Sunday, November 15, 2009
November 14, 2009
In non-Mike related news, T Little broke his board on what would've been an epic double flip over a bump to gap. Despite multiple sticks, the roll away slipped through his grasp and left him dirty and in a state of self pity. Luckily he got a single flip kick so at least he has that to show for himself. Next time fool!
P.S. We got some footy but it was horrible, even by blog footy standards.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
October 31st, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 - Bittersweet
Then I spotted some stairs and persuaded Trey he could kick the fuck out of them. He came pretty close and threw his body down the 9 multiple times to only walk away with a hesher roll away and a broken board along with bruised heels. I could see in his eyes he'd had enough. He was a big enough trooper to stick it out a it longer and film Sam and I try to skate some blue wooden benches that went a cross a grass gap. I almost got a backside fiver, but my speed was diminished by the end of the ledge. From there, we had to go face the music and drive home to retrieve Trey's impounded whip. We were supposed to stop by Guitar Center to get Sam, aka Chris Carraba, a new guitar. I was burnt out and had to be home for dinner so I opted out of that detour. When we arrived at the fucking lame-ass Paxton Towing shithole, things unfolded for the worse. While Trey was waiting for his paper work to be processed, he notices a little green Tacoma lurking in the impound lot. Turns out that was Sam's. So Sam had to fork over his guitar money to get his shit out. Once again, I felt shitty (probably not to the same extent though. I will get you back somehow, someday for that homie). So like I said, today was bitter sweet. Sweet in regards to our crew being back together and having fun and landing tricks, but bitter cause there were some injuries and a lot of money lost.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday October 4, 2009
We then moved on to my favorite spot, the H Street spot, which was shut down over the summer, but is fully skateable again. Thank God! I did a little two trick run at the bars and a fakie shuv to manny into a little wedge ramp we set up inspired by Bobby Puleo’s part in Static 2. I’m all about dropping references in this blog. I had fun though. Maybe our crew will be solid again in the up coming weeks and we can get some serious work done, all for fun or course.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
September 12, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
September 06, 2009
Today we started out downtown. We went to go hit up a wallride at a dilapidated building, only to find that shit had been leveled. Great. Strike one. Then we went to this green box spot where I dreamed of doing a back tail big spin out. Ha! I could barely get on the fucking tail, and that stressed me out quite a bit, which doesn't take much these days. Luckily Sam came through with a switch crook to regs. I snapped a pic, but no footy fool.
Then we hit up a ledge spot in Linda Vista. It woulda been fun, but it was blazing and I had a headache. Sam smithed the fuck out of the high ledge though. That was pretty much it.
So then we headed up to Garfield Elementary where I summoned my board to meet up with my feet after a fakie shuv so that we could go into a manny. That shit showed up but took off immediately and forced my ass into a bit of a fall that severely bruised my ego and my shin. I didn't want to give up on the spot so I started trying a fake backtail big spin. I failed at that and ended up just doing a shuv out. Whatevs.
I dropped Sam off at his whip and he was gracious enough to follow me to the ledge behind Vons where I miraculously landed a backside to fakie pivot grind and nose grind. Well, not really the nose grind but the pic looks sic and will take up space on the page to make it look like I am tighter then I really am. That's it.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
June 26th & July 4th, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
June 20th, 2009
So, today and last Sunday, Mike and I ventured back in to the fatherland, the High School. We were filming for the new 9five commercial. From what I've seen so far (Mike's shown me some teasers) it's looking pretty tight. Actually, it's sounding pretty tight fool. I'm excited to see it hit the streets. Basically, these last two weekends have been strictly business. But today for a brief moment, Mike and I were able to shrug of our duties and skate for fun for a moment. I took some pics and here they are.
oh, and the homie Trey fool, he like cut fool. Straight peaced it and went to go live off the grid up in Fresno. We will be seeing you homie! Hopefully.
Mike says "its like 80s thrashin meets ipath meets AVE" I'm coming up!
Friday, June 5, 2009
May 29th, 2009 DC Welcomes the Bomb Ass Crew
Saturday, May 23, 2009
May 23rd, 2009
May 16th, 2009 PART 2
Thursday, May 21, 2009
May 16, 2009
Possibly the ugliest picture of me ever.
