Rainy day legends

Seemed appropriate for today. Of course, my rainy day wish would be for the sun to come out. Another legend by the name of Ron W. has a sweet interview on ESPN, which you can check out HERE.

Shaboobalaboopie

Old Timmy informed me about this gallery Cubby shot for ESPN. It's like a sweet dude flip book! Check it out here. Cubby also took a pretty digger the other day, so let's be careful and wish him the best.

The Sports Leader

I'm hoping this will embed properly, but I'm pretty psyched on how this came out. Randy Budman and I have been filming for a while and we put this together. In the bio they wanted an abridged thanks, but don't think I forgot any of you loyal subscribers... so here is the original thank you shout outs. Feel special, because you all make me feel that warm oooey gooey inside ya feel?! yee!

Any thanks? Hella, almost like that one ODB song where he thanks the eskimoes, boats, submarines, etc. But mainly my parents, my girlfriend Janelle, my brother Tim for being my mentor in riding and doing all the scary stuff first (handrails, wallrides, 360's, big gaps, eating shit), Chris McMahon for putting this edit together and being a rad dude, the homies I ride out in the 831 with ie Anthony Quiroz, Murph Dawg, Jackson Allen, Mike Hernandez, Andrew Heath, Kurt Siever, James Carpenter, Kory Thomas, Evan, Dusty, Marcus, lil D Hernandez, B-Rad, Jordan Murdock and Crazy Chris holding down Salinas, the many others around the way that stay Doin' the most ie Tony Campos, Jake Honesto, Cisco, Lydon George, Big Joey Cobbs, Jarrod Allen, Steve O, Johnny Wu, Vic from EPA, Caveman and the 4 oh Haters, Frisco Bay Cats, East Bay all stars, 707 Petaluma/Santa Rosa/North Bay connect OGs, and many more. Also shout outs to friends from school and throughout, relatives, extended family, SC trolls, kooks, lurkers, Eddie Money and annual free concerts at the Boardwalk, TronSteez, Che Holts, Roll Mexican, Pacific Ave Cycles for being the spot, Kelly Costello for pushing the limits of ornithology, Scummy Bears in Reno, and ESPN for hosting this video. If I forgot, dang my bad, I'll get you next round. Stay doin' the most and no bad days!

Fan-Boy Friday Film Fest-tacular

Exhibit A



Exhibit B

butcher ecd 4 from Skavenger on Vimeo.

Exhibit C

Xzibit D (of the Young sort)

A. It is undeniable that Mat Hoffman is the progenitor of BMX. From crazy airs, variations, and even handrails, he literally went head first to further every discipline of riding. And still does today. Hoffman will always be one of my favorite riders, and this diddy ESPN put up was a pretty good reason why.

B. Hoffman provides a perfect segue to Exhibit B. Without Hoffman, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have Butcher. Aside from being on Hoffman for most of the their riding careers (as I assumed for Butcher), you can really see the roots take hold in street riding for what Mat planted. People complain about how Butcher rides, saying that he's super sketchy and has gross style, but I think that's kind of why I enjoy watching him ride. That's freestyle, that's raw. I would much rather see Butcher jump a triple set rail hop to flat (at 3:25) rather than Mike Spinner do a 1080 or some other no-name barn footjam dance on a quarter pipe. I guess in mythological terms (because both Mat and Butcher are legendary), the Condor is like Zeus and Butcher is like Apollo or Hermes or some shit. This post also saves all of us time because usually whilst drunk, I try to find this section on a dubbed VHS and I'm sure most of the Country Clubbin readers who've experienced this have found it pretty annoying.

C. Which brings us to exhibit C. Mr. Mesta and Sprinkles. I like to rep the homies and I was digging this edit that they threw up on the facebook. I haven't seen it on any sites yet, so maybe this is the first embed. (Country Club Exclusive going straight to my head!). Good shit out of both of them, and for some reason it kind of reminds me of the two videos above them. Riding it all, doing their own thing. One of the finer points in BMX if you ask me. Plus, if anyone knows where that crazy looking blue and tan cement park is, leave it in the comments. Place looks wild.

D. It's all in the name, Xzibit and Young D. The title of the song is called "Figure it Out." Now go "FIGURE IT OUT, HELGIE!"

Oh yeah, this is kind of cute too...



Happy Friday!