Matt Chaffin on Built To Shred

Last week while I was catching up on viewing the many shows recorded by my DVR, I was fortunate enough to spot one of my favorite Hawaiian rippers Matt Chaffin doing his thing on the telly.

Sorry for the shitty quality cell phone pictures taken off of the TV.


Matt and homie Danny Supa sizing up the shredability.


Matt throws out a switch flip manual, probably just warming up.

Love to see little cameos like this out of the blue.
Also, if you didn't already know, Built To Shred is one of the only things on Fuel TV that is worth watching.
In fact, Jeff King and the Built To Shred posse came out to Hawaii a couple of years ago to film and a bunch of local heads tagged along.

Some of the Hawaiian Style Built To Shred footage is viewable here, here and here, and check out the highlight of the entire shit, Kale Sandridge with the sifter ramp tow-in transfer at The Hotness in Aiea.

Built To Shred season three episodes are airing right now on Fuel TV Sundays at 4:30PM.

Autumn Bowl R.I.P.

Looks like this weekend will be the last chance for people to skate the world famous Autumn Bowl in Brooklyn, New York.
Apparently a bunch of people who were paying key holders to the warehouse that houses the bowl dropped out of the group that rents the space and it was decided that the bowl would not be moved to another location when the lease was up.

I guess the bowl was recently sold to some people in Chicago who will give it a new home and make good use of it, you can read about the whole situation right here.

Glad that I at least had the chance to session the bowl four years ago when I visited NYC for a weekend with homies Kenny Brimer, Chane Wilson and Chad Hiyakumoto.

First night in town we hooked up with the Flyin' Hawaiian Sean Kelling, mad professor Andy Henrie, and Scott Johnston of all people and we all rolled out to some crazy industrial area in Brooklyn where we sloshed through a couple of dark, dank alleyways in the rain and then finally made our way to the abandoned looking building that contained the solid birch wood bowl surrounded by pool coping.



Anyway, it was super sick to see Andy jump right in with no warmups and completely destroy the bowl as soon as we got there.
Also, we were pretty stoked to see Scotty J. rolling, he was living in New York at the time and it was rad that Andy brought him out with us.


Tailslide out of his element was no prob for S.J.

Kenny and Chane however couldn't be bothered with actually riding the Autumn Bowl, they were in the middle of getting acquainted with the case of beer that we brought with us, and Sean was busy doing some crazy tap dance moves.
Chad and I took a while to get used to the bowl, it was pretty hard to skate at first.


Chad calls his shot.

We skated and drank beers for a couple of hours and it ended up being really fun.
I do wish we could have stayed longer, but we had people to meet and hangovers to prepare for.


This marked the beginning of the end for us, the shit was just getting started.

Also, if you haven't already seen it, Chad made a little video of the stuff he shot that weekend of us skating and the Autumn Bowl footage is in the beginning.
REST IN PEACE, AUTUMN BOWL!

Suck It, Donkeys!

Sorry to go all NFL on you all of a sudden but something incredible happened yesterday that has me all giddy and super duper happy.

First of all I have to tell you that I am a lot less interested in football than I used to be.
A LOT less.
Back in the day I wouldn't even want to leave the house until all the football was done on Sundays, never mind actually going skating while football was on, especially a Raider game.

Oh yeah.
Huge Raider fan.
GIGANTIC.
Even after they've been sucking super hard for the past 8 years or so, I'm still a loyal follower of the Silver and Black.

ANYWAY, yesterday, they played their most hated rival, the Denver Broncos, who I always refer to as the Denver Donkeys, or just simply, the donkeys.
If there was a machine or a way to register the amount of dislike (dislike is actually FAR too nice of a word) I have for the donkeys, such a device would register such high levels of anger and sheer hatred it would not be able to function on mere electric circuitry, it would have to be powered by lightning and molten hot volcano lava.

Having said all of that, the Raiders were in Denver yesterday to play the donkeys at Invesco Field, their home turf and also a gigantic gathering place for donkey fans who definitely hate the Raiders just as much as, if not more than they hate them.

Cut to the chase, the Raiders ass raped the donkeys yesterday, I mean really, really shoved a smoking, sizzling, scalding, red-hot poker right up their puckered starfishes.


Highlight of Darren McFadden (also known as RUN-DMC!) running roughshod over the donkeys.


The score was 31-0 barely into the second quarter.
Eventually the Broncos scored a couple of meaningless touchdowns and the Raiders kept on piling up points and the final score ended up being 59-14.


Raider fans letting them donkeys know what's up.

59 points is the most that the Raiders have ever scored in their entire 50 year history.
59 points is the most points that the donkeys have ever allowed in their entire 50 year history.
And all of this happened in Denver, in front of 75,000 donkey fans and a very small smattering of brave Raider fans who showed up to represent in the belly of the beast.


