Gimmie a Treat or you get a Trick

Me and my BOO

Be careful this Halloween. There is a weird smell in the air..... Shhhhhhh! What was that? Pheww...just a couple of zombies. And the rest of their zombie posse. Be prepared for anything tonight... Even the pumpkin smash dance. preetty scary.

Keeping Up to Speed...

with the Stereo guys. Chris Pastras made it out to the Damn Am last weekend to check out the new talent and hang out. Jason Lee and Chris have also been keeping busy making the director's commentary for "A Visual Sound" and "Tincan Folklore".

Gimmie a Treat or you get a Trick

Kevin is back so he should be updating, but I will do it out of habit now. A photo of Nick sent in from Sinclair. Today is our Halloween Demo at Active, so if you are reading this you are probably missing it. But I'm sure there will be a mega-post about it tomorrow... A sponsor-me VHS we got... Dude, don't people just e-mail those now? A wheel from before your time (or not). Sex does sell, but they should have just used a naked lady instead. Demo bonus from YouTube: Toy Machine in RUSSIA And again, Double Bonus to get you amped on our demo today: Toy Machine demo in Moscow, Russia

Keeping up To Speed...

with the Stereo guys. Chris Pastras made it out to the Damn Am last weekend to check out the new talent and hang out. Jason Lee and Chris have also been keeping busy making the director's commentary for "A Visual Sound" and "Tincan Folklore".

Gareth

Tomorrow is Halloween and Gareth wants you to go out and get weird.

TOMORROW is HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!

COME TO Toy Machine's Halloween Demo and Signing! October 31st 2008 4-6pm At Active San Dimas - 678 W. Arrow Hwy - San Dimas, CA 91773 - 909.592.0661 Billy Marks, Ed Templeton, Josh Harmony, Matt Bennett, Johnny Layton, Austin Stephens, and Nick Trapasso will all be there signing autographs and skating! Make sure to wear your Halloween costumes! The Toy Machine Team will be selecting the person with their favorite costume and they will win a Toy Machine prize package!! Hear that? Wear an awesome costume and win a fat package!!!! See Ed on the RVCA Skate Blog Here is Toy Machine in Kansas City, MO to get you hyped. Here is Toy Machine in England to get you triple-hyped on driving up to San Dimas...

tricks are for kids

Our team for Damn Am was looking strong. Especially David and his new signature smile. Which consists of nothing to do with smiling.

More Josh Harmony for you to feast upon...

This one is older. If your brain had the thoughts Josh has, then you would explode. (see Illustration below) You like explosive skateboarding? Watch our Toy Machine in Nashville, TN. If you like that come to our Halloween Demo. It will already be epic, plus costumes.

What's new with us you ask?

To find out what the team has been up too you don't have to look far. Sierra was recently on a Hawaiian vacation with Dakine. While Angel finally made it back to Denver to follow up on getting his I.D. card renewed. David the writer/cover boy has been seen with the Skateboarder photographer Bradford in and around Long Beach, CA. Abdias and Nuge are heading to Texas for a Make a Wish based skate trip. I wonder if Nuge knows if Shad got his first photo flow Pig promo box yet. It's a nice new addition to the team. Wonder who else will make the cut. Bart? Check out the Dekline site to find out what Gareth's been up too. Or maybe the Osiris site to check out a Corey interview. Alex Gordouros has the latest Foundation ad so be on the lookout for that jaw dropper. If you want to catch all these guys in one place at one time maybe you should stop by the Boarders signing on November 1st. Or check out some old but new photos that you haven't seen from Foundations recent Australian tour. Thanks Peter!

Josh Harmony: Worlds Nicest Young Man

Nick Wisda shot this photo of Harmony at the new Long Beach park. Damn-! I wanna skate that! And here Josh and Jesse play light saber with some florescent bulbs. Love that toxic dust~! VOTE FOR BILLY for Thrasher's Skater of the Year!!!! Confrimation: Mike Sinclair can dunk. Come see at Toy Machine's Halloween Demo of Doom!!!

Stereo's Re-releases

Stereo is proud to announce the re-release of "A Visual Sound" and "Tincan Folkore" for the first time ever on DVD. The 2-disc box set will also include director's commentary for both legendary videos by co-captains Jason Lee and Chris Pastras. Available late November 2008!

