Jam! However, don't forget all of the other great birds of prey that we have available for you to attack the streets with such as the Falcon, Eagle, Osprey and Condor!! And we still offer Custom Shaped Longboard Decks at a very great price per deck, so whatever shape board you need, if we don't have it already, let us know and we will cut a special model just for you!! |
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Now offering a new collection of wheels for our longboard completes! Wheel Options: |
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| Did some more setting up, organizing and preparation for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam, should be an AWESOME EVENT! | ||||||
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| Developing plans for a possible skate competition / concert in the Virginia Beach area, any bands out there or anybody that knows any bands that would be excited to play a show?! | ||||||
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The Shlooped Eagle Longboard completes are ready for dispatch! We can officially say now that our longboards will travel these two adventurous young men across the entire United States all the way from California to Pennsylvania! They have a crazy journey ahead of them and we are proud to have our gear underneath their feet for the travels. Go check out their Facebook page to stay up to date with their journey, and want a longboard with the quality to take you across the country or handle some solid shredding check out our boards!! *Tell everyone you see who Sketch Skateboards is and what we are about, Shlooped Team!! Best of luck with your journey! |
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Looking into solid speakers that can moved around and carried to skate events, any suggestions?! Also! Where should our next skate event be held at?!?! (skateboarding or longboarding) We want to hear from you guys, send Taylor an e-mail at twatson@sketchskateboards.com with your opinions if you know of any great skateparks or locations that would be suitable for hosting an event!! |
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The Halloween Costume Skate Jam featured on Skate The East! |
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Talked ramp plans today with XVD Longboards. Looks like the kicker will be 4' wide x 4' long x 2' tall at the launch! Might even have a sweet graphic coating to showcase the event and sponsors!! Can't wait to see it come to be, thanks again XVD for the material contributions and time spent with building the ramp! Now, with the addition of this, there shall be a Best Kicker Trick Contest at the Halloween Costume Skate Jam!!! Get excited! |
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Now offering bigger and softer wheels for longboards! Our Snowballs are a great slide wheel, but if you need something a little bigger and softer we now have what you need! New wheels in sizes 70mm and 76mm with an 81a durometer level; available in colors Black, Orange, Purple, Yellow and Pink! *Wheels come with free Abec 9 Bearings as well! |
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| The prize box from Fireball for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam came in today! Such a super great box, hyped to toss this stuff out at the event!! Thanks again Fireball Wheels! | ||||||
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We are happy to announce that we will now be offering a multitude of great trucks for our longboard completes!! Trucks Options: |
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| Great box from Loaded Boards and Orangatang Wheels arrived this weekend, some awesome prizes, make sure you get out to the Halloween Costume Skate Jam and skate hard!! Thanks again everyone at Loaded and Orangatang! | ||||||
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| Loads of stickers and some prizes for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam came in this weekend from SkateHouseMedia! Thanks for sending the gear guys!! | ||||||
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| Received Surf-Rodz prize box for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam this weekend, some great little prizes to toss out! Thanks Surf_Rodz! | ||||||
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Our Apparel is finally flowing fluidly again!! Check out this "Big S" Comfort Fit Tee; Indigo Blue T-Shirt with Black Graphic! And remember, now with our new printing system all the apparel types, colors and graphic colors are all in your hands! What gear of ours will you design and wear?! |
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Limited edition "Big S" Pintail Longboard Deck; only one to ever be made! Another possible prize at the Halloween Costume Skate Jam!! |
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Finally moving along with lots of website progress! On the USA page the skateboard truck builder has finally been uploaded! Some new hanger colors have been added, as well as improvement on the quality of the trucks. So far skaters have been saying our trucks are the best thing they have skated right off the shelf or out of the box, let's keep it up!! Go design your own custom set of trucks now! Skateboard Wheels will be next to be active! |
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Alright USA fans, the Skateboard Deck Builder option is finally back online! Go check out the new layout of it and play around with your favorite color options! Next up to go online will be the trucks; which we have some lovely new hanger colors in stock now so be ready for those! |
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| Fireball is now sponsoring our Halloween Costume Skate Jam!! These are great people, so lets welcome their gear at the event and spread the knowledge about these wheels through the Chesapeake/Va Beach/Hampton Roads area! | ||||||
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Loaded Boards has featured the Halloween Costume Skate Jam on their website!! |
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| The "Hawk" is gripped and ready for one lucky skater to walk away with it at the Halloween Costume Skate Jam, be there! | ||||||
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| Don't you just love our grip tape design! Looks sweet on the board and is functionally placed near the tail; unlike other grip tape with cut outs where you need to flick and control your board. | ||||||
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| Blue and Orange "Big S" skateboard deck! Get out to the Fall Monster Jam, hosted by UNsponsored skateboarder, and go all out; you just may win it!! | ||||||
