Our good pal & fellow gypsy, Austin Funk, has finally graced us Ugly Rats with his presence. The young Funk has been busy getting scholastic & fighting of ladyboys trying to steal his lucky charms out in Bangkok. Luckily for us, dude is back home on break and getting ONE HUNDRED PERCENT HOT ROD with the FAMM. This footy was all captured on a hot ass Saturday during Nards' and Funk's Barfday weekend, Happy Belated Barfday to you both and a very Ugly welcome to Austin Funk into the hot rod stuntin' #TWERKINTWENTIES! It's all bombing downhill from here, Austin. Enjoy & Keep having FUN!
Nards chuglifin' while DS lurkin hard.
Dat CATCH! Shifty flip to fakie by ya boy, Austin Funk.
Yesterday, on May 27th, our very own hot rod stunt man, Mike Minard aka "Nards" aka "All Hail Nardiel" turned a quarter of a century old. So to celebrate the life and times of Nardiel, it was only fitting to feature Nards in the second installment of "Waste Management/ Rat Droppings. Without further adieu, here's Nards deep in the struggle & battle that we, as skateboarders, all have to endure just to get a trick on film. I present to you, Uglies, WM/RD Vol. 2 "Uhhh Nerrrds' Turrds'
Recently I've been finding a lot of folders full of old shred clips that
were filmed on my digital camera. So I thought I'd start a new segment
called "Waste Management: Rat Droppings." The videos will be like this
one, raw, uncut, with no music but the sounds of the shred. Enjoy and
KEEP HAVING FUN!
eS released the new white colorways of kicks on May 16th which happened to be Forty Oz Friday, so I decided to call Drew the night before to make a roadtrip out of it. I mentioned Corning thinking it was in the East Bay. I tell Drew the deal, "Let's go to San Mateo and pick up them newnew Accelites then head to Corning, much to my dismay, Corning was in the complete opposite direction so I would have to call Atlas and tell them to hold the shoes for me until the following day cuz I was definitely not making it out there that Friday. It was hot as fuck this day so once we got to the park it was shirts off and time to make some shorts outta of our pants. The heat was unbearable, so mush so, that we asked all the locals if there were any large bodies of water anywhere and they all said no! Nearest places were in Chico or Sac and we weren't about to sit in a car for longer just to not find any rivers or lakes so we shredded Corning, got some clips and then headed to Uk-town to hit up a Skumset sesh on the wedge at Ukiah park. The Next day the eS shoe mish was in full effect. Got up at 7 called Moe and Drew at 8, was on the road by 9:45am en route to Atlas Skateshop in San Mateo. Got there, no problem and copped the only size 9 Accelites and couldn't have been any more excited. Felt like a little kid when I saw that fricken beautiful red box!!! I barely had enough cuz I paid a bunch of bills off the day before, actually I was even short on some change and wasn't about to pull out of my savings, so dude was nice enough to let me slide, thanks my dude (and part of the reason why was that he was stoked on us driving up from Rosa) come shred Rosa parks man! Once the shoes were acquired, Drew called Casey "Hawaii" Meyer and told him we were Santa Cruz bound for his video premiere for Assault Skateboards. As soon as we got to Santa Cruz, it was BABEWATCH all along the beaches, I'm lucky I didn't get into any fenderbenders while rubbernecking, foreal! The honeys were out looking fly as fuck in their sporty leggings, skimpy bikinis and sundresses...THANK JAH FOR SUNDRESS SEASON! Aight, back to the story, where was I? OH BOOBS!!! Once we got into town we headed straight for UC Santa Cruz to go study at the library. Just kidding, we drove past the University to shred the legendary snake run known as "DERBS!" This place is super fun but we only shredded for a few cuz the spot was blown out with the locals brah, so we headed to the downtown park to shred before meeting up at Skate Works for Hawaii's Premiere. Clocked some clips at the downtown park and was en route to the premier at 6:50pm. We get to Skate Works and it was going off, with shitty little ramps and pole jams everywhere. Zarosh was getting hesh on a mini quarter pipe, an Austin Funk Doppleganger was bs smithing a tall table that should belong in someone's foyer but it was out in the streets getting ripped apart by AFUNK 2.0! Hotdogs were grilling, free beer was spilling, and Drew and I were sneaking off to give thanks and praise. The Assualt video was awesome, HESH AS FUCK! Haven't seen or heard anything of Chris Livingston since I saw him skate a halfpipe on the water at DisneyLand CA Adventures w/ Bob Burnquist; that was 10 years ago! Chris had an ill part with lots of backyard pool shreddage and cutoff dickies. Casey's part was short and sweet with nothing but bangers...pretty much every trick could have been an ender. Right after Casey's part was none other than the Donger himself, motherfucking Kien Lieu! Part was off the chain! Once the video was done we said our "farewells and see ya laters," hugged Casey and hi-5'ed that ass for a killer 20 second part full of enders and with that we we're ROSETOWNBOUND once again. I even managed to snag a copy of the Assualt Video so we'll have to premiere it at Theatre #17 soon. Enjoy the photos and Video below. I didn't save the video in a small res, cuz I wanted it to be viewed in full HD, 1080P, watch it on your computer or TV via PS3 or whatevs. But if yall complain about not being able to view it on your phones, I'm gonna reconsider our friendship(JK). I have no time for negativity. I do this for you guys; so be nice and be grateful. It's all about the POS! And if I sound like a dickhead, well then, SUCK IT and have a shredical day! #NFJH#NFTE#COOPERFOREVER#BERNARDOFOREVER
SHRED FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T!
