16 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted in Shanghai Scene
Tags
altamont clothing, bones wheels, brian peacock, Charles Lanceplaine, dc shoes co, helas caps, Stephen Khou, tommy zhao
Brian Peacock and friends do 32 tricks for the latest DailyDozens clip!
Cameos from Tommy Zhao, Stephen Khou, & Charlie Lanceplaine.
Song: Malibuyah by Peedi Crakk
13 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Inner Mongolia
Tags
alex hwang, brian dolle, Charles Lanceplaine, elliott zelinskas, gustav nymans, Inner Mongolia, James Capps, Jay meaador, Ordos, patrik wallner, skateboarding, tommy zhao
Presenting the videoclip from our trip to Ordos, Inner Mongolia back in early September!
Featuring skating by: Jay Meador, Gustav Nymans, Tommy Zhao, Alexander Hwang, James Capps, Elliott Zelinskas & Brian Dolle
Filmed/Edited by: Charles Lanceplaine
Additional Filming by: Patrik Wallner & Tommy Zhao
Music: You Me by Hamacide + Chacha
09 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted in Inner Mongolia
Tags
alex hwang, brian dolle, Charles Lanceplaine, Inner Mongolia, James Capps, jay meador, legion of sorts, Ordos, patrik wallner, tommy zhao, visual traveling
Here are some photos from Ordos City in Inner Mongolia, China which we visited in early September to see if there was anything to skate. The crew consisted of James Capps, Elliot, Brian Dolle, Charles Lanceplaine, Patrik Wallner, Jay Meador, Gustav, Alex Hwang, and myself.
In the Mongolian language, “Ordos” means Palaces and from walking around the city, you def. notice all the unique architecture in the buildings; everything from the art museum to the library. It almost feels like a Greek city, with many massive statues standing everywhere. This is their art museum, which is a nice visit, showcasing the city design and the relationship between Mongols and Han Chinese over the past decade.
Elliot – Kickflip
Ordos City is known to be one of China’s ghost towns. A city built for millions of people, while lying almost uninhabitated for the most part. This made it quite difficult for us to find places to eat without going to the same food court everyday. It was also very much colder in Ordos than in Shanghai (where we flew in from) and trying to buy a jacket/sweater in Ordos was very difficult since… there was no where to find the stores!
A Mongolian wolf-skin bag on display inside the Ordos Art Museum.
Jay Meador – FS Air.
View from inside the abyss.
Jay Meador – Backside air.
When we arrived in Ordos, we were lucky enough to catch the tailend of the Nadam Festival, a yearly festival consisting of Mongolian wrestling, horseback riding, and archery (think Mongolian Olympics). We weren’t able to catch any of the games themselves, but with the help of the very friendly hotel staff, were able to catch the rehearsals of their closing ceremony…. if only it wasn’t freezing cold outside!
Brian Dolle severely rolled his ankle about an hour after stepping off the airplane warming-up in front of the hotel. With the help of numerous bags of ice and a full day of lying in bed at the hotel, was able to get back on the board within a few days!
Dolle – FS Wallride at the Art Museum.
Dolle – Ollie.
We took a day off skating to visit the Kubuqi Desert nearby to film the intro to our videoclip (which will be premiering this Friday alongside Patrik’s Meet the Stans clip at Arcade Bar in Shanghai).
Charles Lanceplaine and the homies.
Gustav is far from his home country of Sweden, getting a nice souvenir desert-tan to bring back to Shanghai!
Look out for James’ new FTC part which should be coming out sometime next year!
James Capps and Gustav.
Jay Meador jumping into the dunes.
Patrik Wallner sledding in the desert.
He was pretty thirsty after spending the day in the sand.
Tommy – Gap out to BS 5-0.
Dolle – FS NGrind 180.
Jay Meador – Ollie over to FS 5-0.
Gustav – FS Noseslide.
Elliot on the yellow brick road.
Elliot – Boneless.
Waking up and being out of the hotel by 9am is quite a feat for a large crew of skaters. Alex Hwang catching up on his beauty rest at the spot.
James Capps – FS Blunt.
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Ordos was an interesting city to visit! The city is full of locals that are enthusiastic for the future of that region! James Capps ends this post with a wallride as a ghost-lady walks by.
