Alchemy skates press release

Alchemy skates have just dropped a press release on rollernews and Kingdom with a statement about their company and an edit on newly announced team rider Sam Tuffnell. Check out the press release and edit below!

It’s time to clear up the crap surrounding Alchemy.

As it stands, there is less than a handful of reputable boot companies in the blading world who actually give a shit and put back into the industry. Over the first two years of Alchemy we’ve already sponsored some of the UK’s highest profile comps, help fund skateparks, flowed product to up and coming riders and established the respect of the UK’s most influential characters. Anyone that had their eyes open at this years NASS should have noticed the abundance of Alchemy banners on the street course as well as hammers dropped from our first official rider, Andy Gilbert.

If we wanted an easy ride we wouldn’t bother putting back into the industry.
The cynics may argue that we’re trying to get a quick buck from rollerblading but Alchemy was born from a distributor who has been releasing aggressive skates for the past ten years. And after watching the standard of the UK scene evolve, we realised it was time to develop the first pro level boot company from the UK.

To develop Alchemy, the distributor teamed up with some of the best UK rollerbladers as we knew this had to be a brand for skaters, by skaters. Everyone involved with Alchemy had the same vision; to create a high quality boot company at a reasonable price, from a UK brand with longevity.

Anyone that thinks there’s easy money to be made in creating a boot company from scratch needs to question their own sanity. Especially in the current rollerblading climate where some major boot companies have made their quick buck in the industry’s peak, and left when times got hard. We at Alchemy understand that to get back, you first have to put in.

Instead, we’ve been busting our guts hooking up riders, travelling to comps, shooting edits and developing our skates. We can’t give too much away, but keep your eyes peeled for more news on a full team and future product developments.

Alchemy is here to stay.

Click the link below to see Tuffnell skating the Alchemy's.

http://vimeo.com/1806215?pg=embed&sec=1806215

Alchemy's FKL.1 skate are available from Routeone now!

http://www.routeone.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?CurrentCategory=Departments%7cinline%7cAggskate&ProdId=36367

Zak Buys - Badass? Genius? Both?

Routeone's own Zak Buys is a bearded hammer machine. Unbeknown to most of us he's also a genius. Zak has recently moved to Norwich and is, according to team mate and Norwich local Sam Currie 'doing a masters in some crazy genious science shit at the UEA'.



Most people just eat corn on the cob without thinking about it. Here Zak calculates the exact nutritional value of eating the corn, and whether the energy exerted by calculating it, is now more than he will gain from the corn...should he finish the rest?

Luckily Zak is still finding the time to skate regularly with Sam, so look out for an edit coming from Norwich in the near future.


For an example of the type of hammers Zak drops, check out his Routeone advert in the just released issue 7 of Kingdom magazine.

Keir Lindsay and co. edit

Keir Lindsay and Stephen McCann have dropped another edit for your viewing pleasure. It's called the 'half tape edit' (i'm not excatly sure why) but it's a sick 5 minutes of skating with a good range and mix of spots. Everything from kink rails, out ledges and some really fun looking parks. Click the link below to check out what Keir and his crew have been getting up to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okBcRYTuIDs

Bone Voyage Jam

This Saturday there's a 'Bone Voyage' jam going down at Boneyard park in Chester to wish Hosker farewell and good luck on his travels. For anyone that hasn't been there the park is really fun and as it's Hosker's park, it's built for rollerblading so you don't have to deal with any low square 2 foot long rails. It's all long, round and a few feet off the ground. Check out the flyer and the trailor below which has some savage skating from Frazer, Nick Lomax and Routeone's Andy Spary killing the box.

Click this link for the trailor;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnhuFUlTb4

SlammJamm

The words on everyone's lips at the moment are 'SlammJamm' and if you havn't booked your tickets or your hotel then the clock is ticking! (as you can see below)


Brian Aragon, Chaz Sands, Jenna Downing and Steve Swain have been warming up the park for you. Check out these promo edits below and keep a keen eye out for Aragon's hurricane topsoul to 'spin the other way' 360 topsoul cos it's the nicest thing i've seen this side of Xmas. Some of the Routeone team will be heading up to get loose, we'll keep you posted on who's gonna be there...

Edit 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gduLM8HUKOc

Edit 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqhnlG1O9Ko

Crawley skatepark Jam

Kingdom mag have teamed up with Crawley council to put on the first ever inline jam at the still relatively new Crawley concrete park. The Jam happens Sat 7th Aug from 10am - 1:30pm and there'll be prizes and a best trick comp. After 1.30 the session moves on to Horsham park.