Iphone Video pt. 2

Here is some classic david cole footy from down in san diego along with a little snap shot into a trip up to bolinas california.

Best Iphone Video Clips of 2010 pt. 1

Through out the year i filmed a bunch of random stuff from my iphone, some too weird to put online. Here is part 1 of some of the weirdness. Some of just the random stuff going down in san diego, much of it being at UCSD. The school may look fun and exciting from these clips, but its not quite an accurate depiction. Here are some shots from protest rallies to fire juggling hawaiians to drunken sun god antics. Enjoy

Merry Christmas!!

In honor of christmas eve, get some holiday tunes rolling thru your blood! Here are some of my favorite christmas songs that have a soulful touch! Enjoy

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&send_id=1014550007&email=4f05818bbbe365439cee1de988facda5

the photo is a christmas card my family made a few years back! Photo by Tadashi

Myanmar and Bangkok

Patrik Wallner is the best dude. he's always got a video project or mini doc in mind and he's one of the most motivated filmers that i've ever skated with! When we were in Thailand he put together a couple quick shorts. Enjoy

This one is from a day trip to myanmar

this one is from a day in bangkok...

Austin Kanfoush

Sponsors: Axion Shoes, OJ Wheels, Oneup Boardshop, Santa Cruz

Frontside 180, photo: Bradford Bishop
It was hard for all of us to decide on who should have the last part in the video. Originally the video was going to be a promo for David Cole and he was going to have first and last part. Then we thought Ryan Harris should have last part, because the whole SHUFFL thing was his deal originally and his footy was looking epic. I think at the last second we decided to give it to Austin because he’s just a G and his footy was super raw.
Austin started kicking it with us when he moved from Pittsburgh to be a student at San Diego State. He immediately got along with all of us and by Ryan’s approval he was officially SHUFFL material. Austin is one of the most gifted skaters I’ve ever seen and when he skates he puts off a sort of Cardiel vibe that’s contagiously positive and motivating when you’re out skating. So much of this part was done on the whim and with gracious ease, which is why his part ended up being so deserving of the last part. Watch out for Austin in the future because he’s going to blow minds. Also, check his part that just came out on the Axion site.—Walker Ryan

Guest Skaters: Kyle Nicholson, Nick Panza, Drew
Filmed by: Rob Starr, Ivery Turner, Cuong Lieng, Eric Lesar, Dan Connelly
Song: Ghostface Killah, The Champ
Edited by: Ivery Turner

And in case you missed the Re-edit of his part that was a Sk8Mafia Saturday a few months back, here it is.

Edited by: Walker Ryan
Song: Big L, Put it On

Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris
Sponsors: Santa Cruz, Osiris shoes, Jivaro Wheels, 510 Boardshop, Roughneck hardware

Crooked grind, photo: Hainault

If it wasn’t for Ryan Harris, there never would have been any SHUFFL video. The acronym SHUFFL was created by some of Ryan’s OG skate homies and Ryan started repping it down in San Diego. Somehow it caught on and after awhile we decided to make a homie video. Since SHUFFL stands for Skate Homies Underground Family For Life, it seemed fitting to call the video The SHUFFL Video.
Ryan’s part came together easily because the dude is always busting his ass and always filming. He’s spontaneous and never seems to walk away from any session without getting an amazing clip or two, with a trick he’s probably never even tried before. The only dilemma for this part was finding a song. We tossed around ideas for months and nothing seemed just right. Ryan had his heart set on Money For Nothing by Dire Straights, but Ivery wasn’t down. The night before the premiere we still had no Ryan part and so I started piecing together his part to his original song choice. By 6a.m., Ivery had finished what I started and his video part was starting to come together. In the end, the finished product came out perfect in my opinion.
Ryan’s the ideal ATV shredder and will skate any and everything in his path. Look out for Ryan because he’s on the come up and you’ll surely see more of him in the future.—Walker Ryan

Ryan Harris in The SHUFFL Video from theshufflvideo@gmail.com on Vimeo.