Stereo's Re-releases

Stereo is proud to announce the re-release of "A Visual Sound" and "Tincan Folkore" for the first time ever on DVD. The 2-disc box set will also include director's commentary for both legendary videos by co-captains Jason Lee and Chris Pastras. Available late November 2008!

Those Damn Ams

Instead of going to contests anymore I decided I can just watch them online. 1/2 the hassle and 1/1225 the fun...perfect. I spotted a couple of our damn ams in this footage of Volcom's Damn Am competition this past weekend.

Toy Machine Halloween Demo and Signing!

Toy Machine Halloween Demo and Signing! October 31st 2008 4-6pm At Active San Dimas - 678 W. Arrow Hwy - San Dimas, CA 91773 - 909.592.0661 Billy Marks, Ed Templeton, Josh Harmony, Matt Bennett, Johnny Layton, Austin Stephens, and Nick Trapasso will all be there signing autographs and skating!

Some Billy Marks from my Archive...

VOTE FOR BILLY for Thrasher's Skater of the Year!!!! Actually, this is a Grif photo, but I'm throwing it in here. Golfing on tour this year. Billy lights a bomb he made on the east coast. Bill Chill. Billy being bad with grits and beer in San Luis Obispo this year. Bill fishes in a toxic lake. Billy puts his free socks on, Australia. Bonus Footage: Toy Machine at Benicia Park from this years Oddity Odyssey tour... Hey, come to our Halloween Demo and wear a costume!

Hell yeah Toy Machine gets interviewed!

Kevin, who just leaves on a trip without warning and doesn't call me or e-mail me photos (much less update from the road like I do each trip...) Would love to be Interviewed. Oh, And our homie Mike Burnett, and his lovely wife Katherine, just had a baby girl! We send our congratulations! What are you doing this HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEN?

Melcher Down

Melcher gets broke off at my least favorite spot in the entire world.

Video-Drone part 6 is now up!!!!!

And we updated the AD Gallery too! Bonus Photo: Teen Girls (don't do a Google image search for them...) are now available in pill form! Finally! I have been waiting to swallow my Teen Girls whole for a long time. (eeeeew!) Double Bonus!: Swedish hockey fans delay match with DILDO downpour?

Need I say anything else?

Even Billy Marks thinks it rips. Come see it all at the TOY MACHINE HALLOWEEN DEMO

Industry signing on the 1st!

Here's the bigger more readable version.

Well Well Well, What do we have here?

The bloodsucking overlord of death and destruction brainwashes the masses below... New levels have been reached. Diego and Josh: Photo Key Get with the times man. Grimes Sighting! Matt B's body is a finely tuned machine. With the proper care through stretching and diet you too may achieve such an epic machine. Mike Sinclair 'stales' a feeble... Billy has always been magic. Hangin' Ten on a feeble with a look back? What the? Scope the Signing coverage at Skateboarder Mag!

How to no comply flip up curbs featuring Nuge

Like kinda recently Nuge was like hey want to shoot a buttery sequence of a no comply flip up a curb. And I think my exact response to the T was like sure. Then I continued to set up my flashes and tri pod thingamajigs that I've seen the professionals do. Once completely set up I think I followed with a "hey"(short pause) "just do it, Nike style". Than Nuge hit me hard with it. A no comply flip up a curb. I can shoot about 1 frame per 2 minutes so I managed to snag the whole entire sequence in a little over 10 minutes for one trick. Not bad. My camera was a tad bit slow to get the roll up but I followed strong with the first initial board leaving the ground part of the trick. The pop... At this point I was thinking to myself "dang he's got the height and the distance to actually make it up this curb"...then I was thinking like "dang.. I'm pretty hungry I hope he lands this quick so I can go get some food and probably a extra hot Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks". This is my favorite frame from the sequence I think maybe, but still not sure but almost not positive. The one footed mongo catch. At this point I was almost 100% that it was a make. Watch out the board hasn't completely flipped over to the good side yet! Somebody tell him... haha.. just kidding. He knows what he's doing. Your ankles are about to be done if you land on the trucks and wheels side of the board. At this moment I was thinking to myself.. I wonder if he wears size 9.5 shoes cause he probably won't need as many Circa's if hes hurt... He pulled it! Well he has atleast landed pretty solidly on the board. Lets see the ride away before we make a assumption. Yep. It was perfect. Chalk one up on the sequence board for Nuge. Now celebrate by posing next to weird graffiti tagged in foreign countries.

