TEAM S.K.A.T.E.

So I went to the JB park the other day and played team S.K.A.T.E. Some of us took our losses harder than others, Danny especially. But I think we can all agree that we hate Derek and all his STUPID tricks. Also of note: Chris and his board. -Worful

ROAD TRIP LIFE

Up North Trip from kyle beachy on Vimeo.

Here's a great video I snagged from the Dude LIfe blog of their recent trip to Wisconsin. Looking good boys! -Worful

THE RAD ONE ZINE ISSUE FOUR

Wissman just posted issue four of his zine. There's a sick Justin Van Sant sequence that Bobby and I liked among other great stuff, go check it out! -Worful

KING OF THE LOU

I've been loving these King of the Lou videos that Wissman's been posting on his blog. The skating in the winning entry is so good and the rest of the tomfoolery is also fun to watch. -Worful

PRETTY'S VERY FIRST ONLINE VIDEO CONTEST!

Street League Riot from YouWillSoon on Vimeo.

The internet can be mind numbing. I'm not sure if my standards for humor have gone up or if i've become jaded by the steady stream of, what used to be, hilarious videos of cats farting and hiccuping at the same time, obese people falling flat on their faces, etc.etc.etc. Such as it is, I rarely find myself laughing out loud by myself watching these sorts of things anymore, if ever.

A couple weeks ago at 1:00am I found the youwillsoon-created gem above posted on Kansas City's done blog, Get At Me. Thats a time usually reserved for pointlessly browsing around the internet for some cheap entertainment, then sighing, then yawning, then cursing under my breath, and finally falling asleep and dreaming of the same tired replays of local news bloopers, nut racks, and things in auto-tune that usually aren't in auto-tune.

The above video elicited laughter upon several repeat views and reminded me of many other examples of this overdubbed style of comedy and how generally hilarious it is when well executed. First I thought of Jason Dill's ad-libbed classic here. Then of a recent one here. And then youtubed a bunch of old MST3K episodes, people "shredding" and the like.

Point being, I want to laugh more. So we here at Pretty are collaborating with The High Five to bring you a very special contest and an opportunity to win a whole lot of free shit from both Pretty and The High Five.

This is a unique contest because we're not asking for footage of you skateboarding, because lets be honest here, no one gives a crap. Its very simple. We want you to create an overdubbed video like the examples cited and send it in for us to judge. It can be anything. It can be a video you find, a video you make, or even use the same videos and put your own twist on them. We'll post the best video on the blog but, bottom line, the one that makes us laugh the most wins the big prize. If we get more funny videos than we expect we might institute a 2nd and 3rd place but for now may the best man win.

Pretty makes zero dollars and The High Five might pick up a few bucks here and there but ultimately we are paying you to make us laugh, isn't that generous?

If no one submits anything, then i'll just assume the entirety of our readership are dullards that are devoid of any creativity, or the more likely scenario, that this is a really, really, stupid contest.

Funny video though huh? Chris Cole, what!

Send all submissions to prettytalk@gmail.com by Oct. 1st for your chance to win! Good Luck!

SOME DUDE NEWS

Bobby's been getting some bi-blog coverage. Plus here's a little clipper doodle from Kyle's blog of Randy ripping on a recent trip to Wisconsin with some of the Dude Life dudes. Check their site for more updates soon we hope, also new boards coming I hear.

LIL SLAM

In breaking skateboard and hip hop related news, none other than Weezy himself, Lil Wayne, reportedly slammed while skating in our fair city recently. I did not know he skates, but apparently he does. Awesome! Anyway, according to his Twitter he seems to have no hard feelings and felt that St. Louis was "good." For a more hilarious reading of the aforementioned Tweet we now turn to our very own Fox 2 News. Also, as always, shout out to the book drive. -Worful

WHERE'S THE DREWSER AT?

If you've been wondering what Drew's been up to lately, the answer is he's been ripping. Also he's kind of reminding me of Steve Prefontaine in that first video. I dig it. -Worful

DO AS THE WARD DOES

Lend a helping hand whenever you can, like our friend Tim Ward seen here with Buzzy Sullivan of Woodward West. They both recently helped children with autism learn how to skateboard at the Girl park through A.Skate. You can see more inspiring pictures here.

JUSTIN MODICA WELCOME VIDEO

Wow! Another rad welcome video from the folks at The High Five. We approve. And Randy's cat approves as well.

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

After witnessed such a high level of gnar over the weekend it was nice to head straight to a session that's a little more my style: Bobby, Troy, and a crappy loading dock. Perfect! -Worful

RAD BOARDS

The Rad One now makes boards, sick! If you want to get your hands on one stop by Infinity or contact the rad one himself, Wissman.

P.S. I had no idea Wissman kicked it with Gershon! I'm so jealous.

ATL TO STL

St. Louis Trip from Bottom feeders. on Vimeo.

