Chris Kays on Hawaii Five-O

Like a lot of curious local people, I've been watching the new version of Hawaii Five-O since the first episode.
Sometimes it's pretty good, other times it's unbelievably cheesy, but one thing I have noticed is it's almost always sure to show somebody you recognize like an acquaintance or friend of a friend type of thing and the show is mostly filmed at a lot of the places you go to often or have frequented in the past.

Just to name a few off the top of my head, so far I have seen a guy I used to smoke weed with in high school with portraying a Yakuza boss's bodyguard, also noticed Simon from Black Flys playing an assassin who drugged a Navy SEAL and then threw him out of an airplane without a parachute, and also seen the homie Kealoha a.k.a. DJ Blam as one of the MMA event dudes opening the curtain when McGarrett was making his way to the octagon to scrap Chuck Liddell.

Last night though I was watching a pretty so-so episode about stolen muscle cars and witness relocation when they showed a photo that caught my eye:


Holy shit, is that dead guy in the trunk Natural Koncept pro , Fitted Hawaii team rider and all-terrain shredder Chris Kays???


Computer says that shit is a match!


His poor girlfriend didn't know about his checkered criminal past.
Apparently Chris witnessed a murder in Boston and took down the Irish mob kingpin with his testimony, then fled to Hawaii in the witness relocation program, got a job, met a cute chick and as a result of wanting to change his appearance had a botched plastic surgery operation where the doctor accidentally killed him then panicked and shot him in the chest then dumped him in the trunk of a car to throw Five-O off the trail.

Whew!

Anyway, sick to see Chris on TV getting money, and he didn't even have to act or speak.
On a related note, Chris just landed in NYC today and our boy Sean Reilly is joining him on Thursday to take part in another Natural Koncept East Coast tour, should be shenanigans as usual and we'll be looking for those updates in the coming weeks.

TNT in Hawaii for Fourstar

This ad features another killer pic from the Fourstar Hawaii trip that went down back in April, this time its Tony Trujillo at the Manhole, or whatever you and your crew want to call it.
F.Y.I. right before this photo was taken Tyler Bledsoe bagged his very own Fourstar ad at the Highlands ledge.



I don't want to be that guy but I was actually there and got to see this go down.
Well actually I got there just after this was taken and TNT was in the process of trying to kickflip into this beast of a wallride as he had already pulled the wallride a few times rather easily according to witnesses.
Also, Koston was trying to do this same line frontside but could not get it.

I've skated there many times before but I gotta say it was was pretty surreal being there with that murderer's row of heavy hitters.
It was definitely cool to be back at those mosquito infested tunnels in the same town where I grew up and started skating but basically I was content to just play the background and observe some of the best skaters in the world messing around at a fun little out of the way local spot like this.

In all, I was able to watch Rick Howard and Brian Anderson play a game of add-a-trick, see a quick flash of Koston's mini ramp dominance, catch a glimpse of Aaron Meza's rarely seen transition skills, and talk at length about Celtics/Knicks playoff basketball with Ben Colen.
Also, Guy Mariano and Mike Carroll were there.
All said, I think it was a pretty fucking good day.

Pool Your Enthusiasm

I went on a pool mission with a couple of dudes recently.
When I say recently I mean it was almost two months ago, but on the Internet these days recently could be anywhere from right this second up until a day or week ago, and even then the shit would be old news, so in worldwide web terms I guess that this was an eternity ago.

I say this because there's shit like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and who knows what the fuck else now, and people are always checking in and blasting out their business in real time to everyone as it happens.

Breakfast is delicious!
Gotta Tweet that loco moco.
Shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Better Instagram those shower gel beads.
Sneaking through an upper-class residential neighborhood to trespass on fenced and walled off private property in order to skate an empty swimming pool.
Make sure you leave a trail of digital bread crumbs while you're doing it so that everyone knows exactly where the place is that you're basically breaking into to cause criminal property damage.
GPS coordinates, anyone?
We're riiiiight here, come check us out if you're in the area!

Well, it's not really that bad but come on now.
This pool isn't exactly a secret.
I mean, there are more than a few people who know where it is and it's been in a magazine, and this dude (who knows a thing or two about pools) has frontside grinded over the light for years now so it's pretty far from being a new spot.

A long time ago, a more well-seasoned man than myself said this regarding pools: TAKE NOTHING BUT PICTURES, LEAVE NOTHING BUT WHEEL MARKS.
Even though he was actually condoning the taking of photos at a usually top secret location I don't think he realized on how massive a scale that photographs would be utilized in the future, but obviously common sense and skate etiquette would tell you that people should try to keep it at least a little bit down low when sharing such visually incriminating info on your everyday social networks.


ANYWAY, we creeped, we climbed, we tip-toed, we shredded until dark and then slipped away undetected, just how it should be.


This could be anywhere, but it's really somewhere specific!


Mid-trespass, somewhere with a wall and a fence.
Because you're not supposed to go there.
But look, we're going there.


Blue and cream?
Yo son, I had crazy visions.


Chad making sure its kosher while I scan the scene thoroughly like a paranoid crackhead.


Business owner, dedicated Instagrammer and shredder.


Better off dread, Shota-kun attacks while Conor gets the footy.


Double trucker over the light.


I wish I could say that this was a backside Smith but then that would be a falsehood!
This is merely backside over the light because the light/death combo is out of the question.
Unless you're super gnarly, then by all means have at it bro.


From the shallow end, and we're out.
Big up to Aaron McMullen and Conor McGivern for the photos and footage.