SKREECH WINS @ VENICE BEACH

PHOTO: LANCE LEMOND
CONGRATS SKREECH! Winner of the 1st Annual VB Skatepark contest:
http://www.veniceskatepark.com
You want some more? One more time: Skreech vid from HAVOC TV November 2009:

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Drink Will Flow And Blood Will Spill

.....and if the boys wanna' skate you better let 'em......




PHOTOS:RUNAWAY
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Gotta do one song for my neighborhood.....

(Sung to the tune of "Palmdale" by Afroman)
"Dale. Palmdale....straight skated six pools, like a nut/we come to your house like Pizza Hut/had to squab at the Desert Inn/socked them cholos in the chin/give it to me now:





PHOTOS: RUNAWAY
AFROMAN! CHECK IT OUT/CHECK IT OUT/ CHECK IT OUT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWylUZub5KM
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COMING TO HAVOC TV IN NOVEMBER: "SKREECH"

Don't miss this sick clip coming to HAVOC TV in November!! HAVOC TV is FREE skate downloads on your cable provider's VOD channel! Get the 411 @: www.havoc.tv

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Same S***, Different (Birth) Day.......

Happy Birthday - what is that....?? Just a day when your beer gut looks bigger and you're reminded that you're one day closer to having to hang up the stuntwood....however there are still one or two things that can make men of a certain age feel like celebrating - like getting long-awaited permission to skate the Parker Ranch pool - a BIG (think Dogbowl) left hand kidney with 7' trannies, 3' of real vert and a decades worth of caked-on dirt and cancer dust to deal with - this pool was no joke:


PHOTOS:RUNAWAY
After you get the cake, time for some icing....we headed off to another recent find, the rather perfect Calico Pool - Scott got the deathbox, Rudy cracked a FS Ollie and I got the mandatory B-day grind - not like winning the Lottery or hooking up with a Supermodel, but I'll take it:



PHOTOS:RUNAWAY

PHOTO:OBRADOVICH
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COMING TO HAVOC TV IN OCTOBER: "ADDIKT AMS"

Don't miss this sick clip coming to HAVOC TV in October!!
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Losing the Dream

Been hard to find good pools lately, what with the United Socialized States Government giving away $8K to buy a new home, $4.5K to buy a new car, etc. - all this while our own great state of California keeps sticking it to us with higher State Tax, Sales Tax and every other kind of tax so they can hire more cops/firefighters/city employees while giving the retired ones six-figure pensions:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/04/vernon-city-admin-gets-499675-annual-pension-from-calpers/
The socialized home ownership program has reduced the inventory of homes to under one month in the AV from 14 months a year and a half ago when we were scoring these gems:
http://skateboardaddikt.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
But with the LA Times reporting that 15.2% of all mortgages in CA are either delinquent or in foreclosure (must have something to do with that 11.9% unemployment rate), I feel some more pools like this permission pool in Lancaster coming in the very near future.......


In the meantime I am going to apply for every State of California job I can find - I hear the City of Vernon needs a new Administrator....
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Gin and Chocolate Rain

Still trying to figure out what happened on the ADDIKT NW Tour - one thing I know for sure - Gin and Chocolate Rain don't mix....here's Tim Garner taking out the vert wall @ Marginal Way:

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There's a Pack 'tard in my Backyard

Packy is stayin' @ my place gettin' ready for Trifecta - we're making him sleep in a tent in the backyard.....yesterday we went to someone else's backyard for a while - first one to grind the Anthony coping gets to sleep in the house tonite:

Packy won - apparently he got in some practice back East before he came out here:


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ADDIKT SKATEBOARDS NW TOUR '09

Camping our way to OR - C U out there.....?
GO FERAL OR GO HOME....!!

