Introducing INDY

INDY is the latest edition to our family. He is our 6 week old rare "blue" Boston Terrier. The blues are more of a silver or gray but have a blue tint to their hair and skin. Now Ollie has a brother and I have one more dog to take skating with me. Rad. We couldn't be more stoked.

Two Pics For Tuesday and Oregon Trifecta

Before Tuesdays Gone With The Wind I wanted to post a few pics and mention the Oregon Trifecta Bowl Series. First and foremost today's solo pics featuring The View From Above and Ollie the Dog hiding in the tall grass. Both of these images were captured at Coonskin Park early today. Now for something important. The Oregon Trifecta went down this past weekend. I was lucky enough to be in Portland at this time last year and witnessed some Rad skating to say the least. With the likes of Buck Smith, Duane Peters, and Steve Alba in attendance and then add to the mix the ladies division and the local rippers and it equals one incredible weekend of skateboarding. Check the link at http://www.oregontrifecta.com/ and the hot coverage at Skate and Annoy. The Pacific Northwest is a hot bed of pool skating and deserves recognition.

Saturday Skate Pics Ahh Yeah

Nothing beats a sundown hesh sesh at the curb spot. After blasting a handful of wallrides at the Old Dirty we proceeded to skate our new favorite yellow curb spot. A very mellow bank like incline leads to the yellow curbs at the top and the possibility are endless. I kept it old man and opted for the backside and frontside slappies. There are also some nice boardslide spots along the sidewalk as well, a few that even allow you to wallpush as you ride away. Nice. Real Nice. The curb sequence is courtesy of Eli. One pic is mid grind with a frontside grab and the other is of me riding away. There really is nothing else in the world like riding away from a trick. Satisfy my soul, know what I mean? Eli is depicted mid curb drop. Until next time Peace Hippies.

A Few More Shots of The Vegas Experience

Wow... Lately I have really realized what a long strange trip it's been... Here is some more debauchery and scenery from the adult playland known as the Vegas Strip. As for the pool in the previous entry, well it was dry and fully ready to skate once the leaves were removed. The brown in the bottom of the pool is dry leaves ready to be swept away. The hotel itself was open but only one car in the lot. This spot is easy in easy out. Enjoy the scenery. I did.

Circus Circus at night.

Hoo-uhs.

Fremont Manic Street Preacher.

Vegas

We are back in the Mid Atlantic but still on Vegas time. It is 12:34 p.m. EST and I can't wake up. In Sin City it's just past 9:30 in the morning and I would still be asleep. Here is a plethora of pics from Vegas, Las Vegas, that is.

Saturday Skate Pics And All The News You Can't Wait To Lose I Ride My Trucks Way Too Loose

Saturday came again as it does each week only it's early August and we are ushering in the Dog Days of Summer with high heat and hazy humid jungle like conditions. Conditions that are conducive to making your body produce sock soaking skate sweat that is rivaled only by the current monsoons of South East Asia. Since today's skating was done by me, myself, and I, I have included three pics of the various spots I like to skate on Saturday. The first pic is the curb slappy spot that I have skated for at least 18 years now. It's like being on coping and if you go fast enough you can make it around the kink where the gravel meets the sidewalk. Fun. The second pic is my board and another curb I found to boardslide on. Art for Art's sake I guess. Finally it's the Old Dirty Wall Ride Spot. Man this joint is rough. After picking up five or six cans of Steel Reserve left behind by the local vagrants and sweeping away the dirt, glass, and gravel, I was ready to skate. My strategy for the Old Dirty is to ride up the right side and wall ride over the grass and toilet paper and land in the dirt, glass, and gravel on the other side. Rad. I pulled four out of seven on it today so I'm stoked.

Thursday Skate Pics And News

Here are two pics from this morning's skate session at Coonskin. The first is Grom to fakie courtesy of Eli as photographed by me. Your second pic of the day is Eli's shot of my frontside slappy up the hubba ledge. Thank You to Skip Engblom for writing me back so fast. I sent Skipperboy a pic of me riding an SMA Natas back in 1989. I really dig his new shapes and the pro models as well as the team boards are hot, hot, hot. Our boy will be 60 soon and still longboards down to the ocean front in Santa Monica to this day. Hell Yeah. Nuff Respect Skip.