Wrongboarding in the ramp with Dylan

Blunts

 Every session with Dylan, he seems to pull something else out of his bag of tricks. Luckily I had my camera close at hand, and got some flicks.

Now the only question I have left: What can't he do on a skateboard?

In case Noah was wondering why his ride was looking so beat up.

Four Minutes of Your Life from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo. 

and a month of mine.

Its everything you ever want in a skate video, the same move over and over again, epic scenery clips, an interview and a stolen catchphrase.

Trailer for Gnar as Frig

Dylan Campbells a destroyer. check his footwork.

Frig yeah!

Some shots from a day at the proving grounds with a couple of the Team Gnar as Frig boys. Edit will follow.

The grassroots, The IDF, and Buttboarding

Having read through the IDF Articles of Association (yawn, nothing new here, any worldwide non profit sports organisations constitution reads pretty much the same). I can't help but wonder why classic luge continues to be a race category. When luging was the primary downhill sport it made sense, it gave new riders or riders in a bad financial position a chance to enter the sport. But when you have less than a dozen street Luger's racing a whistler, why take runs away from the skateboarders so people can butt board down the track? It would make far more sense to either abolish the classic luge entirely, or add a second entry level skateboard category. (top mounts, cast trucks only, no lipped wheels, w/e). which would allow many younger or less financially backed riders to understand your gear makes very little difference. Of course, as I'm writing this I've realised that Skatehouse has already asked these questions and received some sort of general answer. which I've quoted below.


5. I read the FAQ. It says that some events will continue to have luge, but nothing about classic luge. Why is there a separate racing class for inferior equipment? Can we get a special class for all-wood skateboards, no metal or composite decks allowed? If not, why does luge have a separate class for wood boards? -Max Dubler
The IDF FAQ used the word "luge" to refer to both street AND classic luge. We're certainly having a debate right now about how and why there are two luge classes but only one skateboarding class, and this issue will be explored extensively over the coming year. I'm sorry to all those budding Penny riders out there but there will only be one class of Downhill Skateboarding. -Lee Cation 

I think my main worry about the IDF is that there is going to be yet another abandonment of the grassroots downhill scene, and history has shown us that approach simply won't work. Downhill skateboarding is simply one facet of skateboarding in general, the non skating public doesn't see any difference between a racer and a park skater, the vast majority of kids that are into downhill right now will move on with their lives as they grow up, and the next wave of 14 year old kids that financially power skateboarding might find themselves into another form of skateboarding. The corporate sponsors that flirt with racing right now will move on, just as they did before. When the top tier of the skateboarding world becomes inaccessible to the grassroots, the interest will die off again. We need to keep the independent events alive that generate the next wave of die hards, or we risk losing the epic race venues that we are currently bless enough to have. 

Of course, the counterpoint to this issue is that as things stand now, Race organisers have very little in the way of support, and races tend to simply disappear when the organiser can't handle the work or financial burden of said race anymore. (Shredder and Something Fishy are two local examples) So the IDF can hopefully provide a support network for race organisers and find replacements when someone who has run a great race for a few years doesn't have time to continue it anymore.

All in all, the 2013 race season will be an important one for many of us. And I for one, and just hoping to get as many runs down Whistler as we typically do at Britannia . (hint hint, fuck off with the GPS armband thingamabobs.


links: http://www.internationaldownhillfederation.org/profiles/blogs/skatehouse-q-a-round-2 questions for Lee Cation from Max Dubler (both people that know more than me.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J9G_Q9Y6jmAxsFl4DqMK8S6EpJ9pjTeZC0l6_XEtWjw/edit IDF articles of association (constitution)

http://www.internationaldownhillfederation.org/page/idf-membership-1 IDF membership page. (thirty bucks that will be well spent hopefully)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIl7d1VVwOc unrelated awesome.

Flashback

My first summer in BC, the shitvan was still realllllly shitty, the switchback guys called me bobble head when I wasn't looking and I was still faster than Sloat.


Cody Welner Edit and Film

Hilarious

In possibly the funniest thing to come to (the internet) longboarding since these pre bent trucks with reverse coned wheels showed there face. I now leave you this link. I think they're serious, but this might also just be another product made just for trolling purposes, like trantuala trucks, or skate brakes. http://www.indiegogo.com/GH0ST-Wheels?show_todos=true

also, someone appears to have given them money.

