Super Pro's this week

Damn, there are a lot of smart motherfuckers out there. Peep these shop dogs that all got hooked up:

Timo Nelson - Allrose
Chantal Breukal - Allrose

Ross the Boss - Milo Orem

Adraon Buck - Tribute Snowboard Shop

Dan Ching - BC Surf and Sport

Jordan Thompson - Alcatraz
Dustin hunsaker - Directive board shop

Doug James - Billy's Boardshop

Ryan Howsam - Alcatraz Skates
Damian Sedagatnia - Gone Surfing

Craig Stevenson - Directive

Stephen Russell - Sierra snowboard & ski
Jon Mon(tana) - Northern Alliance
Scott MacKay - "Static"

Alex Rondeau Michon & Charles LeBlanc - Illusion
ryan - alcatraz skates

Jackie Marskell - Tribute Boardshop
Marc-André Tremblay - Illusion Sports

Eric Albrecht - Tahoe Dave's Snowboards

Blaine Rutter - Static Boardshop

JOHN W. ALEXANDROWICZ - ZUMIEZ

Jeff Thorne - 'The Boardshop'

Danny Nyren - The youth shelter supply

Jacquie - Doug's Sports

Walter Pierowski - Stalefish Skate & Snow

Craig Stevenson - Directive

Trevor Brady - Milosport

Drew Carney - Milo Sport

Brian Furrow- Herb Bauer Sporting Goods

Alex Martin - Tribute boardshop

Chris McCann and Tyler Hauser - goodwood boarding goods
Jean-Simon Béïque - Empire

Mandy Thomson - Doug's Sports

Erik Gonzales - Emage Network

Chris Dominick - 3 Ride Shop

All these guys are pictured around The Wolf, AKA Teen Wolf, aka Zit Back.

You like apples?

Well then what do you think of dees apples?
Yea left the office at 10:30AM on Monday and arrived in lovely BURLington VT at 11:30PM. Long day to say the least, not to mention I had some douche bag sitting in front of me that for some unknown reason was convinced that her luggage goes under her seat not in front of her seat. After a few boots to her bags into the aisle, she got the point. Stupid hippie. Up on Tuesday for a quick tour of the Piatek Properties which produced a freaking waterfall, deer and some wild turkeys. Impressive to say the least. Off to check out the Beast of the East, STOWE. Which had snow. Sick. Then off to see Ebo and Tooey at Darkside Stowe. Ian showed me their classic board collection and low and behold there it was….A SIMS TERRY KIDWELL horizontal lam roundtail. I’d kill my dog for one of these and these guys had a white one and a red one. Ian sensed that there was pressure building in my pants and relieve the tension he offered me the red Kidwell. Word. Off to Embasi for a quickie, shop looked incredi. Yea Zeb. Then to Boardroom in Ma, over to Fat Trax where we caught Krissy Moo after hours checking out porn on the work computer. Or playing solitare. I forget. Then to a wonderful evening of pool with Bill and Dave from Theory. Damn, did we give them a shilacking. Shit, Piatek and I hardly ever play pool and we kicked these guys asses royally. 3AM we end up at a diner, Dave hit a median marker with his mirror (it jumped out at him) and I make the poor choice of ordering Liver and Onions and a malted milk shake. Being lactose intolerant, this proved to be hell for Chris the next day as the Polish Gas Chamber was in effect. Over to EMS for a meet and greet, then to a few Eastern Boarder locations and day two was a wrap. Oh wait, we end up hooking up with our old pal Wayno for some hysterical Wayno-isms. One's like "yea you know, I like to look at chicks with curves on em. Ones that are VOLUMPUOUS." Not voluptuous, but Volumpuous. Wayne NO. Up at 7AM and on the road be4 8 to Killington to check out the new Darkside. 5000 sq feet of brand spanking new snowboarding bliss on the Killington access road. Holy shit, what a set up. Can't wait to see it open. Then for the shocker of the trip, we roll into Out Of Bounds and get informed that they have sold 12 or 18 Palmer Crowns this year. This is a $1900 snowboard. Now, who the fuck buys a nineteen hundred dolla snowboard besides doctors or drug dealers? Still in awe. Hit BURLinton international and home ward bound is where we be.

Today was a good day

From our C3 correspondent in Wolf Creek:
"Wolf Creek opened today, almost the full mountain, all trees were open, rock drops the whole shiz. Shook hands with Bryan Iguchi today, stoked. The Illuminati posse plus other Jackson Hole heads shredding the resort and pass. Today was a good day Yo."
Matty G.

