Photos: Brooks Fritz

Most Ewoks are high. They live among the trees of Oceanside’s forests, in villages built between the closely spaced trees. Ewoks venture to the forest floor to shred, and set traps to catch various bmx prey.

For the forest dwellers, the surrounding giant trees play an important cultural role. These hunter-gatherers are a deeply spiritual people. They believe themselves to be descendants of the Great Jah Tree, a sacred tree in the forests.

The tribal structure of the Ewoks has a Council of Elders ruling over them, and the Council is headed by the Chief.

A medicine man also lives in the Ewok village, a keeper of mystical lore, and a healer to the injured.

He goes by the name of Al Qaida Chris.

Justin Hindery, lipslide

Jamie Weller, Backside tail slide

front side tail slide

Crail Front Blunt

The sacred tree was the main focus for the days session. Ewok Jamie went to work.

yanker in

I like the shadow on this ollie pivot ollie out.

Butt shot blunt to fakie by Willis Kimbel

willis, back lip

Xeno Miller, Board slide to fakie

Justin Hindery, 50/50

Jamie Weller, backside blunt slide

Willis Kimbel, Backside lip slide

Jamie, back tail

Xeno, krooked grind

Ewok village awaits for your arrival.

Tags: Alqueda Chris, beer beagle creation, Jamie Weller, jamie weller demo, Jivaro, Jivaro Wheels, justin hindrey, willis kimbel, xeno miller

By: Brooks Fritz

If your ever in Portland Oregon and don’t know what to do with your money head on over to Shrunken Head skate shop and spend all that cash. Unlike your standard mall shop or surf shop where the workers dont know jack shit about skating these guys actually do. It might have to do with that they are skateboarders first, business owners second.

Owned and operated by Justin Hindery and Mike Mccarley  are two humble dudes who aren’t trying to come up with some big scheme or get rich quick act. They are just trying to keep the dream alive. What dream is that? If you cant figure out by now then I dont know what to tell you. So if you are ever in P Town and need some grip, shoes, bearings, boards, etc Shrunken Head will have it and you will be helping keep that dream alive.

http://www.shrunkenheadskateboards.com/Home_Page.html

Address: 521 S.E. Morrison

Portland, Oregon 97214

Store Hours

Weekdays: 12-7

Saturday: 10-6

Sunday: 12-5

Phone: 503 232 HEAD

Team: Ryan Casado, Rocco Caravelli, Ben krahn, David Gravette, Dorfus, Taj Hanson, Xeno Miller, Andrew Adams, David Appelo, Peter Gunn, Brian Sloane, Jamie Weller, Collin Crespiro, Xander Dunlap, Chet Childress, Jeremy Tuffli, Clay Hunt, Corbin Hindrey

All of your favorite brands and then some…

Seriously. What you need?

Maybe some Jivaro’s?

Does anybody ride anything besides Indy?

If you didn’t know already.

Self Explanatory

Shop must be cool. I mean why else would Sam Hitz and Neil Heddings go there?

Plus right down the street is Burnside. So when the scary loc’s snap your board because you cant roll into the crow’s nest first run head back on over to Shrunken Head and pick yourself up a new stick!

Maybe you might even get a chance to see The Five…

Photo’s: Brooks Fritz

With the weekend Shrunken Head Seattle trip coming to an end at Dick’s Burgers it was time to head back to Portland Oregon since most of the “athlete’s” had to work the next morning. Not me though. Cause i’m a photo goon. Everyday is work for the goon. Or more like possible work. I have no life of my own. My life consist of waiting anxiously by the phone waiting for that call so I can go document someone else’s life with my big fancy camera. I’m just kidding. Well kind of.  So the Shrunken Head van was done and now it was time to figure out something else to do with the time I had remaining. Jamie had a few days left of work for the week and mentioned I could come up to his work at Windell’s. Ive said it before but I will just say it again. Jamie has been working at Windell’s quite a while now and pretty much can take credit for all the rad shit they have to skate there. Of course Jamie didn’t invent the creation of the half pipe or the physics of the wheel or anything like that but he his building stuff that I guess you could call out of the box? Maybe he got sick of me always bitching about how most of the parks are a joke and need to be more like marble madness. We have been going back and forth way too long. Or even the standard figure eights in pools. The time is now for concrete motocross track mogul slingshot marble madness rally race track skate parks.

Are you following me?

Jamie runs that shit.

Before heading to the shred zone we stopped by the coaches living quarters which is down the road from where all the campers stay. Skateboard coaches that is. Hence the sign.

