Oh, and it looks like the review train still had some steam. The latest Lowcard Magazine included a review of the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee and NaysLayer boards. Not to mention the review of some boards from our homies over at Open Skateboards on the page right below us. Check it out and go pick up a copy of the mag at your local shop. It’s a good one.

I still haven’t really gotten started on editing the clip from the Naysayer Tour, but I have been busy…uh, who am I kidding? I’ve been skating, a lot (up until being hospitalized on Friday, so expect progress to happen since I am off my board for a while). I have most of the footage, just waiting on a couple more things. There are actually some new graphics in the works now too. “In the works,” as in still being drawn up, but they are getting close to being done. So we should have some new graphics soon than you have come to expect from us. We will try to keep some of the graphics you all love so much around for a bit too (Aliens, NaysLayer, and Biggie Stardust). Stay Sassy!

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First Stop.. Philly!

Maurice and French Greg. Cuddle Buddies.

Piro getting his Wombat on.

FDR!

Andrew Metzger- BS Smith

Jerry Cruising

Pushing for one of the most epic tricks of the trip.

Young Buck Roman.

Thanks to Greg and Asad for letting us crash at their house for 2 nights!

French Gregs nip hair.

2nd Stop…Durham, North Carolina!

Tit’s lolz

Roman with one of his many toys. haha

Thanks Dwayne for the Bday cake!

Warming up

Thanks Robert for putting us up!!

3rd stop.. A quick day in Jacksonville, FL!

Packedd

Nacho Cheese Freak.

Matt Mac has 6 toes!

Steve!

Gregoire.

4th stop… Tallahassee!

Eby climbing to the top of Ray Gordon for an angle.

Pops cooked up some grub for all 12 of us. Burgers, baked beans, corn on the cob. Beer and Wine too. So good.

Pops.

Greg trying to fulfill the American Stereotype.

Mr. MacMillen

Smoke Ring Kings.

The beginning of a rough night for Piro. haha

The first 11 balloons of the 500 that were filled up that night.

Mike Tuten owner of Fine Art For Life with the late night Tattoos.

And it Begins..

1 down.

Romans squeal tactics.

Mo’s

Nabi’s 2 sec. tattoo

French Greg’s

Had to cut out Miami, Orlando, and Skatopia, cause we were running out of time. Super quick stop in Birmingham, AL!

Ghetto Quarters

Mo!

Packed up and we out to Atlanta!!

Sleep Life. Hadrien and Roman are in there too.

Skate Coach.

Skated the slide, and Eby got sandy

The Bloby’s

Charlotte Next!

Eby drove the whole time. Beast.

We Need To Pee!!

Eby’s dad’s peacock.

Eby’s nephew had some very interesting stories.

Eby Sr. passing out some feathers from his birds last molt.

Fireworks!

Last Stop was Washington D.C.!

Freedom Plaza

The Capital of the U.S.

Jerry was trying to ollie over the rail into the bank, and he was coming so close after a few tries. This security guard came out and Jerry started to throw down for one more go, but she just started charging him. He barely got away from her chubby hands.

Back to NYC! Atouri Ca! Chiozo!

-Ben Kilpatrick

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I would like to give a special shout out to the following people who helped us along the way, be it with a place to sleep or with spots or anything else:

Rick Sulz @ NYSkateboarding.com, Jon Legere @ Project Bushwick, Park Delicatessen Skateshop (Brooklyn), Jimmy McDonald, Andrew Metzger, Asad Chaudhry, Greg Oakes, Dwayne Dixon, Nik Spaulding @ Ujamaa Boardhouse (Durham), Robert Clark, Rashad Williams, YDG Skatepark (Graham, NC), Trevor Stevens, Josh Adams, Steve Shiver, Nick Blanco, Matt MacMillen, Orly Vazquez @ Phaze One Skateshop (Tallahassee), Mike Tuten @ Fine Art For Life, Ben’s parents, Peter @ Faith Skate Supply (Birmingham), Cole Frazier, Blake Lee, David Morico, Ruin Skateshop (ATL), Blacksheep Skateshop (Charlotte), Andrew Bumgarner, my (Eby’s) parents and sister, Eric Johnson @ Kook Skateboards, the Naysayer team (especially Hadrien for filming almost the whole time, on top of skating!), Piro Sierra, The Bloby’s Crew, and Ben Kilpatrick for shooting some epic photos.