CAPiTA / UNION Coloradical Demo Tour

The Kind Brother and Mr. Wise will be rolling thru CO on these dates. As a one eyebrowed, oversized headed, short Italian man once said; "you make try, you make buy."

RagDoll

One more from the Fizz, you know you wanted to hear it.

Live COAL

The Coal site is up.

C3's Super Pro's for the week

The dudes below are in the know. Guys want to be like them, chicks want to be with them. You will see them shredding the rad in some misty CAPiTA and Union goods. Thanks for the support peeps.
Sean Stewart – Doug Sports
Tm Picerno – Milo Lafayette
Derek Omori – Surface Snow & Skate
Mike Buzbuzian – Hustler
Kasey Brewer – Decade
Earl Verrier – Eastern Boarder
Drew Walker – Source for Sports
Aaron Kienle, Brennan Wiens, Kyle Herpbergert – Cab Clothing Skate & Snow
Emily Harris – Top of the World
Travis Riggan – Traz Snow and Skate
Craig Stevenson – Directive
Ben Riswold – Boards N Motion Auburn

Mini Bike Montgomerys five

Former D23 team mate to Peter Line, creator of CAPiTAsuperCORP and all around good guy breaks down his elite 5 shreds:
1. Chris Roach, "for his style."
2. Peter Line, "progression and timeless."
3. Heiki Sorsa, "for telling the Olympic conformists 'fuck off' and running a mohawk. It made the Olympics cool."
4. TJ Schnieder. "for being the ultimate snowboarder."
5. Dustin Craven, "the future!"

Ben Pelligrino's Top 5

Milo Orem's Benny P has been around longer than most, shredded with everyone and everywhere. As one of C3's one of most trusted advisors, he breaks down his top 5 snowboarders of all time:
1. Haaken
2. Andy Hetzel
3. Temple Cummins
4. Justin Bennee
5. Matt "OX" Maloley

King of the Hill's top 5

At dinner, I asked the three time World Extreme Champion, Steve Klassen his top 5 snowboarders of all time:
1. Craig Kelly
2. Jeff Grell
3. Matt Goodwill
4. Myles Burgett
5. Tex Davenport

This is the greatest fucking rhyme of all time...

Farmer, breaking it down. When asked his 5 favorite shreds of all time:
1. Craig Kelly
2. Shawn Palmer
3. Andy Finch
4. Nick Perata
5. Andy Brewer

Nor Cal Loop

Left early Monday morning to Sacramento for a loop thru Northern California. Nor Cal Rep Chris Wilmoth picked me up and off we went.
Sierra Ski and Snowboard was first. Packed into 20,000 sq feet were toys for the snow. Dinner at a little local sushi joint filled the belly with raw fish and plenty of sachi. It was then nighty night time for the kid.
Tuesday, up and at em. Breakfast at Luckys, who had linguica sausage on the menu (shocker, this is strictly east coast) then off to see Dakota at Boards N Motion in Cameron Park. From BNM, to PLA in Placerville with COLE, then out to Auburn’s Boards N Motion to have a mellow pork burrito and Dos Equis with Wendy Woodward. Conversation ensued only to find out her bro is Bob Woodward who was just on Letterman. This is the guy that exposed Nixon in the Watergate scandle. High roller. A quick stop at Mike Basich’s Riders Union and we were on the road to Tahoe. The Suburginni that we were in blazes by some Ford Excursion, driven by Big C and we all meet up at Chappy Central, Porters Tahoe. Mr. Chapman threw together a little belated birthday celebration for me at Java Sushi which was over the top, to say the least. John, thank you bro. Dirty Dooze and her Olympian husband Darren Rahlves came out of the woodwork to join us along with 20 or so of Tahoe’s finest Locals. There was even a guy named Heckler there. Plates of sushi went around like piles of weed at a drug dealer’s party. Actually Sushi is Chappys drug. The dude easily eats the stuff 4 nights a week. Saki bomb after saki bomb went down the hatch and then it really started to flow. Shawn Farmer busted out a lyrical onslaught that would put a smile on my face for the next ten years. Thanks Fizz.
Wake up on the floor at Chez Chappy, with a towel for a blanket, shoes still on, along with the clothes I started the trip with 3 days earlier and off we go to Reno to pick up Blue. Blue being the on time man that he is, finally made one of his flights and made it to Reno. Eternal Snowboarding was our next stop to see Mike and Steve whose operation is top notch. Mammoth was calling and three hours later we arrived at the Volcom Brothers skate park to see Sweet Pete from Wave Rave destroying the bowls. The kid has the cover of the new Wave Rave catalog getting some. So Cal Rep Steve Meido met us there as our trips mission was to clinic the kids at Wave Rave on our wares. Who better to hear about why we do the things we do than from the horses ass. 20+ kids lined up to be verbally assaulted by us on how to learn a thing or two about a thing or two. Which they did. Klassen’s shop and staff are hands down one of the PREMIER shops in the nation. It was a privilege to spend time there. Out we went to sample some of Mammoths off season night life and oh boy…the pigs come out at night. Shits sketchy in a ski town at this time a year. To say the ladies out weighed the men would be an understatement. Oink. Sweet Pete took 3 shots to the face from some LA meth dealer for no reason at all. Luckily the guy was a pussy ass drug dealer as we rolled him out the back door and stole a couple of bindles from his pockets. PARTY TIME! Nah, just kidding. The clown got tossed and the evening ended.
Back to Reno for the flight home and here we are, buried up to my eyeballs in emails. Good thing I spent a half hour on this blog entry instead of answering them.

