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I was just browsing the Transworld site and peeped a video of Jordan Hoffart skating the gap, above the video is a little note indicating an AM contest to be held at Carlsbad the 3rd? Sounds pretty dope, peep the Hoffart video while you wait.
Ollietrollie.com is hosting the premier of Chris Mulhern’s widely anticipated video, This Time Tomorrow. The video will be screened at Velocity Skateshop, Located just 3 Short blocks from College Park University of Maryland Green Line metro station. Contact Velocity for more details.
Directions from College Park Metro (Green Line):
1. Exit right from station though tunnel and up the stairs.
2. Head west on Calvert Rd toward Dartmouth Ave (walk 3 Blocks).
3. Turn right on Baltimore Ave (Velocity is located in the Basement of 7319).
While the wait has been long and strenuous, the DC products have finally started rolling in. We have our first patch of apparel, including: shirts, pants, shorts, towels, hats, and keychains and other little trinkets. We should be getting the first shipment of shoes in relatively soon as well so keep an eye on the site/twitter/facebook for that to happen.
Also peep the latest installment of Skateboarding is Forever from DCs Matt Miller:
Start the year off right with a fresh deck, no boards over $49.99, so now you don’t have to choose a new deck over some alcohol.
I went to the Annapolis mall the other day to laugh at goons, and we checked out Zumiez and found a large male employee rocking tight jeans, a flannel, and Ugg boots… keep shopping at Zumiez and supporting that kids wage.
For those of you that don’t know we are filming for a shop video, no more episodes. We are trying to stock up fresh footage and will keep you guys posted. For now heres a throwaway fall from the other day in DC, enjoy.
We just got a bunch of Vox Relief shoes in stock there 39.99 and in 3 colors: Black, Olive, Gray, and Blue. Stop by and grab a pair.
Vox Troopers in Cyan and Black, Drehobl Shutter, Lakai Coda Selects, and Globe Vagrants. More spring shoes arriving every week keep stopping by and make sure you get some fresh kicks for the start of the school year. Keep in mind we still have a big sale on all of old shoes left on the wall and were trying to get them out of here quick to make room for the fresh stock so come get some shoes to merk and some fresh ones for school.
Vox Troppers:
Lakai Coda Selects:
Globe Vagrant:
DVS and LRG did a collabo on the latest DVS Munition CT shoe. We just got a couple in stock so those of you trying to get on the fresh kick you better get in here quick. The CT is a nice shoe. LRG team rider Chico Brenes put a little bit of his own love into this shoe stylin it with some of that flannel every ones been rocking.
Thanks to everyone that came out, heres the bits and pieces of footage that were salvageable, put over some DJ Shadow remix fire:
UPDATE***** Government is blowing it… permits and such has the shop move delayed… not sure what there doing about zoo york, maybe having it at the bowie shop, I will check with yuck on that later.
Gravette’s got him self a some custom Troopers, rocking Creature fiend green and black. That and his first pro graphic on the sole of the shoe as well.
We also got in a bunch more new decks and some completes for $89.99. Don’t forget we are moving to College Park in the beginning of May so for those of you with cars you better still be creepin velo; that or hassle your parents as often as possible.
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Not really sure the truth to that but I don’t know what else to think about it.
Looks like the park is coming together, the guys putting it together have put some of the angle iron on the ledges and banks, park looks to be decently fun, not really an all day sort of thing but still nice to have something indoors for the rain. You can check out a video of them skating the park on there site: http://www.goodvibescentral.com/. It appears like they are shooting for a mid-March/early-April opening date. I will keep you guys posted on when the park actually gets opened.
Sam posted up a video for Bang Yo Self 2. Go over to the Berrics and vote him up.
Not sure if anyone has heard about this but thanks to facebook and creeping, I have. The park is indoors, doesn’t look all that huge, but it looks like it could be pretty fun and as long as the ramp quality isn’t terrible it will be worth hitting up on occasion. Park will be in the Mall or near it? I really don’t know, there site is a piece of shit and I can’t get any real information off it other than pictures. Place is called GVC, good vibes central, once the place is open I will post up some more information, until then peep some of the images of the in progress park.
