Thrasher Presents Hall of Meat with Bernardo Bernard

Peep out this clip if you want to know how to bail properly because the homie Nuh-nuh nuh-nuh-
nuh NARDO sure knows how to handle himself when big shit goes wrong.



I don't know about you but I think that was a fucking AMAZING save at the end there.
I mean he could have shattered his whole face on that shit.

Also, and this is for those that didn't already know, Bernardo had a little part in a really dope local video called Baysick when he was doing work in San Francisco a little while back, and you can peep that part here not only because it's fucking awesome, but in the very beginning of this section Nardo flexes his cat-like reflexes again and makes a potentially gruesome bail seem like business as usual.

Nicely done, and I must say I do appreciate a good bail recovery technique.

Fourstar Demo at A'ala Park

Heard a while back that after a recent visit last year Eric Koston was so stoked on Hawaii that he wanted to come back with the whole Fourstar team and do something here.

Well, it's happening next month!

APB and Fourstar Clothing present HAWAII FOUR-0!



Holy shit, being the huge Hawaii Five-0 fan that I am (the original of course, the new one is okay but come on son) this is beyond awesome.

Can't wait to see what the Fourstar dudes unleash upon our home turf!
Sunday April 24th.
4PM
Be here.
Aloha.

Autobahn Pit Stop with Daniel Castillo and Matt Chaffin

Saw this little piece this morning and was immediately stoked.
Lil' D and Shmatty are best buddies and they recently filmed a little day in the life type section for Autobahn Wheel Co.



There are a few guys out there from Hawaii that are making things happen for themselves in the skateboarding world but to me no one is doing it bigger than Matt.

This dude stays steady getting clips and keeps showing up all over the Internet doing what he does best: ripping super hard and making it look too easy.

And now, as if he wasn't killing Cali hard enough as it is, Matt is about to take a trip over to Barcelona in a few days with a couple of homies including Carlos Zarazua, Enrique Lorenzo and Torey Pudwill.

Matt always seems to be in the right place at the right time with the right people, and hopefully this Barcy trip will propel him further into the spotlight and hopefully soon Almost and DVS will give him the bump from flow to full am status like he deserves.

Hickam Contest Results

Couldn't make it out to the contest today but the homies at In4mation hit me up with the results hot off the presses:

Tied for first place and both on their way to Arizona to compete in the Phoenix Am next weekend are Travis Hancock and Heimana Reynolds.
Congratulations to these two shredders, and good luck in Phoenix!

Third place ended up being another tie, this time between Daniel Vinci and Bronson Sterling.

The outer islands represented as well with Maui's Miles Hanson snagging 5th place and the Big Island's Dustin Owens finishing in 6th place.

To recap:

1. Travis Hancock
1. Heimana Reynolds
3. Daniel Vinci
3. Bronson Sterling
5. Miles Hanson
6. Dustin Owens

In4mation+Habitat Collaboration

The braddahs at In4mation have teamed up with the fine folks over at Habitat Skateboards and are dropping a collaboration pack next Friday.

Although it's releasing on April Fool's Day, this shit right here is no joke, there will be a shoe, t-shirt, cap and a deck that will all be available at both In4mation's Ward and Pearlridge locations.





To commemorate the release of this collabo pack, the guys from In4mation got together with some of their team riders and workers to put the products to the test in a nice little video piece.


D. Lee piloting the shoes in action!

Check out the video right here:



Super good job of filming by Conor, Keith and Rhandy and extra big ups to RT for editing this to a extra flavorful old school Hawaiian jam that I haven't heard in a really long time!
Sick.

Fitted Hawaii SK8 PACK

Releasing this Saturday and limited to 40 pieces each, these special edition H Pride New Era hats were designed by the Fitted Hawaii skate team.

Danny Hamaguchi, Tim Jackson, Chris Kays, and Matt Chaffin all were asked to come up with a colorway and design that represented their own personal style and I must say that they came up with some straight heaters!

I don't rock hats myself anymore these days but the 1992-1997 era me would be all over this shit.
Check it:


Danny.


Tim.


Chris.


Matt.

Sorry to drop a tired cliche' here but these hats are so fresh and so clean clean.

On a recent Sunday, Cuzzo from Fitted got the team guys and a few special guests together up at St. Louis Heights to shoot a little promo for the SK8 PACK and this fine piece of video work was filmed and edited by Jonathan Skillet Brousseau, shit came out DOPE!



Well done, fellas.

Check out the full details of the SK8 PACK release over at the Fitted Hawaii website .

Hickam Contest This Sunday

Skateboard contests here in Hawaii used to be a really big deal to me back in the day.
Whether I was entering one or emceeing the festivities, they usually ended up being a really fun time all around.

