Don't Forget to take time and Skate!!

Lately I have been pretty full out.  It has been both the height of the longboarding season and we have been selling more boards than ever.  It is also the height of the waterskiing season.  So I have been spliting my time between the building boards in the shop and going out to the lake to train for the next Pro Tour stop.

Needless to say I haven’t been skating too much besides the daily commute to work.  That was until today when I pretty much forced myself to head out and skate.  I hit up a bank I have been hearing about for months.  I never got specific directions, I was just told it was somewhere in downtown Salt Lake.  Well I found it, and it became one of the best sessions of the summer.  It turned out to be a 10ft high bank that sloped down a 200ft parking lot.  

I ended up staying until dark.  Even though it was still plenty lit and I also had plenty of other more productive things to do.  But it didn’t really matter, I was enjoying life, and enjoying my Platypus.  It was a great night and it really refreshed my soul.  Now tomorrow it is off to Maryhill!!

 

Balance is looking for Sales Reps

Balance is growing.  And now we are looking for Sales Reps throughout the country.  Our Rep Program is not your average program, we give you the freedom to create your own sales network, while building a good relationship with Balance.  Help us promote our company and we will help you out as well, whether it be through gear, merchandise or get some cold hard cash.  Our company is like no other, and that goes for our rep program as well.  Donʼt worry there is no pyramid scheme, or multilevel marketing scheme here.  

Our main focus with this program is for our Reps to get the word of Balance out to the entire country.  Reps are given the freedom of spreading the word how ever they would like.  You can keep it as simple as word of mouth between you and your friends, or you can plaster your town with fliers.  Head to the 

local college, coffee shop, local skateshop,or post on Craigslist.  If you think it will payoff, take out an ad in your local paper.  Anyway you spread the word is great for us.  Get creative with this, the options are limitless.  

Contact Tom at Tom@balancelongboards.com or call 801 918 7793 for some more information.  

Love your life,

Tom

Go Fast and Find your Balance!!

60mph down a mountainside road with no real brakes.  Well thats what Balance is up to these days.  We have teamed up with Mike Snyder, speedboarding extradinaire.  Together we are trying to push the limits on what is possible on a hardwood longboard.    Our new speedboard, set to be released late summer/early fall of 09 isn’t just your average side walk cruiser.  Already we have been pushing the limits of what we can do.  I can’t say much yet, because nothing is set in stone.  But I do know that we are going to be using a different process to press our boards.  Still a hardwood deck, but acting more of like a core inside a composite board.  All the beauty of the hardwoods will still shine through, just with a lot more performance to go along with it.   

We also are going to stay true to Balance in the whole customizability department.  The board is going to have fully customizable concave, wheel base, length and width.  This is something unknown in the downhill world.  Check out our video page for a quick clip of what is to come with Balance.

Get stoked to go fast.  

Go Fast and Find your Balance

Love life,

Tom

News for the Hippies

Well incase you didn’t know Balance is a big fan of the environment.  We have always felt that Longboarding is one of the greenest ways to get around town, but now we have a few more things to show for it. 

Fist off we have a new option for out layout process.  Through out our board making process we end up with a few odd and end scraps hanging out in our shop.  We are now offering this as a complete layout for any of our models.  At first I just through some random scraps together to test out a new deck idea, but once the deck was pressed I loved the randomness of the layout.    Having stringers of Maple, Sapelle, Lyptus, and whatever other hardwoods we have available in our shop in a random pattern creates even more of an organic feel to the decks. The boards are still beautiful, just Momma Earth will end up thanking you as well.  Choose this layout option and we will knock $5 off of any deck, just as a thanks for thinking of the environment while you ride.

Secondly we have teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation (www.arborday.org) for there Rain Forest Rescue Program.  For each board you purchase from Balance, 250 square feet of Rainforest will be saved.  All of our decks are obviously made from wood and wood comes from trees.  We are just trying to do our part to replenish the resources we are using.  And just to show our commitment we are going to do this for every board we have ever sold.  Thanks for supporting Balance and Momma Earth!!

News Flash

Has it really been since May since my last news entry?  Well this summer has been great for Balance.  Selling more boards, and getting better response than we ever expected.  We also have been doing more things then we expected at this point.  So far this summer we have started testing some downhill speedboards, made a few modifications to some already successful boards, and been killing it with our current product line.  

People have really took to our customization of our boards.  Even just a little tweak here and there, people are requesting what they want and Balance is delivering. Change up the layup, think up your own design.  Balance will take your ideas, your thoughts and make them a reality. 

Even my father thought up his own deck.  He doesn’t know how to ride, but he was still stoked when his board got delivered.  Let us know and we can make your ideas reality.

Love your life!

Tom

tom@balancelongboards.com 

Footloose

Footloose

Length - 48”, 52”, 54”

Width - 9”

Footloose is our dancing specific model.  

Just wide enough at nine inches wide to allow you to constantly feel where the edges of the board are, while still being able to get some leverage over the trucks.  A generous foot platform to allow the rider to walk up and down the board, but not too big where you can get lost along the way.  

The tip and tail are specifically designed for different uses.  The 5” nose is designed for manuals while the 6 inch tail allows you to get some more leverage for shov-it based tricks.  

Different lengths available for different size riders as well as different riding styles.  Go shorter if you are looking for a board that is a little easier to spin.  Or go a bit longer if you are looking for a board that has some more room to walk on.  Whatever your style is, let us know an we will hook you up with the right size board for you.  

Let your creativity flow as you dance the night away.

Everybody cut footloose!

Setup with Randal II 180’s, Biltin Bearings, as well as your choice of either Gumballs or Big Zig Limes.

New Phone Number for Balance - 801-918-7793

Balance is now catching up with the times.  I went out and got myself one of those new fangled BlackBerrys. Im pretty amazed with my new Crackberry.  I think the coolest thing I can now do is take pictures of peoples custom boards in the works and email them so they can see the progress of their new ride.  Anyways enough with the babble, the new number is 801 918 7793.  Yea and being able to stream Pandora everywhere I go is pretty sic too!

Love life,

Tom