Where The Wild Things Are

Girls Skateboards / Where the Wild Things Are boards are hitting the shelves today. A ton of people have asked about collecting the whole set. There are a total of 7. We are offering a special price on the full set for the collectors.
To stoke you out I added the graphics and the trailer to the movie which is dropping in October below.

Skateboarding challenges observers to examine their preconceptions of what and who a city is for.

I ran across this article written by Ocean Howell. If you not familiar with his name, his was a pro skaterboarder for Birdhouse in the early to mid 90's. More recently, he has been writing articles off and on for Transworld Business. The article itself is kind of lengthly but well worth the effort. It's really interesting to see how far cities are going to subversely control who uses so called "public spaces".

The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space

DIAMOND TEES and DENIM

Forgot to blog the new Diamond tees and denim this week. Oops. Diamond has not shipped anything in a while.
This stuff looks great and was definitely worth the wait. Below are some highlights.

Waste Some Time

Ok this is going to be a strange post so bare with me. My boy Billy turned me on to this site Look at This Fucking Hipster. LATFH Here are some pictures I took from the site. You need to peep it to read the funny captions... It's a good way to waste time and make fun of people without actually hurting anybody's feelings. Unless of course they happen to be in front of you...







Which leads me to this!!!!!

The following day he sent me CUCHINI
It protects women from the dreaded CAMEL TOE. These Cougars in West Palm need to get to Hollywood with there shit. They would kill it with the stars. They also need to make some with flags from Puerto Rico and USA for starters. Roses, Obama, Che and Pot leaves. You get the picture. Kim Kardashian and Jessica Simpson could be spokes women.....

Civilized Sundays

Our friend Mike Rosa was asked to film a Civilized Sundays for Transworld Skateboarding. You will see shop lurker and part time Covert rider Ryan Nix and Covert shop owner Willy D.....This is part 1. Not sure if there is a part 2... Filmed and edited by David Cahall. We are trying to start posting more footy. Hopefully this is the start of something new. As I said before the COVERT shop video is finished and will be dropping really soon.

THROW AWAY FOOTY

Here is some throw away footy from Kevin Perez...We have called it quits on the COVERT video. We will be dropping it on the site in the next few days. Stay posted ....

Throw Away Montage #1 from kevin perez on Vimeo.

DEW TOUR

SO the DEW TOUR is coming back to Orlando. Of course Covert will be putting together a bangin party again this year. We are also on tap to host the LOCALS ONLY contest. I will be at 4 of the 5 stops playing the music for the skateboarding events. Here is a link to the the events.
DEW TOUR Tickets are on sale for the Orlando stop. You can get them at the arena box office or Ticketmaster.

NEW SUPRA TKs, SKYTOPS and VAIDERS

New Supra Footwear hit the shelves today. Purple Tie Dye Skytop, GUCCI Skytop, Vaider Charcoal w/neon trim, Olive Tuff Skytop, Red Perforated TK Society and the Grey Patent TK Society. We also got Vaider Tuff Black. We are taking special orders this week on all the other styles. If there is some thing you need let us know.

RIPNDIP east coast tour

The RIPNDIP team just went on an east coast tour stopping in ATL, DC, Philly, and ending in NYC. This is the tour video from the whole trip. Watch both parts its a TRIP! get it? hahaha

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Leroy Smith

Since we are on a bit of a basketball tip I thought you might want to waste sometime watching this video. Peep the site. Its pretty good. Charlie Murphy is Leroy Smith. The man who motivated Michael Jordan....
Leroy Smith

BLUE LOBSTER

A customer asked me about a sneaker called Blue Lobster. I told him the Lobsters came out last year. ANyway I decided to search it a bit and this is what I came up with. Thought I would share it with you. I got pinched by a couple of these bastards over 10 years ago in CAPE COD. I was coming in from surfing and a couple of these clamped on my toes. I jumped back on my board and paddled in to shore. One of them actually was still on my foot when i made it to shore. Im really glad lifeguards were there to fix me up. Not sure why I posted this but enjoy! Here is a blog about it. Blue Lobster Here is a video.

RASA LIBRE

Don't call it a comeback. Well ok call it a comeback. When we opened Covert 6 years there was a new board company on the scene called RASA LIBRE. Well guess what its back and we couldn't be happier. Look for the wood in the next few weeks. Here is a link to there blog to explain everything. RASA LIBRE ESPN did a little something as well. ESPN Article There is an article in VAPORS as well but I cant post it for some reason. I don't think the blogspot likes PDFs. Sorry Kevin this is as good as it gets.

Covert Magic Tees

We did a couple of tees in celebration of our boys making it to the finals. I forgot to take a picture of the MAgic logo bite. Here is the mock up. It looks really good. The second is a sarcastic Kobe dis. Both are available in the store now.

