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12 Hot Summer Buys From B-Day Bashes to Backyard BBQs

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Skateboarding in California

Brodie Chaboya Set to Launch Black Cards Pete Wentz’s New Path

Stand Up Paddle Boarding on Lake Natoma Green Lantern Summer Blockbuster?

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summer, obviously Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com 100-degree days have finally arrived and I am loving it! Summer is finally starting to feel like, well, summer.

A large portion of this issue is actually dedicated to the warmest season of the year. First off, we have our front cover story on 31-yearold Brodie Chaboya, who last year acquired Launch Wakeboard School.

Chaboya’s one true passion, wakeboarding, still plays a substantial role in his day-to-day life. On page 18, read about how he went from loving the sport as a child to teaching lessons for a living on Folsom Lake and the Delta.

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Something that is making (concrete) waves this summer is a new exhibit at the California Museum, Riding Concrete: Skateboarding In California. It opens on July 2 and runs until March 24, 2012 so you have plenty of time to go see it, but why wait? Summer is the perfect time to hit a museum and escape the heat for a few hours. On page 24 you can read our interview with the show’s curator, legendary Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, co-star of the 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z- Boys.

He tells us how he got involved with the exhibit and even gives us a great, albeit brief, history lesson on the sport of skateboarding.

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Trust me, this issue is packed with ideas of things you can do this summer around Sacramento. It doesn’t stop after learning where you can take wakeboard lessons or a suggested day at a museum. On page 6 you can find great tips from Submerge on how to touch, taste, see and hear things that clearly encompass summer in our region. Things like Stand Up Paddle Board classes and guided food and cultural walking tours!

And nothing says summer like watching a Hollywood blockbuster, especially one that is a comic book film adaptation, whether at the drive-in or movie theater. As reviewed on page 26 by comic book n3rd/senior editor, James Barone, he informs us what to expect from Green Lantern. While it doesn’t sound mind-blowing, a whole bunch of aliens whooping ass on a giant space monster does sound entertaining nonetheless. Plus it stars Ryan Reynolds.

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One thing that people, including myself, like to do in the summer is shop! Whether you’re looking for something for yourself or need to get someone a birthday present, wedding presents or whatever, get some ideas and inspiration from our Hot Summer Buys List starting on page 12. Most of the items can be found locally, but there were just a few things that can be found online that we just had to include, like the 40-ounce American Flag Beer Cozy—fuck yeah!

And of course summer wouldn’t be the same without outdoor concerts and all the great acts touring through. Enjoy those hot nights with some live music, people. Check out our extensive music calendar on page 20—it will leave you with plenty of options for some live ear candy.

One pre-4th of July show/party option is Black Cards at District 30.

Black Cards is a duo consisting of Pete Wentz (bassist/lyricist for Fall Out Boy) and Bebe Rexha (a youthful, until-now unknown singer from Staten Island, N.Y.). The Black Cards show was confirmed just days before going to press and with a slight shuffle of features and awesome management and publicist interaction, we were fortunate enough to get a last-minute interview with Wentz despite him being overseas at the time. Please read our feature on page 8.

The newest member of our team, Mariah Schoppman, is hitting the streets for our “Capital Capture” column documenting what she sees people wearing around town, all while finding themes within the photographs she has taken. This column was started by former long-time contributor Josselin Basaldu, who is now making her way to New York City. In this issue, Schoppman does a great job of capturing a particular style of footwear that aerates those toes: sandals! Check out all the different pairs she captured on page 10.

I mentioned Josselin Basaldu is moving to the Big Apple. We at Submerge would like to truly thank her for all her hard work over the past three years. She’s worn many hats, from regularly writing “Refined Tastes” to taking photos for our “Capital Capture” column and so much more. In between all that, she even gave advertising sales a good run for us. It’s extremely hard to find someone as talented and responsible as Josselin. She will be dearly missed around the office, even by our office dog Panda, but we are all very excited to see her follow her dream. Best of luck to her and we can’t wait for her to come back this December to celebrate at our 100th issue party (more on that later)!

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Prince makes a stand against Piracy Brad Fuhrman

Prince is giving you an ultimatum. If you ever want him to record again, you have to promise not to burn his songs. The pop icon is fed up with low regulations on music piracy and also has a disdain for digital music in general. In an interview with The Guardian, Prince compared the ability of fans to obtain music online to the “gold rush” and a “carjacking.”

He also raised concerns about the sound quality of digital music. To fight the problem, Prince says he will not release any more music until regulations stiffen. If you’re dying for a Prince fix, the artist will still be playing live shows.

If you thought Stephen Colbert was just a latenight funnyman, how wrong you were. The Comedy Central talk show host just concluded a week of music-related Colbert Report episodes. To cap the week, Colbert performed his own song, “Charlene II (I’m Over You).”

The performance wasn’t hastily thrown together, either. The song, produced by Jack White of The White Stripes and featuring the goth group The Black Belles, is a sequel to Colbert’s first attempt, “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You).” The song is already up on iTunes and will soon be available for purchase as a 7-inch single.

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Veteran rock band Phish is still full of energy and has plans to head back to the studio this winter to record. The band, which started playing together in 1983, has been enjoying a summer tour and starts a three-day New York event July 1. Along with the band’s own hits, Phish has been performing covers of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen songs. But singer Trey Anastasio says the band is ready for a new project and pegs late 2011 as the start date. The band members may take time off after recording for family reasons, but for now, they’re loving the tour. “Music has always been my protection against the world,” Anastasio told Rolling Stone.

“I feel safe inside of a jam.”

Nearly everyone wants to get on a track with rapper Lil Wayne, even teen heartthrob Justin Bieber. Unfortunately, Justin, the feeling is not mutual. Wayne told XXL magazine that Bieber texts him every night, trying to convince the rapper to work with him on a single. No dice. “That’s my little homie now,” Wayne told XXL. “But I can’t do it…I don’t want to fuck his shit up.” Fans of Wayne are probably happy to hear the news. Not because they don’t like Bieber (maybe), but because now Wayne can focus on his own album, Tha Carter IV. The new disc, originally scheduled for a May release, will now come out on Aug. 29 as Wayne develops new music.

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In late April, Red Bull and Oakley collaborated on a first-of-its-kind event in San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza called Ride + Style. More than 5,000 people gathered on a picturesque Bay Area afternoon to watch some of the world’s top fixed-gear bikers on a unique course made up of obscure, unconventional ramps and features that were more like pieces of art. In fact, well known area artists like Erik Otto, Aaron De La Cruz, Nate Van Dyke and Arlo Eisenberg all put their marks on the ramps, creating a collision of urban contemporary art with fixed-gear bicycling culture.

The event was a major success, and afterwards the ramps and features were split up: half went to Ryan Nyquist, who is using them in San Jose for the Police Athletic League, and half came here to Sacramento’s McClatchy Park. Councilmember Jay Schenirer and Terry Cox of College Cyclery are largely responsible for getting the ramps here to Sacramento, but they got tons of help from other people involved in the local bike scene like Kris Fay (who runs Lockedcog.com, a popular fixed-gear blog) and the guys from Pedal Hard, a rad little bike shop at 17th and T streets, as well as many others. The ramps and features wound up being rebuilt by volunteers in McClatchy Park (located at 3500 5th Avenue) in the old, unused tennis courts.

“It’s been a pretty decent mix of BMX and fixedgear-freestyle riders,” said Tom Johnston of Pedal Hard, who’s spent a couple evenings at the park since it opened last Saturday, June 18. “It was cool that two bike shops came together for the good of the community,” he said. The bike park is open for free use to bikers of all kinds from sunrise to sunset all summer long. It’s technically a trial run, but hopefully the ramps will remain permanently.

“If it goes smooth, it will stay,” Johnston said of the park. Either way, this is a great thing for local BMX and fixed-gear-freestyle bicyclists and for the community in general, as kids, teens and adults alike now have another fun, outdoor option of things to do this summer. High-fives to all involved in making this happen!