Gitteyup

Made our way out to the Land of Dust. This was the town sheriff. With the rest of the team either injured or occupied, it was up to Rob to get a gap to nosegrind. He tested by landing it with his hands first. Diego was ready to capture it in as artsy a way as possible. Grif and Austin were along for the ride, quietly judging Flobot Rob's performance. Gearing up to get down. Went down. With Rob on the injured list, Grant made some new un-damgaged friends.

boys will be boys

Davids been lost in Utah with the Circa boys for the past week or so. All heading back just in time for this weekends Damn Am in Costa Mesa. See you all there. Do you predict a fire?

The Testament

Blue foot is hosting a screening of the Foundation Testament this Sunday, October 26th @ 8pm. If you live in San Diego come out and join us, if not buy your airplane ticket here.

The Palos Verdes Vernacular

Cruised for pee spots with Matt B this weekend. He found a park with a weird gap he needed to skate.\ He gave a skate-prayer of thanks after getting a couple of clips. Fletch did a Zero Roll Up to a rail. Never one to be outdone, Rob sussed out a giganta-rail to impress everybody. He then used a bench as intended... And unintended. He then crooked into the sunset.

Pastras Interview

ANTICS was asking the questions and Chris Pastras was answering them. Check out the interview here.

VideoDrone #5 Up Now!

This is Trenton Barker, the filmer of the current episode of Videodrone's Oddity Odyssey. Turn in next week to get the answers to all your burning questions, like; Will Ed impossible or noseblunt? Will Billy cab flip your head off? Will Nick succumb to narcolepsy mid-demo? The last two VideoDrones will solve your life problems.

Black Wax Skateshop October 17th, 2008

That's right biotches! Just when you thought about how much you hate photos from signings, Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard company brings you: Signing coverage! Black Wax skateshop was in a mall, but lots of kids showed up. YES! And the whole team was there except Ed, who blew it by staying home and working. Nick T is now signing as a professional. 'What I can't charge 5$ per 'graf now?' Matt B was doing a great job. Who is that in the background? Whoa! It's Josh Beagle. Former Foundation pro! Billy wonders... Photo Key Diego is back! The kids were OUT in force. Photo Key. ------------ Emancipate yourselves. Like, Totally! Matt B pondering life's persistent questions... Fuggit, there goes my next meal! I got wheels! It's like getting Paged! Excessive and un-needed coverage of people eating. enjoy. Mmmm, salad. This was in the bathroom. Got nowhere to skate?

Active signing featuring special celebrity guest

*Make sure to click and open every link so you completely follow the story I'm about to unfold before your eyes. I want to make sure the viewers(you) utilize every possible link acquirable for complete understand meant of the utmost seriousness of the situation ourselves the Foundation Skateboard team recently experienced.* When arriving at Active Orange and Active Chino last Sunday for a team signing there was no way in knowing how eventful our day was about to become. The presence was probably so strong that It overlapped from being able to feel it all the way back over to not being able to feel it. If that makes sense. No presence was felt. Maybe you can't feel the presence of somebody that invented presence. I'm not sure. Sometimes when you say the same word over and over again that word doesn't make sense. That did not happen yet with the word presence. Our little Angel didn't even know what to expect out of the day. Nor did his fellow Coloradian cover boy David. Abdias made it out for the days events. Santa Monican resident Alex Gourdouros was on site. Corey hung around after the Downtown Showdown to hang with the bros on signing Sunday. Angel with a young Angel fan. I don't see anything out of the ordinary yet...hmmm. Looks like a typical signing so far. Kids in line. Autographs. High fives. You know the typical stuff. But wait...Who did we not know was a big Foundation fan? That was waiting outside for us to come out so he could personally meet. Any guesses? Didn't think so... "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair! What the............ NO BIG DEAL. Just hanging out with Ric Flair. WOOOOOO! After seeing the worlds greatest person I couldn't focus. I had to pull over for a quick Chino park session. Chino park. Good thing their was a unicycle demo going on. Wow. What a day. At least the cops didn't come and kick out a 100 plus kids from the park for not wearing full pads and ankle guards and chin straps and ear pads and toe guards and eye goggles and neck cover uppers and pinky finger protectors. Oh wait actually they did. Looking back on the day I wouldn't have done anything different. Except maybe had Ric body slam me or Woooo loud enough in one ear to permanently damage a ear drum or maybe bottled up a little bit of his sweat for ebay or maybe asked him what it was like being called the nature boy but being the complete opposite of a boy now. All in all a day I will never forget. Just my day with "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. No Big Deal. But in all seriousness and respectableness go to the Active site to check out their blog from the day.