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Malmo Ultrabowl Redux

Skreech made it to the Semis - close but no cigar - here's a few photos the man from O.M.S.A (aka "Dietsches") sent me:

Check out his blog for all things EuroSkate:
http://dietsches-omsa.blogspot.com/
And be on he lookout for the upcoming "Dual Pool" event they will hold in September in Dusseldorf (that's in Germany in case you're geographically retarded):
http://www.myspace.com/factorybowl
Anyway back to the UltraBowl - Quicksilver is in the midst of a "financial restructuring" so they did not sponsor the event this year - three words for corporate non-skate companies: GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN - no one is buying $40"artist edition" T's, $70 sweat shop shoes and $75 "moisture management" jeans anymore....just another example of a surf/wannabe skate company bailing out as soon as skating doesn't generate enough earnings per share....? You decide.
The nice thing is no one really seemed to notice they weren't there - there was 7,000Euros in prize money, sunny (mostly) skies, a ton of ripping skaters and a great pool - who needs "moisture management"....? Congrats to Benji Galloway on yet another big win - gotta' love that exchange rate from Euro to $ - that buys about 1.4X as many PBRs here as it does in Malmo.....!!
1. Benji Galloway (US)
2. Steven Reeves (US)
3. Stu Graham (GB)
4. Johnny Turgesen (US)
5. Kevin Wenske (DE)
6. Tim Johnson (US)
Check thisEuro-site out for more info/fotos/details:
http://www.vert.nu/blog/index.php
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Don't Believe the Hype

2Q'09 foreclosure activity was the highest quarterly total on record:
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-16-2009/0005060934&EDATE=
Here is our latest find:

A soon-to-be permission pool circa 1955 - owner got our waivers in hand as we speak - waiting to exhale.....home sold a few months ago for a cool $55K - that's about $350/mo. all-in including mortgage/taxes/ins. etc....c'mon this is getting ridiculous. When you get bored go meet the neighbors: there are 3 other skateable pools in the same neighborhood - c'mon over its located in, uh....damn, my Alzheimer's is flaring up again....
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New SKREECH pro deck available from ADDIKT Skateboards

50 limited edition decks come with grip AND a FREE copy of Peacock's CANCER DUST featuring Skreech and many other ridiculously retarded rippers - THREE different shapes to choose from - check 'em out:

http://www.addiktskateboards.com/store.html

Get 'em while they last.....after that look for the CANCER DUST/grip tape-free version at your favorite "core" skate shop wedged behind all the shop decks from China even though they probably won't be there (sorry had to throw that in there).......
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100 Degrees in the Shade

2 hours each way in the car in 100+ degree temps just to make it to this session - if it wasn't Scott's 46th I probably would have passed, which would have been a bad call since this session was pretty epic - when was the last time you saw a 46 year old w/ a blue Mohawk throw down a Smith grind in a BY pool? That's what I thought.....

FOTO:CAMP
Speaking of old you know that's what you're gettin' when you ask for photos for a blog post and then it takes you so long to get it done that Mr. 559 has to do it himself - thanks to Jamie Camp for taking photos - nice to be in front of the lens for a change - click the link and enjoy the show:

http://www.concretedisciples.com/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=1&topic=7716

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Feel the Power, Feel The Thrust

The FULL BLOOM Tour is a distant memory but fortunately (or unforunately for some) video lives on forever. Two days into the trip I was too hungover to make any more blog posts, so if you wanna' see more photos from the tour go here:

http://www.concretedisciples.com/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=6&topic=7606

or here:

http://www.skateandannoy.com

Otherwise just watch this little clip Peacock has provided for your viewing pleasure - drink a tall can while viewing and it'll be just like you were there for the real thing......

VIDEO: PEACOCK
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Frank The Tank's

Hell Ride 3 went off - guess U had to be there - if you weren't check the fotos of ADDIKTs Skreech and Aryeh Kraus gettin' some:


FOTOS: YUNKER
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Party Like It's 20(0)9

The "FULL BLOOM" Tour is on.....brothers Johnston hooked us up when we hit Mo-Town - here they are gettin' some in their own DIY:


Then it was straight to Lorraine's:


FOTOS: RUNAWAY
After a long session under 90 degree blue skies, we headed for the nearest Happy Hour to cool down and fuel up for Hell Ride 3 @ Frank's.........
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May-hem Day

While the masses around the world used May Day to protest the global economic crisis, we were mining its silver lining at a foreclosed pool home in Tulare, despite the protestations of some local folk - that May Day mojo got a mind of its own....... FOTOS: RUNAWAY

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Straight Outta' Medford......

