DUDE!It's Archived Rich. Post #150 Rowley and Appleyard just quit Active. What a solid move. Here's a montage of throwaway footy all from Irvine from the Thanks For Nothing guys. I'm glad to see figs skating 4th ledge, but I still shut that spot down with my kickflip 5-0. Check Irvine Sucks, the original vid, for proof. Edited and filmed by Chris Gregson. Post #149 Browsing some local scene website such as this beauty, I came across www.livinsick.com, which is out of atlanta. It's got some really good stuff on it so check it out. Also, Karl sent me this clip a bit after Aidan did the same trick, but I didn't know Karl busted it cause I didn't film it so that's why it wasn't in the montage. Anyways, you can watch it here. Post #148 Youtube always has some random gems and I count this as one in my book. Nothing like skating the toro with a mountain board. Also, somehow Moss got the clip of the day on crailtap. Pretty crazy. If you haven't seen the coped ledge at penny banks, take a look, and also a clip of a feeble tail grab while you're at it. Post #147 I said I wanted to start making some crappy mini vids so here you go. This weekend did bring some sick tricks for Bonestorm, but you'll have to wait and see that. Something to notice though in this clip is the sweet Bob Dylan cover in japanese and check nick's board he's riding on his blunt. Righteous dude. Post #146 Sorry for the lack of posts. Head over the the zine page at shredlove, http://www.shredlove.com/sdzine/, and check out the norcal roadtrip section. There's a really good montage, good photos and a day to day journal. Good stuff. Over at city skateboards, there's a full length part from Jimmy Caothat's a lot better than his part in the actual video. I don't know how I feel about him yet. Sometimes I feel like he's oversteezing, but he still has some good tricks. Worth checking out.Finally, it seems like Stevens been getting some tricks recently. Here's him warming up for a sick trick when I was home. Check it. Post #145 In local news, Figs got 2nd in the Rincon Replica contest and won 5 grand, but I found it odd that a ripper like himself can't hang in a game of skate against myself. Maybe next time figs. But I doubt you'll be able to land switch double flips and double bs flips. You can check the contest footy right here. Also, I don't have that many clips to post so here's some stuff of Damien and Steven skating pavillions filmed by Chris. Post #144 Billy has this little interview thing over at the shredlove zine page. Check it out here. It's the top link to the right here. Also, Nick looks a lot like Hugh Jackman when he has a beard. Take a look. Post #143 A bunch of Irvine chumps came knocking at my door this morning so we skated the land of San Diego. There are some defenite little punks running around this town. let me tell you. Hopefully Nick will post up some footy of these rugrats running wild at this one spot we went to. Anywho, I found this clip of Jordy slamming at Whittier and the ground there is quite rugged. Way to get right back up Jordy. That fall would've put me out for a week. Post #142 If you don't check www.skateaz.com on the daily, you should. They have some good updates and some really good photos being uploaded all the time. Here's a pic of Moss in AZ from his escapades with norcal punk rockers. Anywho, check this part from Justin Cefai. He's got some solid footy. I'm going to be home in a week so hopefully there can be some sort of mini vid or something cause I haven't been filming for a while and feel like making something. Here's a random throwaway clip that I didn't put in the latest montage. Post #141 Haven't updated in a while so I'll try to link you to some videos worth watching to make up for it. First off, check this Es clip. Bobby Worrest is too good. Also here is a trick from abo thats pretty gnarly, but just looked a little too funky to put in the montage. Finally, scope this kid trying this double set. I first thought it was some sort of joke when I saw the title of a 13 gap 13 in the rain and was even more convinced it was going to be fake when I saw chubby guy with a bandana ride up to it. But oh no, this kid really does try a 13 gap 13 in the rain. You can guess what happens next. Post #140 Over at Shredlove.com, they posted up a little video from a trip out to AZ and it features none other than Billy Davenport. Wait til you see him bust out the best switch bs flip down an 8 ive ever seen. Good job Bill. Over spring break, we were having a pretty lame day and no one had gotten much so as I was harvesting large piles of grass, I decided to throw it at Chris's face. And I did. And it made the day better. Post #139 I've never really been a good editor. In any vid I made like the instant
classic Irvine $ucks, Videograph and Second Nature, the editing is Post #138 What's up with all these tricks going down on Love gap and being bootlegged by cell phone cameras? If you haven't seen the newest one to go down, here it is. Pretty funny. I still think Donny Bianco's airwalk on Love Gap in a old 411 was one of the sickest things i've ever seen even though I don't care too much for airwalks. I'm back to the point where I don't have a lot of clips to post up cause they're all going to be in Bonestorm or stuff like that, but I did come across some attempts from Billy at this fs shuvs and I really like the way he pops em. So yea, watch em. Post #137 Catch up on some of the Girl and Chocolate classics with their new box set out. Looks pretty excellent with all the bonus too. Incase anyone didn't know, Moss went on some sort of spontaneous tour with Toy Machine last weekend up to SF. Pretty random, but I'm pretty sure if they saw him doing stunts like these, they would've left him back in Irvine. Post #136 New montage is up. This is the most tricks I've ever had in a montage and the most I ever will. My tricks are so dumb. Anywho, cameras in the shop and hopefully back soon. If you haven't seen the new line up announced for the transworld vid, I'll help you out. Emanual Guzman, Devine Calloway, Brian Brown, Peter Smolik, and clint peterson. That's right, the smolik. Obviously Devine Calloway rips, but I gotta say, I might be more excited about Smolik. Smoliks been on the outs forever and I'm predicting a classic part. That's all I gotta say about that. Here's a clip of Spencer that I was gonna put in the montage, but the sun was a little too busty. Post #135 If you haven't seen On Display, the Sun Diego vid, then here's your chance.
