CALI HOT BOYZ in MONTE RIO

A few weeks ago Le Captain and I decided we wanted to get out of town for day so Mike decided to pack Cool Runnings with some homies and jam out to Monte Rio. So the day came and I had completely forgot about the trip, luckily I had woken up at a decent hour and intercepted Le Captain's courtesy call.  "You ready to go to Monte Rio?" the Captain asks me as I'm dropping the kids off at the pool. "Uuuuuuh yea, let's FUGGIN' DO IT!" I mumbled in response. "Alright, we're coming to get ya!" I had no idea who was all in the RV, all I could see were the Cap and Dirly. When I opened the side door I'm greeted by the Founding father of the F.o.F. in a B-Boy stance and my boy Bryan Walton coolin' at the dining table. I'm hyped, we got a solid crew of CALI HOT BOYZ and COOL RUNNINGS was ready to go! We get there and the park is pretty much empty aside from a rad dad and his lil mini shredder so we were juiced to get shreddy, but not before some afternoon Broga stretches of course. Trevor B, Hip Hop J, Christian, Mose, and Christian showed up to the park a little later and the sesh was in full swing. We all managed to stack some clips on our phones and Chalker evem got some cool clips on the Dad Cam. We spent a good chunk of the day out there and even managed to make it back to the Sao's for Sina's birthday BBQ. We shredded all day, stacked some clips, ate some oyst

ers, and murdered in some flip cup...I'd say it was damn good Saturday.Summer 's never over when you VACATION FOREVER! 

Jamboyage

Our good friend, Capt. Minard has been steady stacking miles on the Jambo lately. This one Saturday, in particular, was rad because it was the furthest Capt. Minard had driven the Jambo to date besides the Maiden Voyage to the beach. Mike, Eddy, Toan and Steve had already planned on going to see J5 in Oakland and I was fortunate enough that Eddy had an extra tickey for yer boy so I hopped in the Jambo and we jammed out. We got out to Oakland with time to spare so we parked by Lake Merritt and ventured out into the streets. The Rats managed to stack a few clips before stopping off at the Home of Chicken & Waffles to grub before the show. It was a successful RV trip and quite possibly the best show I've ever been to. BUCKET LIST SHIT! CHECK!!!

Money manny.

$'z buttflip.

Locc and the Dark Myk.

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Marquee photo op.

It got weird...

 

Dirly & 2NA

Fanbois

Myk's 26 Trix Barfday Mix

It was yer boy, Mike Minard's birthday last month on the 27th so we got together at Our Girl, Rosa Park and filmed some clips. Mike was on a mission to stack clips! As soon as we get to the park Mike starts warming up and looking through his Barfday trick list. He already had this idea of doing tricks that mirrored one another. So he'd do a 50-50 180 and then do the same trick switch or he'd do a backside 180 trick and then in turn do a frontside 180 trick. this idea reminded me of most Arto Saari parts because he would do that same thing, do a trick and then do the opposite or switch version right after. Skinner was there for moral support and after a while a bunch of homies filtered into the park to see if Mike could stack all his clips. Mike finished his list and could have stacked way more if he wanted too but we decided to go drink some beer and eat some pizza instead thanks to Stormy having the joog on the spot. Thanks to everyone that came out and shredded and thanks to Mike for being birthed, Happy Barfday brah!

A CHALKER CHRONICLES BARFDAY SPECIAL

I've been hoarding a bunch of iFin and gopro clips. All clips were filmed with no real purpose than to just document my friends enjoying life and having more fun than anyone else. It was our favorite Rad Dad skate blogger and resident scumbag, Isaac Kenyon's barfday a few months back and I thought why not throw together a TWERK edit to show some love to the OG triple OG. So I present to you all A TWERKIN' TWENTIES GYPSISODE: A CHALKER CHRONICLES BARFDAY SPECIAL" Happy BARFDAY old man and go DUBS!

Mexi said Chalker needed a "warsher."

Mexi Matt holding down the HQ driveway.

Mike getting a shinner.

A scumbag and his chihuahua.

CHALKER CHRONICLING.

I have a lot of photos of Chalker and this AntiHero koozie.

Squad!

The back of Chalker's Trick List.

Gifts for a scumbag,

Los Chalkers.

A CHALKER CHRONICLS BARFDAY SPECIAL!

