NEW 4×4 Pat Lennen 59mm/91a Wheels
February 9, 2010 by Jan Welch · Leave a Comment
The new Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels are now in stock and shipping. These high quality wheels are perfect for shredding through your city while skating from spot to spot. Enjoy a smooth ride at your favorite skatepark just like Pat does. Get a set of the long awaited Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels right away at rattail.bigcartel.com.
Welcome to Nimh Gabriel Hyden Ad & Promo
We are very happy to introduce Gabriel Hyden to the Nimh Family. We have always been huge fans of Gabriel as a skater and as a person. It is an honor to have him in our ranks. Look forward to more online edits of Gabriel in the future as well as clips in the upcoming Nimh Team Video.
Gabriel Hyden Welcome to Nimh from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Europe Riders @ SlammJamm
November 17, 2009 by Jan Welch · 10 Comments
Last month the legendary SlammJamm contest was held again. This year Oli Short organized getting the whole UK Nimh Team there as well as Marc Moreno from Spain and our newest Nimh Rider from Salzburg, Austria Gabriel Hyden. Download the PDF to see the photos of what went down and read about this event.
The Nimh Shaman Skate
November 2, 2009 by Jan Welch · 12 Comments
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. 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.
Nimh Europe – 3 Days and 7 Hours in Barcelona
May 22, 2009 by Jan Welch · 3 Comments
In the not too distant past Oli called me to say that he would be flying to Barcelona for a short but hard hitting trip to skate and film with NIMHs first official EU Am rider, Marc Moreno. Seemingly hours later we were exchanging dates and getting excited about the prospect of some good weather. Whilst fretting over a tiny amount of money in my account I attempted to figure out how I was going to fit in the trip amongst my other normal weekly commitments and also trying to process the fact that if all the arrangements came together we would be leaving less than 2 weeks after we were having these conversations.
DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE AS PDF RIGHT HERE!
Nimh in Barcelona: Oli Short and Marc Moreno from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Two New Nimh edits for your viewing pleasure.
May 20, 2009 by Jan Welch · 2 Comments
We have uploaded two new Nimh Edits to our vimeo page. The first edit is a day with Adam Brierley with his new Shima V.2s that Brian gave him. The second is from Amsterdam’s Flash Gordon Daan Hegt which features a day of him skating around the city. Read more
Oli Short visits Marc “Enanoh” Moreno in Barcelona, Spain
May 15, 2009 by Jan Welch · Leave a Comment
Oli Short spent three days and 7 hours in Barcelona with Spains Marc Moreno. Check out the full online story on be-mag.com along with the online video. NIMH will be back in Spain in just a few weeks time, as well as France and England, check our European tour flyer for more info.
Very random abandoned place with random shit everywhere.
Art through architecture at the beach.
Behind the lens.
Behind this door was a man dressed like pirate with a parrot on his shoulder
Breaking the bread.
CCTV on a castle wall.
Construction work.
Sweet dreams in Barcelona on the dead end streets.
Early breakfast
Here’s Freddy
Random spot next to the skatespot.
High tide.
Hot Hot Heat
Las Ramblas. Oli, Menero, Sam, Mariette
Live creepy music, howling down the back of the street of Las Ramblas.
Man in the moon.
Menero on Elm Street
Manero
Marc supports FCB football club.
Marc Moreno
Marc’s custo stitched Nimhs.
Marc’s sister’s house . The palce of rest.
Men in the Moon
Menero checking out the roses.
Mini Mouse got dealt with.
Night session
Oli and the Dog
On St. George’s day there are stalls everywhere selling single blood red roses. Marc gets flowers for his mom and sister.
Production
Represent
Rocks
Sam and Marc, at the first spot.
Sand castle sculpture
Sam and Marc at the first spot. This wall is where the fascists shot and executed the republicans during the Franco regime.
Shadows
Spanish Apartments
Spanish meat.
Spanish plates
Spanish window.