Anyone that hasn’t been to the Real skateboards site in a while I suggest you drop by. The site has been updating regularly with a photo series called The Manifest. They have about half of the team up with interview shots and really high resolution shots of skating and good times. Torgerson and Ramondetta especially have really good spreads. Look forward to Busenitz being added this Monday.
Online store is now up and running, we have all of the shoes in the store, nearly all of the boards and a decent selection of everything else. Please note that griptape is sold separately!
1 day only sale at Velocity on January 1st for some fresh apparel, buy 1 get 1 free. Enjoy
For those of you that are graphically impaired:
Completes starting at $100
25% off shoes
25% off hats and belts
25% off jeans
30% off sweaters
50% off clearance shoes
50% off select sweatshirts
Long time friend and fellow shredder Robb Estberg is moving out of the country tomorrow evening. Be sure to hit him up show your love and let him know he will be missed. Robb was one of the original shredders of Velocity and will always remain a part of this team no matter how far away he is from us.
I know I can speak for myself and everyone on the team that were gonna miss that mark, and hopefully some of us will go visit him and not bluff. Hope the sesh is epic in Europe and be sure to keep us up-to-date on that footage Robb.
Keeping this shit short cause straight up I will miss that kid and just want it short and sweet, no homo homie, don’t forget about us either.
Sorry I can’t be there to see you off dawg, glad I got to skate Philly and NYC one last time with you before you left.
Much Love,
GTF (lol)
That’s right people we are having a big video premier of the latest film from Black Box Distribution: “Fallen: Ride the Sky.” Velocity as well as a Skatology, 3 Rideshop, Rascals, Wavedancer and Revival are hosting the event at the Senator Theater on August 31st at 6:00 PM. Entry into the event is only $6 dollars, which is less than what you would pay to see a feature film and lets face it you care more about skateboarding than some romantic comedy with your girlfriend or something.
For those of you that haven’t seen the trailer to the film feel free to creep onto the Fallen website and peep the epicness to get you excited for the premier, but I doubt any of you haven’t seen the trailer…
Now for those of you rejoining us because I am sure you went and re-watched the trailer anyway, be sure when you go to the event to let us know your here from Velocity, the proceeds are going to be split amongst the shops and while we know who most of you are we would like to at least try and get a head count. Also know that the more of you that come to the premier the more copies of the video we will get in the shop so best bring your peeps so you can get a copy for yourself when it’s released onto DVD.
Bare Essentials, the Riders: Jamie Thomas, Chris Cole, Billy Marks, Josh Harmony, Tommy Sandoval, Tony Cervantes, James Hardy, Matt Bennett, Brian Hansen, and Gilbert Crockett.
Should be interesting to find out who really gets last part, since word is that Tommy is gunning for it, I don’t think he has the heart to steal it from Cole, but he does do mad hammers, anyone interested in taking bets I am down haha.
See you all on the 31st best come out and rep for Velo.
Back to School SALE!!@!!! rawr, there is a board up at the shop that lists all the sale information but this flier lets you know it’s going on if you haven’t been to the shop? Yeah basically. Also yuck you stay offline so you had no input on this blaze hand drawn flier hahaha.
For those that can’t read the awesome:
25% off jeans
25% off belts
25% off hoodies
15% off DVDs
15% off Hats
Buy 2 Get One Free Premium Tees (the all over prints and such)
3 for $50 dollar t-shirts
40-50% of clearance shoes, so there mad cheap
Jewfro should edit any of that if it’s wrong since he never updates this site 
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I realize this has been up for like over a week but I personally wasn’t going to post it because I wanted the Derek Flier to get all the love it needed especially since we put the event together so late. For those of you that haven’t seen it enjoy, if your having any trouble viewing let us know we will be getting a youtube version up, or you can go to the vimeo page and if register and account so you can download the itunes version 
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Peep the flier for information, this is a memorial event so no entree fee is required. We will be grilling and providing some drinks but its probably best to bring some drinks cause its probably going to be hot, bring whoever is down with skateboarding and especially if you were down with Derek.