Not too bad. Old Motel converted into the Coaches snow and skate bro living quarters.

They also have a killer pond right behind the living quarters but who cares about that. Who likes fishing?

Oh snapps foo.. Spotted the REV CLOUD.  Revolution Represent. ahh yeahhhrrr

Jamie said if I hurried up I could still make it to breakfast time. Not too shabby.

You know the camp food cant be too bad when the coaches will eat it. But then again this is Jamie Weller.

Some of the outside features. Sorry these photos aren’t that great. My camera decided to start doing weird things this day. I lost quite a few photos off my memory card and ended up with these scraps. I figured it’s  better then nothing. Good ol digi sometimes can backfire on yah. Note to self: make sure your memory cards aren’t too old. But seriously. Jamie has made this place really fun to skate. These photos give it no justice.

Inside set up

They also got a foam pit so you can take your rodeos from the snow to the concrete!

Coach

Front side Pivot.

The Campers were hyped when they got to watch the Jivaro wheels dudes shred during a low key demo. There were no megaphones or any product tosses. Just some quality skateboard riding by some shit heads.

JAMIE WELLER

Lien to tail

MIKE MCCARLEY

Nose Pick

JEREMY TUFFLI

Blunt to fakie

UNKNOWN

Backside ollie

JUSTIN HINDREY

Backside boneless

backside boneless 2

JUSTIN HINDREY

Stalefish

Head coach demonstrating a proper boneless for the campers and the session was done.

What? You think this is funny?

Me and Jamie caught Mike R&D testing for new Jivaro urethane.

Now this is what I call funny. I thought the 90’s with the big pants, big shirts and little wheels was bad. This takes the cake. If you’re around this stuff all the time then I guess you get numb to it it’s no big deal  but I had never seen or heard of these tall T things before. If you dont know what I am talking about then use the photos above and below for reference. I’m not sure if it’s a skier thing or snowboard thing but I was cracking up when I saw these kids wearing moo moos everywhere. If they think they are on to some next level shit they got something coming. Homer was rocking the tall T’s years ago!

Have a good weekend, week. day, hour, minute, and life.  All hail to the tall T! -Brooks

Tags: bob, homer simpson, jeremy tuffli, Jivaro Wheels, juntin hindrey, mike mccarley, moo moo, mt hood, northwest, skate rev, skatecamp, tall t, Windells skate camp. jamie weller

PHOTOS: BROOKS FRITZ

After a night of camping we decided to head over to Marginal Way to skate for the day.  You might be wondering what’s Marginal Way? If you don’t know its a D.I.Y skate park built in Seattle, Washington. Instead of getting frustrated with their scene, Seattle loc’s got motivated and took shit into their own hands and started building a place they could call their own. Like the bridge parks before hand, they scoped an area that wasn’t going to be missed by anyone but tweekers and bums and took the zone over. What started in October 2004 has came a long way. When I first went here In 04′ I thought great another shitty too much flat ground 1/4 pipe park. Then as a few years have passed the place has started to take shape. But that’s probably because renegade parks aren’t built over night, ya know?

Address : 3225 E Marginal Way S, Seattle, WA

BMX = DIRT

How hard is that to figure out?

you have to start somewhere

The parking lot has a nose.

Andrew, 4WD

Willis, Blunt side down the beak

Spliff relay

I cant emphasize enough on how  important  it is to stretch properly.  Also, make sure you hydrate yourself before, during and after any vigorous activities.

Xeno Miller, nose grind

hahahaha get it. It’s a nose grind! Damn I should be a comedian..

Willis Kimmel’s bean plant over the hip to parking curb ride is gnarlier then it looks.

Tail block by Mike Mccarley

Smith Grind

Sloan has the best front blunts in the biz…..

Boohyah!

Fat Chris FSA

Home is where the heart is…

Have a good weekend -Brooks

Tags: black & white photos, bridge park, chris adams, fat chris, Jivaro Wheels, marginal way skatepark, mike mccarley, sloan, washington skatepark, xeno miller

PHOTOS: BROOKS FRITZ

After skating Rolling Freedom skate park for a while and jumping in the river we got back on the road and headed north toward our destination: Seattle. Unfortunately We hit some traffic but the smart retards we are had some sodas to keep us occupied. Traffic wasn’t letting up but got word that a town called Kent on the way to Seattle supposedly had a Grindline park and sure enough the town did. Kent is located in the Green River Valley in King County and is recognized as an outlying suburb of the city of Seattle. As you know I love that hippie nature shit and the impressive Mt. Ranier can be seen from the park. Kinda cool.  So, the park is alright. Me being the big pussy I am these days the giant pipe and super bowl with steel coping didn’t really tickle my fancy. I preferred the kidney bean and the decks surrounding the park. Don’t get me wrong, there is a good time to be had here but once again in my eyes the park could be so much better.

