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Summer meeting time. Whistler for the week. This is our crib. Meeting tomorrow, Camp of Champs on Wednesday. Stoked.

A toast to our buddy TOSHI

Just got a email from our drunk boarderline gay Japanese buddy:
Hi ALL guys
How are you? I hope your fine this time! I went to hawaii until 22th June it's a honeymoon. Thnaks all guys! I graduate from a drunk star?? I hope.....
Please attached some pics.
Have a good weekend!
Thnaks bestregards
TOSHIDA HIDEYUKI

Congrats Toshi, we made this video message for your wedding party July 4th. It should light some fireworks, with your new wife that is.

MJ tribute skate

Office Chup

Death musta been in the air cause Kyborg took a digga on his moped yesterday. Luckily Nico escaped without harm.

Thank you John

John Magnusson, the MAN from The HOUSE shipped this bad boy out to me from Minniapolis last week and it reared it's enormie head today.
Some genetically altered elk with 6 plus points on the antlers. Gumby was in absolute awe when we pulled it from the 6 foot tall crate it had to be shipped in. He's like, "you know how much one of those things goes for???"

Thanks dudes, Stabbin Cabin is gonna look even tighter.

Worlds worst Dad

The little fuckers started things out good Saturday night as they couldn't wait to give Dad his Dad day presents. A home made Malkoski history book from Milo that must of taken him two weeks to write. The story's are pretty all time too. Facts all over the place, made up stuff...pure awesomeness. And Mac built me the raddest key chain ever, with an explanation on every bead and why he chose the color. Real thoughtful stuff that actually brought some tears to the eyes. Sunday, wake up to breakfast in bed, then we watch a little Will Smith in the movie Hancock. Mac loves the line when he says "you call me asshole one more time, and I'm gonna put your head up his ass." I do too.Then off to Greenlake for a little 9 hole golf'n. We made it to hole 7 before the bickering between the brothers was too much for me on my day and home bound we went. I explained to them that since they bickered our asses off the course that they were paying for it and I was pulling cash from their wallets as soon as we got home. "YOUR the worst Dad ever!" "I'm moving out!" "This sucks!"
Once the $20 was collected, and things calmed down things got fun again as the boys ran the ramp thru it's paces while I sat back with Genuine Draft in hand calling out tricks for Milo do. Mini ramp trick list is up to 22 and it only took 3 beers to do all 22.

Happy Fathers day, from the World's Worst Dad. Fuckers.

Where the pro's go...

From 2003 Bike News article:
Missy Giove recently announced her plans to retire from professional racing. Thus marks the end of a brilliant career. Giove is probably best known for her marketing savvy: the dead piranha around her neck, the ashes of her dog tucked in her sports bra, the punk hair-do. While Giove's wild nature garnered her unparalleled media coverage, it probably overshadowed her incredible riding talent. Giove has won more NORBA downhills than anyone else (14 wins) and racked up 11 World Cup wins as well. Ten years down the road, will we remember those kinds of statistics or will we still be fixated on Giove's persona?

From a April 23, 2004 Velo News interview:
VN: What do you think your legacy will be?
MG: I just always wanted to inspire people not to live their life in fear. You know what you’re only here once and that’s it. You better live it up. People sometimes forget – people have insurance and all these things that are about the future, but what they forget is that you are just who you are and what you have every day. Love who you love, be who you are, 'cause that’s all you have. You come into this world alone and you die alone.

From June 17th 2009 Velo News article:
Former world downhill champion Melissa “Missy” Giove and two alleged co-conspirators were arrested in New York Tuesday, charged with plans to distribute some 400 pounds of marijuana.
The three are being charged with federal drug violations and could face up to 40 years in prison and $2 million in fines.

Moral of the story? Drug trafficking can lead you downhill fast.

It "used" to be hanging in the shop

Ole Sherms getting some play these days as he's getting in the Smithsonian’s Museums. Off one of the links from the press release is this interview from him back in 1994.

"So you think that if you hadn't written that letter snowboarding would still be Snurfing?"
'I think it would have stayed as Snurfer and the sport of Snurfing. The other thing that happens when you have something like that and it goes in the public domain it's not used anymore and by law you lose it. There are a lot of words that we have in our language now that are really manufactured things. Remember for years people never made copies they Xeroxed them. Anyway it was a kind of fun time. I've given a couple boards to some of the shops here in Steamboat and I autographed them and they have them hanging up in the shop.'

That autographed board is safely hanging in my basement Sherm. He brought it into the shop after we had hooked up in Vail at the Transworld Conference. He asked me to teach him how to ride the bumps. I told him that bumps were something you avoid but "ok." Then out of appreciation he brought us the stick.

Congrats on the Smithsonian Sherm, stay out of them moguls.

I love this song

Team America was on the other night. Stoked, I did a Utoob-2-EmPee3 conversion for the song, then threw this vid together to use it.