The tour was great and a lot of fun (though 100+ degrees the whole time!) and while we are going to save the best of the footage for the Naysayer video, we are working on a trip clip with some of the footage that we won’t be using. So look out for that soon. Also, we posted this clip on Facebook a while back. Our first day in Durham, NC we got rained out, but the kind folks at Your Daily Grind (YDG) Skatepark in Graham, NC gave us a place to skate. We threw this clip together from that session the same night.

-Eby Ghafarian

Good luck, Keith.

Soma Skateboard Magazine (out of France).

And finally, I went into KCDC Skateshop a couple days ago and was told that we had a board in the Product Geek section of The Skateboard Mag. I flipped through and found that they reviewed our Aliens board!

That is on top of us being in the Board Forum section of the last FTK and we also have a couple other things in the works too. We have been busy overall. Our booth at the Maloof Money Cup in Queens went pretty well. Besides the clouds of dust blowing through the tent, we got to meet a lot of you and Queens has a new skatepark! Team rider, Jerry Yates, and photog, Ben Kilpatrick, are coming to NYC in a week and half and are ready to get to work killing some NYC spots proper. Jerry has never been here before, so he is pretty stoked.

We have been keeping the shop page pretty up-to-date, so check it to see if we are in a shop near you yet!

In the same issue, Jerry Yates has a Fresh Find. Check it out if you can find a copy!

Here is the alternate version of this ad, which we didn’t run (as referenced in the one we did):

Also, in the new issue of FTK, we have some boards in the “Board Forum” section and Jerry Yates has a gnarly fs pivot photo. You can check out the online version here.

Naysayer Pop Off Contest Winner from Naysayer Skateboards on Vimeo.

All three of them were epic and it wasn’t easy to pick a winner, but the team casted their votes and Nick came out on top. He sent in this photo of his prizes:

We also posted some footage from the trip to Boston I took with the flow guys, Maurice and Nabi. Well, me and Nabi went because Maurice is going to school up there at Northeastern, so he showed us around. Most of our time was spend getting kicked out of almost every spot before we even took the camera out to film, but here is what we did capture.

Naysayer Boston Flow Trip from Naysayer Skateboards on Vimeo.

I spoke to Jerry today and it looks like we will have some footage coming out way for a proper clip or two of our Georgia boy. So look out for that in the nearish future. He is on a mission, because on top of all that, he is still filming a part for the Naysayer video and working on a full interview for FTK. Speaking of, grab the new FTK and Focus mags when they come out. There should be lots of Naysayer goodness in both of them.

I know it took a while but we finally got some decent product shots of the boards and I updated the product page with them. Also, the shop page has been updated with some new shops we got into recently, and I updated the web store for those of you without a shop that carries Naysayer in your area. Support your local skateshop before anything! If your shop doesn’t carry Naysayer, tell them to hit us up (info@naysayerskateboards.com) about getting some boards.

Also, if you haven’t already, don’t forget to enter the Pop Off Contest (see post below for details). The deadline is next week! In other news, we are in some other shops. Check the Shop tab for updated shops.

The Pop Off Contest ends at the end of the month (March 31st). So go get busy filming and/or shooting photos of your tricks that don’t involve popping into them. Bonus points for lines linking multiple tricks that meet the criteria. The team will be judging and the best ones will go into a montage. The winner gets a Naysayer board. Creativity is weighed higher than skill/difficulty itself. So anyone can take it…just think outside of the box.

Just to clarify for the Pop Off Contest: Your skateboard must make contact with whatever obstacle you are skating before leaving the ground. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t count. No bonelesses into thing, no no-complying into things. You could, however, do whatever you’d like out of your trick. There is an exception for no-complies…you can no-comply polejam/wallie/wallride (since your board doesn’t leave the ground before hitting the obstacle.