New Vicious T-Shirts
June 25, 2009 by Jan Welch · 3 Comments
The two new Vicious shirts will be shipping to stores this coming monday. You will be able to find them from your favorite skate shop or order them directly from us at http://rattail.bigcartel.com.
We have change the quality and cut of our shirts for this line. No more box shaped shirts that are uncomfortable to wear. These shirts are extremely soft and the cut fits to your body.
The Psych Cobra shirts is available in brown, blue, black and white. The Fillmore Shirt is available in rbown, black and white. Both are available in sizes S-XL.
Psych Cobra on Brown
Psych Cobra on Blue
Psych Cobra on Black
Psych Cobra on White
Fillmore on White
Fillmore on Brown
Fillmore on Black
The NEW Nimh 2.0 Soul Plates have arrived!!!
June 18, 2009 by Jan Welch · 7 Comments
These are the bad boys everyone has been waiting for, the redesigned Nimh Soul Plates. These feature and inner and outer pre-made groove. These soul plates have been streamlined to have a much more sleek and slender look. The toe has been cut back as well as the heel and the height of the plates walls has come down as well. These are the perfect soul plate. Available only on this website in white. Which means you can RIT dye them to match any color combination you want. Available ONLY at rattail.bigcartel.com Read more
The aNIMHals Europe Tour continued!
June 10, 2009 by Jan Welch · 2 Comments
Brighton, England
At the beach.
Doing interviews for Kingdom Magazine.
On the Brighton Carousel.
Oli loves carnival rides.
A visit to Loco Skates / Montre’s Birthday
Happy Birthday Montre
Cutting the best cake ever.
Montre hanging out on Oli’s front porch in Brighton.
In front of Loco Skate Shop
Hanging out inside the shop.
A visit to Inercia Skateshop in Barcelona, Spain
A huge stack of the new Oli Short Nimh posters awaited us at the shop.
Sweet Nimh banner at the store.
Shima signing autographs.
A signed magazine.
What up?
Oli takes it back to the old school with his new skates.
Cutting edge skate technology.
We tried out every scooter variation the shop had to offer.
Montre tries out some Xsjados
Shima got a care package containing gold bond to keep our feet fresh.
What a good looking group.
Barcelona, Spain Day 02
Amazing old school skatepark.
Barcelona sleeping quarters.
Mike Salt eating shit!
Shima with a sweet air.
Ah Barcelona!
Photo shoot.
Shima signing autographs.
Oli the strongman.
Oli and the art.
Nimh tag.
Marc and Tony ‘i’ve got the best surname’ Cheetah
Marc signing autographs.
Oli likes to fly.
Oli Short backslide to drop.
Oli was forced to re-learn mistys to retain his place.
Shima with a rocket fishbrain straight outta the 90’s.
Movistar Barcelona Extreme Competition
Entrance to the event.
Shima signing autographs.
Montre on the ramp.
Big bad wolf.
Nap time on the metro.
Nimh inspired art.
aNIMHals Barcelona Nimh Tour Stop from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
The aNIMHals Europe Tour
June 4, 2009 by Jan Welch · 10 Comments
DEPARTURE
Oli Short had come to San Diego for a week to hang out at Rat Tail before the Nimh Europe Tour. We all left the same day for Europe. Brian and Montre flew into Paris, with the prospect of an eight-hour train ride to Montpellier for Fise. Oli on the other hand flew back to London to get a nights rest in his own bed and squeeze in a quick music session with some friends at Under the Bridge Studios before spending another month on the road.
San Diego International Airport
Funny plane crew.
Montre getting Cozy on the Train
At the train station.
Viva La France
Montpellier
Hanging out at the bungalow.
Pastis!
Drinking, food, drinking.
Dinner party.
Nuclear Power Plant
Heading to FISE
FISE
Once arriving at Fise, Brian and Montre checked into the Bungalow they would be living in over the next few days, along with Razors and Remz teams, plus special guest Tom Alqvist.
Ben Schwab
More drinking.
Relaxing at the pad.
Legend.
