chrome ball incident #385: deceptacon

getting back into the swing of things with anti-social canadian ripper, rick mccrank.

in my opinion, one of the standouts from all the beauty and the beast coverage... dude can nosegrind a 15-stair rail and roll straight into a miller flip. crankers always kills it.

sitars

good to be back... although i'm actually feeling a little under the weather.

just realized #400 is coming up soon.... interesting.

welcome little natie.

chrome ball incident #384: woof!

I wish I wouldn't have wasted so much time in my early teens trying to learn every single fucking trick and instead just focused on making the fun ones look better.

the answer was right in front of me... such is youth, I guess.

figured I'd let the Tempster lead us into what's looking to be quite the holiday week for your friend and humble narrator. on a personal note, mr. chops is to become uncle chops any day now and i'm pretty stoked.

the chrome ball incident will return monday, november 30th.

thanks everyone.

UPDATE: thanks Ricky.

chrome ball incident #383: desaturate

another outspoken innovator whose current outsider status in skateboarding is an absolute mockery of his contributions to the sport.

a friend of mine once told me that he considers ricky "the east coast henry sanchez". my initial reaction was that my man had lost his mind... until i realized that he was kinda right.

this is easily in my top 5 parts of all-time. (the closure version will have to do).

the first time i ever saw ricky skate in person was at a silverstar demo where he didn't like the set-up. what made it interesting was instead of just settling, he decided to leave the park and shred everything within a three-block radius surrounding it... all the time with about 300 stoked kids chasing after him. he found so many lines on the fly that the locals had never even imagined. it was incredible.

in the spirit of ricky's hometown pride, the shop on my block recently finished their website so I thought I'd give 'em a link.

big up to plank eye and also to my peoples at one-up.

chrome ball incident #382: ripped knees

pocket pussy, switchstance masturbation... and skateboarding.

that hard-hitting big brother journalism we came to expect with the skinny on chocolate funnyman/turf kingpin, mike york.

big up to robbys 2 and 3 and my man bif.

chrome ball incident #381: my black ass

always interested in what this dude comes up with...

people sleep on cairoglyphics.

chrome ball incident #380: out & about

had a real shit weekend so I figured I'd have some fun tonight.

for the heads out there, the timeless flicks of photog Ari Marcopoulos will always define 90's skateboarding in nyc.

i'm dead-certain that this kid's lens could make just about anybody look cool.

just one aspect of this insanely-talented dude's career... anybody hit this up?

special thanks to peel for tolerating my goofy ass.

i'm not sure if this one's an ari or not... but its too sick not to post anyway.