Toy Machine Signing Today

Buy your plane tickets now, arrive early for epic line placement. Look at the Billy Marks Nollie Inward Heelflip Contest why doncha? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kincade wants a pony for his sweet 16.

'Coon's Stole Our Mega-Post!

Peruse this evidence while we look high and low for it. In the meantime... Sir Blogs Alot want you to check out what Harmony has been up to. And don't forget Kincade 16. Go here for more Vans Showdown coverage. VideoDrone 5

This just in from Kangarooland

Our friends over at Tacky World posted a photo gallery from our recent vacation over to Australia. Have a looksie.

New Video-Drone Up (Finally!)

This is Austin McDowell, one of the filmers of the current episode of Videodrone's Oddity Odyssey. Sorry for the lag in getting this one up. Little bugs keep popping up. This week will see one more VideoDrone post, take my word for it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Blogs Alot want you to check out what Harmony has been up to. And don't forget Kincade 16. Go here for more Vans Showdown coverage.

America vs Australia: Boomerang school?

While walking through the cuts in Australia which probably wasn't the cuts and I'm just hyping the story I ran into a very unfamiliar store. That specializes in teaching you how to boomerang? WHAT THE... Australia perspective: Boomerang school. You don't have these? We send our kids there when they have been wagging school. You call that hookey. America perspective: This is like the next step in Nintendo Wii. Real life Zelda and shit. You're actually a character in the game but you are yourself. And you have to go to awesome places like boomerang school to get sticks that you throw that come back to you. What a stupid invention. But is awesome at the same time. Its like playing fetch with yourself. Big up's and mad respect to the Australians who are paving the road to the future of video games. Australia - 1 America - 0 Totals Australia - 3 America - 1

DTSD

I heard that a few people missed the Van's Downtown Showdown. What were you thinking? Well, here's a link with all the coverage that you could EVER want.

Showdown Shakedown

Josh got up on Foundation's obstacle, a skatable version of their famous star and moon logo. He toughened himself up by spending the night in a rainforest. Johnny kickflip footplanted the star in practice. Bilbo slaughtered this in the big show. Matt B coached Jordan of proper am behavior. Matt B leads... Jordan follows. Just as it should be... JLay asked for some advice from sweet Robin Fleming, Vans team guru. Billy turned to his most trusted compatriot, beer. He then freaked out in a hot dog frenzy. Chill, Bill. Where Mr. B goes, the Grime follows. The Showdown was no exception. Bill won the last event and received a guitar to add to his collection in the garage. He was then interviewed by kooky dudes with kooky gear. This was super-judege Kenny Huges' response when we told him we felt gyped. Tough love. Scope the rebroadcast of the Showdown here.

my LA experience

When I drove up to LA for the Van's Downtown Showdown I quickly became trapped in traffic. Strapped with my digital camera I took it upon myself to blog. Once freed from the closterfobicness(I just invented a word).. I took a couple more photos. Voss is the best possible water you can buy. And it completely sold me on the container it came in. Job well done Voss. Please send me a pallet of water. Thank you. Dentyne Ice. Arctic Chill I think its called.The best gum you can buy. Or steal. The whole reason I wanted to do this random blog was to say that I was blogging hogs. haha. Blogging hogs. Guess it was funnier 4 days ago when I was by myself in the van. Blogging hogs. haha. Still funny actually. What the... Spring Break 1960! But once I made it to the showdown I got to witness the best possible obstacle ever invented. Peter from Goliath distribution also sent me this video link of David, Sierra, and Corey skating the Riverside park in Australia from a couple weeks back.