The whole thing is up for your viewing pleasure on www.skateboardermag.com.
Also check out http://sundiego.com/sk8_team.php
cause there are tons of sick clips from the team which you should check
out like this clip of Tyler Surrey: http://videos.sundiego.com/surreyvista.mov.
If Post #134 The site's back and there's a good amount of content coming in the next month. Karl and Alex have been brewing up some ideas similar to the smash hit music video so keep an eye out. In dumb news, my camera broke after I slammed brutally on a broken tile while skating with my camera backpack on. So bummed. The new montage is basically done so it won't affect that. We skated Pedro Park today and Steven busted this hot manuever. I also realized how terrible I am at tranny and how rediculous daewon's tricks are there. Also, at the new flatbar in town, I was semi-bootlegging this kid trying to kickflip the long 4 and then it sort of turned into just straight filming him. I made a little clip out of the madness. Kids these days scare me. Post #133 I'm pretty sure this
guy should have a pro model out. He's defenitely better than half
the skaters out there. Expect a new montage done by the end of next week.
Half of the tricks Post #132 Skated the land of SD today and it was pretty unproductive. Actually no one got anything, but here's some shananigans from the day. Moss and Steven have a pretty sick doubles clip. Post #131 This weekend was a pretty big success for footy and zine tricks. Expect a new montage probably in about 2 to 3 weeks. Here's a new promo for Thanks For Nothing. John Demars line at echo run is nuts. Anyone who hasn't been there won't really be able to tell, but the fs shuvs then bs tail is crazy. Also, the little reminder part at the end of the promo looks a little reminiscent of the Bonestorm teaser. Coincedence? I think not. Also, this weekend, Jonny said he wanted to do a line with a nollie three flip. Needless to say I didn't have much faith, but boy did he prove me wrong. Post #130 There's a new rail in town that we checked out this weekend and here's some clips from it. This is just the warm up tricks with some janky filming. A lot of stuff went down for zine and even a couple of tricks for Bonestorm. This videos kinda old, but ES had some road trip and they posted up some footy. My posts are getting pretty boring so I suggest that Johnny puts up some clips he got from this weekend starring John Choi and Abo. Post #129 I recently stumbled across a sick little video from our friends over at www.shredlove.com and it happens to have some rad footy of Billy. Also, Greg Crain has some buttery tricks in it as well. If you've never skated with Greg before, you're bumming cause the 3 or 4 times that I have in the past all were super fun times. I can't directly link the video so your gonna have to find it on the site, but it's the Norwalk skatepark montage so look for it. Also this last weekend, some guys came down to SD and Damien decided he didn't want to bluntslide this whole curved ledge so he popped out early. What's the point of going to the end? The City video posted Tony Montgomery's as well so you can check that out at www.thecitystreets.com/. Post #128 Here's two links you might enjoy and may have already seen. First is a clip from the Osiris team, which is pretty sick. The second is some video I randomly found, which was some crazy stuff in it. The last couple of tricks are absolutely ridiculous. Post #127 Not much to say, but skated washington street for the first time ever. Some tricks that have gone down there are pretty crazy. Luckily there were no crazy locals cause i'd probably get beat up for looking like a fool. Here's two tricks that Chris Gregson sent me that he's not using for their video, Thanks For Nothing. That's all I got for today. Post #126 I'm sure most people have seen or heard something about the recent controversy over blank boards and here's what I gotta say about it. I may get some heat for it, but whatever. For those who don't know about it, pretty much there's been a big push from board companies and pros to try and have people buy company decks rather than blank decks. Overall, I would agree that kids should buy board decks so they can actually support the pros they like and the companies they're into, but it's obviously not just about that. It has to do with the money. In most stores, you're gonna be paying around 20 to 25 dollars less to get a blank deck than a company one. If your like thousands of people out there who aren't sponsored and just love to skateboard and are at the level where you're gonna be needing probably at least a board a month if not more, then obviously money's gonna play a huge role. I mean, you want to go and and buy a jerry hsu board cause he rips, but you can't be dropping that extra 20 bucks twice a month. Overall, you care more about going out and skating cause you love it rather than worrying about what company and pro you're supporting by buying a real deck. I don't understand why the company's that are pushing this thing haven't addressed that issue. I think the bottomline is that if the large distributions aren't will to significantly lower the prices of their decks to a 5 to 10 dollar difference between blank decks, than they have no reason to be complaining. Anything besides that is them being greedy and not recognizing the fact that the majority of kids just wanna go and and skate for fun. I know it's a lot more complicated and they can't just have some big price drop, but they still have to be able to identify with skaters and until they come up with a proposal that is somehow gonna help span the price gap, then there shouldn't be such a big push for this. Blitz distribution made a website about this whole thing so you can see what they have to say about it: http://aworldwithoutpros.com/. Post #125 Barker tells me that him and Karl finished making the shirts and they're in the process of making something to showcase them to the world. They sound like they're looking pretty legit. City posted up a shared part of Jimmy Cao and Eduardo Craig. Both guys are really good, but I find it to be a pretty boring part. I found some more slams of Brion from a long time ago trying to bs noseblunt a rail. Needless to say, he took a pretty good beating. Also, it ends with a classic Brion quote. If you haven't been annoyed with Sheckler's earing, his bro hats he wears, his ridiculous Oakley sweatband he always skates with, and his dumb earings, then you should be annoyed by this. Check out his first car he just got. Sick bro! Post #124 John Choi just reminded me of a bet we had where he thinks he can get into USC. If he does, I buy him a steak dinner and vice versa. Good luck Choi. I can't wait to be sinking my teeth into a tender steer. Toy Machine posted a little more extra leftover footy on their site. Also, here's a clip at Fullerton nine I stumbled across. As for the box in the bottom right, something needs to happen. Someone e-mail us something like a review of this site and how much you hate it and we'll put it up. As for now, Johnny seems to be updating it less than Noah did. The first Noah that is. Post #123 I'm pretty sure I've talked about this before, but if you haven't visited Irvine local's website, Jeremy Klein, you're missing out. He is one wierd guy. Just watch these videos that he posts and you'll know what I'm talking about. They are one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Also, I've always liked the website www.calumonn.com, just cause they have a mix of some really good skating, but also fun videos with some random songs and editing. Also it's got all sorts of wierd stuff mixed in that can give you a laugh. Their frontman, Jeff Mikut, just got a little interview in the new Skateboard Mag, and it's sick. Post #122 If you are an Irvine local, then you have probably explored the majority
