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Wheelbase Launches New Web Magazine

Planet Earth - March 21, 2011

Salutations Silverfishers,

I’d like to welcome all of you to the new skateboard magazine dedicated to longboarding: the name is Wheelbase, the site is wheelbasemag.com, and we love shredding.

If you’re wondering who we are, we are you. What I mean is: we are actual dedicated skateboarders who love riding and want to spread the badassery of longboarding to the world.

Our ultimate goal is to grow longboarding on a global scale, and in the longterm (critical concept), by uniting the various and thriving communities that are growing on their own everywhere. We have our work cut out for us no doubt, but Wheelbase is up for the challenge.

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These may be the first words that would come across your mind after having heard Laurent Golay speaking about LGS and his personal story. You would discover a deep passion that drove him to develop his first Longboards in the late 90’s, followed by Slalomboards in early 2000 and finally completing the product line by producing his own Skateboards 6 years ago.

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In this final episode of the Long Treks adventure, Adam Colton makes an escape. Aaron and Paul fuel up on cookies to catch Adam.  The chase is on, but gastro sickness attacks Adam and Aaron and they are too weak to catch him.  The team all gets split up.  The stretches are long with little to no food.  Paul and Adam rejoin and finish the trip to Potosi.  Aaron fights a crazy battle of sickness and gets close to Potosi but gets picked up by a Police officer and gets a ride into town.  The team is finally together in Potosi, eating like Kings...

The Chase and Individual Struggle to Potosi

EPISODE 15 , The Finish.

The ending part of the trip can’t fully be explained in words.  It was a complete struggle for all of us.  Like the world had to throw one more huge obstacle in front of us right before Potosi.  My days skating alone where the toughest days of the trip.  I was so sick, I could only skate for 30 minutes at a time and take a rest and go diarrhea.  I even squirted in my underwear twice, no joke, so I had to put on the underwear that had less filth on it haha, sick I know!  It was painful going.  Aaron had his own horrible struggle, battling intense stomach cramps and squirts, napping on the side of the road to regain strength and motivation. Paul and I eventually rejoined.  It was nuts.  I was sitting in a café eating; I thought I had seen Paul behind me in the distance as a spec before I made my decent into a town.  So I was waiting but, no Paul and a horrible downpour & thunderstorm was going on, I was like crap, those boys are getting dumped on.  Sure enough, an hour or so later I see Paul blazing by the café, I run out and yell to him and he stops.  We are rejoined. Check out more, below.

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