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Video Sneak Peak-Omen Blem Sale

Seattle Longboard Shop — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:24:38 +0000

Two weeks ago we had a huge snowstorm in Seattle. Some areas got more than 12″ of fresh pow making for some rad urban snowboarding. Sam was the only one to make it into work to make sure another batch of Omen Pike longboards made it to the presses. Speaking of which, next week we’ll [...]

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How to Change Your Longboard Bearings

Seattle Longboard Shop — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:57:31 +0000

Sometimes we get a little caught up on the technical details and forget about the basic stuff like applying griptape or assembling trucks. In this video, you get a quick glimpse at how to change out your longboard skateboard bearings. Some of our favorites are the classic Bones Reds, or Cadillac skateboard bearings which come [...]

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Want To Work at Motion Boardshop?

Seattle Longboard Shop — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:04:36 +0000

Hey we need some Help over here!! Recognized as Seattle’s Number one Skate shop, Motion Boardshop is growing Rapidly. We want to find great people to join us along the way. The Motion Boardshop Seattle Headquarters (our Seattle longboard store), our physical and digital Media Design Groups, Online Media (Facebook and Youtube etc.) Shipping Center, [...]

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T-Shirt Design Contest Entries

Seattle Longboard Shop — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Last night at midnight we announced all the entries to our T-shirt design contest on our Facebook page. We received 157 entries all together but some of the one’s we got were in unusable formats. So if you don’t see your entry in our Facebook photo album, shoot us an email and we’ll let you [...]

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Are You The Next MoBot?

Seattle Longboard Shop — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:24:17 +0000

Do you have what it takes to be sponsored? We want to give you the opportunity. Let’s find out if you have what it takes to ride for Motion Boardshop. The MoBots Team asks that you create and send us a longboarding video. We want a new, original video, designed to be your personal application [...]

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Boom Shaka! Ross Early Grabs Over Car

Seattle Longboard Shop — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:07:14 +0000

Yesterday I posted a user review on the Sector 9 Super Shaka longboard and I mentioned that BoomBot Ross Druckrey rocks one on a regular basis. For his setup he rides the Omen Longboards precision trucks and Sector 9 70mm 80a Center Set Race Forms longboard wheels. In this video you see Ross shred around [...]

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Sector9 Super Shaka Longboard Customer Write-up

Seattle Longboard Shop — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:54:38 +0000

We love a good longboard deck review, but you can’t always just take our word for it. We think its equally or even more important to hear how good/bad something is from the average longboarder. So here’s a Sector 9 Super Shaka review that an anonymous longboarder posted on our website (and if you didn’t [...]

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Longboard Deck Video Review: Omen Pike

Seattle Longboard Shop — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:16:15 +0000

Omen longboards designer and MOBOT Trevor Preston breaks it down for us in this video review of the brand new Omen Pike longboard deck. So what makes the Pike unique from all the other decks on the market? Here’s a few reasons….First of all, 9 plies of badass Canadian maple make it durable and sturdy [...]

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Longboard Deck Review: The Landyachtz Chinook

Seattle Longboard Shop — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:00:21 +0000

Tis the season for another one of our longboard deck reviews; this time for the Landyachtz Chinook. The Chinook used to have a bad rep for its previous design with awkward dimensions that didn’t fit in with the rest of the Landy lineup. Ahh, but the new Chinook is a totally different beast, redesigned the [...]

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Win a $300 Gift Card in Our T-Shirt Contest!

Seattle Longboard Shop — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:16:59 +0000

Here at MOBO we’re looking for some help designing our new lineup of t-shirts and hoodies. We know there’s a ton of creative, artistic and talented longboarders across the world with ideas just waiting to be put to use. And since we’re too busy coning our wheels, we figured you all could lend a hand [...]

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