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New Retailer: Wake and Skate

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The Dirty South just got a little cleaner with the addition of yet another Freebord retailer:

Wake and Skate
235 East Main St
Hendersonville, TN 37075
615-826-8500

Case Jumper and the Nashville crew better hit these cats up and welcome them to the Freeworld. And for god’s sake can we get these guys some more Facebook fans?

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New Retailer: Nomad

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Anyone live in Arkansas?

If you do you’ll be stoked to hear the most legit skate shop in Little Rock is now carrying Freebords…

Nomad has been hyping the arrival of Freebord for the past week all over the Internets and is gonna blow it up for us in down in the South. Check them out on their Facey-space here and show some love.

Nomad Skate Shop
2607 McCain Blvd
North Little Rock, AR, 72116

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Two New Fuel TV Ads

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

We just started running these two 15-second clips on Fuel TV this March.

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Vars park video

Monday, March 1st, 2010

For the second year, Freebord is the proud sponsor of the Vars Park. The park is better every year and has been rated 1st park 2010 of France!! Congrats to the main shaper Arnaud Debluze (and Freebord Pro Team rider)

Check out this new video of the local riders killing the park by clicking the picture, and if you’re in the area before the 26th of April, go ride it !

this table is so big that the freebord banner looks tiny!

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Season 2010 starts now ?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

In the southern areas of Europe, the weather is now good enough to ride! Some of the  riders from the “CHoE” crew met last weekend in Marseilles and declared the 2010 season open!

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New Blog Theme

Monday, January 25th, 2010

We’re slowly but surely gonna be giving all our online properties a facelift in the next couple months. Started with the blog… what do you think?

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BSV Results Are In…

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Big congratulations to Stevie-B, the winner of the 2009 Freebord Best Submitted Video Contest!

bsv09_graphic21st Place: Stevie-B – “The Bay Remix

“The Bay Remix” blew the judges away with its super clean production and smooth, stylie riding. For his tribute to the hills and riders of the SF Bay Area, Steve gets the BSV 2009 trophy as well as $500 cold hard cash.

2nd Place: Sam Trowbridge – “Flow

Proving that you don’t need a crew to make a dope ass video, Sam Trowbridge from Western Australia is the proud new owner of this Burton camera backpack, perfect for lugging around all your gear while you’re out riding.

3rd Place: Arnaud Blin – “Chrilogie Teaser

Coming in a close third, Arnaud Blin and the CHoE crew for their Chrilogie Teaser. These guys took the competition last year, and brought another solid edit for ‘09. Arnaud will be getting this camera pack just in time for snowboarding season in the Alps (that lucky bastard!).

Special shout out to Corey Lucero and Roberto Lopez, whose vids made the top 5 and will be featured on the BSV page through 2010!

Thank you to everyone who took the time to make videos and send them in… this year brought some new diversity and raised the bar once again on video editing coming out of the Freebord community.

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Team Submissions 2010

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Freebord is now accepting submissions for the 2010 Pro Team. If you would like to be considered, you have until December 31, 2009 to submit.

Here’s how it works:

  • Put together a 2 minute edited highlight reel that shows us what you got (make sure you highlight all aspects of your riding). We want your best raw riding clips sequenced together into a 2 minute max video. You can use clips we have already seen from this year or new footage.
  • We will be looking 100% at the quality of your riding, not your editing – so your video should showcase your best riding clips. Period. This is not a concept video. You can add music if you want or keep the audio raw – your call – but no effects otherwise.
  • For reference, check out this year’s FRA rookie/rider nomination video. This is a little more polished than what we want from you, but the segments are in line with what we’re looking for.
  • Upload your video to any video hosting site (Vimeo, Youtube, Dailymotion….) and email the link to team@freebord.com.
  • We will only accept one video per rider.
  • All videos are due by December 31, 2009. No late submissions will be considered.

We will announce the 2010 team sometime in January. If we select you to the team, your team submission video will be the first video that we use for your team section on our website.

This year we’ll be putting more resources into our European team riders and bringing on Arnaud Blin as our European Team Manager. We’ll still have the one Global team, just with Arnaud as a local contact for those guys across the pond. He’ll be working closely together with Freebord USA to involve all the team members in video production, events, tours, contests, etc.

Good luck and let us know if you have any questions…

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Freebord on FuelTV

Friday, November 20th, 2009

For the rest of November and part of December, Freebord will be running this 15 sec ad on FuelTV! Look for us starting November 23rd during Built to Shred, American Misfits and FStop (6:00pm – 8:00pm ET).

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BSV 09 Judging Panel

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Introducing the judges for Freebord’s Best Submitted Video Contest 2009. We decided to go old school with it, and have some of the OG Freeborders from back in the day making the calls on this year’s submissions.

  • Steen Strand – Freebord Founder/ Inventor
  • Bayard Winthrop – Freebord Co-Founder
  • Philipe Manoux – First team rider and design engineer
  • Danny Baldonado – First team rider and videographer
  • Dan Bomze – Freebord’s first test rider and team rider
  • Sean Ferry – Freebord’s first videographer

You’ll probably recognize some of these names from such VHS classics as Freebord, Concrete Powder, Science Friction and Never Winter. Never seen these epics? Hit up eBay or hold your breath for the re-release 20th anniversary editions…

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