If you have any questions feel free to call the shop: (301) 352-4378
I admit I was skeptical that this shit would ever show up, but finally on March 18th, 2008 the shipment arrived. This was the first shipment of Matix that the shop has ever received, and since it was a little late we did opt to not get very many sweatshirts and with exception to one style we barely got any.
Marc Johnson Signature Series: First lets talk, MJ, aside form some speculation in the shop most of the product with his name on it is fire. We got some corduroy pants, sweaters, short-sleeve no collar polos, and some MJ signature jeans.
Rick McCrank Signature Jeans: Without question one of the better looking jeans in the mix, comes custom with the shoelace belt with g-string protection haha.
Daewon Song Signature Jeans: The only black denim in the bunch, it’s a bit shiny but I haven’t personally tried them on so I am not sure how they feel.
T-shirts: Huge array of t-shirts from the all-over fire to the standard shit, we also have the MJ signature shirts as mentioned above. The shirts range in price because of the styles but overall I would say its a good selection of shirts and should be up to anyones tastes thats looking to rep some Matix.
Jeans: Overall the jeans look really fire, I have tired on a couple of pairs and there all relatively comfortable, I can’t say much about if they bleed while you skate yet since I just got myself a few pairs today, I do know that the slim-fit jeans are anything but, this is without question not a hesh company haha.
Hats: Couple of fitted hats and some flexfit as well, the styles are decent, if your looking for a hat we have a couple to choose from but it’s not a very large selection.
That about covers everything, we got a ton of it in today so for those of you that have been waiting as many years as I have for this shit to finally come to Velocity then go fiend and pick some up
After years upon years of struggle the first ever shoe has finally arrived at Velocity, can’t say I was all that optimistic considering the lack of contact we have had and the gloomy forecast of the ship dates, but the shit finally happened. We got in some Carroll’s and while it’s only one shoe it is a representation of the things to come, expect a lot more Lakai, DVS, and Matix to be arriving shortly.
Fucking stoked.
Huge congratulations goes out to Ben Hatchell taking second place at this years Tampa Am contest. Dude is a straight ripper and maybe now he will stop beating everyone in the local contests around here haha. I didn’t get to see the contest but Sam told me Hatchell was ripping it the whole time.
If you ask me Hatchell won that shit, but whatever still killed it haha.
It’s been a while since the old Carolina boys had some footage or even a website. The fabled Post22 has at last returned and with an array of cool shit and some new videos up it should be enough to please anyone that was a fan and even those that were never around for the Post22 days, now if only Jae would bring back Relapse Media haha.
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Hope everyone had a good holiday and got a bunch of cool shit. I know a lot of you got boards at velocity, sorry that the selection kept getting less and less. For those of you that got some gift money though we did get Enjoi, Darkstar, and Almost boards in. Or if you’re getting ready for the winter weather we have a huge selection of sweatshirts and of course our selection of shoes to keep your feet warm.
Enjoy the rest of your breaks and find time to sesh or stop by in this rather mild weather we are having.
For those of you that haven’t been up to the shop in a minute I suggest you stop in, especially if you have any interest in some of the years biggest skate videos. In the past week INHABITANTS the new Habitat film dropped as well as the highly anticipated Lakai Fully Flared DVD. For those of you that are curious, both films are fire, I suggest either one, and with the Habitat bonus footage both films will leave you entirely satisfied for the price of 30 bucks.
Now for the big news, for the first time ever Velocity is carrying Fallen Shoes and apparel. To be honest I didn’t think it was ever going to show up but I was wrong… finally. We have 6 new shoes to choose from, some of them look fairly legit while others I will leave up to the consumer to decide. We also have some Fallen apparel: wallets, belts, shirts, long-sleeves, sweatshirts, pants, and oddly enough some sweatpants as well. Those sweatpants are signature Jamie Thomas models, Lemaster says they’re straight but I think he’s crazy.
Come down and coop some new product, Christmas is right around the corner so we have been gearing up with a lot of clothes and shoes, hopefully the next batch of product is some more skateboards though.
