Zach Lyons Wears Thunder Trucks

God love the interwebs and Rory Sheridan for actually making me laugh today. This was kinda funny...


Zach Lyons Thunder Ad from rory sheridan on Vimeo.

Update: Nike SB for July 2008

Update: Added in the P-Rod 2 in Black / Lava / White

With July right around the corner a little snooping on the interwebs yielded the latest SB updates. I'm sure this isn't the whole pack but after big drops in May and June I'm sure they might be a touch conservative. I'm still loving all things blazer lows, highs, premiums, still one of the better OG shoes I've skated in as of late. The royal blue drop here will be a must have. Meanwhile, the latest Tre AD drop brings some camo flavor and of course the Rand Colvin Space Tiger dunk is...well it's interesting.

The standout in this release are the Ebay dunk socks. As we all know the Ebay dunks yielded a $30,000 bid and were made in the buyers size. Afterwards the sample pair were promptly trashed but are on display somewhere. All in All July is looking good.

Here we go with the shoes....

Nike Sb Tre AD Dark Cinder / Metallic GoldNike Sb Dunk Low Premium 'Randy Colvin' Black / Yellow Ochre
Nike Sb Classic Army Olive / Abyss

Nike Sb Blazer Low Varsity Royal / BlackNike Sb Ebay Socks



Probably not the whole drop but enough to get the ball rolling...

Another God D@*# Shoe Update: Vans Syndicate

So it looks like this is the weekend of shoe updates. I know kind of lame because there is more going on but since I can actually get out skating I'll take the new gnar boot news as a mana from above. I could let you know what's going on over at the Berrics or offer up a few ideas of what the Dew could do better but we'll hold off on those until later in the week.

The updates from now all come courtesy of Vans Syndicate. They've teamed up with two interesting figures of the skate world: Steve Olson and Max Schaaf. Olson is as well know for his design ethos as he is for skating rolls out tow shoes available this summer for the Fall'08 pack. The snakeskin suede brings a unique look to a classic pair of shoes.




Next up Real pro Max Schaaf from his 4Q Conditioning side of life designed an Era and Mountain shoe. What is already being dubbed the "Oakland pack" due to Schaaf being from the Bay Area comes with equally interesting materials: fire proof suede (who knows) and premium leather. The tongue also ha s a custom 4Q badge.

Looks pretty rad actaully. I'd like to give a shot skating in those mountain editions.

Matt Hensley on Macbeth

God love the interwebs. So while randomly surfing today I clicked over and saw this interview on CCS.com. Now, don't ask me what I was doing on CCS.com but it might have something to do with my growing love of the Nike SB Blazer. What caught my eye was the interview with former Blink 182'er Tom Delonge. The teaser promo was "Does Tom DeLonge still skate? The Angels and Airwaves front man tells all." OK, I actually wanted to know if this guy still skated. His photo looks kind of douchey but he always seemed approachable and funny.

After clicking through the Q&A revolves mostly around his band finally we get to the last question.

Do you still have time to skate? No, but I own a couple skateboard companies. We started one called Edmond. Edmond is a toy skateboard company, and we make these toys, like dinosaurs, that come with the clothes and with the products and you piece 'em together like Japanese toys. We also just signed Matt Hensley to Macbeth Footwear, which is my shoe company. And we're getting ready potentially to start another really big skate shoe company with the best riders in the world. But I can't talk about who they are specifically. I don't have time to do it, but I have time to be a part of the scene, that's for sure.

Wait, Matt Hensley is on Macbeth? OK, didn't see that coming. First Duffy and now Hensley. Apparently Macbeth is going after the coveted groundbreaking yet graying street skater category

Converse Skate Drops: Pro OX & Weapon Mid

Looks like Jacks Surfboards out west have posted up a few of the Converse skate shoes dropping. Soon ON their site they have for purchase the Pro OX and the Weapon Skate Mid. Lots of rumor and hype continues to follow who will be on the team. I'm sure we'll all know soon enough. In the meantime...go skate

Nike SB for July?

A few things are starting to creep up and drop on the Nike SB front for July. Next month is only a scant five days away and the new drops are only barely starting to make themselves known. Over in the UK in particular you can see some of the newer drops.