July’s Second Saturday is sure to be nuts, the weather is heating up and art galleries all around town are starting to step up their game. One standout show to look for is Flash Rules Everything Around Me at Phono Select (2312 K Street), a collection of a couple-dozen tattoo inspired watercolor paintings from Big Chuck, Chris Hampton and Liz Miller, all of whom work at Relentless Tattoo (1422 28th Street, Suite C). “One day it literally just popped into my head out of nowhere,” Big Chuck recently told Submerge of the witty name for the show. “I like things a little tongue-in-cheek,” he joked. There will be an “opening reception and hang session” on July 9 starting at about 6 p.m. Stop in, shoot the shit, check out some incredible paintings and maybe even buy one for your apartment or house to spruce things up a bit.

Lose a venue, gain a venue? The new Bows and Arrows vintage boutique/gallery/café officially has their entertainment permit now, so they can add “venue” to the list of their credentials. Expect awesome shows in the not-so-distant future.

Speaking of venues, Facebook was abuzz last week with rumors about Old Ironsides not hosting live music anymore. At first it seemed like nobody had really gotten the story straight, but it sounded like Old I’s PA system, which they rent, is being pulled and people were speculating about them not replacing it. Then Old Ironsides posted on Thursday, June 23 on their Facebook page: “Just to clarify again… we are still holding live music at our venue. There will just be a period of time where we are in between sound systems.” Promoter Jerry Perry’s final show at Old I, at least for the time being, is scheduled for July 1 with Rademacher (from Fresno), Youth Rescue Mission (from Seattle) and Survival Guide. Anyone got a PA system to kick down?

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Stand Up Paddle Board Classes through Sacramento State Aquatic Center Want to learn the hottest new sport on the water, without finding yourself… ahem…without a paddle? The Sacramento State Aquatic Center wants to help you learn the art of Stand Up Paddle Boarding, made popular by big wave surfer Laird Hamilton and his Hawaiian surfing buddies, via their small group classes offered through the summer at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma. The courses are designed for all skill and ability levels and are great whole-body workouts. Call (916) 278-2842; or visit Sacstateaquaticcenter.com for more info.

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California WorldFest July 14–17 at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds You know summer is officially here when the lineup for the California WorldFest at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds is announced. The event features eight stages of music and dance from around the world, offering attendees a chance to camp out under the Sierras and enjoy great music and food.

This year’s lineup includes some pretty incredible acts, including Americana trio the Railflowers, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience and the AfroCaribbean sounds of Puerto Rico’s Plene Libre. Headliners are India.Arie and Idan Raichel, fresh from their featured performances at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Norway. Advance tickets are available through July 13.

Visit Worldfest.net, e-mail info@worldfest.net or call (530) 891-4098 Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for more info.

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Get the Inside Scoop with a Guided Food and Cultural Walking Tour.

Local Roots Food Tours is giving Sacramento newcomers and natives alike a behind-the-scenes look at the area’s premier foodie hot spots, and throwing in a few cultural tidbits to boot, with their City of Trees Walking Food and Cultural Tour.

On the three-hour tour of downtown and urban areas, “You’ll go behind the scenes, meet the chefs and talk to the proprietors, all while getting a glimpse of Sacramento’s rich history,” according to their website (Local-food-tours.com).

The tour emphasizes local and farm-fresh ingredients used by our very talented artisans. Previous dishes have included Carnaroli risotto with local butternut squash paired with local wine, or mozzarella and basil rolls with stuffed organic tomatoes, just to get your taste buds hoppin’! Bring a friend, a hearty appetite and some comfortable shoes, and experience a foodie tour you won’t forget! $58 includes the tour and the sampling. Visit Local-food-tours.com/culinary-cultural-experience for tour dates and to buy tickets.

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Sacramento River Cats July 2–3 Independence Weekend Celebration at Raley Field What’s more American than cold beer and hot dogs? Cold beer, hot dogs, baseball AND fireworks, all in one shebang! Catch a River Cats game as they host the Tucson Padres at Raley Field and stick around for the spectacular fireworks show on Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3. The game starts at 7:05 p.m. Saturday and 6:35 p.m. Sunday. Tickets range from $7 to $42.

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What’s in the Cards?

Black Cards proves Pete Wentz has many tricks still up his sleeve Words James Barone

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ete Wentz has become synonymous with energetic, slightly emo pop-punk—not that there’s anything wrong with that.

It’s not difficult to understand why. As bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy, Wentz helped pen songs such as “Sugar, We’re Going Down” and “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” that propelled his band’s albums into top 10 rankings on the Billboard charts and garnered the band some hard-earned Platinum. Since 2009, however, Fall Out Boy has been on an indefinite hiatus, leaving Wentz to focus on other things, such as being a label owner, entrepreneur and father. Black Cards is Wentz’s first foray back into music since Fall Out Boy took a vacation, and taking his prior output into consideration, it would logically follow that his new band’s music would be reggae-tinged British-style electro-pop music. Wait…you mean it wouldn’t? Well, I don’t know what to tell you. That’s how this shit works out sometimes.

Wentz started Black Cards out of a desire to do something different. He said in a recent interview with Alternative Press, “I’ve watched people when their bands are on hiatus or whatever it is, and they have the itch to do something, but they don’t really do anything that differently. It makes it all the more easy for people to be like, ‘Well, why doesn’t he just do his [main] band, then?’” But the desire to do something people wouldn’t expect from you and actually pull it off are two entirely different things. Wentz had to go outside himself in order to make it a reality.

The first piece of the Black Cards puzzle was Sam Hollander. A producer and songwriter, Hollander has worked with a wide array of artists from Coheed and Cambria to rap group Arrested Development (he also worked with Gym Class Heroes, who were signed to Wentz’s label Decaydance). Wentz told Submerge that it was Hollander’s encouragement that got him into the studio in the first place postFall Out Boy.

“After FOB went on ‘hiatus’ I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do,” Wentz shared via e-mail. “Sam hounded me to come into the studio over and over, but I thought I wasn’t ready. He just convinced me that even if nothing came out of the process I should have a place to let out my energy. As soon as we got in the studio together, it felt right and Black Cards stemmed from that. Sam’s a good friend who knows how to spark my creative side without me even realizing it.”

This new “spark” urged Wentz down a decidedly different path.

Instead of penning anthemic rock choruses, he was at work creating his take on Jamaican roots reggae mashed up with the electro pop sensibilities of artists like Lily Allen. Under the guise of Black Cards, he said he’d have the freedom to express things he may have not felt comfortable doing with Fall Out Boy. “Well after doing something for a number of years—especially with people watching—things are expected of you, and I really feel FOB fans came to expect those type of lyrics and songs from us,” Wentz said. “With Black Cards I really get to start over, be all over the place and it’s OK. I hope fans just take to that and enjoy something new.”

Lyrically, Wentz was looking to get out of his own head. Fall Out Boy’s lyrics tended to be personal. With Black Cards, Wentz is able to look outside himself, and he said that the experience so far has been liberating.

“It’s fun to escape and just be creative,” he said. “You are always the party and everyone isn’t invited: that’s been a hard concept for me to understand. Sometimes I have to learn to give myself a chance to just be me and not worry so much if everyone else is doing OK.” With a new direction musically and lyrically in place, Wentz needed to find a new voice. Enter unknown Staten Island, N.Y., singer/songwriter Bebe Rexha, whom Wentz heard singing by chance at Hollander’s New York City studio.

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“It just clicked when I heard her singing,” Wentz recalled of his first encounter with the young vocalist. “I told Sam that she’s the one we had to work with.”

Wentz said that Rexha is sort of like his “battery sometimes.” Her youthful energy hasn’t been bogged down by years in the spotlight.

Not only is she a fresh voice for Wentz, but a fresh perspective.

“It’s impossible for her curiosity and excitement about everything not to rub off on me,” Wentz explained. “I definitely feel like the big bro teaching her the ropes and she’s a sponge.”

