July 13th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
after the final gloss coat was applied. then a giant kamikaze moth dive bombed the tacky resin. DOH!
bottom view of glossed board, showing the twin keel fins.
the logo. Paka is Pat, in the Hawaiian language.
PAKA Surf Designs…a High tech operation outta’ Athens GA.
6′8″ Walker Blank, ready to be transformed into a Retro Fish shape.
the blank’s been cut to shape, planed, and the rough shaping of rails and deck is completed.
now the board just needs a little more detail work.
almost ready for the final sanding and fiberglassing!
July 12th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
We decided to go to International House of Pancakes on Epps Bridge Road in Oconee County for a nice sunday breakfast…what a mistake!
QUESTION:
how does a cook grill up a sandwich, and not see that the corner of the bread is GREEN with MOLD???
ANSWER: There is no reasonable answer…other than, “they served the GARBAGE on purpose.”
I mean…HOW can this health hazard get to the customer???
There were plenty of chances to catch it…you get the bread out of the bag(1st chance), you put the sandwich together(2nd chance), you grill the sandwich and flip it(3rd and 4th chance) , then you cut the sandwich in half(5th chance) and place it on the plate(6th chance).
then the server carries it to the table(7th chance to notice the moldy bread).
I was hungry…I started eating the sandwich. robin was on the other side of the table and she sees it…”oh GROSS, your sandwich is MOLDY!”
I just about puked it up right there.
words can’t describe my disgust…I hope I don’t get sick from eating their TRASH SANDWICH!
I’ll NEVER spend another dime at ANY IHOP…and y’all better inspect your food, if you decide to eat there.
the power of blogging is stronger than the moldy food served at International House Of Pancakes.
I.H.O.P. can Kiss My RUMP.
This Public Service Announcement is brought to you by Patio.(and will be forwarded to the Health Department)
July 12th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
Tybee surf webcam…or the closest thing to it.
http://www.oceanplaza.com/_webcam_template.html
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gas prices hurt surfing…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377621,00.html
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check out New Smyrna Beach…shark bite capital of the world. RAD!
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wave prediction…keep this link handy;
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=natla_height
July 11th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
The claim that I created the McFudgie has been deemed unsubstantiated by wiki’s innernet research.
…last time I let Fowler do my Public Relations work.
heh heh heh
July 3rd, 2008 — ALL POSTS
July 2nd, 2008 — ALL POSTS
june 28 weekend reports;
me and ty and robin went to tybee island on saturday and surfed at the south jetty for a few hours before high tide. we had fun. then we went to Cafe Loco and got some tasty seafood. it was a good day.
The ESA Tybee contest was postponed or cancelled or whatever…due to lack of surfable waves or something. whatever…there was parking and our waves were totally un-crowded. fine.
The Tybee skimboarding contest was at the other end of the Island, so we din’t see nuthin. should be results up on 17thskreekboys website soon? ummm, yeah…here’s the link to their skim pics page;
http://www.17thskreetbros.com/4-19-08.html
there was a mega-party at The Cowtown Ramp…saturday and sunday…25 bands…6 kegs…countless epic tales of shredding and bleeding. if you missed it, dude…you missed it.
the Some dude association held a blader/skater/bmx contest at spoa and didn’t tell anyone.(well yeah…I guess I saw a flyer somewhere that said something about frootbooters and $20 to skate a free skatepark and didn’t read any further…). so like 8 people showed up, kaden and kai dominated the event and sounds like everyone got some free stuff to take home. cool.
spoa folks are checkin out the donkey creeks thursday night 8til? while the “real” skaters will be hittin the verts at the mall food court.
that’s all for now…
P’s outt
June 27th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
June 26th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
June 22nd, 2008 — ALL POSTS
first place speed demon, rick
second place, justin
third place, dustin(the wind)
5 bandaids, patio
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here’s a sequence of the battling for first/second.
June 20th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
Come Visit with us at Progressive Skate Park for a day of Skateboarding (FREE) Demos, Contest and free product toss……………………………. Saturday June 21 - GO SKATEBOARDING DAY : FREE SKATE FROM 12 - 9PM Skateboard Demo By:Foundation Skateboards : Corey Duffel , Angel Ramirez , Abdias Rivera and Sean Gregoire Free Contests: es. Game of Skate and THE KRUX Kickflip Challenge THIS DAY IS A FREE TO SKATE DAY Closing at 9pm. Check out www.progressiveskatepark.com www.progressiveskateboards.com
June 20th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
June 17th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
another evening of semi-underground downhill skateboard riding, sliding, carving, street lugers and high speed launch ramps. june 21, 7pm at the biggest baddest skateboarding hill in ATHENS.
The hill’s a giant “halfpipe” with no cross traffic. verrry nice. get location/directions from Skate Shop of Athens. (I’m not posting location here, for fear of the google)
if you’re a downhillin newbie…I strongly reccomend trying the hill from halfway up the first time…then change yer drawers, tighten your trucks and try it from a little higher up the next time.
here’s a little viddy link…Georgia State Slalom Champion LowJ, going through the cones at 30+…
http://www.georgiaskater.com/pix/displayimage.php?album=146&pos=50
*Show Down is entirely dependent on theories involving “Show Up”.