What you need Willis?
Oli Short with an ao makio
Montre Peace Love
At Fise
Gangsta
Shima with an air at Fise
What up?
The audience.
Fun times.
Hats off to you world!
French food, yum!
Big dog, little kid.
Remy Meister
Oli with a soyale on the beach.
Kato and his tour van.
Nimh Team Poster
F you
Frankie Morales
Tom
Oli forking Adam Kola
Oli bs backslide
Living rough with Oli Short and Ben Schwab.
With the bungalow being situated forty-five minutes from town, Ben and Oli decided to stay where the party was going off and stuck around for a 48 hour party with nothing more than, blades, bank cards, booze and swag! Oli captured the night’s events on his phone.
Oli passed out.
Ben Schwab
This was a nice spot
Right under that ramp we slept.
Sleepy time.
Spot 1) after a long night of, dancing, walking and partying, we found refuge underneath the rafters of the ramps. A large flag made a nice blanket for a few hours, before construction kicked in and forced them to find a new hotel room.
Spot 2) Back to the streets,
Spot 3) Newspaper and cardboard boxes! This was like a 5 star hotel compared to spot 1! It was such a nice spot, but unfortunetly the Police woke us up and sent us on our way.
ROAD TO PARIS
We rented a car and headed to Nimes before making our way back to. After the mammoth 9-hour car journey with a skate shop stop and a park session in between we arrived at Eddy’s place in Paris that we would be calling home for the next few days.
Autographs
Signing posters.
Shima with a backslide
Photo time.
Oli with an air.
Montre negative ao mistrial
Skateshop
Nice.
Montre fakie 720
Oli cooling down.
PARIS
Paris consisted of Montre shaking those dreads and dancing his way through the city. He got the hookup at le Bouclard with some of the latest line of artysm clothes in exchange for some photos. Eddy led the Tour de France from spot to spot. NIMH consistently left the French public with confused expressions at every spot we went to. Paris is great because you are able to take the subway from spot to spot
Swag
Asahi!
at the shop.
Signing some mags.
Shima back at Bercy
Montre is pumped.
Fabrice
Montre with a Savanah
Nimh France Headquarters
Architecture
Oli with a fishbrain
Nimh stencil
Nimh stencil
Sleeping conditions.
What?
Some customizing.
Getting ready for the day.
Exhaustion.
Getting stoked on some music.
Lunch.
Shima and Fabrice’s fixie.
Shima training.
Gangsta son.
Oli getting boozy.
Paris nights.
Oli the night rider.
Mod times.
Watch yourself!
Stylin’
Cosa Nastra Skatepark
Shima with some combo action.
Thanks to: Eddy for hooking us up with a place to crash and fresh croissants every morning, Nomades Skateshop, Tam Tam Skateshop, Cosa Nostra Skatepark and all of the kids that came out to see us.
PARIS TO LONDON
After two hours sleep, 4 trains and a flight we finely made it to Liverpool England.
Shima had a close call at customs, after being held up in an interrogation situation with Avaichi from Israel. It turns out that Avi ended up on the same flight as us but had not managed to fill out any of the landing documents required for UK entry, which almost came back on Brian when they came through customs at the same time.
At the airport
Nimh stencil
Nimh stencil
Oli Short
BONEYARD SKATEPARK
After dropping our stuff at the hotel we headed out to the Boneyard in Chester to skate with UK NIMH rider/ Park manager Mike Salt, along with the rest of the Black Death squad. We were all pretty exhausted after a week of minimal food and makeshift beds, but still came through with the hammers. Montre laced countless look back true spins switch and natural plus talking to every kid in the park in between.
Driving to Boneyard.
Snack stop
Shima pissin’
At the shop.
Hanging
Nimh UK
In the van.
Stylin’
Leon Humphries soul to 360
Mike Salt ao acid to ao topacid
Mike Salt ao acid to ao topacid the other way
CHAZ SANDS
A lot of people have turned out for the Chaz, check out www.chazinvite.com and www.be-mag.com for more info on what went down.
