CCS flew Jaws up to get in the van with Raybourn, Kowalski and one of their newest riders, Tony Ellis. In between filming wear tests, and other CCS content, they had a heavy session at the legendary West Linn skate park.
Ben Raybourn’s Road To Ramona
Getting on the road is always nice, but for a professional skateboarder with a handful of sponsors pulling you in lots of directions, sometimes the road can start to wear on you. It’s nice every now and then to just pick a destination, grab a good buddy, and head to the location of your choice with no real set agenda. Well, after a long summer of grueling road trips and video deadlines, we sent CCS team rider Ben Raybourn on a little skate vacation with his homie and CCS filmer, Chris Varcadipane. They wanted to head south and run away from the fresh rains hitting the Pacific Northwest, and as luck would have it, one of the best vert contests in skateboarding was going down that weekend. Ben and Chris managed put themselves to work even on vacation and brought us back this rad edit. It looks like they had a damn good time!
Jaws And Raybourn Footage In “The Other Ones”
Good footage is good footage. Whether you’ve seen it once or 100 times, chances are if something is sick you don’t mind watching it again. Using that logic we hit up master videographer Thad Croskey for some old clips of our team boys Ben and Jaws. Thad was the filmer for Ipath Footwear back in the days when Ben and Jaws were first discovered and thrown in to the face of the skate world. Thad made an epic video called “The Other Ones” that both boys had a part in. We had Thad dig through his archives and pick out some of the bangers to make this little throwback edit. These two have come a long way, but they have always been insane to watch skate and it’s rad to have little time capsules like this to keep the memories alive.
How To Make Griptape Art With Ben Raybourn
Ben Raybourn has been rocking clear and colored grip for years, but he’s extra stoked that Mob dropped their own blend of transparent toppings.