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Outlaw Skateboards/Dan Pinder

Outlaw Skateboards is the first (non-Memphis) full page advertiser in luchaskate magazine.  Check out this flow rider from the company.  He wears long socks.

Don't forget the photo contest for the cover of issue 2 on our flickr group.
Oh, and 10 days and counting to the Memphis issue of Luchaskate.

Mike L. Appreciation Day

Rad day celebrating the ambassador of stoke in Memphis, TN, Mike Lasiter.  Tobey Park, a little lunch and off to skate the MLK Monument in downtown Memphis.

Mike Lasiter and Pat Rakestraw taking a break at Tobey Park

Monument ride

Luchaskate Photo Contest etc... UPDATE

Issue one is almost finished, and will be out very soon, and we're thinking about the cover of issue 2 already.  So, here's the deal:

We're going to give two lucky (read: talented) people the opportunity to supply our next cover image.  What do you do?  Well, one of you has to skate.  The other has to take the picture of the skating, and email it to us. The contest will be open from today (July 20th) until August 15th.  On August 16th we'll post the five finalists we select to a blog post and our facebook page. We'll listen to the feedback each image gets, and we'll have our final judge (a professional photographer) make the decision.

Here are the rules (terms and conditions):

1.  No photoshopping something or someone into the image.
2.  It better at least look like a make and not posed.
3.  You, the photographer, must have permission to use the person's image.
4.  You have to write two paragraphs telling about the image and why you took it.
5.  You must be 18 or over to enter.
6.  No nudity.

How to enter.  Join our contest page on flickr, and upload your image.  Here is the link: Luchaskate Photo Contest flickr

So, get out there, skate and create (and like us on facebook)!

Update:

I have spots left for advertisers.  $100.00 gets you a full page ad in 3 (count em 3) issues (the upcoming issue and the next two).  email luchamag@yahoo.com for questions.  This deal won't last long.

Also, we have stickers available to order directly from us:

Just go to our sticker page and pay via paypal.  Stickers are 1.00 each (plus .50 shipping per order).  More stickers and other goods will be here soon.

Cover V 1.1

Sneak peek.  Less than two weeks away from the first issue.  The first cover. Wrex Cook.

Hey, we're on facebook now! Like us here.

Deadline July 18th

Deadline for submissions to the first issue of luchaskate magazine is July 18th.  Email your submissions to luchamag@yahoo.com.  The first issue focuses on the Memphis scene.  Issue 2 will include Little Rock and other areas.  Each issue we hope to reach a wider audience.  Blue Collar.  Skate Life.

Chris Jay of Rufus Skates at Kanis.  Look for Kanis in issue 2 of luchaskate and Rufus Skates in issue 1.

New Luchashirt Update

The new luchashirt design is finished and preorders are being accepted.  The shirts will cost a mere $10 this time thanks to a generous screenprint professional, and the profits from the sale of the shirts will be donated to the Hernando Skates skatepark project spearheaded by the one and only Edward Pidgeon.  Show your support for concrete (and advertise a locally based 'zine/blog).  You can get in touch with me by posting a comment on this blog or by emailing luchamag@yahoo.com.  Pre-orders will be available until July 15th.

Luchashirt designer and luchaskate photographer Lindsey shows the transparency

Original Art by Lindsey Rowland

New Luchashirt design in the works

Lindsey Rowland is working hard on the next luchashirt.  Profits from the first run of this shirt will benefit the Hernando Skates efforts to get a skatepark in Hernando, MS.  Thank you Lindsey for your hard work, time and talent in making these shirts happen.

Wrex Cook

The future first issue of Luchaskate Magazine's cover star, Wrex Cook, killing it (as always).

TN Outlaw Invitational

This happened this weekend.