The Nimh Shaman Skate
November 2, 2009 by Jan Welch
Roll the line between good and evil with the new SHAMAN skate from NIMH. Combining mystical properties of strength and style, the SHAMAN features a sleek, new over-skin, the latest NIMH soul plates, new bomb-proof NIMH liner, all stacked on Ground Control FLT2 frames outfitted with high-grade ABEC-5 bearings and 58mm/90a wheels. This is the skate preferred by team riders Montre Livingston, Joey Chase, John Bolino and Brian Shima. From the shadows comes a glimpse of your future… as foreseen by the SHAMAN.
Pre-Book this skate direct from rattail.bigcartel.com or from your favorite retail or mail order shop.
Nimh Shaman Promo Edit from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Jeremy Spira Nimh Shaman Edit from Revolution Skateshop on Vimeo.
Box Promo Shaman from Asphalt Beach on Vimeo.
They look great, I’m sure they will sell like crazy, put more info up on the new liners. Also, is the new skin mostly leather, Kevlar? As an idea, for the next version soul plates, try to add in some wheel wells, maybe just like 3-4 mm indentation to allow for larger wheels if someone’s frames will allow for it. My current setup is V2 boots with Kizer suspension frames, I used a Dremel and drill to put in wheel wells in the soul plate and now i can ride up to 70 – 72 MM wheels easily; they go fast, suspension has absolutely NO problems, and i have been riding this mod for a long time. I’m sure that a lot of people would be thankful and the change would hopefully allow for a slightly larger wheel market and options. If you have any questions please contact me.
- As a last note, I love the orange and black color scheme, definitely fits in with the Nimh image / persona, I love the prominence of the moon, it looks sweet.
Thanks for the feedback. This is not something we can do in the near future because we’ve already invested so much in mold changes. But this is something that could happen after a few more models are released. Thanks!
One Word.
Sold.
Sold.
Im definitely picking up a pair for a self-gift for the holidays.
Can’t wait to get these bad boys! need to see more pictures! Any idea when they are hitting the uk?
so will this nimh have a new boot mold and a sliker look?
Why won’t you be making the souls in other colors again?
pre ORDERED i’ve always wanted a pair of nimh skates but i never had the money until now and the sickest pair i’ve ever seen is coming straight from rat tail! my mind is blown with excitement
They look great.
i’ve got them and there are quite nice! i love them
Seeing the new Nimh advertisement in the latest issue of ONE really made me miss the old Nimh website. I know you have been using a similar advertising motif, but the orange really brought the border out for me this time, and all of a sudden i remembered how awesome the old website was. The owls, the colors, the fluid lines really brought a personality to your advertising on the site, it just rubbed off the perfect persona for the company. I’m sure anyone who had seen the site would agree that it was a major success in attracting people to say either: “Wow, BA, sexy, and powerful, just what i need.” Or, “Wow, this company is different but I’m gonna stick with the conventional…” It helped me to decide, and I’m proud of my decision. It also had more in depth profiles on the team and such All in all, it was amazing and it scared me when you guys took the site down, i called RW, because it concerned me and i wanted to know what was going on, they didn’t know anything, and weren’t even aware of it until i had pointed it out to them. Either way there are still countless links all over the web leading to the Nimh site, and now ALL of them don’t work, I’m positive it would be worth the time and money investment, it really left an impression.
These skates look sick! i really really want a pair!
But you should think about giving montre or oli short a pro skate some time soon…