Way Back Wednesday

Today’s lesson

CT Skatepark history. 1st opened in the spring of 1977. “Rock Park” was located at exit #17 off RT2 in Colchester. It was an outdoor concrete park consisting of two snake runs that dropped into two deep back to back bowls. There was a large banked “freestyle” area. A small cinderblock building served as the office and “Pro shop”. The concrete surfaces were horribly rough. Which was ironic because as I recall the park was designed and poured by a gentleman who owned a concrete company! Maybe he was better at pouring foundations. The skatepark was only in business for about two years. Many of Connecticut’s pioneering skaters learned to ride concrete at this park. I can remember weekend rides with the six of us in a friends station wagon with skateboard equipment piled in the back. Tommy Owens, the Fanciullo bros, Nick Pedemonti and myself. The founding members of the “Wheelin Free Skateboard Team” But I’ll save that for next week. I stopped at the old location of “Rock Park” last week and took a picture of the site. Today it’s just a pile of sand with some big rocks around the perimeter. It’s now bordered by a Christmas tree farm. You can see it when you are traveling east on Rt. 2, off on the left side of the highway at exit 17........ Craig Pedemonti

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S.K.A.T.E

Tyrant

Tony Tyrant sent me this pic from the lot in Middletown after he ate alittle dirt. Tony and his crew are heavy into the BMX world he takes photos for the shop and a few of Tyrant's riders are on the CE team. Tony and others are in the process of reforming jumps and getting new lines dialed for the Dirt Jam that we will be hosting along with Tyrant soon.  Check out Tony and Tyrant at http://www.tyrantbmx.blogspot.com/

Reb Bull Manny Mania

This Year Red Bull did their Manny Mania contest at the famous street spot in Hartford called "Heaven". It was a very hot day but nothing was as hot as the skating that was being done by everyone. I saw alot of crazy skating yesterday. Zack from the CE skate team entered the comp. and I saw him do some cool variations of tailslides to switch manny and  frontnose to fakie manny. Red Bull had the wildest truck there and the back half of it poped up and turned into a dj booth. Our good friends from Hartford Hardcore were putting up some paint on what will soon be known as Heaven's new urban art wall. Nate Jackson took the win, next stop Woodward Pa. to compete and if he wins that on to the world finals.

Red Bull Manny Mania

This Saturday at "Heaven" Downtown Hartford Red Bull Many Mania is going on it starts at noon. This is going to be an awesome event full of very technical skating. If you’re in the area you have to stop by.

Wednesday Night Ride

Here are a few pictures from our Wednesday night ride this week. We all met up at the shop a little earlier this week and headed out to Colchester for a wild ride. We had a great group of guys riding with us this week. The terrain over there is great fast/hard pack/rocky/with some rolling hills. Lots of forks in the trails so you really need to know where your going or pay very close attention or you might get lost like some people I know. Our rides are every Wednesday weather pending in a different location every week. Let us know if you would like to join us for a ride and we'll include you on our ride email list and let you know where we will be going every week.

Shoe Sale

Come and get em'

Way Back Wednesday

Rodney Mullen

Way Back Wednesday this week is dedicated to Rodney Mullen. Rodney Started skating in 1974 and 9 months later he was sponsored. He has only lost one competition in his life and he placed 2 due to a cold. Even though Rodney skates mostly street/flatland he has even won a vert comp. back in the day. In 1992 Rodney and Steve Rocco started World Industries, than in 2002 he created Almost skateboards and in 2003 he wrote a book titled "The Mutt: How to skateboard and not kill yourself" Rodney is a very positive person who is still skating and designing new innovative skateboard decks such as Uber Construction, He has inspired us greatly. He's been by the shop a few times and we hope to see him again.

Rodney Mullen Skateboarding Tricks Invented:
•Flatground Ollie
•Godzilla Rail Flip

•540 Shove-it

•50-50 Saran Wrap

•Helipops (360 Nollie)

•Gazelles

•No Handed 50-50 Kickflip

•Heelflip

•Double heelflips

•Ollie Impossible

•Sidewinders

•360 Flip

•360 pressure Flip

•Casper 360 Flip

•50-50 Sidewinders

•One footed Ollie

•Backside 180 Flip

•Ollie Nosebones

•Ollie Fingerflip

•Airwalks

•Frontside Heelflip Shove-its

•Switchstance 360 Flips

•Helipop Heelflips

•Kickflip Underflip

•Casper Slides

•Half Flip Darkslide

•540 double kickflip

•Caballerial impossible

•Half-cab kickflip underflip

•Handstand flips
•Rusty slides

•Kickflip

PUB RUN

I want to thank everyone who came to Middletown to ride with us on Go Skateboarding Day. It was a great turn out.This is a crapy video clip of a good hill with many great riders going down it on avrg going 40 to 45mph. Afterwards we pushed about 2miles into town with a few nice hills here and there for a couple beers. Can't wait to do it again

PUB RUN

June 21st Go Skateboarding Day
Come join us in Middletown for our first annual Pub Run. You need to be at least 21 years of age. We will be meeting up at the top parking lot of  Middlesex Community College at 8pm and riding a few miles down to Main St. Middletown for some beers. Come check it out, all the cool kids are doing it.