of UCI and have probably run across the massive 13 gap 13. There was always
a rumor that a rollerblader did it and was pulled by a car. Post #121 I've always heard in interviews skaters talking about one of their favorite video parts ever being John Rattray's in Waiting For The World and I never saw it until recently and it defenitely rips. Check it out. Here's also a clip I dug up from over a year ago. It's all I could find. Post #120 Steven always slams hard and it's always fun to film him. In his long line in the short montage that was just posted, he slammed the hardest on the smallest tricks. Pretty excellent. Anyways, if you haven't seen the girl/chocolate open house video, here's the link. Two thing about it. First: There's a line that is not meant to be crossed on the size of t-shirts to wear and that Austin Namba kid defenitely crossed it. I mean, come on, it's the size of something you'd wear at halloween if you were dressing as a ridiculously fat kid. It's a bummer cause he's got some gnarly tricks. My second question is why didn't the Sean Malto look alike win? His bs tail kickflip was so solid. Also, he was rockin some sweet shorts. That's all for now. Hopefully I've generated some hate mail from all the kids that think this is some serious site and our opinions actually matter. Post #119 The City site put up another part and this week it's Russ Milligan. Even though he has some funky tricks sometimes, I've always liked his parts and this one especially. Here's the link to their site again: www.thecitystreets.com. Also, a while back, I posted some tricks on westchester from Sean that Chris G filmed and I didn't know after sean landed his fs feebs, this sick Aussie got his back with a smooth bs salad. Check it out. I've never checked out the blogs on The Skateboard Mag site, but there's some good stuff. On Anthony Acosta's blog, there's a sick photo of Moss. You can look at it right here. Post #118 The last bonus section from Second Nature is the extra footy, which is right here. Not much news to report. If you live in SD, King of The Road premieres tomorrow night at the Kensington club if you have any idea where that is, cause I don't. Also, Foundation video premieres Friday in San Diego as well. How exciting. Post #117 The City video premiered and they're going to be posting a new part from it online at thier site: http://www.thecitystreets.com/. The part up now is Dave Bachinsky and I was actually impressed. It wasn't what I was expecting and his intro wasn't 8 different angles of him smoking a cig like in Oakley. If you haven't checked out www.skateaz.com, you should. Tons of content all over the place and multiple updates a day. Good stuff. Arizona seems to have a lot of good skaters coming up. In local news, Figs got 8th in Tampa Am, which is pretty crazy since there is a ridiculous amount of skaters that enter these days. Well done figs. Anyways, I figured I'd post the bonus stuff from Second Nature as well. Here's the double angle section. Post #116 Have you ever wondered if Queen created We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions just so they can make fat scratch off of sporting events or to put them on amazing compilations such as Jock Jams? I've always wondered about that, because they're kinda random songs. Anyways, like I promised, here's the credits from Second Nature. I hope you enjoy Alex's trick on Northwood rail as much as I did. Also, check this Abo clip. I think he might look more ridiculous there than he does now, which is saying a lot. In the filming world, Kurt Hayashi made his own website, which is pretty sick. Take a look at it: www.kurthayashimedia.com. Also, this commercial of Cairo is amazing. "Yo chck it out Spongey!" Post #115 I'm gonna try to pack in a lot of clips for you guys in a short period of time since the site was on break for a while. Here's 2 throwaway tricks of Chris I filmed over break. He's got nothing on my hard shuv no comply. Anyways, if you haven't seen the clip already you probably will, but some kid poached a ridiculous trick of Chris Cole's down the Love Park Gap. I wish it would've stayed secret, but there were already rumors about it flying around the interet for weeks. Bumskies for the Guitar Hero himself. Sean's checkout is in this issue of Transworld so be sure to scopes that. In more exciting news, next post I'm gonna put up the credits of Second Nature, which has a clip of Alex Barker that goes down as one of my top 10 tricks I've ever filmed. If you don't remember for anyone who's seen it, you will be reminded soon enough. Also, I have an amazing clip of Abo that far surpasses his yellow outfit rampage. Stay tuned. Post #114 Been some time since an update. I'm back at school, but Christmas break was pretty successful for footy. I saw Billy for the first time in a while and he came through with some sick tricks. Here's some footy of him warming up at some spots. Also, on the same day he did that little lipslide in that clip, we were all ready to have a night sesh, but Billbo and his friends forget to bring some extension cords, which worked out for the worst lighting job I think I have ever seen. See for yourself. Nothing went down cause it would obviously look terrible if anyone even landed anything. In the skate world, Nick Dompierre became pro, which I think is well deserved with the tons of ridiculous coverage he's had recently. Check back soon for some more updates with some footy. Post #113 One of the biggest bummers in skate video history for me was when ON video went under. It was like a modern day history lesson for kids and I'll include myself in that category, and it was always put together so well. You could always count on some sick montages and great recent footage followed up by some excellent segment on greatness in the past. I stumbled across this part, which was the only ON video I never got to see and it's on style. Also, since Hubba's been in the news so much, I thought you might wanna watch this too. Speaking of spots like Hubba being gone, it looks like this spot has 24 hour security now. Bummer.
