Austin tried his luck at the infamous swing bike yesterday.

He had some trouble so birthday boy Grif got on to show him how it's done.

Pretty sick.

Then JJ took it and posed some tweaks. This made Grif start a bike war.

David wound up over at the Transworld site in the Colorado featured storie article.

He was in Copenhagen.

We got one. Be patient with some bugs. This is the launch week.

Abdias is heading back to Mall of America and 3rd Lair skatepark for Damn Am in June.

Foundation will be doing a signing at Active.

Active Temecula @ 1pm
29720 Rancho California Rd.
Temecula, CA 92591

Active Chino Hills @ 4pm
Grand Opening
The Schoppes at Chino Hills
3405 Main Street, Suite 4025
Chino Hills, CA 91709

Austin went Mad Max the other day, skating shabby trailers in industrial wastelands. Sometimes it's a hard cruel world.

His newest exhibition is a must see.

Sometimes I forget Gareth has a website because he rarely updates it. This will motivate him. Also check out the Corey giveaway on the Osiris site.

Austin battled back from an injury to get smithy on a hometown ledge.

'Sentin'.

New flow kid Dakota was shredding.

Grif practiced his Swan and Duck kata. Lookin' good. Kincaide.

Grant got hopping mad while Rob barfed.

Austin ended the day with a sweet hippie.

Angel can be found over at the Thrasher site on a Spitfire tour up North.


Abdias just went back to Tampa to visit friends and family, Gareth was seen lurking in North Carolina on a Dekline trip, and David is in Denver until Circa departs to China on the 21st.


Corey's in San Diego skating awaiting the Osiris Equator trip.

Sunday Super Post coming tomorrow. This lady with a fanny pack and a hog should keep you occupied for now.

The AmSlam is a 6 stop amateur skateboarding contest series, designed to give the thousands of skateboarders in San Diego an arena to compete in and an opportunity to excel. The AmSlam is a points-based series, which means skaters will work to accumulate points all summer and those with the highest points will advance to the Finals event on August 24th. Although there will be some great prizes and trophies given out to top placing skaters at each stop, it is the winners of the Finals that will take home the CA$H and the title of SUN DIEGOâ€^(TM)S 2008 AMSLAM CHAMPION!

Check the flyer for more details!

We found a sign on the side of the road and i guess you could say it just fit.

Josh and the rest of the Fallen/Toy guys are off on a secret Euro adventure. I'd like to tell you where but nobody likes a rat.

As you can see David is all about the Sub of the Way.

Don't forget to check out what Gareth is up to over at the Dekline site.

Matt B. and Logan Kincaide collaborated on a new piece yesterday.

In between switch heels, Matt got Seggy, as Logan chased people around the park, avidly collecting imagery for his new work.

Should be pretty serious.

Alex, David, and Abdias check out a rail in Vegas on the recent trip out there.

Started the day off mellow, with a double kink.

Rob then went frontside on an easy guy.

Grif got punched by a giant after showing off his badass kit.

Grif got up them walls, innovating for most of the session, but keeping it relaxed.

Grant went Ragdoll after finding the rail too challenging.

Eventually Rob took to the walls himself, previously taking the more traditional route and over-crooking gnarly shit.

That way.
Quit hitting this. Hit this.

Gareth jumps for joy because hes on the road again. This time with the Dekline guys.

Yeah, I know it's a week after the last Catalina post, but this is my view of the day. Relaxing boat rides.

Deanna guided us to a beach full of sea puppies.

Grant kept is cucumber. As in "cool-as-a".

The sun set as Grif lamented our departure.

Spying on people is fun. Better posts tomorrow. Promise.
Logan Kincaide

Looks like youngin's David and Abdias landed themselves in jail the other night for skating in Denver. 10 hours later and they were calling me to give the heads up on their future court appearances. Respect.

Just throwing up the leftovers from the South American Adventure...

Duff and Nuge on the assembly line.

Burger stop in Buenos Aires.

And one last stop at the airport. Back to the day to day posts soon enough.
Burnout has some sweet pics too! --------------Celebrities that moved to Oklahoma...

David boardslides in Vegas as a onlooker gets in the way of the shot.

If you're in the Escondido area May 3rd make sure to stop by for some flat bar skating and BBQing.

We're all back to either Sunny San Diego, Sunny Los Angeles, or Sunny Colorado. On a different note. chris nieratko sent in some footage from this contest.

Kevin, Grif, Rob, Grant, and Deanna and I on the boat over to Catalina Island.

Logan Kincaide takes his vision underwater...

The posse explores Willow Cove after our picnic.

Before that, we hit Frog Rock.

