Category Archives: Events

London LG Freeze Snowboard Event

Freesports on 4. Snowboarding and Skiing 30 Oct – 1st Nov 2009.

London’s world famous Battersea powerstation is to play host for the second year running to the Freeze big air & music event supported by longtime action sports sponsor the world over LG.

The riders and more hyped this year, with both snowboarders and skiers attending to wow the crowds on the massive big air ramp, all covered with fresh snow.
Plus just confirmed are music acts Eagles of Death Metal and Calvin Harris.

In tribute to the UK’s longest standing snowboarding mag we thought we would show you this video produced by Snowboard UK of the 2008 show. Snowboard UK unfortunately due to difficult trading conditions has recently stopped producing its excellent mag.
The magazine over 10 years old now leaves just Document and Whitelines to inform us of the futures next top UK boarders and details of the international scene. So please support these with your subs.

The spin to win event at this years LG Freeze looks to be awesome with 16 top riders looking to take the 2009 crown, VIP tickets are now on sale now, so get yourself along to the event site to enjoy some awesome riding and music.
If your off boarding this year or perhaps you just heading to the dome to hit a few rails. Boardshop has all the snowboarding equipment and outwear you need!
We currently have awesome early season deals on Dragon goggles and Electric goggles. Plus our snowboards, boots and bindings are arriving daily, from Nitro snowboards, Flow Bindings, Vans and DC boots plus all the accessories clothing you could ever need.

Surfing Accessories – What next

So you have bought your dream stick - Maybe a new Firewire or Adams surfboard.
Now you need to finish the board so you can start hitting those waves. Fins
The tailpad you choose says a lot about you as a person.

Some like simple design and let the graphics of there board make the statement or some people just don’t care-as they are that good.

However if you want you can opt for a bright and bold number from the likes of Gorilla Grip. These are great pads and last forever, plus we have them in all sorts of crazy colours, swirls, bugs, faces, patterns, dots.
You can never have enough wax kicking around in your van, Mrs Palmers and Farking surf wax in store. Plus makes your car smell like summer all year!
A good surf leash is all important.

Ok wicked we are almost ready to hit the beach. Last thing a pimping set of colourful fins.
If your not sure what fins you think would suit your board, riding style etc then please get in touch. We have a great range of FCS fins in stock and we want to make sure your carving to your full effect.

So thats it. You are ready. Don’t forget we also have loads of board bags, wetsuits and more instock at boardshop. So get involved and get surfing.

Animal Team Rider Alan Stokes

With the Animal, Vans Relentless boardmasters in full swing, results to follow. Thought you might all enjoy a wicked little video from Animal Clothing team rider Alan Stokes.
Who I am sure as a local boy will be up there in the running at the Fistral event. Lets hope a british boy wins the event.

Check out – NSG the sound track www.myspace.com/workingclasssuperstar . I saw this guy at a roof party in Brick lane live. So funny!

Lots of new Animal clothing in store now. Only at Boardshop.co.uk

Relentless Boardmasters – The countdown

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The relentless boardmasters event – is almost upon us again for the 2009 season. The event kicks off next Saturday with some awesome bands playing at this years music event including The Streets, Cypress Hill, Calvin Harris oh and the mighty Roots Manuva….. Witness the fitness. Cannot wait!

The event is now a fully fledged ASP WQS event with a prize pot of £120,000 that attracts the worlds best surfers to Fistral.

The Adams Surfboards boys from Newquay are likely to be out in force. Including team riders Dan Joel, Russ Winter and the rest of the Adams squad. Good luck from all the team here at Hardcloud HQ. Boardshop are giving one lucky newsletters subscriber the chance to win a Matt Adams Waterskate so get over there sign up and get a new board in time for the September Swells.

The event is proudly sponsored again this year by Coca Cola’s Relentless energy drink, in association with Vans.  As 30 years has passed retro has now become the super cool again, boardshop has all the latest Vans shoes & clothing including the authentics, Era and Vulcanised shoes plus loads more.

Perfect for checking out all the action at this years boardmasters including skate, vert, bmx, FMX and the all seeing and all knowing bikini comp. Fingers crossed for some awesome weather across the weekend. The event has over 45 bands playing and loads of action sports performers and riders. But if you want to get into the surf or hit the ramp boardshop has all the surfing equipment boards and accessories you could need, from top brands like Billabong, Firewire, Xcel and O’neill.

See you at the beach.

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