Friday, May 8, 2009
May 08th, 2009
Part 1
Part 2 (fucking shit keeps on cutting off the last try! I fell hard fool!)
Sunday, April 26, 2009
April 25th, 2009
Here is what was supposed to go down: bring shit, film skateboarding. However, in this case, the skateboarding relied on the shit. The first sign of trouble came when I was placed in charge of bringing a ladder and a barbeque. I got a barbeque hooked up, but a ladder? Not so much. Here’s what Mike told me in regards to a ladder “Trey says he has one. But you’re in charge of making it appear fool! Standard responsibility of a graphic designer.” Yep, that’s what it says in most graphic design job descriptions: MUST BE ABLE TO PRODUCE LADDERS. Anyways, I knew Trey wasn’t gonna have a sick enough ladder and I was so right fool! I rolled up to his shit and was like “Where’s the ladder fool?” He was like “Over here fool.” And I saw it and was like “Naaaaaah fool! That shit ain’t gonna work fool!” We stood there kinda staring off in space pretending like we were trying to think of an alternative. Then we were just like, fuck it, let’s bring it anyways.
About 45 minutes later, Trey and I were in O-side aimlessly driving in circles looking for our destination. I pointed out Transworld's old headquarters to Trey…he was soooo bummed fool. Like when you tell a little homie Santa ain’t real and shit. I was like “You ain’t hyped fool?” He definitely was not hyped. I think he was expecting something like the headquarters in "The Devil Wears Prada" or some shit. Anyways, we finally found Mike and The Hoff at the spot with gear in tow. Again, just at the sight of these two standing there gave me cause for alarm. Mike was kinda scratching his head taking inventory off all the equipment scattered about and The Hoff was on his cell phone nervously pacing around. Anytime a homie is nervously pacing ain’t no good. So we got the scoop. Homie didn’t come through with the slingshot. Basically, the homie Hoff was gonna hook up some crazy ass slingshot to whip his ass up this crazy ass ditch. Needless to say, without this contraption, the event would most definitely be canceled.
So, while the homie was trying to coordinate his homie to come through with the thing, we straight chillin’. We were chillin’ sooo hard. We had a 24 pack of Coors Lite which immediately ignited hella controversy. Trey called out Mike saying Coors Lite is straight up bro-beer and we need something a little more gutteresque, like Pabst. We thought about getting some that generic beer that just said Beer. Whatever, we held our heads down in shame and cracked open so many sick ass Coors Lites. I was hyped after that and started PMing like crazy! I was like “Yo! Film this shit. This shit is tight!” We had 3 homies on set with cams worth more than my life.
We filmed everything we could possibly film without the big ass rubberband and at last there was no option but for some homie to drive up to Huntington to grab that shit. We was like “Who goin?” We were all sorta lookin at each other and looking at the ground scratching the back of our necks wondering who was gonna man up to the task. Luckily for me, just as I was about to say, “Alright fuck it! I will go,” which I think I actually did say but my mumbling finally paid off cause nobody heard me and Mike and Jay volunteered, even though Mike claimed he was too buzzing to drive. I was like, whatever fool, I’ma gonna be chilllllllin’. So him and Jay cut and we fired up the BBQ. Mike brought some carne asada and tortillas, which is ironic since he doesn’t eat the meat or myself or Trey. But Mike was determined to eat that shit. Him and Jay took off and we noticed the meat had been chillin' in the sun for at least 3 hours. Now I'm no meat expert, but I'm guessing that's not a good thing and I didn't want to end up like the dude in "Into the Wild" and have a swarm of flies eatin up the shit. So we fired up the grill. We had lots of tortillas and Hoff took charge of the carne. By this time, it was 2 or something and Trey and I had to cut out at 3. So I was like, fuck it. I'm packing the grill up. I texted Mike and was like "Aye fool! I saved you in your moment of weakness! Better go get some salad or some shit cause you ain't eatin no meat cause I packed that shit uuuuup yo!" Motherfucker was reading my text with carne asada beef jerkey dangling out of his mouth! My efforts went in vain.
