love finding these ads…
They’re better than ads that people put out today!

DJ shock aka DJ servin’ em aka the Flatspot kid will be opening up for Jeru The Damaja!
Wish i could be there to see how hype this party will be!
If you live in Hamilton and you do not roll down to this show you’re wack!

Check out the new DNR article on Alphanumeric when you get a chance…
These dudes are just starting!

Joel Hersey and i go way back… When i first started in this industry he was one of the first guys that believed in me and held me down…I got mad love for this cat! Well things don’t change… Joel still holds me down and runs one of dopest shops on the east coast of canada called Elusive… They carry all the best skateboard and snowboard stuff and they always got the newest and best Nike SB’z instock!
Check out Joel’s blog and skateshop here

There’s only one JP

Teebs reppin!

Nacho and Greg work at Pro skates and have an amazing
weekly hype-up, on product they just recieve in the store…
It’s dudes like this, and shops like Pro skates,
that keep things fun in the skateboard industry…

Check these guys out every monday for a good dose of skateshop slapstick comedy!
Hey Jon, you gotta bring these guys down to do a video on Knowshow!
You know that would rule! I’m gonna talk to the knowshow peeps tomorrow!

ASR was amazing this past weekend…
One of my best trips to the west coast in a while!
Peep the picks… I am too lazy to write anything!
Thank you to everyone who took care of us!

When we first got to SD we went straight to the new Alphanumeric offices.

Jon G postin up

The man with 10 jobs…
Seriously Mirko is one of the hardest working guys in this industry… love this guy!

A# Fall 08 lookin proper

Univ is right next door… stocking some of todays best brands…

Jon g on that flavor flav tip…

(hi-pitched voice) “Look he’s got his own milkcarton”…

We had brunch with Emmelie and Bella from FUCT in LA the next morning…
That was alot of fun… We had alot of fun poking fun of scientologists… Emmelie rocks!

We headed over to the Diamond Store on Fairfax…
Oh my goodness! BJ’s ride is insane!

Derrrrty…

Went and visited chris over at ALIFE.. This store is so dope!

We went on to check out Fairfax, and melrose and blah blah blah…
yo amiba records.. thats whats up!
Later on we went out to celebrate Nick’s B-day @ this dope sushi joint…

Man i was stoked to meet Jeremy Henderson…
Zoo York original from way back!
Look it up kiddos!
Man Nick knows some serious OG’z!

The SB bong graphic..

Drove home that night and got locked out of our room…
After an hour of bickering with hotel security we got in…
Look who we found inside

Next morning bright an early for day 1

Bumped into Nick from Vice right away…

Don’t get it twisted… Flatspot’s internationally known!

Mehrathon fam, Daymon was in the house with Money clothing.
D’s got that $4000 belt and Jonny Nuggs was all over the the Porno Flage’

Mehrathon homey, Nick from Lifetime was gettin his drink on early…

A# booth was booked solid all weekend

Mehrathon homeys, Stefan and Peech were in the house…
check out next issue.. gonna be a banger!! 10 yrs!

Ace trucks had 2 booths set up…
There was huge buzz at ASR as ACE dropped their rider list…
or should i say army!
check out these Hawaiin joints!

Yann from Exo came through the Brigada booth to peep the new glasses

Underworld’s Alex was holdin down the A pound

We went to go see Diz Gibran that night open for Consequence and Talib
Whoo Kid guest Dj’d for Diz and the crowd was hyped!


This one’s a classic.. Joey and Nick Tershay…

Lance in the house… no rigshaw beef this time

OG…Shrewgy from Ace in the house

We passed by the Vice party late night…
Looky looky who we bumped into.. Nick from Ultimate skateshop

Next morning rolled by to hang out with Erik and Jim at the Brigada booth again…
I started to get my art on…


Lil’ Weezy rolled by the booth

Jim and I went to go fuck with the annoying techno DJ…
Jim Basically took over…

On the way to agenda bumped into my homey Danny Supa
Always great to see this cat!

