pontus is the bestest.......

he gets his share of love here on the tort.  well deserved.  skateboard hero.

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online.....

video parts come and go as quickly as the sun.  These two are worth storing in the memory bank however.

Clint Walker.  Of course i've heard of him, but never really see much coverage.  This is scary. fast, big and super technical.  gnarly stuff indeed.  trippin on the sex change.



and Randy Ploesser.  This guy has been one of my favorite underground guys forever.  Everytime he comes out with a part its full of unique spots and super unique manuevers.



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photo fer yer day.......

here is one i shot of mr. ryan williams 3 or 4 years ago.  Whenever Dahl park first opened.  It was used online fer a web thing.  i wish i could jump like that.  prob feels real nice.

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style.........

is in the push.  either yer born with it or yer not. 

no

yes

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the golden hour.....

if you like snapping photos, then you know the last 30 minutes before the sun sets is one of the raddest times to take photos.  the warmth, natural rimlight and colors generally make for  rad photos without the  addition of any artificial light.  Last night Zac Garza went the distance in the crapditch to fakie.

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radnumbs.

 happiness.

super arsenal of rad.

sum times things just werk out photo wise.

goatpro.

al killin it per usual.

ass out.

banana george approved.

leo aint got shit on of jihad

blackmarket ad from last LowCard.

best dude ever.  miss ya homie.

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i have a whole.....

cam part edited up on my smart box which is living in unheated storage.  maybe one day it will grace our peeperz.  by the time we see it sum of the footage will be 8 years old.  YES!  anyways, this footage arn't new i-ther.  but boi is it grrrrrrreat!



cam original gangsturd.

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found sum old clips i never posted..........

al sandlin always werkin sum magic.



the ginger with a line



ben and cam loving nature



and the man the myth the legend.........

THE HUMAN WEED LEAF

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jimmy jihad.............

also known as james edward denton to his parents and friends outside the skateboard world is a radical human.  We have known eachother for quite a few years now, meeting during the days of the infamous triad "3 bucks please" ramp days.  It didn't take long for us to realize we enjoyed blazing through live together and have been rippen ever since.  Jimmy lives to skate and spend time with my  niece and his daughter Darla, a very fine specimen of canine quality.  you most likely have seen jimmy around as its hard to to notice his skating or him ollieing over yer head.  He's down for the cause, his buds and skating.  He just lost his job on friday so you will probably be seeing a lot more of him on his board.  Did i mention he has a meattortilla tattoo!!!  Thanks for the good times my friend.

heres a few photos ive shot of jihad over the years.  jimmy's one of my favorites to skate and shoot with.

one of my favorite jumpers in the game.

up on the hillside.  these 2 rad dogs just kept running after him time and time again.

ollie on the moon.  jimmy likes the moon........cabbage.

this spot is not easy to skate at all.  I have taken a lot of people here and only 3 have stepped.  This day jimmy got tossed upside down scorpo style but shook it off, put on another layer for protection and came through like a champ.

my niece darla is such a lover.  obviously she loves her uncle.



thanks for the ripping good times ameego.

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hi-ya.......

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#instacrapditch

the boys making the most of early spring day at our piece of werk.

al's 360 is amazing!!!



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ive spent a whole lotta.....

time at the ol'crap ditch, so when you see sumptin new go down it's always rad.  eli hare was snapping the length of the twinkie for fun.  hard to catch that little tranny.  yeah buddy.

video of the day later today.

  

zac garza.........

is still tossing his carcass at round rails at the ripe age of 37.  yeah buddy.

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ginger ginger......

the ginger and juice got rad in about 37 minutes before he had to shuffle off to werk.  later bellingham.  the weather made it rad.  o, and garza's hospitality.  thnx bud.



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yesterday......

while walking in the woods i spotted a fairy.  A mystical, mythical creature, very seldom scene by the human race.  was able to get a few quick snaps although these photos may vanish before yer eyes at any moment if the fairy no longer wishes to be scene. 

get dusted.

