from portland maine/america

Old Lew reporting live from Portland, Maine/america, where I'm slated to have a meetup with Tom Noble of whoskates skate park design and build... for lunch and a possible session at the Portland skate park. WhoSkates is on as the preliminary designers for the Northside Skate Park: Cincinnati's first truly Urban skate park. Hood kids need something to come up on. Can't stick all the concrete in the 'burbs, cincinnati!

here i am with my new plank... its finally dry here and i'm going out to shred today for at least a minute, between high-powered lunches with high-level industry players... 

meanwhile, back in cincinnatiamerica, Ben is living classic skate-life at ficklehouseteentwenty,

back on planet cincinnatiamerica, ben is pressing his work ethic and getting mass life and skating done. here's a shot of the "life' part. 

...and here's a shot of the skating part. 

Sunshine is holding down the home front, keeping Rocko warm, and getting pics and footy locked in for your entertainment! 

sunshine keeps rocko warm at ficklehouse...
the dog has virtually NO HAIR, and we are shopping for canine-clothes.
meanwhile, its all about snuggling.

here's that new lens... clips are stacking up now. 

Weston is still pretty much a kid... though he has a man-sized shred, he is only with us in cincinnatiamerica for weekends about twice a month, during school vacations, and on our trips...


 this fall he went to the Georgia Bowlriders with Sunshine, where they enjoyed a great time with our longtime friend, Josh Viles. Josh is spending his days skating with bigwigs and name dropping. Our guys enjoyed watching him get his shred on at higher and higher levels. Josh crushes. 

here's weston in what appears to be some sort of classroom. stay in school, kids. 

here we have a pic from the way home on our last trip to SAVannah. this was in south carolina. Playground ramp. 

we are unrolling/unraveling new stuff all the time. Whether its a diy skate spot, building a good winter in our keypark/ramp room, working up a new mold or concave, re-designing our presses for higher yield, and easier use... we are always up to our necks in plotting a course for keeping skateboarding about what its about... for you, that should always be a FuN diversion from the grind of life! 


for now, we are more than content that we have rolled out the sickest concave and highest quality laminate that we've ever skated in all our lives! at the very base level, these are the boards WE WANTED all along! 


Boe Parries in Savannah says that our concave should be named "ManCave", because its so burly. Its not just that its deep, but that its deeper in the places where the stress is highest.  How did we do that? Like pretty much everything else we do--accidentally! Man-Cave was first hand-carved in a block of plaster, when the workshop was still in diapers.  

speaking of accidents... it was ManCave that kept wes from having one on his way through this stand-up-on-it 5-0 grind. Fickle ManCave to the rescue. 

here's a rare pic of Boe Parries at Woody's Skate Park and skateshop. we were there for about a week. Boe runs things down there, really really well. True Legit Lifer: Boe Parries. 

But its no accident that our wood is Long-Pressed and Long-Cured before it hits the knives for shaping and sanding... It is no accident that we are unplugged from the same old same old... and it is no accident that we've done it all while SKATING WITH YOU, daily.


As for Matt Simpson, the Other Nut at FickleBoards, he's all over the place on his day job, taking the Fickleboards lifestyle with him... that is, the skateboarding lifestyle.  the guy travels a LOT. If you've met him out there in places unknown, send us a facebook message about how he's behavin! 

matt at the playground ramp in SC. grown man who colors in his shoes...

And fickleboards isn't just about king Lewcif, Ben, Sunshine, and Matt! There is also sister Carrie on street-destruction, Ian Brown on all our industrial development, Andy Eschenbach of Flying Tiger Tattoo on our art-warfare... Joe Burdick closing the loop in SAV... and our presently fallen brother, Brian "Browndog" Martin in NJ/NY, nursing a pretty much destroyed knee.  


Together, we are playing around in it every day to encourage everyone everywhere to give skateboarding a try if they haven't and to keep it as fun as it ever was, if they have been doing it for a long time. 


Fickleboards are products of passion, patience, and love; not precision and perfectionism! Take them, put them under your feet, and get your shred on with them. After you're done KILLING it, you tell us how it was! We're sure you'll find the difference remarkable. 


Please enjoy wrecking our boards. we'll keep the light on for ya.