Writing for a female vocalist also provides Wentz with a new challenge—albeit an enjoyable one.

“Its hard to picture myself outside of my own mind in general,” He said. “It’s especially hard to think as a girl from Staten Island.

It’s been a fun challenge that is different than anything I have ever done.”

As of now, no release date has been set for Black Cards’ debut album. Though the band has unveiled a few songs here and there, including “Club Called Heaven” and its accompanying Bonnie and Clyde style video. Wentz has hinted in the past that the album is done, but it seemed from our correspondence that nothing is entirely set in stone just yet.

“Every day we think we’re finally done and every day we think of a way to make a line or melody better,” he said. “We’re still getting to know each other so we’re constantly finding differently ways to execute a lyric or switch up a beat. We just want to make sure the album is 100 percent what we want it to be so I can’t make any promises on when it’ll come out.”

Even the title is up in the air as Black Cards will play District Wentz said he comes up with a 30 in Sacramento on July 3.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Summer is officially here… At least I think it is. Once upon a time there were four seasons each year, but it looks like summer and winter have finally won the battle for seasonal dominance. Now, we could sit here and lament the loss of spring and fall if you want. We could talk about Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever Republicans don’t want to call it right now, but it’s going to be boring. And who wants to be bored? After all, summer is about one thing: fun.

Take river rafting for example. Sacramento is fortunate enough to have the American River nestled right next to scenic Highway 50. You and an unsafe number of people can rent a raft for a reasonable price and shoot the rapids to your heart’s content. It’s a great way to spend a Saturday and you really only have to worry about three things: make sure you pour your booze into a non-booze container, dunk yourself in sun block and bring something to eat. If you can handle that, you will ensure that your celebration of sun doesn’t turn into a Viking funeral.

If sitting on a raft for four or five hours while eating and drinking too much sounds like a lot of work, take the boat out of the equation and add a grill. That’s right my friends, I’m talking barbecue. It’s our finest American tradition and the reason why

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The ideal barbecue has good friends (hopefully), good beer (better be or I’m not going) and a grill full of delicious meats (get that garden burger the fuck outta here, potna!). The only way to improve upon this trifecta is to add a swimming pool. The only way to ruin that is by throwing someone in said pool with a phone/camera/favorite expensive gadget in their pocket. Remember, in such a situation, the pusher pays for the replacement/repairs. It’s the gentlemanly thing to do.

What if you hate boats, you can’t cook and the only pool you have access to has a 4-foot radius is 10 inches deep and full of kids? Not to fret: Sacramento is one of the few remaining cities that still have waterslides! Now I haven’t been myself in a while, but waterslides used to be the shit. You got the cliffhanger where the girls lose their tops and everyone gets an atomic wedgie. There are the winding tubes where you never know what’s coming until you land on top of someone in the shallow splash pool at the end. If you hate the slides, there is the faux river where you can cruise in an inner tube and watch all your troubles float away. And if none of those sounds like fun, you can drown yourself in the wave pool and

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So in the interest of fun and camaraderie, crack open a cold one.

Drinking beers on patios is a great way to pass the time (it’s also an excellent Facebook group, but I digress…). Beer is always good in my book, but there is something magical that occurs when you sip a frosty brew while lounging in a semi-covered outdoor area. It makes a 105 degree day feel like it’s barely 98.

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Hot To The Touch!

From B-Day Bashes to Backyard BBQs, Submerge Has You Covered With Our Hot Summer Buys List

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ummer is officially here! In Sacramento, temperatures are rising, rivers are raging, pool party invites are popping up and cut-off jean shorts are everywhere. And if you’re anything like us, your summer schedule is full of weddings to attend, backyard barbecues to crash, birthday celebrations to enjoy and with a little luck, maybe even some time to relax. Summer is also a good time to shop (guys—if you have a girlfriend or are married you can attest to this), so we here at Submerge took the time to compile a bunch of rad summer buys found locally (and a few on the interweb). From cute earrings to sandals with a built-in bottle opener, an affordable HD movie projector to an American flag 40-ounce beer cozy, these items will be sure to help make this a summer to remember.

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Thin, light, fits comfortably under your bicycle helmet.

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Fanning Sandal by Reef approx. $50, Swanberg’s

This summer get yourself some sandals by Reef featuring a bottle opener built into the sole. You’ll always be prepared to crack open that next cold microbrew—at least, that is, if you’re still standing. Available for men and women.

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Brodie Chaboya teaching a student

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Every Waking Moment

Brodie Chaboya Spreads His Love of the Sport With Launch Wakeboarding School Words Jonathan Carabba

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here are two words that come to mind after getting to know Sacramento-based wakeboarder Brodie Chaboya during a recent interview that went into the wee hours of the night at Kilt Pub: passion and dedication.

Not only has Chaboya spent half of his lifetime pushing himself to progress in the sport he so desperately loves, he’s also spent countless hours teaching and coaching others, spreading his infectious joy for wakeboarding. Simply put, he is an ambassador of the sport. A self-proclaimed “31-year-old kid,” Chaboya is living the dream, despite getting the occasional, “When are you going to get married?” or, “When are you going to buy a house?” from family members. He’s part of the national-level Hyperlite Wakeboards Legion Team, he manages the NorCal Hyperlite men’s team, he gets to wakeboard behind crazy-awesome boats every day and just last year he purchased the company at which he had previously worked for years, Launch Wakeboarding School. “One of my buddies told me, ‘It’s the American dream, you’ve been working for the company for so long and now you own it. How much more perfect could it be?’” Chaboya smiled, sipped his beer and said, “At this point I really can’t complain, it’s everything I ever wanted to do and so much more.”

Chaboya grew up in San Jose and was bitten by the wakeboard bug early in life. What started out as recreational skiing, kneeboarding and

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tubing with his family on local lakes quickly turned into an obsession. “I was probably about 16,” Chaboya remembers, “And I saw somebody go by on a wakeboard one day, well, back then it was called a ‘ski board,’ and this guy came by and did a back roll or something, just right in front of us. He was just full-on inverted, landed, rode by and I was mesmerized. I said, ‘Mom, I want to do that! I want one of those!’ So the next year I got a wakeboard for Christmas.”

That same year, Chaboya’s father bought a Mastercraft tournament ski boat, a huge step up from the runabout family-style recreational boat he had been riding behind. Now he had the board and the boat, but one critical piece was missing: the inspiration and motivation that can only be brought on from watching professional athletes at work. If you’re going to go skateboarding, you watch a skate video; if you’re going to go snowboarding, you watch a snowboard video; if you’re going to go wakeboarding, you watch a wakeboard video. It’s a ritual. So, Chaboya bought the “most hardcore” video out at that time, Gravity Sucks, which is, to this day, considered a classic among wakeboard enthusiasts. “So I got that video and I watched it every day, I was all stoked and fired up,” remembered Chaboya.

“I still have it to this day on VHS,” he said with a laugh.

From there his passion for the sport skyrocketed—and no longer was it just weekends

that he was itching to go out and ride, it was all the time. Chaboya and one of his closest riding buddies even went all the way to Florida for an intense weeklong wakeboarding camp. “It was a big deal to go to a camp and ride our butts off for a whole week,” Chaboya said. “We had our own private coach, and it was just me and my buddy and our private coach just riding all day, every day. By the third day we were just dead tired. We could barely move. But we came back and we had learned a ton of stuff.”

Through being an all-around ripper on a wakeboard and his job working the pro shop at Cope and McPhetres Marine in Santa Clara, Calif., Chaboya was introduced to a bunch of industry connections, including an HO Skis/ Hyperlite Wakeboards rep by the name of Joe Sassenrath. “I met him while working the shop,” Chaboya said. “He would come in and he was the total cool guy. He’d do demos and stuff, so I’d get to go on those.” Chaboya recalled one particular day where he was riding a board with “the hot new technology at the time” behind Sassenrath’s boat. “I threw down a decent set, rode pretty good, and I get back in the boat and he goes, ‘Hey, you rode really good on that board!’” Impressing Sassenrath with his skills was one thing; impressing him with his work ethic was another. “I started off riding for him and Hyperlite as a local and regional rider. It was basically just getting hooked up with product here and there and I’d go work sales and stuff, Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

Chaboya killing it on the Delta / Photo Andy Guillinta

Chaboya with a young student

whatever I could do. You kind of earn your keep by helping out. If Joe needed help, I was there.”