Seriously. That’s a lot of concrete…

Address: 11525 SE 240th Street, Kent, WA 98031

Contractor: Grindline

Square ft. 17,000

Bring your nannies or you better have some fresh legs. Or just dont jump off.

For bikers or the pad wearing enthusiast.

Fun for a few minutes.

The back of the pipe

Willlis Kimmel too lazy to pump around this giant piece of shit would just roll in straight to bean plants off the back

“Street” Features surrounding the park.

Really? Seriously, just build some bumps.

This thing is actually a lot of fun though.

Only thing it could use was a ladder or some stairs. I get tired of climbing out after a while. That’s probably because I have toothpicks for arms.

Sloan 5.0

lip slide

Andrew Adams, stalefish

EXTREME CAMPING!

After skating Kent we got some ass backwards directions to the lake and we ended up driving around in circles for about 45 minutes. So we bagged going to the lake and headed to straight to the camp site where every one is pro at one thing…

shot gunning.

Cant go wrong with some Doobie Brothers

Dinner time. Time to grease up those aching joints. See ya next week. -Brooks

Tags: full pipes, grindline, Jivaro Wheels, Kent washington, Road Trip, seattle traffic, shrunken head, skateparks, sloan, Willis Kimmel

Photos and words by: Brooks Fritz

I was going to keep the story going from where I left off last week with the beginning of my trip in the NW but decided to mix it up and fast forward a few days into the trip and go straight to the Toad and Salmon chowder bowl contest before it becomes too old. Well, here’s the story. I was offered  a seat in the van of the Shrunken Head/Jivaro wheels athlete vehicle  and headed to Seattle for the weekend. The other antics from this trip will be shown later. This is just the stuff from the day of the bowl contest and sorry to say kind of pathetic chowder contest. I was thinking it was going to be a all day soup eating fat fest. When in actuality you probably could of placed  in the top 3 if you went and bought a can of Progresso or Cambel soup sand enterd it. Which now that I think about it wonder why we didn’t do that. Reguardless the day was fun. People got hyped and there were definitly some characters to keep everyone entertained. With that being said herre are some highlights from the Ballard Chowder Bowl.

The plan was to  meet up at 9am and get on the road… And it actually worked.  

Toad and Salmon last year had a chili bowl contest where it was a chili cook off / skateboard riding contest. Well, for this year Toad and Salmon were back at it again with a contest. This time it was a Chowder bowl contest at the Ballard Bowl in you guessed it, the town of Ballard, Washington. I’m not going to go into some crazy detail about the place but the above photo shows the layout of the old bowl. That bowl is no longer there.  They demolished it and built the new park a little over from the old park. I guess people are bitter about that. Some people say the old park was way better. Other people say they love the new lay out. And honestly I think they both suck. But that’s just me. Everyone has a right to their opinion right?  Maybe it’s just me but I just want to ride a race track super slip in slide water slide marble madness race track that never ends. But I guess that’s just me. Dont take me too seriously though. The place is fun. But so is a parking curb.

Chris Senn was one of the judges and Toad was announcing.

The female species even came out.

With their dogs of course.

Motorcycles are the new skateboards

Photographer, Dan Barnett

DJ Cuddle Bandit

Jack Given

Nollan Johnson

Ben Krahn

Hip Hip Smellz

Max Holbein

Bryce kanights gets in on the Shrunken Heads BBQ

Backside smith by Bellingham WA  loc Charlie Criag

Andrew Adams

with a 540

Danny Tumia with a lien to tail

Tailblock on the extension gone wrong by  Donavan Rice

Game over. Not really though.

Thumbs up!