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| Just received Honey Skateboards's gear for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam! Everything looks sweet, come out to the event on November 5th and see what great gear Honey contributed to the prize pile! Thanks again Mike and everybody at Honey! | ||||||
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Custom cut longboards are back! Any shape you want under 46" with 7-plys of maple for just $66! Check out the website, we will begin processing orders around the middle of November! |
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| Our longboard models, "Falcon", "Hawk", "Condor" and "Eagle" are now all available in both 7-ply maple construction and 6-ply maple,1-ply bamboo construction! | ||||||
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| Received Bustin Boards Custom Longboards prize box for the Halloween Costume Skate Jam this weekend! Must say, big ups to Bustin, great box!! Come see what gear you can grab at the jam! | ||||||
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| Posted on October 11, 2011. | ||||||
Finally moving along with lots of website progress! On the USA page the skateboard truck builder has finally been uploaded! Some new hanger colors have been added, as well as improvement on the quality of the trucks. So far skaters have been saying our trucks are the best thing they have skated right off the shelf or out of the box, let's keep it up!! Go design your own custom set of trucks now! Skateboard Wheels will be next to be active! |
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Shlooped is getting closer and closer to embarking on their journey across the country, with our longboards right under their feet! They have now created an active link on their website where you can donate to their cross country fund and help them survive the hectic journey. Any donations help and seems to be that you will get a free sticker for donating! Shoot, e-mail us that you donated and we will send you some free Sketch stickers as well!! (*honesty policy!, hah) |
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| Posted on October 10, 2011. | ||||||
Alright USA fans, the Skateboard Deck Builder option is finally back online! Go check out the new layout of it and play around with your favorite color options! Next up to go online will be the trucks; which we have some lovely new hanger colors in stock now so be ready for those! We understand there is still plenty of work to be done with the website, but if you would like to order any products and the link is not live yet please contact Taylor Watson to work out all of your questions and problems! |
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| Posted on October 9, 2011. | ||||||
Finally obtained a filming setup! Now tons of new HD skateboarding and longboarding videos, as well as clips from events and the such shall be flowing onto our YouTube channel. Subscribe and support the channel to stay tuned in on the latest video uploads! Here's a short longboarding film from yesterday, enjoy! |
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| Here is some follow up footage from the Shred 4 Bread 2 contest that was organized by Sinister Skate Shop and hosted by Soul Ride Skatepark. Watch and enjoy! Hope whoever won our gear at the event is enjoying it! | ||||||
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| Shlooped is a brand new apparel brand planning to reach out to many great skate shops and start selling lines of apparel and possibly hardgood skate products with awesome and creative designs! The two owners of Shlooped, Brien Godby and Cody Burke, have planned to set out on a cross country longboard tour, traveling from California to Pennsylvania, solely depending on traveling on longboards. This brand caught out eye and after talking with the two great guys we have formed a company partnership, and now we will be assisting them on their journey. Brien and Cody were given the option to both pick their favorite longboard model from our designs; they both picked the "Eagle" drop down longboard and now we will be supplying them both with a full complete setup to get them across the country. At the end of this great journey our longboards will have succesfully taken two great men across the entire United States! We will be following their activity along the journey and posting all information to our blog, but you can also follow along with the Shlooped journey by clicking the above banner and liking their Facebook page. Good luck guys! | ||||||
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| Introducing the new "Osprey" Longboard Deck! Welcoming the newest bird to the family of longboards, the Osprey has a 42" length and 9.5" width, with a top mount design. The construction is 7 plys of Hardrock Canadian Maple. For a price of just $56 this is a board you can't pass up! Plenty of room for dancing, cross stepping and performing other free ride tricks, yet still a successful length and shape for downhill speeds and hitting plenty of slides. Check the board out on our "Boards" page! | ||||||
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| Please be patient with us as the stock of new skateboard colors, longboard shapes and truck colors has required us to once again disable online ordering at the moment while the designing process is edited once again. If you would like to order any products that cannot be built on the website please contact Taylor Watson at twatson@sketchskateboards.com and he will assist you in the ordering process! Thank you! | ||||||
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One spooky after-Halloween skate jam to keep the holiday ongoing! Come dressed up in your most creative, yet skate-able, costume and be ready The event will consist of mainly a free skate jam for a huge percentage of the time spent at the location. During the final portion of the event competitions will be held for farthest slide, best trick, best kicker ramp trick, fastest downhill speed and best costume! *This is a downhill, slide and free ride event for longboards, all types of skaters still welcome to come out, have fun and spectate. Spread the word about this event to all of your friends that longboard! Tons of prizes and fun things will be passed out. Current sponsors: Current event coverage will be filmed / written and posted by: Also, a possible chance of food catering, still in the works. SPREAD THE WORD AND GET OUT HERE TO SKATE! *ATTENTION: The event will be SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK. No companies involved will be responsible for any injuries or liability that may occur from skating in the area. *Helmets and slide gloves highly recommended. Elbow pads and knee pads optional. P.S. Costume or not, be here and skate!! |
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