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Our buddies Arbor Collective in Venice California just released a new line of longboards. Maybe you need one of these new rides to cruise through your personal chill zone with? Learn more about the collection HERE >>>
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Stay Wild // Gift Guide
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It's the Jollydaze again and we're here to help with the Gift Giving. Here are a couple ideas of goods we think are good to give. We'll have more gift ideas every week in December, so keep checking in.
Burton // burton.com
Some of us have been Man Wolfing for so long our ski masks have grown too stinky to wash. Burn your old mask on a rooftop under a full moon and get a new one to howl through.
Joliet Balaclava // $24.95
Alite Designs // alitedesigns.com
This is not a solo situation. You need an adventure buddy to walk around with in these fluffy knapsacks. That’s why they zip together!
Sexy Hotness Sleeping bag // $179
Snow Peak // snowpeak.com
When we hugged it felt weird. Then you pulled the collapsable metal camp stove out of your shirt pocket. We hugged again and it felt way better. We boiled water for tea on a windy Californian island and it was ready in about three minutes. I fell in love with this stove. I could see why you keep it in your shirt pocket, closer to your heart.
GeoShield Stove // $115.95
Proof // iwantproof.com
“See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me
And no one knows, how far it goes
If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me
One day I’ll know, how far I’ll go” — Moana
Grove // $130
Arbor Collective // arborcollective.com
The sweetest part of this board is the environmentally friendly, sugar-based urethane formula in it’s wheels.
Pilsner Solstice // $150
Vans // vans.com
“It’s raining, it’s snowing, rise up and get going.” - Brother Goose
SK8-HI MTE // $90
Kodama Zomes // kodamazomes.com
Climb into my peace dome. Let’s eat salad and learn about survival from the ferns growing off the thousand-year-old trees above us.
Hanging Lounger // $5,4000
GoPro // gopro.com
Drones are the new JetSki©. Super-annoying, peaceful-moment-destroyers, but also awesome if you’re the one playing with it. Just like the JetSki© and other brands of boatercycle, drones should be used responsibly. GoPro’s drone is not just a drone. You can use the steady-cam, backpack strap mount, and tiny waterproof camera to capture moments without buzzing around dronnoying everyone.
Karma // $1,099
Cuban Skate & Sustainability
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Story & Photos by Dylan Christopher // @Dielan
Skateboarding is incredibly popular in Cuba, however the country faces one small problem: they can’t import skateboards.
This last spring the foundation I work for, Elemental Awareness, was invited to Havana to link up with fellow nonprofit Cuba Skate. The plan: bring as many boards and shoes down that the airline would allow, help build a DIY skate park in Havana, and do some board-making workshops with the locals to help promote sustainable skateboarding on the island.
Skateboarding in Cuba is still in its infancy; it‘s still pure and undistracted by the industry and the promise of glorious sponsorships. These kids skate solely because they want to, because they love it. However skateboards are limited, and when one breaks you could go months without a replacement. Our friends at Cuba Skate are working to change that by hand-carrying hundreds of skateboards over to the island multiple times a year.
Miles Jackson, the co-founder of Cuba Skate, is careful about how he distributes product; he believes that a culture based entirely on charity cannot sustain itself indefinitely, so he’s set up a merit based system where local skaters can earn product by working at a DIY skate park they’re constructing at an abandoned military gymnasium. Carry rocks for an hour, here’s a board. Pick up trash all afternoon, here’s a pair of shoes. This system seems to work in the social construct of a communist country. Everyone works, and everyone’s needs are met (for the most part).
After a few days working on the DIY in the hustle and bustle of Havana we decided to take a tour of the countryside to a small tobacco-farming town called Viñales. The Cuban countryside is amazing: limestone cliffs covered in palm trees, like a scene from Indiana Jones. I half expected to see Harrison Ford running through the forest dodging blow darts, golden idol in hand—but unfortunately I didn’t.
We hiked up to the base of a mountain that someone knew had a cool cave, and were quickly informed that we had to pay some guy to chauffeur us into the cave. This ensued a rather heated debate over whether this was fair, I mean, we are in a communist country, don’t these mountains belong to everyone? In the end we agreed to pay him, which was 100% the right call, because as far as caves go this was a black diamond (at least for a group of non-spelunking skateboarders). Total darkness, we stripped down to our underwear and swam through shoulder-wide caverns, occasionally being warned to “not fall down that hole, or you’ll die.” We were losing it, this was one of the coolest things we had ever done.
On the ride home everyone fell asleep but me and the driver of our Maquina, a stereotypical pre-Cuban-revolution American car from the ‘50s. Another driver on the road threw some insulting hand gestures out the window signaling that our car was very slow. This prompted a street race which I was certain would end in my death. Fortunately it didn’t, and the only thing that died was the opponent’s car, when his transmission fell out onto the freeway, sparks a-blazing. We laughed all the way back to Havana.
Get involved // @ElementalAwareness // @Cubaskate
Club House Party
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Last weekend we had a release party at Aloha Beach Cub. You should have been there! It was one of the best times ever. The Lulls played, Scrappers had a tiny art show, people painted new art with Hawaiian hala tree seeds, and our Alohala collab shirt with Aloha Beach Club came out. Oh, plus lots of happy people grabbed the new issue while they sipped Brew Dr. Kombucha and Mucho Aloha!
The lovely Sera Lindsey took plenty of photos. Check them out. Hope to see you at the next party!