Post #112 Are you guys in for a treat or what. First off, I was surprised that people responded to my e-mail about Brion, and the guys over at www.kmskate.com guessed correctly. Not only did he guess right that it was Luztka, but also was correct in calling him a fool. Also, if you haven't checked out www.shredlove.com, you should. You'll see things like this rippin kickflip feeble from Boosh. Well, now it's time for the treat. Here's my part from Videograph. Things to notice: My bs heel on flat in my oak creek line and thats about it. Enjoy. Post #111 Back before Second Nature, I created a little video called Videograph. Took 4 months to make and I have to say, it was probably my best days of skating when Rich actually landed tricks. My next post, I'm gonna share the world with my amazing part, so everyone should pretty much be looking forward to this presentation with high hopes. I know Brion's gonna be pissed at me for posting this clip, but I gotta. If anyone can name who he's impersonating in this trick, I'll give you a shout out, which is pretty much worth dirt since no one cares about getting their name on this site. But, I pretty much just wanna see if this tactic from a well known skater can be easily identified. Post #110 Supposedly there was a big article in the LA times that Brion pointed out to us about Krew clothing and how popular it's become. As much as a I hate Krew, I've found a new respect for Eric Ellington. When asked about skateboarding and the company he replied, "I just did the tricks out in the street....dark slides and casper slides and stuff like that, and keeping it real in the streets." Pretty great response. Anyways, that's all I got for today. When Nick slams, he always goes down hard. Post #109 A site that really has it together is www.theskatekitchen.com. I'm pretty sure they added 3 montages in one day. you should defenitely check it out. We got some more photos of Billy rippin from our friend Ben Karpinski over at www.shredlove.com. Billy's got some defenite tech skills along with his gnarliness. I'm pretty sure the new montage should be coming up in a week or 2. Here's Steven practicing for a Bonestorm banger. Don't you wish you knew it was on. Post #108 Skated Vans park the other night and filmed vert for the first time ever. I stil don't understand it and I'm still too pinner to drop in. Check the content for a little montage I made basically all of Chris Gregson, but also Steven and Moss dropping in. Here's also a clip of Damien and Moss at burger banks in a little double action. Post #107 I was gonna save my new learned trick for the next montage, but I'll get something better. With that being said, you all get to see me killing it at Nick's favorite spot. I also found a photo of Billy from the same guy who shot his other photos. On that photographers website, he posted this guy's video part up. The saddest part about it, is that you can tell from his trick selection and style, this kid once did skate. The filmer is also pretty good, which makes it even more tragic. Anyways, it's defenitely worth watching.
Post #106 I finally how to 5-0 fakie on banks. Way pumped. You'll have to wait til the zine montage to see my acheivment. Big ups to Karl for hooking up my Mom with some fat discount at Tall Mouse. My Mom was stoked. She says she wants me to buy Karl a burrito, so Karl, anytime you want a burrito, hit me up. Here's some footy of Moss and Noah not being able to ride away clean enough on the now ruined diamond bar hubba. Post #105 I'm back home and people are already getting some good clips including this sick line from steven, which ends with a hammer. Speaking of hammers, rumor has it some people think I'm contradicting myself when I hate on hammers and then go and say how sick Nick Trapasso's part is. Let's think about this. Trapasso's sick because, one, he's got good steez, two, he kills ledges such as big spin fs blunts in long smooth lines, three, wears pin stripe pants, and four, is throwing down bangers that no random hammer skater can do such as a big flip down 5 gap 5's or nollie big heel bump flats. The random hammer chumps I speak of, such as Carlos Ruiz, go for broke on big name spots and have no variety in tricks. I can watch Reynolds drop the fattest of hammers and it's alright cause he's The Boss and can pull out some smooth lines at water district and pop some boosty switch tres whenever he likes. Same with people like Heath, Rowley, The Cheif and other rippers. So the difference is, do I wanna see random kids try a fs board down wilshire 15? No. Do I wanna see kids drop gnarly bangers that also have a bunch of sick lines and variety throughout their part? Yes. By the way, Nick has an e-mail up on crailtap. You should check it out. Post #104 Hubba's knobbed again, Raymond Molinar is pro, if you haven't seen Torey Pudwill's part in Jereme Roger's vid then see it, I have no clips to put up, and this post sucks. Except for this. I'll be home in a day for break and lots of dumb clips will start flowing in. Post #103 Stumbling through the old files of footy, I came across Cameron trying a line at Pioneer. Take a look and see how big of a jerk Nick P is here. Didn't phase Cameron though. Post #102 Here's another promo from the guys making the video Thanks for Nothing. Also theres a little introduction video for two new members of the crew. Both were filmed and edited by Chris Gregson. Post #101 I'd have to agree my no-comply shuvs was rippin. Anyways, it's sad to think that UP six is gone. So many good times there. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that kickflip manny firecracker was the best trick done there. I mean it's just so creative and ahead of it's time, no one can step up to beat it. Here's a line I filmed a long time ago when my camera wasn't bunk. Check that board to board transfer action. Smooth as silk. Too bad I have a bad habit of having my arm swing in the shot when filming lines. Whenever I ask our loyal viewers to respond to something via e-mail, I get one response if it's a good day. Still, I'll ask another one. If anyone is selling a vx1000, let me know. We need this disk! Post #100 It's my 100th post and I don't really have anything special to show or say. I haven't seen Billy around for a long time so I''ll post some stuff up of him. First, if you know Bill, you know he gets heated easily. Check this fs feebs on the big UCI 10 that was in montage 3. He landed this one first, but was super pissed about it as you can tell. Also, I was checking some old footy, and caught Billbo in the act of making sure his hair was looking prime in a mirror in between tries. Here's another angle of a trick from montage 3 also that I filmed bad, but might as well post it since it's not gonna be used anywhere else. That's all the clips I got for today. By the way, art majors are the dumbest kids ever. I'm a graphic design major and have todeal with the most lame kids who think they're so hip. You all the know those kids I'm talking about who like stuff just cause they have to such as Elliott Smith or Belle and Sebastien. I'm not saying those are lame bands or anything cause I like them too, butit's just so standard for all these doofs to say they like them. