THE SKATE NAZI MANIFESTO: February 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

Natural Koncept Cali Tour

Looks like the entire Natural Koncept team is heading out for a little trip to California this month.

According to the flyer the whole team will be taking part in this, and that means our three Hawaiian homies Kale Sandridge, Chris Kays, and Sean Reilly will be out there on the road skating, partying, signing shit and generally bringing the ruckus.

Should be interesting and also potentially dangerous.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Ryan Spencer Wins Girl Open House Contest

HO, Hawaiian!!
Just got word from Girl Skateboards employee and bumbaclot Jordan deOliveira that Maui's own Ryan Spencer went and took first place at the 4th Annual Girl Open House Contest earlier today.

APB's own John Oliveira was also entered in the contest but according to Jordy he just couldn't put it together today and may have suffered from lack of practice on the newly re-designed warehouse park.

Super stoked that Hawaiians keep representing in this yearly event.
If you didn't already know, in 2007 APB's own Danny Hamaguchi took second place, in 2008 Maui's own Nate Guest placed second, and last year Ryan Spencer from Maui took home second place as well.
This year though, Ryan stepped it up a few notches and according to Jordan thoroughly dominated the event this time.

More on this later as video and photos are made available, but once again big ups and chee hu's to Ryan for winning that shit this year, Hawaiians no fuck around cuzz!

EDIT:
Found this video on the Thrasher website, there's some footage from the contest in this clip.

THE SKATE NAZI EXPLAINED.

First of all, let's just get this out of the way right quick. I mean, it should be fairly obvious to most people familar with modern American pop culture where the inspiration for the moniker "Skate Nazi" originates from. If you aren't a Seinfeld fan, or you happen to live in a country where the humor of Jerry and the gang doesn't translate well, the name has absolutely nothing to do with Nazi Germany or anything even remotely close or pertaining to anything Nazi related. It comes from one of the greatest supporting players on one of the greatest programs in the history of American television, the Soup Nazi.

In September of 2006 my dear friend Kenneth Brimer and I went to Chicago to visit our homie Chane Wilson who was living there at the time. One of our friends in New York City, Sean Kelling, suggested that we fly in for the weekend to hang out and kick it with a bunch of our other friends from Hawaii who now reside in NYC. The airfare was cheap so we went early on a Friday morning and flew back to Chicago the following Monday. Even our boy Chad Hiyakumoto trekked all the way from Hawaii to NYC for the weekend, also our friend Manny flew in from San Francisco, and with them and all of our other transplanted New York ohana from Hawaii, we had a pretty big posse in the city for those three days.

Anyway, Kenny and Chane on the loose together? With Manny in the mix? In Manhattan? Forget about it. They were all about getting fucking wasted. They brought their boards, but they sure didn't give a shit about skating that weekend. Don't get me wrong, Chad and I were also very much looking forward to partying, but to us skateboarding was definitely the more important aspect of being in town that weekend. I made sure that we hooked up daily with Andy Henrie and Sean, and I also made sure that they were not only taking us to places like Max Fish and Motor City, but that they were also taking us to some goddamned skate spots. I was so on top of that shit. I was the one who woke up first every day and cracked the motherfucking whip to get the shred shit going. In fact I was so militant about this daily business that our friend Rhandy Tambio said to me "Dude, you're like a fucking skate nazi, damn!"

So there you have it.

THE SKATE NAZI MANIFESTO

Friday, February 5, 2010

Natural Koncept Cali Tour

Monday, February 1, 2010

Ryan Spencer Wins Girl Open House Contest

LEAD GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS.

WELCOME, SHITBIRDS!

THE SKATE NAZI EXPLAINED.

THESE PEOPLE ARE NEAR AND DEAR TO THE SKATE NAZI'S COLD BLACK HEART.

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