falling fans

whats with fans falling out of stadium seating? 2 falls in one week and 3  falls in 2 weeks is just nuts.

Lakers

Bears

and UCLA

 WTF? are they gonna start makin ya wear seatbelts at the stadium now or what?!

PING PONG

when the waves suck and the wind is howling there isn't anything better than some serious ping pong rallies. shit even if the waves are good nothing beats a beer and a game of pong after surfing. lately ping pong has been a life saver. heres some serious inspiration for amateurs aspiring to be pros. McCabe this is for you!

kelly S10ter on CNN

can't wait for next years champion ad campaign... KE11Y perhaps?

VULTURE BOBBERS

One of the sickest videos ever. who says you need a garage?!?!?


VULTURE BOBBERS DOCUMENTARY from MOUSTACHE PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.

Its Black friday and...

Robert Goulet's Birthday R.I.P.

Thanksgiving

A quick history-

Pilgrims land in Massachusetts after Columbus got lost.
The Pilgrims mingle with Natives.
Winter storms kill many of  the new "discoverers" of the land.
Natives aka indians survive the weather because they've done it before.
Pilgrims declare the new world theirs and feast for three days on crops the indians grew.
Years later George Washington declares the first Thursday of Nov. a holiday called Thanksgiving.
Now its the last Thursday.
a day off of work or school is always cool.


ever bbq a turkey?

Movember

If you didn't take part this year, you blew it.


 Don't forget next year!

"Ventucky" train bridge Graffiti

What's with this shit? as soon as you enter "historic downtown ventura" from the 101 the first thing you feast your eyes on is a scummy looking bridge with shitty graffiti sprayed all over it. If the over payed and underworked "graffiti team" Ventura has deployed  isn't going to help "recover" this unique landmark lets hire some struggling artists to put some cool shit on the bridge that represents our city. While the artists are "recovering" the bridge local paper and news organizations can document the operation and get some well deserving folks into the limelight. Maybe the problem faced in "recovering" the bridge is that the railroad companies own the bridge and not the city or county and it's definetly not top priority of a money hungry corporation to ease the eye pain of some potential income sources to our struggling city merchants. In other words, maybe if that bridge didn't make it look as if you were exiting into the hood, maybe more people would stop and buy something at your local art gallery or restaurant. Its a shame ventura has become known for thrift stores  and not its potpouri of natural and one of a kind offerings. There are few places in the world that offer beaches, mountains, lakes and agricultural  within minutes of each other all at a reasonable price, if not free.  

heres ventura's graffiti hotline website... i wish they would take their own advice. 

Ventura Graffiti Website

ROBERTS SURFBOARDS BEST SHAPES OF THE YEAR

Congrats to 805 shaper Robert Weiner for winning the coveted "Shaper of the Year." What a major accolade.
Not to take anything away from the shaper of the year title, but in the age of computer generated surf design and so many shapers making such similar boards the title Shaper of the Year seems a little outdated. Now don't get me wrong, this title went to the best person this year. shit, you can't paddle out with out seeing at least 10 Roberts designs so obviously people love them. but any shaper this year was making stubby, wide tail grovelers for high performance surfing in marginal waves. yes there was conflict between Al Merrick and some online videos, with the bottom line being which came first the chicken or the egg?  did the white diamond inspire the dumpster diver? was the dupster diver out before the dump truck? was the ...lost rocket out before the White diamond?  Whos to say and who's to really care because since the beginning shapers and surfers were always trying different things, taking one of somebody elses and either adding or subtracting design ideas to make it that much more responsive or lighter or faster or whatever. the underlying goal was always how can the surfers on my boards surf the best they possibly can? the answer is with the best equipment for the skill set of the surfer and waves being ridden. its hard to get over the guys with 7'8" fun shape quad fin setups. its like you can barley stand up you really think the $800 custom quad setup is gonna put you over the top? maybe the award could be changed to "shapes or shape of the year"and will be given for the design that pushed surfing to the highest level, as the "diamonds and dumptrucks" did this year. it still takes a skilled  and quality shaper to create the designs so there would be no recognition loss there.

 "WHITE DIAMOND" the board that changed it all!

this years shaper of the year, seems to have worked with all degrees of surf skill and theory and came up with the best all around boards for this modern design theory. So that in its own right is a great claim to fame and well deserved. Roberts has been a grass roots local shaper dedicated to putting out the best boards he can for his surf team and all clientele for many years. Its about time he caught his big break. It truly proves that if you stick with something that you love through thick and thin dreams can come true. That's indeed what this award is about. Who knows what next years surfboard design gimmick will be but with s10ter, dane, jordy and Roberts' inspiring team defining modern surfing on unique equipment, I'm sure next year will bring a whole new dimension.
p.s. i want a 5'3" white diamond.. hook it up!



heres some previous Shapers of the Year
Tom Wegener
Rusty Preisendorfer
Bert Berger
Eric Arakawa
Al Merrick

A.I. would scrap

BJ Penn walked out to his usual anthem, a crazed look on his face wearing a black shirt with yellow writing that said "A.I. WOULD SCRAP." that tribute shirt gave everyone goosebumps. good on ya B.J.! R.I.P. ANDY!

Oh yeah, BJ licked matt hughes in 21 seconds! when matt hughes woke up from getting beat he asked his corner "what happened?"

click here for a full video of the beat down
UFC 123 Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn

the embarrassed response from Matt Hughes corner

tonight

Choke Motorcycle employee nick... is the worst!

175 pound FXR doing what few have done before