Houston has a great scene. We love Houston. On International Go skateboarding Day they went skating…

Run for Zimbabwe is a a project that combines the joy of riding with a good cause. A journey of 4 European guys longboarding a different country, every summer, to create awareness regarding the problems prevailing in Zimbabwe.

The riders this year (Sweden 2010): Alex (Germany), Alfred (Sweden), Peter (Sweden) and PA (Sweden).

The riders last year (Ireland 2009): Alex (Germany), Alfred (Sweden), Peter (Sweden) and Ralf (Germany).

In 2009 the guys from RFZ toured Ireland, from south to north, and raised 1.100,00 € for the “Albert Street Refugee School” Project at the Elias fund by selling shirts.

In 2010 the challenge is to cross Sweden from Kappelskär (East Coast) to Varberg (West Coast), a distance of approximately 700 km, in order to bring the spirit of “Run For Zimbabwe” to this Scandinavian country.

You can find out way more infor on the upcoming trip and on last years one across Ireland on their website, keep up to date with all the news on the Run for Zimbabwe Facebook page and watch a few videos on their vimeo page too.

Longtreksonskatedecks.com, with the support of Rayne Longboards and Orangatang Wheels, is proud to present the latest installment of their Peru y Bolivia escapade - Episode 4

The easy part is over! We now face the hardest climb yet, from sea level to summit of a 14,000ft mountain. Inch by inch, we skate into the mouth of the Andes and become drenched as we ascend into the rain-clouds. At high-altitude we battle tougher terrain with half the amount of oxygen. Sleeping for 15 hours in their tents, so as to outlive the rain and rest from the oxygen-deficient altitudes, proves to be costly and depletes our water and food supply, but we must push onward, striving to make it to the next town.

On July 10th, Al Collins will be embarking on a skate mission in aid of Muscular Distrophy Ireland, leaving from Ireland’s most southern point Mizen Head, and heading North to the top, Malin Head. The 750-800km journey hopes to be completed in just 10 days.
You can keep up with Al’s journey on his blog, you can donate on his mycharity page and learn more about MD on the Muscular Distrophy Ireland webpage. Shiner Distribution (Bristol, UK) have supplied him with cult wheels, sabre trucks and a Lush drop through deck.

This video explains it a bit more.

You can view the route Al is taking here, go join him for a couple of days if you are around! Hit up the forum thread too to keep an eye on his progress.

When we started Skatefurther back in 2008 we wanted to bring to the world the different journeys that people are realising you can do on a skateboard. 2 years on we are proud of the community we have crreated. All journeys, be they 24 hour skates in Seattle, the latest European trip, cross-state skates, marathon races, continent crossings or world record events, need some sort of support. Rob Thomson, the current distance skating world record holder put it simply when he said…

Community is the most essential factor in any successful endeavour. Without the Skatefurther.com community, I wouldn’t have made it across China and to my goal at Shanghai. Period.

Not all journeys are on a skateboard though.

James Peters, the man behind Pavedwave.org, 24 hour ultraskates and the Roe Mermaid has had it rough recently. A cancerous growth on his forehead had to be removed meaning pretty serious surgery, a huge hole, possible reconstructive surgery and long recovery time.

James, from everyone here at skatefurther; from all skaters who you have influenced, we wish you the fastest of recoveries. Our thoughts are with you all the way on this new journey.

Much love skatefurther.

In this episode our three a’gringos come to a fork in the road at the base of a large Peruvian mountain. One way says fifteen miles to the next destination–the other says five. Upon asking the locals which way to go, our gringos are encouraged to eat hot peppers and have a traditional meal with the locals… later resulting in gasket-blowing Diarrhea. Not listening to the directions that the locals give them, they take the shorter route, also known as the Peruvian Death Hill # 1. The going is rough, the pavement awful - their life expectancy is grim.

Enjoy.

The SkatingSouth website has gone live. Great frineds and active forum members, Rob Hanson, Zoltan Nagy and Ben C Hall are heading on a skate trip south. On the 27th July they head off south from Trondheim in Norway to the ’stag party capital’ of Europe, Prague. 3000km later.

Norway - Sweden - Denmark - Germany - Czech Republic

All of us at skatefurther are so stoked for this, If it wasn’t for this site this trip would not have happened. All three skaters have distance in their blood, they don’t mind a few beers (essential on any distance trip I reckon!) and they are good mates. Its going to be amazing. Keep your eyes on their site, join the facebook page, and as ever check skatefurther.com for more info!

The second part of Paul, Aaron and Adam’s Trip across South America.

This one seems kind of appropriate!

At the moment there are no planes in the air across Europe and all because of a volcano on Iceland called Eyjafjallajoekull. The ash from this volcano has grounded everything.

Why is this relevant on a website dedicated to long-distance skating? Well because today was supposed to be the day when a guy called Steve sets off to skate the ring road around Iceland! You can keep up to date with his skate (when it starts!) on his blog www.solepusher.blogspot.com

Steve sent us this shot of him waiting for the skies to clear - looking good mate!: