March 28, 2007
I got this voicemail from Ronnie Creager last week after Tampa Pro. Seems he saw a UFO from his plane over Arizona. His full story is rad and very convincing. Trying to get him to write me an email with it so I can show the whole world. Hurry up, Ronnie!
March 26, 2007
8th place? Gravette took one for skateboarding. Thanks, David.
My trip to Phoenix Am with the etnies crew was a blast. The contest was great. Friendly people, no drama, great park, great weather. If you were there and saw what went down, then you know why Gravette got shafted. If you weren't, I'll show you some footage really soon and you'll see for yourself. In the meantime, this new trick that Conhuir Lynn learned at a truck stop piss break during a game of curb S.K.A.T.E. with me, and then made into a line, ought to hold you over.
March 26, 2007
Found this lovely image on emb4ever.com
So here's the last of my unpublished manual interviews. Hope you enjoyed them. This final one is with Henry Sanchez.
Henry, my name's Rob. I'm calling from Strength magazine.
Oh, what's up man?
So we're doing an article on manual tricks and I wanted to know if you wanted to answer a few questions so we can include you in it.
Yeah, yeah.
March 22, 2007
Truth Be Told: Kristian Svitak
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag May 2007
When I was told I'd be interviewing Kristian Svitak for The Mag, my initial thoughts were something to the effect of "Damn, I almost forgot about that guy! He's been MIA for a while…what the hell are we even gonna talk about? He'll probably be all bitter about losing his sponsors in the last few years and disappearing."
That's the pessimist, cynical, jumping-to-conclusions skateboarder in me. But I wasn't the only one thinking this stuff. It's just the way skateboarding goes sometimes. If you get kicked off the right team, get put on the wrong team, roster hop, get injured and take time to heal, go on a bender or lay low for a while, you become invisible, exiled, out of sight, out of mind, message board fodder—the new captain of "Team Blowing It." Not everyone can pull off a career resurrection or be a Guy Mariano or Gino Iannucci.
March 21, 2007
Here's some Tampa Pro footy of Elissa Steamer & Ronnie Creager that I put together for etnies.
March 20, 2007
Here's some miscellaneous Rick McCrank footy from Tampa Pro, ending with his 5th place run.
March 20, 2007
Here's some more footy of Jereme Rogers from Tampa Pro '07, sans his qualifying run that I posted last week.
March 19, 2007
This is what my iTunes page looks like!
Yes, I know the site is slow today. Can I help it if my content is in such high demand that my shit nearly self destructs? Kidding, but thanks to kind industry folk linking into me today, and a lot of recently uploaded video from Tampa Pro, things are a little slow around here. So please bear with it, or come back soon. Your patience is appreciated, as are your visits.
Did you know all the video I put up here is podcast in iTunes?...
March 19, 2007
Somehow, all the party shots of me on SPoT's site involve a mug of Guinness and breasts. Good job Meronek!