Alright, so basically, Youtube is blowing it right now and refuses to let me upload anything on the velo account, however, I know that Youtube is conducting updates and some of the new features are bulk uploading and a new 1GB limit, that means quality will be much much better, but I don’t think this is available to browser related uploading. And the upload software is only available to windows users so we will have to make the shorts and upload them at the shop on dsl… aka not fun 
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Velocity Short: Episode 4 from Kevin Green on Vimeo.
Sorry about not getting this up sooner, and to be honest I think I just got a little confused on the actual time, the demo was originally going to be on a friday which would mean 9, but now that it’s a sunday I think we can have it at 6 since the park technically closes earlier on sunday at well 6. But there is a contest before the event. Either way word is 6:00 and thats what’s on the flier, if I hear otherwise I will post sorry for any confusion on my part.
We really didn’t have anything solid down and what happened was Charm got doubled booked so the date of the Gertz Memorial sesh is the 28th of October instead of well… tomorrow. Starts at 6pm, we will have a flier up in a day or so with the correct dates and some information.
Sales for the masses, yuck lemme know if you want changes, this sale is on-going with no end-date set as of yet, so come while it lasts.
And for those of you that were rocking the most recent, were changing up the graphic back to the o.g. so now it’s a classic haha. The decks will be $30 bucks and should be here sometime next week, we will post an update when they come in so just keep your eyes on the site. Happy Lemaster?
Everything in the shop is on sale. DVDs, Shoes, Clothes, Jeans, Hats, Wallets, Decks, and even Completes. For rates check the flier. Keep in mind some of the discounts may be even higher on select products that we really want to get out of the shop.
Note: The back to school sale will run though the 1st , all deals on hardgoods are only good from today – Tuesday the 14th of August. Also Mystery “Black and White” is not included in the DVD Sale.
Hey everyone a big heads up, we just got in some new product fresh off the manufacturing line. Slave is distributed under Black Box but this is not a Jamie Thomas company. Slave is ran by a Black Box artist so some of the artwork styles will be familiar to some other Black Box products. The artist Ben Horton is the man behind the canvas and has quite the sick portfolio that you can check out on his website.
Currently Slave is only being offered in 3 stores across Maryland so we are very pleased to be among the 3 shops that Black Box has allowed to distribute this new product. We hope that fans of Ben Horton and Black Box will come and try out the new company and let us know how you guys like the new boards.
The new company consists of Jon Allie, Matt Mumford, Joe Goemann, Anthony Schultz, Pat Burke, and Conhuir Lynn. Mumford and Allie both have 3 pro models out, we expect to have just about every Slave board thats been produced in both locations within a day. For some of the board artwork check the following:
We didn’t only get decks in though we got just about everything the company has to offer from wheels to shirts and hats, the works. So if your down with Slave we will be one of your few sources and we have just about all the bases covered.
To check out even more of this new product be sure to come into either shop. Currently all of it is in Bowie but the shipment will be divided and in the Severna Park store within the day.
All skateboarders will meet at 12 PM at the Legg Mason Building located in
downtown Baltimore. We will be taking over the streets as we skate from the Inner
Harbor to Pier 6. After the skate there will be a FREE skate day and BBQ at State of
Confusion (SOC) skatepark. Please bring food, drinks, or other useful items to help
out. In addition to the free skate day, 3RIDESHOP presents the best of 3 at S.O.C.,
a best trick contest on 3 obstacles. The AST Dew Tour Street Team will also be
present to hand out prizes to the winners, including tickets for the Dew Tour on the
weekend. For the finale, 3RIDESHOP will be showing the new Element video at SOC.
The admission for the video will be $3.00 and it will start at 8pm.
If you have any questions, please contact Chris at chris@3rideshop.com or
jerkylips5@aol.com. You can also contact Beau at 443-655-6498. See you there!
Sorry about how long it took us to get demo footage up, so without further adieu:
After the game of skate Mike, Robb, Yuk, and I rolled up to Bethesda and had a little manual session. After a few hours and getting trapped in a parking garage we finished up the night with plenty of manuals.
Velocity Game of skate is coming up real fast and with almost little notice, I apologize for not getting this up earlier but I wasn’t really aware of the game of skate until the other day. Tell all your buddies to brush up on consistency of flatground and box tricks and let them know about the contest.
