Trip to Cali

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

(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

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.

Night Club Ride

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
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54 Larry III
55 Craig
56
57
58
59
61
62
63
64

BOONE TO BUSH

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.

Salamander Vid

Hey All

Here is a short vid we put together for the Salamander.

LBL Salamander

Flexy. Carvey. Slidey.  Fun little board.

Cheers

TeamFunkapotamus

Salamander 4.0

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.

Tarpon Teaser

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

Just got my GoPro

Got my GoPro camera this week. It was a nice day today and we wanted to get some footage of a great local run.

It sucks to wreck but at least I got it on camera.

Larry

Old video , Komodo freeriding

Tarpon photos

Hey guys ,

 

Cole here again and decided to give a little update on how things are going here in the valley of the sun. After riding my Komodo at speeds around 40mph for quite sometime i finally got a proper board for speeds , and what could be better than an LBL Tarpon? As i am progressing as rider this board is giving me the resources to get there. We had a nice little sesh the other day and a guy was snapping some pics so i decided to post my favorites so people could see the beast in action =)

Fellowship of the Bearing

We are having a Fellowship of the bearing release party. Friday 4/17 at 9pm at my shop. We will be showing the video on a 10 foot screen. After the video we will be headed to the construction zone for some skating. I will also have the DVD for sale. This is going to be an awesome DVD and a blast to watch with a bunch of people

Call if you need directions 503-851-8614