JUNE NIKE SB and JANOSKI RE -UP

Nike SB JUNE has hit the shelves. Here are the stand outs. The White on White SB Dunk which is Super clean and a nice change for you Air Force one heads.
The Supreme P-Rod is the best this year. Get ready for the three. The Purple Dunk Mid looks way better in person. I like the gold trim and stitching. Last but not least is the Red Blazer Premium. We also got a mini re-up on the Janoskis. See you soon.

Santa Monica Airlines

SMA or Santa Monica Airlines is the newest brand to be brought into the shop. SMA has been around for nearly 30 years. I remember rocking the classic bi plane tee way back. NATAS!!!!!! Here is a brief section taken from their site smaskateboards.com to fill you in on whats going down.

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Our still humble beginnings are still humble after all this time which just proves you can stay true to your core belief system and not lose sight of who or what your are.

We have a few surprises for you this year, including an art show, limited edition 30th anniversary products and a store opening which we will let you know about in due time. Kevin Ancell has stepped up and done some of this 30th art (He did the OG Natas Panther), and we felt that we need to close the circle so we are really pretty happy to have his skills on board again.

SMA worked with Washington Street Skatepark the past two years to help out their free park program. This year to further help them in their fundraising endeavors, we will be making limited edition skateboard decks by the Fall ASR show/party with all the proceeds going directly to them. As this nears, we will let you know where and how to purchase these special decks.

Also if you are in Oz, please help out the Moss Jam people. They have a neat program that can use all the help it can get.

All of the good stuff that happened to SMA this past year happened because of you, our skate partners. Your feedback as to what products we need to make was vital to us. Along with our distributors, you helped us to be here for thirty years. For all of you we have met in person and through email, let me say from us here at SMA we say "THANKS!".

- Thanks for the ride
Skip Engblom
owner
Here are a couple stand out peices from the newest line.

PUSHIN VIII Saturday Night @ BOLD HYPE

Just a friendly reminder about Saturday nights PUSHIN' VIII art show at BOLD HYPE. Its going to be awesome. I saw the boards tonight they look SICK!!!! Here are a few names you might recognize with boards in the show. Andrew Spear, Brice Stephans, David Hoskins, Dennis Hansbury, Jeff Proctor, Quincy Quigg, JILF, Andrew Pomier, Mike Petzel, Fan Cult, KID KOALA and DOLLA BILL. Big thanks to Dolla for letting us impose for a week during his first ever solo show. If you missed Dolla's opening then you need to be here Saturday night. His show looks amazing and is a must see. Below is a little video Patrick Barnes did.
We will have some very limited edition tees available for the event. If the rain stays away we will be filming a skateboarding segment in the parking lot. The after party will be at Stardust with DJ MOT and Johnny Five Mikes.
see you there.

KREW APPAREL

New KREW apparel. Tanks Tees Ball Jersey and some Denim. Come in and get flossed for the memorial weekend.

Supra TK Society and Dixon

Today SUPRA released the highly anticipated Terry Kennedy / Society and the Antwuan "My Shoe is Hard" Dixon.The Dixon is the perfect skate shoe. Simple Clean and a great price point. The TK on the other hand is BIG TIME Chilling with Kanye in the executive VIP shoe. Each shoe comes in two colorways and are must haves.

Consuelo Bellini Art Show

Freshjive

Here are some standouts from the new Fresh Jive line. My personal favorites are Chocolate Cities and Girls That Do, and for those of you who got the Ms. Pacmans we made it easy for you to find that perfect shirt.

May Adidas

I know a lot of you guys have been waiting for some new Adidas so show up and here they are. We got hit with the blue and flourescant orange campus vulcs and the purple gazelle. The gazelle is a great clean shoe and while the campus might seem a little shocking at first it is one to grow on you and looks great with dark blue and black denim.

Nike SB Dunk Low Quickstrike MS. PACMAN

Chomp On this! Nike Dunk Low quick strike for MAY. MS. PACMAN. Come on.

SUPRA NS Tie Dye

After a long wait the Tie Die SUPRA NS SKYTOP has landed. We are taking special orders for the Strapped and Trinity. As you know these are very limited. Get Ready SUPRA is getting ready to come back with a vengeance. Peace.

Nike Dunk Sea Crystal

Well it looks like we forgot to post this months new Nikes. The Dunk Mid Sea Crystal seems to be the must have in the bunch.
Im thinking the Dunk low is a perfect everyday shoe. Blue and Black will match any pair of jeans and a tee.
Lets not forget the Stephan Janoski dropped as well....Super clean and resembles a dock-sider / boat shoe. Comes with leather laces. It will also make you shred like Stefan.