First up a new blazer low looks to be dropping unless I missed this one in a US release. Blazers and Blazers lows are some of the best shoes I've skated in as of late along with the Vans Cripta Dos and the Vans Mid Skate. Very happy.

Second, looks like the rumored Space Tiger may be coming out soon since you can cop this in the UK.

Dew(d) Tour Round 2: Go Skate Day Indeed

Saturday morning comes way too early when Friday night ends at 5 AM on Saturday. Did you follow that? I know this space time continuum of the blogosphere can be crazy so lets run back down through the past 24 hours that led up to Go Skate Day. Friday was a full day at work followed by approximately 3three hours down. 9 PM came quick and I rolled up to Baltimore for the Dew Tour Party. Six hours of ear splitting shit-bag techno, general jackassery and a 89 miles of roundtrip later the last post was up. Now I’m playing a bizzaro game of total recall to see if all the details of Saturday can be recounted on only 90 minutes of sleep.

OK, that isn’t happening so lets make like a good cheater use the cliff notes approach….cue the pictures! First up I rolled up to Arlington Skatepark (Powhattan Springs for the Convoy Skateboards Go Skate Day event I helped out a little with. really, this was 100% Convoys event and I think they did a damn fine job. Per the norm the park was blazing hot in the Virginia Summer sun. Eamonn and the Convoy crew had the tents locked up and prizes we're flowing all day. All in all we're lucky to have a local company like convoy around to pull these events off. Stoked on their overall DIY thing they have going on. So, support local skate companies!

After I got done giving the guided tour to a few friends I made some mellow turns in the bowl. Arlington local Paul Miller joined me for few runs before MC'ing the days festivities. Paul is no stranger to this coping.
So, lesson learned here...skating pad less in 90+degree heat after a very long night and 90 minutes of sleep was a dumb move. But, I had fun skating Saturday morning. Zippy energy and really mellow hours of skating. Just the way it should be on Saturday.

After driving up to Baltimore and cleaning up it was time to go do some business at the warp tour and by business I mean shake hands. That's how this blog thing goes. The more you know the more you grow. Your photog Chris snapped this shot of me not doing business but making sure there was going to be cold beer later. Priorities I tell you, You have to have Priorities. The blog may be growing, business may be booming but it is a summer time Saturday. Coldies are in order! Man I look like a douchebag.
After securing additional credentials so we could get some shots taken it was off to the street comp. love the media pit at the Dew Tour. Explain to me again how the 182 kids in the photog pit had media passes? Running a tight ship over there. Anyways once again the Bike and skaters shared a course. Meaning the skaters only stuck to abut 20% of it. seriously, this is where Benji Galloway, Duncombe and those transition guys would kill it. Anyway, per developing park comp rules they filled the Brazilian quota to the full 25% of the final top ten.

P-rod showed up and quietly killed it to second place. Paul has a lot going on. It was really good to see him skating strong.
Every time this happened the screams were deafening. Insane I tell you. Somehow I don't think ROb Dyrdek gets the same treatment but his show is funny because it's supposed to be.
Lutzka was there of course and doing damn well.
Sheckler stopped in front of us look at the course and then looked a the deck like he was inspecting it for something. Not really sure what was going on. By this point he had first place locked down like Fort Knox.
After a quick intermissions with cold ones (thank you Harrisson and Ogio) Lunch (Thank you Little Havana) and transportation (Big A!) we made our way over to the vert ramp. Finally we grabbed a few seats and made quick check of the scoreboard.
Bucky came out just blastin' in run number one with a boneless that just dropped a few jaws. Not much to say but he was on and making up for lost time.
Neil Hendrix had a few rough runs but still managed to do OK for himself. I think he only smiles for Fuel TV cameras and nobody else
Bob Burnquist had a rough one. Thursday Bob took a spill going off the side of the ramp and then followed it Saturday with a few rough slams. It happens.

Finally we walked away after bucky locked up a first place showing on vert. I was done and seeing Bucky in the top spot was a good way to roll out. I found out after the fact he won it. Good for you BUcky glad to see you get the hometown win.
So it was a good day. scary moment was seeing Rob Lorifice go down real hard. I heard he made it back to the ramp for the awards so rest up Rob and feel better. That ends the Dew Tour adventures for this year. No, I will not travel to anymore. Yes, I am very tired. Now back to the dirty side of skating...