Hartsel x Element= Hot Fiyah!

I don't know if you've seen the Elemental Awareness stuff over at the Element website, it's been up for a while but you should definitely check it out if you haven't yet.

Our homie Jef Hartsel is one of the many advocates who got down with the Elemental Awareness project, you might have even seen the commercial on TV that he was featured in with a bunch of the other participants.





So anyway, just the fact that Harts was involved in something like this was very dope, but when I first heard about the whole thing, I didn't realize that it would involve Jef having not only a collabo t-shirt and messenger bag, but also a deck!

A couple weeks ago Jef came by A'ala Park one night rocking his brand new board, and let me tell you, that thing is fucking sick. The shape is like nothing in Element's extensive deck selection, you really have to see this thing is person to truly appreciate how unique it is, but here's a couples photos of it:





The new graphic is a nod to Hartsel's original SMA World Industries design from 20 years ago, I remember this shit well in the shops back then because the colors and overall aesthetic of the board was so incredibly dope, and I also remember it well because I'm old as fuck:



DAMN!
That's the ill shit right there.

Couple this with the organic t-shirt:





And the Poetree/Element collab messenJAH bag:







Now that's a nice little package right there!
Solid shit coming out of the Element camp, gotta say this is something extremely positive and welcome in the skateboarding world.
Big up to marketing director and eternally Hawaiian shralper Ryan Kingman and the rest of the people over at Element that put this project in motion, nicely done, fellas!

Hartsel was also asked recently by his O.G. World Industries teammate Jesse "The Mess" Martinez to create a piece of art to be auctioned off at an upcoming benefit in Venice to aid Jesse and his family, and this is what Jef came up with, these pics are from the early stages to the completion of it, and it's entitled "Mind SK8":















Lordamerrrrrrcy!
I'm just beyond psyched to see all of this come to fruition, I can't explain how stoked I am for Jef and I am just glad to be able to share this shit right here with you.

Hell yeah, once these boards are available, it's on, can't wait to get my grubby paws on one.

Perfect Fit

Skateboarders love their hats, hats love skateboarders. A large percentage of people that skate rock ball caps, that's always been a given. Shit, The Skate Nazi used to sport 'em on the daily way back when but hasn't worn a hat since 1997. But that's just me. Anyway, the only places to cop the good shit in those days were mall stores like Foot Locker (if you were lucky to catch them on the right day at the right time of year) and a few out of the way sports specialty stores.

Me and the homies would have killed for a store like Fitted Hawaii back then, are you kidding me? Cuzzo, Ola, Kaboe and the rest of the Fitted squad have had the hat game in Hawaii sewed up tight for more than a minute now. I can't imagine anyone with an interest in hats going anywhere else to get that good shit. Where else would you go? Lids? Get the fuck outta here.

Fitted not only have the hottest New Eras available, they have their own exclusive joints in colors you ain't never seen before. Couple that with their line of locally inspired t-shirts that drop regularly to the tune of about four every month, and these dudes have got it on lockdown. Kids be lining up for this shit when it hits, and it goes quick.

But enough knob-slobbing, their shit is dope, they don't need me to tell you this, but what I really need to tell you is that the dudes at Fitted have just recently launched their brand new website, and it's really nice and super professional and all that.

Look at this shit:


Clean and mean layout.


Online shopping is available.


Team page with Tim Jackson.


Matt Chaffin collage all up in there too.


Jarold Webb is Fitted ohana as well.


Triple threat Chris Kays also reps hard for Fitted whether he's skating, surfing or snowboarding.

Great to see some homegrown braddahs doing big things and keeping it Hawaiian!
Support these dudes, fuck all that corporate mall shit.
BUY LOCAL.
www.fittedhawaii.com

Oh, one last thing, just because.
Who would have ever thought that back in the day that this dude:



Would become a successful entrepreneur and married man with a daughter?
Good job, Cuzzo, keep doin' it big!
Oh, and when are we going to shred again?
I know you still got the fever every now and then, hit me up!

Got That Vimeo Shit!

Hooray, The Skate Nazi is now on Vimeo for video purposes.
Only one video up there so far but there will be more on the way later.
Look, I said LATER, man.
I can dig it.

For now, peep the inaugural offering I threw up the other day.



Vimeo is pretty sick, video quality looks good and you can put longer shit on there than YouTube it looks like.

Definitely check out Troy's shit on Vimeo too, as well as Darin's stuff and finally the newest Internet nerd-out dude, my boy Kenneth is all about it.

Attack Of The Killer Haole Premiere

Sorry for the short notice reagrding this post, I only just found out about this yesterday but Sean Reilly's latest and greatest local skateboard snuff film Attack Of The Killer Haole will be officially unleashed to the public tomorrow night.

