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Steve Caballero at ‘Hagbowl’ in Pennsylvania. Colin McKay in foreground.
Steve Caballero in Pennsylvania
March 4th, 2010Spring Valley California 1978
March 3rd, 2010
It’s rad to see some photos of people ripping Spring Valley 4 years before I was even born.
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Art Show
February 19th, 2010
If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
February 16th, 2010
Screech- hammering…
Screech is better than almost everyone. He is probably the greatest pool skater-ever-to roll a backyard. Just Google ‘Josh Screech Sandoval’ and watch him burn! He pulls the most insane tricks & lines. He has the heaviest foot on the gas pedal & rides like its his last day on earth. Padless & fearless, Screech lights the fuse in every session. Thanks to Screech for showing us what can be done on a skateboard. Thanks to MRZ for capturing his mania. Skate-Ozzie
adam 12
February 13th, 2010adam12
By Ozzie Ausband
Adam- shallow stairs at ‘Escondido’
adam12- los angeles
‘Adam 12′. ‘Mada’. ‘Twelve’. He goes by many names, but truly rules the backyard pool scene in the Badlands. I can be fairly certain, that if we go to a brand new pool somewhere, ‘Twelve’ will do the shallow stairs within three tries. He will usually follow that with FS deathbox or FS lightbox in the same line. He’s a ghost. True style & speed personified. He can often be seen, wearing his ‘Morrissey’ or ‘The Smiths’ T-shirts to skate in. ‘Twelve’ is a great addition to any backyard session. Here are two different angles of Adam12, killing the box FS at an LA pool. Thanks to MRZ for the images. Skate & support your friends. -Ozzie
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Vans Rainy Day Session
February 10th, 2010Rainy days in So Cal usually mean your not skating but thanks to Gonz and Vans we weren’t left out in the cold. Thanks to Brett Benham for painting these jpegs for us.
Johnny – Styling front rock-n-roll
Jesse Thompson – Frontside Flip
Crail
Jon Hicks – Green Ollie
Decor
February 10th, 2010
…and the boards upon the wall, told the story of it all.
Many people have terribly inane things hanging on their walls. With the exception of family photographs & ‘art’, little else should find itself decorating a skaters home. Baskets, flowers, ‘kitsch’ & other useless rubbish, should be relegated to the yard sale. However, skateboards should find a place of prominence in every home. Let them cry out to be ridden! Let people see the futility of team sports & how the ‘Budweiser’ locker-room mentality is destroying children. Now, if we can only talk our girlfriends & wives into such an idea…..to say that its ‘doubtful’, is an understatement. No wait! I don’t have a wife or a girlfriend so….Thanks to Ray Zimmerman for the OG ‘quiver’ image. Skate-Ozzie
Pathogenic Pool.
February 9th, 2010By Ozzie Ausband
sans water
dirty diapers & excrement…
Riverside Shawn works in construction. He found this filthy little nugget on a Tuesday. By Friday, He & Ed had the water out of it. I received a phone call early Sunday morning from Salba. “Where are you?” I told him what was going on & he directed me to meet up with him and, ”….bring buckets & gloves dude.” Myself, Ed & Shawn drove over & started pulling debris out of this ghetto ‘Blue Haven’ with Salba , Billy & Adam.
This boarded-up, abandoned disaster was right out of the ‘California Apocalypse’. You cannot fathom just how filthy this pool was! The meth-heads & squatters had pulled the copper & innards out of every single appliance in the area, throwing it into the pool. There were wires, diapers, concrete slabs from the ‘cool deck’, bottles, cans, tires, ‘tupperware’ containers of rotting food & bloated disintegrating “somethings” in the black water. It was a tangled profusion of detritus. I would pull on a snarl of wire & debris, and muck would fly all over the place. We gave up, trying to stay remotely disease-free.
It was going to be one of those days. I heard a noise & looking up, saw Tony Trujillo, Rick Charnoski & Peter Hewitt saunter into the backyard. Peter Hewitt took one hard look at the pool & quipped, “I don’t think you want to fall while skating in there.” Salba directed everyone, tasks were handled & slowly the pool became clean. Adam 12 & Sean Mazza, borrowed buckets of clean water from a neighbor. We washed it down & everyone removed their shirts to ‘fan-dry’ the pool.
The blow-by-blow; Peter Hewitt- FS lightbox, shallow stairs FS and Mach5 were achieved. Salba-FS lightbox, side stairs & lightbox/cess/bs box. Damn! Adam 12- shallow stairs BS. Bad Billy- BS lightbox. Sean Mazza- destroyer lines, lightbox. Trujillo- Ipod/earplugs/cheering. Charnoski- nursing hangover with 3 hrs sleep/bleary eyed. Me- FS box, BS air. It was super fun…but I am still waiting to look down & see my skin dissolving from some strange new bacteria, found only in the ‘pathogenic pool.’ Thanks to Ed for the images. Skate & carry hand sanitizer. Ozzie
Style
February 8th, 2010
Aaron Astorga- the epitome of style.
Style is everything. Watching Buster Halterman skate the barn ramp in Wellsville, Pennsylvania, back in the 90s, I had the chance to see plenty of style. The guy looked stylish even when he was falling…its absurd. Blaize Blouin was a stylish guy as well, and we all love Chris Miller’s style. In an interview, Steve Caballero stated to me that, “Its important for the rider to make a trick look as big & stylish as possible…it is everything.” Skateboarding style has changed, in conjunction with the way skateboarding has evolved. Back in the 1960s & 1970s, people would ride in a very ’surf-oriented’ style. Now, there are street styles, switch- stance styles, vert styles & good old-fashioned slasher styles. One thing still holds true. We all know a great style when we see it. Aaron Astorga definitely has it on ‘lock.’ Thank you to Peter King for the image of Aaron Astorga at Mt. Helix. Skate-Ozzie
Powerflex5
February 7th, 2010Salba usually has a birthday gig somewhere…its a yearly event. We watch the band, listen to great music, then skate some roundwall the next day. This year, we headed over to Fullerton. It was a Friday night & the rain flooded the freeways. It took Sam & I, over an hour and a half to drive from ‘Ridiculous’. Peter King, Chuck Hults, Sean Mazza, & Ray Zimmerman were there. Chuck Hults was summoned to the stage & proceeded to slay everyone with a few really awesome DEVO tunes. When I looked around, all I saw were happy faces. Brian Brannon made the journey up onto the stage & played with Powerflex5 as well. They performed an old John Lee Hooker blues tune. It was a stellar night & I cannot wait to see Powerflex5 the next time out. Happy Birthday to Salba! Thank you to Peter King & Ray Zimmerman for the images. Skate-Ozzie
Salbas birthday gig
Sam, Peter King & me
Salba & Chuck with Brian Brannon.
Salba- 47th birthday bash.
Powerflex5 with Chuck Hults
Chuck Hults- Devo!
Salba
Powerflex5 & Ruby.
the crowded haus.