If you haven’t noticed, it was raining cats and dogs over here in California this past weekend .  Rain with a combination of skateboarding withdrawals for several weeks calls for desperate measures.  Daniel over at the Cam Caddie headquarters in Burbank recently cleared out 1/2 of his warehouse to make a funbox and 2 quarter pipes and was nice enough to let 8+ of us to come by and skate.  I guess that you can call it our own little “The BerRICKS“.

The BerRICKS

Damian Trammell – Backside Tailslide

Justin Maruco – Frontside 5-0

Beto Guerrero – Frontside Tailshrrriiidddee

Damian Trammell – Backside Smith

For anyone who doesn’t know who or what Cam Caddie is (including myself), they are producers of a handheld steadicam for video cameras and DLSR cameras.  Attached with an OWLIE iPhone accessory you can basically film fisheye-styled skate/snow/bmx videos with your iPhone at the fraction of the cost.  Roughly around $120-$180 for the whole setup; minus the iPhone of course.  Oh yeah, the fisheye is included when you purchase the OWLIE by the way.

I guess that skating the quarter pipe wasn’t enough for Damian, so he decided to move the funbox up onto the deck making it an extension.

Damian Trammell – Rock N’ Roll

Abijah Martinez – Nollie Heelflip

Damian Trammell – Backside Smith Grind

Paisas

Armo Joe

Coming sooner than you think.  The shit is about to hit the fucken fan.  Stay Grindin…

Spread Eagle from SkateAllCities.com on Vimeo.

Looks like we got our sample cap alot sooner than we thought.  Introducing our 2nd fitted baseball cap with the heads over at SAIKO entitled, “The Monogram”.  It is based off of a logo that you might have caught glimpses of through the background page of our Twitter account.  We are going to have various colorways (HINT: Dodger & Giants) of the embroidery for this design, but for our first run we’re going to have it with a Tiffany Blue colorway on a Black fitted cap.

The Monogram (Front)

The Monogram (Front Close-Up)

The back print to “The Monogram” fitted cap has our motto, “Stay Grindin”.  If you’ve purchased any of our t-shirts from the past then you’ve already seen the inside label/tag on them that has this motto printed.  “Stay Grindin” basically has multiple meanings that not only skateboarders can relate to, but people who are always on the hustle and grind through everyday life that need to find that balance, whether it’s grinding a rail or living life.

These are currently under production and should be available in about a month or two through our Online Shop.  Keep it movin and look out for our David Flores x Skate All Cities x Young & Reckless (Clothing line from Drama of the Fantasy Factory) board/t-shirt release party in the middle of March.  Doing big thangs this year.  Stay Grindin…

The Monogram (Back)

The Monogram (Back Close-Up)

Here’s a sneak peek of our 2nd SAC Fitted Cap installment that is set to be released in a couple more weeks by the time you read this.  Introducing the new “Monogram” fitted cap produced by the heads over SAIKO headwear.  Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to our release date.  Stay Grindin…

This past weekend the crew stopped by the Koreatown aka “K-Town” area to celebrate our boy Dave Denio’s 30th Birthday party.  After several hours of guzzling down some “liquid courage” and sake, this is what you get.  A room full of drunken skaters trying to sing along to Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Rammstein and whatever we could find on a Korean Language remote control and music selection book.  If you’ve never gone karaoke’ing before then you should visit a spot called Rosen cause that’s where we went.  For $50 an hour, you can get a private room for you and your entourage to “Sing All Cities”.  Wamp Wamp…

First and foremost, there’s a reason why we aren’t leaking the address to this spot for our latest Spotcheck.  Bottom line, it’s not our spot and we don’t want to blow it up online to our visitors.  We already told you the city where this is located in, so if you were smart enough and did a little bit of homework aka “Google Maps” then maybe you’ll be able to find this spot on your own.

This isn’t the first time that we’ve skated this spot before.  In fact, if you’ve checked our blog on a daily basis (Which you should be doing anyways.) then you might have already caught shots and glimpses of this spot back in 2008.  Back then the only things that were skateable here in this abandoned lot were 2 ledges with coping about 40 feet apart from each other.  After a couple months of just those 2 obstacles, I guess the locals got bored and revamped it to a new and improved skate spot.

Drop In Of Death

Right as you enter the spot you’ll see a makeshift Double-Sided Ledge created from side-by-side, stacked parking and cinder blocks.  I’m not sure if you remember Cory Kennedy’s Girl ad in the Thrasher/Transworld/Skateboarder Mag/Whatevers with the Frontside Bluntslide to Kickflip to Frontside Boardslide?  Well shit, if memory serves me correctly this ledge below is the same one?  Our boy Damian had to drop a Backside Noseblunt Slide on it in less than 5 tries.

Damian Trammel – Backside Noseblunt Slide

Right after the Double-Sided Ledge, is the Banked Ledge.  It’s the original ledge that was there, but slightly revamped with a concrete bank towards one side of it.  Perfect for those Noseblunt Slide transfers.

Justin Maruco – Frontside Lipslide

I don’t know the exact history behind the “name of” and “the coming of” this skatespot, but what I do know is that our boy ATLAS CBS always has hitups on these ledges every time we come and skate here.  That’s mad BGP’s (BackGround Props) in skate videos if you haven’t already seen it.  With that said, we’re unofficially calling this spot the “ATLAS Ledges” even though rumor has it that Jason Hernandez (skater/filmer) was actually the one who created this.

Just a couple of feet from the Banked Ledge is another one, but this time with Pool Coping to top it off.