Kamloops, British Colombia opened the World’s First Longboard Park and I had the pleasure of being there thanks to Switchback Longboards and the #SwitchbackAnimals. I swapped runs with Aidan Lynds to cover the filming and he put together the edit.
Check the original CFB-TV News report here: http://www.cfjctv.com/video/OCT20_LONGBOARD.m4v
Switchback Longboards helped me get to the Toronto Board Meeting with Aidan Lynds this past September so we brought out the cameras and put together a little edit capturing all the fun with the #SwitchbackAnimals and the Ontario community.
I have known about the Toronto Board Meeting for years, but always had a reason to be somewhere else. No excuses this year, I packed my bags with Aidan Lynds and we headed out to Toronto.
One of the iconic things in my mind is the black & white photos of Board Meeting over the years, most notably to me are the ones from Jonathan Nuss. Nuss and the Skate Invaders are a large part of my image of the Ontario scene as whole.
I snapped some images for Switchback Longboards while I was there and kept it to Monochrome because it felt right (Album here). Continue reading
Strolling the interwebs the other day I stumbled across a fun web app for making gifs from youtube videos – GifYoutube.com
Simply throw in the youtube video address, move the time scroller to the desired start time and select the duration of the gif. Too easy!!
Here’s the gif:
One of my favorite moments of the last few years of skate travel was Aidan Lynds, Griffin Hopkins and I all trying to sit in my hammock at the Menlo Slide Jam… and fail.
The homies at Onboard Distribution were a HUGE help with running All The Pinche Way last fall in Mexico. Pinche Tour Mama, Claudio, now working with Onboard as well as Rayne, shot a bunch of video at Monterreal and just released a sick edit for Onboard’s channel to highlight their support for the tour.
Thanks to Claudio and Andres for all the support! Now peep the footage:
Despite skating down hills for years now, Freeride’s and lurking the back of the pack seshing runs with the homies is more my style. Add running brand activations at most events and I have rarely entered a “race”. Last year I hit up the Mt. Tabor race on “holiday” and entered myself to actually compete. Tabor is a rad old-school tuck race in Portland, a generally mellow hill, but anything can happen racing. I ended up crashing with OSL in my first heat (Sorry buddy!), but advancing, and then out next round. Fun times for sure.
This past week was the infamous Danger Bay and Jake’s Rash. I was working with Switchback at Danger Bay and not really down for the havoc of the historic crash corner, but the party is rad. I had more time at the mid-week Jake’s Rash (not a family event!) and really enjoy the speedy, sweepy course – time to race.
Gbemi has been blogging about the longboard world for a few years now with All Around Skate and Thane Magazine. He has a unique style of Google Doc interviewing with an interesting and disarming feel and pace. A few months back (or so it feels?), Gbemi got in touch about my involvement in Rayne and Vicious, this time he wanted to hear about the Rayne All the Pinche Way Tour.
Monterrey and Monterreal is where we got inspired to start All the Pinche Way. I traveled to the 2012 MILF with Aidan and Justin and really fell in love with the region. Returning with the tour was definitely a grand idea.
The feature image is Levi Green in Monterrey… getting his daily cheesus. By this time, Levi has given up on riding his downhill deck and just started shredding a Rayne Catalyst with 62mm Envies and blasting huge slides beside the occasional ollie. Photo from Will Edgecombe.
THC and NoNeed4Lube were on it all trip supporting the tour with camera gear, but really blew it up with tight car mount, follow runs. Big thanks to all of them and the homies that showed us the way and gave us places to stay.
All the details on Episode 3 from Rayne.com
Photos from Episode 3 on Rayne’s Facebook Page here and here.
Original tour announcement from Rayne.com
Big thanks to Claudio Uribe, Onboard Distribution, Vicious Grip, Rayne Longboards and all the homies in Mexico who helped make this awesome!
PS. I brought home tons of footage and I gotta keep giving credit to Aidan Lynds for plowing through it all to make these edits.
I still don’t know where Dan and Aaron got a chainsaw, but we were having fun at Black Flag Skate and Climbing shop all the same. Continuing from Guadalajara to Mexico City this time, we made a quick visit to Leon on the way.
What the video doesn’t show is that Claudio left us with La Migra (the Van) to go to Mexico City on our own. He was busy and needed to meet us there. Who sends 8 Pinche Gringo’s on the road by themselves? Luckily we had Dan Favela to take care of us (and yet, he has the chainsaw?).
All the details on Episode 2 from Rayne.com
Photos from Episode 2 on Rayne’s Facebook Page
Original tour announcement from Rayne.com
Big thanks to Claudio Uribe, Onboard Distribution, Vicious Grip, Rayne Longboards and all the homies in Mexico who helped make this awesome!
PS. I brought home tons of footage and I gotta keep giving credit to Aidan Lynds for plowing through it all to make these edits.
That’s me in the driver’s seat, traveling through Mexico on Rayne All the Pinche Way! Here’s the first part from Guadalajara to the El Tigre Freeride. Next up should be Guadalajara to Mexico City, hopefully next week.
All the details on Episode 1 from Rayne.com
Photos from Episode 1 on Rayne’s Facebook Page
Original tour announcement from Rayne.com
Big thanks to Claudio Uribe, Onboard Distribution, Vicious Grip, Rayne Longboards and all the homies in Mexico who helped make this awesome!
PS. I brought home tons of footage and I gotta give credit to Aidan Lynds for plowing through it all to make these edits.
The Papa Les 