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is I kill it when it comes to skating. Post #99 If you ever wondered what happened to Dan Pageu, I'll tell you. He's got brain damage. Post #98 Rarely do I try to film a trick and when I do, it usually doesn't happen. When I came home for break, I just had one trick I wanted to try and once we got to the spot, Moss asked if he could film. Nick was filming Sean and Jordy, so I figured Moss is pretty decent at filming so why not. About an hour of trys later, I finally land it asclean as Richard can land a trick, and I look over to see Moss looking a little suspect and hear Nick yelling, "Moss missed it!". Sure enough, Moss was filming Jordy's face and pretty much missed it. Take a look. I tried it again with Nick filming and I landed it pretty bad, so I don't even want to use it. Here's the second land and a look at the guilty wopper. Thanks Moss. Post #97 Thanksgiving break brought about some good footy including some manual manuevers from Jordy. I'm almost at 100 posts. Pretty excellent. Post #96 Since Nick's in the mood for posting Aussie footy, I'll join. I was pretty bummed when Sean asked me to film random people one day, but I was pleasantly surprised when Lewis Marnell was there. He's a super nice guy and kills it. He got two sick tricks that day and only one he said he wanted to keep so here's the other one for everyone's viewing pleasure. Probably one of the best tricks at this spot before it got destroyed. Too bad his Aussie comrades have to hoot and holler after anyone lands a tricks. I also came across this FedEx commerical and thought it was pretty excellent for some reason. You should scopes it.
Post #95 In honor of not even hearing from Brion within months, here is some attempts at a banger right before he left for school. Almost Brion. Post #94 For Irvine locals, Chris Grady's(filmer of Stamp) laptop was stolen a while ago along with his camera so pretty much all their footy they had for thier new video they were working on is lost. Pretty lame. Anyways, here's a montage Aidan had with some tricks for the video, so this might be the only remaining tricks from what was lost. Check it out. Post #93 Like I've said in numerous posts, Abo's gear is pretty ridiculous and it always has been. Take this old clip I found from one of the first times I ever skated with him. Look how great his fashion sense is. Post #92 I saw the Oakley video and it's pretty much what you expect from a sunglass company. Of course sheckler used some trendy song by Spoon and burnquist had the nerve to use where is my mind by the pixies. Already been used bro. Anyway, all the parts were short and 2 things i liked about it. Fabrizio noseslid that huge brick hubba right outside of underground 11 at UCI which is pretty crazy. Also, Andrew Pott did fs big spin twice in a row down the sacto triple set because Landi missed the first sequence. Pretty perfect both times. Here's a clip of figs close to a manual hammer. On a side note, does anyone remember this movie about some kid with all this remote control stuff and he uses it to protect his house from burglars? It was a pretty sweet movie and if anyone knows what it's called, please email us. I'd be forever debted to you. Post #91 In honor of Johc Choi getting his cast off, here's a semi-recent clip of him going for a banger. Hopefully he'll be back on his board in no time. Also, some excellent news is that Guitar Hero 2 is out and supposedly it's ripping. One of the newest hot features on it is that you can play with two people while one person rocks out on lead guitar and the other guy holds down the rhythm. Whatever happened to Mike Hastie by the way. That guy rips. Post #90 I actually skated a real spot this weekend and quite frankly, I
killed it as you can see in this clip. Nick got a line for his part
also and so it made for a good day. Abo's sporting a fohawk with some
huge furry camo jacket and it really reminded me of a typical active employee.
Post #89 Nothing to write about but here's 2 links you should check out. First is Steve Nesser's part from the free Adio promo. I really like him for some reason and he's one of the few people who I like that does varial flips. The other one is this video by the wetboys. If you don't know who they are, they're people like Jarrod Saba and guys from Colorado. Pretty excellent clip. Post #88 If you aren't already subscribing to Podcasts, you should get on it.
DC just put out a 30 min Australia tour vid that's free to download and
Post #87 I first watched this sponsor vid and thought it was lame like a lot of
typical so cal skaters where they have some decent tricks down the Post #86 Biebel has got to be one of my favorite people ever. Post #85 You know with Ty Evans filming Fully Flared it's gonna be legit. Here's
proof
of that. Remember Post #84 Hubba Hideout is unknobbed, but I doubt it's gonna last. Here's some footy of Nestor Judkins skating it. Supposedly Chad Muska died. That's pretty much how internet rumors get started from people like me hearing a story from an unreliable source and then sharing it. So pretty much Muska's dead and spread the word. Post #83 Dan Drehobl remains one of the most legit shredders ever with his cover on the skateboard mag. Here's a clip of a guy named Yoder from AZ. Don't really know what to do with it, so here it is. about 30 minutes after this, the Chief himself cruised by on a harley and gave us the peace. All in all it was a good day Post #82 I just found out a kid off campus has a mini ramp in his backyard and I can skate it whenever. That's almost as excellent as my hardflips up the step up at adio park. www.kmskate.com has a bunch demo clips and they linked us so they're good in my book. Post #81 Donny Barley made a website and has a bunch of his video parts up there. A lot of them are really good so check them out: www.donnybarley.com. This one time when me, Barker and Dowling were cracking people with water balloons, we rolled up on two girls leaving a high school dance. From the back window I got ready to crack, and dowling was gonna pop up through the sun roof and right as that was about to happen, both girls looked at Alex who was driving, and with a sad look that only Barker can give he said, "I'm really sorry". Next thing they know, Dowlings laying waste on them from an aerial view, while im hitting them from the side. The whole scenario gave me joy. Post #80 On some random list of best skate crews, we somehow made it on there.
