Columbia SC quick sesh

Just wanna say that the quick sesh we had at Owens Field Park in Columbia SC was pretty epic. sweet park. saweet.

Hey. Just get out there and skate! Do a one footer or a three flip, or carve a gnarly line down a hill.

We slept in a walmart parking lot last time we were here in Columbia SC. It was a great time. We will keep coming back for sure.

get over...

get over to sunshine's blog for some pics leaking from our trip south. the ones up today are from the Beaufort Park. That's hella close to Parris Island Marine Corps training place...

We put down our own style of american pride on the park there. we skated and destroyed.

Big hearty welcomes to our new friend adn co rider forrest Hagedorn. Forest ruled at life on the road and stacked up "NBD's" and "Raybourn did that's", along with Josh Viles.

Big props to Raybourn, Viles, and our dear Forrest. Keep checking back over the next month for trickles...

Slammin Savannah!!!

Well, Big ups to the Woody's Crew, Big Joe B, and all the heads great and small who make Savannah, GA a second home to the Fickle Crew.

We bedded down on the floor for days and days and just dug in and mined tricks, pics and clips with the good people of Woody's and Beaufort... Sick Sick miniramp out there in Beaufort.

So now we're slamming down the road to Cincinnati, via Columbia SC's sweet concrete park, and Knoxville TN's epic wonderland. We should arrive home tomorrow around 2pm, after sleeping off a bit of crust at the Viles' house...

hey, Fickle Boards doesn'tjust make their own stuff. They come and eat your food and stay so long you feel like they are family. Let's rack up some more time together soon, SAV!

Quick Update...

All I'm saying is it's BTTW all day out here in SAV.

We had an amazing time at the Doghouse Ramp in the ATL area, a great visit to Stratosphere, A nice drive to SAV, and today we're going to skate Woody's until 3pm, when we're heading out to meet up with Big Joe B at a park... Buford? Yeah. Tomorrow's Bluffton... I think.

Heads slept in mass today while Ben and I wiled away the morning with Fabio and Native Nik, got starbucks and provisions... Now we're headed out, if we can get forrest out of his sleeping bag.

we are skateboarders.

Day 1... Juggernauting

the fickle juggernaut is released

We picked up Forrest (you're gonna love Forrest) in NKY and hit the little spot park at Berea KY for a quick leg-stretch sesh. Then we piled up in the van and motored the rest of the way to finish the night at Tyson Park in Knoxville, TN.

Taco Bell
Then overnight at Josh Viles' house.

Many props to the Viles Family for loving us all and feeding us dessert for breakfast.
Props to the homies in Berea, KY. The secret is that that little spot park is pretty tight... WE will return many times to stretch out there...

We will be on the road for the next 7 days, so check back soon.

Go Thirty.

Oh, and it's 70 degrees.

Lew

Viles Killing it...

thanks and ups to krooklife for making this vid. Get out there today and go thirty... period. (or 45 if you're in the DP camp.) We Push. We Go.

Fickle is on the way South, Feb 20 through Mar 1

We're hitting the road for 9 days, again! we're all about kickin back and friendships. This is how we knit it up tight before we have a lot of demos and a tighter schedule...

This is how we keep from losing perspective. And this is how we'll keep doing it. Shops can get us to show up, throw down hard and leave the locals stoked, for as little as a place to camp and a little gas money to get to the next place. Break even is the new striking it rich.

Kids, go thirty.

News Update #40ten

News News News

things are moving at light-speed here at Fickle HQ.

Molds are being hand-carved.
Concaves are being custom-made.

Everything is done old-school, with hand tools and mechanical simplicity.
Chisels, Sanding, Screw Jacks and Torque-wrenches...

It's all done by hand and old-style.

Prototypes will trickle out in March... Maybe if you're lucky one will find you.

The first boards will hit select shops in April or May.

Old Lew is off to Cali for a week. Catch a tweet here or there.

Photostream!

Check out the right side bar there and look at our photostream on Flickr! We've been piling up so many pics that we ended up just starting to dump them in a Flickr account. Over the next few weeks, we'll be dumping them there daily, so check out new pics regularly.

This is all the early history of a group of skaters who have decided to hand-make the boards we sell. We are pushing for "Fickle" to mean "faithful to the core". We are devoting out efforts to make skateboards and skateboarding come together in a way that flat out STOKES you.

We are pushing to stoke any and everyone on skateboarding, because we think skateboarding is one of the top ten best things on this planet for you to be doing. Period. Seriously.

So go Thirty!

Manteo Moment

I know i already posted some really rough footage from this stop on the trip, but it was such a good memory, and we found this at the bottom of the flipcam's memory file... didn't want to skip it...

So much of skateboarding is just showing up and being there... No kidding. At Manteo, we had some of the best memories formed in like a 40 minute visit, right before a long trek home from a snowbound trip. As skateboarders, we adapted to our snowbound situation and just skated in the dry spots...

we had more fun than we expected to. it was rad.

props to all the OBX locals. Mike, Bob, Jesse, the Artisan crew who built this killer spot. Props to Eggbowl Evan (name right?) and everyone there that shows the love to the wandering fickle crew...

New Product Line Coming Out this Spring

This spring (date to be announced) we are releasing our first line of boards. All of our boards are hand made in the Fickle Underground Lab. Lew makes the boards... and they are going to be more than good enough for you to destroy.

So please, this spring, look for our boards at finer skate shops, or order them direct from us in our soon-to-come Web Store. You'll be riding a piece of history!