Burnin' tree. #zorched
All my single ladies out there, holla atta NARDS! He is now accepting Big Booty applicants, no booty babes need not apply.
Shitstop
eS HOT! #teamcutoffs
Nards forever bangin' WestSide.
Drew's nose was on her period.
Bloody OULK
Bienvenidos a Corning eskatepark. Vamos a patinar.
Buttside slashin'
Rocket Power
Nards w/ a frontal booster.
Corning has a skate plaza!
I can see TC sucking in this bad boy!
Dickside slashin'.
Tunnel vision, brah.
Hamster wheeling.
OULK
Nards laying some Pipe.
Sweet sox Nards!
My pants got tighter upon seeing this display! #eSforLIFE
For those of you who frequent the TXXS blog often know that my Uglies and I like to get the heck out of town on our days off and generally as much as possible #VLFL. On this certain day St Helena park was on my mind once Nards had planted the seed in my head. To be honest I hadn't even thought of skating cuz of the holiday...it was Good Friday and two thoughts had crossed my mind. 1. The park would be empty cuz everyone's doing Good Friday things, bbq-ing and whatnot. 2. The park would be overrun with children of the Scoot cuz everyone had the day off. Luckily for us none of those scenarios were true. The park was mellow; us Rosa and Angwin/St Helena homies were the only ones there with no scooter kids in sight! The crew of Oulkies included myself, Toan, TC, Nards, Shreduardo, Moe, Foop Nasty and McGilly smashed down in Vic's new Prius to meet up. I had been itching to get a shred in @ St Helena cuz I had just flown back home that week from Oahu and hadn't had the time to get #HOTROD. Once we got there the homie Walker Ryan was already there giving out some gear to the little rippers around the park. We caught up, reminisced on old times,rejoiced about having such an ill park to skate now and talked bout how much time had pass since our last sesh. That Friday was so fun that we just had to smash back out the next day for the homie, David Cole's 25th Barfday. All in all it was a shredical 2 days in the heart of the Napa Valley with a shitload of #ONEHUNDREDPERCENTHOTRODSTUNTS going down left and right. Peep the Photos and edit below!!!One Love! #pleaseloveyourself
As soon as I woke up yesterday, I received a message from Nards saying something about wanting to shred. I was hesitant at first cuz I was still sore from shredding Oakland all day the day before. So I asked him, "Where you tryna shred? He responds quickly with, "St Helena or Monte Rio." And I think, " Good, at least he chose parks so there's not much need for pushing." I was seriously dead. But I hadn't seen the guy in over a month so I figured it be a good chance to chilluminati, have a safety meeting, and get some footy at St Helena park to beef up these St Helena #Gypsisodes I've been secretly working on. We called a lotta Rats but got no nibbles, everyone had work or previous engagements so the trio was me, Nards, and Shreduardo. And with that, this merry band of gypsies were on their way to the heart of the Wine Country.
We get to St Helena Park and all Eddy and I could think about was munching these dollar chicken tacos from Aztec Grill. I had a spicy love affair with them tacos, foreal. That was breakfast for me, cuz I couldn't eat Bacon on account of the holiday which totally put a damper on the start of my day. Once said tacos were devoured I go to the nearest trash receptacle to toss some onion covered napkins. I was taken aback when I heard a familiar voice. Before I could even look up to see who it was, I hear him say, "Finally!" The planets had aligned, the silly Universe at work in the most awesome way. It was my good friend, Walker. I hadn't seen this fool in forever, at least before he left for college and that has to be almost a decade ago. Before I even met the dude, Ninja Tran had told me about this redheaded kid that switch backside flipped the Reno double set. I couldn't believe it, mind you we were all around the ages of 13 or 14 when this happened so to hear that someone did that trick down that set and did it amazingly clean was mind blowing. Just a few days after hearing that story from Ninj, I met Walker and his friend David Cole at North Coast Boardshop. They were up from Angwin and St Helena and were looking to shred some Rosa spots. Before heading out to shred that day, Walker and I played a game of S.K.A.T.E. in the NC parking lot...& PFFFFFFFF! I don't even remember who won(he most likely did) all I remember is that it was an intense 1st game ever and if that game would be any indication of the great things that Walker would be getting into, it was looking good. Dude was consistent as hell, had a good style and best yet, a humble attitude. It was good to catch up with ya homie and mahalo for letting me fan out on ya and film like old days.
Walker Ryan with a 1/4 pipe fs flip at his hometown park.
#KILLINGSTHELENA
Gone VIRAL! This was the hype video premier for years and currently it's serving as the hype video today. Walker Ryan's "KILLING ST HELENA" circa 2002-2004
An Ugly, iphone5 homage to Supreme and Bill Strobeck's "cherry."
The 1st video is the re-edit and the video below is the original upload that got all messed up during the saving process. Either way, if you have a half an hour to kill, give thanks and praise and peep game on some rats seeking shelter from jah rain. All filmed on my iPHone5 and McGilly's iPhone5s.
"shredroids" the Re-edit with added shenanigans.
oulk presents "shredroids" OG edit.
Music by Three 6 Mafia, DJ Black, Lord Infamous, Riff RAFF, and Dead Meadow.
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