Pretty cool I guess. Post #79 Anyone remember Bryan London? He's a perfect example of how gnarly tricks
won't get you far in skating and that style matters. I just watched his
arcade part and he kills it. fakie blindside heel on macba 4 back when
people were doing the basics on it. fakie bs tails and bs Post #78 If anyone watched the game of skate, the guy who won is a complete kook.
There's probably about a couple thousand kids who are an exact copy of
him. of course he's rockin the ipod while in the competition and with
a sectioned hat with the fifty9fifty sticker still on. Chris Cole should've
slapped him for doing a switch ollie north as a trick. Supposedly people
think this guys good or something so I looked around and found some footy
of him. ig woop. Yea he's decent but he's skating 6 and 7 stairs,
oversteezing, of course skating to rap, and the worst of all, cheering
for himself after landing a trick on a foot high hubba. Wait, you can't
even call that a hubba. It's a ledge down about 5 stairs. I seriously
can't take Post #77 On John Choi's first day back from Korea last year he put down a jet lagged pop shuv right as security rolled in. Straight up butters. Post #76 Danny Cerezini's on Blind. I don't know what to think about that yet. I watched John Choi's ankle break again for the first time in a couple of months and it's pretty ridiculous. Full on snapping noise while you can see his ankle fold under the weight of his body. You'll see that in Bonestorm. While he sat there in pain for a couple of hours while everyone else seshed the set, this is part of what went down. The cleaner land of this was in the newest montage, but Figs shredding out is way danker in my book. Post #75 Check out www.mostlyskateboarding.blogspot.com for daily updates of the best vids online. Also, the maker of the site has said some good stuff about our montages so he's legit in my book. Where's some recent Pat Burke footy? Post #74 If anyone's seen Brink, with the one and only Andy "Brink"
Brinkster, you know it's by far the best Disney Original movie and contains
some of Post #73 Getting tickets at skateparks for 177 bucks is pretty retarded so I suggest
you sign this
petition to try and get pads not a requirement in California. Arizona
knows whats up. Also, check this
clip of the europe Matix team. Sick tricks Post #72 I was trying to find some old clips to post since there's not gonna be
any new montages for a while and I came across this. At first glance it
Post #71 The new Plan B promo is out and I'm pretty bummed about Wenning. Leaving Habitat is kinda, um, you know. Also, I was way bummed about the filming in the promo. It seemed like every single trick they had sequences going off and the filming was bro cam. You got Gallant doing pefect nollie blindside flips down triple sets and theres a helicopter lens angle that looked terrible. It's almost like I don't even process the trick as being that crazy when the filming is crap. It's like all they care about is documenting the trick and that's all that matters. I'd rather see a video full of mediocre tricks, but filmed as well as Bon Apetit, rather than a video full of bangers filmed bad. Anyway, check this line from Spanky. I'm sure a bunch of chumps that've never skated LA high think that riding into grinds rather than ollieing into them is no problem, but they're dumb and retarded. Also, the part he lipslides is almost chest high. Good job spanks. This line rips. Post #70 Remember when Weiss kicked off Kasper? That was dumb. Almost as dumb as Oakley making a video. Remember when Cameron prank called Weiss? That was sweet. Almost as sweet as Marius Syvanen and his ripping tricks. Here's some Sean footy filmed by Chris Gregson on westchester. Just some throwaway. Notice Sean's "seansy" rideaway on his nosegrind and also how dumb Abo looks at the bottom taking pics or whatever he's doing. Post #69 Haven't posted in a while cause Nick's internet's broken. For anyone
who's seen the new crimson company promo, there's some sick stuff, but
that company will go under in the next year guaranteed. It's a bummer,
but no company is gonna survive unless they're sitting on some heavy hitters.
For any confusion, the San Fran montage I posted was not filmed or edited
by me or nick, but by Chris Gregson. Anywho, here's some
slams from this past weekend, and although most everyone got tossed,
people Post #68 If you're looking for a legit site other than this excellent one, then
check out the 303 guys from colorado. Those guys rip. Here's a promo they
got: http://www.303boards.com/trailer.mov.