Visalia locals Dale,Scott,Tim Garner and Tom Knox rolled out the red carpet for Jack's Board House this weekend. ADDIKTs Jason Garza and Justin Shirley along w/Tyler,Ryan and TM Joey charged it and made the long drive from Medford to Visalia on Friday night. Saturday was Tulare/Visalia BY pools:

FOTOS: RUNAWAY
Sunday was a couple parks (Selma,Orange Cove), a quick stop @ Ray's in Fresno and then back in the car for another 600 miles - so what did you do this weekend......??
ROLL TAPE:

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Half Empty or Half Full-erton??

Spring is here and that can only mean one thing - time to get the pump out and empty those pools - thanks to the subprime slaughter there's so much to choose from this year - take this one for instance:

Just grab yourself a 6.5hp water pump w/ a 2" intake:

and you can ride this thing in no time:

When you get bored just go around the corner and start all over again.....

FOTOS: RUNAWAY
ROLL TAPE:

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Go For Broke

YES - we were in Southern OR this weekend
NO - we didn't bring you any beer back
YES - we skated Matt Klein's DIY bowl
NO - we didn't bring you any beer back
YES - Rita, Tom, Shelly and Patty @ Jack's Board House in Medford hooked us up
NO - we didn't bring you any beer back
YES - we skated the new Winston park on Sunday
NO - we didn't bring you any beer back
YES - Shane Bell broke his leg
NO - we didn't bring you any Vicodin, Oxycontin or Percoset back (he took them all)
YES - this is a photo of Shane B4 the accident - SB straight up killed it all day right up to the last run - sometimes you eat the pool, sometimes the pool eats you....see you in 8-12 weeks brutha!!

Photo: RUNAWAY
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FYI we're BFF with DIY....

Tired of day care kidz, pedal-heads, scooters and fruit booters? For a couple Benjamins and a day or two of hard labor you could have one of these in your backyard (Gene Boles not included):

Photo: CAMP
While backyard DIY doesn't come with the magnificent landscaping (i.e. iron bars), caring staff (i.e. pad nannies), human interaction (i.e. bumping into barneys) and diversity (BMX,scooters,and fruit booters all in one park? Awesome!!) found at your friendly neighborhood skatepark, I'm sure you'll make do....and try not to miss the little kid with his board in perma-tail-drop position right in the middle of your DIY saying over and over ,"you want me to go? you want me to go?".......

Photo:CAMP
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All My (Future) Children

In my mind, skateparks are like prostitutes: Good news is, you're gonna' get some - bad news is, you're gonna' have to pay for it...

"Paying for it" in this context means having to deal with a relentless onslaught of children whose douchebag parents think its OK to use a skatepark as a day care center and its somehow our responsibility to not only tolerate but actually take care of them. Gone are the days when skaters were few and far between because finding a good place to skate actually took some effort (and a willingness to break the law on occasion). Public skateparks have spawned a new breed of "day care skater" - armed only with a soccer mom with an Astro van (make sure thhose child restraints are fastened properly!), tots of every sort can now roll up, pad up and get their "extreme" on - just like on TV!!
Sadly this park was no exception - overrun with kids who should be home watching Nickelodeon instead of peppering me with questions. I have developed an effective way of dealing with this - as soon as I get two questions (Are you sponsored? Can you change my diaper?) I say, "I'm going to have to limit you to three questions today". This is usually followed by, "huh"? At which point I say "That's your third question" and skate off toward the opposite end of the park - that's where I found Scott Obradovich and Tom Knox getting some:


Sadly it wasn't long before the kids closed in again - I'm not going to say they drove me to drink, but next thing I knew I was here:

Crying in my beer and lamenting the sad state of affairs that is skateboarding these days. Every wall in the bar was covered in one dollar bills (Just "1" More, get it?) - the owner claimed she was saving them for her pending "breat augmentation" (I dunno - they looked fine to me).....I slapped an ADDIKT sticker on a George Washington and looked for a place to post up - that's when I saw this piece of art:

Now those are my kind of children......
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