Street Artist upgraded their wheel formula for their 3rd release and gave pro wheels to team riders Billy O’Neill, Rachard Johnson and Colin Kelso. I am a fan of the detailed graphics that they are able to get printed on their wheels, especially the ones on the Billys.
Attn: M1 apparently just had a nuclear meltdown at their factory which produced new toxic colored wheels for Joey Chase and their pro team. The Toxic Avenger would be proud.
Congrats to long time Aggressivemall team rider Casey Bagozzi who gets his first pro wheel by Scribe that features graphics that play off the Sacramento Kings logos, since he’s reppin SAC Town like no other.
Scribe Casey Bagozzi Pro Wheel
YES, IT’s MONDAY!!!! And time for another installment from Brian Krans. Keep checking his weekly posts here on the AMALL blog for as long as it takes him to afford his own place (I know Ivan is chumping him on utilities so it could be awhile) WELLL, ENJOY.
BLADE DIGEST #2: Allergic reactions to flying monkeys
This looks like a job for…
Not since Monty Python has the idea of a flying circus been so awesome. As Johnny Knoxville so eloquently put about the NitroCircus, “If it’s a bad idea, they’re filming it and thank God for that.”
To get a good idea of what it’s like, imagine a group of people driven only by their ids who do nothing but shop in catalogs that sell nothing but things that blow up while playing a game of Chicken with gravity. Mix in a few cases of cheap whiskey, kegs of Red Bull and a handful of ball bearings and you’ve got an event even the biggest Redneck would lose his voice hooting and hollering over.
And how is this relevant? Well, they’ve got Haffey for the ever-popular Australian tour. You see, unlike the normal American who likes crappy sports like football, Aussies love things where people launch 70 feet in the air with nothing but a helmet on. You must expect something like that from a country founded by criminals. (Note to self: check into emigration status to Australia.)
But, while Superman himself will be doing what he does best, it’s no indication that the larger alt-sporting world has accepted us and our fruity boots. They’ve invited others too.
Scooters and pogo sticks, huh? Oh well, it’s still Haffey.
Here he is tending to a downed scooter rider who learned a thing or two:
And, according to those who have seen some clips, Haffey’s got that 50-foot Gigant-A-Ramp covered like Woodward and Bernstein on Watergate.
‘Did you just call him a piece of underwear?’:
While VHS copies of Mitchell Goosen busting out the sweet 1993-era moves might be harder to get than wood at a Reba McEntire concert, the Blockbuster-busting giant that is Netflix has you covered. If you’re a loyal customer, you can access the blading roots awesomeness at anytime you’ve got a computer and an Internet connection.
While many people might see the cheesy-as-hell movie as something irrelevant now 17 years after it rocked your socks out of your RB Lightning TRSs, there is still plenty of wisdom abound that’s still making people realize certain things about geographical portions of the US:
Your weekly serving of Juuuuuice!:
Whilst out blading this past weekend at a park with angled ledges, we were joking about all sorts of stuff to do on them ala-Farmer.
I’m not sure who said it, but he was right: “Some of that stuff in his new edit only he can do.”
If you haven’t see the Chris Farmer Xsjado 2010 edit yet, you’ve been doing your eyes a disservice.
This month, Brandon Ballog and contributors released Issue #7 of Rollzine. And, as he says, “the stories are not about video sections or sponsorship — they are just about having fun.”
This issue has great editorials — along with the usual beautiful layout and photos — about what determines if a spot is “for skateboarders” and how, or if, we should be fighting our sport’s effeminate influences.
Check out the latest issue of Rollzine. It’s worth your time.
Something of note:
Congrats go to living blading legend and AMall rider Vinny Minton and his now-wife, Johana.
They did the wedding thing, followed by the partying thing. Everyone had fun. Well, there were some moments where AMall staffer Neil Chen didn’t.
It’s okay. He lived.
A parting thought:
Yes, the Dalai Lama is on Twitter. When the Tibetan leader and peacemaker has something to say, it’s worth listening to. After all, he is the latest reincarnation of a lineage of spiritual leaders chosen to be reborn to enlighten others.
Ah, all seems right in the world now.
Rock out with your respective genitals out,
— Brian Krans
I know my bail for this week is quite late. Fact of the matter is I forgot… Chris Haffey was here and MAN, I was so star struck I couldn’t function mentally (OR physically) If you don’t believe me I invite you to come by touch/ smell my sopping wet desk chair and the UndEEz I had to throw in the trash can. But enough about ME, onto the first ever (I think) street gainer on blades. I bet if the set was a little bigger he would have made it. Props nevertheless and a perfect bail to come in late with.
Come session with us THIS Wednesday (3/24/2010) at the Lake Cunningham regional skate park in San Jose, CAfrom about 6 pm to 9 pm with SPECIAL GUEST - CHRIS HAFFEY, KATO, & VICTOR ARIAS.
If you plan on skating bring a $5, a helmet, and elbow pads - or a long sleeve shirt to cover your elbows. Sock pads don’t fly here (WEAK AS F*** I KNOW).
