March at LL

March has been a busy month in Longboard Living land.

It started strong with the launch of our gallery at 74 Oxford in Kensington Market. The event brought a packed house, mixed crowed and a ton of stoke as we welcomed LL to its new home and headquarters. The gallery will act as a showroom for our hand-painted completes and supply some gear to the Toronto longboard community.

The gallery has brought some new business and new riders to the company and it is awesome to watch the numbers grow as Push Culture spreads through Toronto. Aside from new riders, the artist roster has been growing and we are about to begin designing the Summer 2010 collection with 30 blanks being delivered to a handful of new artists and design teams. LL has been approached by a handful of new artists and independent board builders presenting collaborations to us. We will soon carry a variety of locally built longboards including Downhill, Freeride, Dancers, Cruisers and minis.

In the news, LL has been interviewed and blogged by a couple of longboard blogs, Skate Slate and the Brooklyn Barbarosa. We worked closely with Matt Livingston from Skate Slate and were able to share our message with the Canadian longboard readers.
Check out the article:
http://www.skateslate.com/vendor-news/269-longboard-living-merging-art-and-push-culture

Justin Hayes writes for the Brooklyn Barbarosa - I met with Justin at the Broadway Bomb in 2008 and we have kept in touch since then. It was a pleasure doing the interview with him - his site has been getting over 6000 hits / day this season.
Check out the article:
http://brooklynbarbarosa.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/the-art-of-longboarding-and-living/

Push Culture - started in New York by the Bustin Crew is spreading to Toronto. We have begun meeting every Wednesday at 7pm and skate from the gallery through town. Lots of new routes to discover and we are anticipating a lot of new riders to join us as we keep the Push Culture tradition alive.

As the month of March comes to a close, the season will officially begin. The next 6 months will be very exciting for Toronto and East Coast longboarding.

Thanks for following Longboard Living. Our mission remains to spread stoke, provide hand-painted custom longboards and expand the rider market in Toronto. To inquire about a custom, email longboardliving@gmail.com.

Spreading the stoke

Ryan