Chaboya moved to Sacramento in 2001 to attend Sacramento State and kept in close touch with Sassenrath, who lives in Rocklin. Again, the young wake-rat showed his enthusiasm. “I just started working and doing everything I could,” Chaboya said. “I’ve pretty much been his right hand man since then for all the boat shows, wakeboard clinics, demos, sales, everything.” Also while at Sacramento State, Chaboya was re-connected with an old mentor of his, Ryan Fraser, who had helped teach him how to do one of his first inverted tricks way back when Chaboya was coming up. Fraser had started Launch Wakeboard School and was running lessons out of Folsom Lake. Naturally, Chaboya got a job as one of his coaches. “It was a killer gig while going to college, you know, making $12 an hour coaching wakeboarding. I couldn’t have been happier, it was a summer job and I got to ride every day. I was like, ‘Does it get better than this?’” The days were long and hot, though, as the company was booming, being among the top wakeboard schools in the region, maybe even the state. Twelvehour days in 100-degree heat were commonplace in peak season and eventually it wore Chaboya down.

“It was out of control, it was just crazy,” Chaboya remembered. “I couldn’t believe it. It was all day, every day.”

Eventually the two had “a little bit of a falling out” and Chaboya left the company. While he was gone, Fraser sold Launch to another one of Chaboya’s long-time riding buddies, a guy by the name of Ryan Ash, and according to Chaboya, “He just kind of let it go downhill. He just didn’t know what he was doing. He wasn’t the type that would be at the boat shows; he wasn’t in the industry.”

Over the years, Ash would hit up Chaboya here and

there to teach lessons, and he did, but eventually the company, much like the economy, started tanking and Ash just wanted out. “So last winter he was like, ‘Hey man, I’m done. This company fits you perfectly. You should just take it over. I’m done with it, I’m ready to throw it away.’”

Chaboya deliberated and eventually used every dollar he had saved from a gig working for the census and flat-out bought the company, the rights to the website (Launchwakeboarding.com—a site that Chaboya admits is outdated and “oldschool”), and the company phone number, (916) 532-WAKE, a number that tends to ring all day as soon as the sun is out. “By the time I took it over it was mid-June last year and Ash goes, ‘I’m getting calls all day, every day, you can make your money back, it’s ready to go.’” Without regular access to a good boat to coach on, Chaboya spent last season doing private lessons on clients’ boats. “It went great,” Chaboya said of his first summer teaching lessons for the company he now owned. “I was getting busy, but not crazy busy. Busy enough to make my investment back, it was a crazy return on investment. I was stoked. I was just missing the boat thing.”

This year is different thanks to the folks at MB Sports Boats out of Atwater, Calif. hooking up Sassenrath and Hyperlite with a 2011 F21 Tomcat (sounds like some sort of jet but it’s really one helluva wakeboarding boat) that Chaboya has frequent access to. “I told them what I was doing and that I was fully insured as an instructor and

MB was like, ‘We want that boat on the water every day.’” Now Launch Wakeboard School students will not only ride behind a state-of-the-art MB boat (if the Tomcat is preoccupied Chaboya has access to a number of other quality boats), they’ll also receive top-notch instruction from someone who’s been there, done that.

“It’s a whole new level now,” Chaboya said of his recently rediscovered motivation to teach the sport now that the company is his. “I thought I was putting so much into it before, but it was kind of like, after that tenth hour of getting burnt out I probably wasn’t giving it a full 100 percent. Now, it’s like I’m giving it 110 percent every second. I pour my heart and soul into every lesson.”

Most recently, Chaboya has been impressed with two 16-year-old students from Elk Grove, Frank Schultz and Ty Piearcy. Both are progressing at a fast rate and are competing regionally. “Every time I’ve gone out with them, they learn something new.

For me, it’s like I’ve just been getting this huge overenjoyment out of it.” He pointed out that the week he spent in Florida with a personal coach when he was a youngster still to this day plays a role in how he teaches others. “I kind of attribute a lot of the stuff I coach these days to that, like how to break things down for people and whatnot.”

The majority of Chaboya’s lessons are with beginners, and he says that he’s fine with that, to him there’s nothing like getting someone standing up on a wakeboard for the first time and getting them hooked on the sport. But, when he does get

the opportunity to work with young, advanced riders, like Piearcy for example, he can have a larger impact on their riding. “He’s right at that level where he just needs one little turn of the wrist this way, or to look forward instead of backward, or to get his shoulders squared up, and then boom, he sticks it. I’m always the guy that’s like, ‘OK, you’re right there, one more, one more!’”

Whether you’re a beginner trying to get up for the first time on a wakeboard or you’re an experienced rider and are trying to get inverted (and land on your feet, the most important part), Chaboya is your guy. Age doesn’t matter either, he has already taught 7-year-olds to 63-year-olds this summer. With a most certain determination to get Launch Wakeboarding School back to where it once was when he was just an employee there, Chaboya acknowledged how much things have come full circle for him. “It’s been a roller coaster ride, ups and downs, but it’s just been totally cool. It’s been a joyride!”

Contact Brodie Chaboya for more information about Launch and to learn how you can get out on the water and ride with him by either calling (916) 532-WAKE or by emailing him at bchaboya@gmail.com. Find him on Facebook by searching for "Launch Wakeboarding School." Also, on the first Saturday of every month this summer you can find him at Swabbies on the River doing board demos all day. Summer is here, get out and shred!

“One of my buddies told me, ‘It’s the American dream, you’ve been working for the company for so long and now you own it. How much more perfect could it be?’”

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The Blue Lamp The James King Band, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Club Retro Impending Doom, Mychildren Mybride, A Bullet for Pretty Boy, This or the Apocalypse, The Crimson Armada, The Antioch Synopsis, Maltreated, 5:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond w/ Jon Bafus’ Genetic Makeup, Tyson Graf, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Joe Mazzaferro Quintet, 8:30 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Eskera, Seeker, T.I.P., Paranoid Drags, 6:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

6.28 Tuesday

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Wires & Wood, 8 p.m.

Mix Jazz in the Mix w/ Ava Lemert, Cecil Ramirez, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 9 p.m.

Press Club Animals & Men, G.Green, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens, 6 p.m.

River Walk Riff Raff (tribute to AC/ DC), 6 p.m.

Shine Open Mic Night w/ special guest hosts, 6 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Lew Fratis Trio, 9 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp The Fleshtones (CD Release), The Troublemakers, 8:30 p.m.

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Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Fox & Goose Doug Cash, 8 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Alps, Michael Beach, Andrew Henderson, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Saturnalia, 9 p.m.

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Naked Lounge Downtown Clark Reese, Keri Carr, Bella Rouse, 8:30 p.m.

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Press Club HUMP w/ DJ Whores, Chrissy Murderbot, DJ Nikhil J, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens, 6 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery Kites and Crows, Tiera Iasparo, 8 p.m.

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Fox & Goose Souterrain, Quicksand Marching Band, 8 p.m.

Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ Kepi (Acoustic), Dog Party (Acoustic), 11:30 a.m.

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The Boxing Donkey Tony Bataska, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF & Selector KDK, 10 p.m.

Center for the Arts A Thousand Years at Sea (CD Release), Neil Pearlman’s Scottish Infusion, 8 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Park Kepi Ghoulie, Pets, Dog Party, Favors, 5 p.m.

District 30 DJ Kaotik, 9 p.m.

The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Take Pride, Vampirates, 101, No Beatings From Holly, Switchblade Frankie, 9 p.m.

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Center for the Arts Alela Diane and Wild Divine, The Parson Redheads, 8 p.m.

