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

Girl boards serie/ Chocolate for 2007 early 2008. Bim Bim !!! First the Girl's then the chocolate's...

As for 2007, the brands are gonna get you crazy with some frenzy matching.  So first, what's the matching : It's a correspondance between forms or colors previously definied by specific criterias or rules. And it's being more and more applied in the skateboard as the kids wanna have style. (exemple with the New Era and the Nike Frankestein) one of the forthcoming Cliché 2007 series will be the "footprint serie"  composed like this: there will be on the back of the deck, the sole (external, for you dummies) of