Final Results

1. Michael O’Friel
2. Steve Reeves
3. Jerry Gurney
4. Donovan Rice
5. Danny Tumia
6. Max Holbien
7. Andrew Adams
8. Charlie Craig
9. Caleb Cole
10. Jack Given

Chowder
1. Jessei Ireland - “Jam Out With Your Clam Out”
2. Jane Goodwin - “Salmonilla Thrilla”
3. Jessie Rey Wilborn - “Soup or Sonic”
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Tags: 1. Michael O’Friel 2. Steve Reeves 3. Jerry Gurney 4. Donovan Rice 5. Danny Tumia 6. Max Holbien 7. Andrew Adams 8. Charlie Craig 9. Caleb Cole 10. Jack Given, andrew adams, ballard bowl, bryce kanights, Charlie Craig, danny tumia, dogs, donavan, hip hop smells, jack given, Jivaro Wheels, marble madness, max holbein, salmon, Shrunken head skate shop, skateboard contest, toad, Washington

Ryan Harris, Boneless, Mazula Montana, 2008: One of the funner trips I have been on in a while…… I really enjoyed Montana. Well I’m off to the painted Desert and Petrified Forest until Friday…… Have a good week. - Brooks

I Wont be torturing you any more with my trip out to AZ. . This is it. It’s over. I swear….

???

How many Shrunken Heads does it take to bucket a pool?

I seriously didn’t expect these stairs to go down. Wu Weller with a long shallow end stair carve/grind..

How’s it feel to carve the stairs Jamie? Greeeeeeeeeat!

Xander got em too… Then he backed it up with grinding light-death. For you unhip pool bro’s that means grinding over the light and the deathbox at once. Now I guess I could of shot a sequence of this. But do you really want to look at a 40 frame seq? Maybe you do…..  Sorry, I dont.

Angle 1 of light death.

Angle 2

Chappy and his new board…..

The skateparks were packed and pretty wack being the weekend and all. I love it how parents use the skateparks as day care centers…. So we decided to hit up this ditch we got directions to.   Steve Galicia with a melon over the hip. This place was pretty fun. But then again I love shitty ditches…

Ryan Harris frontside flipped from low to high. Maybe next week you can see a sequence of it when I figure out how to do the animate gif. seq’s that everyone craves for.

Out of no where it went from just us being at the spot to like over 20 people. Bmxicans, other skaters, even a white t-shirt club showed up…

Jamie doing something.

This is what happend to Ryan’s arm after the white t-shirt gang jumped him in.

Don’t they look like they’re having a blast! This ditch spot is EPIC!!!

After the ditch spot we went to this park. Sorry, I’m retarded. I don’t remember the name of the park. Maybe Chandler? I dunno. But it was pretty fun. Until I ran into some kid and fucked my wrist up.

Xander with a smith on the kinky bank to wall.

After the park we went to the bar to see this…. What?

Hungry?

Guitar pick pool…

Ooops…

We’re out. Back to San diego…..

Are you serious? More of this Arizona crap? You gotta be kidding me?

“Gotta choke up on that bat!” “Keep your eye on the ball!” Follow through with that swing!”

Ben Dickson promised us virgins. All we got was this blown out used amoeba…


Willis Kimmel

Mike Mccarley

Ryan Harris

Jamie Weller should of died on this disaster. Or maybe the caption should be this disaster could of been disastrous but thanks to the amazing Jivaro urethane Jamie was able to escape unscathed. Or not. I dunno.

Our introduction to Carl….

Well, not much changed from the picture above this one. Besides that it got dark and we switched locations…We did actually skate a skatepark. But the real session went down in the parking lot.

Grocery parking lot sticker.

While some of the crew decided to party in the bar others decided to stay in the van. I chose the van…. Rumors were flying around that Carl wastransforming into the infamous “Hot Carl”. We waited in the van with anticipation….

The rumors were true…. HOT CARL CAME ALIVE!!!

Day in the life of Jivaro in AZ part two.

Why we came here: Arizona’s scenery. This place is beautiful…

So I left off with part one with us having a few more hours in the van until we got to Phoenix. As the road sodas were being finished up we arrived. Well as we drove into Phoenix area we started to realize that we hadn’t lined up a place to stay yet. So everyone started to make some calls, but no luck. I guess everyone was in San Diego at the Black Fly’s booth or taking shots with Biker Sherlock or just did not want to deal with 12 dudes… We couldn’t find a place to stay. Lucky Xander’s good pal Ben Dickson was cool enough to put us up for a few days……
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First things first. We needed some more papers so we stopped by Blaze…

Tobacco water pipes…

Sorry, no crack pipes…

But they did have a Jason Lee water pipe.

“Hey should we get a 4 footer for the van?”

Ryan Prefers his Bammer. Where as Jamie likes his blueberry.

WU Weller getting all hyphy and shit with his dope new seedless jersey.

I dunno?

Ben Dickson’s state of the art house heater.

Night one truly coming to an end.

Woke up in the Morning to see everyone on the front yard training facility work out machine.

After a hard work out at the training facility or “TF” we went out for breakfast that took 3 god damn hours to get over and done with…

Finally the skateboarding on this trip begins…….