Guest skaters: Errol Langdon, Trevor Morgan, D’ontae Smith
Filmed By: Ivery Turner, Russell Houghten, Cuong Lieng, Cameron Holland, Cameron Sanchez, Ramon Hess, Eric Lesar, Nick Lamm
Song: Dire Straights, Money For Nothing
Edited by: Ivery Turner

Paul Sewell

Paul Sewell
Sponsors: Osiris, Pacific Drive, Theeve Trucks, Remind Insoles, Homey flow

Frontside noseslide. Photo: Hainault
I met Paul when I was 17 at Tampa Am. He immediately struck me as a very thoughtful and genuine person, unlike most of the crazy young lads running around that contest, and he had the dopest front crooks I’d ever seen! It was no surprise that when I moved to San Diego a year later we became good friends and it was equally unsurprising that he was already great friends with everyone in San Diego that I was meeting throughout that first year. Paul busts his ass on and off his skateboard with whatever he’s doing, which explains why it was so easy for him to get through San Diego State with an Economics degree while never ceasing to push himself and progress on a skateboard.
Paul was able to bounce around quite a bit throughout the period of time we were filming, which is why his part stands out so strong. Even though the majority of this video was filmed in San Diego, it is nice to see a mix of East Coast spots in there as well, especially coming from a San Diego native. Paul really helped make this video happen and was determined to get it out there no matter the cost. Whether it was tracking down footage of every last homey who we wanted in the video, to helping get sponsorship money, Paul wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of putting this video out. Paul’s part came out great and despite having a full time job putting together concert stages he’s still out everyday skating hard and enjoying his deep love for skateboarding.—Walker Ryan

Paul Sewell in The SHUFFL Video from theshufflvideo@gmail.com on Vimeo.

Guest Skaters: Ben Skrzypek, Brian Emmers
Filmed by: Russell Houghten, Cuong Lieng, Ivery Turner, Ramon Hess, Alex Lewendowski, Cameron Holland, Cameron Sanches, Bryan Callaghan, Ryan Alvarado, Elliot Vecchia, Cuong Ngo, Cory Williams, Zack Mckenzie, Austin Mayer and Chris Ray
Song: Otis Redding, Higher
Edited by: Walker Ryan

Walker Ryan

Walker Ryan
Sponsors: Organika, C1RCA, Elm, Spitfire, Force, 510 Boardshop, Aerial7 Headphones, Paradox Grip, Roughneck Hardware, Skate Sauce wax, Remind Insoles

Kickflip. Photo: Hainault

It’s a miracle we were even able to complete this video because for the most part, there was no filmer who filmed more than 30-percent of the video. This video was composed of donated clips from generous filmers from all over. Ivery Turner was definitely our filmer, but he had a full-time job for most of the year and it was hard to always have him out skating. The rest of it somehow came together by tracking down all the random tricks we’d get when we’d be out skating with a large array of different talented filmers. Thank you to all the filmers who donated all these clips without asking for anything in return! And I’d like to give a thank you to all the shops who’ve carried the DVD! It’s cool to know that a bunch of skaters can still produce and sell a DVD, even in the hyper-speed interweb world. There are still some out there, so if you’re down to support the cause of homie videos, please do! Also, thank you to C1RCA, Organika, Osiris, Ezekiel, Filmbot Grip, and Sk8mafia for sponsoring the video! Without those companies the video never would have been made.—Walker Ryan

Guest Skater: Karl Watson
Filmed by: Eric Lesar, Ramon Hess, Ryan Alvarado, Russell Houghten, Ivery Turner, Lee Dupont, Alex Heskett, Cameron Sanchez, Corey Cabrera, Dana Shaw, Anthony Claravall, Brad Rosario, and Justin Carleson
Song: Anthony Hamilton, Do you feel me
Edited by: Ivery Turner

David Cole

David Cole

Ollie, photo: Hainault

I don’t know what to say about David Cole. I met the dude was I was 13 because we were from the same town, but at the time I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I’d never skated with him before that. It wasn’t like we lived in a big town and there definitely wasn’t any ripping skate scene. But this dude was hucking himself off the hugest sets with the steeziest finesse of any 12-year old I’ve seen to date. Today, the steeze has only gotten better, the skills have improved, and I’ve come to find that David is one of the rarest breeds of human beings I will ever encounter. I still can’t quite figure him out and I’m not sure if anyone ever will. That’s why we call him Crave.