Then we bumped into Nick…
Damn he was rockin that Diamond x Girl tee! Sick!

At agenda we bumped into oldskool friend Mr Neil Nice!
This cat is good peoples and he can rock a party out…
Need some mixtapes homey!

Later that night we headed over to the official
Diamond Supply co - 10 Deep party for nick’s Birthday
This was one of the best partys!
So many people were there!
The Lineup was around the block!
Met so many good people that night!
We ate steak at the bar while listening to bangin beats…
Jon’s looking to Franchise the red circle

Mr. Force and Mr Ace… the Takeover!


3XL + 3XL = 6XL

Matt from ALIFE and Jonny Punfire

wow OG, Weston Correa holdin it down!


Jeron Wilson in the place to be…
His shoe is blazin hot… one of the hottest out there…

ELI was in the house…

Todd from in4mation in the spot

Diz Gibran


Weston and Kent

Pete and Emil from Crooks

The Northern connection

Pete had lots to talk with JB Gillet after just getting back from France

Felix and Nick

deadbeats

Manny Santiago was in the spot… This kid kills it!

Fuct in the house

Tone

GC and FTC


No you.. No you…No you.. No you

You know we were the late night Stragglers

Next morning we stopped by our homeys @ SHUT…
They have theit flagship store opening on Feb 8th in NYC
Congrats

Keepin it gangster… James reppin Flatspot

Met up with Erik, Emmelie and Jake from FUCT on day 3…
We were fucking with Amercian Apparel…

This dumb chick from AA was such a tight ass

Sorry roughneck.. this was done by the boys at PRO…

Back to the cold!

I got wind that Joey and Shrewgy @ Ace were going to release names
of some team riders at January’s ASR tradeshow…
Here’s a few! haha This is what you call the takeover!
Try a pair today… you’ll see what everybody’s talkin’ bout’!

Abramsky, Brett
Allred, Alan
Alva, Tony
Ando
Bakker, Billy
Ball, Garret
Barley, Donny
Barret, Barker
Berard, Kyle
Bigfoot
Black, Pat
Block
Bolyard, Sage
Britton, Eric
Caddo, Dave
Cerda, Jose
Chatman, Ron
Chicken
Chin, Mikey
Correa, Weston
Daher, Mike
Deans, Billy
DelaTorre, Brian
Dill, Jason
Dyke, Matt
Eckler, Gordon
Emerson
Field, Matt
Gagnon, Pierre-Luc
Germ
Gonzalez, Zach
Gorecki, Jimmy
Harada, Bennett
Hartsel, Jef
Henderson, Jeremy
Holmes, Robbie
Horton, Nathan
Hubbard, Mark
Ibaseta, Rick
Johnson, Brad
Johnson, Nolan
Jones, Nate
Kelch, James
Kokomo, Joe
Lee, Jason
Lucero, John
Marcus, Jimmy
Martin, Shawn
Martinez, Jesse
Matlin, Nick
Mattson, Josh
McBride, Lavar
Mercer, Matt
Miller, Matt
Mumma, Tyler
Murray, Aaron
Nelson, Royce
Olson, Steve
P2
Paez, Richard
Pastras, Dune
Peacock, Noah
Pierre, Team
Pimentel, Tony
Pronier, Skip
Reategui, Eddie
Remillard, Tom
Reyes, Jamie
Reynolds, Bob
Rodriguez, Matt
Rogers, J.J.
Rosa, Mike
Sanchez, Henry
Selego, Ed
Shrewgy
Smith, Rodney
Smolik, Peter
Stranger, Julien
Tershay, Joey
Tershay, Nick
Toad
Treece, Chuck
Tsocheff, Karma
Turner, Jovontae
West, Jay
Winsor, Ricky
Young, Carlos
Langi, Andrew
Lay, Ryan

Hey check out this clip I saw from SGV
Whats your haircut?

Empire is one of the OG skateshops in Canada and have steadily grown, ironically into an “Empire”!
Brigada is proud to announce the official opening of their downtown location…
Come celebrate with with us!

The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for it.
Thoreau