The Big Takeover

It's crazy to think this was ten years ago. This was my first attempt to make a video. There was absolutely no reason to do so. I probably gave out five copies and called it good. This was back when Barton actually skated, I used to jump down stuff, Luc wasn't the Yeti yet, and Jamey was the only one who had style. For the five who care, sit back and enjoy!

Yada Yada Yada...

You know the drill by now. Daniel Curiel gets tricks and we just watch.

Steady Rollin

Stephen Figueira - Wallride

School's Out

Ben Huntsinger - Gap Back Lip

Thou Shall Not Comply!

While the rest of us are slowly chugging away at Jazztato, skateboarding's most stylish goober, Ryan Preciado, gets clips every time he gets out. Booyah!

making Pontus proud - no comply tailslide

Rink Stink

Just another day...

 

Family Photo

Happy Thanksgiving from the Jazzpush/unearthed family. 

Shenanigans

Jazztato is slowly chugging along. We may not be doing much, but we're sure having a ton of fun!

More Baby D....big surprise there

Fellow Potatwerp, Joel Potter, has been steadily snapping some fresh flicks of Daniel Curiel down in the LBC. Check his blog for some epic photos! http://joelpotterphoto.tumblr.com/

Uncle Joe's

James Fuchs just posted a new Lounge vid. You best check it!

Vxtras

Just another video of Baby Daniel making us look like wusses.

Jazztato Promo

For all the tater-tots...

Jazztato

It's official. The rumor no one has been talking about: Jazztato is happening. It will hopefully be dropping right around the end of the year, but you know how skate video premiers work...soooo 2020?

Skate Warehouse is hosting the Transworld Skateboarding "Outliers" premier this Thursday, Oct 23, at 7:00pm at the Palm Theater in SLO. We'll be playing a short Jazztato promo before the film starts, so make sure you come out. We'll see you there!

RIP Matt Reason

Such a bummer to hear about the passing of Matt Reason. He was one of the main inspirations for me to learn wallrides and pole jams. If you don't know who this is, do some research and watch his parts.

Jazzpick - Danny Minnick in Next Generation

Skateboarding is at a point where variation and acceptance is at an all time high. Park guys, street guys, vert, rails, curbs, no comply's, and ledge dancing is all accepted. Despite all of the tolerance, skateboarding has neglected to bring back this extinct creature called the mini ramp pro. 

H-Street's Next Generation (1992) exemplifies the mini ramp pro at the peak of its existence. Some of the parts may be a bit hard to watch in this video but I think Danny Minnick came through with a short and sweet part with style and originality. That's why we pay homage this month to a criminally underrated part that would put most of these Cayucos ramp kids to shame.

Don't knock coping dancers until you've tried them. They're not easy.

The Spotlight Kid

Daniel Curiel - Fs 180

Photo by Stephen Figueira

VXdeath

Ty made this little edit mere hours before the cam met its imminent doom.

Quick Clips

Bank Run

T-Bone gettin it.

Central Coast Chaos After Black

What you see here is the after black section of Central Coast Chaos by Newsense (2001). It's a long one but there are some serious diamonds in the rough. I sometimes wonder what happened to these characters who were once a staple of skating in Los Osos. Where is Choo Choo? Does he still use a hip pad? Did Scabs ever get to skate the pyramid after Tristan was done dancing on it? Will Mike Salmon ever have his rematch with the cardboard box?

Although these questions may never be answered, we at least have the memories of what was Newsense. Thanks to Kory Kroll for finding me a copy after five years of digging. Thanks to all the guys in this vid for having enough ethic to create something for themselves and to inspire others.

Watch Part 1 of Central Coast Chaos here!

No Homo, All Homie

Joel and I had a nice little morning session this week in 100 degree weather. It was a hot, sweaty, mess.

"He Still Skates"

Ryan Preciado- Gap wallride

Keep Looking

Boris the Spider

Once upon a time, Barton Boris Bodrian actually skated. He had a blonde mohawk, a silly earring, and did Gonz flips. Oh wait, he still has Gonz flips.

Mucho Pain, Mucho Gain

This is a screen grab from one of the hardest slams I've seen Daniel take yet. It spooked him pretty good, however, after a few minutes he shook it off and went for it again.

 I've never seen him more relieved than when he landed this front grind.

September Jazzpick: Chad Tim Tim in 'A Time To Shine'

Although this may not be a "classic" part quite yet (2006), this has been my favorite video part since the first time I saw it. There are two things that particularly stand out to me in the part:
   1) The most stylish flat-ground nollie flip in the line at 1:31...so smoov!
   2) The insane switch line at the Belmont ledges starting at 2:53.
As far as I know, up until this year, Chad Tim Tim was the first person to grind the top ledge and the only to do it switch. So sit back, kick your feet up and start the month off right with this part.

Cheers!

Gnargaritaville

This double set is literally across the street from my house and I've always dreamed of skating it but knew that I would never be able to touch it. It's super gnarly and tall enough to sack Shaqille O'Neal! Luckily I can skate vicariously through my skate-puppet, Baby D. I point - he does. It's a pretty good thing we got goin on over here.

Daniel Curiel- Front Grind

Daniel Curiel- Front Smith

Welcome to the Big League!

Daniel Curiel (aka Baby D aka Young Yeti aka Tatertot) embarked on a new journey this week. Our little boy is growing up; he's flown the coup and gone off to college. In true Long Beach fashion, I brought him to the highest ledge known to man and he wasted not time gettin buck. It's so cool to see a ripper from a small town skate in a real skate city. He was genuinely "spot-struck" - he couldn't get over the fact that he was skating the same ledge that pros skated. Well, he joined the premier league with a back smith that was damn near nipple high on the lad. Well done my friend, and welcome to Long Beach. You're gonna fit in just fine.

