Skateboarding Took Over My Life A Long Time Ago

July 3, 2008 | Filed Under Skateboarding, SpotCheck | No Comments

Here are some photos that we received by email from our boy Gabriel Martinez ripping it up at the Channel Street Skatepark located in San Pedro, California.


Backside Smith Grind


Crooked Grind

The Spot - Rome, Italy

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under Graffiti, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 4 Comments

Sorry for jumping around from spot to spot. I try to keep the blog entries as consistent as possible but I forgot that I had some some pictures of a skatepark that we hit a couple of days back in Rome, Italy. It’s called The Spot. It costs 5 Euros to skate all day and is lit up till the late night hours.  It’s right by the beach and has lots of graffiti walls, as well as some sick skateboarding obstacles.  (Who said skateboarding and graffiti don’t go together again?)  The only complaint that I had was that the park was actually built a lil too much like the X-Games.  I’m not the tranny type skater so it was pretty hard to skate all the shit that was there.  I just stuck with the euro bump, mini-ramp, box and the pyramid.  The best part of the day was that we had the whole park to ourselves. :)


Switch Frontside 180 Heel


CARPE DIEM (I guess that 3 weeks ago the skatepark had a graffiti competition involving various artists around Europe painting the best piece with the words “Carpe Diem”.  That’s probably why alot of the pieces below say “Carpe Diem” on them.)


CANTWO


TROTA

Men At Work

May 4, 2008 | Filed Under Friends, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | No Comments

We drove a lil bit up north to Santa Barbara today to film and hang out with friends. After skating the SB Park, we went to go grub at Subway’s and found a construction site with maaaaddd banks and gaps to skate. Caught some footage here and there but nothing special.


Ollie into the bank.


The Banks


Some kids were already skating the gap.


Jimmy - The Youth of Today (The tattoo is real. 14 years old using marker ink and pushpin.)


This kids board went into the sewage. Wamp Wamp…


Setting Up


Getting Creative


Meetch - Gap to Manual on the Makeshift Box/Ladder


After skating, somebody thought that it would be funny to put my bike up on top of the dirt island. Good one Beto & Dave! I’ma get you back suckas! Funnyshit though.

Papa Jack’s Skatepark - Malibu, CA

April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Friends, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 2 Comments

Just got back from a skateboard contest that was being held over at Papa Jack’s Skatepark in Malibu, CA. We had a booth there alongside with Underground Wheel Company to help promote and slang our products. If you didn’t get a chance to go to this event then you missed out on our sale. ($30 Boards, $10 T-Shirts, and $25 Hoodies. Wamp, Wamp…) Our crew members from Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, and Santa Barbara got together for this event. Some pretty good local rippers were busting out. The one that stood out the most to me was this 5-8 year old kid with a flannel shirt droppin frontside & backside disasters on the 7ft quarter pipe as well as doing lipslides down the babyrail. Kids these days are just amazing.


Mr. Polaroid


Underground Wheel Company booth


Wheels for Sale


Setting Up Shop


LUMBO gettin down on a huge snowcone


42 aka IC (10% Love Me & 90% Hate Me)


Masaki


Lounging at the booth.


Had to keep cool from the shade. Superhot day.


Steve getting sloppy with it.


Bye Bye Birdies…


The Street Course


We were chillin near the miniramp most of the time cause it wasn’t full of lil grommets getting in the way.


Hard at work.


Parents and Friends showing the kids some love.


The music booth where BENET was DJ’ing.


This is the park ripper kid w/ the flannel shirt that I mentioned earlier. He got 1st place and won a Skate All Cities deck!


Raffle Prize winner


Product Toss!


Skate All Cities Lunchbox


Randy Chew. Check out the cut on his tattoo. Straight savage! Hahahaha.

Fully Fixed

March 29, 2008 | Filed Under Friends, Graffiti, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 4 Comments

Recently went back to the Fully Flared (LAKAI) spot that we painted earlier this year. Saw that a couple of the homeys got dissed with some wack tags, etc. Had to go fix them with some scraps that I had. (You can thank daddy later. Now they’re “Fully Fixed”.)

