Still Stoked Longboard Skates For Surfers

Icon Art from Still Stoked and The Seedling Leaf

Katie and I were musing this morning over our usual surfsk8 lifestyle ideas and what to do new for our summer travelling stuff, for selling on the road.

Katie's been doing some real cool paintings lately on some new themes, and suddenly we thought why not icons of the good ole days, like splittys and the like, would'nt they just make the coolest cards and prints? Well I went off down the river bank and when I came back, she'd done this rad painting which she was transferring to photo card.

I reckon it's gonna be a great idea for selling up at Hell's Mouth this summer— that's in North Wales on the Lleyn peninsula, along with our longboard skates and other stuff. Oh ye, When it's on Hell's Mouth has the sweetest wave with the clearest water, and the summer peelers are just so lovely.

Icon Art number one: The Blue VW Splitty

Anyway hope you like the first in our series of Icon Art, its going to be one of many available from The Seedling Leaf, in card, print and original artwork. Katie's so stoked about it so I just had to write and tell you all!

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Posted at 19:19:45

Still Stoked Lifestyle - What's it all about?

Have you seen the classic Michael Caine film with the iconic phrase "What's it all about?". Well, people ask me what is Still Stoked Lifestyle, what's it all about?
I reply, "It's all in the surfers' word stoke, that indescribable buzz that permeates body, mind and soul after a good session in the waves".
It's a highly individual thing, often shared in the group of friends but equally sometimes not, because as the other saying goes - "one mans meat is another mans poison".
Still Stoked Lifestyle is pretty well all embracing, as I think the website shows, and that is only a little of our own Still Stoked experience.
Although Danny Cartwright coined the phrase Still Stoked back in 1997 to capture the thrill of riding longboard skates when the surf was flat, it sums up my lifestyle ethic to perfection. It has almost, if not completely, taken on the form of The Life Quest, the search for contented fulfillment.
The Still Stoked LIfestyle, like the phrase What's It All About is the expression of the 'pink feeling' of feeling good, really good, about what you are doing. It is also the point at which the other classic phrase comes into play "variety is the spice of life". A lot of guys may think I am nothing more than a surfinskatin' hippy freak and that's the rub, because My Still Stoked Lifestyle takes the form of many guises from the obvious description above to birdwatcher, river keeper, woodland worker, food grower, walker, lover of fresh air, nature and all things intrinsically free and wonderfull.
I still get the greatest buzz from the sense of movement and sitting in the van with all those travelling emotions of "just getting up and going". In many ways this rolls the total feeling of Still Stoked Lifestyle into one great ball of feeling good, it's easy to share ideas and thoughts on lifestyle and so in my blog, I am going to elaborate on my other lifestyle loves, which all make my Still Stoked Lifestyle complete, if not indeed maybe to the challice overflowing!

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Posted at 10:39:13

Still Stoked Van Life solstice travels

Rainbow parked up at Pistyll Rhaiadr

After spending the pre solstice afternoon with our druid friends, we watched the setting sun colour the sky over the Wye valley, in the western Forest of Dean and then set out for the magical Pistyll Rhaiadr on the edge of North Wales, to greet the sunrise.

setting sun over the Wye valley

Our solstice travels in Rainbow, the 3rd in line of Mk1 Tranny Travellers, gave us a great van life experience. Last time I was at the high waterfall was back in 1998 in Old Red, when I captured those early days on film in the Still Stoked Longboard Skates video. This solstice visit was where Katie and I chose to be amongst the natural majesty and colour of one of Wales' seven wonders.

Pistryll Rhaiadr

We explored the Welsh lanes past valley, hill, lake and stream, along impossibly narrow roads without a car in sight, beyond the odd farmer's landrover. Few words can describe the experience, it was truly cleansing to our spirits and inspirational to our minds.
The rainbow arced across the craggy valley of the wonderful waterfall, wedding the sun and the rain to give the promise of nature's harvest to come.

Donny and Rainbow

This part of Wales is unspoilt and for much of the year empty.There are byways to travel though hobbit type country that take you instantly by surprise. If any of you want to know where this is then email me to donny@stillstoked.co.uk

bye bye

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Posted at 09:25:32

GSD Surf School and Still Stoked Longboard skates

Donny met up with 'Hawaiian' Simon at the surf school on Llangennith beach over the spring bank holiday and talked longboard skates from the Still Stoked range.
The surf school is adding another venue to Caswell Bay and Llangennith, by opening a new shop and surf school at Rhossili. Also Simon and Phil's new shop at the Mumbles is looking good. Called In2Liquid, the shop is near the Bay Front and hope to be carrying Still Stoked longboard skates real soon.

This entry relates to: [ Surfing ]

Posted at 20:55:42