La Noche En Blanco - Madrid 2008

That's right! Few weeks after finishing our yearly adventure, Portugal by Skate 2008, we headed to Madrid, the spanish capital, with some Longboarderz friends. There were 7 of us there to ride the open roads during a whole night, but once we got there we found a huge sea of longboarders ready to claim their right to the roads! We spent the night sliding here and there, and found out that the longboard scene in Spain is far more developed than in Portugal. After an exhausting night we spent part of the sunday with some new friends from Barcelona: Mad Surfer, Chino, and the rolerskates team with the most awesome tricks! And in that day a new dream was born: from Portugal to Barcelona by Skate, the mediterranean by skate... who knows?!




Photos taken by Zé Tó

Once again, rising from deep oblivion...

here we are! Right in the midle of our journey. We've been over a month on the road, from Caminha to Porto during the first week, there to Aveiro in the week after, from there to São Pedro de Moel, and finaly arrived to Ericeira, near home. Clean sheets and nice food...

Too many things have happened since we last posted here, and it became hard to keep up with all the news. After having all the sponsorings closed we got ourselves on the way to Portugal by Skate's second edition. In Oporto longboard scene is far more developped than in Lisboa, or so it seems. We've been received by the Longboarderz Team: they took us to some of the coolest places to ride longboard in the northern Portugal, such as Matosinhos,

Gaia where we spent our "Go Skateboarding Day",

and Carvoeiro, some kick ass roads...

In Ovar we had some company again for some longboarding miles, and again we were presented to some cool agressive oldschool downhill roads: Minhoteira. Deep Portugal with wide open minded locals.

Longboard workshops in the Youth Hostels have been working prety good too! We truly realize that longboard skate is almost unknown for most of the kids, and it's a pleasure and a privilege to get them in touch with our passion.

Click here to watch our video trailer for 2008. Trailer #2 and trailer #3.

Half the way gone, or half of the way to come, we finally have our oficial website online! It's HERE! And thanks to Us2Rs and to Paulo Arraiano. It's thanks to him again that we have this lovely tees! Check them out! 100% cotton and it costs 20€ each (+ shipping when to out of Portugal: please call us to +351 96 855 00 49 or send us an email to portugaldeskate@gmail.com), for those who are registered in longboarderz.forumeiros.com. So hurry up and register! It's the newest longboard forum, where we can share spots and hints.



400 kms gone, 600 kms to come, and something made it possible: lot's of Luso water, a Tatonka backpack, Vans Shoes, and our perfectly hand made cruising boards, LabSk8 longboards... Check them out HERE. And that's for the world to know that Portugal is not only good at making red wine and corks!

Another bug bites the dust

And so we've been in Póvoa do Varzim between 28 and 31 March, where Sunnubrand Team came to meet us for the second time. This time, they've been here to show us the real swiss style...

Yeah, we miss them already...

Sunnubrand is at a step of presenting their new colection, and for what we know of Sunnubrand, it will be another awesome colection. They left us a Raclette heater, but we didn't have any bacon, so this is how we made our portuguese raclette.

It was in Póvoa do Varzim that we first presented Portugal by Skate's Roadshow, and the kids there loved the idea!

Here goes a small and noisy video where you can check how it came out.

The contest for the slogan has a winner: "ecologically fast" won a downhill DVD.

Our business is growing too, and from now on Portugal by Skate's longboards will be in Angola, Cape Vert, Mozambique, S. Tomé, Guiné, Brazil, and Timor. All the countries where portuguese is spoken will get to know our vehicles...

Have fun, ride safe, see you soon!