Getting to see all the homies gathered together at one place and shredding for one common cause is a good thing for the skateboard community and this is the type of stuff that happens when there's a demo or a contest going on here.

I don't get the chance to make it to contests all that much nowadays due to my work schedule (and won't be able to make it to this one either, unfortunately) but this event coming up on Sunday at the Hickam Hangar looks like it's going to be a fairly big deal.



First of all, I have heard that there are a couple of new obstacles that are being built for this, which is awesome because in my opinion the Hangar needed a little recon boost, and secondly the top two finishers will receive automatic entry into the prestigious Phoenix Am contest that's happening April 2nd and 3rd in over in Arizona.

This will be a perfect opportunity for some hungry local cats out here to get their shine on and be recognized as worthy entrants into one of the biggest am contests in the world, in fact, our fellow Hawaiian homie from Mililani Jarold Webb received a well-deserved second place at the Phoenix Am in 2005 and made us all very proud.

Anyway, try to make it out there on Sunday if you can, and big ups to all the peoples at In4mation, Vans, and all of the other sponsors involved with making this happen.

Jordy, Jordy, Jordy!

Bummed that I didn't get to kick it with homie Jordan deOliveira last month when he was back in Hawaii for a little visit, when he got here I had left for Japan already and when I got back, sadly he was gone.

Gone but definitely not forgotten, I mean how could you forget the guy, he's all over the goddamned Internet if you know where to look.

First of all, there's the Jordyclot Twitter account, which is basically the only Twitter page I ever look at.
Always a great way to see what's crackin' in the L.A. scene, which is literally the Hollywood of skateboarding seeing how Jordan is friends with just about every single big name pro and sponsored am in Los Angeles.

Then there's Crailtap, where as a valued employee of the Girl/Chocolate conglomerate, Jordan appears from time to time in an always entertaining capacity, whether it's a photo or some little video clip.


Just a few days ago they showed his irie St. Patrick's Day fashion choice.

And not only that, he was honored in a little Top 5 action that featured the top five stoners at the Stoner Plaza.



Of course Lil' D and Shmatty (nice APB shirt, son!) are also in the top five, I mean these guys are strictly starting lineup material for sure, no way they come off the bench when it comes to getting their stone on.

After all, the Spliff All-Stars only draft the best of the best.

Also, and this one is my favorite, Jordan made an appearance in the first episode of The Frank Hurts Show hosted by the O.G. Fabian Alomar.

Peep this shit because it's awesome:



Good shit, and Jordan even gets background props in episode 2, which is also beyond awesome.

So keep your eyes peeled for the next Jordy sighting, it shouldn't be long.

Japanese Aloha Assistance

After trying all morning with no luck I am extremely stoked to have just got these t-shirts from Fitted Hawaii after they received a fresh shipment this afternoon.



These are 20 dollars and all of the proceeds go to the Red Cross and the relief effort to assist those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The shirts seem to be moving really quick, which is an extremely good sign that the people here in Hawaii are quick to show their love and aloha to our families, friends and neighbors across the Pacific.

Please show support and get yours now at In4mation, Buti-Groove, and Barefoot League.

Ganbare Japan!

Being in an American/Japanese marriage like my homies Erron, Jef, Ryan, and many others in Hawaii we all have a lot of friends and family in Japan, and I just want to say that all our thoughts and prayers are with them now in this crazy time following the devastating earthquake and tsunami from yesterday.

All of the news images and videos that have been being shown on television and all over the Internet are a sobering reminder that mother nature is still the boss and that when she decides to flex, she doesn't play favorites, shit can happen anywhere at anytime.

Hopefully today Japan and it's people can begin to pull themselves up and start to rebuild from this terrible tragedy and everyone here certainly wishes the Nihonjin well in all of their recovery efforts.

みなさん きをつけて ください!

ALOHA!

Kenny Forever And Ever And Ever

A couple of weeks ago marked 6 months since our brother Kenny Brimer passed away.

There isn't a day that goes by where I'm not thinking about that dude, there's so much shit in everyday life that reminds me of him and there's always a story that involves him or connects to him in some way.

A couple of days ago it was brought to my attention that there was a new piece of graffiti at one of Kenny's favorite skate spots and that I should go and check it out.

I made the short drive to the park up in the hills above Chaminade University to peep out the little D.I.Y. transition spot that we always referred to as "the St. Louis spot" to take a look at this piece.

Now normally I am not the biggest fan of graf in general, but I have to say that I when I got there I was super, super stoked to see this fresh burner on the wall of the bathroom that sits next to the spot.


View as you approach from the basketball court.


Buddha bless!


