Kingpin

The Fairfield deck in in Kingpin this month .. If it's important enough to go all round Europe then it must be important enough for you to sign the petition and fill out the survey ...

Oh yeah and Merry Crimbo to y'all as well ..... Get as Fat as ya can ..

Fresh produce ...

New T's just in .... Everyone had been saying we should stick ADs skull on a T'shirt for ages ... But we weren't happy to just have a skull alone on a T ... Just because it's abit played out (if ya know what I'm sayin')...
So when Si suggested pencil swords as a design it all kinda fell into place ... The coat of arms was born .... Drawn by AD and available in Black , light grey , white and lime green !!!
We got T's n jumpers in all sizes ... Will stick a pic up of someone reppin' one soon ... But they are so fresh off the press that we haven't even had a chance to do that yet ... Arrrrr me hearties ..

Crimbo Jam ..

Crossfire Jam went off by all accounts ..... These lucky punters grabbed the Drawing Boards ..

Bang it up ...

AD painted at Bangers lastnight ... Nice one Sudz ..

Ok ok ....

OK , OK so it's been 10 days without a blog ... yup .. I know mate .. what kinda skateboard company is this ?? .... Well to answer ya question here's abit of team news for ya mind and eyes ...
Natt has been keeping it ghetto .. haha ... Trying to avoid his neighbours who are crack heads whilst still managing to deal out some mean frontsideflips on mini ....
Jerry's been at artfag college and crashing his car .. Here's the young Wilson staying warm kickfliping over Brixtons cold concrete nip ...Potter has be hanging out with Motorhead , getting kneed in the face and performing kickflip backtails round the corner from his gaff ..The Pooch is getting over injury and has been put on a strict diet of urethane .....

... In other news we got new T's and jumpers on the way for ya last minute Christmas shopping ... Make sure ya tell Uncle Ron that's what you want from him this year ...

Skate at Night

It's that time of the year again .... You come out of work, school or the dole office and it's friggin' dark outside !! ..... That's why we have realeased this "Skate at night" graphic with a twist ... these bad boys glow in the dark ... Drawing Boards urges you to keep shreading during these 'orrible murky days ..

Crimbo Jam

Drawing Boards is one of the sponsors for the upcoming Crossfire Christmas Jam ... No doubt it will be off the hook ....As usual we will be donating some decks as prizes ... So make sure your in the pit to fight off skate dads, random bums and other grommits to get ya hands on em .. Like these guys did last time ...

Natt , Potts and Jerry will all be repping and Poochie will be on drinking duties for the event ..

Oh yeah , if you gonna do ya Christmas list make sure you tell ya mum that your not feeling socks from Auntie Mavis this year and that a Drawing Board is all you ever wanted !!

ADlock ..

Resident Drawing Boards artist AD aka "That bearded kid with the dirty finger nails" has an interview up on the Crossfire site .... Click HERE to see wa'gwan .. Also the Art pages have been updated for your amusement ....

Fairfield Limited

Yep , these new Fairfield decks are about as limited edition as you can get .... and apparently fresher than a babies first breath .... So get ya feet on em before they filter out of existence ......
On the good news tip there has been a good surge of signatures on the petition thanks to Sidewalk and Blueprint putting links on there pages .... But we still need to keep the pressure on so get everyone you meet to sign it ... you know it makes sense ... also give an idea of what your after here ....

Bangers

Just peeped the Bangers flyer ... It's got a photo dirty AD painting on it ... Stoked ... Bangers is every 2nd Sunday of the month ... So put ya gold teeth in and bop down there ... Nice one Sudz

Fairfield Survey right here ..

For those of you who signed the petition .... To make it as easy as possible you can click here for the Online survey ...... Please take the time to let us know what you want , so we can best represent you .... If you don't see what you want then there is a box that says other .... Thanks to Smay the photographic wizardry and young Steph for putting the survey up ...

Also on the good news front we have set up a meeting with George Sarkodie, Head of Sport and Spaces, and Ian Marshall, Head of Youth Services in Croydon . So hopefully we will have something positive to report back on ...... Stay tuned ..

Bean snacks abroad

Old B'nax has been in contact ... We even got a skate photo for ya ... The young webmaster has been travelling allround Asia with the missis and he's now in New Zealand ... Heres seven of his many observations ...
1) Melaka seemed to have a lot of Wee's, now this is obviously a common surname to a Malaysian born person but for someone with a childish sense of humour it's quite funny.
2) Tourists seemed to hire mopeds/scooters on thai islands but forget to see all the injuries that we're walking past them on the ferries to the islands. we met soo many people who had lost against the non-existent roads, it's not like nipping down to the local shop for a pint of leche, these roads required the skills of Valentino Rossi, Dougy Lampkin and Sam Gilbert to navigate the terrain...!
3) Some Cambodian logic that we may not have shared with you. I asked our driver why they don't have traffic lights at all the junctions as to a Westerner it seems like chaos (organised chaos to someone from cambodia) and he told us - If there are traffic lights, there are traffic jams...! And he was right, there were 4 sets of traffic lights in the place we were staying and each one had a traffic jam.
4) Everyday seems to be a Friday night or Saturday day, it is somewhat strange to think about the routine we were once in, this now feels right.
5) We came across a new breed of dog that we hadn't heard about - a Labradoodle.
6) Gecko's are called geckos because the sound they make is something like this - gee-koooooo, geeeeee-kooooooooooo
7) NZ is cold...!

