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

The trucks pro models are dope this months with 2 other brand new pro-Trucks. Ryan Gallant for Venture with a beautiful truck (black /orange) but its not over, it's also have the brand new PJ ladd and the new Stevie And don't forget the Venture Terry Kennedy, the Baker gangsta!.     &_Louie_Barletta_for Krux (blue / black),a more extravagant truck with the large head of louie above. The Krux innovates with a graph in a not very common place. What you think about this stuff ? Click here to

after Krux a few weeks ago, it is now the turn of Grind King to leave the models velvet . The Velvet series is a truck made in velvet and which has as official blabla: Touch me Feel me Grind me I let to you admire the certified copies of the Krux (just kidding) according to some ,it doesn't make any problem for grinding access to the Grind King website which is awesome (photos from Grind king website)

Velvet trucks! Yep its real!! and of course its made by Krux trucks.   its not me who will buy them..... access to the official website of Krux (pics taken from chill and tws august 06)

Krux has been in the skateboard industry for several years  now and still keep digging its own way with its own originality. As you can read in previous articles, Krux is a mythic brand. I've never head about any "bad / good" quality of the trucks...So I wanted to make my own opinion.