Ron has many youtube videos with interesting tips and projects for all types of wood working projects
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News and Events
Board Building and technology
In a Moscow classroom, Denis Piskunov combines hand-made board building with high-technology tools to give his students a well-rounded education.
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Builder Profile: Endgrain Surfboards
Endgrain Surfboards has a distinctly different look to their boards!
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Teacher Profile: Marcus McKinnon in Australia
My goal for this unit was to show students how timbers could be manipulated into curved shapes and how that might be used in everyday society.
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Real World Results in Education
Co-teacher Lauren Hortie manages a 96% success rate among the at-risk students in her high school.
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O'Brien Guitars features the TUG product
Robbie O’Brien demo’s the Roarockit TUG vacuum laminating kit!
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Builder Profile: Pacific Stoke Boards
Jamie has reconfigured his life to follow his passions and is designing and making skateboards under his own Pacific Stoke Boards brand.
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Home Schooling in Arizona
Crawl out of that box and give them real world skills to be proud of and carry on to adulthood!
Home-school mom Debbie Gillespie encourages other educators to get creative!
Student Success at the Oasis Skateboard Factory
Students who were failing with traditional school programs are now doing well at this TDSB alternative school. (Daily Vice video)
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Chill inspires youth!
Through snowboards, standup-paddle boards and skateboards, CHILL engages youth in Toronto.
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Team Profile: Svoi Doski Powdersurfs
Making Powdersurfs in Russia!
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Builder Profile: Lee Thomas and LAYO Longboards
"I had a Roarockit vacuum bag for veneering various drawer fronts on my furniture and noticed that the box mentioned skateboard building. I looked up your website, which is a wealth of knowledge, and purchased a 20x70 bag and 3 sets of veneer"
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Builder Profile: Stephanie and her Wittleboardz
They're "travel-size" boards!! "Ride 'em and Hide 'em" is our motto. Wittleboardz will get you where you're going & when u get there, slide them in your backpack & zip it up as if they were never there!
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Teacher Profile: Beau Trifiro, Open Source Skateboards
"In my programs, we don’t do math and science just for “practice” – we actually use it to create our boards." says Beau Trifiro of his STEM/STEAM programs.
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Skateboard builds on TV news in France
Sarah and Nico of Roarockit.eu were interviewed while leading a build session at the Urban Cultural Week in Bruge, France
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Teacher Training Testimonials
Some testimonial comments from our last group of trainees!
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Train-the-Trainers Session - a look at what goes on
During Train-the-Trainer sessions, everyone builds a board and picks up useful tips and tricks from our experts, for teaching their own custom board building classes.
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The Youth are Revolting!
Rebellious Youth and Teen Stereotypes is the theme of this years art show featuring Lil'Rockit custom skateboards and the designs of some of Toronto's coolest artists!
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How do you inspire an 8th Grader?
Andy Hahn at KIPPLA in east Los Angeles, makes good grades a prerequisite for building their own skateboard before the end of the school year.
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DIY at Flywood in Russia
DIY custom board building sessions are going strong in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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