Nimh Woodward Week 2010

I loaded Joey Chase, Jeremy Spira, Montre Livingston and Matty Shrock in my car. Through the sandy roads of the dry hot and brutal desert, we sought solace from the weather by driving at night. This week would be full of endless nights and cloudy dreams. NIMH Week!

NIMH WEEK 2010 – WOODWARD WEST from Jason Reyna on Vimeo.

New 4×4 Brian Shima Wheels Available Now!

Get the new 4×4 Shima Wheels now from your favorite retailer.

Bitter Cold Showdown 2010

This year’s Bitter Cold Showdown was yet again another amazing year of skating, fun, debauchery and drama. It was great seeing so many skaters year after year converging on one spot, killing it and having a blast. Congratulations to 4×4 and Ground Control’s Chris Haffey for taking first place! Also Congrats to the rest of our riders who placed in the top 10. John Bolino (Nimh / Vicious) placed 2nd. Brian Aragon (Ground Control) placed 3rd. Alex Broskow (4×4) placed 4th. Brian Shima (Nimh / 4×4 / Vicious / Ground Control) placed 8th. Jeff Stockwell (Vicious) placed 9th.

The Rat Tail Booth

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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.

The Nimh Shaman Skate

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

Brian Shima’s Nimh East Coast Tour

August 27th: Neglected Truth Thursday night skate with Brian Shima in Philadelphia, PA.

August 29th: Montreal Classic in Montreal, Canada.

September 1st: Shima heads back down to Philly to pickup Jon Jon and
Head up to NYC

September 4th: Autograph signing at NY Flatlines from 6:00pm-8:00pm

September 5th: WRS sanctioned event, Last Man Standing contest

http://www.wheelsinmotionnyc.com

The aNIMHals Europe Tour continued!

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

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.

New Nimh EU Pro Rider and European Team Roster!!!!!

This is a New beginning for NIMH on the other side of the atlantic. NIMH will be setting a NEW standard for rollerblading in Europe! NIMH EU will be building from the ground up.

This is the official team roster for Europe:
Pro:
Oli Short

Am:
Marc “Enanoh” Moreno

Support:
Benni Harmanus
Leon Humphries
Rémy Meister

Flow:
Finocchiaro Anthony
Clement Milot
Bruno Santos
Perttu Tiainen
Paco Rey
Fábio “kanina” Pereira
Martin Walchhofer
Bruno Willemarck
Krzysztof Dziuba
Almants Nedzveckish
Alex Rudolf
Mike Salt
Sam Tuffnell
Matt Chilvers
Petter Dearden

Nimh is also in tour in Europe right now. Check out the flyer below.

Shanghai, China – Day 1 to 3: Asian X-Games

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.

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