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Skypage x Dreos x Chuks x Gash x Huck x Ricks

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Backside Tailslide

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SKYPAGE - GTB

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DREOS - AOM, LD

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CHUKS - ICK, SAC (Fixed)

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GASH - ICK, AL

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HUCK - SAC, WAI (Peep the before shot.)

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RICKS - SAC

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BGP’s coming to a skate video near you…

Skating Around Carpinteria

March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Friends, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 1 Comment

Had a fun time over at Carpinteria High School earlier this week. Skated some sick ditches off towards the side of the school. (A lil rough, but oh well.) There was also a stage there with a huge gap over some stairs and wall. You might have seen it in some videos but it was my first time going there so I was surprised to see how big it was. Our boy Adriano used the stage differently by ollieing a gap to nose manual and landing off the huge drop. Took about a good 20 minutes, filmed by yours truly.

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Masaki - Ollie over curb to Nose Manual down into the ditch

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The Stage @ Carpinteria High

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Future Ty Evans

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Go Get Your Wet Wipes

After getting kicked out of the school, we went across the street and found these buttery ass ledges with no runway but we still managed to get some tricks in.

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Frontboard to Pop-Out

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Guest Appearance: George Nagai

FIC Headquarters (Phoenix, AZ 3 of 4)

March 2, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Friends, Graffiti, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | No Comments

After finally getting a good night’s rest and checking out at 10am, we were on our way back to the event towards FIC Headquarters. Imagine a 5 story warehouse building full of graffiti in each floor and offices, corridors, and even showers for the executive offices! Yup, that’s how the FIC are currently setting up shop right now. They gave us a tour of the spot and here are some of the pics. You can basically have a rave on 1 floor, a skatepark on another, a VIP room on the roof with lots of extra space for everything in between.

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Bird’s Eye View

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Don’t look down!

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DOSE - TAF, ICR

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PUBEK - TAF, ICR

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SREK - TAF, ICR

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GNES - TAF, ICR

After the tour around the warehouse, we ended up in the back of the building where there were ledges for us to skate! Soggy legs and all I skated for a couple of minutes. Anyone remember seeing Rob Welsh do a sequence on this ledge? I think Fakie Flip to 5-0 or something like that? Regardless, the ledges were buttery and we got our 5-0’s and crooks on…

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Sexy Legs

TO BE CONTINUED…

Supra Ramp x AGENDA

February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 2 Comments

Aaron over at AGENDA was kind enough to let us skate their new bowl that was sponsored by the heads over at Supra. The mini bowl has real pool coping and a wallride extension towards the right upon entering. Shit was pretty fun, but too bad I suck at pool/miniramp. Wamp Wamp…

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Poser trying to Frontside 5-0

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Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Chinatown Ledges - Los Angeles, CA

January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 1 Comment

If all of you skaterheads don’t know where this spot is by now then let’s just say you don’t really skateboard do you? We stopped by the “Chinatown Ledges” for a warm up session and ran into shitload of kids having the time of their lives skateboarding and filming with their parents vacation camera. It kinda reminded me of the good ol days when we didn’t have a care in the world except trying to learn how to do tricks and just skate. That brought a smile to my face. :)

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1 Footed Backside Tailslides? Nah……I jus suck at shooting photos

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Damian catchin BGP’s in an upcoming YouTube Sponsor Me Video?

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Randy w/ the 5-0 to 180 Switch Crooky Monster

LRG Warehouse Mini Ramp

January 23, 2008 | Filed Under Friends, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 2 Comments

Took a quick pit stop to check out LRG’s new miniramp located in their warehouse. Didn’t have a chance to actually skate it but I’m sure we will next time.  But wouldn’t you like to know where this is?

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2 Foot Extension over to the right!

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Got LRG?

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Dave Stuntin Like My Daddy in the back of the LRG warehouse

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Now the trick is to, “Slip The Clutch”.

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