Originally, Crave was supposed to have first and last part and the video was supposed to be his sponsor me tape. While filming, David was working full time at Panera Bread manning the sandwich line while suffering from one serious injury after the next. David broke his elbow super bad and didn’t go to the doctor for over a month due to lack of health insurance. When he finally went, they told him his forearm was basically close to falling off if he didn’t immediately get an eight-inch bolt drilled into his bone to connect his elbow to his arm.

Crave’s back to full strength and can be spotted shredding the St. Helena park in the town he now resides in while working at a burger joint called Gott’s Refresher. I still know David is going to be a legend in skateboarding, whether he ever gets sponsored or not. To this day he’s one of my favorite skateboarders to watch and as anyone who’s met him can testify, he’s the best person in the world to be around. Watch what a day in the life for him is like here.—Walker Ryan

Filmed by: Ivery Turner, Nick Lamm, Cameron Sanchez, Eric Lesar, Corey Cabrera, Russell Houghten, Walker Ryan, Ryan Alvarado, Grant Schubert, Jacob Steinforth, edited by Ivery Turner

Song: Fourtops, Reach Out

Tom Remillard

Sponsors: Anti Hero, Spitfire, Brixton, Converse, Ace Trucks, Diamond Supply Co, Route 44, Stance Socks, Daf Coozies

Guest skaters: Stu Graham, Peter Hewitt, Neil Heddings, Brandon Perelson
Filmed by: Russell Houghten, Ivery Turner, Dave Haong, Cuong Lieng, Shockus, P-Stone
Song: Billy Preston, Nothing From Nothing
Edited by: Ivery Turner

Tom Remillard’s part came together at pretty much the last second. I’d received a call from Tom a few months before we started editing the video and he had asked if he could have his unused footy go towards our video. After talking for a minute, we decided he should just go ahead and have a full part. Tom Grom’s been hanging out with all of us for as long as I’ve been down in San Diego and it was only appropriate he had a full part. But by the time we were almost done editing the video, we barely had any of Tom’s footage! Some how in the last week or two we were able to track down every random, lingering trick Tom’s filmed over the last year or so and by some stroke of luck he ended up having a full part! Ivery and Tom put together this masterpiece the night before the premiere and I can honestly say it’s one of my favorite parts in the vid. I wanted his part to show the transformation from the infamous grom to the grown man destroyer! He’s one of my favorite skaters and this part shows why, but wait until you watch him in person, it’s a whole other experience!—Walker Ryan

photo: Blair Alley

Dave Abair

Dave Abair
Sponsors: 5Boro, Venture, Heavy Bolt Division, Bones Wheels, Lucky Bearings, Huff Shoes, Westside Skateshop, Talent Skatepark

Dave Abair started hanging out with us a few years back and would periodically sleep on the floor/couch of this skate house that John, David, Andy, and Ryan lived in down in San Diego. It’s almost impossible not to love the dude because his kind-hearted, genuine personality just pours out the moment you meet him and you immediately get the sense that he’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Dave is also one of the hardest working skateboarders in the industry, despite being what Low Card once called an “unsponsored am.” Dave currently lives in Oakland, California, works a graveyard shift at a dog kennel in San Francisco during the night, and is ready to skate the moment he gets off work—at 8 a.m. I don’t know how he does it, but he manages to get so much skating done every week.
Dave’s part was a blast to put together because he had at least 20 minutes of cool unique footage to sift through. So instead of having the footage just barely fit together, I tried to look for the most character out of the very best clips to compile a fully representative Dave Abair part. I’m proud Dave came through for our video and I might have to say that his is my favorite part in the video. Somebody please give this dude the green light and turn him into a “sponsored” am because it’s long overdue.—Walker Ryan

