The Detention Rail Championships is a comp for high school students of Colorado. the winner of the finals at Ruby Hill will walk away with a $5000 scholarship. These photos are of the qualifier at Jefco stadium. Men’s Snowboard:1st: Kevin Senes2nd: Collin Tucker3rd: Lakota Sage Men’s Skiing:1st: Drake Unrah2nd: Will Berman3rd: Luke NuttingWomen’s Snowboard:1st: Lillie Nauslar2nd: Kristine Thompson3rd: Lauren Laskowski   

One of my bros spotted this empty pool when his dads car broke down. It sometimes pays off to wander into the depths of the ghetto. We panned a mission and shredded it for nearly two hours after sweeping it out. the best part was the dust monster attacking my equipment. A pool shredding dream. Enjoy    

I went to Vegas last week, to go see what gear I’ll be riding/ sporting next season. The show is called SIA  [ I still have no idea what those letters stand for ]. My ‘wife’ tagged along and we were staying with  C+ S + Uncle Dave [SouthShore Soldiers].

It was fun, wasn’t it for the sad fact that I got super sick on Tuesday night and was hallucinating on the plane, popping mucinex and anti flu pills like they were m&m’s.

I bruised my tailbone on Monday when my new craigslist friend T told me that I should […]

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The Busy Signals
Self-titled
Dirtnap Records

As always, Dirtnap Records is staying loyal to good sounds and introducing listeners to fun rock such as The Busy Signals. If a more sinister and less-Hairy Debbie fronted for the New York Dolls, this could be the unrefined result. Smashing it up with good guitars, inspired drumming, and unruffled album art suggestive of older LP material, The Busy Signals of Chicago are shrieking realism like only the qualified can. – Kelly D. Williams, Mannerist Zine

Revisions
Revised Observations
Dirtnap Records

Revised Observations is the studio creation of Doug Burns and members of Clorox Girls performing “acoustic punk rock.” At first I was doubtful of this claim, but like the Minutemen of yesterday and The Evens of today have already verified, unplugged punkrock is certainly a possibility. My only quip is that the vocals (or at least the production of the vocals) could use some general variation. I found myself getting bored with the unswerving manner of singing they employed. Don’t let that discourage you, because there is definitely a place in every record collection for this album. The ghostly echo of their makeshift recording studio is haunting enough for me to never forget these guys. Check out the other Dirtnap Records releases, too. These Portland folks are putting out some seriously good music. – Kelly D. Williams, Mannerist Zine

I went out to San Diego and Bear Mountain for the Burton Am Series competition and some surf. If you haven’t been to Bear its killer. Jibs and gapers down the whole run.     They sold out both days we were up there shredding which means everyone who cant afford Mammoth was there, standing on the lips and landings. Saturday was the slopestyle comp, we had been practicing on the largest jumps in the park but it turned out they would hold the comp on some smaller ones. There was some really good riding and a ton of 7’s and a 9 or two off the 30ft kicker. The judges posted the top ten for finals and neither of the riders that came with us made the cut even though they stomped their runs..bummer. Halfpipe was the next day and Nick (Larson) should be able put a good run down. The weather was a bit off for halfpipe, it rained all night and into the morning. There were only about 12 men registered by the first run. So everyone made it to the finals after 3 runs, Nick took first and a $1000 with a killer line. The rest of the trip was great, tons of rain and choppy waves in San Diego but still a blast.   

I did this painting this past summer for the Cape Kiwanda Longboard Contest here in Oregon. My goal with it was to represent the place and mood of the contest. I wanted to capture the feel of Oregon summer surf. Which can be a bit wind-blown and small, but still fun with the right equipment. The actual painting technique I am playing with can be time consuming, but I like the end result.

Mikkel Bang 

Tommy Guerrero
Return Of The Bastard
Galaxia-Platform Records

If you’re uncertain who Tommy Guerrero is by now, you’ve possibly picked up the wrong magazine. This album doles out an aesthetic continuation of 1998’s Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues, which was the freshman record that solidified Guerrero’s presence in the world of music. Smoother than a motor-oil sandwich and just as smooth as his command of the SF streets on his shred appliance, Guerrero’s latest release combines his intelligible jazz-samba-rock tour de force of albums past with the newer soundscape found on later releases like From The Soil To The Soul. “Bloodinthemud” and “Zapata’s Boots” are great songs, and although some of tracks with vocals come off slightly weaker than you’d expect, if listened to in consideration of this albums correlation to TG’s debut Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues, it’s obvious that Guerrero knows what he’s doing and is getting better at it each day. I love Chuck Treece’s contribution to this record, and If you know & respect TG’s saga on or off a skateboard, you ought to pick up all his records in chronological order and skate on to some of the best music life has to offer. – Kelly D. Williams, Mannerist Zine

This past Saturday a Fresno boardshop had a mini ramp comp. It had 2 divisions, one of non-sponsored (Rad division) and one of sponsored riders (Gnar division). The winner ended up getting $125 for the Rad and $150 for the Gnar. It is not often that the local shops in Fresno have skate competitions, or at least I hear of, so I headed out to take some photos. It turned out to be a good competition with some sweet moves being thrown down. Here are some of the photos I took.Gnar winner - Dan Halloway