Colonial Theatre Amanda Perez, Erk Tha Jerk, Young Trub, Sac Boys, 7:30 p.m.

Community Center Theater Donell Jones, Case, 8 p.m.

Distillery Jinx Jones, Harley White Orchestra, The Twilight Drifters, Big Iron, 10 p.m.

District 30 DJ Sol, 9 p.m.

The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Extirpate, Awaiting the Apocalypse, Carnivorous Bastard, Thy Winter Shadow, Exylum, Internal Decapitation, 8 p.m.

Golden Bear Sweaty w/ DJ Whores, 10 p.m.

Hanami Salon The Jamboree w/ Prince Aries, Boogie Brown, DJ Epik, DJ Flow, DJ R.D., Yae, A.V., 3 p.m.

Harlow’s Custom Neon, The Remedies, 7 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe ABBAcadabra (ABBA tribute), 7:30 p.m.

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Marilyn’s Children of Young, The Number Thirteen, 9 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Adrian Bourgeois, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, 8 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Grenade Jumper, Storming Stages and Stereos, 101, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Love Fool, 10 p.m.

Press Club Top 40 Dance w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen The Range Of Light Wilderness, Yesway, The Botticellis, 9 p.m.

Studio 21 Man Up Nancy, Brothers To Arms, Cadence, People In Houses, Midnight Massacre, Cut The Foreplay, They Call It Mercy, Chon, 6 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Riff Raff (tribute to AC/DC), Skyler Thomas Band, Meddlers, 2 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Ron Hacker, 9 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Adrian Bourgeois, 3 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Dubb DJs present: International Sundays, 8:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

District 30 Black Cards, Live DJ set

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The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Divided We Fall, Last Life, Still Fighting, Keeping Score, To End All Silence, 6 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe ABBAcadabra (ABBA tribute), 7:30 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino The Garage Boys, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Nick Gravanitis, 3 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Cherrybomb (tribute to John Mellencamp), 3 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Funkengruven, 8 p.m.

7.04 Monday

Blackwater Cafe Monday Night Jazz, 8:30 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Sol Collective Paul Collins’ Beat, Calvin Johnson, Dreamdate, Joey Casio, 8:30 p.m.

Swabbies on the River 4 Barrell, 3 p.m.

Townhouse Religious Girls, Zorch, Pregnant, Buk Buk Bigups, Mom, 8 p.m.

7.05 Tuesday

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Ottmar Liebert, Luna Negra, 7 p.m.

Marilyn’s Wires & Wood, 8 p.m.

Mix Jazz in the Mix w/ Ava Lemert, Nagual, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 9 p.m.

Shine Open Mic Night w/ special guest hosts, 6 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Kate Gaffney, 5:30 p.m.; Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall Pink Martini, Storm Large, 8 p.m.

7.06 Wednesday

Ace of Spades Ballyhoo!, The Bastard Suns, Arden Park Roots, Official Response, Layst, 6 p.m.

Blackwater Cafe Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

District 30 DJ Risk One, DJ Tina T, DJ Slick D, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Chris Clouse, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s 7 Walkers, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s The Joe Carlson Trio, 8:30 p.m.

Pizza Rock ‘80s Night, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Hybrid Creeps, Danny Secretion, The Community, 9 p.m.

Sol Collective Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Jeff the Brotherhood, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Jimmy Pailer, 9 p.m.

Uncle Vitos (Davis) Boom Bip w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m.

7.07 Thursday

The Blue Lamp Mr. P Chill, Lumis, Mike Colossal, DJ Eol, Cleen & Elephant Gerald, Supanova, Aquifer, Ms. Vybe, 9 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Park Los Elegantes, Malacates, Vince Vicari y Loz Zanchoz, 5 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Club Retro The Story So Far, We Are The Union, I Call Fives, Streetlight Fire, Mountainmover, Living With Giants, Backflip!, Ben Union, 5:30 p.m.

The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

Fremont Park Hot Lunch Concert Series w/ Shannon Curtis, 11:30 a.m.

Golden Bear Shaun Slaughter, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Queen Ifrica, Tony Reble, 10 p.m.

Mix Fred Everything, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Left of Centre, Bomshel, 9 p.m.

Sol Collective Skratch Pad, 9 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery Eve Fleischman, 7 p.m.

Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Harley White Jr. feat. Aaron King, 9 p.m.

Townhouse Get Wet w/ I’m Dirty Too, Hey Zeus, DJ Alki, Jon Droll, X Gvnr, 10 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Giant Squid, La Fin Du Monde, Waning, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Full Blown Stone, Dogfood, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Ryan Hernandez, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ ESEF & Selector KDK, 10 p.m.

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Club Retro Dressed In White, Chasing Truth, Our Living Memory, To Lie With Liars, Our Endless Obsession, Your Second Chance, 6:30 p.m.

Distillery The Polymers, Jet Black Popes (CD Release), Virtue & Vices, 10 p.m.

The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Fairweather Sky, Pythagora, Revolver, Work Project, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s Doey Rock, DJ Symphony, DJ Rip-1, 10 p.m.

Level Up Lounge CHRISSUPREME, D.A.M.B. (Shaun Slaughter), 10 p.m.

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The Boardwalk A Silent Film, Tragic Culture, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Stout Rebellion, 8 p.m.

Center for the Arts The Music of Fleetwood Mac, 8 p.m.

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Golden Bear Sweaty w/ DJ Whores, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s The Greencards, 6:30 p.m.; The Sizzling Sirens present Varietese, 10 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Jimmie Vaughan, 7:30 p.m.

Liquid Nightclub DJ Elements, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Ian Moore and the Lossy Coils, Nathan Dale, 9 p.m.

McClatchy Park ZuhG, Longshot Sound System, 4:30 p.m.

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Powerhouse Pub Afro-Cuban Funk, 10 p.m.

Press Club Top 40 Dance w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Shine Velvet Sunshine, Adrian Bourgeois, Autumn Sky, 7 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen J. Irvin Daily, Garrett Pierce, Paleo, 9 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Applez, 5 p.m.

Tin House Studio and Gallery San Kazakgascar, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Delta Wires, 9 p.m.

The Urban Hive Neil Haydon, 6 p.m.

Vega’s Lvbzel, Sicarius, Thares, 8 p.m.

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The Blue Lamp Reggae Bashment w/ DJ Wokstar!, 9:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Dive Bar Clash of the iPods, 9 p.m.

The Fire Escape Bar and Grill Dead to Me, Off With Their Heads, Riverboat Gamblers, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Bastards of Young, 6 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Di Bravura, Matsuri, Father Lonesome, 8 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Alison Krauss & Union Station, 7 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center The Megas, Survival Guide, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Shana Morrison, 3 p.m.; Roomful of Blues, 7 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m.

Red Lion Hotel Sunday Splash Pool Party w/ DJs Victorius, Stylus, Rossi, Snoop-E, 2 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Department of Rock, 4 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Dead Carpenters, 8 p.m.

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The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond w/ Nada Brahma Music Ensemble, Mike Kelly Trio, 7:30 p.m.

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Collings West Sacramento Teen Center The Great American Jam Dance Battle, July 2, 2 p.m.

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Flatlanders and the Golden State

Z-Boy Nathan Pratt talks Skateboarding in california

Jay Adams / Image by Craig Stecyk.

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Words Joe Atkins

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kateboarding started as a gimmick, a toy of sorts, equivalent with the hula-hoop.

Born on the beaches of Southern California, it quickly branched out into one of our longest lasting youth cultures. In the early ‘60s it was a DIY affair but it flirted early on with manufacturing, and in 1975, with the advent of surf-inspired maneuvers, it became a national phenomenon.

