A Tribute to Arbor

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We blame the falling on the Swedish ice, mind you, it is mighty vicious!

A day of grief.

For today we mourn.

Oh, wretched state. You just can't trust people any more.
Yesterday my dear friend Erik happened to leave his board on a train station.

Just for fifteen minutes...

That was enough...

By the time we got back to the station, it was gone.

Well beloved old Arbor Fish, we will miss every last inch of you.

Loaded rocks my socks...

So the other day I received my "sponsor package" from Loaded containing the Adam squared DVD, a cool t-shirt and a pair of their incredible sliding gloves.

First off I want to thank Pablo and Loaded Boards for sending us the loot and I also want to take the opportunity to praise their stuff. Not only is the t-shirt Eco-friendly, guaranteed sweatshop free and super soft, but it is also a piece of art. Great job on the quality!

Also, I've been a faithful www.whoisadamcolton.com viewer and I've been following his movies for years. I just love watching Adam's inspirational material and now I get to do it in full DVD format along with a handful of beautiful new clips. So thanks for that and I am looking forward to the new movies coming up!

Last but not least, I tried out the sliding gloves yesterday and they proved to be excellent. I was a bit sceptic at first seeing that the sliding plates were so thin. However, I soon noticed that they were very durable indeed and that they probably will able to last quite a while. They are very comfy and all you have to do is to pull of the plates and voila you have a pair of kick ass normal gloves to wear.

Our New Itinerary

7 June	Stockholm – Malmö, Malmö - Copenhagen
8 June	Stay in Copenhagen
9 June	Copenhagen – Berlin
10 June	Stay in Berlin*
11 June	Stay in Berlin
12 June	Berlin – Hamburg, Hamburg – Amsterdam
13 June	Stay in Amsterdam
14 June	Amsterdam – Luxembourg
15 June	Longboard through Luxembourg
16 June	Luxembourg – Paris
17 June	Stay in Paris
18 June	Stay in Paris
19 June	Paris – London
20 June	Stay in London
21 June	Stay in London
22 June	Stay in London
23 June	London – Toulon (France) via airplane
24 June	Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)
25 June	Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)
26 June	Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)
27 June	Toulon – Marseille, Marseille – Barcelona
28 June	Barcelona
29 June	Barcelona
30 June	Barcelona – Monaco
1 July	Longboard through Monaco, Nice and Antibes
2 July	Nice – Interlaken (Switzerland)
3 July	Stay Interlaken
4 July	Interlaken – Liechtenstein
5 July	Longboard through Liechtenstein
6 July	Liechtenstein – Milano, Milano – Rom
7 July	Stay in Rom
8 July	Stay in Rom
9 July	Stay in Rom
10 July	Stay in Rom

Logo

Our friend Patrick Webster has worked this logo for Board Europe. I must say I am impressed of the way he managed to capture our style so effectively in just a picture. Kudos to you man!

Weekend Celebrations

Partied this friday, celebrating our FlexDex Sponsorship. Great success!

Saturday we held a session at new found enormous garage at telefonplan. Hours well spent!

With six months left to go, preparations are on the full run.

I am currently writing from a snowy and cold Sweden where the mere thought of longboarding feels very remote. However, Erik and I have instead occupied ourselves by working on our itinerary and contacting local boarders in the cities we are going to visit. We have had some success with this and we have managed to establish contacts in Amsterdam, England and Tuscany. We do, however, need many more so if you are interested in meeting up with us, don’t hesitate to contact us at boardeurope@gmail.com.

We have also ordered the Bible for backpackers, the Lonely Planet guide, “Europe on a shoestring” which hopefully will help us complete our itinerary and find the coolest spots. Although containing more than 1000 pages and having a weight of over 1 kg, I believe that it will prove to be an invaluable asset on our trip (If not, it will at least function as decent pillow.)

We have now also managed to send out most of our sponsor letters and we are pleased to announce to that we have received our first sponsor! The company which makes the renown “skate break” has decided to support us. So creds to them and a big thanks for helping us out! We will now, thanks to you, be able to skate all hills in a safe and efficient manner. Hopefully we will get them in a couple of weeks so we can try them out in our garage.

On Monday, I am going to contact Gainomax to see whether they are interested supporting us. Apparently they spend a huge part their budget on sponsorships. I just hope they see us as sufficiently “athletic”…

…Speaking of our “athletic physic”, our calves are starting to buff up since we have been training them ceaselessly for two months now in the gym. So we are hoping that they, by June, will be strong enough to carry us around Europe.

Oh yeah, we have also spoken a couple of English blokes who are planning on doing the same thing and we looking forward to meet up with them at some point. Check out their site at http://www.bwboardfree.co.uk/. Also, a Swede from Västerås contacted me the other week told me that he and two other guys are planning on doing something similar as well and wondered if we wanted to hook up somewhere along the run. I’m glad to see such an interest, and I’m guessing that we’ll have plenty of company on the way!

Well that’s the update for now, but please check back soon. The blog will be updated more frequently now when we are approaching THE date. Pictures and review of the skatebreak will be posted as soon as they arrive and we get a chance to try them out… So once again, stay tuned...

All the best,

Sebastian