To get you all juiced on the session I decided to throw together my first “Clip Dump” of 1 day and 1 night at Cunningham. The Clip Dumps will be random archived clips that we are just dumping into quick little edits. Enjoy it you will maybe.
We at Amall are proud to FINALLY introduce a reason to look forward to Monday’s (Well this Monday at least) As an interim host to Brian Krans’s infamous writings, we present to you AGRSVEML Blade Digest #1, so enjoy it.
BLADER DIGEST: A Digital Pulpit
A BIG THANKS to the Aggressive Mall family for letting me drop some text on their blog. If you think I’m an idiot, please don’t take it out on them.
ONE Skater of the Year:
There is democracy left in the world, but ONE Magazine’s Skater of the Year (http://www.believeinone.com/?p=596) will surely, no matter what, cause some controversy as if we were electing a president.
There is, without a doubt, a million reasons why each single skater should be on that top 10 list, each one repeatedly proving their abilities on a regular basis.
If the post-Bittercold fallout proved anything, there’s surely a way for people to wrap their minds around ideas that don’t make sense — especially rigged contests and conspiracy theories — only to fulfill their need to always be right, even when they’re amazingly wrong. I’m sure there will be some of that with the SOTY.
It’s awesome that a publication even has a skater of the year, but to people that will get their undies tied up in bunches over their head because their favorite skater didn’t win, just remember, it’s just a contest based on opinions. It’s decided by skaters.
So, if your boy doesn’t win, then there won’t be a neat little group to blame except for all of us. And good luck with that should you go shaking your fist at the skies at the end of it all. But don’t worry, the world won’t end.
The Empire Caesar never saw coming:
Out of all the random things I collected at Bitter Cold, a single matchbook surprised me. One side said, “Stay calm and blade on.” That was good enough marketing to get me to visit Scumpire.com.
Other Web sites have tried creating a community dedicated to blading where you don’t have to hear about people’s lover of the day, their horoscope, or imaginary farm, restaurant or anything to keep them from doing anything tangibly productive with their lives. By the initial look of it, Scumpire appears to be doing it right.
Two minutes — which THANK GOD, includes verification from an e-mail address to avoid a certain level of anonymous retardery — and you’re set. The gold in it all is for smaller scenes so they can create their own pages to get together and session.
But immediately I was juiced to join when I clicked the “News” tab and learned of a Haiti benefit blading/skateboarding contest Brian “BFree” Freeman and Josh “Gogo” Castillo organized for Saturday in Texas.
Bladers doing good makes the butter in my arteries melt. Also…hmm… two skateboard sponsors and 11 blading sponsors? A big THANKS goes out to all the companies supporting that cause.
Your weekly serving of Juuuuuice!:
It was awesome Rollernews picked up the edit below because after watching it I immediately thought… “Hey, that’s like…”
…that crazy Canadian Mathiew Ledoux who throws down with the parkour/blading hybrid stuff. And a little-known blog asked a few questions of the man who turns some heads with his skating— http://efficiencyiskey.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/coe-interview-mathieu-ledoux/. Love him or hate him, Ledoux makes blading his own thing, which isn’t that the point?
Wait…but…Ouch, that stings a little
If you’re not wasting valuable company money checking humor Web sites while on the clock, then shame on you, Mr. Productivity. If you are, then CollegeHumor.com is a staple and hopefully you’ve come across the musings of Kevin Corrigan. He recently shared a sprinkle of knowledge on the Internet cupcake on his Twitter (http://twitter.com/kevincorrigan):
Sure, we could all get up in arms about someone, in essence, saying blading is dead. Then again, we all know better and that’s all that matters. But, at least he was funny about it.
And Mr. Corrigan also posted the following video on his blog. Maybe it’s leftover St. Patty’s spirit from this wannabe Irishman, but it’s a better message to those bent on spreading hate, rumor, conjecture, and disinformation about our beloved blading.
You know who you are, Little Lion Men. Listen to the lyrics.
WARNING: Below is what some would call a nonsensical essay about some lingering thoughts related to the infamously-beaten dead horse that is BCSDX. Should you skip it — and no one would fault you for that — then thanks for braving through thus far.
Our darkest hour: What BCSDX taught us about ourselves
The original T-Paine.
This year was long hailed to be the comeback of rollerblading. Somewhere, sometime, many of us saw the lull in blading to end, the most passionate, strong and dedicated rising from the ashes of diminished participation and leading the way to stronger numbers and even a more connected brotherhood of bladers.
The Father of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, began his inspiring pamphlet Common Sense with the immortal words, “These are the times that try men’s souls…”
Rollerblading stands on the eve of a revolution — a point where weaker men will cower while adversity and tiring labor hover over them, while visionaries will stand tall.
When the Bitter Cold Showdown celebrated its tenth anniversary it was a legendary and spectacular event, but one marred by an ugly and bitter fallout. These words come long after the competition has ended. We’re all home now. We’ve seen the edits. We know the tricks.
