In September 2014 Converse CONS and Labor Skateshop invited the crew down to New York to take part in their one day skate contest All City Showdown. The goal is to get as many clips as possible in one day, all within New York City limits. The crew was supposed to be Kevin Coakley, Nickodem Rudzinski, and Lurker Lou, but Lou threw out his back the day before. Cape Cod homie and current team rider Brian Reid happened to be in the city for a Damn Am contest, but he bailed on the skatepark to join the crew in the streets. The crew ended up getting 3rd place and Brian and Nick got some extra prize money for bonus radness. Labor already put out an edit with all of the entries so we decided to do a re edit of the day. This rough edit has been lurking in our private videos, and when we went to clean it up all of the original files had gone missing. So here’s some extra rough rough cuts.
Eric Dasaro Lost & Found
Back in 2014-15 Orchard team rider Eric Dasaro was working on an HD part for a video that Cuong Ngo was putting together. Unfortunately that whole project never fully materialized, but out of nowhere CN blessed us with this 3 minute edit of Eric linking lines at some classic Downtown Boston spots.
Broderick Gumpright – 2015 SmlTalk Lifetime Achievement Award
The boys over at SmlTalk.com put on an amazing Boston Skate Awards show every year, and they gave shop co-founder Bro Gumpright the Lifetime Acheivement award in 2015.
….searching…. Introducing Brian Reid to Orchard
Orchard Skateshop is incredibly stoked to announce Brian Reid as the newest Orchard team rider! Hailing from Cape Cod, Brian skates with that spontaneous spark and has the classic East Coast combination of power, grace, speed, and flavahh.
Leftover Soup – Orchard Skateshop
Leftover footage that never made it into Orchard’s 2014 shop video offering Stone Soup. Featuring Eric Dasaro, Broderick Gumpright, Armin Bachman, Lee Berman, Tommy Wisdom, Ray Echevers, Nate Keegan, Ian Coughlan, James Nickerson, Erik Pickard, Phil McCormick, Small Paul Collins, Rob Collins, Tim Jarman, Eastie, Justin Maruco, Rob Hall, Billy Campbell, Jeff Valcourt, Bill Orsi, Lurker Lou Sarowsky, Jad Angel, Mike Leslie, Dillon Buss, Frankie Nash, Nickodem Rudzinski, and Fritz Mead.
Allston Christmas 2016 – Orchard Skateshop
Boston is world renowned as a college town, with over 100 universities and 250,000 students. Because of this, 70% of the city’s apartment rentals have a September 1st move in date, and anyone that has experienced this first hand understands the madness involved every year. Featuring Sean Anderson, Frankie Nash, Brian Reid, Stevie Hamblin, Tim Savage, Aidan Chenard, Liam Annis, Emmet Beiler and Emmet Breslin.
Vans & Orchard Present Boston Go Skateboarding Day 2016
In association with Vans we hosted the 2016 Boston Go Skateboarding Day Skate Jam on Tuesday June 21st at the Lynch Family Skatepark!
Fancy Lad Invades the Orchard Conservatory at POP Allston
The Fancy Lads Dylan “Pug Wizard” Jones, Abe “Orange Man” Dubin, Eric Belhumer, Matt Tomasello, Tate Kokubo, and Nick “Big” Murray skate Orchard Skateshop’s free park.
Motzart of The Ipad – Mark Gonzales Film Screening at Orchard
On Saturday December 26th the one and only Mark Gonzales visited Orchard Skateshop for the first ever public screening of his iPad short films in the Extension Gallery!
SOFTHITS Vol. 2 – Shake U Down
Orchard Skateshop presents Nickodem Rudzinski, Brian Reid, Eric Dasaro, Dillon Buss, Emmet Bleiler, Ariel Perl, Brian Delaney, Garret Daly, James Nickerson, Robbie Fogarty, and Jack Embry.
Allston Christmas 2015
Boston is world renowned as a college town, with over 100 universities and 250,000 students. Because of this, most of the city’s apartment rentals have a September 1st move in date, and anyone that has experienced this first hand understands the madness involved every year. Featuring Stevie Hamblin, Frankie Nash, Tim Savage, Ray Trotta, Ryan Stiffler, Alex Pickard, Steve House, and Jeff Valcourt.
Orchard X Converse CONS Boston Go Skateboarding Day
After a rainout weekend Orchard Skateshop held their Go Skateboarding 2015 event with Cons at the Chinatown Courts.