Agency Field Report

Stereo's Agency Field Report premiered in San Diego this past Friday @ Hensley's. We were there to join the party and watch the video.  All in all...goodtimes all the way around.

more from the Downtown Showdown

Nuge is interviewed... Chris can I please have my sweatshirt back? Thanks. - Your best friend David gets curvy with a noseblunt around the moon. This time shot from the other side. Angel started drinking I guess? Weird. And mixing Toy graphics with Foundation ones...Creative little guy. Corey and David reflecting on the day. Did I mention that it was really cold? It went from Summer to winter all in the same day. Winter.. haha I forgot we live in California. Not winter. Just a colder than usual night.

Signing at Black Wax!!!!

Come one come all...

Zarosh update

See what Zarosh and friends have been up too.

Diego Couples Up With Homies Old and New!

With old boss, Greg C. With photographer extraordinaire, Jon Humphries. With style-God, Brian Lotti. Stecyk wanted to get in on a photo but Butch was too wrapped up with everybody else. Next time, Craig. See the Events Page for an upcoming Signing... What? Kincade 16 is out!!!

The Downtown Showdown picture extravaganza

Alex Gourdouros was there. As well as Angel Ramirez. They both skated the girl obstacle. Angel has a posse... Oh and David graced us with his presence as well. If you look directly into the sun you might see a Abdias Rivera frontside flipping the Black Label obstacle... The Creature obstacle. David warms up on our obstacle with a frontside lipslide. Then he continued onto noseblunt around the curve of the moon. One of the best tricks out of the whole night. Good job Mr. Reyes. Corey was in attendance as well but couldn't skate due to a dislocated toe from our recent Australian tour.

The Butch Is Back (Again)

Diego came into town and met up with old pal Mike Burnett under the San Pedro Bridge. Rattray discussed human nature and the upcoming election from a non-American point of view while Mike got his shred on. When Burn-Dog attacks! Diego was amazed. Well, I'll be damned, Matt Bennett was there training for the next Quicksilver Bowlriders contest. Mike got a sweet shirt for his park rippage. It shined a light on Matt B's inner perv and got him excited. The RVCA Skate Blog has continuing coverage of Josh and Austin in Spain, funny stuff!

Making people yawn is my promise and my privelege

So I had to post today. This is Kevin Barnett blogging the shit out of Rob Straser. Is Toy Machine doing a demo on Halloween?

Vans Downtown Showdown practice pics

If you can't make it to the contest then check out the live web cast here.

Downtown Showdown

Vans Downtown Showdown is tomorrow, Saturday October 11th in LA. We will be revealing our very secretive obstacle for the competition and the team will be there to compete. Watch it live.

New Skate Plaza!

Austin surveyed the new hot-spot. With HB a memory, this could be the new Toy TF. The locals were already killing it. Josh showed up on a borrowed Harley. Matt B. celebrated with an ice cream bar. Good times.

Don't look here

Because you might see something you arn't supposed to see until tomorrow.

Matt B In SD

Matt B. took flight in the suburbs of San Diego this weekend. He had to lube up his feets before getting gnarly. Grime and Matt must share a soul because the G-Man showed up at the spot randomly. Bennett apparently had some beats for him. Girf was there representing the blog revolution. Burnout! It's a buyer's market but don't get yours from Bobo. Bad omen. Rob managed to go a whole day without bleeding. No comment. Jordan Taylor and Alex Schmidt met up and handled some biz. Flobots live so trife they even have to share iPods. Jordan ended the day by heroically jumping to his nuts. Time well spent.

America vs Australia: Basketball hoops

So I noticed while Down Under that they had a different type of basketball hoops going on. Not all hoops were like this but I did notice some different looking ones. And the pole with the basket on top of it actually might maybe be from New Zealand. But that's pretty much the same place right? Australia... New Zealand... sounds the same to me atleast... Australian perspective: the tall ring on a stick is a net ball ring. Its a bizarre game kinda cross between Euro handball and basketball. Its played by girls. Its totally non contact but you cant run when you got the ball so if you ever wonder why some Aussie girls stomp you may have your answer. The double horizontal ring looks like an urban drug induced ring that could be any city in the world. American perspective: I guess since they don't need a backboard for there hoop you could say that they are better at basketball then us. I guess a backboard is kinda sissy now that I think about it. Now I look at American Basketball and think to myself that it's a girls sport. If you want to play a man's version head Down Under you sissy little Americans. The sideways basketball is kinda hard to discuss because I'm not sure if its art or a actual hoop that has a purpose. Remember when MTV had that Rock N Jock basketball game every year or whatever? Reminds me of that... Australia - 1 America - 0 Totals Australia - 2 America - 1

Trippin with the Skateboard Mag

The last of 3 Dekline East Coast trip videos is up on the Skateboard Mag site today. Watch it now!

