chrome ball incident #249: air

"Man, Reese makes the skatepark look tiny." -Andy Jenkins

Wasn't this dude training to be a Navy Seal at one point?

shout out to Eric Ricks and Andy Stone.

chrome ball incident #248: helter skelter

"Whatever you eat is pretty much what you shit out and who you are."

Never one to back away from controversy or pull any punches, for better or worse...

Where unpredictable meets unorthodox: Adam McNatt.

Classic Powell/101 era...

'cept for this one.

Interviews to come soon enough.

chrome ball incident #247: animal thug

found this ill cheeks big brother interview over the weekend.

the buttery slickness.

chrome ball incident #246: sacto soul

Bongo afficionado and closet Slayer fan Matt Rodriguez closes out the week.

I always got hyped on Matt's super fast and loose style... this word gets thrown around here a lot but "underrated" definitely comes to mind.

and whatever happened to supernaut?

big up to the entire stereo massive and my man jaycee.

and I can't go without mentioning this: historical.

chrome ball incident #245: jacques cousteau

figured since we were talking about shut...

transition master and cheapskates legend, barker always seemed to be having so much fun doing his own thing... even now.

good to see dude out there getting his geezer on.

and no, I couldn't find his Now n' Later part.

chrome ball incident #244: demon child

back in the day, this dude was supposed to be the "east coast guy mariano".

i remember a particular trip out-of-town to a skatepark (back before they were seemingly on every block) and all the older skaters there were talking about waldman and how ill he was. i was mad jealous of guy after ban this (every kid was)... and i jocked shut skates already... so the possibility of an underground east coast child prodigy that could take-out mariano had me crazy geeked.

immediately upon my return home, i told everyone i knew about how this future legend would soon by taking over the world (showing them that super good kickflip picture posted above) and they got pretty excited as well. once we heard the news he switched to world industries a few months later, it was a done deal: dude was a terror. we couldn't wait to see him skate.

then this came out. good thing i was still a little kid at the time cause some of the older dudes from around my way probably would've loved to have beaten on me. still don't know what happened with that part of his but it took a while for me to live that one down.

...felt like such an asshole.

chrome ball incident #243: about a girl

Nineties super-am with straight-up ridiculous pop.

Can't help but wonder how rob's vanishing act affected his best man...

Shout out to my man, mr. whitehead.

and damn!