another reminder of a story I want to tell...
-how Shut Skates would pull up to a Brooklyn Banks contest with hundreds of skaters on the banks getting ready with the heaviest snake sessions ever.
Shut would pull up in a van right in a the middle of it all.
Park.
Pull out a street ramp.
Force an isle way in the middle of it all somehow
and have their riders do a demo...
basically show off there stuff.
it was super ballzy but totally true.
they did have the best riders at the time.
A list of riders during this memory at the time. Most from Union City or Jersey area
-Felix Arguelles
-Mike Kemper
-Preston
-Coco Santiago
-Richie Garcia
-Sean Sheffey
-Jeremy Henderson
-Troy
and a couple of others I forget.
Led by Bruno and Rodney Smith who would soon end Shut and start Zoo York.
some of the tricks they were doing.
Ollie Japans.
Saran wraps
Possibly frontside 360 Japan's by Mike Kemper
Judos
Frigids
Just going so fast and pretty huge...
all of us skating on smooth almost perfectly laid red brick
which you didn't want to slam on.
It is one of my most bad ass memories I've ever witnessed.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Reminder
what I want to remember to write about.
1) the day I surfed Pipeline and watched Jamie O'brien drop in slow-mo and disappear only to re emerge cracking the lip.
2) the day I met Jeff Pang and the first day I slept over his house.
3) the day I surfed Rockaway with Colin after the windiest morning and catching the best session just the two of us
and catching waves all the way to the sand.
4)Surfing the Rockaway Box with Jimmy Gallagher. The day it was a shoulder high wave machine and us riding the conveyer belt all to ourselves for and hour and him yelling from the inside "that was probably the best wave of your life!"
5) the first time I surfed what I thought was the the Banzai Pipeline with Chris Cesca. It was only like Chris's third time surfing and he shouldn't have been out. He went over the falls on an overhead wave... into like knee high water and I thought he broke his neck like he almost did when he got pile driven by a kid named Jamie VanDunk in 6th grade. A few seconds later I found him emerging from under water with a smile on his face... He tried to drop in before me and this compelled me to drop into the steepest waves I dropped into yet. Everyone that surrounded us thought and knew he was stupid and risked his physical health...
but I got stoked off his big balls and I mean guts to you homo jokesters. That day I caught three rad waves back to back on my 8'0" which to me was my short board. I was trimming down from a 9'0".
6)Surfing bowls with Ben Aipa
7) figuring out that the nicest uncle to me at Ala Moana Bowls besides the twin Aunties is Uncle Clyde Aikau...
Eddie Aikau's younger brother.
8)watching a 40 plus year old crack the lip upside down past vertical and making it look like a kick turn past vert on a skateboard only much gnarlier... and later seeing him in a magazine named Mike Akima...
thats it for now...
these stories I want to embelish on at a later date.. when I have more time.
1) the day I surfed Pipeline and watched Jamie O'brien drop in slow-mo and disappear only to re emerge cracking the lip.
2) the day I met Jeff Pang and the first day I slept over his house.
3) the day I surfed Rockaway with Colin after the windiest morning and catching the best session just the two of us
and catching waves all the way to the sand.
4)Surfing the Rockaway Box with Jimmy Gallagher. The day it was a shoulder high wave machine and us riding the conveyer belt all to ourselves for and hour and him yelling from the inside "that was probably the best wave of your life!"
5) the first time I surfed what I thought was the the Banzai Pipeline with Chris Cesca. It was only like Chris's third time surfing and he shouldn't have been out. He went over the falls on an overhead wave... into like knee high water and I thought he broke his neck like he almost did when he got pile driven by a kid named Jamie VanDunk in 6th grade. A few seconds later I found him emerging from under water with a smile on his face... He tried to drop in before me and this compelled me to drop into the steepest waves I dropped into yet. Everyone that surrounded us thought and knew he was stupid and risked his physical health...
but I got stoked off his big balls and I mean guts to you homo jokesters. That day I caught three rad waves back to back on my 8'0" which to me was my short board. I was trimming down from a 9'0".
6)Surfing bowls with Ben Aipa
7) figuring out that the nicest uncle to me at Ala Moana Bowls besides the twin Aunties is Uncle Clyde Aikau...
Eddie Aikau's younger brother.
