Wheels of Fire

Yes, yes, yes. Real vert. I watched a bunch of the X Games over the last few days (shut up, I'm on holidays) and after watching great lip tricks, inverts and truly weird and wacky lines in the park contest get ignored in favor of Andy-bloody-Mac crap, this is a breath of fresh air.

Kevin Kowalski, Omar, Aaron Homoki and Rune were awesome in the janky half-wood, half-concrete set-up. Omar's slam was ugly, but he got back at 'er pretty hard. Rune is just head and shoulders above anyone else, though. Super fast, super smooth and above all gnarly. Trujillo will always be under-appreciated at this bogus ad-fest.

The vert was so lame I can barely write anything about it. When an overhead front stale or whatever is "a wasted set-up air" I want to puke. Spin to win ladies, spin to win. On a positive note; Bucky's boneless five and McEgg are great.

Maloof was better.

P.s. The song is by Claus Grabke's band Eight Dayz, "What's so strange about me?" Love it.

Vert is dead...

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Awesome site for a look at the grimy, gorgeous, golden days of skateboarding.

Lance Mountain

Still the best...

Wallenberg

We've been without a bit of shredding here for too long. Here's some pics from the Wallenberg Contest cribbed from the Thrasher site.

Marissa Del Santos - Ollie attempt. She kept at this for quite a while but came up short.

Nick Merlino - Switch heel. Heavy.

Gilbert Crockett just missed this nollie attempt.


Chris Cole - Backside 360 and the winning switch frontside flip.

4Q Shop tour

So Heavy

Adam Wright/Hauler photo of Jasin Phares, Max Schaaf and Jason Jessee. I loved these guys as a skater growing up, and they're just as rad today.

Grand Cayman

The skate park in Grand Cayman. A billion degrees, no other skaters. Great.


Justin in the pool.


Some fat dude (Me) over the light. This park was so fun that I forgot to pad up the entire time. Everything else is so huge and intimidating that this pool felt like a mini ramp.

Sleeping...

Sad news. Van Wastell died a few days ago. I heard that there was a possibility of suicide, but I sincerely hope not. He was a great skater, and will be missed as shown from the top shot from 4Qconditioning. I wanted to post another picture from happier times, and found the second one on the DLX tribute page.

RIP Van, and don't worry. Greater things are still to come.

Cardiel by Jason Adams

Thanks to Slap Magazine.

Back from the dead...

Holy crap, check this guy out. Richie Jackson wishes he was this tweaked.

Hecka Tight...

Aw yeah. Picked up my ltd. edition plaid Cardiel board today. Sucker came with all the Epicly Later'd episodes on a DVD.

It's on.

Max & Salman

Salman Agah was straight up one of the gnarliest switch skaters of my youth. I heard a story once where the photo department of a skate rag refused to print a shot of Salman that was labelled switch 'cos they were convinced the slide was flopped. Rad.

Johnny can't skate...

Cardiel may not be skating like he used to, but if I tried a wallride on a fixie you'd be pickin' my teeth out of the concrete for sure. John just proves "once a skater, always a skater."

Jim Thiebaud's ramp jam

Best tricks in my book; Markovitch's alley-oop air, Brauch's back-to-back blunts, Phil Shao's rafter drop, Cardiel's BS lein-to-tail revert.

Backyard shenanigens...

Justin and Alex.

Streets on Fire

J. Jessee's pan, The Black Tibetan. Super mean...

Steve McQueen, Jer - R&R an a grinder

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