Another sick crew was in town this past weekend, from Georgia. They were really cool and really good skaters as well. I met up with them and some homies and headed to the Kingshighway up ledge and they made good use of their time before they left town that night. Nice to meet you guys, come back again! -Worful

KANSAS CITY BROYALS (PART TWO)

Sunday I again met up with a very large mid-western crew at the blind school. Celebration was under way due to Sean landing something crazy. From there we went to the intimidating rail to bank off Kingshighway. It was sick watching so much crazy stuff go down. And the highlight was Reggie's wallie, so rad. I had to take off early but I hope everyone from KC had a fun trip, good to see ya'll! -Worful

KANSAS CITY BROYALS (PART ONE)

A very deep crew from Escapist rolled, grinded, and slid through town this past weekend. Super nice dudes and super sick skaters for sure. Saturday I met up with everyone at the blind school ledges and it was practically a block party. Next we all headed to the recently popular Pine rails and various trickery ensued. This ripper Arthur stuck something very unexpected and amazing, but not before taking a scary slam. Afterwards we went to Keiner and the grass hill was probably the most skated thing there. But it caused one board to go straight into the fountain. Luckily there was a girl just chilling in the water already, so she was very nice and grabbed it for us. From there we scoped out the Wainwright rail, but quickly got the boot. Our last spot of the night was the church rail near downtown for a generator assisted session. -Worful

VERT'S NOT DEAD

A funny thing happened on the way to the wallride. What happened was that I slammed. I rarely slam, because I rarely skate. I go skating a lot but this usually involves watching my friends push themselves while I try and document it. But said friends are constantly risking slams when I shoot photos of them. So it was only fair when Chris said he'd skate for some photos on some of the great new vertically inclined stuff at the Kingshighway spot ONLY if I skated in a photo too. So yeah, I slammed harder than I have in a long time. And it wasn't even that hard! I'm sure Chris slammed harder rolling out of bed that morning. Anyway I'm glad I knocked some much needed dust off myself. Meanwhile please note just how much higher Chris is getting than me on the wall. Jeez Louise. Anyway a big huge thanks to all my talented friends who let me continue to take photos of them! -Worful

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARED!!!

Happy birthday to one of the nicest and stylish dudes we know. We hope you had a good birthday weekend Jared!

NEW CATALOG FROM THE HIGH FIVE

Check out the new catalog from The High Five! Featuring Randy's new boards?! Is that a dolphin?! YEAH RANDY! Holy crap, I think I just OMG'd all over myself. -Worful

AND THEN IT APPEARED

Did this barrier at the Webster park appear out of nowhere? It seems like it. Is the placement of it somewhat problematic? Probably so. Does it weigh a million pounds? About that. Can it be put to good use? According to Kyle (and others) it definitely can. But yeah, it may need to be moved. -Worful

BOYZ AND THE HOOD

Looks like it's a video week. Well alright then. Today's offering is courtesy of the 222 Collective and includes a guest appearance by none other than our esteemed homey, John Hood. Do try his tricks at home, folks.

JABARI PENDLETON FOR WESTERN EDITION

Jabari Pendleton from Western Edition on Vimeo.

Okaaaaaaaaaay!

REAL TALK

Kids,
We need to have a talk.

When you travel to another city it's customary to go the local skater-owned skateshop and ask the locals where the spots are. This is a time-honored tradition; and, quite often, most shops will help you out.

It is not cool to go to the local skateshop and steal things from them. If Hell really does exist, there is probably a section of it devoted to the particularly heinous crime of stealing from skater-owned and operated skateshops. Possible punishments in this (hopefully) small portion of the Ninth Circle include attempting a trick for all eternity but never landing it (a la Sisyphus), having to watch The Storm (with Jerry's and Smolik/Turner's parts edited out) on an eternal loop, or perhaps being trapped inside this place during a sweltering St. Louis summer forever.

This past Saturday, our good friends at Escapist in KC phoned to let us know that some skaters from St. Louis stopped by and asked for directions to spots. After being given directions, one of them proceeded to steal stuff from Escapist. Pretty Skateboards roundly denounces this vile action. Our message to the perpetrator is simple: Fuck off and quit skateboarding, you ungrateful pile of shit. Right now.

BTW, if anyone can identify the person wearing the backwards hat in the above surveillance video, please let us know.

For the rest of you who know better: Please disregard this lecture, thank your parents for raising you so well, and enjoy the rest of your summer.
Sincerely,
Pretty

THAT'S OUR (BIG) BOY!

Congratulations to our friend Tim Ward who was awarded the title of favorite "Big Boy" by Foundation's team manager Mike Sinclair. Yes!

CRUISE CONTROL

Recently Reggie borrowed Bobby's bike for a minute to do his best Tom Cruise impression, which Bob seemed to appreciate.