Just back from the So Psych-ing tour to Damn Am this past weekend. Full Strange Notes video and photo coverage coming soon. In the meantime check the results here for street and here for best trick.

Notables from the NHS family include Max Genin from Indy Europe at 4th, Tanner Zalinsky from Krux at 6th, and Indy's Chris Troy at 9th. The semi-finals saw Vince Del Valle and local SC kid Tommy Werner from Krux as well as Santa Cruz and Indy's Marius Syvanen and Taylor Bingaman of Creature and Indy stature.

Young blood David Loy won the Damn thing.

...but I think Ron's really gonna be feeling these Extreme Crossover stunts.

Here are the results from Goofy vs. Regular this past weekend. Goofy wins again! Yay!

From the official GvR website:

Goofy Wins Again!!!!

For the second year in a row, Goofy trounced the Regulars at the etnies GvR! That would make this year the first year a team won back to back! Here are the final results. Big congrats to Jereme Rogers for winning first place for a second year in a row!
Also, congrats to Ryan Sheckler and Nyjah Huston for taking MVP! Stay tuned for tons of coverage, photos, video and more in the coming week!

TEAM GOOFY

Jereme Rogers 1st - $10,000
Nyjah Huston 2nd - $5,000
Rodolfo Ramos 3rd - $2,500
Greg Lutzka 4th - $2,000 -INDY
Ronnie Creager 5th - $1,500
Collin Provost 6th - $1,000
Darrell Stanton 7th - $1,000
Danny Cerenzini 8th - $1,000
Dylan Rieder 9th - $1,000
Pat Channita 10th - $1,000 - INDY
Colt Cannon 11th - $1,000
Michael Simonetto 12th - $1,000
Tyler Hendley 13th - $1,000
Javier Sarmiento 14th - $1,000
Collin Hale 15th - $1,000

TEAM REGULAR

Ryan Sheckler 16th - $500
Chris Cole 17th - $500
Andrew Reynolds 18th - $500 - INDY
Alex Mizurov 19th - $500
Danny Fuenzalida 20th - $500
Sierra Fellers 21st - $500
Bryan Herman 22nd - $500
Emmanuel Guzman 23rd - $500 - INDY
Peter Ramondetta 24th - $500
Dayne Brummett 25th - $500
Vince del Valle 26th - $500
Dominik Dietrich 27th - $500
Tony Cervantes 28th - $500
Chris Troy 29th - $500 - INDY
Robert Lopez 30th - $500 - INDY

etnies Girl Push Jam Final Results

1. Marisa Del Santos – $3,500
2. Evelien Bouilliart – $2,500
3. Lacey Baker – $1,500 - INDY
4. Vanessa Torres – $1,000 - INDY
5. Amy Caron – $600
6. Lauren Perkins – $400
7. Elizabeth Nitu – $400
8. Elissa Steamer – $200

Pro Bowl Contest

1. Omar Hassan - INDY
2 Rune Glifberg
3. Brian Patch - INDY
4. Bruno Passos
5. Taylor Bingaman - CREATURE / INDY

Grand Masters

1. Steve Caballero - INDY
2. Lance Mountain
3. Lester Kasai
4. Jeff Grosso - INDY
5. Micke Alba - INDY

Ladies Bowl Jam Final Results

1. Holly Lyons - INDY
2. Cressey Rice - INDY
3. Heidi Fitzgerald - INDY
4. Kristi Sanders
5. Julie Kindstrand

Check back for more photos and videos at GvR.Etnies.com

My weekend watch is this classic clip from Sick Boyz, the 1988 skateboard film from Mack Dawg Productions featuring Bryce Kanights, Tommy G, Thiebaud, Mic-E, and a ton of other heads.

...was on Wednesday. Happy birthday BITCH! Looks like they had a good time.

Desiree Astorga recently curated an impressive array of art from within skateboarding's plethora of artistic talent to benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation . The Kings & Queens gallery runs until October 29th and includes castings and art from some of skateboarding's best, both in front of and behind the scenes. It's located in the Mission at 1415 Valencia in SF.

If you're interested in purchasing one of the castings or want to check out more detailed photos of each peep the eBay Auction site. Proceeds benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation's youth Education and Awareness programs.

This week's featured vid on StrangeNotes.com is Chris Haslam's Stupid Trick Tip from the Oz Fest DVD. Pretty goofy and pretty crazy at the same time. Watch out for the diarrhea and puke... looks like someone had a good night!

Eric Koston web exclusive interview at ThrasherMagazine.com which talks about how he got on Indy.

Bryce at SkateDaily.net has some sick early skateboarding finds. These rarities were hard to come by before the advent of things like YouTube, which is now owned by Google.

"The future of TV will be in the online world."

So I'm wondering if it was midnight last night in Arkansas when the team van was pulled over, discovering the fact that I had forgotten to check to see that a copy of the insurance and registration were in it before I released it to Emmanuel and Rhino.