8)watching a 40 plus year old crack the lip upside down past vertical and making it look like a kick turn past vert on a skateboard only much gnarlier... and later seeing him in a magazine named Mike Akima...
thats it for now...
these stories I want to embelish on at a later date.. when I have more time.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Dog eat Dog and Gerry Lopez
Damn.
I don't know if it's the weather, or what,
but I'm feeling the Dog eat Dog aspects of life.
Everyone out for self vibe... and I'm right there with'em no matter how much I may try to be a nice guy....
I'm just another guy catching waves... catching dolla bills.
But I won't go into what sucks in my life right now...
What was really rad for a moment was a few weeks ago (about 2)
the Friday before the Stand up Paddle Board race from Molokai to Oahu,
I surfed Rice Bowls with Gerry Lopez.
I didn't want to surf there at first.(I wanted to surf my new favorite spot)
but my friend Luke said our two friends Johnny and Joah were going to be surfing at Tongs,
which is right inside of Rice Bowls....
so I said ,.. I'll go session with some bros instead.
Rice Bowls is the high performance wave on the South Shore, second to Ala Moana Bowls.
The only difference is that Bowls catches almost every swell and breaks every day from knee high to double over head.
Rice Bowls only starts breaking at head high.
I never saw Johnny and Joah as I paddled past Tongs straight to Rice Bowls.
There to my surprise was, not the normal 5 extremely aggressive guys and the other 15,
but 4 other dudes and myself... and in a few minutes of catching waves....
Gerry Lopez paddles into the line up.
The next wave I caught, I rode all the way in. It walled up nice and I did a few cut backs stoked smackin' the soup,
and then racing down the line into a head dip...
When I popped off the backside of the wave... I see Gerry on the wave behind me flying down the line with his paddle dug into the face of the wave....
"I scream yeah Gerry!" stoked.
as we paddle back to the line up I said, "how was that wave?" and he said "ok. I saw you catch a good one earlier"
Soon another wave approached and I say "here comes your wave Gjer Gjer"
and I think to myself, I just called Gerry Lopez, "Gjer Gjer"
After some small talk, I find that he's in town to surf the Molokai channel race.
he then paddled off to the next break outside Tongs ( I believe the break is called Zeros)
and that's one of the last stoked days I had.
Besides last sunday. and my wedding on July 28th 2009.
-Mandog
I don't know if it's the weather, or what,
but I'm feeling the Dog eat Dog aspects of life.
Everyone out for self vibe... and I'm right there with'em no matter how much I may try to be a nice guy....
I'm just another guy catching waves... catching dolla bills.
But I won't go into what sucks in my life right now...
What was really rad for a moment was a few weeks ago (about 2)
the Friday before the Stand up Paddle Board race from Molokai to Oahu,
I surfed Rice Bowls with Gerry Lopez.
I didn't want to surf there at first.(I wanted to surf my new favorite spot)
but my friend Luke said our two friends Johnny and Joah were going to be surfing at Tongs,
which is right inside of Rice Bowls....
so I said ,.. I'll go session with some bros instead.
Rice Bowls is the high performance wave on the South Shore, second to Ala Moana Bowls.
The only difference is that Bowls catches almost every swell and breaks every day from knee high to double over head.
Rice Bowls only starts breaking at head high.
I never saw Johnny and Joah as I paddled past Tongs straight to Rice Bowls.
There to my surprise was, not the normal 5 extremely aggressive guys and the other 15,
but 4 other dudes and myself... and in a few minutes of catching waves....
Gerry Lopez paddles into the line up.
The next wave I caught, I rode all the way in. It walled up nice and I did a few cut backs stoked smackin' the soup,
and then racing down the line into a head dip...
When I popped off the backside of the wave... I see Gerry on the wave behind me flying down the line with his paddle dug into the face of the wave....
"I scream yeah Gerry!" stoked.
as we paddle back to the line up I said, "how was that wave?" and he said "ok. I saw you catch a good one earlier"
Soon another wave approached and I say "here comes your wave Gjer Gjer"
and I think to myself, I just called Gerry Lopez, "Gjer Gjer"
After some small talk, I find that he's in town to surf the Molokai channel race.
he then paddled off to the next break outside Tongs ( I believe the break is called Zeros)
and that's one of the last stoked days I had.
Besides last sunday. and my wedding on July 28th 2009.
-Mandog
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