Torey Pudwill put on Plan B (the company not the pill)

Torey Pudwill was recently put on the Plan B team. I myself do not have too many positive feelings about the company, although this new addition makes me feel a tiny bit better. I highly suggest you check out this little clip they posted up with the announcement. If backtail 270 kickflips out don't get you siked on this dude, maybe the switch crooked fakie 3 flip out can. Here's the link to the video on the plan b website where you can watch it in high quality and here it is on youtube for the people just wanting to watch it quick.
PLAN B SKATEBOARDS/Torey Pudwill

Rest in Power DIRT!

One of the greatest people of all time passed on this month. Joe was and always will be a Legend within the skateboard community and out. He was a friend to so many people stretched out across everywhere he went. Joe was like no other and that is why he attracted people of all type to him. He was one of the greatest skateboarders to ever set foot on a board in NEPA and i believe he will keep that title forever. I can't begin to start naming off all the memorable times i had with the kid and all the things that i learned from him. This was the case for so many people that crossed paths with him. Dirt was always down for anything and always open to listen to what you had to say. Truly a guy that history will never forget and kids skateboarding 10 years from now will still be watching his video parts and talking to their friends about stories passed down to them involved the one, the only, JOE DIRT. REST IN POWER. always and forever. can't stop, won't stop.

Fuhr/Dirt from justin kacillas on Vimeo.

BACK!

Resurrecting this thing from the dead. Back to give y'all some photos, videos, etc. The skateboard scene around NEPA lately needs some major makeover at the moment. Spots are limited, people have moved away, filming is rare, people are growing up. The exact opposite needs to happen to get WB get put back on the map where it was for the past decade. Anyway, hopefully with the beautiful weather creeping up on us while the first day of spring is less than a week away this slump will be over with. Words to live by: Growing up doesn't have to be giving in.

"Jamal Smith actin' a fool in the summertime"

I know you all remember Jamal Smith from his infamous youtube "trick tip" video filled with his ridiculous tranny tricks and just for being an overall funny dude. If you haven't check the footy HERE. Otherwise, check out this new footage that was posted up by 10 Deep on the tube.

"As a skateboarder i look forward to summer for fine ass honey dips, performing radical skateboard maneuvers, and looking at trees. And beautiful plants all over the world."

"And the rest is snow. And i fucking hate snow. It's the worst invention since fuckin' nazis. And i don't like nazis (thumbs down)."

Bad Brains Alien Workshop Montage!

A little late find after i posted up the hype alien post further down the posts. I know this will get some more people hyped...

Van Wastell Ny Times Article.

Like many of you know, Van Wastell passed away recently. I came across a thread on a forum i post on with a link to an article Ny Times wrote up on him that was really good. Here's the link to check it out and a little exerpt of it..

"By name alone, he seemed bound for stardom — Van Wastell, born into a renowned snowboarding family, called by the moniker of a storied skateboarding brand.

Before his 20th birthday, Wastell was hurtling toward that destiny on urethane wheels. Touring the country with an incandescent crew of trundling acrobats, he set himself apart with deft athleticism, prodigious creativity and a devil-may-care public image. By his early 20s, he had earned the laurel of full arrival, a signature board produced by a major skating gear company.

“I was and always will be a huge fan of Van’s skating,” the blogger Dan Watson wrote on Youwillsoon, a skateboarding site. Wastell had “amazing style and originality that was a breath of fresh air in a world of cookie-cutter robot kids.”

But when his body was found last month in the alley behind a hotel in Berlin, apparently the victim of a fall, Wastell, 24, became the subject of intrigue.

Through public appearances and staged film shorts, he had cultivated a reputation for drinking heavily on tour. In death, he has drawn unwelcome attention to a largely unspoken aspect of his sport. At the professional level, many skateboarders answer to the demands of elite athleticism while carrying on with wild abandon, to the approval of a mostly young male audience.

As the German authorities have pursued their investigation, skaters around the world have turned to online forums to mourn, mythologize, speculate and rant. Wastell’s main sponsor, Krooked Skateboarding, has forged ahead in promoting his signature board.

Representatives for Krooked and its copyright owner, Mark Gonzales, a professional skateboarder and artist, did not respond to calls and e-mail messages. A representative of its parent company, S. F. Deluxe Productions of San Francisco, declined to comment, as did the Wastell family.

One of Wastell’s brothers, Eddie Villa, wrote on his Web site, “Van touched people all around the world, and surprised me when kids from all over the world would tell me how sick of a skater he was and how cool he was for showing people that you can put on a Matix flannel and skate and be completely respected.”

Check out the Article for the rest of the story.

Converse Skateboarding.

Guess who joined the skateboard show world? Converse. It seems as if every big time shoe brand has finally completed into all of them. Although, i kind of like some of these shoes. Plus, the team is pretty awesome. Anthony Pappalardo, Ethan Fowler, Sammy Baca, Raymond Molinar, and my personal favorite Nick Trapasso. My only complaint is how similar some of the designs are to many other popular shoes, but hey everyone copies them. Here's a few of there shoes out right now.






For more stuff, check out ConverseSkateboarding.com