First ever kickflip on Balance Longboards

I started longboarding about 10 years ago when I realized that I was no good at skateboarding.  I mean I couldn't even ollie.  Although that fact still stands true today, I met somebody today who can.  With in 20 mins of meeting each other this kid had a kickflip dialed on the Platypus.  He was working of presure flips and triflip when we left each other.  Although our meeting was short, I was able to grab some quick footage of his stuff. 

Stay tuned, we have plans on making a full length video in the near future.  Here we are again pushing what can be done on a hardwood longboard.  I know this was the first kickflip done on one of our boards, but it may also be the first one done on any sort of hardwood longboard.  And I know that there aren't a lot of kickflips being done in the longboard world right now.  Were going to keep innovating and keep pushing what can be done with hardwood longboards, as well as longboarding in general!!

Love life!!

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New Layups!

Here we are, getting into fall, sounds like time to release a couple of new layups.  We have basically gone ahead and added a center stringer to our boards.  I think it gives the board a little more substance, a little more to look at if you will.  

Now we have 8 different decks, combined with 8 different layups.  Im not math genious, but my calculator told me that there are now 64 different combinations of boards to chose from.  There are some board companies that are made in China that can't compete with that.  

Stay tuned throughout this fall we will be releasing even more layups as well as some other options.  

Always handcrafted, and always made in the USA!

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Love life,

Tom

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Custom Boards

We have been pumping out a lot of custom boards lately and I just wanted to keep everyone posted on all of them.  From just switching up the layouts, or coming out with your own design, here is what has been coming out of the shop lately.  Tons of people have been adding concave to the Val.  It turns it into an amazing downhill board.  

Give us a call with your idea for your deck, or check out the pictures for some ideas.  So far we have been getting great response with all of our custom decks.  Love your life, and find your Balance.

Love life,

Tom

Maryhill 2009

Maryhill 2009 concluded last night with Pat Switzer taking the win in Men’s Downhill.  Coming into the weekend it seemed to be Scoot Smith as the favorite.  He had won the event the last two years.  Once the quals started Mischo Erban then looked to be the favorite.  Leading the pack after the first qualifing round and setting a new course record on the second qualifying round.    On race day he won every heat up until the final.  Then it was all about Pat Switzer.  Battling the elements he took out a heavy field including Mischo, Scoot, and Douglas Silva.

Balance team rider Mike Snyder had a solid performance over the weekend.  He qualified right where he wanted to be in the middle of the pack.  He made it through his first heat on Sunday, but then ran into a little rain prob on his next heat.  Our downhill model “Zoolander” is getting closer and closer to being complete.  I am very stoked to release it and I have to say that it is unlike anything else out on the market right now.  A hardwood speedboard, Get Stoked!

Love life,

Tom

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