Seen it?

Dude's got a MTV show coming.

D-

Four weeks out of surgury, and been doing my P.T. Last couple of sessions have been 2 hours worth and my ass was on fire for days from all the leg lifting that you'd think it was a Bunz of Steel clinic, not P.T. So yesterday the knee's getting the rub out from Petra and I ask her where she thinks the knee is at for progress. "From zero to 100%, where am I at?" Thinking she's gonna give me a 85-90% rating. "Well, around 60%, maybe a bit more." WHAT!!!??? Knee didn't feel 60% surfing this morning, that's for sure.

At least Gorio was running at 95%.

Need one of these for the Summa Humma

Beverage holda!

Peep Sk8

Bust Out Another Threedolla!

That's all it took to get the Summer Hummer back running after 2 years of sitting it's ass in the Gay Rahge.
A $3 carburetor diaphragm that I had no idea on what I was doing but Polished my way thru a carb rebuild.
Threw some gas oxygen in the old ass gas and ran that bitch up and down the lake a bunch yesterday.
Instead of having a dock space, I just park her across the street at the crazy lady's house that the bank took over.

Blue and Yellow Lobsters

When we were at Nike the other day, the dudes were talking about the top 3 all time SB's. Dude said these three were at the top of the heap:
1. What the Dunk
2. Tiffanys
3. Lobster
So there's a new Blue Lobster coming out from Concepts. I ain't no sneaker head but this shit's pretty cool anyway. Listen to them accents. "Fuck yea, that shit's wicked awesome guy!" They fail to mention that there will be a even mistier Yellow Lobster that's secretly thrown in the mix.

Portland Field trippin

Hor Hey and I went down to PDX to meet up with Martino at the Wilderness Design Studios. Did a little visiting with some of the notables while here. I actually did nothing but give my opinion once in a while and go on some field trips.

Draplin and Stupid Gary. Mutt tried biting my nose off right after this picture.

Marty, Kass and Hor Hey. Tai cocktails and rock star storys.

Holden's guard mutt. Similar to our Chupacabra but not as black.

Air Jordan's RS8.

Happy B-Day Frank

Frank Logic's 9 year old b-day party. Pretty crip. Skate Barn 2 home where a mini, tramp and graffiti wall lay for the kids to destroy. Spoiled brats.

Crip Mathews?

We go BMX'n yesterday down at Seatac and since we're down there end up over at Burian Sk8 park. This is South Seattle too, pretty ghetto. The houses all have bars on the windows for the most part, but it's always been cool when we're there. Till this time. As I'm unpacking the Burban this trashy Mom rolls up with two skinny ass teenager kids that are running some stupid arm tats. She starts yelling into the park "MIKEY, Mikey, who's the motherfucker that was pushing my boy on the ground!!!???" Mikey is this 18ish year old kid, sagged pants, skating his ass off. The kid that pushed the little kid down gets a verbal reprimand but then Mom and Mikey get into it. She starts heckling him then all of a sudden home boy starts tripping. He pulls his shirt up and show her his stomach that's got tat's across it and goes "What's up!!! What you think about this BITCH! West Side mother fucker, this is CRIP territory." I look at Milo, who's horrified and go "time to go." Guns were about to come out. And off we go to Greenlake. Milo starts skating and Mac goes over to the BMX jumps. He's all alone except for this older dude (my age) and his little 2 year old kid. Older dude compliments Mac on his Evil Knievel skills and we greet each other, then throw out some small talk. I'm looking at him thinking I know him and then it hits as we're walking away. It's Dave Mathews. I go to Milo "see that dude that was talking to your brother? He's a very famous singer." "Oh really, what kind of music does he sing? Is it like Pennywise?" "Uh no, more like Jack Johnson." "Oh...folk music. Cool."

Fem Fatal

After 9 years of being a boys club, CAPiTA's finally got a femme fatale added to the roster.

Foot Skating Part 2

It's Milo's best friends 9th birthday party this weekend, Frank, and all the rats are going to Skate Barn to rip it up. I think I'm gonna throw a wrench in the party when I hook em all up with some Carpet Skates though. Foot Skatingz back!

Super Duper Super Sale Tomorra

Go buy something from Dan tomorrow. I guarantee he'll tell you how rad he is.

New ramp, new trick

Little guy got these down right after we got the masonite on last night. Then couldn't fall asleep cause of it. After this quick rebuild, I keep laying in bed thinking about how to make it bigger and better, where I'm gonna thief the wood from, how sore my back will be, ramp tramps hanging out, etc.
Win some, lose some.

