New Homepage - Click to visit
The BoardPusher.com homepage has been updated with a photo of Lee Wilson floating a Kickflip at Indian School ditch in Albuquerque last year. Jeff Nass snapped this shot on our trip down to the Wild In The Parks Finals in Phoenix. This ditch always delivers. You could spend days skating here.
Lee Wilson Flip @ Indian School
Great skateboarding + one of Colorado’s best mountain skateparks = 11th Annual Breckenridge SK8 Contest.
Come check it out this Saturday, August 15 at the Breck. Skatepark.
Check out the Denver Go Skateboarding Day Video from this year’s contest, featuring sick footage of the street and bowl comps. Get pumped and go skate (your own design, of course)! Music by Educated Figures.
Be sure to hit up Aspen’s Rio Grande Skatepark this weekend for the second stop of the DVS Skatepark Showdown! All ages and abilities at this comp, sign up onsite August 8th, 2009.
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Skate Your Own Design Trucker Hat
$10 Off Any Deck with the BoardPusher Trucker Hat
Buy a custom deck from BoardPusher, and get $10 off when you add a Skate Your Own Design Trucker Hat to your order.
Improved Deck Generator
The BoardPusher design tool has been redesigned and reprogrammed for more efficiency. It is faster and easier than ever to create good looking decks directly on BoardPusher.com.
BoardPusher Backgrounds
You can now display the BoardPusher logo on your deck by using a BoardPusher background in your custom deck.
24-72 Hour Production
Receive your custom BoardPusher deck faster than ever before. Production time on all decks is now less than 72 hours.
Search Shop Decks
Finally shop decks can be searched, allowing users to easily find any shop deck they are looking for. For shop owners, this should help increase sales.
Sale/No Sale on Profile Decks
Display your custom decks in your public profile for everyone to see, and you will now have the choice to mark your decks for display only and not for sale. As the designer, you will still be able to purchase your deck from your account once you have logged in.
Denver Skate Day Flyer
June 21st in Denver this year, skateboarders came out in masses to the Denver Skatepark for a long hot day of skateboarding, art, and music. There was the Biggest Fish In The Pond contests along with public art walls and live music.
Beginner and Intermediate contests were held in the morning in the main street course. Every year the level of skating improves, and this year was no exception, in all skill levels. Notable mentions go out to Lovis Medina who took the intermediate contest without even trying. Since when is a kickflip boardslide down a rail is an intermediate trick? And Ruben Vigil who had a solid couple runs to take the beginners contest.
The public art walls were a big success. Dave Sheets (resident BoardPusher artist) managed hordes of kids with paint markers and spray cans, a feat that can’t be claimed by many. The end result was worth all the trouble though. 8 different panels were filled with the most random stuff you could imagine, and remains a sort of artistic account of the day.
The Biggest Fish In The Pond Pro-Am contests, turned out to be a true battle of the locals. The contestants seemed pleased that all the pros that were in town that day decided to leave the contest alone. Despite being interrupted by the cops trying to shut down the event and the firemen having to pull a kid with a broken leg out of the peanut bowl, the contests went off smoothly. The street finalists even got an extended finals run while most of the event staff were dealing with the local law enforcement, giving all the onlookers a worthy show.
In the street course, 1. Julian Christianson ended up on top with an arsenal of tech tricks over the hip that even the best could have trouble rivaling, including nollie bigger spins and nollie 270 heels, with amplitude to spare. Closely followed by park resident 3. Lee Wilson, and the biggest kickflip of the day 2. Whyatt. The peanut bowl contest was an easy win for 1. Otto Pfanz followed by 2. Michael DeBuano with large frontside airs, and 3. Cameron Lawrence who skated twice as fast as anyone else. The toughest showing of the day goes to 10 year-old Evan Tooley who fell straight to his head twice in row into the deep end of the peanut bowl and didn’t even seem to mind. Keep an eye on that kid.
After the contests came to an end, the music turned up and the performances began. Two straight hours of underground Denver hip hop (Bionik Brown, Whygee, and EFK) in the middle of the park took the event into the night and ended a long day of fun. Make sure to come next year if you’re in the area.
For more info and contest results go to http://www.denverskateday.com.
This article appears in the Concrete Wave Noteworthy section of the Fall 2008 Issue. Click here for PDF.
Skaters and designers can now sell skateboard decks online at BoardPusher.com
DENVER, CO (April 24, 2006) – BoardPusher.com, the premier website for designing and purchasing custom skateboard decks, announced today the launch of the Online Shop feature of their website, allowing users to offer their decks through an online storefront.
BoardPusher.com Online Shops are highly customizable for HTML experts, but also include templates to easily set up a professional and original looking online shop. Founder of ELife Skateboards Rob Stamm comments, “This is the solution I’ve been searching for. Not only are the shops easy to set up and manage, but the decks are awesome; great wood and amazing graphics.”
By using a unique digital heat transfer process, BoardPusher.com is able to print any graphic, including full color photographs, with a crisp and professional finish. Unlike conventional silk screening that involved lengthy and pricey setups, this process allows BoardPusher.com to offer quick turnarounds, with no minimum quantities or setup fees. All decks are manufactured to the highest industry standards using 7-ply Canadian Maple, and are available in 6 different sizes in high and medium concaves.
BoardPusher.com co-founder and life-long skateboarder Lucas Bond states that, “This is the fastest and easiest way for designers, skate shop owners, and small skate teams to start pushing their own decks online. The online shops will not only give designers more recognition and money, but will also provide an outlet to promote local teams, artists and interests.”
Shop membership rates are $5 per month or $50 per year, but for a limited time, BoardPusher.com will give users a free deck ($49.99 value) of their choice with the purchase of a full year membership.
About BoardPusher.com
BoardPusher.com offers on-demand printing of custom skateboards with no minimum quantities. Based in Denver, CO and founded in 2003, BoardPusher believes in supporting local groups and teams and giving them the opportunity to showcase their athletic skills and artistic creativity. For more information about BoardPusher.com, please feel free to contact them at @BoardPusher.com">info@BoardPusher.com.
About ELife Skateboards
ELife Skateboards was founded in 1999 by Rob Stamm as The Hardcore Colorado Skateboard Company. ELife Skateboards has participated in the Beta testing of BoardPusher.com Online Skate Shops. You can visit the ELife shop at http://www.elifeskateboards.com.
Crisp Graphics on Top-Notch Wood
DENVER, CO (June 22, 2005) – You can now design skateboard deck graphics on the BoardPusher.com website. The BoardPusher.com Deck Generator allows you to easily create deck graphics online regardless of your design experience, providing you with a large selection of fonts and pre-designed backgrounds.
BoardPusher.com will apply your graphic to a 7-ply Canadian Maple deck and sell it to you for $50, shrink-wrapped with grip and stickers. The graphics are applied using a unique full-color digital heat transfer process, giving you a deck that looks like it just came off the shelf at a shop.
The belittlement of the importance and artistic value of decks graphics, along with the migration of wood manufacturing to China, and the overall decline in the quality of skateboards, are the main reasons BoardPusher.com has decided to start offering this service.
BoardPusher.com co-founder Lucas Bond says: ‘It has taken us longer than we expected, but we are now proud to offer one-off decks that look and skate as well or better than any other deck on the market.’
BoardPusher.com has been hosting a photo forum open to public submission and comment since 2003. BoardPusher.com is owned and operated by skateboarders in Denver, CO. For more information, contact @BoardPusher.com">info@BoardPusher.com.