June 16th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
someone has been going around my side of town…everywhere there was “gang” grafitti, instead of cleaning it up…they’re just spray painting U.S.A. over the gang stuff.
what a great idea.
the U.S.A. gang’s gotta keep’em in check, yo.
June 11th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
UnderSkatement…another of Jason Thrasher’s creations…a skateboarding oriented movie festival thing. artsy, skatey stuff…fun times.
learn more about Underskatement at their website.
Movie Night with UnderSkatement is brought to you in part, by the Skate Shop of Athens.
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June 8th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
this just in from the blackberry innernetts…
Today in NC, Lindsey took first in her age group and won overall for
women. She got some crazy air over some hips and did a long 5050 grind.
Kaden got first in his age group and 7th overall. He lost in the
second round of the joust. He finally landed his dream trick in a contest
the backside invert he followed that with some huge air and a layback
air. Kai won his third straight age group concrete rodeo he lost first
round of joust. He landed an awesome late grab over a hip for the
first time and aired out. We will send pics when we get back.
June 7th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
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Overall: Codey Hudson / Under 8 - 1st Niko Howard 2nd Kai Campbell / 8-11 - 1st Kaden Campbell 2nd Connor Brewington 3rd Alex Cheek / 12-15 1st Codey Hudson 2nd Drew Trosclair 3rd Sam Adams / 16-20 1st Jason Steedman 2nd Zack Morrisey 3rd Jared King / 21 & over 1st Patio Mendino 2nd Chris Bradley 3rd James Griffin
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The Weather was Hot, like the skating that went down.
The Commentator was Smooth, like the concrete that was ridden upon.
The Parents and Organizers who donated time, effort, and awards to make this event happen are waaay cool, like the breeze that showed up from time to time.
All the skaters pushed their limits, but CornDog pushed it just a little too hard. Good luck with the injured arm…get well soon!
Subway had sammiches out there and were helping donate towards Phase2 of SPOA…thanks. yummm.
Everyone ripped it up. I know I saw a lot of new tricks and progression by the young guns today; Kaden’s frontside layback air is sick. Lindsea’s getting backside airs over coping. Jason’s backside boneless might have been the trick of the day? Old School’s coffin reminded me of Rick at the Crazy Lou’s Mr.P’s Street Thang. Connor nailed a sick transfer from the 6′, up over and into the snake run. and the list goes on…
I know I saw a few cameras out there…and we’ve got the contest photo gallery set up, so there should be some cool pictures rolling in soon.
later skaters!
p
June 7th, 2008 — ALL POSTS
We headed East…to Tybee Island for the day. We arrived at the South End about an hour before high tide. Perfect Timing! There was a mushy thigh-waist high windswell. I got some pretty fun rides before the tide started going out(and taking the waves back to sea with it). There were still some “peaks” kicking off the end of the jetty…so I sat off the end of the jetty and picked up a few decent rights. Then along comes Robin and the camera about the time I caught a nice one(and she wasn’t lookin!). So I headed right back out, and there’s another nice one lining up. I didn’t bother to look back and see where I was in relation to the jetty. I jumped on it and took the drop…right about the time I’m bottom turning it sucks out from under me and I see Barnacle covered boulders…I tried to hold the turn and maybe, just maybe…then I heard a loud clunking, crunching, scraping sound(I immediately had that Maverick’s rocks scene in Riding Giants run through my head)…about the same time, I felt my thigh and hip contact rock with a solid SLAM, as my hand, leg, and feet cheese gratered on the Barnacles. I eventually made my way off the jaggedy rockpile and headed on down to Cafe Loco for lunch…and of course, we’ve added 2 more souvenir Wet Willies cups to our collection.
you can’t bleed if you’re just sittin there, watchin someone else do it for you…
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band-aids, hydrogen peroxide, neosporin- $20
surfboard repair-$75
robin’s best “sports action sequence” ever- PRICELESS
June 3rd, 2008 — ALL POSTS
and don’t forget the skimboard contest at Tybee, yo.
June 2nd, 2008 — ALL POSTS
June 1st, 2008 — ALL POSTS
First of all…I’d like to thank all the loyal spoa locals who showed up and got their GRINDS on, as well as the spectators who cheered them on to new heights in GRINDAGE! If we get a crowd even half that size at next weekend’s SPOA event, that’ll be sayin’ something.
Cool overcast weather greeted the competitors, and a gusty wind pushed riders into the silo with extra speed. Many bricks were ground, and trucks got lighter. It was a fun competition indeed…and there was more noise in the park than I’ve heard in a long time…coo-ell.
First Place GROM was Doug! A brand new set of shining INDY trucks* was sitting on the bricks, waiting to be claimed by a grind…Doug took the trucks, by getting his first Brick Grinds EVER! congratulations…
And in the “adult” division…after much bickering and threats and name calling and crying, it came out a 3 waaay tie.
the Judges scored them as;
rick ty2k patio
ty2k patio rick
patio rick ty2k
too close to call.
“you” shoulda’ been there…
Patio
*(thanks to Skate Shop of Athens for providing the Prize!)