While filming with Seansy in LA, we spied this rugged street gap and his
friend, Nick Palmquist Post #67 Watch this SF weekend montage with Sean,
Figs, Chris, Abo, Aidan, and Louie Jones. A lot of footage from such a
short time. Looks like Zero took down King of The Road again. I thought
Baker and Toy Machine would give them a good run for their money, but
with the chief in charge and Chris Cole being able to do anything, they're
pretty much unstoppable. Post #66 Time for John Choi's part. JC really pulled his part together in his last 2 weeks before he moved to Korea where he came up with or 50 seconds of footy. Well done Choi. Good thing I was gone this weekend cause some peeps got some tickets for skating a parking garage. Pretty ridiculous. Think if a scooter doof was riding through that place or a biker or a rollerblader. Would they have got a ticket? They be like nope. K, cops can be way busty. Post #65 Im back at school so I think Bonestorm filmings gonna be on a hold until
Nick's cam is fixed or there's some SD missions happening. I thought Post #64 If you haven't seen the free Bueno promo, I suggest you check it out. There's a podcast you can download at giantskate.com. My likeness level for Gutterman has increased and my already high level of likeness of Nate Broussard has increased even more. Make sure to watch past the credits for some buttery tricks from Nick McClouth. No one wants to read a review, but I don't know what else to write about so here's one of the new transworld video. Intro: What happened to those good old intros with actual tricks landed. I know Holland and Hernandez are into the film, but they went overboard and it''s something I would defenitely skip over, which is something I wouldn't do in earlier Transworlds. Cooper Wilt has a sick part and kind of a funky song. Chris Roberts: pinner. I was expecting some rediculous manuals but they were average for him and I was more pumped on the guest footy from Kenny Anderson and Joey Brezinski. Ronson is still bogus with his huge pants, oversteez, and slow s kating. His skill level is ridiculous, but what the point if it looks retarded. The montage is sick. Good aussie section. Chad Tim Tim's part was my favorite. Everything was super buttery and some crazy tricks. Good song too. Dylan's part was also excellent with some ripping tranny action. His impossible's are way legit unlike many peoples 360 shuvs. Overall, good vid, too much film in it, not the best Transworld I've seen. K, that was boring, here's more from Second Nature. Watch the friend's section. Post #63 New montage up. Some filming looks like its for shake junt. Oh well. The beach is being attacked by jellyfish with a radius of 5 feet. I don't know what to do about it. Post #62 If any of you payed attention to the slap One in a Million Contest, you
should already know that Curtis Rapp was by far the best skater, but Post #61 It appears that John Choi's slam was worse than he thought and actually his anks broke in 4 different places. When I watched the break, Irealized you can hear the bone snap. It's pretty sketch. Anyway, if you got some dvd's or mags to lend choi in his free time, do so. In skate news, Danny Garcia is off lakai which is a bummer for their vid, but hopefully his Habitat part will be that much better because of putting all his effort into that video. Here's some footy of some Australian guys warming up at the UNI 3 stair ledge that blew up and then got destroyed. And yes, judging by these clips, I don't know how to film. Also, I forgot about posting Second Nature or maybe I just didn't wanna post up the worst part in the vid, which is my own. I guess I have to put it up sooner or later so here it is. I really only like one trick in my part so yea. It sucks. Watch it though cause it's excellent. Post #60 All I want to do is go to the beach these days. Theres no weekdays spots,
everyones cameras busted including mine and Im waiting til I can get Post #59 Lots has happened since the site has been down. Not really actually. There's pretty much no good weekday spots so going to the beach seems like a better idea. This last weekend started looking pretty bad when Fig's got close to landing a banger and as we were getting kicked out and he was asking for one more try, some macho brospeh grabbed him and chucked him into a wall. It's on film and it looks pretty wild. Also as you heard, John Choi broke his anks, and right when you think things can't get any better, a ray of hope shines through and the chief himself, Jamie Thomas, cruises by on a hog and flashes up the peace sign as we were leaving our last spot. It was pretty epic. Anywho, montage 6 is pretty much done so in the next 2 weeks that should be up. Since Moss has hit his limit for this montage, here's 2 tricks of him skating that won't be in the montage. Post #58 Lots of fat clips for you today. The only other local vid that I know of that's in production is Thirsty Fish, which is pretty much the dudes from Stamp. Aidan Measroch, who had last part in Stamp, has lots of throw away footage for his part and he decided to make a vido out of it. So here's a net exclusive Irvine local throw away part filmed and edited by Chris Grady. Enjoy. As for continuing with Second Nature parts, here's the first part of the vid and it belongs to Barker. I used to think me and Barker were somewhat even in skill, but after his part, I'm pretty sure it's obvious that he's surpassed me. Whatevs, I can still bust a mean double flip. I'm pretty sure my favorite thing in his part is after his 3rd to last trick on Penny Banks, he just turns straight to the camera and stares as if saying, how did I just bust that and a mix of, damn, I'm good. Post #57 Due to lack of anything in my box or on the site, I thought I might post part from Second Nature like what Nick did with Prog Neg. I know lots of people either lost their copies including myself and also people who haven't seen it can check it out. Also I still have that other video I promised before from a local Irvinite which will go up soon. In between dudes chucking their wrinkled clothes at me telling me to iron them becuase he just had them drycleaned, or delivering some lotion to a couple while getting it on, works been pretty busty. Too much of it and AZ beckons me. I really have nothing to talk about so watch the intro to Second Nature right here. Post #56 My box has been lacking and not much going on in the site. next post
I got a special vid that the irvine kids will enjoy starring one of Irvine's
own. These summer days have been pretty good. Today, we pretty much cruised
