pecos wrex locos

photo by aaron forjan

chino crest under snow. tom sent me this pic via text message.

this weekend some coloRADo guys came into town to visit the bff... pool skating was on the agenda of course but the rains came in torrential winds blowing trees down and filling empty holes.

this only took about 20 minutes since there was 5 of us to bucket it out and dump it.


and this is another friend's backyard. his took over an hour with 6 people, he lives a little farther south of us and got more rain.




his wife came home from work after it was bailed and saw the water in their grassy area. she thought it was from the rain and said "wow our yard is flooded, i haven't been back here since it rained"... i didn't say anything because at first i forgot that we had just bailed it... call me braindead... then finally it hit her (and me... oh yah!) and we all laughed...

here's her hubby getting caught in the action


here he is catching me catching him in the act...

it rains one day in a month here and people complain. seriously?

notable tshirt quotes

"skate or cry" - they make baby hats that say this. they should make them for old men too.

this is another classic...go to walgreen's, buy a $2 shirt and a sharpie... make your own.

az crew battle IV

this is the zombie skateboards submission for this year's crew battle. skate arizona hosts this event each year and different crews around the state submit 3 minute videos. the zombie crew is one of my favorites because they are down to skate anything anytime. they don't care what it is, give them the gnarliest shit to ride and they will destroy it in your face or not. they don't care who's watching. they recently picked up brooke shields (steve snyder)... so stoked to see that guy riding with the zombie crew. he straight up rips everything and does it with a smile as you will see in thise video.

always down to promote the true essence of skateboarding at every opportunity, it's no wonder they picked up another win at the az crew battle event!

Zombie Skateboards Crew Battle 4 from Russ Powell on Vimeo.

sunday funday

sunday was such an awesome day, beautiful weather, awesome friends, and lots of skating...

bakerface was ripping our minds with lien to tails...


imaginary melons...


and nose blunts!!


he stoked wrex out so much he busted an invert in the steep and deep...


baker photos by http://www.aforjan.blogspot.com
wrex photo by tim jones winger she's only seventeen

you were amazing

rule the pool

with a frontside grind in the shallow

friends...

should enrich your life, not bring it down. seems like these days people have less consideration for other's well being and feelings than ever before. or maybe it's just this fucking city. either way, we keep keeping on and fuck the downers. there's only so much you can say or do to help someone and then it's up to them on whether or not they make the right choices. here's to my friends that keep me laughing...



wrex getting an invert. baker asked if he'd got an invert in it yet, i said i didn't think so, but ask wrex, i bet he'd do one... sure enough...



this is mark eshelman... he's known my bff most of his life of skateboarding. he learned to skate in a gnarly pool because he had nowhere else to skate. this pic is a tad early, but he gets a grind.

git ur hair did

alotta slackin'

and trying to have fun...

wrex at tempe photo by tim jones


dio by the empty fire pit photo by carl

listen

skated in the new year

instead of sitting around partying drinking it up and getting wasted, we got motivated to skate. luckily my best friend and two of my favorite skate buddies no longer survive through the party lifestyle... so it makes it easy to roust their need to skate. first up was desert west. i love the hips there. and the bowl is the smoothest thing in this state. "because shaggy did it" -quotable ninjegasus

we stopped by the house of pool theatricks on the way there and a pool was relinquished. so on to desert west...

this was the first park my bf took me to after moving to phoenix. i instantly fell in love with the hips.


these are some banks that grindline put in with the bowl. baker, carl, and wrex were having a fun session on it while i took a break and drank a squirt. i guess i should have gotten closer, there was some rad stuff going down.






mirror mirror on the back wall, this cell phone picture does no justice at all. this was fun and pretty whippy. we only got about 3 runs each, ninjegasus = zero thanks to the angry neighbor from across the alley.

yep, new sauce is out and this issue is a-nice. the pictures are super crisp and clean. this issue is a tad thinner but delivers your expected sauce goodness just as well as its thicker predecessors.



oby always sends in something fun. this time a vert ramp story.


dream session! by baker... which i so luckily got to attend. the day started out at pecos, got to meet julian from antihero and dorfus. super nice guys that rip. in this article by baker you will see trujillo clearing the gap at the keyhole. wrex got roll-ins at the pond... it was all insane to see.


baker also did a little write-up on the desert west bowl bash on valentine's day.


his article talks a little bit about the history of desert west, phoenix's first skatepark. i like this a lot. we were just there on friday..


there's an installation by pink crack. those guys sure know how to rip a party session...i like the fact that they travel a lot. one of my favorite zines with a blog.


and last but not least, this sentence has 2 words that make portland a beast that only the strong can embrace...


support this rad zine! pod and baker do an awesome service to the skateboard world. the cloths are rad and serious rippers love the wood that sauce offers anyone with at least $13 dollars to spend on something worthwhile. that 30 pack can wait.

The Sauce Store:

i have an entire 10 days off after i leave work today. my agenda? skate skate skate... (after family duties are over of course). most of my time will be spent in this hole.

an empty thought

obsession - booty sweat

every year i get less and less excited about xmas. nobody really treats it like its original meaning. more proof that religion is empty. it's all about consuming and feeling guilty about not having enough money to buy them what they really want. seems like more assholes are out at this time of year too.. i see people who took the time to decorate their houses and have blowup toys in their yard and deflated because some jerk punched a hole in it. does anyone really care anymore?

agent shitriot

i stole this from a trendy movie blog because seagal is in it!


agent shitriot

bob bla ba

deathbox

this little puppy is now almost a year old now. he's huge. 90% wolf.

for your information

from the skateboard mag website:

The Tony Hawk Foundation Board of Directors has announced the recipients of its Fall 2009 Skatepark Grant Awards, as well as a special allocation to match, dollar-for-dollar, donations to the Watts Skatepark project in Los Angeles.

From the 52 applications submitted for this season's Grant Review Session, the Board of Directors selected fourteen from low-income communities across the U.S., and collectively awarded $130,000 to help build free, quality skateparks that will serve at-risk youth.
Fall 2009 Tony Hawk Foundation Grant Recipients
$25,000

* San Luis Obispo, California

$15,000

* Mount Airy, North Carolina
* Lyndonville, Vermont

$10,000

* Aurora, Illinois
* Brooklyn, New York
* Wilmington, Ohio
* Dormont Borough, Pennsylvania

$5,000

* Estherville, Iowa
* Lyons, Michigan
* Mecosta, Michigan
* Royalton, Minnesota
* Commercial Township, New Jersey
* Greenfield, Ohio
* Martinsville, Virginia

quote worthy

"let's see how many people we can get to trespass an empty pool at once."

haha...

an early xmas present from my main squeeze ♡♡

he rules the pool

he made one line drawn with a pencil. and he changed my world. thank you!!!

and thanks forjan for the pic! wrex frontside grinds with ease. blaarrrrppp!