Lomsbread Production's own Skill-R-Chi Sonar Skillet Brousseau will be DJing at the V-Lounge Wednesday night April 22nd (tomorrow) and the video will be shown also.
Not too sure of the full details but it should be dope, whether you've already peeped the video or not it will be sick to see it on a big screen in the presence of people who are not familiar with Reilly's cinematic steelo. Heads will indeed be tripping.


The star and director, Sean Patrick Reilly, sacrifices well-being for the sake of his art.


Watch Bernardo Bernard in Stoneyvision: Lordamerrrrcy!


See Railmaster Stiffy blaze new ground in higher education.


For your viewing pleasure, Tim Jackson flexes "The Face" and skates to one of the best songs in recent local skateboard video memory.


Finally bear witness to the long-awaited unveiling of Tom Slick's first full-length video part.

V-LOUNGE.
TOMORROW NIGHT.
BE THERE.

Recipe For Happiness Premiere

Probably should have thrown this in the Adrian post, totally forgot about it.
Both Adrian and Jarold Webb have full parts in their buddy Aryeh's new video "Recipe For Happiness".

Here are the details regarding it's premiere, which is happening next weekend on Saturday the 25th in L.A.



Yeah, you know this shit is going to be well off the hook considering that Adrian and Jarold both don't fuck around when it comes to cameras being pointed at them.

There are a couple of little previews for the video floating around the Internet, maybe you've seen them, maybe not.
Here they are just in case.

Trailer 1:


Recipe for Happiness promo from Aryeh Kraus on Vimeo.

Trailer 2:


Recipe for Happiness trailer 2 from Aryeh Kraus on Vimeo.

Hell yeah, can't wait to see what the local braddahs have up thier sleeves for this.

YO, ADRIAN!

When I was in Japan last month I didn't check out much stuff on the Internet, I was busy living offline in the real world and it was nice to take a break from computers for a bit.

The day I got back home I was catching up on skateboard gossip and the like, and lo and behold I saw that my buddy Adrian Adrid had scored himself a Mag Minute on The Skateboard Mag's website!

Here it is if you haven't already seen it.



Jesus, that was pretty goddamned steezy.

Adrian has been ripping shit for a long time, everyone already knows he was steady killing it when he lived here in Hawaii, but ever since he moved to Cali the dude has been on some domination type shit.

Seriously, when he and Travis Hancock came home for Christmas vacation last December it was like a demo every time the two of them set foot on their boards. Also, when I was in L.A. in January the dude rocked it pretty fucking hard when we all skated together.

Anyway, Adrian reps Hawaii super hard and recently he got put on the APB squad if you didn't already know.


Here he is pondering power moves with his new team manager, who absolutely loves being blogged by the way.


Hurricane Adrian has officially crossed over the Pacific and is now causing serious damage in Southern California. Photo courtesy of his very own personal soul stealer Sam Muller.


Dude jumps down shit like this for breakfast, and yes this is another Sam Muller photo banger.


I told you braddah always reps the 'aina to the fullest, even his photographer throws shakas.


Adrian made it to the Girl Skateboards open house contest but didn't have the opportunity to enter. He showed up and killed it in between the heats and the finalists are lucky that he wasn't in the actual contest. Dude would have seriously made an impact on that shit for sure, but he did get the chance to flex his ripping tattoo for the people. This shot made it into the slideshow that they had playing on Crailtap that showcased the open house back in January.


Speaking of the Girl open house, here's another dope photo from that slideshow, just because. I think I was busy gorging myself on free In-N-Out when they took this photo, I actually would have loved to ham it up with these guys in this one.

Anyway, I know I'm not the only one who's super psyched that Adrian is doing it big these days and the right people are taking notice. This guy deserves everything he's got and the future is only looking brighter and brighter for him.

Fuck yeah, Adrian, North Shore killa for life.
CHEEEEEE HUUUUUUUUUU!

Fish Dicks In Yo' Mouth!

Holy shit, the new season of South Park just continues to kill it!
You thought The Coon was ill?





Yeah that was definitely a good one, but the episode that just aired last night is easily the best of the season so far.

Trey and Matt managed to roast the fuck out of not only Carlos Mencia but more importantly they ruined Kanye West like he deserved to be, in classic South Park fashion.

Amazing episode, if only for the fact that Kanye West will now be remembered for his love of having fish dicks in his mouth.



Also, quite genius how they used a Carlito's Way reference when Carlos was begging for his life right before Kanye and his boys beat the shit out of him. "Look at me...I'm not funny, I steal jokes, my dick don't work...I got to piss in a plastic bag, man I got no dick!" Just like Lali when he was in a wheelchair in Carlito's office and he was wearing a wire. Fucking rat! Anyway, brilliant homage to one of the best gangster flicks of the '90s. Had to mention it.


