Since the beginning of the year, we've been trying to multiply articles about brand collections such as Emerica, Altamont or DC but also articles about products such as the one about skateboarding technologies for 2008.

Today we look at the phenomenon of the moment: the cruiser boards or, Old School boards. Brands often call it "Filming board" because with this kind of skateboard, the director doesn't have to bother about the quality of the ground as most of the time, the wheels are soft and the deck is wide and short for a better control . .
It turns out that many brands are now doing their own

5boro: Brand New York based brand releases a deck that looks like a Krooked's Zip Zinger, wich means very thin. This is the kind of board that you need to set up with slopestyle trucks in order to have a very thin and easy control deck.
The size: 7.6 x 29.5
Available at Nozbone skateshop.

Alien Workshop. Alien started doing cruisers not long ago and they chose to produce them in partnership with the band Dinosaur Jr. It results in purple decks of 44 inches long and the other one of 32, 5 inches. I prefer the one with the square poles.
Disponible sur commande dans un shop parisien (HawaII surf, Nozbone Street Machine ...) Available on order in Parisian shops (HawaII surf, Nozbone Street Machine ...)
Birdhouse, Tony Hawk's brand also produces cruisers but I do find

Skateboard brands have been trying to manufacture stronger and lighetr decks for the past few years! 2008 will be another year of discovery of new technologies and that is precisely what we will see in this article. Almost: The first  über we had tested was a limited model that was nogt aiming toward large retailers, but it is now certified that Almost has developed the über technology for the mass market. Let's see if the decks will be as expensive as in our test. Otherwise, new  Impact Support series with

"Chad Muska’s first professional deck on Element." as they say on the website. The drawing : As you can see, there is the Element logo printed in white on red +written Muska in white on black on the right half of the board.. . But when u look at it more closely you will see that the black is actually many litte radios, pirate's flag logos (skulls with bones), Element logos and some L.A signs (sorry i couldn't figure out how to take these in pictures :s) .  Watch out,

It's not really a test but i didn't know where to put that so here it is. Found in TWS business, the next shoes to come , end of 2007. First the Vox Drehobl and then the Oyola     Etnies Jason Dill & Etnies Ronnie Creager on the right  

   After my etnies' test quite satisfying i wanted to change my shoes... Since quite some time,Element has been making shoes...So i decided to test a pair, wich is actually Mike vallely 's pro model. The shoes: mike v. 1st pro-model; quite big shoe but comfortable , wich hold the foot well. This model is from the "fire" category so they are supposed to be more resisting. There are element's logo everywhere on the shoes... I put my protect-laces , not to kill the laces but...

Few months ago we talked about the Element comin' in the shoe game .Then ones showed to you some models  (4 in allt) Well the Autumn 06 Elementcollection footwear is available on the Element website. one's seen there that it is inspired by already made: -Rhone and Tigris are little shoes like as...