Mark your calendars! Saturday the 20th, the newest Orangefiist film release, “Drop: My Life Downhill” will be premiering at South Puget Sound Community College at 8pm. We’re helping sponsor the event along with Orangatang and a few others. Come check it out, it’s only $10!
Thanks to Brandon Montesano for putting this all together for the crew.
South Puget Sound Community College
2011 Mottman Road SW Bldg 25 Room 105
Olympia, Washington
We just received our box of ‘zines from SBC Kiteboard Magazine. They feature the 2010 Kite Showdown and Slingshot cleaned house, just as we predicted. Here’s what they had to say about the new Comp Stick Bar:
“Slingshot also receives top marks for the beefy and easy rotating, front line swivel, which keeps the lines untwisted and also houses the mini fifth line leash system which connects below the bar and ensures 100 percent depower… Overall, the Comp Stick represents a solidly designed and streamlined set-up that rivals the best on the market for safety and simplicity.”
And regarding the 2010 Slingshot Octane:
“Intermediate riders that value versatility over top-end performance in a specific discipline will gravitate towards the Octane. It has enough performance to carry a rider from the early stages to advanced levels. It’s versatile character will encourage intermediates to push the limits and experience new levels, styles and disciplines of riding”
The 2010 RPM really takes the cake though with this bold statement:
“The new 2010 Slingshot RPM is the most tunable kite in the SBC Kiteboard 2010 tests.”
“The RPM has tremendous amounts of pop and great pull unhooked, giving good drift and loft with smooth landings on unhooked jumps. It could also easily compete against the full-on wakestyle realm with its smooth unhooked pull and good amounts of control. It has enough depower and good quick steering to make it a versatile travel companion in your quiver.”
If you’re local, stop by the shop and we’ll give you a free issue of the magazine! Mention that you read the blog and we might even hook you up with a t-shirt too. : ) The PSKite Spring Fling party is going on tonight at the Pyramid Brewery across the street from Safeco field. We’ll be giving out lots of swag and hope to see lots of familiar faces, and new ones too!
I love springtime! Not only is the pavement drying out enough that we can start to skate around here, but all the longboard companies are releasing their hot new products.
Earthwing (one of our favorite longboard makers out of Brooklyn NY) has been tweaking their manufacturing process to lower costs and make their products more affordable. As of now, they are the only brand we carry that offers a drop-through deck for $100! It’s the new Earthwing Supermodel deck that comes in two versions, 8-ply and 9ply Supermodels. It offers a deep elliptical concave, routered channels on the bottom for a little torsional flex (though still super stiff) and even weight distribution. The channels are also perfect for grabbing rail. I still can’t get over the price though!
Other than that, we have the new Divine Wheels, Cult Wheels, Retro Freerides in the classic urethane formula, Paris 195mm Trucks, the new David Price Madrid deck and the freeride Sayshun Mania deck. Be sure and check ‘em out!
After much anticipation and a looong wait, we finally received our first shipment of Fullbag’s latest deck the Elise. It’s Fullbag teamrider Patrick Switzer’s pro model deck. We also received a couple more of The Topmount decks and Speedstylers should be the next to arrive. The Elise P-Swiss Model deck is the longboard that helped Patrick Switzer to his first place finish at Maryhill in 2009.
These decks won’t be in stock long so get one before they’re gone!
We have a used 11 foot paddle board from Solo. It’s the Solo All Terrain 2009.
The board is made of 2 lb extruded EPS foam core with resin research clear high grade epoxy resin and 8 oz hexcell fiberglass all around giving that traditional custom surfboard look. The biggest difference is in the weight , or the lack of it. Being markedly lighter than traditional surfboards but paradoxically much more durable.
The board is in great shape. It has one very minor ding on the tail end, some light cosmetic scratches on the rail, other that that the board is in awesome shape. We brought this board at the end of the summer for our rental fleet needless to say it only got used for the tail end of the season. As you can see by the pics it’s clean and in great shape.
It’s well worth 900.00 but will take 799.00 for it. We’ll throw in an over the shoulder carrier for it as well.
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