This is the view from atop Frog Rock, that is Deanna on a float, and some kayakers passing by.
Just the other day a man was killed by a Great White Shark in southern California.
Here is footage of a great white off Catalina, and some reports... Deanna would be a tasty morsel.

Another view from the top at the beach and the the bros warming up after swimming in the freezing water. We all climbed it and jumped multiple times...

Grant washed up to shore finally.

Grif took in some sun, the went all Chakra on us. Damn hippie.

Group underwater shot: Unsuccessful.

Logan Kincaide at work on his latest creation.

After a day of surf and turf, we relaxed in the shade.

Started off another day at the park. It was still cold out.


Gareth skated the outside part of the park. Heres a front blunt on the rainbow ledge.


Then he ran into something with his neck.


The contest ended today and all the results were announced.


Product was tossed.


Then we took a group vote and Mall of America won as the activity to do tonight.


Let the fun begin.












The team bought some tickets this time to go on some rides before it closed.






Even the shopping section of the mall is huge.




One last photo to wrap up. We are heading back home tomorrow morning. Goodbye Minneapolis. Thanks for the good times. And by that we mean Mall of America.

The view outside my hotel room was not looking very friendly. And I don't mean that because there was kids shouting "Top Shop" and lighting fireworks at odd hours of the night until police arrived. I meant it because it was snowing out, bro.


I know theres kids in Antarctica or Alaska or some other cold place like the North Pole right now saying "those stupid Californians think that is snow, thats like a nice day here in _____(insert Antarctica, Alaska, or North Pole). But thats fine, I'm spoiled in San Diego I know. I don't even go outside my house if its cloudy out.


You can barely even see those cars theres so much snow piled on them.


That's our whip right there. Notice how I only shot the photo of like half the car well thats because I was just driving it and the snow came off the windows in the front. But I was trying to make this photo look epic and make you feel bad for us.


We sat at the booth again and this time we came equipped with a tv and dvd player. It looked like we were playing the new Lurk Fest video from far away.


But we were playing this work out video instead. It was left in the dvd player that the shop gave us so we just rolled with it. Now all these kids are going to have buns of steel. Sorry that was weird.


I made everyone limbo for product today. Good idea huh.


nice photo...or not.


dont know what to say dont know what to say dont know what to say.


This is awkward looking. And I apologize.


dont know what to say dont know what to say dont know what to say.


This dude is seriously being serious about this. bro.


When I was walking around I checked out the Osiris booth and noticed they have a couple Foundation shoes on Display. What do you think?


David tried to take some peoples money in dice.


Then we all went to the boss mans Hotel to meet up for some dinner.


They got good blogging materials at there hotel in downtown Minneapolis. We took advantage.


Below are the photos I got when I said "quick guys look cool".


I give you weird photo number 1.


Followed by way weirdest photo number 2. What a clever bunch of fellas.


After dinner with the boss man we decided to all head back to the park for the launch ramp contest they were hosting.


As you can see I put a ton of effort into both of these last photos. Shot from my digi cam on top of a ramp a million miles away from all the action. Oh well. One more day in Minneapolis...

The last day was spent at the ranch Diego keeps his horses at.

We had a giant bar-b-que with Abuela in attendance.

Duffel gets gnarly on Wild West style too.

It was epico. Even Bill had fun. Maybe.

We made it to the park bright and early.


The park was looking pretty big. Extreme like almost.




We were like the main sponsors in case you forgot.


A lot of teams showed up.


There was not only a skate competition going on but also a tradeshow.


We showcased all the new Foundation stuff.


And also let these guys show off some stuff.


The scene in the cold and damp and cold and really cold tradeshow area that was kinda cold.


There is something like 10,000 lakes wherever we're at and we were trying to squeegee one of them into the drain so people didn't have to take a boat across to get to our booth.


The team was looking pretty cold.


Ok thats better. Burger King pit stop. Heres a update on the night. Its snowing. And everyone but David because he is not of age and that would be illegal is on a party bus headed downtown to the bars...Heres a brief look into tomorrows schedule. Wait for it wait for it. Oh Yeah its the same thing as today, minus the party bus.

Bill skates while getting cancer at the same time. Buenos Aires was smoking too.

That is Nick when not bedding foreign wool...

Kevin shoots Johnny sleeping on a long car ride. I bet he is dreaming of Giant Dildoes.
Do you think Burnout has anymore updates? Don't forget about the RVCA Demo this weekend!
--------------------This just in: Boulala Jailed! -----More for this guy, why?

So we're headed out to Minneapolis from San Diego for the Top Shop competition. We started the day off with some McDonalds in the San Diego airport.


