THRASHVILLE (PART ONE)

Guy, Bobby, and I took a long overdue trip to Nashville this past weekend to see our old friend John "Doubt It" Hood. The boys were nice enough to pick me up at work after I got off, and Bob was nice enough to drive us there through the wind, rain, and some of the most awful hail I've ever seen. In his nice new car no less. Thanks Bob! The rainbow after the storm was nice though. When we got in that night we were greeted with a kiss in the form of one of Hood's mom's awesome mosaic pieces in front of their place. That night Hood took us out to a fun bar and then we hit the hay. The next day it was a lot colder than we thought it was going to be, but we went out skating anyway. Hood took us to a fun outdoor park to warm up, and then to the famed Legislative Plaza. That spot is sooooo sick. Hood showed us what smooth ledge skating looks like. But the weather was getting to us, so we headed to a local youth center's indoor park. You could LITERALLY skate the stairs at the entrance thre. Anyway, it was fun, but not as fun as the park outside the center. Also the pink helmets were a nice touch. But they were of course outdone by the the TMNT helmet this one kid had fashioned. -Worful

LOST AND FOUND

Is there internet etiquette on snaking? More specifically on blog snaking? For hypothetical instance, say there was already one blog post today, should the other bloggers sharing that hypothetical blog wait to post until the other blog post has "finished its run"? Also, are you tired of reading the word "blog" yet?

Well here's a collection of Drew related clips that I found when I was cleaning out and backing up my hard drives this past week. I hope you all enjoy them, and I hope I didn't snake anyone!

-Jake the snake

BOBBY'S OTHER FAVORITE SKATER

AZ VACATiON part 11 - SAG from matt blevins on Vimeo.

Other than this dude all Bobby can seem to talk about is his other favorite skater lately, Scott Gall. So here's some new footage of said skater. Enjoy!

FULL LENGTH DUDE LIFE VIDEO?!?

Fresh Start from David Thomas on Vimeo.

Are the rumors true? Are the dudes at Dude Life making a full length video? We sure hope so!

PARALLEL PARKING

Another day was spent at the Webster park the other day. Guy sold his old board for the steep price of one dollar, Bobby showed up on his new ride, Alex had a snack attack, and Drew showed up (with no hair no less) and deemed the bank to curb his new favorite spot in town. He also was dressed very similar to Joel, which Joel seemed psyched about. Later on Joe Jackson put on a slappy demo on the flatground to curb and basically shut things down. -Worful

SEE SAR

Check out the newest offering from Alex Hoffman and Ryan Sublette, Sar. Once again they do not disappoint, nor does anyone else in the video. It's super rad!

FOR REAL

Argus was nice enough to buy the new Real video and Joel was nice enough to have a few of us over to watch it on his projector last night. Thanks ya'll! They were both stoked on the video, as were the rest of us. It's pretty dang good. Also Bobby showed up on his recently fixed motorcycle, doing a very good Max Schaaf impression, which was exciting. -Worful

HEATING UP

I met up with Bobby, Alex, and Sam at the Webster park the other day and got to see the new flat bar I'd heard about. It's fun, but in a random spot kind of. But hey the Webster park isn't trying to prove anything to anybody, ALRIGHT? Anyway, after that we went to Imo's for a quick snack before meeting up with Guy at the Hanley Industrial Court for a quick session. On the way home we stopped to check out a gap and ended up instead watching Bobby drop into a 5050. It was sick! And he certainly worked for it. -Worful

HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL

I got a nice surprise in the form of a text from Argus wanting to go skate the other day. And to sweeten the deal he called Joel up too. So I had two handsome rippers on my hands but nowhere to skate after we got kicked out of the banks across from the Galleria. Joel suggested we stop by this other bank under a bridge, so we did and they put on a good show for the various runners and bikers on the path there. Thanks guys! -Worful

SITTING AND EVENTUALLY SLEEPING ON SOUTH AMERICA

This concise and fantastic edit of the 5boro team from their trip in South America over the winter really reminds me of what a lazy pile of lazy pile I can be. I was in Peru nearly a year before this particular trip and I can't bring myself to even import my footage much less edit it. I mean, it is two hours of primarily sightseeing footage on my crappy "flip" camera but it does include my only documented crooked grind nollie flip pop-over and a SICK clip of Worful, two things that just do not happen often. I could even spend the time i'm frittering away writing this now to start... but... I. just. can. not. seem. to. deal. with. the... tedium.

Welp, nothin' Saint Louis related here other than this old hoosier, but hell, these yanks floated on down the Big River with me a couple back, and if they ain't good for somethin' on this here thing then goddamn. Welcome back anytime. Any ol' time. Goddamn.

READY, SET, SKATE

Sunday was even warmer than Saturday, I think it got up to 90 or something crazy. But it wasn't humid which was nice. It was very un-July. Anyway so I met up with Joe, Schwartz, Chris, and Reggie at this nice up ledge. Then we headed to those chubby flatbars. Things were going fine, and then Joe sort of went off on a weird tangent with his tricks. After Ray did a handstand Gabe focused his Quicktrip cup and deemed the session over. But before we left we witnessed and honest to God remote control car race. Fantastic! Since we were so close to it and since Joe apparently had only been there once years ago, we headed to the Hanley wall next. Joe got in some good stuff, as did the rest of the crew, just in case we didn't make it there again any time soon. -Worful

JOEL'S MINI TOP FIVE

Joel's on fire! Check out his mini top five he did with Wissman.