WATCH THESE VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!

Please watch this shit...and tell everyone you know, even if they dont ride, skate, or whatever, to watch this. I know not a lot of people check this site but I feel like we need to do our part (no matter how small it may be) to help ARF hit that $100k donation mark. Serious props to Ballpark for sponsoring something this great. Its absolutely amazing to see such a gigantic and totally unaffiliated company really step up to the plate to help such a great cause!



And while your at it go check this out...

http://thecomeupbmx.net/videos/it-only-takes-once

I would have posted the embedded vid here but youtube isnt exactly working for me at the moment (to be honest the shit is blocked at my office haha) so a link is the best I can do for now. Be prepared for the second video...it WILL give you chills! Best of wishes to Mikey, Murray, and all the other amazing riders out there that have been plagued with serious injuries in the past few years. Any chance you get to support or donate to any of these rider benefiting causes...DO IT!

Here is a shit-ton of photos for your viewing pleasure! I think the pics speak for themselves...or a picture is worth a thousand words...or whatever other excuse is acceptable for me to not have to waste my time writing captions. So take a look and use your imagination for once to come up with your own.

Crazy Summer

This has got to be one of the craziest summers I can remember in a long time. We had about 2 weeks toward the end of July that were insanely dry and thats about it...the rest has been pure rain! Its sort of been great for us since we have so much digging ambition and great ideas that would normally have to wait until late fall and next spring to come alive. We started doing some serious damage to the fifth set in Only's. Brett carved out the lip and surfaced that sweetness with some cherry dirt like he was never gone and Keener, Fash, and Ryan went to town on the landing. It started coming together pretty quick in only an hour or two before we got hit HARD! We barely managed to get everything covered and put away till the rain hit. Thank god we had an extra piece of plastic to cover that fresh new lip. Probably head out this week and finish squaring up the 5th lip and hopefully get two or three heads there piling that landing. I wanna be sending that set by the end of next week (and the speed Brett's been throwing dirt with he can probably have that piled by himself by the end of the day today haha).

Probably have a photo update later this evening. I got ALL the pictures of the summer from J. Kim's camera loaded on my laptop so I'll pop a whole set of those on as soon as I get home from my daily grind.

PS someone remind Ryan that a Blazer wont start with the end of a carabiner!
And lastly is anyone other than us looking at this blog spot? Not that I really give a shit but if there are any randoms out there in Internet land checking us out from time to time...lay us a comment or something so we know your out there!

Cement?

Yep...you heard me right...I said cement! I'm doing our first non-trails related post.
A few of us hit up the York park yesterday. That place is incredible. And whats even more incredible is watching Yazzie zipping around every inch of it! I cant quite get a grasp on how the hell he rides that place like he does. Brett was back in action too...carving around and clearly having a blast. And last but not least we cant forget Mega Dan! He is one hard guy to photograph, those god damn tech tricks just dont translate well on stills but I managed to snag at least one good one.

Anyway peep the pics:

Wow!

I have to say I love seeing what other people can do with dirt. Check out this site...these trails look insanely dialed! Go to http://thirdarmshovel.blogspot.com/ for more from this amazing looking scene.

Soaked Summer = August Digging!

From a riding point of view this summer is shaping up to be a bit of a shitty one with a ton of rain hitting almost daily...but in good news the trails are really coming up quick. More rain hit this weekend making the trails soaked and unsessionable but we did some more damage on Sunday and started piling the fifth set in the straight line over the 4th landing in Only's. That lip should be ready to rock and roll in another day or so of digging. Hopefully I'll get some pics Tuesday of the new shit getting built up.

Finished piling the new step-down landing today and started in on the next lip. Looks like it should turn out to be loads of fun and tons of speed. Heading to the trails tomorrow to hopefully finish the next lip and smooth the flat between the sets...who knows maybe we'll even send her tomorrow!