Weston gets a fiver off Kappa...

we are all gonna be bummed when we get this spine to vert wall, and the bank, done. the "death gap" is home to many rad transfers... Thanks to Kappa for the motivation. Fun fun fun with weston...

Goofing off at Powell last summer

This is Matt, who runs Fickle with Lew, and Weston, who will probably run Fickle in the future... Living the fun...

More of the Yard

this is a first visit for everyone but Lew. Josh Viles, Weston, Ben, Lew, Seth... and our intrepid Guide, Will Boatwright. Please enjoy the session. It is low-level, but it was a first visit to a seriously challenging spot. Good stuff got landed and some of it made it onto clips... epic memories, living the fun.

Weston didn't win the 2-litre on this one...

Matt offered a 2-liter for every foot Wes slid this back tail... he didn't even get a can of coke off it...

JV at Bloomington...

JV killin it in the first ten minutes of the session... this is warmups for the guy...

Thinking of Warmer Places, friendly faces...

Fickle Boards Remembers our trip to Savannah in the wonderful "SuperBee" Bus. Cue Flamethrower's "Superbee". Shut up and ride the superbee. Cue Tony Trujillo's Van's Promo, second song...

One of our first stops in the Savannah area is The Yard.
The Yard will kill you.
The Yard hates you.
The Yard loves to hate you.
You Must Skate The Yard!

Will Boatwright was our intrepid guide on this visit to The Yard. Thank You Will Boatwright! Fickle History was made that day. And many thanks to the Savannah-Area-Boatwrights! A clan of distinction, practising true Southern hospitlality. We were fed and cared for like family for not a small number of nights' stay!









Something you don't see in these pics is how many screw heads are sticking out... how warped and weathered the wood is... and how ridiculously SLICK and bowed up the white plastic surfacing is..
and it's all rad. go there.

We all appreciate Will's taking us down there to meet up with Joe Burdick, our SAV area rep. We will soon have wood on the way down there and be shredding on the regs down there with the good folks at Woody's Skate Shop. Get on their site and check out "Thelma and Louise".

But The Yard is insane and if you get a chance, and you know who to ask, and you got some dough to slip in the doorslot, you can skate it and have a great time... even though you're going to get torn up and broke off... Try some softer wheels, maybe...

...speaking of Skate Shops!!!

We can't tell you how much we here in the Fickle crew support the efforts of Gary Collins, through the Galaxie Skate Shop. Just 5 Minutes from downtown, within 20 minutes of Ollies and Florence... Gary is running a SUPER LEGITIMATE skateboard shop. He will get you what you need!!!

Listen, there isn't something this good anywhere nearby! Jake up at Demented in Fairfield, and Joe at Blacklist in Lawrenceburg are the nearest things that hold a candle to the super-shredding goodness of the Galaxie Skate Shop.

"The best skate shop in Cincinnati! (located conveniently just across the river on the 600block of Monmouth St. in Newport KY)

Sorry Folks... We aren't a skateshop...

First off, THANK YOU for calling us and don't hesitate, all you folks who are hitting us up and asking for Trucks, wheels, advice, and directions to local parks. Serisously, it is is an honor to be a part of your skateboarding life. Any time we can pick up we'll answer your calls and direct you to your resources! THANKS FOR CALLING!

And now, a small clarification:

We actually are not a "Skate Shop". We aren't a retail store, that is. We aren't a PLACE that sells stuff.

What we ARE is a small community of skateboarders who MAKE skateboard decks by hand. Rather, Old Lew is making them, Ben helps, Weston helps, and we all get along real well. Fickle Boards are handmade and relatively rare.

We will be releasing a public line of hand made decks this Spring (saaay April or May) Date to be announced. These will be carried in skate shops that see the future... and the future is that you'll soon have 2 alternatives:
...handmade skateboards from people who care...
and mass produced crap... that may come from people who care, or from corporate hype machines... it doesn't matter.

No matter what you buy, or what you ride, RIDE! Get out there and skate today. Go thirty, or do kickflips on the carpet, but push it today and get stoked. If you're hurt, work around it. If you can't ride, dream and plan. If it's crappy weather, get a road trip planned for spring. Or a trip south. Or for after you graduate...

Oh and by the way, you'll be able to order your fickle board this May/June! Make sure to buy everything from The Galaxie Skate Shop, Demented, Black List, or wherever there is a skateboarding-exclusive shop that supports the community. And hey, not the mall shops, okay kids? Just trust us. if you want anything good for the future, tell you moms to shop at a REAL skateboard shop! Just a friendly suggestion.

Dump your girlfriend. Quit smoking. Get sharp and get out there and shred! Kill it today!

Winters with Weston and Josh

On the way up to Cinci last month, Josh Viles and Jacob Dohm (Knoxville TN) Picked up Weston in Louisville... See what the weather was doing?



That didn't stop Josh from Gettin a piece in the dry spots...



...and in the wet spots... nice wet skate lite there...



how do you follow that up? Go straight to Matt Simpson's Mile-High-Ramp and shovel a small track and do the rainbow! Proper inclement skateboarding insanity going on daily here and there with the Fickle Boards Crew.

For real, Josh Viles is down to skate. The kid just can't NOT skate. It's serious. It's like a medical condition. Seriously... We're not sure we can contain it! For real, would a real skateboard company please come and poach this guy and make him a california pro so we can all go out there and skate warmer stuff?

Actually no. Don't.

We take it back. Josh is terrible. He's a wimp. He is lazy and hates to skate. We have to go get him at the crackhouse for demos. and on and on. All he wants to do are casper flips and flamingos. Viles is horrible.

Phweew. Close one.