After Work Special.

Always a good time for a skate after work, especially if it’s at Salamander Ranch.

Kyle Kaitanjian front pivot on the death hip

Gobber Land.

Chris Gobber opens his home every week for people to come shred his amazing wooden playground. Hippie Steve was there this past week to capture some of the good times.

The Hype Train – Full Length Video.

If you haven’t seen Typical Culture’s full length video, The Hype Train yet, you’ve been blowning it. Lucky for you TC has put the entire video online.

TypicalCulture.com presents a D.I.Y. Skateboarding film by Zack Dowdy. Featuring Chris Russell, Skreech, Greg Zamarripa, Frank Shaw, Chris Gregson, Brendan Keaveny, Connor Getzlaff, Ricky Holderby, and Little Chris.
This video wouldn’t of been possible without Bario Mike.

Entirely filmed on film and tapes.

Sponsored By: Dekline, OJ, Blood Wizard, Remind, S-One, Pig, Creature, Gullwing, and Vagrant.
Also Featuring: Pontus Alv, Kevin Kowalski, Glen Wagner, Ben Raybourn, Keith Baldassare, Alex Perelson, Steve Galicia, Chaz Pineda, Donavon Rice, Drew Dezort, Pat Beek, Kenny Mohr, Chris Coogan, Mason Merlino, Allen Young, Brian Fick, PLG, David Cobb, Cody Sexton, Jimmy Cao, Skippy, Trevor Ward, Russell Grundy, Adrian Mcelhaney, Aaron Sholts, Luis Sedano, Lenny Vargas, Steve Shipler, Matt Kreigel, Colin Brophy, Truman Hooker, Dylan Messer, Scott Flipinger, Jessiva Silva, Brandon Perelson, Adrian Mallory, Steven Levas, Derm, Hodge, David Jurusick, Chris LaRue, Mikey Grey, Brad Hearra, Ian Stribling, Jack Given, Josh Stafford, Spenser Prati, Sean Conover, Tim Williams, Canyon Kelly, Tyler Lee, and more homies!

Support your local skater built DIY.

Additional Filming: The Hype Train, James Truesdale, Jesse Silva, Skippy, Eric Bennett, Troy Sanders, Ryan Alvarado & the homies.
Purchase a DVD or a copy of Typical Culture zine here: typicalculture.com/product.html

Ryan Sheckler’s Skate for a Cause 2013 (Legends Pool)

Every year at Etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest Ryan Sheckler throws his Skate for a Cause event. The event raised 90k for charity. I was only able to stay for the Legends Pool contest. Here are a few photos:

Jay Adams:

Christian Hosoi:

Jim Gray:

Dave Hackett:

Sergie Ventura:

Aaron Astorga:

Mike Rogers:

Vans Pool Party Finals.

If you missed it yesterday, Ride Channel posted up a nice recap of what went down at the Vans Pool Party Finals.

PRO RESULTS
1. Bucky Lasek
2. Pedro Barros
3. Rune Glifberg
4. Omar Hassan
5. Tom Schaar
6. Joshua Rodriquez
7. Andy Macdonald
8. Cory Juneau
9. Austin Poynter
10. Giorgio Zattoni

Vans Pool Party Qualifiers.

The Vans Pool Party went down yesterday in all it’s glory, but some amazing skating went down on Wednesday during the qualifiers.

Last Gonz Pool Session

I got the call from Jim Muir to shoot some photos at the legendary “Gonzalez Pool”. I was excited and bummed at the same time…this was the last and final session. The Gonz Pool has been going on for over 30 years and the crew had no problem getting the session heated quickly. The line up included: Ray Flores, Jim Muir, Skip Engblom, Jesse Martinez, Scott Oster, Aaron Murray, Chris Cook, Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Tosh Townend, Bennett Harada, Charlie Blair and Chris Mumma. The session was a great time and hearing the crew talk about the legendary sessions that went down there was a lesson in skate history. I am glad that I was able to get a few photos to share Gonz’s last session. R.I.P. Gonzalez pool, it will be forever in our memories.

The crew:

Jesse Martinez:

Christian Hosoi:

Lance Mountain:

Aaron Murray

Bennett Harada:

Charlie Blair:

Chris Mumma:

Gonzales Pool R.I.P

Photos by Russ Sakurai, Ray Rae (www.rayraepix.com), & Josh Landau (The Shrine)

Flashback: Jake Reuter.

Digging thru some old tapes, I came across some Jake Reuter footage from 2011. Jake has always been a rad dude and is killing it harder than ever. Check out some shred from 2 years ago…