(and babes of course)
There's been some serious kickflippin' going down this past week.
Y'all are gonna have to bear with me on this blog lag and the fact that I'm consolidating a big week of K.F.A. (that's kickflip action) into one all inclusive blog. 'All inclusive' means that I, as Captain Stubing of the Krux blog, will be paying for your mai tais and prime rib as we creep this hog on down to lovely Puerto Vallarta. Hey Gopher, why don't you mix us up a couple and lets get this baby started.
Hmmm...
where to start?
Should I start with the new world record? Nah, lets go back in time a little and figure out how we got there. Just like a movie...
Wait a second. I just opened up the Strangenotes page and saw that my man Larson has been fully on top of the bloggage and as excited as I was to see how long I could make a single blog, the simple fact is that the info is already up and probably doesn't need to be done twice. Lars, homeboy, with your sense of humor, I could think of no one better.
But you know what? I really liked my Love Boat intro so I'm just going to lead this into a quick recap of this past week.
Maybe I'm not so "Stubing" after all. Maybe I'm more like Julie McCoy, the cruise director. Sort of concierge or majordomo...fine with me as long as I can keep telling Gopher to make the drinks.
Quick Recap:
Well last week Magnus Borderwick blew minds by reaching 508. Check his picture down below (way below). If homie popped and caught all his flips like that I'm totally impressed cause I've seen a lot of people roll that thing over like a dachsund that wants his belly scratched. But I ain't hatin...
So, I know you're thinking "Wow. 508 is a lot of kickflips!" Yes it is.
I guess it took him about an hour and 40 minutes.
Get this man a Green Tea! Actually I don't know what they drink in Norway. When I think of Norway I think of the other Antarctic camp in The Thing. In which case maybe we could get Kurt Russel to flow Magnus a little of that J+B before he pours it into his chess simulator.
Wait, I may have strayed from my initial topic. Oh dear. Where was I...
Oh yeah, did you know they were thinking of remaking The Thing. I hope this outrages you as much as me cause its total b.s.. Can't we just leave the gems alone people? Don't even digitally enhance it so Greeo shoots first. Just insert the VHS tape back in its cardboard sleeve and put it back on the video store shelf in all its intended 80's glory.
By the way, this is still my quick recap.
Magnus' victory was strongly earned but unfortunately all things must come to an end, and since its kickflip season, that end came about a week later.
It was only fitting that the kickflip record should return to Southern California, where the kickflip was born!
Actually I can't confrim that so cal is the birthplace of the kickflip. Somebody get Rodney Mullen on the horn and find out where he made them up. I think he's from Florida so the kickflip could easily be Eastern bred.
Oh and by the way, thank you Rodney for making up most of the street tricks we do.
Know your history, kids.
Not only was Magnus' record beaten but it was beaten twice. At one kickflip challenge! Chris Demendoza came through with a whopping 563 kickflips just beating Josh Pantoja who had 535.
Man, its rough out there. Go Whittier!
Yeah I said 'whopping'.
Look below for more details about these indiviual events.
Ok, that's the recap. What have we learned? Lets recap that recap.
-Kickflips: good
-Remakes of cinematic gems: bad
-Thank you Rodney
OK, enough of the hearsay and recaps of things. I'm here to tell you a story from first hand experience. The fabulous Louie Barletta and myself went back east to check out some of these kickflip challenges ourselves. We met up with Jason Forrest. NHS representative, kickflip challenge emcee and closet wakeboard master.
Traveling with Sweet Lou is always a treat. Since I was the only other Krux dude coming out my name was on some of the flyers but I did'nt mind cause Louis is #1 on Transwolrd's exposuremeter (a marketing boner-meter) and it was apparent his coverage surge was paying off with all the kids who rushed him to sign their Louie trucks and Enjoi boards.
Our first stop was New Generation in Easely South Carolina. We got out the car straight to shredding this plywood mini they got out back. Literally shredding splinters outta that baby. It was HAF (hot as f#ck) and slow but somehow a perfect warm up. Some of the kids figured out where we were lurking out back and started to trickle out.
Lou's amazing. He'll be fooling around then out of the blue he'll blow your mind. I think he blew some minds on tha plywood mini when he snagged a perfect frontside blunt to frontside flip in. Savage.
The park inside was really good and the homies were shredding. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Kickflip Challenge and we hung out and had some hot dogs with the skaters.
Wes, Casey, Mical Swett and the homies took to a lovely dinner and night on the town. There was talk of a day on the lake for our day off. When 10am rolled around the next morning it was HAF and we were thrashed. The lake sounded lovely.
We never got breakfast. Wait, that's a lie. Casey hooked us up a couple of Otter Pops and from then on it was Yeungling's and Mad Dog...all day.
Lake Keowee was amazing. Wes was the first up on the wakeboard and nearly had some savage 360's. Forrest was killing that thing as well but I'd say the big shocker was Lou's secret wake skills. He got up on that thing 2nd try and was cruising. 3rd go he jumped wake to wake about 5 feet in the air. He took a beatin but also eanred the nickname Havasu Lou.
We busted out the innertube and took turns trying to murder each other via slingshot. Wes' boat kicks ass and it was super fun to drive. Some of us drank the lake water, others had their sinuses flushed with it. Brews were shot gunned. Faces were burned. And the day was a success. Big thanks to Wes, Casey and Melanie for the day on the lake!
The next day we went to Verical Urge and flips were kicked. Marky Clements shreds and local flipper named Ron took the KFC. Todd took us out to sushi and it was another fun time. Vertical Urge is a fun park that has AC so it wasn't HAF and we could let our sunburned faces take a day off.
Our last Kickflip Challenge was in Frederick Maryland for Pit Crew. It was a big turnout with grown shredders busting kicklips 2 feet off the flatground. We got to skate a lovely cement park and it was another fun day in the sun.
Wow. I really feel like the excitment in my story fizzeled out somewhere after that recap of the recap. I need some imagery to get amped.
That did it. Now I need to post the names and results of the east coast KFC winners....
