Issue #5 Vol. 1 Spring 2018
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EatTheBologna By Scott Morton
Issue 5 Vol. 1 Spring 2018
Content • Jaren Day
Skating twice as nice the 2nd time
Build it and we will shred it
A session in the People’s Republic
An eye for paintings and tricks
• Valley Center Skate Spot • A China Adventure • Loius Farace
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Matt Erlandson Nollieflip Photo: C. Nunez
EatThe
Bologna far East
words: Scott Morton
“Wow China looks amazing, I wish we could go.” “Let’s
do it.” “Ok.” And next thing I knew we were in the process of getting our Visa’s and booking rooms in Shanghai. I had never traveled out of the country and Had never even traveled with my traveling partner Josh Holtz before, but we had been on missions for tricks, how different from getting a trick could China be?
Scott Morton Crook
I think because China is so far away, so exotic, so out of this world that it seemed unattainable. I didn’t think that 2 unsponsored old guys could go. I thought you had to have Nike send you or something. Nope, it was painless and easy to get everything in order.
The spots are amazing. Its more than I can even describe because it is just overwhelming the number of perfect marble ledges, low round rails, little marble hubbas, small stair sets, banks. In a way you become desensitized to it because if you stopped at every spot that could be rated as 4 stars you would never get to the 5-star spots. We wandered aimlessly just letting whim take us to the next spot. It might have been a better idea to use a map and try to find some real places, but the freedom of just pushing over the marble sidewalks through the people was amazing. The people are fun. If it is crowded for spots it is even more crowded for people. As 2 white guys with skateboards we caught lots of stares and I saw lots of people filming us and taking pictures with their phones tilted trying to be sly. Even with all the staring eyes I never felt in danger of violence or robbery, the people were just genuinely curious. Most of our interactions with security were just them looking at us and watching, just seeing what the hell we were doing. I only learned to say “hello” and “Thank you” but was able to get by with pointing, smiling, or shaking my head. The face I saw on most of the faces was laughter and excitement at us skating by. For every event that was fun and easy, it was still a world away from the California I am at home in. It’s the unimportant things at first, drinks are not served cold and all the water has bubbles in it. Then I started noticing more things that were odd. Out in the streets there were no middle-aged people, everyone was old or very young. All the middle-aged people must be working. The grandparents carrying their
little grandchildren around would have them wearing essentially a hospital smock so that the child could go poop in the bushes when needed. All the public parks smelled like piss and the corners often has human feces in them. We took a train from Shanghai to Beijing and in the country, there were rivers filled with trash, where people had taken the trash from their house and thrown it over the wall and let it wash away. There were whole apartment complexes, with seven or eight 30-story buildings half finished, mountains of concrete bags soaked into a solid mass by the rain. Filth does not equal a bad time. I’m sure a trip to New York or London would have left me just as disgusted. Huge masses of people leave huge messes, but in China those messes are on top of a wonderland of skateboarding. We hardly even scratched the surface in almost 2 weeks there. We plan on going back with legs ready for the journey because by the halfway point our legs were dead from the all the pushing around. Airplane legs were killing me and they felt like Jello the whole time. If you want to go to China, do it. There is very little holding you back from visiting one of the most amazing places to be a skateboarder, and I don’t know if it will always be as open to letting us chip up their perfect marble. After making a mission to skate across the world, all the missions local seem a bit easier. Get out there and make it happen.
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Name, Age, location: Jaren Paul Day, 28 years old, we are at Vista skatepark. Where are you from?
Clairmont, San Diego. Grew up on Governor Dr. went to high school with a bunch of the sk8mafia dudes. Grew up skating with them What is your favorite skate video that you grew up watching?
Honestly its probably going to be In Bloom, there is just so much tech. What’s your favorite part in it? Its hard to say, Mikey Taylor or P-rod. That did it for me, that is what stepped up skateboarding for me. It is almost what made me stop skating and also made me want to progress unfortunately.
So you stopped skating at one point, tell me about that. Yeah, I stopped skating for about 10 years. 10 years!? That’s a long time, what did you do? I just focused on making money, getting girls, just being young. So, what made you want to get back into skating? So, going back to why I stopped, I just saw all my homies Tyler, and Wes, and Marius and all those dudes taking off and getting sponsored and I just kind of got left behind. They started going on skate trips and stuff, so I just got bummed and started doing my own thing, hanging out with dudes who didn’t skate. But I got back into because my son turned 2 and I thought “fuck it dude, I wanna be able to keep up with him when he starts skating.” And that just sparked it back, I was like “Oh shit dude, I forgot how much I love this how did I stop” Were there any tricks you couldn’t do when you were younger that you could when you started skating again? Everything dude, everything. Because when I stopped skating it was before I had a growth spurt or anything. So, I was jumping down stairs, that was like what I did. I was like Andrew Reynolds, my favorite skater, all I wanted to do was kickflip and frontside flip everything, so I would go to a spot and ollie it, 180 it, kick flip it, frontside flip it and Id be done. I could Nollie half cab and switch flip kind of, but it was like mob switchfip. So once you had a growth spurt… So I started sating again when I was like 24 and it was like a whole nother world. It was only tech, that was all I wanted to do. I wanted to skate ledges, it was like the complete opposite. I would try to jump off something and it would hurt so much, so I would go skate some ledges and I would learn a new trick every time and have a blast. So I just stuck with ledges, and that’s kind of where it’s been the last few years. What are some new videos you’ve been into? I mean obviously Joslin is ridiculous, all the stuff he does is super entertaining to watch. Kenny Anderson, that’s the OG right there I love watching him skate, anything he does is legend. Other then that mostly just the homies. Watching mike do pretzels and June do mannys. Wes being a style monster, Tyler being the switch god, little tom being the transition master. Shout out to skateboarding, stoked I got back into it!
jaren
Jaren Day Backside Flip
“It was amazing trying to make everything come together and flow, because we used to have a box right there and it had no flow, people would run into it. So we just worked with it. We all came together and created a perfect little box jump. Kinda like Washington street but a little better. More flowy. We take it from other DIY’s. I love floating over that. The new feature makes everything come together. Makes it easier to hit the big wall.” -Daymien Hertenstien, about the new tabletop he is seen here tossing a shifty over.