We flew over the rocky mountains(i think) on our way to Denver to get on the connecting flight to Minneapolis...


Found David in the Denver airport smoking lounge handling business.


Bart was the designated cart for bags pusher. Sorry Bart.


First stop directly off the airplane was Mall Of America. Duh.


Roller coaster inside the mall is looking preeetty good.


Lego Land...




This guy was here.


Bart was pretty excited little to say. More updates coming...

+++++++++++++++++++Burnout - Burnout - Burnout has new stuff from Argentina!

Featuring: Grif, Grant, Josh, and Ed, and the soon to be destroyed HB park.
Josh Harmony will be PERFORMING! at the Roots, Rock, Revival this May 2nd, in Westminster, California. (the OC) You won't want to miss that!

Maybe Gareth will show off his butt boarding skills at 3rd Lair this weekend. See you all there.

Tomas Gorostiaga from Argentina sent in some demo pics from the boys far far away. Thomas has a website and if you want you can look at it.












Look Nick and Johnny even made it on the site.

Nick continues to have superhuman game with the women. Must be nice...

The 'Girls who prefer to get with random traveling skate pros' love the T-Sect socks.

Diego gives his approval to Nick, 'Thumbs up my boy!' Photo Key.

The Nuge has decided to become a bad influence on my team, luring them away from skateboarding with DRUGS and DEVIL's BREW, bad Nuge, bad Nuge... What does Burn-Out have to say about it?

Burnt.


Burnter.


"Hey what dream catcher do you think I should get?"


Abdias and David sit down for a much needed solid meal after having non stop David gas station snacks for 4 hours straight.

Head on over to The Skateboard Mag website to check out Abdias's Mag a Minute.

Sometimes the world becomes too much for Johnny, and he has to take a time-out.

Kevin does his job, (filming a pole?) while the rest of the guys discuss the purple PSP...

Nick has tussled his hair into a perfect '80's hair-band storm...

Nuge flashes his guns. (Meanwhile on the Emerica site, Transistor Sect reincarnates.)

Nick and Nuge take a shade stop while someone else gets gnarly.

The Duff-man ollies the world famous Roberto Bummin' gap. (You have to scream it.)

While Burn-Dog is perplexed at the new upsurge in skate photogs in Buenos Aires. Photo Key.

See a video update on Burn-Out!!!!

From beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From Kevins' e-mail: As expected, the demo day was a wild one.

Johnny got interviewed while eating a sandwich. The demo was great, the guys killed it, and afterwards they signed and crowd surfed...

...Billy pissed electric...

...and Nick went down to double town with some of the local wildlife.
(And by 'double-town' he means Heavy Petting-Junction.) (population: 3)
Over all a funny, exhausting, and epic day.

Beloe Footwear, and more precisely Austin's pro shoe should be hitting stores in July...
What is up in Buenos Aires? check Burnout to see Billy and Johnny wreck a huge double-set.
(More news from South America coming tomorrow!)

Mr. Angel Ramirez himself will be shredding in the Skate Rock Tour. Keep a eye out for him.

(Johnny wallie into sun photo:Diego) Update from Kevin: Here's the haps. We finished our tenure in Chile with a trip to Valparaiso...

...where Nick moaned the setting sun...

...and Billy looked on, wondering if they had the new purple PSP.

(Flying over the epic Andes Mountains)

Flew over the Andes to arrive in a chaos filled Buenos Aires...

...filled with smoke from the grass fires taking place throughout Argentina.

Diego: There's some gnarly smoke in the city from burning grass in a different town and the wind blew it this way. The whole city is smoky as shit. Looks gnarly as fuck!!!!
Things are going good, everybody's getting along...

Butch is still hurt but having fun. Buenos Aires rules heavily. A town full of gnarly Diegos. I'm having a blast.

Which socks do you like the best:

Star and Moon all over
Lumberjack
Star and Moon big

To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?

I just wanted a reason to say Caliente...

Take a looksie over at the Vans site for more updates from his epic adventures.

But you can see a full report on the Burnout Blog, and even some footage of Nick...
This is a photo of Josh Harmony getting sweet in a ditch as shot by Grif-Dog the Pho-Tog.

What happends when Abdias is blogging Bart and Bart is blogging Abdias and the Hoover Dam is involved and I'm in the mix of blogging. Shit son thats a lot of blogging.


Gareth was in the mood of being blogged and not blogging.


Thats like 10 new friends on myspace if you gave them all your URL and told them to add you.


The Hoover Dam is the new In N Out. The meet up spot.

That was the most retarded post I've ever made. And I respect it.