Early Bird

Met up with Josh for a morning mission yesterday. He had his sights set on a very rough and damaged spot. It required the world's worst bondo job. Grif took tree hugging to third base. But then freaked out with sexual guilt. He relaxed with some urban yoga. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, and Diego's Photography Site has some updates for you to scope.

America vs Australia: Bathroom Etiquette

A unidentifiable person from Goliath Distribution in Australia will now be taking the Australian's side of this blog article. Be prepared for country wars. But probably not. One of the first things I didn't understand when arriving in Australia was the need for 2 flushing devices on the toilets. One for a super flush and 1 for a medium flush. Hmmm...doesn't really seem necessary. Or does it? I couldn't figure out which one was for what. Mini flush for number 1's and super flushes for number 2's? Super flush if you wanted a little bit of excitement in your day? Mini flush if you went but your friend was sleeping in the next room and you didn't want to wake him? Sometimes I would just push both at the same time for super mini flushes. Hoping something cool happened. It didn't. I then noticed that in public restrooms in sketchy area's, actually let me rephrase that..not sketchy area's because I saw them at the airport as well, I noticed they have needle donation boxes. What the... Australian perspective: We encourage our intravenous drug users not to litter. I'm not too sure if they are getting the message. American perspective: Was there a lot of people in town that needed flu shots from recycled needles? Never seen this one before.. Australia - 0 America - 1 Totals Australia - 1 America - 1

Trippin with the Skateboard Mag

The last of 3 Dekline East Coast trip videos is up on the Skateboard Mag site today. Watch it now!

Breaking Records

Foundation's Worlds Biggest Skateboard made it out to Weezer's music video. The video was about breaking records, so yeah, we were kind of a BIG deal. We broke the record for "most people to ride a skateboard". Watch!

Breaking Records

Foundation's Worlds Biggest Skateboard made it out to Weezer's music video "Troublemaker". The video was about breaking records, so yeah, we were kind of a BIG deal. We broke the record for "most people to ride a skateboard". Watch!

America vs Australia: Graffiti

This is my first installment on the differences from my perspective on America and Australia. I wound up with a assortment of random photos from our recent travels to Australia. I saved them all and now I will begin the sharing process. With commentary of course. Make sure you include your own comments on the photos in the appropriate areas for blogger looker on-ers. Australia perspective: I don't know because I'm not Australian. Duh. I need a second opinion. I need a Australian. I'm getting in contact with Goliath Distribution. Plan on tomorrow's post to have a real explanation on some of the unique differences I noticed Down Under compared to the States. They can maybe explain some of these things I found odd. America perspective: If you tagged "guns aint shit" here you would probably get shot while writing it. I wish it said like "guns aint shit but boomerangs are". Something like that would make a little more sense or at least explain their thought process. They have a nice variety of tagging there though I will admit. We have limited variety here. Mostly just gang names or tagging names. Nothing clever like Eat Poo. Man. Australia - 1 America - 0

more from Kangarooland

Our friends over at Goliath Distribution in Melbourne Australia sent over this video of a couple riders including Foundation Australian rider Simon Lyddiard ripping at a demo.. We ran into him(not literally, that was another kid) at one of the demos when we were in Australia a couple weeks ago. I wonder how many Kangaroo's Simon has seen in his lifetime. And I wonder how many more he will see as well.

Exciting and new! GVR belated update...

Billy and Josh went to GvR. They signed some autographs for Loyal Pawns I wish that kid could vote... Then it started pouring rain. Photo Key So they went to eat. Billy was getting sick of the paparazzi following him around... Some obsessed fan even made a video-game version of Billy's Beamin' at the Berrics...

Footage from GvR weekend

Brian caught up with some Tum Yeto riders at last weekends Goofy vs. Regular contest. We wanted to hear everyone's strategy on winning.

