Saturday 30 June 2012




One Six rider Dylan Campell getting it on a sidewalk humpy thingy.

Friday 29 June 2012

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Blowin'it!

Broken hose in the van. Even though it's new and improved, it's still shit!

Sunday 24 June 2012

Saturday 23 June 2012

Friday 22 June 2012

Curtis the gear man, co-owner of Regular Underground Boardshop posing with some of the most beautiful girls I know.

Thursday 21 June 2012

Go Skateboarding Day!

Blowin out spots with the local grommets! Gotta teach 'em the 'ole "hump and dump" with these spots so they aren't cop bait!

Wednesday 20 June 2012

Grom Life

A little gem from the Van's latest trip to Kelowna. Happy birthday Jerry. ;)

Tuesday 19 June 2012

Skylands

We had the van loaded and rolled out from Sloats house friday afternoon, with the plan of driving into the night. The shitvan's 40 litre tank insured we had to stop at every single gas station on route, which makes for a really laid back road trip. The drive itself was relativly uneventful, we caught up to the cribb bomb on the way into kelowna, namely because one of strikers crew had lagged behind bombing the highway, and a lack of highbeams on the shitvan insured i didn't see the skater till it was almost too late. the irony of running down a suicide bomber with the shitvan never would have worn off. but alas, we slowed down in time. We got to the logging road campsite about 2am and quickly set up our tents in the rain. i didn't stay up long, but some of the crew did. apparently someone fell asleep in the drivers seat and rested his head on the horn to the dismay of everyone trying to sleep. Day one of skylands was slow to start due to the rain, and orginazational problems. We got about six runs in, one of which led to a brutel highside for myself. which thankfully i managed to walk off. After the course was closed down for the night, we headed to skate Knox mountain, which was a really long access road which was tons of fun, some great hairpins. It started raining just after we picked up a load of kids from Seattle, the rain doesn't generally phase Vancover island skaters, i figured seattle skaters would be the same way. however, as i drove the van around the second hairpin, i found them all standing there, looking at the gore that was Liam's knee. i guess the road was just to slippery for everyone, so they packed in the van, and Levi and myself rode down one final time. Race day turned out to be dry, windy as hell, but dry. Liam was unable to race, but Kurt moved on once in his junior division, as did myself in Open. Sloat blew it, and Levi crashed out and managed to smash himself in the chin with his own board. after watching Kevin Reimer's victory, we loaded up the van and started out again. with all night to get to vancover and no ferry till 7am, we stopped where ever we pleased. skated some park in Merrett, shredded a gnarly steep concrete slab under one of the highway overpasses, lurked around in hope, before finally decideing on staying in a hotel in delta, turns out, no dogs allowed, so max and I stayed in the van, while the rest of the shit van crew blew it and slept in, so we missed the first ferry. managed to get back to victoria around noon on monday. totalled 9 hours of sleep all weekend on my part, and i think i might have had something close to a dozen monsters in the three days i was gone. with a few weeks till whistler, and after 5 straight weekends of racing. im glad to finally have a chance to rest. pictures to come in the following days, and the video should be dope, so stay tuned.

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Blowing it hard in Vernon.... Left the shitvan and crew behind on this one. skatebum style, i got a ride with Big Picnic honcho Brad Tomlison, then made him come find me to get his gas money. I wasn't feeling well when the trip started, and by the time Brad had gotten my whining ass over the mountains and too his grandma's house in Winfield you could see the swelling in the top of my mouth from what ever was horribly wrong with my sinus cavity. The next morning i felt better, but the weather had stayed just as bad. Brad dropped me off at the race course and made his way to Kelowna to help set up for skylands. The Vernon DH race course is short, i hear its about a 40 second drop in the dry. but it was wet, and hella slick. After a first practise run trying to take the corner three wide with Banting and Mac, i decided to maybe try something that made sense, sliding in the rain. Long storey short, I never did figure out the course, crashed all over the damn place and qualified 39th outta 71. Spent the night at my uncle murrays, had some beers with Tommy from salt Lake, passed out and woke up to sunshine. After a great breakfast and saying goodbye to Murray, we started the mornings freeride runs, most people do better in the dry, but i didn't mananage to make a single clean run, lots of excuses, but next year I aim to do better. I watched James Kelly bail and dislocate his ankle, almost headed for giants head on Reimer's new (to him) bus and ended up filling the backseat of Kelcey's (owner of switchback)truck. Hid in the back of a Uhaul to sleep before the morning ferry ride, and had my first experence as a stow away. Spent the next day at the nanimo skate house, loafing about until it was time to skate. My wife mandi and her friend Kelcey came to pick us up, and after a quick slash down the local retarded steep hill we headed for ladysmith. Just before ladysmith the rain set in, so we decided to head all the way home, fortunatly for us, as the sun was setting the rain stopped and we got to hit a malahat strata favorite, Kelcey got her first deer encounter over with and we called it a weekend. Shitvan's rolling on skylands next weekend.

Tuesday 5 June 2012


Brittania Raw Run with Regular Underground from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo.



Raw run down the Brittinnia beach course with Levi de bruin and Ben Sloat, if you've never see the course before, this ones for you.

The Vic Shit Van and The Brittania Classic from Regular Underground Boardshop on Vimeo.


Video coverage of the Van crew dropping in for their first time at brittinia, plus some wicked final corner action shot by Dion Pickles.

Sunday 3 June 2012

With five hay slaves and my self, the van got to erics campground at 1130 thursday night, only to find that we couldn't start hay till 2pm the next day. so we used the time to let some of the volunteers poach a run on the middle section of the wash when eric wasn't looking. A great many of the hay slaves hadn't gone that fast or ridden a hill that long before so great times were had. Setting up the hay took several hours, but many hands made light work. Race day was epic, pouring rain made rivers in the road so deep that a new breaking method was quickly devolped, full speed into the rivers to creat drag instead of airbreaking. Levi De Bruin tried to make an epic last minute pass before the finish line only to crash out in front of Keenan and have them both cross the finish line full speed on they're backs. Victoria grommet Kurt Gallent took 4th place in juniors and Regular undergrounds Liam Poirer took 3rd in juniors. The next days trip home included sneaking in some long bombs on the wash and 3 great runs on a horne lake area favorite before the rain moved in. after a quick pit stop in Nanimo to see the after math of second place finisher Luke Nolan's birthday party we moved on to beat the rain to Ladysmith, a small town of epically steep streets and amazing driveway slashes. A quick poached run on a Malahat favorite and everyone was back for sunday afternoon.