Phil the pain

Masaru was training for the cruz.

 Photo face.  Masaru needs a job find him one.

We all met in Carmel and began the push southward to broadripple.  The OIS dudes always have a good turn out.  Lots of homies and it was all for a good cause.  Phil broke his leg so we all pushed to raise some money for him.  Everyone donated a little.

Masaru put a board together for the event.  He took tons of photos.  Check out his photos here.

Bart has a vision.  OIS is a group of older skaters that get together and skate every weekend.  I see these things come and go but OIS has been doing it for a while now.  It is really cool to know that every weekend these dudes will be out ripping and just having fun.  I have never gone out and skated with these dudes and not had fun. 

Phil even made the trip.  Beers and pushers.

Ended at the monon food company.  Everyone had lunch and beers in the parking lot.

Awesome sunset after an awesome session at Gages.  Sorry no photos of that.

placementality and stuff

School has started again.  Summer is kind of over.  However I am trying to keep it alive.  Galen and Mike Block are helping out though.  They put together an event called placementality.  Big Car was gracious enough to host the entire event.  It was a great event a ton of people showed up and we had a lot of fun.  Art, skateboarding, music, and friends.  

Tamale Place.  I finally made it and it was amazing.  I ordered way too much food.  Go there and try it out.

George is always hanging out and helping.. kind of.

Homemade polejam.

New Shoebox decks, fancy grip tape.

So the kids just ripped off the walls of the stall.

Drew, Phil, and Davis slept over for a couple weekends.

Hutch demonstrating how they make cappuccinos in prison.

Here is part of placementality.  Skids hanging art.

Ryan Smith rips.  Bs flip over the flap.

Again ryan demonstrating how to properly use the wallrides that I made.  Art by Jacob Bryant, JT Puterburgh, and Gunnar Campbell.

Mike Gage is a ripper.

some Chicago dudes came and tried some crazy stuff.  No ladders allowed though.

So four of us decided to get a tattoo.  Then it turned into nine.  P-blocc crew!!! 

even Jacob did his own.

P-blocc crew. Thank you Jacob!

Bella chases the skateboard like she chases the vaccuum.  I've been watching my parents/brother's dog trying to get it in better shape.

Big Car posted this photo from the event on saturday.  Thank you.

Last weekend of summer! shoot.

This summer went so quick.  Every year I talk about how much stuff I am going to do and then I finish even less.  I can't believe we are already going back.  At first I was really excited about going to be an educator.  Now every year it gets harder to go back.  I've been struggling with the idea that maybe I fell into the wrong profession.  Maybe these feelings are normal for teachers, maybe I'm in the wrong place.  We have been talking about moving for a while now, it helps me see a light at the end.  I hate being this down but I can't seem to shake it.  Normally just getting out and skating helps.  I need a redirection I think.  I was told I am in a 1 year (numberology) This is a time when we seek changes.  Is it supposed to suck this bad though?

I tried to put grant to work.

400 bull. I've been messing around with the idea of replacing a support between my forks.  This is what came out.

Drive in! This was awesome.  Batman.

I took Masaru to Harbor Freight.  Big knives.

Jim found this in his garage.  He thinks it is off of an Indian Bicycle with an engine.

Popeye knife.

Hot Rods and Hillbillies! I have never made it to this.  I am happy I got to go this year.  Hutch organized a group and we all got to ride together.  Thanks Hutch.

Donut shop meet up.

Second meet up.  South side.  We met a few more dudes before rolling down to Nashville.

My hat got in the way.  Grant got a sporty.

Ben. Good work Ben the bike looks great.

Casey on his Kaw.  Burnouts on everything.

Riding hills

Tons of switches on this boy.  This was my close second.

Horns like woah.

This was a really cool event.  I didn't know people rocked cars like this.

This thing was awesome.  Looks mean as hell.

This was my favorite.  Dude rolled in late and hid back in the corner.  Really cool Ford.

Killer band.  The Vallures.  I loved watching this band for a few reasons.  Lead singer killed it.  I can't wait to see them again.

Burnout haze.

Burnout Haze.  Nathan took a spill.

Burnouts.  For a second the van was burning out as the bikes were.

These two killed it.  

This dude couldn't keep it on the pavement.  He spent a while puffing flames out of his pipes then he got it together.

Marrott park is pretty awesome.

Bee trap is full of bees.  I heard that Einstein said if bees became extinct that the whole world would die out in four days.

Getting some parking blocks for Placementality.  This is going to be a cool event.  Placementality.  Go to Big Car Service center Aug. 4th.

Hillabillies.  Couldn't get the rope up to the rope swing.

Good ending to the summer.  Jeff got pushed by one of the hillabillies.  At least he did it.