So I finally rolled up to Laurel Mall with Will to check out the GVC skatepark. The price for 10 bucks on the weekend is a bit steep and 7 dollars on the week day is not much less steep but there probably isn't very much we can do about it.

The park itself is small but I that is to be expected considering the location. However it was pretty refreshing had some different obstacles and utilized space fairly well. My only serious complaint is that the quarterpipes need extensions so you can carry speed better in the park, The quarters are too small and force you to slow down more than flow through the park.

Also note that there were a huge amount of kids there so you can't really cruise around like you would want to hitting everything in the park because of all the kids, so I suggest those of you that are not 12 and know how to skateboard go there at like 11 on a weekday and shred before the kiddies get out of school.

However the state of Laurel mall may not allow this place to exist very long which is kinda disappointing. The place is a ghost town, more than half the stores are empty, not only that but there is one business in the foot quart and it is some shotty Jamaican restaurant. Luckily there is an Auntie Anne's on the second floor, but those are the only two places to get food or drinks in the mall. That or go to the dollar store...

While the tensions were high because the Velocity Rider Corey Rubin has been calling out the Independent team showing up all day, it finally really happened. At about 8:10pm the Independent team shows up to the Bowie skatepark and guess what the Velocity camera is dead because painter was on the super bluff, and a huge thunderstorm started rolling in. That allowed for drehobl and alex olson to do some quick work while everyone else cruised around or just chilled out.

In all it was straight as shit just seeing some real pros roll up to the park no demo announced and just skate the local park...

Dan and Alex

Storm!!!

Mack Dawg is one of the top video photographers in the game and when they come out with films they really mean something in snowboarding, from classics like the resistance and amped to the latest epics like from blank with love and picture this. The man has worked with practically every snowboarder in the game and his latest film looks to continue to top his own creations. The roaster is stacked and the anniversary of 20 years of Mack Dawg is upon us so this film should really set a new bar, one only Mack Dawg will be able to top:

I am sure you guys are familiar with the Lakai video Fully Flared, now we have Fully Trippin'. The new video is up on the web in 3 parts and you can peep them below, they are uploaded by Lakai so don't worry about them disappearing.

It's a european tour with some of the yakes and the like, some good skateboarding and good times for sure, enjoy:

In what has to be one of the lowest and disgraceful moves in domain history, Yahoo whom was once not a worthless piece of shit has decided to change there 9.99 yearly domain fee to not 12.95 like they would have you believe from the website but instead to $34.95.

Well at least we have time to switch our domains and all that shit right? oh yeah the change occurs? July 1, 2008, so for anyone that doesn't have to renew there domain for a month and isn't paying attention the charge on your credit card later this month is not going to be very friendly.

This news is fucking frustrating, I mean this lil blog has no ads and barely any traffic, if I put google ads on it I doubt it would make 35 bucks a year, and now yahoo is telling me the simple registration of my domains is worth 35 dollars? Keep in mind I like many others have domains they don't even use just on stock, so I have to pay 35 dollars to store my domain on their precious servers, I fucking up Microsoft buys these assholes and straightens them up.

As for me I am looking for a domain registar to switch too because well I have like 10 domains and don't feel like paying 250 more dollars than I have been a year for yahoos fucking dns pointing technology :/.

So one of my favorite things about watching skateboard and snowboard videos has to be the music, but I find the hardest thing about finding the music in snowboard videos is the lack of credit. This is especially a problem with trailers. And whats even worse is when the music is instrumental :0

So yeah I thought I would post a couple bands that snowboarders get down to and maybe you will too:

MGMT
Junior Boys - instrumental
Sunshine
Justice - instrumental
Metric
The Sounds
The Postal Service - who doesn't know?
Alice in Videoland
Shiny Toy Guns
Bloc Party
The Faint
Boards of Canada - instrumental
Broken Social Scene
Chicago
Clap your hands and say yeah!
Earth Wind and Fire - instrumental
Lexicon

Yeah I know I didn't list any rap but rap is typically a lot easier to find, and well I don't really care that much about rap but maybe you will like some of the shit on the list that you don't know about, shit is fairly diverse.

Also check Pandora for finding even more cool music.

Finally got around to capturing some of this footage from Hyatt's camera. Few clips of Estberg ripping as usual. Enjoy:

This is just completely sick an words can't really describe how I feel about this. Merlino tried to switch heel the Love Fountain so many times and finally managed to brake his board. So many were within his grasp and he just couldn't hold it down. Kid is fucking incredible and the fact that he doesn't have a board sponsor or is like pro for someone is just mind-boggling to me. check out the youtube footage:

He actually tried a whole bunch more times in another clip online but the quality sucks so why waste your time?

Is it just me or is Sam lurkin real hard

What's a Charm contest without Hatchell winning? Well unless he wasn't actually there I would assume a rigged one. Hatchell took honors as usual, followed by Charms own Dan Corrigan. 3rd goes to the unusually good switch tranny rider Alex Johns.

But let us not forget that Velocity's own Sam Heird entered as well, coming in 18th he beat out Goode this time around, sure there was some lipslide nosegrind combos going down somewhere in his run lol.

Honorable mention my man Huber got 8th, and looks like he rides for Pitcrew now? bout damn time he has wanted it long enough.

I myself have been riding with Nate's younger brother Dylan for a while now, they are both extremely talented but Nate is the star of Ski Liberty Mountain Resort hands down. He is the only one from the mountain to have competed on x-games level snowboarding events, he has even competed in the Vans Cup and actually took home the prize in 03'. Nate has had a rather bad past year though from losing sponsors to injuries, but I recall his part in the Park City video last year had all of us at Liberty going ape shit.

Anyway check out the interview on Future's site.