Holeshot out of the gate

The dudes that all run the 30 and over classes locally decided to do a series for the 30 and overs, run what you bring. Instead of the classes being small and limited to the size of the bike you run and the 5 year age span between the age classes that the ABA has everyone in. If you 30 and older, lets make a winner take all deal and ride whatever the hell you want. I wasn't here for this, but these are the dudes I enjoyed following around the track the last two years. Seeing this makes me glad that I'm watching it on DudeTube vs being there. As it would of been surgury number 4 for me.

Griff Update

I love hearing from Griff. So much so that I'll post it so all y'all can enjoy his misfortunes also.
"Ya Guy! More surgeries. Computer back on line for the moment, most of my shit is just BROKE (that is going to be my screen name with that broken Martini glass shipping icon as my avatar) Just happen to check the T-box, may have been there once since Feb. Sounds like your maintenance was on the good side of the sceneiro. Still the same dark cloud w/me. I've had a hernia for ever. I can remember the exact moment I did it. ( FS3 on 4 Point's). Been ok over the years, all my Doc's said I better get it fixed before it got bad. Well last week, trying to lift my motorcycle I simultaneously blew out my back and made a 4" x 1" bulge that turned black and yellow to the upper left of my dick. Sent me to the ground. I got right back up all cool like an NFL player, then went right back down. It's been hurtin' more and more, so I'm calling the Doc tomorrow for surgerie. Been good besides that. Wrist/hand is slow to come back. Range of motion/strength isn't that great but I got back on my hard tail, got a deal on a plush 5" fork. Riding the Honda too. Even did a little MX. Dude, watch the Harley Guys and once and a while you'll see a tool using all this extra English just to twist the throttle. Thats what I feel like 'cuz I can't bend my wrist."
All that shit and the dudes still got a good attitude. I talked to him yesterday and he's like "yea shit was going so good for me up till that hernia!" I'm like really? You mean 3 arm surgeries (cause they fucked up two of them) and a blown off the bone hamstring are what you call "GOING GOOD?"

Not so Jeenyus

Way back when CAPiTA was in it's inception phase, KJ was part of the original line up. In fact the longest running snowboard series in the line, The Black Death, started as the Kevin Jones Black Snowboard of Death. The KJ part was pulled from the equation when Kev chose to ride Jeenyus instead. Here's the original stick.

Free 2010 CAPiTA Horrorscope Contest - Fur Reels This Time

So Chappy at Porters ran a contest on Burton's message board for a new CAPiTA snowboard. The rules of the contest were:

First off, ghey or not, the dolphin stays. In fact, it's still the focal point, it's just that the mandatory "man up" tattoo factor (or "idiot up" depending on how you look at it) has been greatly reduced.

1. The contest is for the funniest / most unusual use of a dolphin in a photo or a video. Think comedic juxtaposition or ask Ninety-Roll what that means. So sure it could be a big-ass tat across your back of a dolphin.....or one that you paint on the hood of your camaro and show up at your prom with? Or maybe you get a dozen 6 foot long inflatable helium ones and tie them to your car and drive through Times Square? Or get one of them turd twister plastic shape things and film your very own dolphin turd swimming in the porcelain bowl? Or maybe you simply make an origami one....but make the best damn dolphin origami the world has ever seen. You decide what you think is funny, but Johan and I will be the final judge (with some bmb peer input).

2. Contest goes till 11:59am Monday June 1 - winner announced at high noon

3. No limit on the number of entries per person - submit your photo or video (or link to pic / vid) in this thread

4. Sexual and/or S&M entries or any entries that in any way harm an actual dolphin will be disqualified and you'll have bad karma for 7 years

5. No entries can be illegal, malicious, or something that you need your parents' permission to do if you're under 18

This board will be someone's in 2 short weeks.....

First place, and winner of a 2010 CAPiTA Horrorscope - hlc123

Great contest Chappy. You got to laugh that PORTERS ran a contest on Burton's site giving away a CAPiTA Snowboard, Union Bindings and some Coal Headwear. Thank you Burton for hosting this event. Seriously.

Chupacabra

Nico's 2nd birthday today.

Re-Ramped

Man oh man am I sore today. Pulled a Arnold Swatzinigga and did a Total Recall of the mini ramp we got last year. Here's the finished product.

This is what I bought off of Craigslist last year for four bills. "Wicked tight trannys" is what Hor Hey told me.
Got it set up in the back yard with all good intentions of getting things level and correct. Of course it sat there for almost a year like this. All jenky and shit. But the kids ripped on it regardless.

Saturday morning, Milo and I got to work diss-assembling the entire deal.

Rebuilt it from ground up. First step was building a sturdy base that's level.

Mac didn't give a shit and picked his nose the entire time.

Recut the trannys on some 2 brand new "found" 3/4" sheets of plywood.

Reused all the wood.

Looking tite.

Added another layer of plywood to it. Now got to install the masonite.

Frank with a little tail stall. His Dad just put one in his backyard and kinda inspired us to get our shit in order. Keeping up with the Jones.