Skate Block 3.1

We got us some quarter pipe. $50 bones courtesy of the Dave Network, and we had something to work with. Using the only two templates left from brodahl's ramp that didn't end up in the fireplace, and Dave's new lumber, we built whats become known as "The Humbler". Max has taken to calling it "The Garrics" as well. Its janky, tiny, hard to skate and the coping, which is attached with a garden hose.. sticks way the fuck out. all of this was done on purpose, cause easy gets boring. Building things that are intentionally hard to skate is the way to go. wave of the future. the horizon, man...yeah. ironically it's been getting slayed and everyone is somehow able to learn new tricks almost daily. i mean joe's doin' fucking blunts, man. Without grabbing the nose..Damn. We put some sharp-ish, jaggy ceramic tiles i had in a bucket on it yesterday, so now its way pimp. Add that with the kill-wedge and today's newly scabbed together formica tabletop "bench/box", the ledges on the stoops, and we almost got a park goin' on out front. Brodahl should give us his quarter pipe from washougal..that would be about bitchin'... what ya think, hefe'? Any way here's Photo's from day 2.

Thrillkill goes tailsmack.


Noah transfers to the narrow end.


Max, High Five.


Lurkie McAngry goes grinding.


Thrillkill. Feebs, the hard way and travelling.


Maxrock.


Noah is getting better, and we may have him hobbled soon.



Bumhunter. six foot arial, invert backside.


At one point during this day, a Portland roller derby chick skated by on rollerskates all geared up for roller combat and sessioned the ramp with us. she was really cool, and random encounters like that are happening daily, now as a result of this shitty thing. Its amazing. there is no other force on earth that will pull all 8 dudes around this block that skate out into the 35 degree day to hang out in the cold. skateboarding can do this and more.

Burgla' Killen em', Buck!

Joe Horn, a 61 year old man killed two burglars. This may be old news, but I'm kinda not into television at all.


It poses some sketchy legality, arguments, and potential criminal issues, that I think should be discussed. Rationally. The hazy legalities of what Joe did, (which Joe here has almost entirely sidestepped due to the alien status of the burglars, and Texas law)is something to think about.

I cant speak of whats right for everyone, but if some creeper rolls up onto my castle, or my neighbors' with the intention of doing ill, I'm slaying the dragon.
I tend to think that Joe did the right thing, but I wasn't there.
At the very least I admire Joe Horn for his balls and pure badass Texas-ness.

The Lockdown Ramp (Vantucky circa '97)

This rare piece of footage comes courtesy of Nate Sherwood's YouTube account. Ya see Nate and I are from the same town and when we were youngsters and skating..say, from 1988 through almost 2000, there were only a handful of us that had been dropping slappies around town for any length of time and even fewer who had been down that whole time. this is way pre-boom skateboarding era or whatever. So we all hung out, shared our spots, weed and girls... and things were really fun. didnt matter how you skated or whatever other faction specific friction we have in skateboarding now, if you were a lifer you were equal. Some of us still feel that way, but we are fading away like a species that has finished its usefulness. whatever, not gonna lament for the good old days or whatever, shits done now.. but fuckin' nate-o came through with some old documentation of the LockDown Ramp. It was a ramp at Nate Ahlberg, Tory Merril, Nick Duzick and Jacob Weiss' house. To be correct it was in the living room. I spent most of my time there crashing on the floor. The other guy that was a non -resident-resident was "Lil' Acorn", Nick's younger brother. I miss those guys. We were constantly shredding the living room because that year was a cold, frozen-ass, bitter winter and they had torn out the only wood burning stove to make room for the instavert wall under the stairs, skateboarding was how one kept warm. That year everyone got iced in and couldn't go anywhere for like a month, so it was named the LockDown Ramp. She was the hotel california of miniramps, once you dropped in you could never leave. It was in downtown Vancouver in a rental house, it had two vert pillars, was maybe 4' tall at coping and the front door opened exactly enough to drag a keg through it before hitting the deck. it was super extra super fun. So cheers to Nate for letting me see our old spot again!

START AT 1:28 FOR LOCkDOWN FOOTAGE, THE FIRST PART IS CHAD'S RAMP IN RIDGEFIELD, I KNOW SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT SHIT, TOO.
and why is this space down here so fucking big? I fucked the code somehow..

Show Me Pools, STL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGGc44KDN8

i was gonna embed the video to hype up those goons shit, but Lil' Buck disabled the embed code, fucking selfish fuckers. so copy that link and see pool/park footage. it's pretty decent.

hermann's Hole- STL

looks sick! I almost would go back to S^TL to skate that, but we have i think 4 new parks this year with bowls...

good job STL folks! particularly Lil' Buck, JP and Lynch.

Texas Sauce.

-Pod Photo-

New Sauce is out...issue numba seven. Pod's shit is way hyphy. get it at shrunk or from Pod's hot lil' hands. This issue has non other than Al Queda Chris railing a crail-blocked skidder at a TRB Tuesday session at Donald. Chris and Pod came out with the boys to skate and Pod caught this fucking gnarly hippy stomper. He had Chris doin' this trick for quite awhile, as time went on each attempt got less crailed, and more blocked out. They were all sick, slidey and nearly every one was a make. Those fellers are super fun to have at the session, they hype shit up. Good dudes. Uh-Oh..Watch yerself, Texas Rose Boys lurking hard in the background. Could be your beer they be drankin'. It's a fucking ill photo, and for the record my pant leg is not rolled up like a gangster, its some weird color correction thing, I think. This is the session I re-jacked my knee at too. F/S air to drain..ahh the memories. Actually...Wheres that photo, Pod? help a broken brother out by forwarding a nigga's milestone to said nigga, yo! I woulda totally forgot if ya hadn't gone and run a photo from that day all pretty and colorful like.

Go to sauceskateboardzine.com to check Pod's sick road trips and photo's or just lurk his myspace at myspace.com/sauceskateboardzine and find out what goin' on... well.. everywhere.

nigga fuck yo' couch.

Brigs loves skate moms.

If you got a skate mom, let's all hope he don't try to fuck her with that thing.

Burnside and the city...

A Blurb from the Portland community policing Minutes for the Se District regarding the park...

Jenna talked about the Burnside Skate Park. There is a strip of property owned by the PDC that has been donated to the skate park. The skate park has started additional construction without PDC approval. Jenna is looking into that. If you notice anything unusual going on there, please contact Jenna. There should be no construction going on there, as they have no permission to expand and no permits have been issued. She has a “Cease and Desist” order in place. Portland Development Commission is still in control of the property.

There have been a lot of police reports this month for building structures, open containers, etc. Officers are writing lots of tickets. There are not a lot we can do beyond writing tickets, since we don’t have the sit/lie ordinance here.

better be on point, fella's...

09

Happy New Year.
Yay. I puked in the sink.
hope this year is fun like all the rest of em were.

Goofing off in STL

More old footage from way back. STL. If you watch close you can see my stupid ass getting punished at around the 43 second mark. good times.

a kid from STL, Sami made a bro-video he called The Halloween Video and this was a trailer i made out of it, out of boredom one night.

Shrunken Head Creature Deck..Bad Ass.

Click it and make it bigger, fool.

FUCKIN SWEET.
Now roll your head down to Shrunk and get one if they got one to give ya, which they may not, who knows?..But you should go there and buy other shit if thats not gonna happen. or buy krause's records. or buy new bearings or whatever cause you probably need em anyway.

Epic Ramp Footage from way back when...

Diggin in the vault! This was shot way back after we built the Epic Skateshop mini in Vantucky. Around 2000-2001

Simpson House Bombers. FTW!<
John Miller made this back then and its been in my DVD rack for years.

Sensativity training

Brodahl's mini.

::R.I.P.::
Brodahl's ramp is loong gone now and has since been reformed along with my old ramp into the monster that the TRB built. some of this ramp went into the fireplace, too. heat is pretty, cool.