The Governor General's Invitational was hectic

Kurt escapes the massive Ben

Friendly touches

Oh yeah, and there was a pole in the middle of the alley

Mary, Mandi and Me

Marital Bliss on Maryhill from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo. 


So Chris Mcbride was awesome enough to bring me his extra luge for the weekend. (and doubled up on that awesome by lending it too me till the spring freeride.) so yeah, this was the second most fun you can have lying down with your wife.

The 67th Annual Governor General's Invitational

Hectic doesn't even begin to describe this one.
Everyone grouped up at Brendan's to be told the first one to push there gets a Shit Van t-shirt. Dale Tuckface upholds his title for the strongest push in Victoria.
When everyone finished arriving at the spot, we got things underway by revealing the "Wheel of Deal With It", which added special rules to our 1on1 heats like switch runs, no hands allowed, bonus Brendan, choose new opponent, and fooseball start. I guess I should've gotten a picture of that. I'm looking forward to the next time we use it!

Finals were intense. Brentwood versus Brentwood.

To say that this alley is greasy is a major understatement. There were so many leaves, about 87,000 different kinds of pavement, and a huge rock wall. Needless to say, everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly, and only a couple people got maimed.

Oh, and we broke the fooseball table.

More pictures will be out over the next couple days!

Thanks Regular Underground for the support and Heavy in the streets for T-shirts, again! Hev's the man for that shit, he must be printing them off using slave children in his basement or something, cause every time I ask for shit, he provides.

Levi and Keenan! Famous in south afrika!

I think this translates to "this weekend is fucking shit" but i could be wrong. pulled it from facebook.

If anyone doesn't remember, Keenan was in first place in his heat, Levi was second, their closest competitor was literally thirty seconds back, First round of racing. Well, as Keenan is quickly learning, its first or last on the island, Levi went for the pass and ate shit, they both crossed the finish line on the bellies and were elimated, because for some reason, North America's fastest race doesn't play by Man rules.

Props to Keenan for stumbling onto this, and Andy Russell for a sick picture. and whoever put red font on it, I Guess. 

For the record, any South Island Skate race you come to, your always welcome to crash past the line.

So, Cam was skating all by himself.

Cause i locked my keys in the truck, again

And Max made friends.

slackin

Coleman slide, no hands down, still a tad sloppy at making the whole pendy, slush helps.

Photo: Cody Welner

Let us mash your bangers!

Opens Dec. 1st. Closes New years eve.

Send in your bangers, clips no more than 15 seconds, you can wetransfer me the footy @brendanshreds@gmail.com or post it on youtube and send us the link in the comments section of this.

Getting pretty sick of watching so many talented local skaters post long ass video's with nothing cool going on, so lets see what you really got! no 180's, slow ass checks, little early grabs, clean, nice roads. We want to see effort damnit! Prize's will be worked out later,(as in, i gotta bunch of swag under my bed, but i wanna see some fucking effort first) I'll post shitty clips as they come in for humour purposes. If your doing some trick thats allready been done on a shortboard for the last 20 years, it better be bigger and faster, please send in your dancer footy, If you got mad shortboard skills, I wanna see that, so use your more talented friends if you have too. and I swear to god, if i see one more interview video with someone who hasn't even had they're first gnarly bail, I'll find you.

Dylan, in the wet. cause he don't hide from the shit.

 

 

 

Dylan's a greasy bastard. He skates for One Six boardshop on Quadra in Victoria and goes super hard at everything he does, hopefully we'll see some dry footage from him at some point, cause he freakin destroys.

The Steeze is unbearable.

Local freeride god and hacky-sack enthusiast, Dylan Campbell, always shreds to the best of his ability. Which is quite high. Meaning he's really good. Like, really good.

More sliders from the "FUCK IT SLIDE COMP"

Browntown and Jeremy came down from Nanaimo to shred with us.

Even a Saltspringer showed up.

Big Red himself.

zero fucks given

Snow on the malahat they say. Max and Cody couldn't care less.

Everyone needs somewhere to eat shit.

Sign this petition, help some brotha's from other motha's out.

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/southend-borough-council-local-businesses-designate-the-clifton-terrace-maintenance-road-a-safe-space-to-skateboard#share 

A couple shots from "FUCK IT SLIDE COMP" slide comp

Regular Underground's Ben Sloat gets huge and wins longest standup with 60 something feet. Congrats duder!

Jimmy Chhor was shredding hard and going into switch faster than I've ever seen someone.

