Went to check out the new plaza in LA yesterday.
The place was empty! Too much fun.
Venice park was way too crowded.
After searching for weekday spots we ended up cruising around the boardwalk.
Thanks for driving Kelley!
| May 8th, 2010
SB buddies came down last weekend and we made a trip inland.
“Lines for days”
Beau getting it done
Thanks guys for visiting! I had a lot of fun despite my exhaustion.
Went to the “Skate Movie” premiere last weekend as well, you have to see Clint Walker’s part.
| May 7th, 2010
I know somebody the other day was looking for this old Kauai montage, here you go. I’ll get around to posting an organized video page with all the archives.
Here’s a little insight on this montage. The majority of this was filmed in Winter 2006 and Summer 2007. At this time Kauai’s skateboarding scene was at its peak in my opinion. Things got moving once Graceland skatepark was built, which was sort of Kauai’s first real park. The skate scene has always been really small or nonexistent. Everyone you see in the montage were good friends and were all really motivated to skate then. NickMo started to get good and would beat Gaelan and me often at S.K.A.T.E. Kainoa was in his prime too, as you can see he is clip mvp in this montage. This was before he blew out both his knees. The kickflip back tail he does at the end of the montage is probably my favorite thing I have ever filmed, even though it is a crappy trucking shot. If you look at ground on that clip you can see the cloud covering open up as Kainoa does the trick, it turned out amazing. No, I didn’t do that in post. CKMS is great, I always have a fun solo sesh on the ledges whenever I visit. AB finishes off the montage with a bang and NickMo’s reaction is priceless.
It’s kind of funny, it says “Kauai” in the title of the site but you won’t find any content from Kauai until now. Reason being the last several times I’ve gone back home I haven’t got any clips. The skate scene has become jaded since then, resulting in unproductive trips. A short flight to Oahu to skate with G.Lee always solves that.
| February 28th, 2010
Made the drive up to Girl Skateboard headquarters in Torrance for the 8th Annual Open House. I anticipated yet another 808er to place within the top three for the contest (Danny Hamaguchi 2nd place in 2007, Nathan Guest 2nd place in 2008, and Ryan Spencer 2nd place in 2009).
APB Jordan “working”.
Sat back for a good six hours mooching off of free In-N-Out, spying on the Girl family superstars, and of course enjoying some good old fashion skateboarding. Doesn’t get any better!
Two particular kids that I was stoked on that made the cut to the finals were Trent McClung, an again Maui’s Ryan Spencer aka “Wall man”. Trent did a switch backside bigspin to flat first try and kickflip backlipped the San Marcos replica rail multiple times. Ryan added to the marks on the wall with his huge fs wallride transfer along with his other gap wallride to fakie. But his 50-50 up the San Marcos replica pretty much sealed the deal, it was obvious who won.
1. Ryan Spencer
2. Chase Webb
3. Trent McClung
I don’t know how that termite keike weaseled his way into second place. Congratulations to Ryan Spencer for coming away with first place this time. Thanks to Girl Skateboards for opening their doors to host this rad contest.
Who’s going to keep this 808 tradition alive?
| February 1st, 2010
G.Lee flew in on Friday morning and we went straight to San Diego. Ian came down from San Francisco for the break as well. Kelley also came along with us, which made for the perfect crew that day.
Unfortunately that was Ian’s last day and I only got to meet up with him once. Always good to see that fool.
Got up early the next day to check out the new venice park. The park actually wasn’t too crowded when we got there. I love how the kids play flatground S.K.A.T.E directly in front of the sets when there is a bunch of flatground outside of the park.
We then met up with a bunch of fools in the Glendale area. Kelley seems to have a trick for every spot we go to. G.Lee almost got his trick but just ran out of gas. After that we went and looked at that tiny eight stair rail. We waited for Tyler to arrive and he got his two tricks. Called it a day and went home.
We took it pretty easy on G.Lee’s last day. Went to the Torrey Pines manny pads, then a nearby ledge spot and that was the end of it.
Thanks for coming out G.Lee, good times!
| November 30th, 2009
Luan Oliveira did a bs smith 360 flip in between runs. Who does that?
| October 26th, 2009
Went to the Warfare premiere tonight, it was astounding to say the least. Without spoiling too much about the vid, Matt Bublitz’s part was my favorite. Very talented at skating and equally talented in film making, love the original fisheye shots. Andy Smith’s no comply thingamabobber plus his reaction was rad. Dumbfounded by the tricks that went down on the cherry park gap in the homies sections. The McClung brothers never cease to amaze me. Maui’s ATV, Ryan Spencer, skates to two Joy Division songs and his last two tricks are absolutely ridiculous. Tom Karangelov flowingly cruises across many rails and rightfully earns last part. You know this fool has to rip if he made it to Slap’s One In a Million finals.
My main point is that you need to get it!
| October 16th, 2009
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