Backside 50-50, photo: Chami

Guest Skater: Jeremy Reeves

Filmed by: Russell Houghten, Ramon Hess, Justin Carleson, Jacob Steinforth, P-Stone, Zach Chamberlain, Mike Thompson, Ivery Turner, and Ryan Garshell

Song: Eddie and Ernie, Bullets Don’t Have Eyes
Edited by: Walker Ryan

JOHN LUPFER

Sponsors: Stereo Skateboards, Osiris Shoes, Ezekiel, Pacific Drive

When I moved down to San Diego for college 5 years ago, John Lupfer was the first San Diegan I skated with. We were instant homies and for the first year I was in San Diego John would pick me up nearly every day to take me street skating. With out John I probably would have been stuck at UCSD that first year, friendless and completely disconnected from any type of skate community. Almost every dude in this video who is from San Diego was introduced to me through knowing John and he really helped make this whole video come together.

John’s part was looking mighty throwaway about a month before we put out the video. John had been holding on for dear life to about to 2 minutes ofamazing footy for the Stereo Video and was refusing to give us any of it. For months we begged but John refused to budge. Ivery and I were just about ready to hijack it all and put it in his SHUFFL part before he decided to give it to us with a clear conscience. This is by far John’s best video part to date and we were hyped one of San Diego’s finest, a true skate homie to many, could start off the video with a banging part. And the song couldn’t have been more perfectly chosen. John is the best!

-walker ryan

Filmed by: Russell Houghton, Ivery Turner, Cameron Sanchez, Garrett Hunt, Mark Stewart, Ramon Hess, Adam Stephenson, Cameron Holland, Ryan Alvarado, Eric Lesar

Song: Swinging Medalions-“Double Shot of my baby’s love”

Edited By: Ivery Turner

Photo by: Ivery Turner

They'll be posted first on the Transworld Site as a feature called "SHUFFL SHORTS"

http://skateboarding.transworld.net/1000125143/features/shuffl-shorts-john-lupfer/

JANDERSON is BANGIN

Josh Anderson, who is good ol Northwestern SHUFFL affiliate, has been lurking in California for about a month now, ripping his socks off. I told him to get a one way ticket so he could stay on my couch as long as he wanted ! 2 weeks later kelly, hank and i got evicted and we failed to get another apartment together. Josh was a good sport and helped us move and despite leaving him homeless, he remains in san diego to continue his thrashing excursions. Check out some of the stuff he did at the berrics in this banging ass bangin.

The SHUFFL Video : INTRO

I'm going to be posting all the SHUFFL parts online soon! Check skateboarding.com for updates. Here is the INTRO to the video. Song is called Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath

The SHUFFL Video : INTRO from theshufflvideo@gmail.com on Vimeo.

Organika United Nations

Incase you missed it, be sure to check out the Organika United Nations video the Berrics put together.

We had a whole week of videos posted on the berrics, so don't miss the text yo selfs, skate or dice, bangins, and other quality skateboard clips the people at the berrics kindly posted of the organika team. Chase Gabor is the hardest working filmer in skateboarding!

CRAVE GETS SPONSORED

David Cole ( Crave) just picked up his first sponsor! And believe it or not, its a winery. Karl Lawrence. Peep the commercial here

AUSTIN WELCOME PART

Austin has been killing it so hard with axion dudes! Here is all the footage of what hes been getting on the road in this welcome to the team video part! SO heavy

AXION BRAND-INTRODUCING AUSTIN KANFOUSH from axion footwear on Vimeo.