Casual banana board shenanigans.

 Thanks to Kurt Gallant and OneSix Boardshop for putting on a great slide-jam/comp thing. There were lots of people. Stoke was plentiful and fun was had by all.

Brendan gets bored with normal terrain

Sometimes you've got to spice up your ordinary free-ride spot.

Groms look in awe.

*Brendan's note: Victoria is filled with short, steep hills, many with all sorts of interesting features due to the age of the city, rocks, driveways, flaired sidewalks are all sorts of things that can be found. If you find yourself tired of the same old backside/frontside checks and spins, try utilizing some of the unique features at a spot, you'll find that sometimes, throwing a 6 foot power slide can be alot harder than throwing a fifty footer.

Russell Hustles

Rayne grom Ian Russell throws a toe in the corner at Britannia.

I hope this doesn't boost his ego too much.

Rayne longboards, vote for them in some sort of small buisness award!

http://www.successfulyou.ca/nominee/best-company/406

Rayne kicks ass, Les is always helping us out with decals for the shit van, hardgood prizes for events, and general PJ wearing awesomeness. give em a hand.

Amy Brendon at Danger Bay

INTENSE SKATE FACE!

So who knew that Ben Sloat could actually skate?

Ben gets way up there..

 

..and then throws a standie in the transition.

Ben had a really sick line at Regular Underground's indoor skatepark last night. He kinda pulled it out of nowhere, too. Everyone was shocked.

Noah was being a terror on the streets this summer.

Noah Hellreich the Onterrible crashed on Brendan's couch for a month and a bit for Whistler, Giant's Head and Saltspring. He went hard, for a guy with a 10lb ankle.

On a side-note: I want everyone to know that the last post I did was 11:59PM. CONTENT DAILY!! Even if it's filled with ridiculous over-tired ramblings.
That's it though, I swear.

Rallying on the Rash

I was all over the place this summer. The footage was bad. Also I spy a Vic Shit Van shirt?

Photo by Chase Campbell

Look before you leap!

And always make sure to stay in your lane!

*brendan note.
I meant to go into this subject a bit more, there are corners out there that you can cut the lane on, and corners you can't. but its important not to get too used to jumping the line because eventually you'll have to stay in your lane and you need to be able to know what you need to do. this corner for example, is very fun and easy to grip and you can see through it so apexing it's a breeze, however if you stay in your lane (and its wet dry) it becomes a very different corner. so keep your routine's varied and don't get sloppy out there just because the leaves have fallen off the tree's.

Help liam get free shit from Joker

 

 

follow the link through, like this video on youtube. Liam's a Victoria grom who's been given'er this past summer,

Larry Lu, come get your shirt.

Brendan's epic skate face.

If any of you have skated with Brendan, you'll know what I'm talking about. He always seems to be able to perfectly describe the situation.

"Getting gnarly" moments

as well as "OSHI-" ones.

Kelsey at Kelowna

She skated as hard as should could all season, and quite frankly amazed me with her ability to get back up after crashing so much.

Hope to see you out there next year. Heal up strong.

The million dollar patch.

Ben Sloat thinks he's really cool because he got this super sick patch from NJK leathers, and I triple dog dare you to tell him otherwise. It gave us some good laughs this past race season because people kept calling him "The Slayer".

"IT'S SLOATER, NOT SLAYER!!!!"

It seems to go with him everywhere.

The rain is upon us. Dress appropriately.

Don't let the rain slow you down or make you lose your stoke. It's BC. It rains. Go skate!!

And take your dog for a walk while you're at it.

A History of Bad Ideas. Outlaw action December 2nd.. toonie race

The Governor General's 67th Invitational - Teaser Trailer from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo.

Meeting downtown victoria, Quadra and humboldt, just a block up quadra from Beacon Hill Park. Skating to spot. DON'T GO THERE BEFORE ANYONE OR I WILL "ASK" YOU TO LEAVE.

4mile

4mile from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo. 

Frothy. we were going slow, but max was hauling ass.

Name this spot and share this link

Name this spot and share this link.  all the correct comments will get mixed up and i'll draw a winner and get them a shitvan tshirt.

And sometimes things get a little goofy

Patrick Switzer just decides to buttboard this run. Because why not?

Things get hectic sometimes

Super inside line. Whoops.

Be prepared for anything on the race course and avoid target fixation. Sometimes you just have to get gnarly.