Videoclip coming soon!
10 Thursday May 2012
Dolle be staring doe.
Joel’s getting in to photography.
But he’s skating in his free time.
Joel. Ollie.
Trying to live or trying to ball the fuck out!! Peak getting dangerous.
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in vietnam
Our trip began in Hanoi, where we spent a few days sorting out our motorcycles and skating around the city with Timmy and Harry.
On our first day of riding, we started late in the afternoon and it took us 2 hours to ride out of the city. We then spent the next 4 hours on a freeway only to find out we drove in a circle and stayed in a hotel back in Hanoi. Wasn’t the best of starts, and to add to that, it started to rain and continued to rain for the next 6 days non-stop.
Scenes like this were all too common on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which we took for the first 3 days before getting onto the A-1 Highway.
Joel and his new girlfriend.
From Hanoi to HCMC is about 2000km. Not sure where we were at this stage of the trip but it was the first day of no-rain so probably around DongHoi.
Probably the best spot we saw in Vietnam but couldn’t skate due to it being wet and rainy.
Our kit.
Oink, oink.
Found an epic spot next to the highway. The whole town basically came out and watched us skate.
At the peak of HaiVan Pass.
Chip and his new girl.
In the imperial city of Hue.
My Son Ruins.
Somewhere between Nha Trang and Mui Ne.
Mui Ne.
Going sledding down sand dunes.
Mandatory Vietnam photo.
One day of rest before heading off to HCMC.
Your ass starts to hurt about an hour into riding. Then you realize you’re on that bike for the next 6 hours. Doesn’t get any better.
About 4 hours away from HCMC and it starts POURING. Once again… all our shit gets soaked. We waited it out for about an hour before starting our ride into the city and it thunderstormed on us about 4 more times before we made it to HCMC. We got dry, got soaked, got dry again, then got soaked as we rolled into town.
Finally made it the 2000km to HCMC and we celebrated with icecream sandwiches!
*Videoclip coming soon!
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in USA, vans china, Video
Tags
andrew allen, chima ferguson, chris pfanner, cody green, gilbert crockett, greg hunt, stage 4, tommy zhao, Vans
I know this came out a few weeks ago but we were out in Vietnam and I didn’t have a chance to see it until now. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the Vans Stage 4 video which I was fortunate to be a part of back in November. Featuring Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner, Chima Ferguson & Gilbert Crockett.
Here’s the link on Youtube (which loads faster overseas):
06 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Delaware
Featuring Alex Hwang, Brian Dolle, Brian Peacock, Mark Del Negro, and a grip of Delaware heads.
Special thanks to Switch Skate and Snow.
24 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted in king of the road china
Tags
china, king of the road, Sasha Kandaurov, shox skateboards, taiyuan, thrasher magazine, tommy zhao, xi'an, zhenya
No internet for the past week. Sorry for lack of updates. Been on the road from Xi’an to Taiyuan and currently in City #3: Shijiazhuang, about to pick up our guest pro in a couple days! Here are a few flicks from Xi’an!
The Shox TM’s wife made us all skateboard cookies for the trip!
Sasha, accomplishing one of the city challenges.
Pole jam session!
Tyler backsmithing a boat!
Zhenya in Taiyuan!
More photos coming soon!
11 Thursday Aug 2011
Tags
china, contest, johnnie tang, pdan, Skateboarding in China, tommy zhao, vans' baby dragon, xi'an
Quick re-cap video of went down at the Xi’an Baby Dragon stop, featuring: Cyres, PDan, & Banana.
13 Wednesday Jul 2011
Posted in Shanghai Scene
Tags
852 skateshop, ben coniam, chris bradley, chun zhai, legion of sorts, piet guilfoyle, seb batty, Shanghai, tommy zhao
Ultraviolet.
Tittaylicious
Piet wid dat front shuv wallrizzle. Photo by Ben Coniam.
Underwizzle.
Dry as fuck.
Chris got no bones, doe.
Tourist fags.
Ocho cinco dos posse.
Everyones’ favorite pasttime.
Jizz attack.
Swim, swam, tomato, tomato, cicada, cikada.
Pop it and fling it, doe.
Kickies.
Hard in da paint.
Bangers err day, doe.
