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it’s raining

happybattle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:55:25 +0000

hey its raining!!

Congratulations to Jason!

happybattle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:12 +0000

Congratulation to OPEN skater Jason Park. he won the Hawaii stop on the Element 2010 International series.. he will be flow to cali later this year again all the other winners. he will slay it for sure.

OWLs are designed to kill

happybattle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:49:04 +0000

we got a new product in at OPEN hq. check it out, and pick up one via the website!

www.openskateboards.com

rehabing getting psyched!

happybattle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:26:45 +0000

ok rehab seems to be going good. though i’m pushing it. going all out!
to help, got to watch awesome skate clips. so here are some selects.

friends: lesque

happybattle — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:15:40 +0000

homies across the big pond, Lesque. have a set of new decks designed by OPEN designer Ian Lynam.
check em out.

priceless

happybattle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:27 +0000

there are a lot of part in a skateboard, that a lot of people don’t talk about. mainly hardware. there is a product i love endlessly, that no one talks about. what are they?

Dooks shock pads. you find them under the riser pad section. but they are not riser pads. they are soft. so once you bolt down properly. these guys may.. MAY add a 16th of an inch.
what do they. once i started using them. i don’t get vertical stress cracks anymore. witch has lead to longer board life, and longer pop life.
there is no other option, so i can’t compare dooks to anything else. they smoosh under my truck. i don’t notice them. and stress cracks around my trucks are gone.

a good stocking stuffer to say the least.

the department

happybattle — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:51:31 +0000

i’m a pretty banged up person. who isn’t who skateboards. i went to the dept. of skateboarding in PDX this evening. its mostly wood.. with graniet ledges. the few. and some serious steps. like the big three. being someone who only started skating again in nyc, last winter. skateparks are something i have never known. its weird. i don’t get the flow. it seems to be best suited for people who spend the most time there. verse just general skating. if your use to that wedge to gap, your use to it. i had to take my stacks. (witch are getting painfull cause i keep falling on the same knee, and lets not even talk about my foot!) and i feel dumb and stupid.
the feeling in the park is its less dangerous and safer. and you can rip all the time. when a park is totally new. this is not the case. atleast for me. i went in with confiendence, and by the end was well shook up. because of my bad foot. i couldn’t trust my pop. witch only lead to slams. witch only lead to less trust in my pop. and etc. on it goes. im not saying parks are bad. but right now. they are not as relaxing as a solid street spot. but i’ll be back. and i’ll win.

by the way. the guys at cal’s pharmacy are great. what an awesome small shop.

away

happybattle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:53:50 +0000

i’ve lived in the same place for so long. being someplace new with no tour guide is more alien then all my times i’ve flown in to japan. i dont get the NW culture, and people can just tell im from out of town. and, im lost, all the time.

i went to cal’s pharmacy, witch i guess is different then cal’s skate shop.
but cal’s pharm, and the dept. of skateboarding is really close to where i am staying. so i am sure i will be there a lot.

portland, in just 2 days of biking, seems like spots for miles. from gnarly, to just small manny pads. i am sure people would say the same about nyc. probably something in knowing the area, and how people react.

i hate being in a new place. but once i get my bearings i love it. so here’s to hope. oh, and maybe i can score some tribute rain drop 53s. ha.

are we getting fat?

happybattle — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:02:54 +0000

not me. you think i would just sitting for 6 weeks. but i don’t work like that. anyways. no, whats getting fat are our skateboards! and its not subtle. even i put on some .10th of an inch.
i don’t know a single person who hasn’t gone up a size in skateboards decks. when i started the year, it seemed like most people i knew skated on 7.6″ wide skateboard decks. 7.6s were pluntifull and we were all happy. now. not even a year later. most companies are only releasing maybe one 7.6 model, and many 8 + inch decks. and people seem to be loving it. what happened? feb.. 7.6s and skinny low trucks. now. 8″ and wide hi trucks. skate videos don’t seem to be any different, though most videos have been shot over the last couple years. not this summer. so whats happened? why is this happening? i know i was more “comfortable” moving up to the 7.75″. and i get that from other people on the 8″. but, i don’t really know. why did you change deck size. and don’t be telling me. “oh, i always have ridden 8″s”..

delays

happybattle — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:48:24 +0000

where am i? (i don’t need a screw yet) here i am. my foot is still broken. really close to having to have a screw put in. ewwww.
open sk wise. we are still waiting on sougwens deck to get done. then they will go out to distro, and so forth. otherwise, we are working on custom bolts, tshirts, and lots of stickers!
a small web update has happened. but its small to say the least. since my foot is broken, not much is happening. and i am shooting all my film analog. so once i finish off my last roll. the i can make a full report on itoshin from lesque skateboards short visit to nyc. maybe i’ll have some new stuff to post!! keep staying in touch.. we’ll get this shit rolling sooner then later

its michigan for me

happybattle — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:32:33 +0000

so im off to charlevoix MI for a week. the closest “city” is traverse city. witch is funny.
anyways. well i’ll mostly just be chilling. i will feel the need to skateboard. can’t go a week. impossible.
so i did some research. and found this video from traverse city skateshop called “downtown”.

if anyone knows of any place to go skate, or wants to go skating. hit me up. i can’t drive.. so im at the will of my feet.

project BW video

happybattle — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:25:05 +0000

the guys at project bushwick just put up a clip of skating, from over the last month.
do check it out.

3hirty7even from Jonathan Shepardson-Legere on Vimeo.

did powell have fun?

happybattle — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:10:05 +0000

so powell’s new video “fun!!” is available for all who wish to pay the entrance fee. i didn’t, but got to watch it anyways. i don’t know really who run’s it now. is it still peralta? powell? i dunno. the cooperate self makes the whole thing a wash. their powell, powell peralta, mini logo, bones, and more. anyways, in many ways, here’s a great example of, your only as good as the foot you put forward. do nothing, and, thats that. powell at least made the correct turn at the intersection. they got a bunch of young skaters, and went filming. coming up with a mixture of modern tech, ledge/lip tricks, and hugh drops & gaps. nothing to be scoffed at here really, skateboard wise IMO. equally as good as any of the other big videos that have come out recently. just with out the name recognition. but, thats also the biggest problem.
i mean, why care other then its powell.. and what has powell done for anyone recently. other then make great bearings, and bushings, and various stuff like that. powells current art direction aims from not good. to down right horrible.
as an old man army skater. the sound track has some good points, with 80s pop hits playing through a 3rd of the video. how did they license vanhalen?
it’s possible, the total lack of the art concept is an art concept. but thats sorta like arguing you used the color red because it was the color red, and not because you liked it more then blue, etc.

ok ok, anyways. so the vid got me psyched up on powell. i was like. yeah powell! i wonder what kinda decks you have. hey! cool ligament tech! straps of carbon, good concept, blabla. oh hai. our boards are ugly as sin, and our 2 pro models look like they may have literally been done by the skater in question.
shit. im off topic.

if you must watch a lot of skateboard video. then this is a must given powells skateboard video history. and their is a plunty a good time, and big tricks. what it lacks in style (a complete loss off), it makes up for in big tricks, and some bombastic (yeah i said it) skateboarding. at worse, borrow it, and think. hey, powells not half bad. but remember to return it. cause thats weak. the perma-borrow.

via: raw X matt tanner

happybattle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:33:02 +0000

woah! from new fresh shit from RAW. you got to check it.

skateboarding day: who to rep?

happybattle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:53:40 +0000

go skateboarding day is coming up. i will buy a new board for said occasion. who should i rep? i say hopps.. what do you think. the most votes win. thats who i’ll rep.

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