Abair gets a sequence

Check out the sequence abair has on the thrasher site. Watch the SHUFFL video to see the footy!

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/five-sequences/10-08-10/

Abair Hall of Meat

Check out dave's Hall of meat on the thrasher site. This slam is the first clip in his part! Go peep the shuffl video to see if he makes it!

SHUFFL soundrack part. 1

I'm gonna start doing this thing where i post zip files of music for everyone to download. I'm starting with all the songs i used for the trailers I made.

CLICK HERE to get the link for the download. Enjoy

Watch all the trailers here

Dave in the Life pt. 3

Here david gets a tattoo and then shreds the st helena park. Why he got a sk8mafia tattoo, very few will ever know haha

Guest tricks by kyle brown and andrew cole

Dave in the Life pt. 2

Here's part two. Enjoy

Dave in the Life pt. 1

So David Cole lives in Angwin California. Its a small town in the napa valley. He recently was forced to relocate from my couch in San Diego due to a lack of a job, lack of funds and some injuries which may have increased his desire to rage and not skate as much as he could have. Since DC came to SD the boy i grew up with known as david became the man San Diego knows as Dave who then became the maniac some now know as Crave.

Since his relocation back to the napa valley David/Dave/Crave has been on it! He's mellowed out, he's got a job, and he skates everyday. David is also always a blast to hang out with !

I decided to show up at his house and film what he does on a daily basis since he's been back home. This is what i put together.

I thought i was just going to get a 3 minute montage of skating, his hill bomb, and everything in between, but what i ended up putting together was a little bit more. Here's part one of three.

enjoy

Austin on the AXION tour

check out Austin and kyle shredding on the axion tour. Nollie bigspin bs noseblunt to regs? insane....

AXION NORTH EAST TOUR PT 2 from axion footwear on Vimeo.

expect a full austin part coming soon!

john lupfer leftovers

John's got the first part in the shuffl video and its a banger! He even had a bunch of footy leftover that i put together for this little edit. John's also a huge gangstarr fan, and even though koston already used this song back in the day, i had to put his skating to a couple verses from "now youre mine."

Also, check out the stereo site for the entire "Lupfer Week." Stereo gave him a blog with crazy pictures, a dope interview, a top 5, and a flashback recap of all his footage that's come out on the interweb. Check it out here!

AUSTIN on an AXION tour

Austin has been vanning it around the country with the axion crew. Here is some tour footy from their most recent east coast tour. Axion will also be posting a full austin part for a commercial soon. Stay posted...

AXION NORTH EAST TOUR PT 1 from axion footwear on Vimeo.

Ryan Harris in the park

When ryan and david were up in oregon, they shredded the skate camp they were staying at! here's an edit that santa cruz put up on their site. enjoy

John...DAY 1

Stereo is doing a week with JOHN LUPFER on there site! Monday is day one which comes with an interview and some dope photos shot by jason and ivery! His throwaway part will be coming in a few days...

check it out here!!

Switch Stance

Tosh hooked up this interview on ESPN. It has some old footage of me and david that's pretty classic. Check out tosh's work on the site, he's always killing it with interviews and videos!

http://espn.go.com/action/skateboarding/blog/_/post/5524231/switch-stance-walker-ryan

Major fs AIR

I spent a couple days in the east bay with ryan harris and the 510 crew. If you're ever lucky enough to see Major Jones in action, be prepared to witness one of the best styles in skateboarding. Watch out for Major in the future, he'll be killing it! Here he eases through a first try fs air at the berkeley park.

Jake Smith

Jake is one of the first skate homies i met when i came to san diego four years ago. He was working at utility and shredding his brains out every time he had a day off. Now he's the assistant team manager for volcom and getting the full time job hasn't slowed down his skating abilities. On the contrary, i'm pretty sure they've improved his skills. When i asked jake for some tricks for the montage, he send me a whole part worth of footy. Here all of it is, including the bangers that closed out the homie montage in the video. Jake is a true SHUFFL affiliate and he may be one of the gnarliest TM's in the biz.

austin's re-edit!