Wave that flag!

I want to give much love and props to all the Raider fans who showed up there yesterday and rocked all that silver and black gear and caused such a ruckus during the Raiders' historical donkey ass beating!

I know exactly what it's like firsthand.
8 years ago, (last time the Raiders were any good) I went to Denver to visit my good friend Joe Hoff.
We skated the Denver skatepark and partied and snowboarded and most importantly, went to see the Raiders and the donkeys play on Monday Night Football.


I had 2 foam fingers for the donkey fans and I posed with this fellow Raider fanatic to blatantly celebrate.

It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had in my life, no joke.
It was 32 degrees but I was so hyped and full of adrenaline not to mention decked out in a Raiders jersey.
It was gnarly.
I almost got into a couple of fights.
I was talking, no, screaming, mad shit to donkey fans.
The Raiders, much like yesterday, whooped that donkey ass real bad.
The final score was 37-14 and it could have been much worse.

Yesterday it was.
Much worse.
Or much better if you're down with Raider Nation.


Me and the Hopps had a message for dejected donkey fans that still holds true eight years later.
SUCK IT, DONKEYS!

Sorry to drop such a long and non-skate related bomb here, but this shit was huge!
Later.

ひさしぶり です.

That means it's been a while.
Apologies to all eight of you that read this but I didn't really care about updating this space while I was out of the country.

Just came back from 2 weeks of experiencing all kinds of amazing shit in Japan.
First of all, beyond stoked to have been able to spend so much quality time with my wife Yuriko who is not yet able to come to Hawaii to live due to the usual immigration bullshit that takes way too long to get processed.
FUCK the U.S. government.
Seriously.
Can't wait for that shit to finally be finished and officially done.

Also, my wife and I were super stoked to have been able to attend the wedding of my good friend Junji Murata from Soundboarding and his new bride Maisie in Osaka!

おめでとう ございます!!!
That means congratulations.

Their ceremony was incredibly beautiful, and the party that night was mental.
Osaka skaters+All-you-can-drink=Chaos.

Prior to the wedding however I did find time to get in some shredding with Junji and special guest Takashi Maekawa, who was fresh off of his 2 month journey of pushing his board from the most northern part of Japan all the way to Osaka.
Takashi had to stay in Osaka to work and make a little bit of money for the rest of his trip, because he's got a long way to go yet and that shit, like everything else in Japan, ain't cheap.

After six nights in Osaka, we headed back to wifey's in Tokyo for eight more days.
A few of these days she had to go back to work, so on those days I hooked up with my man Masa Ikeda from Phi Wi Spot for some scattered skate action, and he took me to some serious gems.

I will post more stuff later but for now here's a few snaps from the trip.
Hopefully see everybody at Kenny's Celebration Of Life tomorrow night in Ewa Beach.
Aloha!


Wedded bliss!


Soundboarding+Skate Nazi marriage collabo.


Takashi introduced me to the new spot in town, Junji and Maisie's wedding took place like 100 yards from here.


That night at the wedding reception party, the C table brought the ruckus, complete with full nudity.


The homie KD from Fuzenna Skate Shop has a new location complete with a little mini-ramp and this beastly bowl.


Power Bomb Skatepark in nearby Nara.


Meanwhile in Tokyo, this shit was rough, rugged and raw.


Ditto for this weather beaten park that is roughly (pun intended) as old as A'ala Park here at home is.


A little more user-friendly.


Now we're talking.


This natural street spot was the easily the best shit of the whole trip though.


Until next time, just remember:
If can...can. If no can...then this.

Japan Here I Come...Again

That's right, get ready Nihonjins, I'm coming to Japan to fuck shit up next week!
First of all, I'll be hitting up my favorite city in the world , which is Osaka of course, for five days and then immediately following that I will be spending a week in Tokyo.

Want to say big ups and congratulations to my boy in Osaka Junji Murata from Soundboarding, who is taking that plunge and getting married and also to the homie Takashi Maekawa who is in the process of skating from the top of Japan all the way down to the bottom, no shit.
Dude is on some cross-country shit and I am glad I can meet up with him in Osaka for Junji's wedding as well as some shredding before he commences the rest of his incredible long distance journey.

In honor of this latest trip to the far east, my man Keith from In4mation did a super duper Photoshop job for the frontpage of the Skate Nazi website, which may or may not be coming soon depending on what your definition of the word soon is.

Super stoked on this Photoshop job my man Keef hooked up for the site:



Glico Man is an Osaka icon and The Skate Nazi is just a squirrel trying to get a nut!

It might take a minute but I'm working on some shit for an actual website, stay tuned for more, but for now I'm the fuck outta here.

JA MATA ATO DE!
Laters.