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David

12/06/2012
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Bliss Wheels – Brand Profile

We always like to bring you guys the best new skateboard brands when they’re available in the UK. There’s been a few new one’s in our warehouse lately, the one I thought we’d highlight for you is Bliss Wheel Company. Bliss Wheels are a new skateboard wheel company that launched earlier this year. Based in Sweden and California Bliss are making moves all over the world. With a team of great skateboarders on board like Jesus Fernandez, Mark Baines, Daniel Lebron, Danijel Stankovic you know it’s a legit company. Aswell... Read More

08/06/2012

UK Skateboard Summer Camps – Camp WESC

Long time friend of Native and Fabric Skateboards pro Mark Baines just dropped us a line about his exciting skateboard summer camps he’s running in conjunction with WESC. The camps take place in August in Truro, Cornwall and will be attended by a host of different Pro Skaters. Basic run down of what the camp consists of is accomodation in a Boarding School (with all meals provided) and skateboarding every day at either the Truro Plaza or if rain breaks out Mount Hawke Indoor Park, skating with some of the... Read More

28/05/2012
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Penny Nickel Cruiser Skateboards

This last year there’s been a real upturn in the amount of cruiser skateboards we’ve been selling here at Native. By far the biggest seller for us has been the Penny Original Skateboard. A whole lot of fun the Penny cruiser is a blast from the past. Obviously the Penny Original is an exact replica of their 1970’s skateboard and Penny have decided to make it a big brother, something that’s a little more 2012 than 1970 something. So we introduce to you The Nickel Skateboard from Penny. It’s a... Read More

23/05/2012
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Free Skateboard Stickers

We get a lot of email requests here for Free Stickers daily. We thought stick this blog post up to let you guys know that yes we can provide you with some Free Stickers, all you need to do is send in a Stamped Addressed Envelope to our Newcastle Store. Native Skate Store,  50 Low Friar St,  Newcastle NE1 5UE We will then fill your envelope with stickers and pop it back in the post to you.  

19/05/2012
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Almost 5-Incher Skateboard DVD Premiere

Almost Skateboards latest Video entitled ‘5-Incher’ is due out very soon. Almost have very kindly sent us an early copy of the video to show in store on Saturday June 2nd. We’ll be playing the video all day on that Saturday in our Newcastle store, come along and check it out if you can it look’s like it’s going (see below for a trailer) to be a tech banger! Check out our range of Almost Skateboards…

14/05/2012

New Coffee Shop In Newcastle – Pink Lane Coffee

A quick plug for some friends of ours who’ve just opened a Coffee Shop in Newcastle. Pink Lane Coffee is now open at the bottom of Pink Lane Newcastle, right opposite Central Station. The guys at Pink Lane Coffee really know their coffee, they even roast their own beans out the back. Artwork on the wall (pictured) is by one of our Newcastle local skateboarders Alex Mellon, check it out if you’re passing and let people you know who like coffee know it’s open. You can follow them on Twitter... Read More

12/05/2012
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Dusters Cruisers – New Cruiser Brand

Cruiser sales are picking up fast here at Native, we’re selling more and more skateboard cruisers each week here. A couple of weeks ago we got our first delivery from Dusters California, a great new cruiser brand from the states. Dusters know what’s up in the cruiser world, their Ace Cruiser is one of our best sellers now in just a few short weeks of it being on the website. Check out Duster’s first video below, you can get up to all sorts of things on these babies. My personal... Read More

12/05/2012
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Nike SB Dunk Low ‘Entourage’ Quick Strike

Every now and again, Nike SB send us a special box of shoes, we don’t order them or know they’re coming, they just turn up, they’re always super limited and hot property. Anyway yesterday was one of those days and a box landed in the Native warehouse.  The contents? Well the official title is Nike Dunk Low Premium SB QS Black/Black-White-Gum Medium Brown,  labelled by some the ‘Entourage Dunk’. It is a release of a Dunk Nike sampled last year that ran in conjunction with the now finished HBO TV... Read More

30/04/2012

Native Blog Exclusive – Guy Mariano Interview

The first of a series of exclusive web interviews we’ve conducted for the Native Blog features Girl Skateboards, Fourstar Clothing and Lakai Shoes pro skater Guy Mariano. Check out what Guy has to say below…   1) You have been Lakai for a while now, and since then the team has introduced a few new riders to the roster, does this have much impact on the team dynamic? How do new folk get introduced to the rest of the team? All of the new riders have really solid heads on... Read More

29/04/2012

Best Selling Skate Shoes

Here at Native Skate Store we stock a huge range of Skate Shoes from a whole bunch of great shoe brands. We thought we’d give you an insight into our top five best selling skate shoe styles at the moment. 1, Nike SB Stefan Janoski – Our best selling shoe ever I think, Clean styling with a low profile and a technical Nike Zoom airbag in the heel. 2, Lakai Manchester Select – A low profile vulcanized shoe that skate’s great straight out of the box. Lakai always bring out... Read More