You guys can post the flier on myspace with the following code:
Deluxe order came in today adding even more decks to our wall, we are seriously out of space and it doesn’t help that everyone buys the Zeros on the floor. We got in a few Reals, and an Anti-Hero. Mike grabbed the Krooked so tough luck for everyone that wants Krooked boards :/.
Also all Thunder trucks are now $45 dollars, that means if you want those cool colored trucks you don’t have to pay extra for them anymore, we also got a few more of them in the Deluxe order so we have a good selection of previously more expansive trucks for the same price as the standard trucks.
Another note, Plan B stuff is supposed to be coming before the first Friday in June, I know a lot of people have been coming in about Plan B stuff so just hold out a little longer.
With orders coming in every few days the shop walls are packed full of skateboards. The 22nd brought Darkstars, Enjoi, and Almost decks. Not only that but we got the Almost Uber Light, a supposed unbreakable skateboard with Carbon Fiber and Carbon Foam that puts the price tag of this deck at $100 dollars, but if your looking for a better bargain the complete with the uber light is only $175, seems a little less steep when you consider your getting Trucks, Wheels, Hardware, and Barrings.
Today we got in a ton of Zero and Mystery decks, and as if theres not already enough boards on the wall were getting a Deluxe order in tomorrow which will bring about more Real, Krooked and Anti-Hero.
If your looking to buy a skateboard in the shop, theres never been a better selection of boards to choose from.
Just to give you an idea of how many boards are on the wall, I have everything as close as possible, even have 4 decks on the back wall and 10 more on the floor, so you have never in your life seen this many boards in here… come buy some zero decks now we only have like 30 of them haha.
Thats 52 skateboards.
So I got real bored and since we finally got the cord for capturing footage I figure I put the little bit of footage we got in Philly into a little montage. Robb, Mike and I as well as anyone else willing are hitting up Philly again this weekend and will hopefully be a little more organized and get some more stuff .
Riders: Robb, Andy, Green
Song: Boards of Canada – Constants are Changing
Bowie Skatepark demo is coming to our door, while the dates were sort of sketchy we finally managed to get a date set this 10th. That doesn’t really leave much time for us to get the word out, but for those of you at the contest we will remind you there’s a demo in a week. The Demo is sponsored by DLXSF (ignore the fact that we’re not listed on there, we were added last minute) so that means we get a taste of a few companies at one time, among them is anti-hero, real, and krooked. The list of shredders is sick, so they’re sure to put on a good show, I don’t have the exact time of the demo so I will update you guys with that information when I get it. However based on the times of other demos I would say it’s save to assume the demo will be around 3-5 pm.
Among the riders coming to the Bowie Skatepark? Dennis Busenitz, Justin Brock, Nick Dompierre, Andrew Allen, Frank Gerwer, Bobby Worrest, and special guest Dylan Rieder. Word is that Justin Brock is out but there looking for a replacement. So yeah tell your friends and what not, let them know that there’s a skate demo going down May 10th at Bowie Skatepark.
Just got in the shipment of Es and Emerica for the Holiday season. 9 Boxes of fresh for the Severna Park Shop. Among the Es shoes we have the following: Accel, Square-One, Script, and Accelerate.
As for the Emerica’s we got nearly all pro-models so you can rock your favorite skaters kicks. We got the Reynolds 3’s in two colors, the Heritic 2’s and the Bryan Hermans. The Reynolds and the Hermans are two of the sexiest shoes to ever grace the wall. The Hermans are a sand color with some awesome cushioning inside. I would pick one up just to rock because they feel that good on your feet. As for the Reynolds it’s more of what you have come to expect from the shoe line. Has a very solid design, original colors, and some heavy duty material to keep your shoes intact for as long as possible.
Make sure to stop in fast though with the Holiday Season coming up a lot of these shoes might be gone real fast.
Note: the above image is just a few of the shoes we got in, from left to right the Hermans, Reynolds 3, Heritic 2, Square-One, and Accel.
Teaser of the Velocity Skateboard Team for your video ipods.
Velocity Teaser (640x480) [15:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1787) Velocity Teaser (320x240) [15:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (465)Yuk asked me to do this and i am bored waiting for turn in saints row so:
