Reggae pit stop!

this rad Jamaican born, gangster ass, straight up rasta guy cruised by skateblock today and sang for us. it was awesome. I talked to him about the realities of jamaica for awhile and damn if that aint some hairy shit to hear from the first person perspective. Jamaica is not an island paradise...unless you are white and sequestered.


Reggae Pit Stop from brian drowns on Vimeo.

Olaf The Destroyer

Lil' shit almost beat me at SKATE using wierd boneless' and stuff.

afternoon project

This is real deal "Man Coping"

nest redux.

for those who aint seen what we do yet..kings of the trash ramp por vida.

Viva La Nest Life.

Gary Brammer.

This is wet willies waterslide in the derrty derrty STL. fun old spot, heres a front rock.

Table leg pole jam.

This is the thing we built in STL to entertain ourselves.
Brian werner (DeafSkateboards.com) learned us all how to do pole jams this day.
good friends, good times, good slams.

More Winter Humbler...

Max, back Boneless tail smacker:

Max doing that single truck grinding thing:

Dirty old brujo learned to front pivot:

Front rocks for everyone!
Me:

Maxwell:

all pics are taken by me except the pictures of me, which Max took.

Brigham gets it on

heres some pic's of brig's getting busy.. all photo's are mike goetz's @ theskateboardarchives.com except the last ramp photo which was taken by Max rees.

random pics from last week or so...

Olaf @ Adam and jackies:

Thrillkill @ Adam's:

Brodahl keepin it street on skateblock:


Natedog shows up now and again and styles shit out:

bad sheet..

some more shit happened and i got a little shut down its cool, i guess. i promise more posts and photo's and an awesome story of skateboard inspiration with a cast of rad people. tomorrow. promise.

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.