Now this is what the fuck I'm talking 'bout.
KB 4 EVAH!
A fine shout out to my man and I know he's steady lurking up there at the spot regulating every session.

Rob Carlyon on Vert Is Dead (Plus Bonus Archived Coverage)

Sorry, this is from a couple of weeks ago but I've been busy with a bunch of other shit and then there's the whole just being plain lazy thing that I do quite a bit.

Also by the way, this is the 200th post of this blog right here and I'm stoked that the subject of it is such a good one.

By the way, if you didn't know already, Vert Is Dead is a skate blog similar to one of my favorites Chrome Ball Incident in that they showcase skaters from back in the day, some of whom are still active, and talk a little bit about them while featuring photos they had in magazines as well as other sources.

So I stumbled upon this a couple of days after I returned from Japan and I was extremely stoked to see it because this dude is hands down one of the best ever to come out of the state of Hawaii.

Of course I'm referring to Rob Carlyon, and even though he is a long time homie and that makes me very, very biased, there is no arguing the positive impact and influence he has had on the skateboard scene in Hawaii over the last 20 years or so.

Not to mention the skills.

Dude had it good like that.

Still fucking rips to this day when he wants to.

Dude is a family man these days with a lovely wife and beautiful daughter and spends a lot of his time choking dudes out on some MMA shit when he's not working with Big Al and the homies at the tint spot.

But seriously, my man can not set foot on a skateboard for months and months and still destroy it when he finally shows up to get his shred on.

Last year at one of the big Kenny memorial sessions at A'ala Park he and I had ourselves one of the best games of S.K.A.T.E that I've ever participated in, and I don't play S.K.A.T.E. all that often anymore these days let me tell you.

That shit lasted like a half hour.

Me and Rob were slugging it out on some titanic flatground battle shit.

Old school, new school whatever, Rob has a deep ass bag of tricks and I was actually holding my own for once.

In fact I had his ass on the ropes and could not finish him off for the longest.

We were both at "T" and we agreed that the last trick would be a switch 360 flip, and neither of us would try anything else until one of us landed it.

Now I haven't landed a switch 360 flip on flat in about 15 years or so and even then it was only one time, but Rob can do that shit, even though he hadn't skated in forever.

After like 5 tries each he stomps one perfect.

I was done.

Dude is the champ, still.

Even when he's not skateboarding, he is skateboarding.

Anyway, I noticed that homie over at Vert Is Dead had mentioned that he could only manage to find this photo right here of Rob when he was on ATM:

Those ATM days were pretty cool when he was pro alongside Ben Liversedge and Edward Devera, but everybody knows that Rob really made his bones skating for New Deal along with fellow Hawaiian homie and Salt Lake shred partner Rene Matthyssen.

Since homie over at Vert Is Dead didn't have the crates to dig in that I do, I will now share with you some prime Rob Carlyon media exposure from various magazines accumulated over the years.


I believe this was Rob's first ad for New Deal.
This was on the inside cover of an issue of SLAP that had some incredible artwork by Twist on the front cover, we're talking 1993 or so here.


This ad was for some mail order shit selling Etnies shoes, who Rob was riding for at the time.
The photo was taken on Market Street in San Francisco by Tobin and if you look closely you can see a very young and clean-cut Ethan Fowler looking on in the background.


Speaking of riding for Etnies, this ad featured Rob at Huntington High doing what I believe is a frontside 180 heelflip.
He's wearing the Etnies Rap, which was basically the hottest skate shoe out at the time.


Rob had a Wheels Of Fortune segment in the very first issue of 411 Video Magazine.
Now that's some O.G. shit right there, on some real legend type shit!
After that came out, he really started to get a lot of coverage, and soon he received this Check Out in Transworld, and the accompanying words were scripted by none other than the owner of that Nautica graphic that Rob is pictured riding here, Cuzzo himself.
This was probably early to mid-1994.


Another Tobin pic from S.F., this is a pop shove-it over a Union Square bench.
This was one of those hot spots at the time that you saw in a lot of videos and mags, and this photo ran full-page in Big Brother.


Speaking of Big Brother, one month they ran the Yellow Issue, which featured Asian skaters, and in the contents pages this gem of a collage was printed.
Rob is in the top row, the third photo from the left, and as an added bonus peep out two rows directly below him to catch a glimpse of our homie Sean "Flyin' Hawaiian" Kelling, who was riding for Jef Hartsel's Shaolin Wood Company.


Also in the Yellow Issue of Big Brother was this picture of Rob doing a kickflip to fakie at home base, A'ala Park.


Rob has always been a master of all heelflip variations, this particular one is switch and he's riding the awesome Safeway graphic which I believe was a Danny Sargent, probably his last model for New Deal, and a nod to his mastery of the legendary Safeway curbs in San Francisco's Mission District.