Today it’s everywhere. Kids skateboard daily in our streets, chased and harassed by business owners and police alike. Skateboarding has inundated our popular imaginations, from professionals in soda commercials to CGI references in blockbuster movies like Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean. Likewise the character behind skaters has changed, from the combative punk gangs of Thrashin’ (1986), which starred a young Josh Brolin, to the recent Karate Kid (2010) remake, where Jaden Smith carries his skateboard halfway across the world as a symbol of his American roots. Sacramento will soon be taken on a ride through the history of skateboarding via a new exhibit at The California Museum. Riding Concrete: Skateboarding in California is curated by one of skateboarding’s seminal figures, Nathan Pratt.

When the biggest leap forward in maneuvers and tricks happened, when skating changed from manuals and terrestrial 360 spins to Bert slides, pool airs and ollies, Pratt was there. In the heydays he was skating alongside Stacy Peralta, working at the Zephyr Surf Shop, and hanging with legends of the sport. Pratt was a cast member in the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001), and now he’s put together a collection of 300 boards, which follow the development of skateboard history. Ask him about these objects, these artifacts of post-war America, where they came from, what was going on at the time, and Pratt instantaneously lights up. His grin gets bigger, his eyes glint, his gestures widen as he recalls how the most significant thing of his childhood in the mid-‘70s evolved into a global trend by the turn of the millennium.

The collection of artifacts and photographs spans the development and history of an activity long synonymous with California beach culture. It begins with roller-skates, it’s supported by DIY decks made by kids in their high school woodshop classes, it’s bolstered by flirtations with surfboard manufacturers, it contains a diverse set of materials— including wood, fiberglass, and metal—and the exhibit comes to life once the skateboarders themselves start their own companies and take charge of the manufacturing.

Embedded in the development of this gimmick/lifestyle/cultural commodity are a series of “deaths” where the manufacturing implodes, and skateboarding’s popularity declines.

Our cities and states have steadily made skateboarding on private and public property illegal, citing liability concerns. Yet despite all of this, skateboarding continues to thrive as a lifestyle. Pratt walked Submerge through the exhibit and detailed this interesting subgenre of California’s history.

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How did you get involved in curating this exhibit?

I did an exhibit in Santa Monica at the California Heritage Museum about a year and a half ago. It was the most popular exhibit that museum has had in over 20 years. It was supposed to be a sixmonth exhibit and it turned into a yearlong exhibit.

It was the first time anyone had actually pulled it together to do a comprehensive exhibit on the skateboard, soup to nuts.

OK, but how did you get involved?

Craig Stecyk [co-writer, Dogtown and Z-Boys] told me about the committee. I hate going to committees. I hate going to meetings. I went to one and said forget it. I called three months later because I had a couple of boards I was going to drop off, and nothing had happened. The lady said nothing is cooking. I said, “I can make 10 phone calls and this show’s on! But only if I don’t have to go to any committees. I’ll take care of everything for you.” Five days after that phone call I brought in 1,200 skateboards, which we narrowed down to 300.

Where did you get the boards?

There are five or six big collectors in California.

You have Dale Smith in San Diego, Todd Huber at SkateLab, Jason Cohn in Los Angeles (he works for Nike). And these guys spend hours tracking down these boards, every weekend, on the Internet, at garage sales. They’ve got it all racked out in their homes. I’d bring in a carload, 100 boards and drop them off at the museum and they’d have to tag and photograph each one. They got a little mad because I brought in so much! Most of the pro boards came from the pros themselves.

You’ve got a lot in this display; how did the skateboard get started?

Scooters and anything that rolled started it. It finally got big enough around 1969, and they’re all red. I’m not sure why, I think it was a roller-skating thing. In the early ‘60s there’s the space race, and the graphics are all rocket ships. They put the JFK quote on there and everything. You can see the mass-market pieces here; these were selling at Woolworth’s or something. They were small boards at the time.

Bill Richards made the first commercial skateboard. He was making boards in 1963 at a woodshop in Whittier [Calif.]. Hobie Alter got pissed because they were selling his boards like toys. He owned the number-one surfboard company in the world at the time. Six months later he came back and saw what happened and he got his boards made again. The Val boards [made by Richards] have a top layer laminated side by side.

And this is when the surf companies really got involved?

The surf companies start making skateboards next: Jacob surfboards, Hermosa Beach; Khan surfboards, Santa Monica; Hobie surfboards, Dana Point; Gordie surfboards was, I think, Huntington Beach.

The Phil Edwards is the first pro rider model.

Edwards was the best surfer in the world, he rode for Hobie. But Makaha made the skateboard for him. Hobie wouldn’t make him one.

Then the whole thing crashed in 1966. Injuries and liability insurance killed the teams, and the cities started outlawing skateboarding. You couldn’t ride on the sidewalk because the city would get sued. This happened all across America.

The manufacturers died out, the whole thing went underground. You had to make your own skateboard again.

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Larry Bertlemann was the best surfer at the time. He was doing these super low cutbacks, touching the waves. The Bert cutback was the big thing. We started doing that on our skateboards.

We’d do it so hard, until you slid, until it would make this noise. People would hear this noise and know exactly what you were doing. You were doing a Bert. We couldn’t have done that without urethane wheels.

This is where things really change for skateboarding, when surf maneuvers get involved.

How did that come about?

After the 1975 Bahne-Cadillac Nationals. This was the first big-time contest. That’s when everything changed from stand-up style. We were the new kids doing the surf style, the Bertlemann style, the modern style. In a few months everyone was skating like us.

Then we started skating pools. There were pool skaters just riding around, but we were the first to go up to the lip. We were doing vertical surfing, going up the wall. In September 1977 there was a pool in Santa Monica everyone used to skate at, and that’s where Tony Alva popped out one day.

That was the birth of aerial skateboarding.

How did that affect the development of skateboards?

Pool riding took over everything and the boards got wider and wider. This was the second big coming of skateboarding. These are the pig boards, with a kicked tail. We started doing the aerials on the pig boards, and we realized when we’re flying through the air we want a lighter board. We needed width in the front and width in the back where the feet are, but we didn’t need it in the middle. We started cutting away the wood, making the fish-shaped boards. We made some crazy shapes for fun. Then they made bumps for grabbing the board.

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We did a skateboard show for Nickelodeon, and Christian was doing 10-foot aerials on a ramp, and narrating what he was doing while the interview was being filmed. The guy was amazing.

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The next crash was in 1990. It might have been part of the recession. It had something to do with insurance again. Powell was the biggest company at the time. They had the mega-team, with Tony Hawk. Then Steve Rocco started his own company, World Industries. He just did the most insane stuff and put Powell out of business. The kids wanted concaved deck skateboards, and Powell wouldn’t make them. So the whole team quit. They started their own companies. There were no more old guys in the business; everyone was 20 years old.

How did street skating and the new school develop? How did that change the boards?

Natas Kaupas and Jesse Martinez started the street thing. They did the wall riding and all those rails and stuff. You wanted a lighter and smaller board for the street. The ramp riders wanted double enders because they were doing all the inverts and reverts, forwards and backwards now. Then they came down to the popsicles. [Plan B Skateboards’] Rodney Mullen really invented the popsicle boards.

He was a freestyle guy, another techie dude.

All of this is in the past now, what do you see as the future of skateboarding?

We can’t imagine where skateboarding will be in 20 years. It will definitely be a lot more radical than it is now.

Riding Concrete: Skateboarding in California opens at The California Museum in Sacramento on July 2 and runs through March 24, 2012.

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Light Does Not Make Might Green Lantern Warner Bros.

Words James Barone With Marvel Comics releasing a trio of movies this spring/summer (Thor, X-Men: First Class and the forthcoming Captain America), DC Comics, Marvel’s main competitor, has been left out in the cold. Even its David E. Kelley-helmed Wonder Woman TV pilot for NBC has been shelved. DC may be down in the live-action comic book adaptation battle, but it’s not out. The dawn of summer saw the release of Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds as the iconic ring-bearer Hal Jordan. While Jordan’s “magic” ring may be the ultimate weapon in the universe, Green Lantern doesn’t deliver much of an emphatic blow against the Marvel movie juggernaut.