around and found ourselves critiqueing a shopping cart Post #55 If you don't already watch Made, you should start. One of my favorite episodes was of this dork named Brian who wanted to get a date and he would always wear these dumb glasses that he though made him look awesome. One of my favorite lines in Made history was on this episode and this is how it played out: Brian (to some clueless girl): "If your not doing something this weekend, wanna roll some where with me?" Will Smith Loving Dork Girl: "Yea, I can get jiggy with that." Priceless. The same kid was back on again for a spring break special because he fell back into his dorky stages that plagued him before his first Made show. It was hard to watch as he walked down the beach in his shpants and cut of sleeve T's wearing the same lame shades trying to find numbers from girls that want nothing to do with him. The sad part is, the girls who give them their number do it as a joke and know they're gonna be on TV so it's a double blow to Brian's self esteem to know he can't get a date and when he does, it's as a joke. Too bad Brian doesn't know this and procedes to talk about how his confidence is being boosted because of his success among spring breakers. It really is sad. Anyways, you should check out this show and also scope Billy's smooth bs smithers. Post #54 John Choi comes back this weekend. This is big news on the Irvine scene. For anyone who doesn't know him, you'll soon see him in the montages and you'll be pumped. I just came across all the full parts form Second Nature, so maybe I'll post his part up as a tribute since Nick posted Prog Neg. Hopefully he'll have learned some new manuevers in Korea and will be trying tricks like this. Welcome back Choi boy. Post #53 Nick briefly tapped on Abo's condition before he went camping, but that
doesn't explain how messed up Abo was. I'll go through the story: Were
at UCI and abo's warming up at this bank spot where you ollie over a rail
into it. He's warming up riding down the bank and does a little ollie
into it and where you land, you ride into a patch of grass with a little
rope going across it about 2 feet high. At the end, Abo jumps off Post #52 All I really want to do these days is skate parks in AZ cause I can't
do real tricks anymore at real spots. I was at north long beach park and
rolled into a little bank probably at a 30 degree angle and 3 feet long
and I fell. It was depressing. Here's a clip of Sean
warming up before Post #51 As working slowly eats my life away, I am trying to figure ways to get
out of this job. Some thoughts I have are trying a trick that I know is
Post #50 Work sucks. Post #49 There's some defenite power moves being made in the skateboard industry
and I'm not too sure I'm down with all of them. So Muska and Sammy Baptista
are gone off Shorty's so there's pretty much no original heads left. After
Rob Welsh quit Zoo York, he moved over to Santa Cruz. The wierdest switch
in my opinion is Elissa Steamer going on Zero. What's the deal. She's
way out of a prime that she never even had. In other sad news, Biebel's
car was stolen. Busty. For all the people who scoped Nick's part in Prog
Neg, I'm pretty sure my best trick I've ever done in my life is in that
part since I'm pretty much no good at skating. It's a banger in Rich's
world. Here's a clip of Billy busting out
a little fs Post #48 I take back my previous claims on my current skill level cause I was ripping out some mean smith grinds on the ledges at lake forest park the last couple of nights. Usually weekdays in the summer are uneventful, and in the case of yesterday it sort of was, but one part made up for it. While we were skating at Olive Park, moss was doing some tricks and this group of young asian kids were watching and having a grand old time. I could see one girl pushing another girl slowly towards Moss and the little girl put her hands over her eyes. This little group of kids started coming closer and closer to Moss and stopped and one of them said that the little girl had something to say to him. The little girl was too shy to say it so after about 30 seconds of akwardness, she left. A little bit later, she came back for round 2 and got up the courage to ask her question. Her question was that she wanted to know how "cool" Moss was. It was a pretty wierd and excellent situation. In writing this sounds pretty lame, but I enjoyed it. Here's a clip of Seansy and a new face on the site named Todd. He's a super cool dude. Post #47 I've realized I've reached my peak in skateboarding. I'm no longer able
to learn new tricks, and tricks I've recently learned, I've lost. I Post #46 There's typical things skaters are supposed to do in relation to other skaters at spots. One of these is giving a little "yeah", whistle or clap if someone gets close to a hard trick they're trying. At a local spot, some random dude was sticking a crazy trick and I gave a little clap only to hear him say, "faggot."I'm still confused if he was directing that towards me or not, but I was dumbfounded. I tried not to think about it for too long and went back onto burning my leg hair. Good story. Here's a clip of Abo doing some ollies. New montage is sweet. My trick is probably the best in it. Post #45 After Nick went on a shopping spree for fireworks in Nevada, he's back
with a fat stack of explosives. Pretty excellent to say the least. This
weekend I'm going to see an Eels concert with my Pops. They're the band
that I used for one of the most influential video parts in the last Post #44 In between getting tickets and having Barker pants 11 year olds, footy's been coming along. In the little clip of the 2 gap 4 sesh, if you didn't notice Seansy's hat, then scope it. It's too sick. Hopefully some local Irvine residents went to to Ghost Face Killa concert at UCI. According to skatin' Steve, it was a winner. In this little clip I got, there's a warm up trick with Seansy, a mess around trick and then Seansy going for a banger and getting bucked. Brion gets a front row view of the damage. Keep checking back for montage 5 dropping in a couple of days. Post #43 3 vids premiered this weekend and only one of them are legit. There was
Circa vid, Get tricks or die trying, and then krooked kronickles. Post #42 Since Brion's getting out of Dodge, I thought I'd scrounge through my
old tapes and put some clips up of him.
His one footer on pioneer might Post #41 Every clip usually has a good story behind it and this one with Stevesy is no exception. Steve's a nice kid, but I've never seen him enter a phase of rage like this before. A security guard told him it was time to quit while he was trying this 3 flip and he wouldn't stand for it. He erupted in a fit of fury. He was so frustrated because he just started getting close and as you can see on this stick, he let's out some sort of beastly cry that is made up of hatred towards the security guard and despair that he got close. All in all, it makes for a excellent clip if you were there. In my hours of time to do nothing, I went through a bunch of tapes a came upon loads of footy so I'm going to try to make a post at least every other day with clips. Another good one I found is of Eddie slamming on a trick up a curb. He hits with so much force and it adds to the clip to hear Johnny laughing in the background. Alright, I shall be back soon with some good clips. Post #40 I'm back in Irvine. I'm already killing spots. I'm sure most of you have
seen the el toro kickflip, but in case you haven't here she is.
As much as I don't like kids trying to get noticed by hitting up huge
spots, I will say it was a good kickflip. He also is a good skater, but
I don't really like his style. A true example of someone trying to get
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