Last Hurah

Had an awesome day skating with Daniel Curiel before he moves to Long Beach. Take care bud. 

Curblature

Just another curb post. Losi Grind shot by Daniel Parks.

Blaster Master

You can carcass huck all you want but Stephen has you beat. Sometimes the basics are so good!

Steez

Woody is back in Morro Bay!!!

Child's Play

Evan Smith better watch his back!

Too Gnar

It's always humbling to see the big boiz skate local spots. If you think you've ever done anything gnarly at the Morro Bay ditch, it was probably just child's play compared to this beaut.

August JAZZPICK drumroll please...

 This is my first post on jazzpush, so I hope you will like it; it was a enjoyably tedious thing to choose one video part that gets me hyped to skate for this month's 'jazzpick'. The song, the skating, the editing, the spots, the tricks, and the skater for this part are perfect. This whole video was incredible; and yeah, you have all see it, and no, it was not underground, but it is poignant and paints a picture of skating at that time. It was a time when I was really keeping up with skating and Stevie was inspiring me. Honorable mention: Any Jon Allie, Brian Wenning, or Ryan Smith part, Johnny Layton "Good and Evil", and Brian Hansen "Slaughterhouse".

-Love, the yeti. Whew.
  

LAdaze

Home

The first week I got home for summer I took a pretty nasty fall. One dislocated shoulder and six weeks later, I'm still wallowing in my sorrow and won't be able to skate for another month. However, that hasn't slowed the other Potatwerps. They're going harder than ever. As kids, we all looked at this spot and wished we had the cajones to actually do something on it. Twenty-some-odd years later, Ben used his big boy legs to pop this boardslide and land on some crusty ground. Be on the look out for Potatwo... coming later than sooner.

Jazzpush Unearthed Clips 5

Good times in Cambria!

Reminisce

Even with the ground literally falling to pieces, I can't justify giving up on this spot. It's still the best.

Fs sweeper photo by Daniel Parks

Lounge

Our buddy James Fuchs just put out the first issue of Lounge, featuring some East Coast shredding and a Cayucos cameo by Daniel Parks! Keep up the good work guys!

Jazzpicks - July

For this months Jazzpick selection I went with an all time personal favorite, Gershon's part in the Globe Opinion video (2001).  GMOS had an incredibly powerful approach to skating and made a perfect song selection to highlight that.  It's always good to get a flashback to how you remember skateboarding being as a kid.  Watch and enjoy!

Freedom of '76

I miss skating with Pearsonator and Reliable. I'm guessing 2005.

Ween

More Baby D

Mostly filmed by James Simonaro during last summer.

Big Pop. Big Problem.

 Apparently Daniel Curiel didn't see our last post.

Photo by Stephen Figueira.

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Cornball

As the love/hate relationship with SLO Park comes to an end, a proper farewell seems necessary...

Backside flip shot by Jade Sadeghian (2011).

Thought I would start it off with the straight assassination of the old handrails by Greg Calise (2004).

These were during the days where I would actually hoping fences to skate the park. How things change!

Kicker to couch? Where's the ladder?

Cougar crushes!

This edit by Jade is one of my favorites. Such a good song choice!

During this time there was talk about Cooper making a SLO Park video.

10 tricks with Vito.

Friday nights at the park were always a good time. Here's some B-Lace action.

One of the great traditions of the park are the weirdos who end up lurking for months on end. Mossy, Tristan (who waxed the pyramid), and General Steezy were all lurkers who made the park seem even more weird. 88 The Alien might be the top winner.  Thanks to Jade for making such a ridiculous video and thanks to Dylan for stealing the show.

Some more Jadetage

The red ledge came at a perfect time when it seemed the park was getting stale.

Stephen likes beer.

VHS vibes from Mikey Days

The wonder child himself.

Sorry for never filming here Cody.

This went way too long so lets end it here.

Jazzpicks - Hokus Pokus Night Session

We decided to start a new monthly section dedicated to inspirational skate videos that are out of the realm of SLO County.  My pick for June is the legendary night session in H-Street’s Hokus Pokus (1989).  A longtime friend, Steve Money once described to me his first viewing of Hokus Pokus, as the absolute shock and awe of so many never been done tricks left him and his friends screaming throughout the entire video.  Steve isn't the only nostalgic H-Street fan, as it motivated a new generation of street skating to take over in the coming decade.  I know Matt Hensley’s stylish pop-shove it backside grab will forever be engraved in my mind, and the shredding instrumental track is equally top notch.  Enjoy Carroll, Hensley, Donger, and the Dance of Life in this absolute classic.

High Jump

Eli Stein goes for the over-under approach with this high risk hippy jump.

The crowd seems skeptical, but that don't phase Jankem - ollie. 

unearthed Issue #6 Out Now

It took a while to get here, but issue #6 of unearthed made it to print!  This issue features Ty Hjortland on the cover, an interview with Daniel Curiel, Lance Mountain unearthed, and a great write up by Eli Stein about the Central Coast skate scene.  unearthed is available at finer skate shops and businesses around San Luis Obispo County. You can also grab a copy by emailing jazzpush@yahoo.com.

Special thanks to Daniel Parks, Eli Stein, Chris Pastras, Ethan Bettencourt, Stephen Figueira, Dieta Skateboards, Portland Wheel Company, Stereo Sound Agency, and Skate Warehouse.

As it should be

Every once and a while a video comes along that perfectly captures the true essence of skateboarding. Pontus Alv hit that nail on the head with this one. The perfect mix of artsy fartsy and raw street style. Kickflips for the young guys, jump ramps for the old guys- this truly has it all.

Euro Trip

Hard to believe this was almost a year ago, but I had an opportunity to spend some time in Europe this past summer with Ben. It truly is skate heaven on earth.