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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.

Would you believe it! 40 skaters managed to transport themselves 26 miles from Plymouth to Polperro in (almost) one piece? In the first event of its kind for the UK, Stew and the Liquid Boards crew welcomed skaters from all over our pretty Isles to sample some Westcountry hills at their finest.

Forum members Laura, Keith, Vic, Len and the ever imposing Mr Matt Elver got in on the action. New riders from all over came to earn their first proper distance spurs, and what a tough event to do it on! Congratulations guys!

You can find out how everyone thought it went here on the forum! Bring the next one - this has to be the toughest distance event in Europe!

Gav, the man behind the Wrong Way Home trip that happened a month or so back , has been working hard for the last year on a website called Longboard Sessions. Basically it lets you tell like minded people about a session that is happening in your area; be it slalom, sliding, DH, distance or dancin’.

Sign up, tell people about what is going on where you are, hook up and shred. The UK is a small but exploding scene and Gav is at the forefront pushing people together for fun-times.