I never thought I’d see Haffey, one of the best skaters the sport has ever seen, being booed by a crowd of people. I never thought I’d hear such outlandish and sweeping conspiracy accusations — the contest was rigged for various reasons including not wanting a Nimh rider to take it two years in a row, having Haffey win for a TV pilot and so on.
The judges I spoke with said Nimh nor television was even an issue. Yes, there was a split on who had first, with everyone in the Top 4 — Haffey, Bolino, Aragon and Broskow — could have gone home with the mallet.
But, while the crowd might have lifted Bolino on their shoulders, as I have learned with every contest I’ve ever attended, there will always be discrepancies with judges’ decisions. But you don’t know a contest until the edits are in.
Contests are hectic places, with skaters flying around everywhere. Even if you were there, you missed a lot just by the sheer insanity of everything happening at once. The judges, in their consensus, had more pairs of eyes on the comp.
In the end, the winner was Haffey. He took to the course in a way other skaters did not. He skated the park the only way he can — turning obstacles into ones bigger than they were designed for. Haffey delivered hammers and bangers, pulling his way to first place.
Afterwards, there was a fallout, including a call for a boycott of future events. I shake my head at that idea, not only in disbelief but also in contempt.
I firmly believe that while discourse will only keep blading stronger by challenging the norm, there is a certain kind of talk in the sport that needs to end. It seems that as rollerblading stands on the cusp of its own revolution, there is a divide against those who believe things should be one way and those accepting of what is.
What does our sport need the most? A little common sense.
Blading is strong because of passionate, hard-working people that prove themselves on a regular basis. People outside the industry — corporations, skateboarders, haters — can’t diminish us and that’s been proven repeatedly.
However, the only way blading will die is from suicide. The rumor-spreading, in-fighting, name-calling, back-stabbing and general lack of disrespect needs to go. Constructive criticism needs to remain strong so we all know where each and every one of us can improve, but when we stop seeing ourselves as a connected brotherhood then we all will tire and forget why we began skating in the first place.
This year can see the return of blading in larger numbers but only due to hard work and perseverance. It will go nowhere but fall into oblivion with rumors, hate, and disrespect.
Create Originals is throwing it down in the frames arena by unleashing a ton of pro frames for their ever expanding team of exceptional riders.
Seriously their team is stacked and if you need to see why… watch a bunch of them kill it in the Truth 2 DVD. Major props to a new frame company stirring things up and doing it exactly how they feel it should be done.
Billy O’Neill, Colin Kelso, Sean Kelso, Austin Paz (Amall Team Rider), Chris Farmer, Alex Broskow, Mark Wojda, Franco Cammayo and John Bolino!
I stumbled across this today somehow and knew I had found my bail for the week… I know that the cell phone camera is terrible, but all you need for this one is the audio. You ever heard of a blood curdling scream? Or some one screaming bloody murder? No? Well, this is what that sounds like.
I know most of you may have seen this, but we had to re-post it anyways. Basically Amall team rider ‘Sneaky’ submitted this little gem of an edit to Razors. In this short edit Sneak throws down and brings you some never before seen ‘COMBOS’ so enjoy!
If you haven’t met Dre at aMALL or on the Be-Mag message boards as Paco Ass Dre, you will quickly realize that he’s an all around good guy that gets along with everyone from all walks of life. Dre truly enjoys every aspect of aggressive skating (except too much park) and is a great skater to have working here at aMALL.
Here’s a new fun edit he dropped with his buddies Kirk, Shawn, Elijah, Mike, Craig Warner, Not Dre and possibly Ace Sanders. Enjoy!
Making their debut at BCSD 10, the Flannels nearly flew out of our booth. Now the few that remain are on the site now. Cop yourself one in either blue or charcoal - OR HOW ABOUT BOTH! here.
After 3 years of testing and development Remz presents its latest masterpiece, the brand New ChrisHaffey Signature 2.0.
The skate was entirely rethought by Chris Haffey who personally put a multitude of samples through the test to meet his high expectations.
Style-wise Chris takes it back to the days when he began riding Remz. The skate features the classic color scheme reminiscent of the first Remedy, a fresh low cut skin, a redesigned rear lacing system, and strong hockey laces giving the skate a distinctive and athletic look. “When you’re rocking these they look like mid-top shoes, looks super sick!” says Chris.
Technically speaking the Haffey2.0 introduces Remz’ new concept of High Resilience (HR) skin giving optimum control & foot support, as well as a redesigned Remz liner offering an even more precise & accurate all around fit with a new ergonomic insole & a softer shock absorber. “It sucks your foot in there and keeps it right where it needs to be so you’re in complete control at all times”.
The ChrisHaffey 2.0 features Chris’ own V-cut + strap setup, with the optional buckle included in the box, GC FTL2 frames and new Chris Haffey 4×4 wheels.
As a reflection of Chris, The Remz Chris Haffey Signature skate blends superior technique and progressive style. Freedom-of-feet approved.
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