Goofy vs. Regular weekend

This past weekend TumYeto riders and employees all made there way up to Lake Forest for the annual Goofy vs. Regular contest at Sole Tech. Even the rain couldn't stop this contest from happening. Here's a couple photos from the weekend. Nuge came out. As well as Alex. Super Angel was there. Foundation flow rider Leticia with a lipslide on the 11 stair rail. Our booth featured a Billy's Balls inspired game. Bart Jones. Professional paid blogger.

Blog on Demand: Griffin sends me a post...

Packin' heat on the Saturday sesh. Dunkin' Stix - What? Kevin got the dunk right. But he read the package wrong and gave it a Dunkin' stuff. What's a Corona sesh without the Grimes? Oh dip! I made this from the toy stencil that comes with Toy boards by putting it in front of a light. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonus Link: Some Obsessed Video Game Freak remade Billy's Beamin' at the Berrics

Jason, Jason & Dune

Today we met up with Atiba, here is a behind the scenes peek with the crew.

Toy Machine Wants You To Not Be A Douche-Bag

If you're resting comfortably in the Sea of Self-Absorbed Asshole, then kindly ignore this post. For everybody else, please register to vote. Hey, movie stars do it. Even Jewish grandparents do, too. Or you can get stuck with people like this.

see you there

Alex and Angel will be holding it down for the Goofy footers this weekend. And will be at the Active signing next weekend as well. Along with the rest of the team.

The Swimming Pool

You should be here tonight if it is a geographic possibility.

San Diego Premiere of Agency Field Report

Stereo is proud to announce the San Diego premiere of the Agency Field Report at Hensley's Pub & Grill on Friday, October 10th at 7PM. There will be an open bar from 7-8PM, Giveaways with Stereo and Dekline products and live music, so you definitely won't want to miss this one. The night is presented by Dekline, Stereo,and Overboard. See flyer below for more info.

This Time It's Personal

Things went bloody well at USC this weekend. Sort of a random posse. Of course the wonderful Mr. Bizzle was there as well, leading the charge. Rob sneaks onto the site again by getting shot in the arm. Didn't seem to bother him much. Shiver me timbers, is that a bike seat? Snack time! Texas Pete showed up and stole Rob's cookie. Felix, in case you missed it the first time. Dusk at last settled over a jungle of glass and steel. Saw some tight ass dragons on the way out. Until next weekend... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Need more Nick Trapasso footage? Check out TWS' The Australia China Experience Video on iTunes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skateboarder Mag has a Johnny Layton Day in the Life and a Matt Bennett Day in the Life up, peep it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to keep tabs on Josh and Austin abroad. Speaking of Josh, here he is discussing the finer points of the slappie.

Upcoming event to mark your calendar for...

Map of the Inner War ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my friend Big J's new clothing company: Letendre.

Angel Ramirez video

Since Angel is our newest pro we put together this video of him. Check it out.

A day with Gareth

Burnett and I went up to LA to skate with Gareth and a few other homies. 

Pillage and Plunder Down Under day 15

Today was our last day of the trip. After a solid 2 weeks traveling up the east side of Australia all the way to Auckland, New Zealand. David sets up a new board for one more session before hoping on a day long flight back to the states. Sierra was up for one more session as well. We had one last meal in New Zealand. We chose the mall as our choice. Lots of variety and also fun things for little kids like David to do. Exhibit A. The human rubber band. Looks promising so far. Weeeeeee. Nice moves. Playing dead. One last team shot before we headed to the airport. Our flight got delayed so we had some free time to watch all the footage from the trip. When finally being able to head through security we had to say bye to our good friends at Irrom Distribution. Morri, Bill, and Rhys. Thanks for everything guys. California...home sweet home. Back to freeway traffic and gangs that have guns. Rhino looks ready to be home...

Video-Drone Oddity Odyssey Part 3 Up Now!

This is Brendan Bill, the filmer of the current episode of Videodrone's Oddity Odyssey. Sorry for the lag in getting this one up. Ran into some technical problems. But, as a reward, we'll be posting the remaining Oddity Odyssey demos in quicker succession so you can feast more readily. Keep an eye out for the next one sooner rather than later! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Need more Nick Trapasso footage? Check out TWS' The Australia China Experience Video on iTunes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skateboarder Mag has a Johnny Layton Day in the Life and a Matt Bennett Day in the Life up, peep it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to keep tabs on Josh and Austin abroad. Speaking of Josh, here he is discussing the finer points of the slappie.