Pile of Bile

We found a parking spot behind Howard Johnsons and at 2AM G-Ballz said he was sober enough to steer it back to the crib to crash. As if Early Man didn't kill it enough, we got one more show before we got in the truck. This thing must of had to many pancakes or something like that as there was a pile of them on the concrete. She got a little stage fright when we showed up but after a couple of miniutes of chanting she let more fly. Totally entertaining at 2AM.

Shim

Corey Smith and Scott Shaw comtemplate climing the tree.

V.T.S.P. in da house

In the mix at the CAPiTA party on Friday was some old shred hero's. The first pro to ever sign a million dollar contract was Jeff Brushie. He got that loot when he quit Burton to get it done for Ride. The Brush was in attendence at the party along with Chris Swiez and Lonis himself. All 3 were part of the infamous snowboard gang that terrorized Vermont in the early 90's, the V.T.S.P. It's good to see that chicks still dig em.

The Ultimate Super Pro

Two Bill's from Theory in mASS are on the Super Pro Tip along with Nicholas from the Youth Shelter.
Pictures are climbing the ladder of creativity these days. Bill 1 sent his alter ego "Mi Yon Fat," while Bill 2 writes this intro with his: "i think you guys also wanted a picture of us holding the cards, and Piatek showed me a couple of the photos you guys were getting in, so i decided to put in a little extra work rather than just sending a picture of my mug and the cards... haha... hope you like it and i really hope you got some stuff for me.. so here you go.."

You want to jam with the jughead?

You know there's something about taggin shit with your logo that's cool, like the Rome guys did back in Burlington when they started their company. You got to make due with what you got, and when you don't have a lot of dough to get your name out there, guerilla marketing is the rawest way to accomplish letting people know you exist. BUT when you come to someones building and tag their shit with your logo...it's fucking wack. Straight up disrespectful. So for the dudes at Spacecraft here in Seattle WA, who I once had respect for and admired their whole deal, vibe, products....not cool.

Today's Super Pro's are...

Stephan from B.C. in Coloradical, Dave and Ross from Theory Sk8 and Snow and Jason and Zach from the Ski Co. Enjoy the rides fella's!

Capita Party

Got a host of pro's, bro's and Joe's pounding Pilsner Urquell's at C3 right now. They're here for tomorrows shin dig at Nuemo's. Capita party. The Seattle one to hit. I heard all the cool kids will be there. Tyler, TJ, Jonas, Shaw, Little D, Corey.....and on and on. Capita heads making party. Be there or ride a K2. Ha! C'mon Danielle, I'm kidding.

Cyber

There’s no need for me to get on Myspace to make friends with all the “cyberbro’s” we got going here.
Actually had a beer with Ballard Pat and his wife the other night, then he graciously took me up on our offer to check out the worldwide headquarters.
Then we got our bro’s over at Lucid Notion Snowboard Company and Denver chatting back and forth, blowing up the assblastin box. These guys are pretty fucking funny. Check em out.
From now on, it’s virtual friends for me. No more of this face to face shit. All typing and no hi5’n is where it’s at.

Congats Bethy

Got this email the other day from one of our former super star Reps, Elizabeth Sargent. Bethy used to OWN the Rockies region before trading the snow for sun down in Scarfaceville (Miami). Anyway, this is what she said: "Hey everybody !!!!! Tomas Alessandro Franceschi arrived Tuesday October 3 at 8:25 pm weighing in at 8 lbs 10 ounces and with the biggest hands you have ever seen !!! He politely took 5 1/2 hours of labor -- a mere 25 minutes of pushing and is delighting us completely !!! I am running around and even working and things are great !!!! Love to you all -- E"

More

Did the "More" premier on Friday nite.

I think.

