Jon Nguyen: Behind The Cover
With only one day to skate in Portland, Jon Nguyen knew he needed to get a cover photo for the digital cover, which normally wouldn’t have been so difficult, but it ended up being almost 100 degrees that day. To really make it tough, we took him to a giant chunk of ledge that wasn’t waxed very well. We know he likes a good challenge, (side note: he does not like a good challenge. Jon would much rather sit in the pool and sip on slushies.) so we didn’t care much. After about 30 melting minutes of battling, Jon rolled away from a hefty front blunt and we all had slushies in the pool. Enjoy the battle.
Andrew Gray’s Full Part From Dusted
The Killing Floor’s Andrew Gray is a giant ball of explosive energy and creativity packaged neatly inside a small young man. His part in Chris Varcadipane’s Dusted video made our jaws drop so we had to share it with you guys. Combining fluid lines with some truly unique bangers, Andrew is someone you can count on seeing lots of rad stuff from. You may want to watch this one a few times.
Ben Raybourn’s Full Part From Dusted
Chris Varcadipane’s Dusted video premiered to a jam-packed house last week in Portland, OR, and CCS team pro, Ben Raybourn came through with a rad part.
Cooper Wilt Grinds 31 Ledges In One Skatepark
Going out skating with no agenda is great. It’s probably the most fun and freeing thing you could ever do. Leave it to our guy Price to turn Cooper Wilt’s fun free skate time in to a damn mission. Luckily for us, Cooper is very accommodating and when Price decided on the challenge of the day, Cooper gladly accepted. Armed with his Almost pro model deck, Cooper Wilt leaves no ledge un-grinded at one of his weirder local parks – he even waxes a fence, just to be safe. Grind everything, and if you feel up to it, start counting too!
Disposable Mondays With Walker Ryan And Jimmy Carlin
In this day and age of disposable everything, we must never forget one of the great pioneers of expendable excess, the disposable camera. What a luxury to be able to document life on film, and then just toss your device away to be replaced by a new one for another roll.
Gear Check with Frankie Spears
This East Coast prodigy is from Long Island, New York and he brings that East Coast flavor to some insane technical ability. Check out what he’s riding in this installment of Gear Check.
Jamie Thomas: Behind The Cover
Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and some artists are so epic they can borrow and steal from themselves and the result is just as awesome as it was the first time you saw it. Jamie Thomas had the genius idea to kickflip over his motorcycle 20 years ago in his legendary Welcome To Hell part and we decided that in honor of Zero’s 20th anniversary we should try our hand at recreating that iconic photo for our digital catalog cover. Lucky for us, Tommy Sandoval had the exact same bike, eS just reissued the exact same shoes, and Jamie has the exact same kickflip. Being able to do a trick 20 years after you filmed it for your video part is pretty amazing. Jamie walked us through the process of how it went down for this behind the cover video.
CCS X DC Pop For Prizes 2016 With Wes Kremer
If you entered our Pop For Prizes contest last year on Go Skateboarding Day, then you know how ridiculously easy it is to post your tricks and come up on some free gear! We listened to all of you and brought it back for 2016 with even more stuff to give out! We teamed up with Wes Kremer and our friends at DC to bring you five different tricks to try this June 21st.
The Day: Enjoi
Watching Bag Of Suck on repeat got us nostalgic for a little San Jose trip. So we hopped a flight to Silicon Valley and booked a room at the legendary Tiltmode Mansion. We were lovingly welcomed by the mansion’s owner and proprietor, Louie Barletta with a warm couch to sleep on and some cool beverages to quench our thirst. We hit some parks, some streets, and even some arcades and bowling alleys before our day was over. We got the full Enjoi V.I.P. treatment! The crew was Louie, Caswell Berry, Jackson Pilz, Mike Adamov, Zack Wallin, Jose Rojo, and of course Ben Raemers. Bless his soul, little Ben couldn’t find any hardware all day long so he didn’t get to skate with us. He may actually still be looking for some now, so if you see Ben in the streets, be a dear and give him a few nuts or a bolt.
Getting To Know Sewa Kroetkov
Ever wondered how to pronounce Sewa Kroetkov’s name? Don’t lie, we know you have. Well, we sat Sewa down at the Dwindle headquarters to ask him that question and then once we had him there, we figured we would find out some more about him. From his family’s immigration from Russia to Holland, to how the video game Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater got him stoked on skateboarding when he was 10, Sewa gives us a good idea of what makes him tick. Find out who was his favorite skater growing up and what it was like to win Battle At The Berrics by clicking that damn play button!
Gear Check with Blake Johnson
Blake is one of the most powerful skaters out right now, but he manages to stay light enough on his feet to get into some pretty technical skating. Coming out of Venice Beach, Blake has been killing it forever, but in the last year he’s really popped up on everybody’s radar.
Blind Micro Game Of S.K.A.T.E. with Sewa And Romar
They say a true artist can paint with any brush, and that the photographer who relies on having a nice camera is probably a hack. The same could be said about a skateboarder and his whip. If you take any truly talented skateboarder and give him anything where four wheels are attached to a piece of wood or something that resembles wood, they should be able to do something cool with it.