Kanye doing the only cool thing he's ever done in his life: separating Carlos Mencia's bloody, talentless head from his short, stumpy body with a baseball bat.


Kanye's equally gay audience embraces and supports his fish dick love!


Kanye fully kitted out in his latest deep-seastreetwear limited Japan-only collabo gay fish wet dream suit.


Kanye jumps out of the closet and into the mouth of his true love.


Kanye, working on getting some fish dick love, serenades another one of his many underwater suitors in his best computerized gay fish voice.


KANYE LOVES FISH DICKS, THE END!

Hahahahahahahahahaha I love South Park, never fails, they always hit shit right on the head. It's about time Carlos Mencia got wrecked, and the best clowning ever was saved for Kangay West. Truly incredible.


VIDEO BONUS: Kanye tries to figure out the connection between himself and gay fish love.


VIDEO BONUS 2: Kayne is a motherfucking gay fish!

Bedpan Attacks!

Sean Reilly has just dropped his latest cinematic masterpiece and it's breathtaking.
Words are extremely hard to express regarding Attack Of The Killer Haole, but I'll have a full review soon.
In fact, there will be a fully detailed and most likely incredibly biased synopsis on the new Skate Nazi website which is being crafted at this very moment.
I told you this blog shit is temporary, son.
Super temporary.

Back to the video.
Greatly anticipated and a long time coming, the recently finished product had many glitches, in fact the original was so fucked up that it couldn't be transferred to DVD for a while.
Then these guys stepped in:



Lordamercy!
Big up to the Lomsbread massive!
Skill-R-Chi and Camera-On used their KGM Jah News video production skills to save the day, thus allowing Attack Of The Killer Haole to finally be seen by the masses.
Bless it!

Anyway, there are several copies of this amazing film floating around town so all you need to do is be in the right place at the right time and you'll catch it sooner or later.
You're going to want to experience this for sure.
Local skate videos are rare enough as it is, and Reilly never disappoints.

Contests and Bullshit

Over the weekend there were two skate contests on Oahu, both on the same day even. In the morning and afternoon, my man Chuck from 808 Skate and the Association for Skateboarding in Hawaii put on their first event of the 2009 season at the Keolu skatepark in Kailua, and then later in the evening Mike Kays from the Pacific Amateur Skateboard Series threw a team challenge at the Hickam Hangar. That's Hickam HANGAR. Not HANGER. Side note: ever since the hangar has been around and skated since the late 80's a lot of people have been referring to it in written form as the hanger. Airplanes go in hangars. Clothes go on hangers. How the fuck do people make that mistake? The Skate Nazi loathes poor spelling. Absolutely abhors it.

Anyway, I was working and I got off in time to catch the very ending of the Keolu contest, and was super stoked to see that O.G. eastside ripper Vance Ricafort won the sponsored division. Vance has always been a gnarly skater with that distinct big man steez and a super nice guy from day one, good to see him still doing his thing, and doing it well. Also of note in the sponsored division was the contest debut of Troy Pintarelli riding for In4mation. Troy has been killing it all over the place, especially on the north shore where he resides and he used his all around skills to snag second place. Pretty fucking good debut in the big leagues I'd say.

The 17 and over division was the only other division that I noticed the results for. Chris Kono ripped consistently all day, according to my man Kenneth who was one of the judges, and he had a deep enough bag of tricks to hold off Jason Park, with whom he had a tiebreaker skate-off with. Jason apparently wrenched his back something fierce and had to settle for second place.

Oh shit, I almost forgot! My longtime homie Jose' Caban's little son J.C. killed it in the 13 and under division! J.C. is definitely one of the best little kids out there right now, legit style, none of this little kid baby steez. He looks like a full grown dude when he skates, no skatepark grom robot shit here. Go get 'um, kid! You got a bright future ahead of you, and if you end up being even remotely as good as your dad, you're set.

Chuck and Zana did a great job with the contest, and it looked like the kids were stoked on the entire event. Their next contest is at A'ala park in May, and you can peep the full details on the ASH website. Hopefully I can get off work and join my man Chuck for some side by side color commentary announcing. Looking forward to it.

Later in the evening the Hickam Hangar was the place to be, and the team challenge got underway at around 7PM. The street area of the hangar was where the contest took place, and there were to be four elements that would be skated by each member of each team. First, there was the "longest air", which I found to be somewhat ridiculous. It was on one of the bank to banks and it was basically who could launch the farthest over it. Of course the dudes that skate there all the time handled that shit no problem. But I saw it as a fucking flyout competition, pretty lame in my opinion, and a total waste of time. Something like best trick over the door or best trick down the rail would have been more appropriate, methinks. But that's just the Skate Nazi talking.