There is a growing threat in the galaxy and only the cosmic space police force known as the Green Lantern Corps has any hope to combat it. Parallax, a world-ending sort of beast, feeds off Fear like a sponge and is growing stronger every day. Abin Sur (Temuera Morrison), a highly decorated member of the Corps, is mortally wounded in a battle against the monster and must find the nearest inhabited planet so he can pass his power ring on to someone worthy enough to wield it. He of course lands on Earth where the ring chooses Jordan as humankind’s first Green Lantern. Jordan is brash and impetuous. He shirks responsibility and is unable to nurture meaningful relationships.

He’s really just a big kid with a bitchin’ job as a fighter plane pilot (and he’s the best at it, obviously). Imbued with the powers of the ring, Jordan must conquer his own fears and delve deep into himself to find the strength necessary to not only wield the Green Lantern mantle, and in so doing save Earth from Parallax, but also become a better man.

To ape an old catchphrase from another comic book character (Marvel’s again, sorry): With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.

Jordan can use the ring to create whatever he can imagine, but his “constructs are only as strong as his will,” informs his brutish trainer Kilowog (voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan, one of the film’s bright spots). This battle between these opposing forces—Fear and Will—is an interesting one and something that could serve

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as an allegory perhaps for the current state of world affairs or even just an examination of the human condition in general. However, for better or worse, Green Lantern sidesteps deeper themes and just aims for cheap thrills, of which the film certainly could have used more of.

Instead of balls-to-the-wall action, the screenplay—a four-writer endeavor—seems more concerned with character development and fostering the film’s central relationship between Jordan and Carol Ferris (Blake Lively). The two have an undeniable connection, but she’s too mature, and he’s too juvenile. They end up meeting somewhere in the middle when the ring enters the picture. He begins to realize he can’t just fuck off all the time, and enchanted by the ring’s powers, she acquiesces that there is more to life than brokering mammoth government contracts and dressing in business suits (even though she looks amazing in them).

Reynolds is funny and charismatic enough as Jordan that the melodrama is entertaining, but these scenes just feel like filler until we can see the power of the ring (and the wizardry of the Green Lantern’s special effects) at work.

Instead, Jordan mostly uses the ring’s limitless possibilities to cozy up to Ferris (and really, who could blame him), leaving comic book fans in the audience to lament, “As if he needed any help wooing women.”

Green Lantern is an origin story, and in that respect, it does a fine job. It establishes the characters and mythos of this fantasy version of our universe without heaping on the exposition.

The film also has a great comic book look; instead of opting for a grim and gritty makeover that seems to plague most comic book film adaptations, Green Lantern is colorful with just the right touch of camp. When the ring’s powers are on display, they are as nifty and creative as advertised. But other than that, there really isn’t much there. The film’s villains are just byproducts of Jordan’s own struggles, both of which seem too easily overcome.

It’s a shame that DC hasn’t caught up to Marvel as far as filmmaking goes. The DC Comics universe has a far richer history and is steeped in classical mythology. Green Lantern leaves the door open for a film franchise but hardly inspires anticipation for films to come.

For now, the venerable comic company will have to hang its hat on Christopher Nolan’s next Batman movie, which can’t hit theaters soon enough.

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Tree House dinners are truly a moveable feast Words Adam Saake photos Debbie Cunningham The sun went low, and at a touch before seven, a light breeze swept over the Midtown Victorian porch, cooling guests from the belated summer heat. Small, natural artifacts of sticks, cumquats, found rocks and candles were scattered on overhangs and railings. On a table in the corner, a bottle of Sommariva Prosecco was submerged in an icepacked watering can and flutes were filled at leisure while brown paper bags of popcorn with fresh dill were passed around. A total of seven guests, strangers, were quickly sharing stories and salutations over ceviche and cucumber. This was the beginning of chef Kevin O’Connor’s underground dinner he whimsically calls Tree House.

“The name Tree House came to me at 4 a.m.,” says O’Connor. “Tree House evokes juvenile thoughts and I aim to do the same with my style of cooking.”

O’Connor himself might be the only thing juvenile about what goes on at Tree House (which by the way is at a table in his dining room). The talented young chef of Ella, and most recently its sister restaurant, The Kitchen, is a mere 22 years old. A clean-cut red head who looks more relaxed in a cut-off Iron Maiden t-shirt than he does in a chef’s coat, this cooking star in the making worked his way from dishwasher up—sans culinary school. As a teen, he hopped around different restaurants like Masque and Bistro 33, but things took a sharper turn when he moved downtown and began cooking at Mason’s, now Cafeteria 15L. “I helped open MiX and shortly after the opening I moved to the South of France for a few months,” says O’Connor.

“After culinary enlightenment dans la sud, I came back home to Sac and joined Kelly McCown at Ella shortly after he came.”

It was this trip to the South of France that would later become the inspiration for his monthly underground dinners.

“Tree House began after I moved home from France. Every Sunday for a month and a half I would make dinner for my host family and their friends while I was in France,” O’Connor remembers.

“These dinners were coursed out and showcased my creativity that was flowing while I was exploring food Mecca. I used produce from the farm, the town market, neighboring farms, hunting, foraging, and wine from their winery.”

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to that effect, except O’Connor doesn’t have France or a farm—in spirit, sure, but he did have the winery this time. Craig Haarmeyer of Revolution Wines supplied all the wine pairings for the latest dinner, including the current vintage of their award-winning port.

Guests were leisurely enticed inside to sit at the table, well lubricated with Prosecco and conversation and ready for what O’Connor had up his sleeve. Once seated the night began with an amuse bouche, a small introductory appetizer that literally translates to “mouth amuser,” which consisted of prosciutto, pan-fried quail egg and a house-made hollandaise sauce. It was served simple and elegant in a Chinese ceramic soup spoon. Down the hatch. This single bite immediately excited the table and was a clear window into O’Connor’s cooking philosophy; one in which breakfast was clearly fair game for his introduction.

Revolution’s Verdelho port, a sweeter white, paired beautifully, and we were on our way.

O’Connor’s plates have a touch of seriousness mixed with a pinch of brilliance and are lathered thick with humor. He grinned as he described courses like the pistachio encrusted foie gras with roasted peaches, calling his concoction “a foie gras candy bar.” His time in France came out in this dish too.

He explained to the table one of the first and most memorable meals he had that was simply a bowl of pistachios, some peaches and a bit of foie gras. This was his translation—and what made each course so fantastic. He cooks off the pure joy of his memories with a little help from random musings.

“I’m inspired by the strangest things sometimes. A walk by the river, a 2 a.m. junk food binge, my food-filled childhood,” says O’Connor.

That “food-filled childhood” that O’Connor attributes to his father introduced a standout dish that was a play on mustard chicken. O’Connor’s father would make him a comforting plate of mustard chicken with a panko crust when he was a kid. To do honor, the most visually attractive plate of the evening arrived. Chicken rillettes with a half-moon toast was presented on a square, gray stone slab, dusted with an orderly stripe of honey mustard pretzels and garnished with a circle of pepper and mustard flowers. Rillettes is like a pate where the meat is slowly cooked in fat, duck fat in this case, and then is cooled and served like a spread. O’Connor “marinated the chicken, cured it for a day and braised

it for about four hours,” to give it the texture and consistency he desired. This plate stood out the most and really showcased O’Connor’s creativity and technical execution.

An eight-hour sous-vide pork belly with barbeque beans, compressed watermelon and a salad of pickled watermelon rind (an ode to summer, perhaps) was followed by a simple offering of local goat’s milk cheese, Bing cherries and thyme flowers. Simple and to the point; elegant and delicious. Each course offered a new idea, an interesting thought or an adventurous leap to take (O’Connor encouraged guests to suck the brains from a fried prawn head during one course). The Tree House dinner finished with a mind blowing dessert course of cinnamon sugar toast, maple blueberries and a cereal milk anglaise for dipping that was inside of a hollowed-out egg shell. Guests enjoyed port to pair and moments of silence swept over the table as plates were literally licked clean.