A Patchy Bearded 12 Yr Old: The 5th Comeback

It was Gabriel Zavala's 32nd Birthday on Tuesday and he enlisted me to help him film 32 clips skating around Santa Rosa, Ca. I've known this dude for a long time or better yet this dude has known me since I was about 10 or 12, just a young grom trying to play s.k.a.t.e. at the old Hood Parking lot. So of course I was down to film him skating for his Birthday. We met up at the Hood and I was taken aback when he started gripping a new board. I was like, "HE's getting serious today!"We started off at his old stomping grounds of Bennett Valley to skate the ledge behind Safeway. I was really surprised to see that the ledge was still waxed when we got there. It was hard to get Gabe started at 1st cuz he really didn't have a game plan, he kept getting distracted by technology or would use the excuse of "I'm re-learning all these tricks." Once he got the muscles loose and his slides sliding he filmed 8 tricks at the 1st spot. WOOO! It was looking good, the tricks were fast and loud and he had 24 more tricks to go. I wanted to get a clip of Gabe at the Ivy gap but I felt he was trying to avoid ollieing it cuz he had said on the way there, "I hope there's a lot of cars in the way..." so I already knew going there was gonna be a bust but I still wanted to see if he'd do it or at least get him motivated to do it. But we get there and Sergio must have called one of his friends to park in that lot cuz the only car that was there was right in front of the gap so he got lucky and didn't have to take the 32 yr old leap of faith. But we caught a break with Moe calling us cuz he had a school yard with a lot of cool things to skate and nothing was too big or gnarly so Gabe had no excuse to not get clips here. I think we had sat down too long cuz Gabe's back and knee started getting sore but he didn't let that stop him from gettig shreddy and clocking some tricks at the spot. It was rad having Moe, Jose and little Mateo there as a support team. Mateo would do a trick 1st try in front of Gabe's face and that got him fired up to do some shuv its and 180s. We got some cool lily pad tricks with the help of tag teaming Moe and Mateo in to do some stunts and Gabe even managed to film a line with only a few tries. Thanks to Moe for showing us the spot and talking shit to get the OG motivated. After that spot we were Rosa Park Bound. Gabe's extremely neurotic and thinks ahead so he knew going to Rosa Park would be good for the edit cuz there'd be homies to tag in and land some stunts. We get to the park and get hyped cuz we see that Rusczyk's car was in the lot. If anyone can get Gabe motivated I felt it could be Mike. But that was not the case. Technology kept distracting the 32 yr old and maybe it was the 4 pieces of bacon he had eaten at brunch that was weighing him down but whatever the case, Gabe's energy started to waiver. But ya can't blame em cuz it must've been past his bed time anyhow. It was a good thing Jesse Palmer, Mikey Smialek, and Anthony Celeri were there to film some stunts on Pat's badass pykrete bench. We managed to film the bulk of the edit there with a trick count of just over 50. Wooo! So we called it a day because the ol' man was getting tired and hungry. It was fun running around with Gabe all day for his birthday, it felt like the old North Coast days, skating in the parking lot and talking mad shit about Gabe's beard. Thanks to all who helped out with filming some tricks and to Gabe for actually getting out there and wanting to shred the streets. You old dude's give us youngins hope for the future of the shred sled. Gabe mentioned he's never filmed a full part and that all his footy he's ever filmed went straight into montages which blew my mind seeing that he's got so many filmer friends. So this is like his 1st actual part or maybe just a Patchy Bearded 12 Yr old's attempt at a sponsor me Tape for Don Brown or Dave Keagy. But really filming parts and sponsor me tapes are fun but we all know we just do this FOR THE LOVE of it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY GABE! Thank you skateboarding.

Gabe taking an hr to setup up his board.

Gabe deep in Broga meditation.

A PATCHY BEARDED 12 YR OLD: THE 5th COMEBACK

Your Mom Recycles

As skateboarders, we all tend to look at the world and our surroundings a bit differently than our peers. We try to make the best of any spot,surface or situation. We share the common goal of making something skateable. The other day while out searching for skate spots we ended up at the usual school yard in suburbia. But instead of skating the hallways and quad like we usually do, we ventured to the back of the school where there's a small asphalt wave that is always breaking to the right. This wave is really tight and the waters back there are always choppy so if you're not careful you can get thrashed pretty hard. The whole time we spent shredding this wave we failed to notice this trash receptacle sitting atop the asphalt wave. Someone had placed their belongings on it so it looked like a prime spot for that. But being the hyperactive skate rats we all are we just had to flip the thing over and skate it. And skate it we did. The thing was no cake walk to step up to because of it's awkward height and short length. It's tall and short so it made for a quick grind or bonk. There was no need for wax either cuz it's made of Pykrete, which is a sawdust and rubber composite, so it's slick like butter. It's pretty funny cuz there are all these sayings and recycle friendly words embossed all over the thing, my favorite ones being, "Your Mom Recycles" and "Recycle...or else I'll slap you!" We ended up skating the thing for a good while and even managed to snap some cool photos a la Phil Philms. So with all that being said Happy Mother's day and go out there and turn some trash cans over and skate that shit!

Mon$ on the Krookie monster.

Squad!

Phil Philms getting them angles.

Gypsy krooks while Moe kicks it like soccer.

"YOUR MOM RECYCLES"