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

Product Launch Party

Ambitous Boards has teamed up with the Longboard Living Gallery to be their official supplier. We are stoked to be working closely with Kevin Le Frank from Ambitious who approached us when the gallery opened in March to introduce his line of Roarockit built decks. It is great to see the riders building boards for their own terrain and style. Ambitious will be launching a W-Concave freeride board and a Downhill Drop deck as well as their own line of engineered bearings.

The launch will be followed by a Garage Skate Session in Kensington to demo the decks.






















Ambitious product launch party
Longboard Living Gallery
74 Oxford, Kensington Market
April 10th, 2010
2:00PM

LL @ The Roarockit Swap Meet

Longboard Living was posted up at this years Roarockit Swap Meet. The event brought out close to 200 stoked out enthusiasts including many of Ontario's finest independent custom builders. Our current collaborative partner 'Napes' was displaying some of his custom carbon drop decks. I got the word that special ordered carbon for our collaboration deck came in and will go into production this week. GFT also let me know that he has started designing a 1 off double kingpin DH truck for this collaboration which will include the art of Jimmy Chiale swirled between the carbon weaves!

GFT brought LL some of his personally poured bushings which were in high demand at the swap. Longboard Living at 74 Oxford will be the official Toronto supplier of GFT bushings, spacers, trucks and other goods he decides to infect the market with.

The crowd enjoyed the wood-burned Bustin Boards Complex which was created by Champstiles Wood Burning through a Longboard Living collaboration.


Alongside Longboard Living was Mike Bozinovski from BOZ Boards and Kevin LeFrank from Ambitious Longboards who's decks will soon be carried at 74 Oxford. Kevin has a line of Freeride "W" concave and Downhill drop decks which will launch at a product release party on April 10th at 2pm.




















Jimmy Chiale attended the show for some live board painting and took orders for custom painted boards.

























Thanks to Roarockit for hosting this years Swap Meet and everyone else who was involved.

Spreading the stoke,

Longboard Living

Posted by: Ryan Rubin

New Rider Alert!

Longboard season has officially started, the blossoms are beggining to open and new Longboard Living riders are popping up everywhere. We would like to welcome David, Claire, Joe and Christina to the Family. We will begin to lead Wednesday Night city skates from 74 Oxford in Kensington Market, leaving at 7:00PM.

Longboard Living 2010
www.longboardliving.ca
longboardliving@gmail.com
4169398723

Roarockit Annual Longboard Swap Meet

This Sunday the Roarockit skateboard company will be hosting the 2010 Ontario Longboard Swap Meet.

March 24th from 1pm - 4pm

Roarockit Skateboard Company
880 Millwood Road, Toronto
www.roarockit.com
416 938 4588

http://wikiskate.com/olf2/index.php/topic,7324.0.html

A great place to pick up your first (gently used) board, sell some old decks and meet some brothers and sisters of stoke.

Longboard Living will be at the event with their current collection of hand-painted completes along side Jimmy Chiale who will be in attendance and ready to paint up helmets on the spot.

Gallery Open

The new Longboard Living headquarters are up and running. We will be operating a studio / gallery to showcase and sell our complete hand-painted longboards. The shop will also offer gear from some some top brands to upgrade your own collection. You can choose from:

Boards:
Longboard Living
BOZ Boards
Comet Boards
Ambitious (April release)
Kebbek (May)




Trucks:
Paris
Randal

Wheels:
Retro
Orangatang
Venom
Divine
Seismic
Cadillac



Bushing:
Venom
Divine

And More.

The Longboard Living Gallery will be open from Thursday to Sunday 12:00 to 9:00 until further notice.
Located at 74 Oxford St. in Kensington Market

Completes are Ready

The Jimmy Chiale 2010 collection are complete, set up, and ready to ride. The decks have been set up with Paris Trucks and color coordinated wheels ideal for city riding and smooth sidewalk cruising.

The Collection can be purchased in the Longboard Living Gallery at 74 Oxford St. Kensington Market, Toronto or online via Paypal payment to LongboardLiving@gmail.com

Longboard Living
Jimmy Chiale
Paris 180 Black Trucks
Gravity Hi-Grade Wheels

$350

Longboard Living
Jimmy Chiale
Paris 180 Adam Colton Trucks
Cadillac Wheels

$350

Longboard Living
Jimmy Chiale
Paris 180 Trucks
Abec 11 Gumball Wheels

$350

Longboard Living
Jimmy Chiale
Paris 180 Trucks
Gravity Burner Wheels

$350

Spreading the stoke,

Longboard Living