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it continues......

making things happen here in the city.  heading out again right now.  sunday.  less traffic.  people are getting drunk and green.  full post soon. 

yep.

the new vert ramp in seattle......

is a monstrosity.  By far the biggest and tallest ramp ive ever seen.  the construction is a absolute trip.  the tent/scaffolding/shelter settup for the beast is absolutely insane.  The whole thing is plain bonkers.  props to the peepz who put in all this werk and also everyone out there gettin sum on the ramp.  Definintely gonna need to bring the ol pads for that bad boy.

We showed up early in the day where Chris Cope got right to it and started rippin.  we got a rad photo early in the day before a herd of humans rolled in.  Jihad and Brick slowly stepped to the beast as well.  Just the drop in required getting the kahones in place and the mind focused.  Did i mention the thing is real real big?

Later on the the eve a bunch of seattle heads started to role thru.  it was cool to see so many of our/the older generation all in one place skating.  there was: Hubbard, Shaggy, S-Dog Deluxe, CEO, Fat Chris, the 5, Max, Brice, along with our crew: myself, Brick, Jihad, Sperm and Chris.  Things were getting heated and the ramp was getting put to good use.  Just watching Shaggy skate the thing, was a sight to be seen.  absolutely humbling and time to peace out and get sum pho.

good times that day.  here are a few snap shots.  i will post some video tommorow or the next.

  13.5 ft and 15.5 ft.

huge

the gutz and stuff.

jihad stands tall utop 15.5 ft of fast as britches birch plywood.

chris cope with a invert on the extenstion.

brick filled with glee after he dropped in for the first time and got sum scratchers.

jihad sums up the plunge, while brick feels his elevated heart rate.

Seattle looks to be a destination in the vert werld now.  a absolutely amazing creation.  go and check it out.  bring big wheels, maybe a skate tool, and prolly sum pads....... just sayin.  yer 53mm aren't gonna get ya where ya wanna be.

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this weekend....

i ended up meetin the homies out in whidbey island.  Kyle from Blackmarket skateshop had to deliver sum boards to Gizmos in Oak Harbor, and with a van full of sum of my greatest pals?  im there.  got the call and jumped on a boat.  Long story short, it didn't go as planned.  as soon as we got to the area we wanted to skate, it was suddenly wet.  After the board drop off and a little motivation and my squegee, things were pretty much dry.  for about 20 minutes........... 

a little tracking never stopped sum pent up car legged skaters though.  next thing you know, brick and brice are sessioning a very hard to skate pyramid contraption in the drizzle.  neither of the boys tricks were comin very easy so brice hyped the sesh with a wager.  first one to land their trick gets to punch the other dude in the face.  I wasn't sure how this would turn out so i just kept filming.....



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coal pad article......

there is a article in the new issue of the Mt. Baker Experience about the C. Pad, a print magazine outta whatcom county.  It's nice they didn't botch worms werds, and actually used the action photo i gave them, instead of sum "guy in the sky" photo, which non-skate publications generally seem to do.  green lights!

online version

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this is good.......

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sperm......

is back in the northwest!!!

within a few minutes i learned yet another new bit of slang.

sorry.  won't be posting it here on the tilla.  catch up with him yerself and learn sumptin new.

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da gingaturd.........

is still continuing to crush da croncrete waves.  here he is at the new Sedro Wooley porkhe , with sum cameos at the crapditch, la conner and sum of bellinghams finest street locales.  you see?  i told you its toadly awesum up hero.



o yeh.  seamus filmed this on his mobile chatter.

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yep.....

those guys you see around have been doing it for a real long time fur seattle.  Joe, Micah, Steve......  Stoked to fumble upon this gem today.



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color..........

brick gets down on the native battlefield last eve.  five-oh.

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im here at.......

the meattortilla traveling headquarters formulating and conjuring up ideas of never missing "THE SHOT".  This chap has the right idea.  Coming to a skatepark near you.

and another sweet move by Mr. Alv.  switch walljamunji.

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damn.........

this thing is no joke.  jihad isnt that small of a human.  a whole lof of respect.

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MUSKA!

the artist...



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