Joyrides Art Company

Check out Joyrides Art Company's website by Mark Kawakami. It's a sick site featuring his photography and art. He mostly covers chops and hotrods but also features some surf, skate, etc. There's a feature on Kyle Yanagimoto on their you guys will enjoy. Shoots!

Analog Skate Team @ A'ala Park

Hawaii's own Mark Oblow (Analog/Gravis skate team manager) was back in town with Arto Saari, Dylan Reider, and Stefan Janowski to host a BBQ/demo @ A'ala Park for the local skateboarders. This demo however wasn't your typical demo with a bunch of groms on the sidelines waiting for a handout. Oblows roots in skateboarding run deep here in Hawaii and can be traced back to glory days of the 80's skateboard/punk rock scene. So as you would imagine alot of the elder statesmen of skateboarding showed up in full support of Oblow as well as to trade off stories and alot of catching up. Skateboarders like Jef Hartsel, Kyle Yanagimoto, Rene Mathyson, Rob Carlyon, Vince Kraus, and the list goes on showed up to partake in the festivities. The HPD was there as well in full force ready to pounce at the first sight of any adult beverages being consumed. It was ok for the drug dealers to do their deal as well as the crackheads to do what they do, but the focus for the evening was all on the skateboarders. Go figure! Anyways a goodtime was had by all. Mahalos to Nos and Oblow for the teri burgers as well as to Chad from APB for manning the grill and serving em up!

Shawny Boy!

Sean Santiago was just showin me some pictures of his recent hiking trip in which he hiked up to about 11,000 feet. The last 1000 feet he hiked by himself because no one else wanted to keep going. He snapped off a couple of self portraits at the top. Check out the captain morgan pose with the mililani lifeguard shirt!

T&C Sunburn Classic

This past Saturday T&C held their annual "Sunburn Classic" @ A'ala Park. This year featured a best trick and a demo by the L.R.G. skate team. Adelmo Jr., Rodrigo Teixeira, and Jack Curtain I believe were the riders. I pretty much missed most of the contest and didn't even get to see the demo due to prior engagements. However I did get to meet up with Dyson, Darren, and Jeff to watch Marsh skate. Marsh was pretty much trying to hit a grandslam with a tre flip of the bank to bank which is pretty much impossible. Anyways we came, we saw, and we bailed. I've got to say though that the boys from Prototype were pretty much owning the contest. Don't know who they are but they killed it. Thanks to T&C for supporting the local skate scene.

R.I.P. Andy Kessler

I was fortunate enough to meet and skate with Andy Kessler a few years back while in San Diego. I met him through "Rockabilly Willie" Fruean. I wasn't really aware of who Andy was, all that I knew was that he was from New York. He was a super down to earth guy and fun to skate with.



(Photo courtesy of Epicly Later'd)

Dakine "Tiki Tour" video

Check out the Dakine "Tiki Tour" video. This trip took place last year when Dakine came down for the T&C Sunburn Classic. Lots of good footy throughout the Hawaiian Island chains. Enjoy! Aloha-H&D

Da Crew..

Just stumbled across this photo on my computer that Braxton took. SANCHO! Miss you man...