So Mike and Jay rolled up around 2:30 with the slingshot. They hooked that shit up and the excitement started. That thing is so fucking crazy. I and Jay had to help pull the bungee back with Hoff to get that shit nice and tight. When we let go, motherfucker went flyin'! He had to squat a little to stabalize himself. It was really a sight to be seen. I woulda stunted the fuck out of that thing too, but my ankle is still hella jacked fool! Keep your eyes out for the 9five commercial and behind the scenes footy that will validate the legitamacy of this blog posting.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
April 18th, 2009
Check out the new intro!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
April 11th, 2009
Usually when we go skating, it’s pretty straight forward. We meet up, get in the car and go skate somewhere. Usually. This last Saturday was a bit of an exception. Mike was down to skate. He usually just films, but this time he decided to actually skate with us, which is ironic considering he didn’t have a skateboard. For most people, this huge obstacle would ultimately lead to a day of sitting at home on the internet. However, Mike has a miraculous way of materializing setups. I don’t know how he does it! Homie’s had more skateboards than I can count. The best part about his setup this weekend was he rolled up with brand new trucks without nuts on the end of them! How the fuck are you gonna roll up with no nuts on your shit? I like how Trey described him…”Mike’s a wild card.” So true.
So after watching him stumble through trying to get his piecemeal setup in tact and realizing he had no nuts, we decided to go to Lowes. At the time this seemed like a pretty good idea. We got there and Mike found some galvanized nuts and Trey insisted they wouldn’t work. I found some nuts that I insisted would. After spending four bucks and feverously trying to get his new nuts on his shit, he decided he would have to go with the galvanized and have to return his purchase. Somehow, between walking to the car, and walking back into the store, he managed to lose one of the nuts he was trying to return, as the cashier pointed out. Once again, for most people this would mean retracing their steps in hopes of finding said missing nut. For Mike though, his only rational choice was to go back into the store, open a new pack of nuts, take one out, and replace it in his bag, and go back to return it. Despite his brilliant scheme, the store manager was on to his tricks and said there is no way he would return stolen property. Ha! Motherfucker don’t know Mike. After creating a bit of scene over the 4 dollar nuts, Mike was able to hook up some dope ass galvanized nuts on his shit and after almost 2 hours of trying to get his shit together to skate, we were on our way.
Our goal was to skate the school off Euclid Sam and I skated last weekend. When were driving on the 94, Sam spotted the spot with three benches in a row that people do manny combos on. We were hyped to skate it and were there for pretty much the whole day. We filmed some runs and took some pictures. My favorite was of Sam in the golf cart. From there we went to our usual luncheon spot, Valentines. I was trying to convince the homies we should roll up to Costco to get some bomb ass hotdogs, which led to a heated debate whether or not they also sell veggie dogs. Trey said no way, Mike said absolutely they do. In fact, he claimed the homies on the pushcarts be slanging them shits too. I’d have to see that to believe it.
So after we finished our shit, we rolled out to some spot in the hood. I guess it was
Monday, April 13, 2009
April 4th 2009
Yesterday, Sam and I went skating around. We hit up the Qualcomm park for a bit around 9. That place is pretty sick fool, but the ground be hella rough fool. Like sick, but not that sick. I had a t-shirt that wasn't dry all the way after washing, so I hung that shit up on a bomb ass fence. I just let it kick it on that shit till it was dry. So, if you ever go skating at the Qualcomm park and your shirt is wet and shit, just post that shit on the fence, it will dry out, and you will be sooooo stoked on having that shirt all dry and shit.
Next we rolled out to a school on Euclid. That school was pretty tight, but there wasn't any parking. We were skating and shit and my whip was chillin in a Church's Chicken parking lot and I was like "Aye Sam, is my shit gonna get towed?" We was like "Naaahhh, don't trip fool." But it was too late cause I was trippin soooo hard. We peaced out of that shit and I parked somewhere else. Then we we're gonna go back to the school, but we passed by this fenced off parking lot that had all of these big ass metal sheets stacked up on top of each other, you know the kind the homies put in the streets when there is like a big ass hole in the street? It was them and they looked like some shit outta Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. We hopped the fence, even though it claimed it was an electric fence. That shit didn't shock no one! I did get a little cut up from those little pokey shits on top of the fence. Anyway, we got up in that shit and the metal pieces had some janky ass asphalt on top and there were rocks and pebbles all over the ground. So we did what we did and split. Then we rolled up to Horace Mann. Shit is ancient, but still fun. And that was it for the day. I threw in some old blog footy too that never saw the light of day.