Pete Benda with the Sector 9 Joel Tudor Mini

So we needed to get some photos so Pete and I went out after work and got out jimmy jam on. We set up a Sector 9 Joel Tudor Mini board with some Randal 150′s and some Abec 11/Sublime 62mm 100a Fernando Yuppie Powerslides. It was actually pretty freaking amazing.

Pete Benda with a BS board slide on this lil ledge

I realized that the Sector 9 Joel Tudor Mini Board is probably more of a park board rather than a street board, seeing as how it doesn’t have much concave… and well it isn’t a popsicle shaped deck either.  It has a nice pointed nose and a crazy square-pointy tail thing. Man its crazy fun though. But regardless of shape and size we have fun on this little thing here.

This wasn't even close to a land.

I was doing this little wall ride/slappy thing to 5-0 on here and Pete got a picture of this happening at one point. There is no way I was landing this seeing as how I wasn’t trying to do this at all but it opened up my mind to some tricks I want to get now. Like a slappy 5-0 to no-comply? Or a No-comply slappy to 5-0… the possibilities are endless!

This is more like it

Slappy type tricks are just fun. I like riding on these big Abec 11 wheels cause when you drop off the wheel and onto the hanger when doing a trick you can really feel it. The best part about this little session Pete and I had was that this ledge is so small and dorky but we had such a fun time messing around on it. Thats what I love about skating… doing stupid stuff, having a good time, and not being too concerned with everything being all perfect and in formation. I have to give some of the credit to this board set up though. That Joel Tudor deck is so sick! Sector 9 seriously did an awesome job on that one.

Pete getting a wiff of awesome

Pete FS Air

Then we found this amazing bank. It is the length of a tennis court and it is seriously phenomenal. We were skating it in pitch black though and so when the flashes went off you were basically left blinded. It was pretty sketchy but fun none the less!

Me - Alley-oop FS 180

One thing besides the board that I was stoked on was that the wheels we were skating were actually very durable. Usually power sliding on tennis courts is a surefire way to get flat spots. I was definitely doing power slides and still no flat spots on these Abec 11/Sublime Powerslides! 

Pete Backside Air on the Joel Tudor Sector 9

Pampita… you keep on impressing me and I am sure everyone else as well! I remember it was almost 2 years ago when I found your photography and wanted to do a write up about you on the blog.  Back then you were just starting to get more and more into longboarding… I can still remember all your orders! In no time at all you have turned into a gnarly skater that can threaten the boys on the hill! You have all the skills to make you a prize for any team to have; you skate good, you learn fast, you make rad videos, and you are insanely artistic. Pam, you rock so Im putting you back up on our blog!

For any of you who don’t know… Pam is a 22 year old shredder from the Dominican Republic. She has helped take their small but passionate scene down there and put it on the map. She has already become an Ambassador for “The Longboard Girls Crew,” as well as a team rider for Comet Skateboards. Check out her longboard website, “Long Life, Long Livin‘,” in your spare time.  It is full of photographs and videos, its basically all in spanish (conversations) but skating is a universal language all in its own!

Pam Diaz, You Know You Love Her!

Want to shred like Pam? Well you are going to have to step your game up quite a bit but here is a little insight into the gear she is shredding! In this video above you can see Pam mashing on her Comet Skateboards Grease Hammer, which is an amazingly fun board. She is on some Abec 11 freerides for some of it but then it switches to some Landyachtz Mini Hawgs. For trucks she is on some 176mm RKP Surf-Rodz. She has a nice looking Triple Eight Brainsaver helmet on and if you can’t tell by those awesome yellow pucks, she has some Sector 9 Driver gloves on… some ones I rock!

Pam has really only just stepped onto the scene and she is making a dent everywhere she goes. You best believe that there is a bright future out there for Pam… she is going to get BIG… I called it a while ago and I am sticking to it. You just wait and see! Good job Pam! Keep killing it! XD

Endless Roads 2 – The Island from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

In Episode 2 the ladies head to Mallorca for more gnarly hills, free ride, and a quick display of road rash.  Marisa Nuñez and Amanda Powell give the details on their set ups and prove they have the coolest job in the world.

AKB 48 SKATES? HAHA

So there is this weird girl band sensation in Japan, there is still a boy band one too but this group in particular kind of took it to another level. Their name is AKB48 and there are 48 members of the group. These are just some of the main and more popular ones.  Funny thing is all the girls in the group are around the age or 13 or 14, with the exception of a few “leaders” who are a bit older… and by older I only mean “of age,” so they are still only like 18 or so. These ones up here are some of the “leaders.”

Im surprised that longboarding hasn’t blown up a bit more over there, considering all the hills. I lived over there for quite a while and I got my brother in-law doing some downhill. Stay posted to the blog guys cause I am heading back pretty soon for a trip. I will be posting all sorts of sick photos!

I doubt I will be running into AKB 48 with all their skate gear but if I do I will be sure to get some more photos for all your viewing pleasure.

Wanna know another funny thing? My older brother in-law has been to one of these girls concerts before. But thats really not surprising because the majority of their fan base is guys from the ages of 18 – 25 or so, I wonder why???

Well, enjoy the eye candy guys!

Endless Roads 1 – Yellow Horizons from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

The first in what is now a series of 3 videos featuring the Longboard Girls Crew and Daddies Board Shop team riders Mariza Nuñez and Amanda Powell in an epic road trip through Spain.

Baja Teal helmet from Triple 8, Halsey Apparel original drawing from the Monroe T, Serg Torkkensson infront of a bunch of Earthwing and Rayne Decks, Pink Steer Hoopdie.  This is just the tiniest glance into the daily glamour of a career at Daddies.  Sh$t cray.

Pete Benda - Wallride

We don’t know what it is but there is something about wall rides that just are appealing. Generally you see a wall and don’t think about riding on it, well unless you got a board under your feet… It really just grabs our attention as another way to defy gravity with a skateboard.

Pete Benda Kickflip Fakie

Pete Benda FS AIR

Banks are classic as well… this one is pretty small but its still fun to play around on. Classic portland spot!

Spencer

Spencer is actually riding the fernando yuppie sublime/ abec 11 power slides. They are nice and big so rolling over rocks and stuff to get up to jenky little spots like this are nice and easy!

Spencer Doing a wall ride too!

This is the same wall that the skate everything photo was taken on. Same spencer too

 

Its the middle of the week and you feel trapped in the machine.  You want to break out.  You can feel yourself struggling to get free.  You can feel yourself morphing into a blue googly-eyed monster and like chase your french maid mom around the kitchen and then be a cowboy and then a boxer and friends, the end is in sight.  I see the light, press play and you will too.