104 Fest

Rick and I got a chance to go post up at the radio 104 block party this past friday night. We ended up having an awesome time. Along with us we brought one of our skaters Mel up with us and he ended skating for the duration of the day.killing it. I dont know how he has soo much energy. The music was good talking to drunk people ehh not so good but somtimes funny. Rick got a chance to get on stage with the band Edison and throw out some t-shirts into the crowd. And one real wild mother ended putting in some work for her free tee. Wild night look forward to doing it again.  Ryan

Round Two

Also in today is the second half of our Adidas order consisting of the Silas in brwn/wht  and the Campus low in blue/wht

Transition Double

SLOPESTYLE/DJ/4X


4"/100mm Rear Wheel Travel
The Double is the perfect choice for those on a mission to progress what can be done on a mountainbike. The Double has the perfect amount of rear suspension, incredible standover for throwing tricks and balanced geometry for ultimate confidence in the air. The Double's angles also make it a great 4x and dual slalom rig due to is responsive nature. We just got one build up this morning, it looks great, I like blue paint alot, Come check it out for yourself.

Keeping The UnderGround Lit

                 Vans-X-Spitfire

Just got these Vans Chukka Low and AV6's in today. Vans did these styles limited with Spitfire and they look sick.

Way Back Wednesday

We dedicate this Way Back Wednesday to Steve Caballero who for decades has not slowed down or even thought about stopping. His style has inspired countless amounts of skaters and his signature shoes sold millions. Have You Seen Him? Steve was sponsored after only one yea of skateboarding, rode with the Bones Brigade in the 80’s, And even invented several tricks most popular being the “Caballaerial” Steve is a real positive guy that says he still loves skateboarding as much as he did when he started.

A.D.I.D.A.S

We just got our first Adidas order in today!     We got the Campus low blk/wht and the Busentiz in maroon/wht,stuff looks tight come see it for yourself!!

OFF THE WALL

New Vans Apparel!              It's monday here at the Cutting Edge and we just got in a big order of really really good looking apparel from Vans. Basic Off The Wall tees in a bunch of different colors. We also got in a couple of cool different plaid shirts, Denim in blk, dark indigo, Shorts in blk/gry and we even got some new Starter, and New Era hats.  Come in check it out,try it on and take it home.

Radio 104 Fest

Rick and Ryan will be up at the block party this friday in hartford with these coupons find them at the CuttingEdge booth and you can have one.Hope to see you there.

John Cardiel

Never Forget about Cardiel.

BEN BODYCOAT

Ben Bodycoat repin the Edge hard down at Plattekill. Ben is riding a new Kona Stabb Delux and he's riding for the CuttingEdge and has been on a flow program with Kona. Ben is 12 years old and killin it, making it out to just about every major east coast downhill race. One of the youngest in his class riding against guys 6 and 7 years older than him and still coming out towards the top of his class every race. We look forward to seeing more riding from Ben goodluck on your season Ben......CE

DropTeaser

I can not wait to see this movie. The hills these guys are riding look like sooo much fun.

Reynolds 3 Sale!

Emerica Reynolds 3

                             Sale!!
Come in from now till Monday June 21st for your chance to save 15% off any of these Reynolds 3's.

Longboards!!

Here's a look at some new longboards we just got in from Globe a couple have a cool foam top sheet for riding barefoot. We also have Loaded boards on the way,And longboards from Never Summer shipped and on the way.We'll let you know when we get those in too.  

Skate 3: Intro Film

Just picked up this game watched the intro and thought it was great. With the rain coming tonight chances are I'll still be skating just not outside.

Skate-A-Palooza

Rick and I went over to the Glastonbury skate park this past Saturday for Skate-A-Palooza witch is an annual contest that goes on at the park hosted by Hoodlum Skateboards The CuttingEdge and the Glastonbury Park and Rec. department. I had to judge the event with John from HDLM and it was pretty tough. A lot of kids ended up entering this year. First place went to a local skater Jared who had landed just about every trick he tried and very close behind him was David who was matching up with him so we needed a tiebreaker. Jared stomped a lot of tricks off the side of the bank ramp to win it. Thanks to everyone who helped out and showed up to check this event out. Ryan

From Milford to Maloof

Got a chance to go down to Queens NY on sunday to check out the Maloof Money Cup with John Cassandra of Hoodlum Skateboard co. And Andrew of Skateors mentoring. It was definatly a crazy long day that was packed full of sick skating. Largest cash prize ever  given away at a skateboard event, 100,000 that ended up going home with Chris Cole of the Zero team. 2nd went to P-Rod and third went to Torrey Pudwell. We left out of Milford around 9am and ended up getting to Flushing Meadows around Noon. Got there right on time to watch the Am. finals and time to find a solid seat on the bleachers. The weather ened up holding out right untill the final round was done then it downpoured.  The three of us ended up hiding under a tree for a bit and when it slowed down we made a dash for the subway station and started our voyage home. All in all amazing day with good people.Ryan

Transition Covert

ALL MOUNTAIN/ENDURO

5.9"/150mm Rear Wheel Travel

"We call the Covert our quiver killing bike. Designed with the manners of quick lightweight trail bike as well as the capability to shred more aggressive lines, the Covert is a great option for those looking for one bike to tackle a multitude of riding disciplines".TBC.  And we just got one in!