Now, at this point feel compelled to call for particular attention to be paid to The Alaskan Assassin's mighty fine haircut.. just sayin'..


Krause grinder..or pivot..maybe to fakie, even. krause is ninja like that.

Point Barrow Blunt

This is a make just based on how hard the hair is stepping.

Holy shit, look at brodahl's slick Rainyday Concepts shirt! fucking hot shit. theres some jason chucking some uphill extension grinding all tough nuts with a smoke in his lip in the photo too, but wouldja just focus with me and look at that rad shirt for a second?

Paw does lipskidders. Coping Dancing Outlaw.

City Hall

Screech

Rocco

Steven

Johnny

Wu Weller

Old photo's from awhile ago... some dudes skateboarding.

Sexy Lady Time?

man's ruin

This is a tattoo of a monkey smoking a crack pipe. Strippers are funny, huh?

random stripping lady snapshot. alright then.

Max photos WWW.diefoto.com

Skateblock Part II

A few more pics from the front stoop..



Master Preblon gets it on while the scumbums lurk.

The Knife Hit is Back..

boredom makes dudes go back to middle school type shit..

Fare Thee Well, indeed.

Danboy is on tour in europe. Touring germany, poland, and shit like that. look at this picture and ask yourself whether you want this dude playing guitar in your band.. good luck to Fare Thee Well, with Dan's clumsy ass on board.

The Carnage of Days gone Past..

found some old pics of my Wasted Knee. Enjoy!

It started here.

And ended here.



Still love my skateboard, wicked bitch that she can be.

Welcome to my Oregon.

//PdX::Tejas Roscoe::TrB\\

It's raining and I miss Pistol's.

Pistols was rad. it was indoors and free and mellow and fun. sure it had sticky coping and lots of concrete and wood shit to fall into, but you could footplant the walls, manual out across the stage into the other side, nosepickpick the tiny little window or just skate the couches when you were tired with a bunch of amped little kids and that was awesome. Its rainy forever again, and im bored and i wish there was a teeny little ramp to ride around on right now. boo.

heres some old photo's from the shop of various people.
Not in any order at all: Cody Weaver(toast skateboards rider), Brujo (some dude), Colin (Bacon Hefe), Mark Cronahan (EPM Guy), Jeff Wentworth (super hurricane killer)










All these photo's are taken by Mike Goetz from The Skateboard Archives or Randy Kilwag at skate and Annoy. watermarks denote who is what. go to their sites and look at rad shit. the skateboard archives has tons of awesome photo's of this ramp and everywhere else.

Ask Chappy?

best idea ever... write some bizarre questions for chappy to answer all ann landers style.
shit will be funny!
that was the idea but he disappeared again. look in springtime i guess.
dude logs serious mileage.

i am against photo posting today.

Survival School.

What don't kill a man only makes that motherfucker harder.

The posts have sorta stopped flowin for a minute. been busy as fuck with the skoolin' and keepin the hustle going to feed the hate machine.
I'll get back on track soon enough, but I didn't have to get a student loan for this blog, so...priorities.

IT'S FUCKING COLD.
It being cold as shit up in Portland is certainly not helping my motivation. snow is wack. just sayin'. Lots of good fun has come from the cold though.. once again this year we smashed a bunch of our furniture and burnt it in the fireplace. straight up.. goodwill firewood is way cheaper than chopped wood, and you get to break shit. Sometimes it goes too far and you end up breaking shit you needed to sit on or use frequently, but that's how it goes i guess. The neighbors got all inspired an took up the hobby themselves. Get in on it now kids while the fad is hot...fuck yeah! poverty!
whatever..it's like the Young Ones over here but with actual smart folks. It's kinda rad to have people over and drink beers while wearing full on ski clothes, indoors. that Bear Grylls dude from that survival show would love hanging out over here. We could build fires with string and sticks and drink our own pee.. or not, we do still have water.

yeah, so thats that for today. I got physics type homework to do and some fire to build in the fireplace, cause like i said, it's motherfucking cold..like 18 degrees in my house.

20th century home heating is for pussies.