In case you were in some other town last sunday (ie. pegtown) you missed out on this year’s Bringin It to the Streets 2008 contest in and around Vancouver. I edited a little video for all your online viewing pleasures. So take a look and make comments on youtube, cuz it is so cool to talk shit about people’s clothes. Thanks to Underworld staff & friends and all the sponsors.

This sunday I am helping with Bringin It To The Streets. We are doing something different this year. We can only allow a maximum of 30 skaters to participate in the event. If you wanna enter then register ASAP by either calling or walking to Underworld Shop (Vancouver). Here’s the info:

Date: Sunday August 17, 2008

Time: 1pm - 6pm  (you should really arrive at 12.30am)

Meet: Skate Plaza

Emerica, Altamont, Baker, Indepedent, Brigada, Color magazine, Monster energy, Dose and Underworld skateshop are very excited to announced the return of BRING IT TO THE STREETS CONTEST. This year we are doing something different than last year. Meet us at the skate plaza August 17th at 1pm where a shuttle bus will be waiting for you to go on a skate mission.

The bus is only for the participants and media but if you have your own vehicle your are more than welcome to follow us and come watch the event.

Maximum 30 skaters.

Big cash prize.

A lot of exposure will come out of that.

The entry fee is $20

RSVP at:

Underworld

860 Granville St

Vancouver BC

Phone: 604.899.8949

*The skate spots will remain a secret until the day of the contest. 

Watch previous year’s video:

Highlights 2007 

Highlights 2006

On Saturday I decided to go watch the Vancouver Damn AM contest at the Bonsor park in Burnaby. I snapped a few friend photos just before the rain fully soaked the skatepark. Since the contest ended sooner than planned, they decided to award the skaters based on the qualifying results, so Scott Decenzo walked away a little richer.

Chad Dickson flicks a switch flip just before he snaps his board.  My bad.

Dustin Montie pulls out a nollie flip back lip on the lil’ rail.

Alien flips out of a front smith. 

East coaster, Josh Clark storms a fakie 270 to boardslide in the rain.

Spenny, Bonnell, Hugo and Josh Clark celebrate with some tequila during the after party at Bourbon.

If you wanna see more coverage of the Damn Am in Vancouver, go browse through the Skateboard.com site. 

http://www.amgettingpaid.com

This past few weeks, just after Am Getting Paid, Chad (Dickson) and Hanlon (of the John variety) met up with me for a week and a half of skating in good ol’ Southwestern Ontario. The heat was insane I can say that much and cut our energy resources to a minimum but we managed to get a few good sessions in at the local spots (mainly Victoria park all day everyday). Alot of days got cut short by rain as well but that didn’t stop us from getting some clips…..some serious clips…

This poor hubba didn’t know what was about to happen to it….

Here’s Chad and Hanlon preparing the runway for this innocent hubba….

……warm up??

You probably shouldn’t skate this hubba anymore after this day….

And what’s a trip to London without a night session at Victoria Park. Derek Swaim, Paul Liliani and Tom Morrison made the trip down from Toronto to light up the benches for a little night sesh. Saw some serious lines go down in very little tries which is always fun! Hanlon banged a quick one out too which I’m sure everyone will see soon enough…..

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm

The sun was shinning and the people were out to watch Spencer Hamilton win his third Matix’s Lord Of The Lines contest in Vancouver. Jordan Hoffart respectively got 2nd place and took some of the prize money. Below are abunch of photos from the day:

I’m still in Montreal filming with Ryan Bonnell. We are having super good time skating the streets and dodging cops. Downtown Montreal has so many spots all within skating distance, which is awesome cuz we are getting kicked out very often. Jai Ball and Darrell Smith have been showing us around to the hot spots, so every day we skate a new spot. Good things are happening in MTL. Here’s a photo collage of some of my pics from this week.

Micky Papa is everywhere. Seems like I see lil’ Micky everywhere. He has 10 pages in the latest SBC (Vol 10.3). You should read this article by Frank D about Micky. It’s pretty awesome to see him getting more coverage and exposure, cuz he is amazing at skating and he is just a great person in general. Cheers bros.

http://www.amgettingpaid.com

There seems to be a reoccurring theme to this skate trip to Montréal. Take a look at the pictures and take a guess.

Chad Dickson, John Hanlon, Dustin Montie, and myself are eastbound to MTL for the AM Getting Paid ‘08 weekend. I know we are gonna have a good time cuz last night we had some warm up drinks. If you wanna get grimy with our crew come to the miniramp at Foufs tonight. I am sure it will be a good ole time. Here’s some pics from our day.

I wasn’t lying in my last post, big things are happening to Micky Papa this month. If you walk by Underworld (Vancouver), you’ll see this big RDS poster of him. It is actually funny to see people stop and look at each photo frame (24 frames).

photo: Rich Odam

Micky Papa gets his switch kickflip published in the latest Color magazine. I wonder if his plaid shirt helped. Big things are happening to the lil’ man this summer. More things popping later this month.

A few weeks ago, I created a mini-promo video for Montreal’s Mehrathon Distribution to welcome Dan Redmond to the Canadian Alphanumeric clothing flow program. Watch the video below:

*note: youtube video quality sucks, cuz you can’t see all the detail. ohh well.