Brian Hastings Frontside Flip
Vincent Milou Wallride
Willy Santos Fakie thruster
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Joe Marshall
Ride to this shit Somehow the first time I heard this album It didn’t hype me up, which is strange because it is pure hype all the way though. Each song thives in simplicity. “Santana’s Town” just repeats a clip of someone saying DIPSET as the beats stutters and starts over again and again. It sounds like music that needs to played louder than the speakers can play it. The rapping isn’t even good gibberish lines like“They ther Paparazzi/We the loudest possee/ Kamakazie, Nazi Nazi. Copy Papi?” No Juelz I do not comprendo but That doesn’t even matter because I’m jumping out of my chair to that Heatmakerz production. There is something aggressive in
Juelz Santana - From Me to U (2003) the casual way each song is rapped that reminds me of Miles Silvas. Calm and casual presentation just containing an explosive power and energy. Roll away with your head down. Dipset Dipset Dipset.
Matt Erlandson
LOUIS FARACE Name, location: Louis Farace, San Marcos,CA How many years have you been skating? Painting? I’ve been skating for 20 years. I’ve done art my whole life but only recently started painting Fav skatepark in SD? Favorite park would have to be Alga. PQ park is fun too Fav video part of the past 5 years Reynolds in Stay Gold. Was that more than 5 years ago?
(Stay Gold was released in 2010) Any favorite skate graphics? I like all the Slave graphics. And Zero too. The crazier the better. Best after-session food spot? In n Out Watch out for Mindless 2 coming very soon!!
Matt Erlandson Backside Powerslide
209 N.Coast Highway , Oceanside CA.
Scott Morton Frontside Crook Photo: Holtz
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The Birdhouse premiere of Saturdays in Encinitas was exactly what I want to see at a premiere. Not packed, not too partied out, video played on time, everyone could see it and the skating was amazing. I must be getting less jaded or something because Saturdays was a wonderful time. People in skateboarding like to act like they don’t get shocked by seeing pros and don’t fan out. I am the exact opposite of that calm persona. I get excited, maybe a little loud, I’ve caught myself exclaiming “IS THAT DAEWON SONG???” a little bit louder then I meant to say. This one was packed with A-list skateboard celebrities and the fan girl in me was screaming. I recognized most of the people there and my fan girl inside me was giddy. Maybe it’s because he is 6 feet tall and impeccably dressed but Tony Hawk looks like the man running the show, which he is I guess. Before the video started Tony got up on stage and gave a short speech about why Birdhouse made a full length. Tony has seen plenty of amazing tricks in dozens of different styles but what made him want to make a video was seeing all the team skate together, and the camaraderie he saw. “There was something I saw that was much more special than the demos, or getting things are street spots. It was almost a family dynamic.” Tony said, “There was this energy there that I just that was more important than anything I had seen in a long time.”
Think about how many teams Tony has been on. Bones Brigade in the 80’s, Birdhouse during The End, these are some of the most iconic teams that were on the same page starting together. It isn’t about the tricks, it’s about catching that magic when you are skating with your friends any trick is possible. Skateboarding can feel robotic and over planned, that feeling Tony is talking about is one of the greatest in not just skateboarding but in life. There is a section of the video that isn’t in anyone’s part but captures this moment perfectly. They are skating a massive Hubba down a 5 block. The ledge is taller than Raybourn is to get onto. The whole team is there and Clint is wading waist deep into sewage slush to get boards out of the water, it is a full mission. Clive and Shawn Hale are both jumping on the Hubba and Jaws is jumping down the gap. You can just feel the electricity in the air. Each time one of them sticks it you can see the others just getting more pumped. Individually I don’t think any of them would have been able to do the tricks, but with the whole team there hyping everything they were all able to get their makes on that massive skate high. It’s something I wish more videos could portray because it is magic. The rest of the video was enjoyable as well. Shawn Hale really stood out with a fantastic trick selection and spot choice, a major standout that I will be remembering for a while. Jaws has some flip tricks that impress because I’m so used to seeing him fold into a ball and fall from the sky. Tony even has a full part full of memorable moments. Clint and Clive are both ridiculously good and love em or hatem they are doing it big. They remind me of skateboarding’s “good ole southern boys”; Clive looks straight up out of an 80’s southern rock band and Clint has a crazed stare like Nebuchadnezzar by Blake. The skits are mercifully short and mostly clever. It was nice to see Tony use his pocketbook and name to get some real actors in. There is a Trailer Park Boys one and it is fantastic. It was all people that the skaters obviously were fans of so each one was special. Even though I think there was one body varial and Clint did a no-comply or two into a handrail, it was completely devoid of anything trendy. Saturdays felt good. The small premiere in Tony’s hometown with family and friends probably helped, but there was a lot of love for skateboarding going on. Friends having fun playing on these skateboards, and even when it is as serious as a 20 stair, it’s still a ton of fun. Fun doesn’t have to confined to a red curb or Instagram, fun can be had in a full length off a room too.
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