Hey at least I told you this time it would be a few days before I would post this part two from go skateboarding day.

So after the blow out at the Pier, I was pretty much over it. I was going to call it a day when Nate Sherwood called me and said we should meet up and have some actual fun. Just some classic curb skating. So we decided to meet up at the infamous Road Runner curbs.

Go skate day can be argued in both a positive thing and as a negative thing. Personally I am for it, yet I kinda despise it at the same time if that makes any sense to you. I will try to explain.

I do like the idea of informing the masses that we as skateboarders aren’t fooling around and won’t be going away. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for people to realize that this skateboarding thing is not a fad or just a phase in our lives. Don’t you just love it when you get ridiculed for still riding this so called toy? Maybe it is just a phase or a toy to you, but seriously how do you quit skateboarding? Maybe if you can’t walk anymore. but even for some people that doesn’t stop them. Or how about that one blind kid doing back nose grinds? So in all actuality quiting is out of the question. So if that message can get across to the general public maybe we could actually get something decent to skate. Like really decent. Actually good. Like a park that’s more of a ride instead of these uncreative auto-cad designs that every town has. Yeah, great another kidney bowl with a death box. Super, another shitty street course. Wow, another cradle. I mean really is that it? Doesn’t anyone else want to skate a racetrack course style park? But then in the other direction go skate day pretty much just blows out street skating. Informing everyone about skating just makes more people realize to skatestop everything. Isn’t that why everyone has to go overseas to film these days?

You can ollie over a trash can here in the USA and it’s worthless. Go some where foreign and do the same thing and it’s a cover or a double page spread. So what would you rather have? Skateboarding blow up? Or skateboarding blowout? I guess only you for yourself can decide that.

The Coors Light airplane was a sign….. We needed some refreshing curb sodas for this hot ass day.

two wheels

fs nose grind

Grab grind

I hate computers. They are a great tool but I still hate being in front of this screen all the time. What I really mean is I cant learn this stupid animated giff seq thing you all crave for with out it looking like crap. Or all the photos come out backwards. I’m no computer nerd. I don’t know all the key commands or how to make photos look like they are from 1801 or 2090. So this is what you get. A 360 pressure flip Coors light manual that is too small to even see. Kinda reminds me of a old video grab sequence you would see in 92′.

first try and not a sip spilled….

Frontside beer block

Backside beer block

Krooked grind to fakie

The following words below are Nate Sherwood’s brain on Go Skateboarding Day:

WELL We all know about Go skate day. it is the biggest marketing scheme I have ever seen. I skate everyday. Why have a day for it. It is like A go beat your wife day or go shit day. or go jack off day. it is lame to make a day for something as normal and as common as skating. a true skater thinks of skating as breathing. “LETS HAVE A FUCKING having A go breathing day”. My good friend Sean said to me 2 years ago when the subject at hand was brought to the Table. I love skating and I love the shops and everything in it. but I hate over popuSKATEtion. loads of kids getting in my way. pissed off pigs with rubber bullet guns. cigarettes in my face and having to shake hands with germ infested cock suckers who could give2 shits about my life or health. . So This go skateboarding Day I decided to separate from the heard with my boy Brooks after dealing with the o side police sucking at life and filling my day with much strife. We went to my old work and hung in the abandoned building till the coast was clear of pigs and then we went to a local school yard and skated and slammed some nice cold brew from Brooks ice cold fishing cooler. The day was rad and I got a bit lit and so did Brooks. next thing I know we were sun burnt and beat up and ready to call it a day…. Nate Sherwood.

Nate’s first annual jack off day

The END

Good ol Oceanside, California

Sorry I didn’t get to travel across the world or go to any carcass hucking skateboard gatherings. Gas is retarded and I’m broke as fuck. So I decided to check out what was going on in my home town. It was definitely not what I am looking for but decided to go see what the masses were doing anyways. I don’t know what my problem is. I’m not that old and I’m not that bitter, but pretty much all I can say is that I’m all about the scene that has no scene. And skateboarding is such a scene… People dressed up looking like pirates and shit. So I guess I am in the wrong business then huh? Being that I was once told by someone that you gotta be a social schmoozing butterfly to make it in this biz. Here’s a Oside Go sk8 day recap.

” Are you guys stupid or something? Cant you read the sign!

See that awesome spectacular beautiful resort in the background? Yeah, that’s the reason why the old skate park is no more.

Oside has no where to skate. At least no designated fenced off day care center that’s an excuse for a place to ride a skateboard like most of all the other towns around here have. Here we are outlaws, even in your own backyard if your ramp is over 3ft high. So this year the kids got smart and took go skate day into their own hands and set up some stuff to skate where the old skate park used to be….

Nothing but the finest.

A perfect place for a skate park. Right by the beach in downtown with a nice ocean breeze and it will never happen because the property is too valuable to waste on a worthless activity like skateboarding. It’s not like it’s a way of life. Don’t you know it’s only supposed to be a fad…..

Grow up already and join the Marines.

Jeff Blue, front side blunt slide

Downtown Oceanside wildlife

Angle 2 of Blue’s front blunt

Prizzy!

Oside loc’s

Shred doggy dog Ian Gunlach and up in coming photographer JT Rhodes

Nate Sherwood

Nose Blunt

Nose Grind

Oceanside Police love skateboarding!

The city of Oceanside has been milking skateboarding since the early 80’s. Their all about having contest down at the band shell but then have the double standard of not allowing skateboarding anywhere. Oceanside has hosted the X Games, the Triple Crown and other contests to make themselves money. Yet Oceanside still does not have a permanente place to skate. In fact it’s straight up illegal to skate in Oceanside. I love my town!

” Carlsbad has a skate park. Why don’t you all go over there and have your little gathering. It’s a excellent facility right next to the Carlsbad Police station. Just remember you helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards. You guys would love it, Tony Hawk endorses it! “

Oceanside’s Finest!

You only wish in your wildest dreams you could be as cool as these two tools.

shut down

Skateboard and you will end up back there….. What do you think Danny?

So everyone was shut down and ended up 50 ft away at the infamous hubba skating flatland playing s-k-8 and whatnot. Next thing you know I see a hyped up piggy pull out the riot rubber bullet gun and I thought things were going to get interesting. It didn’t and after some negotiating everyone was let back into the old skate zone. I was over it by that time and went and met up with Nate Sherwood.

Part two tomorrow.

( or the next day or the day after )

Tags: Go skateboarding day, Oceanside california, OPD