A satisfied Tree House assembly took refuge on the porch, enticed by 15-year aged Glenlivet scotch being poured from a transparent globe decanter. O’Connor emerged from the house, sans chef coat and ready to be part of the conversation.

His left arm is tattooed with a crude chef hat, crossbones and knives with the mantra, “Cook to Live, Live to Cook.” “It’s being covered soon,” he said. But, there’s no hiding his passion for food and for the people he cooks it for. And as hidden as the underground dinners might seem, there is a Facebook page and O’Connor has special wording that keeps him out of trouble—for now.

“We aren’t a real underground restaurant…we are a ‘private dining cooperative’ where like-minded foodies pitch in for dinner that happens to be at a residence,” says O’Connor.

Where he takes these dinners is up in the air for now, but there’s talk of catering, pop-up events and cocktails in alleyways. Ideas are flowing and O’Connor’s love of Sacramento will keep him right here for those adventures.

“I’m inspired by the people that say Sacramento sucks and by the people that have faith in it becoming a food city at the same time. I want to Tree House dinners happen start forming once month at an undisclosed a Sacramento location in Midtown. For cuisine,” says information on how to register, visit Facebook.com/ O’Connor. treehousesacramento or One Tree Treehousesacramento.blogspot.

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Words & Photos Jenn Walker “I thought punk was dead,” someone recently said to me during a conversation about music.

It’s a tiresome, ongoing debate that gets people way too worked up, and this writer has no desire to engage in it. However, for someone who hasn’t seen too many punk shows lately, the Distillery’s primarily punk lineup on June 17 led me to believe that punk music, regardless of style, is alive and well. The lineup included four bands (three of which were local): Killdevil, Joe Q. Citizen, Riot Radio and Armed Forces Radio.

The night started off with alternative indie rock trio Killdevil, which didn’t quite fit the punk ticket, but delivered several energetic songs nonetheless. Songs like “Last Reptile” featured a signature indie rock sound, delivering distortion-packed guitar riffs as vocalist Alex Dorame wailed into the mic over the humming bass. Brothers Art and Alex Dorame have been playing as Killdevil for four years now, with Art on guitar and Alex on bass. The two praised their new drummer between songs for playing his first show with them live.

Next was Joe Q. Citizen, four guys hailing from San Jose, Calif. If a punk band can be classified as suave, these guys were proof. Their choice of gear was minimalistic, with only one pedal in sight. They didn’t need more. They commanded the stage with short, fluid poppunk songs like “Dumb in Love” and “Diggin Out,” making their job look effortless. Guitarists Dover One and Shawn Packer strummed out swift chords over Julian Ostrow’s—whose shirt was off by the second song—fleet-footed drum tempo. “Whiskey in My Panties” was another favorite, garnering audience catcalls.

Four-piece band Riot Radio followed, the only band boasting female members that night.

They are a newer band on the local music scene, and their sound fits somewhere in the midst of garage and hardcore punk. Vocalist/bassist Kat was full of piss and vinegar—who knew the petite, feathery-haired redhead could release such a powerfully raw, growling voice? It’s not easy to come by in a female vocalist. The band’s fierce drummer Maggie crashed away at the

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By the time Armed Forces Radio took the low-lit stage after midnight, the audience had thinned down to lone beer-carrying stragglers.

The first song was introduced with the bassist drumming a beer bottle against his strings, leading into the song “Manifest Destiny.” Their songs had a punk/ska flavor and the Clash influence was unmistakable. More people magically appeared, gathering around the stage to watch as vocalist/rhythm guitarist Albert crooned anti-war songs like “Compassion of a Bullet” with the same raspy lisp as Joe Strummer. With beers in hand the crowd broke into a peaceful, short-lived mosh pit during “Ghosts of Babylon.” It was the most animated the audience had been the whole night. As the last song drew to an end, Albert was drenched, sweat and spit dripping down his chin.

What caught me by surprise was the fact he used a Taurus Polytone practice amp not much larger than a microwave to play the set, which he had positioned on top of a chair. Submerge caught up with him afterward to ask about it.

The amp he usually plays with was in the shop, he said.

“Punk rock taught us to make do with what you have,” he said.

If that’s not a sign that punk is alive and kicking, I am not sure what is.

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A cursory look at the temperatures will tell you that we’re a long way from winter. But make no mistake about it: Winter IS coming. If you don’t know what I’m referencing, I’m sorry.

You really should live life less and watch TV more. That’s what I do. I don’t watch a lot of TV, but the TV I do watch occupies much of my life. LOST was a prime example. I like to snicker at all the vampire drama blah blah blah on True Blood, but right now, I’m completely preoccupied with HBO’s latest time sucker, Game of Thrones, which is based on a series of novels I haven’t read. But after seeing the TV adaptation, I may not have the stomach to.

More accurately, I was hooked on Game of Thrones. It just had its first season finale, and it was quite a cliffhanger. I was going to try to break down the show in simple terms for our readers who haven’t seen it, but that’s a fool’s errand. There are so many names, nicknames and family/realm history thrown at you in each episode that it’s pointless to try to keep up with it all. For those of you out there who have heard about the show and are going to try to watch it en masse on demand or on your fancy portable device at a later date, my best advice to you is just squint really hard, concentrate all you can, then find some nerd on Twitter who can answer all your questions—just don’t get them too worked up because then they’ll never leave you alone.

Here’s the best I can do to summarize and still leave enough word count for my pithy commentary: There are these families who rule a fictional land called Westeros, which is broken up into seven kingdoms (I think), and there was this old king called “The Mad King,” but he also has another name. He was MAD, so this one dude, Jaime Lannister, who fucks his sister, killed him, which got this other guy Robert installed as king. Oh yeah, Robert is also married to Jaime’s Sister (the one he’s fucking). Robert has a buddy Ned who lives in the north. Ned’s cool as shit and ends up working for the king, but there are a whole lot of growing threats amassing outside the realm, like the Dothraki, a race of people who are really into horses (but not in that way).

The Son of the Mad King sold his sister to the Dothraki Leader in exchange for an army of savage killers who could march into Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne, which is where the king sits. The sister, Daenerys, is a total

babe and doesn’t like being bossed around by her brother. She becomes queen of the Dothraki and doesn’t take his bullshit any more. But she’s such a babe that the Dothraki Leader decides he’ll charge into Westeros and rape and kill everyone in her name so she can have her Iron Throne back anyway.

Even worse than the horse dudes is that there’s this wall in the far north, and on the other side of the wall is all this crazy shit, like people who don’t bathe ever and White Walkers, who are on some Advanced Dungeons & Dragons type shit. People guard the wall and can never leave, including Jon Snow, Ned’s bastard son (we don’t know Jon’s momma because Maury hasn’t been born yet). There is also a lot of dragon talk—which gets me fucking stoked—and instead of using e-mail, people communicate via ravens. And there are wolves too, but not like the ones on True Blood.

It’s a really intricate story chock full of twists and turns, backstabbing and betrayal, beheadings and nudity and sex and incest and rape and pre-teens talking about getting each other pregnant.

But really it’s a quality program. I’m amped up for season two, which will air spring 2012 (luckily before the Mayan long count calendar ends). The thing that bothers me about the show, and this is the case with a lot of the shows I’ve seen on the premium cable networks I’ve been watching lately (True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Spartacus, etc.), is that the sex and violence are so extreme. I’m not sure if that makes me a prude or not, but if I want to watch porn (and I’m not a stranger to it), then I will, but if I want to sit down and watch a show because I like a story’s rich intrigue, I don’t really need to watch two prostitutes finger pop one another while a creepy dude rattles off a few paragraphs of expository monologue.

I get that these shows are “adult,” and that’s why I like them. At times, these shows have clever, nuanced plots and wonderful scripts. But it seems like they can’t go four minutes without someone getting their softcore on or someone graphically getting their head lopped off (or in Game of Thrones’ case, both simultaneously). I’m just wondering if “mature content” necessarily means careless gratuity. Or maybe I should just shut the fuck up and go see Cars 2.

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