The second part of the team challenge was the high ollie contest. It's crazy that back in the day there was a pro contest here in Hawaii held at the Blaisdell Arena, this was in 1990 I think, and they had a high ollie contest and I believe Matt Hensley won it by ollieing something like 32 inches. Nowadays dudes are winning high ollie contests with shit like Danny Wainwright's 44.5 inches and Luis Tolentino's 45 inches. Anyway, the Hickam team challenge had a pretty legit setup for the high ollie part of the contest. I saw my homie from back in the day Wayne Yata helping out Mike with running the contest and he was in charge of adjusting the heights during the highest ollie jam.

It came down to Justin Tamayo from the Hickam Skate Shack and Darin Lee from the In4mation squad. Justin set the bar pretty high with his 34 inch ollie and it held up for a while, nobody else could get that high until D. Lee went and boosted his shit with enough pop to tie the highest ollie of the night. Pretty damn good for a grown ass man in his thirties! Hell yeah, dirty thirty styles for miles. Neither of them could clear 35 inches so it ended up a draw.

The third and final part of the contest was the open skate jam on the entire course. Each team was given five minutes to session the whole street area, and it was pretty entertaining to watch. The Hickam Skate Shack dudes went first and showed their home field advantage by flying all over the place and I was especially impressed with Brandon Kays. I hadn't see Brandon skate since he moved back here to Hawaii about five months ago and he straight up murdered the spot. His fakie ollie over the big bank to bank at high speed was one of the gnarliest tricks of the night, if not THEE gnarliest.

I have to say that the highlight of the whole thing was watching the APB squad kill the course during their five minute jam. OK, OK, first of all, I am extremely biased. I can't front, these guys are my homies, definitely. But for a bunch of guys to come to a place like the hangar once a year and fuck shit up the way they did in that five minutes was exhilarating to say the least. Massive props to Danny Hamaguchi, Brian Wyland, Aaron Lee, John Oliveira, Conor McGivern and Alec Singer. I was on my feet the entire time and yelling like a motherfucker! The only letdown during the jam was that Aaron Lee fell while getting speed for a big backside nose grab air over the doorway and stepped into the Euro gap awkwardly, torquing his ankle pretty badly. In fact, it wasn't until the next day that he found out that he had actually broken his ankle. I do not know how serious the break is or if it's fractured or what the deal is, but it's safe to assume that Foxy is going to be chillin' off board for a while. APB won the free skate portion of the contest and then then it was time to tally up all the points to see who the overall winner would be and who would claim the 500 dollar winner take all prize.

The Hickam Skate Shack dudes ended up with the most points and won first prize overall, congrats to those guys for winning and defending their home turf.

Great job with the contest by Mike Kays and his whole crew, there was free food and drinks for everyone and a bunch of people came out and supported the event.

Good shit. See you next time.

Wacky Packys!

These were the illest back in the day.
Wacky Packages were just like baseball cards in that they came in a pack with a stick of gum and they were totally collectable.
They were based on popular shit like food and drink products and all kinds of other goods, and they were like the original knock offs that copied and made fun of big time logos.
I barely remember these but I can recall me and my sisters fully being stoked on them and trying super hard to get every single one in the set.
And oh yeah, they were stickers!
I stumbled upon these recently on the Internet and was blown away all over again.


One of the best ones. Kooks don't usually know that they're kooking it.


Mister Peanut is shitfaced!


More kooks doing their thing.


Seriously, these penguins are kooking it hard. Terrorist scarves are some hipster fag shit. Don't do it to yourself.


Hawaiians always represent that rough shit! These braddahs don't look moke enough for my tastes though, kind of misleading if you ask me.


SLAYER! 'Nuff said.


I mean, come on. They're noodles. For donkeys!


This is what bums put in their broke ass hoopties.


Holy shit, I've seen some fried out leatherfaced dudes rolling around at the north shore skatepark that look like this cat.


What the fuck?? This shit is mad racist. My Japanese peeps do not approve.


Filthy fucking hippy candy bar. Probably stinks and wants spare change.


That monster is drinking freshly squeezed alligator. Now that's gangsta.


Another filthy hippy, just asking for a teabag across the nose.


I miss cameras with film.


Nice beaver. Thanks, I just had it stuffed.


What up, dums? We used to use abbreviations like this all the time. Definitely was using the word Stupes way before the movie "Kids" popularized it in the mid 90's. New Yorkers somehow think they invented that term. Nah, stupes. Not eves.


That witch has a frosty mug in one hand and is throwing the horns with the other. This is easily my favorite of the bunch.


That bear smokes mad blunts and shit. Look at him dropping that shit all over the place. He's fucked up.