New old news

James kept this NBD transfer on the downlow . The cheeky pooch won best trick at Guilford skate park comp three months ago ..... haha .. He was probably too busy continent jumping to bring it to our attention ....Pic by Simon Clark > Also this clip was floating around on the web (Not sure who by) James n Potts both have tricks on it .. I asked Pooch about the pool and he said "maybe 2ft tranny not sure , the only real way to get up it was to carve it ,it was filthy and had water seeping through the tiles on the wall in some places so every now n then you'd slide out n eat shit !! The coping wasn't technically grindable, when you hit it you'd either halt and go flying or it would literally spark and you'd make it. So each time you'd gamble on losing truck or skin .. it was fuggin' gnar cakes !!

Play dat ..

Drawing Board flow rider Baker not only kills it on mini ramp but is also a beat making machine . So if you're a rapper or know a rapper he is having a BEATS SALE as you read this ... find out more here .. In other music/skate related news Worthless , Chad Powers and Oliver Sudden have all been busy in the lab making new tracks to make ya ears hyped .... These guys all support skate related events so take the time to check em ...

Poor ol' Pooch

Pooch has had shoulder surgery .... So he won't be skating until next year .... We wish him a speedy recovery .... For now here's a bit of boneless action from Smays giff collection ..

Merch Entice

Variety is the spice of life so there's a choice of ....
"Get ya neek on" in the new jumpers ...
Or "Get ya thug on" in the new hoodies ..

Fresh paint ..

Rumour has it there's a load of new paintings waiting to splatter themselves across the tinterweb in the next week or two ... Here's a lil taster ... This ones called "Monkeybear" by AD ..

Tweaker Freaker

Tweaker is having an exhibition entitled "Tweaker Freaker" from Thursday 16th Oct through to 16th November at Slam City Skates, Neals Yard Opening is on Thursday 16th at 6pm .There is more than likely going to be pics of the Drawing Boards mafia in the exhibition . So make sure don ya best art fag wear and go check it .... www.tweakerfreaker.com
More than happy to pimp on the ol' blogpipe ...

Cheers Sidewalk

Many Thanks to Sidewalk for letting the masses know about the Fairfield cause ..
Suppose we better put up a classic Fairfield related skate photo too .... Jerry Wilson kickflipin' at Fairfield .. Photo courtesy of resident Croydonian tweaker Gorm ..
Don't let anyone tell you that you can't make a difference !!!

Stone the bloody crows ..

Heres some footage of Ivan .. This is stuff thats not making onto the vid ....
IVAN VARGAS

Hyped to have the dude repping down under along with Chris , Darth , Damian , Mikky and Sylva

Scene seen ..

It's Drawing Boards duty to let the kids know whats good in underground happenings .....

First up .. DAYS PAST ..
Filmed and edited by Joe Ripley ..
A scene vid outta small villages in west sussex .. Filmed all over locally and not so locally too .
Days Past features .. Liam Teague, Joe Ripley, Matt chard and Will Greenfield and other Sussex heads ..
Heres the tailer ..

Next up ... GET TO KNOW
Filmed and edited by by Carter Hewlitt ..
It's gonna be available to download for FREE on from Dec 28 ..
Sections from Carter Hewlett, Sean Smith, Jay Bancroft, Troy Wilding, Paul Norris, John Doe and bare mk heads. Aswell a footy of some big hitters in the scene
A few of the Elder Gate Crew are off to Barce next week to 'man up' and get there last bits.... Trailer here ..
Also watch out for the 3min promo dropping at the end of oct...

I wanna do more of this kind of thing on the old blogage so stay tuned ..

Garms with Charms

New hoodies in ya face.. Drawing Boards have the newest Ltd Edt hoodies in the game yowt !! ... The prints nice n furry too ... Click here for a better look ...

Chillers

Here's abit of footie from yesterday of Sylva chillin with his boyos Kieran and Shorty at the Slam skatepark . Sylva is the one in the grey T'shirt with the technical feet .. Stoked to have him reppin' Drawing Boards down under .. Clip by Jakey boy ... Enjoy !!

Wonks Unite

Drawing Boards artist AD has done a flyer for the upcoming Slam Party ... Our good friend The Mighty Cougar will be performing with his band Wonk Unit ... So dust off ya mohawk and studded leather jacket and get down there punk ..

Welome home shredbin !!

Jimmy James Thornton is back from Africa ... Despite escaping near death again the Pooch is back safe and sound ... Watch out for him steping back on his shred plank and throwing down some antics like this ........



Seq : Sam May