Mr Marfaing stopped by the other day.

He cruised in to say hi and grab a few things.
Flo's definitely stoked on his new board by Jimbo Phillips.


You guys remember this one? check it, then go buy his board.

Last weekend at Ripon Skatepark Caliskatz hosted it's 3rd Annual Hella Hella Nor-Cal Show. Some insane skating went down. Hella people showed up to witness.
The Raven was in flight

Josh Mattson heel flip Indy off the 9' wall, made it first try
Steven Reeves left Portland and drove down the night before, getting to Ripon at 5am ready to shred

Raven's nose grind that brought the crowd to it's feet
Raven won the best trick with this nose blunt on the trash can, in the 9' corner. Siiiick.

Check out this freakin' Judge Panel

Andy Roy, Joey T., John Cardiel, & Matt Rodriguez. Yeah.
Tony, who runs Caliskatz is a f*cking bad-ass. Dude kills it.

1st Place - Raven Tershay
2nd Place - Josh Mattson
3rd Place - Steven Reeves
Hella lookin forward to Hella Hella #4

This afternoon NHS got a special visit from the Vans Crew, while they were hittin' the road. They rolled their RV up from So Cal for a BBQ at Bill's Wheels.

pictured here:

Tony Alva, Bob Denike, Steve Van Doren, Matt Casper, Mario, & Bob from Van's.

But I fixed most of it just in time for Emeric Pratt to move up..

enjoy!

So this year was a first for the Herbst and I.
Lee was like you have to go man, its a great place to see some great skating, see some old friends and just be your self and have a good time. Thats what skateboarding is all about.... right?
I was like, "sure man, lets do this!"
The posse consisted of The Herbst, baby Raven, Lee "dude I'm sorry!" Charron and Me, baby Jordy.
Now flying doesn't normally freak me out but for some reason the turbulence on this flight was like something out of a Steven king movie. The Herbst is all ready freaked out on flying so it definitely put a damper on things. I kept thinking to myself, dude it'll be like that one TV show where they crash on a deserted island with a bunch of hot chicks and they all live happily ever after..
Well turbulence ended, we didn't crash and I managed to spill my beer in my lap.
Keith Wilson picked us up from the airport. Thanks Wils!
When we got in to the showdown I manged to trip over this dude.. baby lamb

Horn was like "lets go up to the roofs so we can get a higher view"


horn, boat, bingaman, the victim and devin the dude

Here's what won best obstacle this year! Killer job skid mark!


It was pretty rad seeing Koston trying to figure out this monstrosity of an obstacle.
Here's Wilson being the first to do the double banger.

Yeah Wils!
Al straight killed it all day and night! Al's the best.


"baby lamb! baby lamb! can we ask you a couple questions!?"
I don't know how they found us up there....
They probably smelled us..

Navs and Cranston

Here's Peter Parker shooting for the daily bugle.

It started off this way.....


nice shades...
skid mark aka chew BACA, alfaro and Raffin.
Is that a DAF hat I see in there?


Ponts, Dawes, Lucero, Omar and Mr Wilson.
Oh yeah, who ever took Wilson's camera I hope you get a staff infection on the tip of your nose...


Ponts, Parts, and that one dude Lance Mountain...
You guys see that article on lance in the new Thrasher? so sick..


"Yo Jamie! You got anymore of those Tecates over there?


This guy.....
Ok, so check Lee's blog over on the creature side.
I used to look up to this dude. Ever since the whole Muska thing back in the day I was like, "man Mike V is cool!"
But after I saw that crap he tried to pull on my dog Lee I hope that fool catches the gnarliest Karma ever.
Today I hate the dude more then anything in this world.... Even more then Sarah Palin... and what's up with that cat under his chin?, I mean beard.. That shit is looking straight gross and I hope he's not trying to start another cool trend in skating.. Can you imagine that? Wassup rockers with super tight pants and long grease beards... gross

Is it even necessary to tape your dirty lil paws up like that?
I guess when your Mr Element you need physical trainers for your Jockness...

check out this NON make, its a beaut..
I guess he should of taped his mittens up a lil tighter...
Anyways, I was going to babble on and talk way more crap on dude but check out this amazing clip I found on the tube.
Pretty much made my day.. Lee?
click here
What a Mike Vajayjay...
Enuff with the bearded butt hole rant and on to some more skating...


Baby Rave minus the beard and jock tape, thus the landing of this back smithers.

"Excuse me Mr Heshlord, will you sign my Neff hat? kids these days...

Skin, give me a thumbs up if your feeling it! Yeah Skin.

Andrew Langi, This dude is one of my favs right now. Just need to get him on some trucks that turn...... yikes

Malto meal


Lamb chops

The judges. cards, Barbee, Rothmeyer, Hughes, Lowery and Conner Welles?
Not sure who the dude on the end is but it looks like my dog Conner...

The crowd

One of the hardest working dudes in the industry! Yeah Schaefer.

"I think I see him, I can see his beard from a mile away!"

Raven Through the glass.

Olson sighting..

So I'll end it like this. Thanks vans and no thanks to Element and Mike V. Actually I take that back on Element. I actually like those dudes, except for the bearded butt hole. Mike V, how long have you been pro? 40? 50 years? anyways, way to long. I would think you knew how to handle your p's and Q's a little better, especially with your family in the crowd.
Is this what your about? Beating up dudes who throw a board in the crowd of a skate board demo/contest?
How many of these things have you been to?
Did the reaction of the kids being into the creature board make you bummed?
Are you bummed that kids are into Black and green and not trees and lighting bolts?
Did your kid win the board in the toss and your bummed because now she wants to grip it and rip it?
I'm just trying to figure out what your deal is Mike Vajayjay.
So kids next time you support the company with the tree for a logo make sure you support dudes that actually skate and don't bring their jock straps to contests or demo's...
Mike Vajayjay my email is on this thing if you got something to say you can hit me up. I would die to have your email....
Also were throwing a demo for you in town. Were throwing it at this dive bar down the street. Just you and a bunch of Santa Cruz locs, should be good times. Let me know if your down and remember to bring that cute, crusty, lil beard of yours..

Lee tried to scare me into blogging yesterday by calling up and doing a spooky voice. Well Lee it kind of worked..

I got all inspired this afternoon and was looking on craigslist to find things to spice up the Website department. In my amazing office we have some dead-space that is inhabited by a desk that no one ever sits at. I don't have my camera with me but envision it looking like this..

Anyways in the random times when someone is sitting at it they are telling me or the purchasing guru to do a bunch of work that we don't want to do.

I'm thinking we chuck the desk and install this..


however since that won't fit I decided to move onto this..

way more in our price range!

however then these two ads caught my eye.



We could get the piercing kit, tattoo set-up and pinball machine for $10 less then the Quarter Pipe. All that's left to do is constantly play Slipknot and our office will be just like Hot Topic! We'll be giving out free tattoos of the Excel logo and html tags all next week.. stop on by!