Amongst the last minute tune up, purchasing of 2 new tires, and waiting for the alignment to be done I completely spaced it. At least it was just a ticket and those guys were on their way because apparently when they ran the plates the VIN # didn't match and they could have just impounded the thing and arrested someone. Apparenlty there weren't any other shenanigans going on at the time either. Good job guys!

good skateboarders!

For a long time I've been anti as far as sponsoring kids under 16 but recently at the Tim Brauch Memorial Contest there was this 10 year old named Curren Caples that was pretty amazing - style wise too! I noticed (as I normally do in this case) that he was riding some weird trucks. Now here's where it gets tricky cuz I had to hold myself back a little, ponder if he's just riding them for free and wants to ride indys or if he just doesn't know... I mean the kid is 10 right? Anyway long story short I just decided to ask him about his trucks. "Navigator's" he said, all bummed. Then I asked if he'd want to ride Indys and he completely lit up for a second, then acted all cool, "yeah that'd be realy cool" he said.

Rails, flip tricks, grinds, big airs, vert ramps, bowls, NO BIGGIE.

I'm even impressed with the song!

6 years until he can legally drive a motor vehicle huh? Weird.

Rumors spread last night and this morning that Eric Koston was killed in a car accident according to news souces...

Indy TM Lance Dawes confirmed this morning that Koston is alive and well. Who knew if the news story was real or not as it is way too easy to start your own internet rumor these days with spoofs and parodies floating around everywhere! This apparently is a Fake A Wish. Pretty lame if you ask me...

"It's like space without the stars."

So the Time to Grind blog has a new background color... well it's not really a quoteunquote color but. Inspired by This is Spinal Tap, there's none more black...



"This one goes to eleven."

The featured vid on StrangeNotes.com this week is Creature in Oz. Peep Creature and Indy team guys like Navs, Hitz, Partanen, Horn, Ponts, Gravette, Perkins, Potter, and special guest Hewitt as they travel through Australia with Preston and Rhino.

Yup, don't forget little kiddies that you can sign up to win every month at IndependentTrucks.com! This month's prize is a set of NEW KOSTON 129 LOWS and a DOD FTR TEE.

...of Raven Tershay.

So Navs (I mean Death Lazer) and Hewitt were here Tuesday through yesterday... Darren's top 5 statements were:

1] I'm having a great time
2] Keith ordered a "last beer", slammed the whole thing, crushed the can in his hand and threw it down on the floor. (total exageration that turned into me biting the can open, shotgunning the beer, crushing it on my forehead, and throwing it at the bartender. I actually just ordered a beer, drank it, slightly crushed the can and put it up on the bar)
3] I think I'm going to make myself puke again
4] I love my stuff
5] I'm more than a team manager

Those guys have to be the most enteraining couple... Peter is a crack up and Darren exagerates everything.

Haslam is here now and last night after Whaley took him to Derby, we skated out back at NHS for a while. Ron and Chris played SKATE on the quarterpipe... it was close but I think Ron might have taken it in the end. They good...

My weekend watch is Lizard's Checkin' In from the last SN vid... again. He's on tour with Muska and someone else right now... He was in Utah last weekend and left Navarrette an insane voice mail at 5:45 in the AM... severely altered mind, talking about everything green and vampires and stuff. Death Lazer saved the message and played it for us while he was here.



Emmanuel Guzman, Chet, Alfaro, and a bunch of other dudes are on a Route 66 tour right now in the NHS team van. Rhino is covering it for an upcoming Thrasher and Buddy Charnowski (sp?) is covering it for Fuel TV.

Strange Notes Hot Dogs:
Bryan Botelho Sponsor Me
Creature Born Dead Best Ever trailer
Santa Cruz in AZ part 2
Ted DeGros Checkin' In

What does it mean if you ride for Krux but your dog's name is Indy?

So as it seems, it's tough as hell to muster up the mind set of updating the quoteunquote blog everyday. So I find tidbits and interesting junk to supply my many devoted readers with mere minutes of entertainment.

Oh there's so much to tell that I sometimes get overwhlemed with info of the cranial nature... like for instance the Tim Brauch Memorial contest results and photos or the upcoming Damn Am contest in Costa Mesa sponsored by Independent Trucks or all the tradeshow drama that transpired here over the last month. Maybe I should clue you into how freakin' sick Raven Tershay is getting on his wheeled device now powered by Creature and Indy or that Peter Hewitt and Darren Death Lazer are coming to town tomorrow... or maybe it should be about Eric Koston and his new Indy signature low truck or maybe it should just be a bunch of text that you read that makes you want to go skateboarding. Any way you look at it though, text is text and anyone can tell you it's just a bunch of bullshit. Decide for yourself and go skate cuz you like it and because you want to... Don't let me tell you what to look at or who to like or dislike. It's Time to Grind!