Well, the world longboarding family has really come together this year for GreenSkate. We hear word that there are at least 3 events going on in the UK, one in New Zealand and one in France too! Check out the posters! You can find out more info on the GreenSkate website, and if there is not an event close, organise one yourself!

We here at Skatefurther truly believe skateboarding to be a viable form of transportation; be it skating down to the shops, to school, work or even across a country. GreenSkate is an event that started from a similar principal.

To Celebrate and encourage the low impact of longboard skateboards on our environment as a form of effective transportation.

On Earth Day 2007 Calgary Alberta Canada was the host to the first GreenSkate Event. It may come as a surprise that a community of longboarders surrounded by the Calgarian oil and gas industry would feel sympathetic to any green cause; however the Speedboard and Longboard Association of Calgary couldn’t be any more ambitious.

GreenSkate was expanded in 2008 to include the global skateboard community. Rocio Caceres Borlando from Chile in 2008 and 2009 continues to organize the largest GreenSkate with over 100 + riders that cruised 7.5 km to “La Moneda”. Everyone who skateboards in every city around the world is invited to participate in GreenSkate 2010.

Energy and environmental issues are on the global stage more than ever. Earth Day is a great time for longboarders to take to the streets to promote longboarding as a fast, environmentally friendly and sustainable form of urban transportation.

To find out more about the various GreenSkate events happening worldwide, hit up the GreenSkate.org Website, you can also show your love on their Facebook page.

Get em’ while they’re hot!!! Bargain price and all for a good cause!

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This just in from our man in Europe, Chris Vallender (official welcome coming soon!):

“…Tonight 13/02/10 rollerbladers and longboarders (around 15ish) will gather on the Trocadero for a torchlight procession. Then the message Toronto 2010 will be written in torchlight and the procession will continue down the Champs Elyses. All this is happening from around 9 till midnight and it should be picked up on all major TV channels.”

Forum members and Skate Further webbies Nat and Laura headed up to North Devon for one last adventure together. Gav, who makes Holey trucks (a favourite of distance skaters), also ran the first UK skateshop - Surrey Skates. He now has a warehouse in the middle of nowhere, stocked with some of the finest sights a skater eye could want to see. Check out the pictures to get an idea of how much we enjoyed our time there.

NOTE: Almost every Holey truck in the world has passed through the Cave!

This is a compilation of all the best bits from the distance skating year that was 2009 in the UK. New friendships were forged, records broken, and best of all, fun was had all over the shop! Some amazing, stellar skaters are featured in this vid - and if this year was anything to go by, 2010 is going to be the greatest year on record for those who skate far.

Just a quick post - Sean McArthur, film student from Plymouth, has put together an amazing edit tracking the adventures on the Liquid Boards Plymouth to Polperro (P2P) 2009 trip. Supported by Skate Further and attended by around 40 skaters, this trip was a mammoth ask of all who took part. Eternal thanks go to Stew, come on back now. Click the picture above or the link to watch the most amazing vid about a Cornish skate adventure EVER!

Well, the troops came from all over the UK to say cheerio to our dear friend Nat, who’s off to NZ early next year. In the last official Skate Further event of the winter, we set off in the pouring rain from Bristol. Spreading out quickly, the field all made it to a pub near Bath in various states of disarray. Upon arrival in Bath, it was hot meals and drinks all round, and then, in the fading light, the braver (read: madder) skaters headed back through the compost back to Bristol. A wicked day of wet fun all round! Thanks for coming everyone, especially the new skaters!

Forum member Nat is leaving the shores of Blighty to emigrate with his new family to New Zealand. We are organising a final get-together skate as on the 21st of November. Bristol to Bath to Bristol.

This adventure is open to all. Come skate, cycle, inline or do it on a pogo stick. In association with Liquid Boards of Plymouth. Sign up on the facebook event page and get yourself onto the skatefurther forum to find out what is going on.