2 double jack and cokes, a shot of Jaeger with downstairs Kenny, Absolute and soda and 3 Mannys Pale ales later and I wake up in the morning, and wifey informs me that I have to start the apoligy calls. Scott Sullivan played that night, which I remember was pretty damn good.

Itchycats

What the hell is Itchycats?
Itchycats is the fastest downloader on the internet.

Basically a buddy of ours from SLC created this shit. UN FUCKING REAL. For $9.99 a month, you can't go wrong. Porn, tv, movies, and music...all a click away. Try it.

Anthony Thoen

...from Propaganda Shop in Prince Albert Saskatchawan just got Super Pro Formed. Mid Life 151 and Forces. Shityea!

Post Secret

This confessional is dope. The Wolf sent me this a while ago and I'm hooked to checking it out every week. Hmmmmm, I wonder who sent this one in?

Defcon Glove site is LIVE!

Peep this shit. Scrambler mitt....as an old co-worker would describe it, "Incredi! Ya know?"

C3 is doing our part to enrich others lifes...

Check out this thank you note that was dropped in the C3 in box:

"dood, thanks for letting me hook up my chick...went down like this... gave her a t-shirt told her happy birthday... cooked her dinner and pretended that she should be stoked on her new T.. then when she was noticeably bummed, asked her if she could grab my shoes, hid the snowboard under my bed next to the shoes. she was amped. little bit later told her i needed a coldy...she grabbed a icey cold PBR out of the fridge where she found the binders...she was really fucken happy then...so happy ... the rest of the night went like this.. roadhummer on the way to the grocery store. went to the movie, hummer after, then...how's she wake me up? yup dood gonna need to workout more...my ass is tired.
how was the show rockstar?? i'll be up there again soon with more time to hang out and BBQ...trying to hook up tix to vikings/seahwks thanks again"

Your welcome Guy. C3 is THE company that cares about our friends relationships, and pledges to do OUR PART to contribute to the enrichment of your relationship type experience. Yeh!

Bro Hymn

Blue, Dog Park Rob, Jonas and I roll down to see the Wise last night. O.P. Dustin failed to show up, and I got him a ticket. Guess that’s why he’s “off program” Dustin till he proves himself better.
Sold out show, we get our All Access Passes thanks to Fletcher and head onto the tour bus for some quality bro’n. Hear stories of crapping in a pool in Europe, then scooping it up and plastering the merch guy with it. We find it all entertaining.
Head into the packed place, Circle Jerks are belting out a set. Instead of waiting in line to pay for booze, we use the “all access pass” to whisk ourselves backstage to drink the bands free beer. C.J. finishes and the Wise take the stage. 4 people get on stage with the band, 3 of them were us. Shits going off, they were on. I decide that my throats a little parched so head back to get a beer. Roll by the guitarist of the C.J. teaming up on two young ones. Some rock star shit was happening for sure. It sure was nice to be the fly on the wall observing, then home for my own circle jerk. Yea, that’s what I’m talking about.

Zumiez Bowling Party

Last night 650 screaming Zumiez store managers and key shop people packed into the Kenmore Bowling lanes dressed in their high school home coming dance costumes.
Andy shown here, is the Zumiez accessory buyer but his get up confused vet Rep Tim Schwab into thinking he was our Rep, Sweaty in his normal costume. Comedy.

WISE

...as in Pennywise, playing tonight bitches. Seattle, then two stops in Van-couger.

Mustember

Every September I grow a nasty ass mustache because it makes me feel like I’m a migrant worker, which makes me want to work in a warehouse and pack boxes. So September being our biggest shipping month, I want to feel, look and work like a dude with out working papers, standing on the corner, waiting to be picked up in a truck to go do some manny labor. Then in October I go back to the sales guy at the computer and phone, fucking off typing stupid emails and blog posts. Like this one.

Jan White

I have really enjoyed your tacklebox blog for the past few months - it seems that you have a lot of great friends. I've always judged the caliber of a friend as someone who could take it as well as they dish it out.

My wife's name is Michelle. We just celebrated our 6th anniversary. Michelle's mom's name is Jan. Jan has cancer. The cancer has spread to her liver and she starts chemotherapy on Monday morning here in Denver. Everyone that reads your blog - I don't care if they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, or whatever. I want them all to be thinking about Jan White on Monday morning when she starts this process. I'm sure that you can imagine how hard this is going to be for her and for my family. Call it prayer, call it meditation, call it active thought. I just ask you to ask them to keep her in their thoughts throughout the day - maybe even pass it on to someone they know.

We are firm believers in the power of positive thought.

Thanks - Rich, Michelle, and Lainey Marks