The Butler
The metro
The night owl
Tales
Shanghai, China – Day 1 to 3: Asian X-Games
May 13, 2009 by Jan Welch · 6 Comments
Day 01
Brian Shima and I (Jon Elliott) arrived in Shanghai after a gruelling 17 hour trip. Once we landed it was an hour and half cab ride from the airport to the event. After checking in to the hotel we went and got some lunch. We met up with our friend Jacob, who is living in Shanghai, and ventured out to a bar with Chris Fowler, Mike Wilson and Chris Mitchell.
This is the taxi driver who picked us up from the airport. He tried to kill us with his new found driving skills.
Alan (O22y Skateshop) helping us figure out the Chinese cell phone
The metal detectors to get into the Asian X-Games event. They didn’t even work.
Chinese Walmart Supercenter
Edible Chinese Frogs sold at Walmart for lunchtime consumption.
Walmart in Shanghai selling frogs for food from Jan Welch on Vimeo.
World’s cheapest beer at $1.40 a six-pack.
Richie Eisler cracking a mid-day beer.
Getting lunch with Richie.
Sam Fogarty and Brian Shima at the lunch spot.
Mike Wilson and Chris Fowler not so sober in the back of a taxi.
Goot times in the taxi cab.
Jacob is not looking so fresh.
Chris Mitchell distracting the cock-blocker
Jacob trying to figure out where he is at.
Club in Shanghai China, first night in town from Jan Welch on Vimeo.
Art installment of track bikes welded together in the Bund District.
Day 02
Everyone is getting ready for the event today. Most of the street guys are staying sober, except for Sam Fogarty who decided to venture out with us.
Chris Fowler hard at work.
The vert ramp.
Killer K
Sam Fogarty
Soichiro banging in the 8-ball.
Sam getting a light off another cab driver.
Another suicidal cab driver.
The Felon.
Jacob with his friend.
David Yin and myself.
Chris Fowler and me.
Shanghai club night 2 from Jan Welch on Vimeo.
Day 03
Today was crazy. Haffey was on a mission to take first on the street course, which he did thanks to a disaster 540 Kind Grind. It was raining off and on and the vert finals ended up being canceled. After a long day waiting out the rain I was able to head back to the hotel and take a shower. We then proceeded to venture out once more for our friend David Yin’s birthday celebration. It ended up being one of those black out nights…..I really need to tone down my drinking.
The security troop for Asian X-Games getting their morning briefing.
X-Games security.
Rian Arnold
Chris Haffey
The Anderson Family
Crazy motorcycle dude.
Asian X-Games motorcycle jump from Jan Welch on Vimeo.
Fariq from Malaysia
Worapoj Boonnim
Azikwee and his baby.
Takeshi Yasatoko checking the ramp sticker for moisture.
Leaving for dinner.
The waitress at David Yin’s birthday dinner bringing us delicious beverages.
We had a Sushi and Yakitori feast at a nice Japanese restaurant.
Mike Wilson digging in.
Cheers!
David Yin and Andy Wegener.
Mike + ginger.
Chris Mitchell + Sam Fogarty
Uh oh. Me love you long time.
Hanging out at the couches at Paramount Club.
I swear she is old enough. Jailbait?
Cage dancers.
They couldn’t dance at all.
David Yin with a cocktail and a smile.
Chubby. None of these girls spoke a word of English, not even any Engrish.
She was my favorite.
She was my second favorite.
Happy Birthday David!
Cutting the cake.
I should have brought her home to Jan.
Michael Z gets all the ladies.
The skaters.
Flat bottom girls.
I love China.
3rd night out in shanghai from Jan Welch on Vimeo.
At the grocery store: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download At the club: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSix new NIMH edits for your viewing pleasure.
May 12, 2009 by Jan Welch · 3 Comments
We just uploaded six new videos to our vimeo page. Five of the edits were sent by Nimh Supporters and the other is an edit from Portugal shop flow rider Fábio “kanina” Pereira, who rides for roveshop.com. Please join out vimeo channel and start following our updates at http://www.vimeo.com/rattail
Nimh Supporter Edit: Bruce “Juice” Bales from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Supporter Edit: Daniel Breuer from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Supporter Edit: Mike Lyons from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Supporter Edit: Peter Curi from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Shop Flow Edit: Fábio “kanina” Pereira – roveshop.com from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
Nimh Supporter Edit: Isiah England from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.
