Heading to San Clemente for the Hawaiian days festival Saturday May 29th. Come by our booth. It will be a great weekend.
Ok so I was asked and we did a double dropped pusher. So here ya go both feel great and some thing for us to do more testing on until the newest version is done. Marshal rode the double drop and my son Laird rode the normal in a distance race in Portland on Sunday. Marshal loved it.
I really like this color.
Still working on the newest updates on The Pusher current pusher 1.75″ of drop. Next one to come is 2″ of drop. Cutting the new mold this week.
Super stoked for the new mold a pusher even lower. I will post pictures when its done.
This is the new version of the pusher. Adam Colton and myself have been working on this new version for a few months now. It has been under wraps as we kept making changes and the tried to get it ready for Adam, Paul and Aaron trip to skate Morocco. More on that in a minute. The new pusher is going to be getting a couple more minor tweeks. When it is all done there will be two versions the standard all wood and the lighter road dampening version (you’ll have to wait on that one a bit keeping it under wraps till more testing can be done). Adam is going to be skating on something in between. So here are the pictures of the one Adam is using to skate across Morocco.
So now the stats. Length 40″, Width 9″, drop 1.75″ Wheelbase 31″ I will post up the all wood version in a couple days. May be will will have the hitch and trailer hooked up for some riding also.
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This a project I have been working on with my friend David for almost a year and a half. David called me with an idea to make a new board and wanted my help. He wanted to make a board out of bamboo and hemp and put a bunch of holes in it. Sounded like a fun challenge to me. I made the first one and it was cool, shipped it to David and he put holes in it made it look cool and rode awesome. Well to make a long story short I made a few prototypes and got the layup dialed in then put it in Davids hands to get it made in larger volumes than I can do. That lead to more changes and improvements. This is what came out of all the time and work.
Watch for this board it is awesome. Ready for sale April 20th.
For more info www.holesom.com
In February was the ASR show in San Diego. I headed down a couple days before to hang out with my good friend Adam Colton before he left for his trip.
It was awesome to hang out with Adam for a day, he took me to skate Malibu with Tai and Kyle it was fun and I had a nice whip out. I always have a blast with Adam and only lost a little skin. Before we left to skate Adam told my wife he was going to take me out and get me hurt. He always keeps his promise haha. I have seen lots of videos of Tuna and I drove and was able to watch Tai and Kyle rip it up. That is one crazy run.
The next day Adam flew to Okinawa and I met up with Don and Pablo from Loaded and we headed to San Diego for the ASR.
While at the ASR I hung out and roamed the show with Don, Pablo, Dan, Marcus and Dano (loaded crew). After the show we hung out at the Field for the Silverfishlongboarding get together.
At the silverfish get together I met up with some awesome people.
John Galac from Galac longboards.
Rich from Lush longboards
Chris Yandell
Met a bunch of other awesome people that day. Then I headed back to the parking garage with the loaded crew Don, Marcus were going to head back to L.A. and were going to drop me off at my friend Eric’s place in San Clemente. Once we got to the garage we decided to do some skating before heading out.
(l to r) Dano, Dan, Marcus, Pablo, Don and myself
By the time I got to Eric’s place it was like 2 am. The next morning we headed over to Davids place for a quick ride in his new car. A killer Myers Manx.
Manx
That is one sweet ride.
We then headed to Monkey Syndicate’s office in Eric’s cool wagon.
We then headed back to the ASR. While there I met up with Linda from Tracker trucks.
Michael the man behind Concrete wave.
Mike From Honey Longboards.
That night was the premier for the Movie Drop my life down hill. Awesome movie with some great footage. While there I met Wayne from SurfRodz and we got talking about working on a project together so watch for something cool soon.
I have to give a big thanks to Malakia for offering to give me a ride that night back to San Clemente being he lives in San Diego. Thanks again.
I stayed a couple more days with my friends Eric and Brandy and we had a good time even though it rained. I was hoping to get away from the ran while i was there but o’well it was still warm.
Had a blast and met a lot of awesome people.
This years club ride was a blast and the weather was great for a night ride. It was great to see so many people out ready to ride. I hope everyone had a great time.
The event started out awesome all 64 riders started at once and no wrecks at the beginning. Everything was running smooth and I rushed back to the finish line to get ready for the first group to cross the finish line. I didn’t hear of anybody getting lost this year thanks to Cory for his great idea to put reflectors marking the course also thanks for the pictures Cory.
I also want to thank all the sponsors and all the riders that came out.
Here is the order everyone came in. we didn’t get everyone, if you aren’t listed and you know who was in front of you let me know and I will add you to the list.
| place | |
| 1 | Nathan King |
| 2 | Jed Johnson |
| 3 | Casey Morrow |
| 4 | Will Best |
| 5 | Abel Cardenas |
| 6 | Eric Hovey |
| 7 | David James |
| 8 | Ducky |
| 9 | Cory Poole |
| 10 | Josh Smith |
| 11 | Brandon Desjarlais |
| 12 | Kenneth Groves |
| 13 | Ryan Sorenson |
| 14 | Lou Hawkins |
| 15 | Nelson Grant |
| 16 | Luke Sherman |
| 17 | Chance Zaval |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Ryan Wilson |
| 20 | Dean French |
| 21 | Zack Merritt |
| 22 | Dan Schramm |
| 23 | Jeremy Mitchell |
| 24 | Kevin Groves |
| 25 | Jesse Merritt |
| 26 | Aron Armstrong |
| 27 | Griffin Waldrop |
| 28 | Byran |
| 29 | John Newman |
| 30 | Jacob Johnson |
| 31 | Maseo |
| 32 | Griffin McDowell |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Reed Foster |
| 35 | Andrew Fredrickson |
| 36 | Bobby Delfino |
| 37 | Brooks Withem |
| 38 | Logan Beach |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Derek Young |
| 41 | Nick Brink |
| 42 | Brian Wyler |
| 43 | Mark Fredrickson |
| 44 | Alison Jackson |
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| 54 | Larry III |
| 55 | Craig |
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This year there were 64 skaters on the course and Nathan completed Boone to Bush in just over 16 minutes!
Nathan won Precision trucks made by Cindrich Longboards worth $350.00, Jed won $115.00, Casey won $80.00 and Will won $60.00.
Thanks to all the sponsors, there were A LOT of prizes to give away and thanks to all who volunteered, the Club Run ran smoothly.
Larry will post a write up later that may or may not talk about how a few riders encountered a super ornery policeman or how a few of the riders got pelted with eggs by mean people in cars. It will definitely talk about how much fun it was and will include some of Corey’s photos.
Hey All
Here is a short vid we put together for the Salamander.
Flexy. Carvey. Slidey. Fun little board.
Cheers
TeamFunkapotamus
Well it has been while since I posted and I am sorry about that. We have been working on the Salamander. I posting info about the Salamander a while back. we rode it abused it and sent them out to team riders to ride and give me feed back.
So we now have version 4.0 this new salamander has more camber more concave and we also added a kick in the nose.
Keep watching for more info coming soon. I think this is going to be the final version. We have been having a blast on this new flexi carving board.
This is a little teaser video of the Tarpon project i have in the works. The Skating will be better and faster for the real deal tho.Enjoy , Cole Kurtz =)Tarpon Teaser