Another heelflip, this one is regular and over a garbage can at a So Cal schoolyard.
Notice Rob is riding what I personally believe to be Rene's finest pro model board, the Beck's Beer graphic.


Rob has always had transition skills from day one.
This frontside rock shot ran in a tour article in SLAP that documented a New Deal/Mad Circle/Element road trip that Rob went on with Scott Johnston, Chris Keefe, Edward Devera, Reese Forbes, and Kenny Hughes.


Speaking of transition skills, you had better have had some at this spot if you were trying a trick like this popped noseslide to fakie, this shit was steep and quick.
Catlin quarterpipe R.I.P.


Our home turf always seemed to find it's way into magazines and videos when Rob and Rene were getting coverage.
The nationwide and worldwide exposure of A'ala Park that those two provided was priceless, and for that I and many others will be forever grateful.
This 360 flip to fakie was an every try trick for Rob and I love the Hawaiian language tutorial on the page as well.
Not only that but this ran as part of a Hawaii article in Transworld in late 1995 with a sequence of our old homie Peter Nascimento, who you can partially see at the bottom of the page executing a nollie heelflip over a bank to bank at the Hickam Hangar.


This piece of news in Transworld in early 1996 announced that Rob Carlyon had finally made the well-deserved jump from amateur to professional skateboarder.
Yes, Rob first turned pro for New Deal but stopped riding for them before he could receive his first pro model, which he would receive later in the year from ATM Skateboards.


I love this picture of Rob.
Not skating but chilling, this photo ran in SLAP and was shot by Lance Dawes in late 1996.
I happened to be visiting San Francisco at the time and staying with Rob, Ian Ginoza and Gerrard Secretario at the infamous Brown Rug apartment on Harrison across from All-Star Donuts.
We were all at Lance's crib for a big barbeque and a shitload of heads were there including Greg Hunt, Bobby Puleo, Scott Johnston, Keith Hufnagel and even Eric Koston.
Rob threw the hat on as a goof and Dawes rushed to grab his camera.

Well, there you have it.

Sorry this post was so long, but as I mentioned earlier, it's post number 200 here and the subject matter is very special to not only me but also a great deal of people in the Hawaiian skateboarding community.

Back From Bolivian

So I guess a lot of stuff has been happening in the scene here and I missed out on posting a few things since I went on that latest trip to Japan so now I will attempt to play catch up.

First and foremost I want to welcome my homie Ryan a.k.a. Noodles back to the wonderful world of the Internet as his Hi-Rolling Media thing is back, sort of, at least in blog form anyway.

New logo, similar to the one that was in circulation during the Hi-Rolling heyday.

It's also cool because Ryan has actually been steady active on the net with everyone else on Facebook for a while but as you may or may not know I don't fucks with the social networks so I don't get to see what my man has been up to.

If you don't remember, Hi-Rolling Media was a website started by Ryan that covered the local skate scene and I helped him out by contributing articles and doing interviews with people and other things, and it lasted for a pretty good while until Ryan decided simply doing a blog was easier and less hassle.

The Hi-Rolling Snake Eyes blog went on for a while as a collaborative effort between the two of us before I decided to do my own shit right here about 200 posts ago.

You can actually still see the old blog right here if you want some frame of reference, it goes back pretty deep there.

Also, Ryan has set up a Vimeo page as well and the first video that he has posted is the Fine Wine opus from a few years ago that features a bunch of classic material of many homies from as far back as 1992 or so.

Anyway, it's really great to see Hi-Rolling back in action, we'll see how this thing unfolds and maybe even the full website will be back in the near future as well because that would be extremely dope.

Back In Effizzect

Okay, so I know it's been an Internet eternity since the last posting here, yes it is true.

I mean usually I just hit a point where I kind of don't really give a shit too much about updating anything or more likely it's just simply that I am an extremely lazy person in general.

Put it this way, I just got back from yet another trip to Japan a week ago.

I also went to Japan last October for my homie Junji's wedding in Osaka, nearly five months ago mind you, and I posted a bunch of stuff from the wedding and skating in Osaka but totally lazed out on the second half of that trip which took place in Tokyo.

Still haven't posted shit from then.

I was gonna get to it.

Eventually.

Ah, fuck it.

Some day.

ANYWAY, bottom line is I'm back from Japan and this time I brought somebody with me.

Been married for a year but totally wifed up for real now!

Shit is official.

Skate Nazi been completely domesticated, rehabilitated, reinvigorated, reassimilated, and finally gonna be relocated.

A few people have told me that I need to update more often.

I will.

From now on.

I promise.

As soon as I finish washing these dishes.

More later.

I mean SOON!

Seriously.