Here is a re-edit of Austin Kanfoush's banging last part in the SHUFFL video. This was last week's sk8mafia saturday, and the dude fucking kills it! if you ever get a chance to shred with this maniac, you'll be blessed with watching ATV ripping and a cardiel-esque personality that beams with positivity and over all HYPED-ness. Look out for austin in the future, he kills it. He rides for axion shoes, sk8mafia, OJ wheels, and one up boardshop! Toast one to pittsburgh for austin! For all yinz

DAVE on thrasher site

Check out dave's burley sequence on the thrasher site!

http://thrashermagazine.com/articles/five-sequences/09-03-2010/

SHUFFL/SK8MAFIA saturday!

Here is another sk8mafia saturday i put together. This has all the footage that the sk8mafia homies had in the shuffl montage. Go out and get the dvd now! its in several shops in the north bay, bay area, sac, and san diego!

RYAN on TSM site

SHUFFL homie Brooks has a crops on theskateboardmag.com and ryan has an ill photo in there! peep it !!

http://theskateboardmag.com/articles/fresh-crops-brooks-fritz/

SHUFFL MAFIA MONTAGE 1

Here is a leak of some of the footage in the SHUFFL video. This was a sk8mafia saturday on August 21st. Go out and get the DVD now! Its available at Pacific Drive, Utility, Route 44, 510, and Boardgarden! Go get it today!

If you're interested in getting a copy, please contact me here: walkerryan333@gmail.com

SHUFFL REVIEW

We just had a really nice review written by the homies over at fuel! check it out

http://www.fuel.tv/AdamSullivan/2010/8/shuffl-video-sweet-soul-music-for-the-eyes/

IN SHOPS NOW

The video is now available in Pacific Drive, Route 44, and Utility Boardshop. More to come this week!

DVDs are here!

The DVDs are here! call me or email me if you want a copy

TOM at Coastal Carnage

check out tom getting 2nd place at coastal carnage!

David shreds bolinas

Don't bring david to your beach house and expect him not to shred!

TOM GROWN GROM

tom grom has a part in the shuffl video and its banging. more of a tom grown than a grom. Here are some clips that didn't make it in the video, some from his super grom days, some from later. The SHUFFL dvd is coming soon....

DVD COUNTDOWN

From today until the dvd is in stores, i will be putting up one clip per day. Here is a recap of a fun day skating at UCSD. David Cole at his finest.

Shuffl tattoos round 2

There was a party last night and a tattoo gun was in use. Here is what happened...

pooscreen: down for life with my own signature

john: down for life

SHUFFL in bolinas

After the oakland premiere we all rolled out to bolinas. here's a short clip of some of the madness that went down. watch it here

charlie!

charlie's got a clip or two in the shuffl video! peep this mixtape of old and new footy!

he's the man

SHUFFL TRAILER : RJ's REEL

while ramon hess was staying on my couch for a few months earlier this year, we made a deal. He can stay there for free as long as he wants, but the footy that he gets has gotta go to the shuffl video. RJ contributed a great deal of footage and worked his ass off, and here is some of the clips that didn't make it into the vid.

ST HELENA PREMIERE!

We're gonna be having a premiere at the CAMEO cinema on monday, july 26 at 4pm ! Come check out the shuffl video if you're in the valley!

Homies Extras

Here is the extra footy from all the homies who donated clips to be in the homie montage. The montages came out banging! These dudes and many more will have cameo's in the Shuffl video, available soon on DVD.

nor cal premieres!

We're up in northern california!

the first premiere will be in oakland at ken's house on Sunday at 9pm

947 61st st!

for now, we're in napa valley relaxing

here's david jumping into a lake!

John Lupfer throwaway coming soon!

Later this week i will be posting an edit of john's leftover footy. Its going to be bangin! also, since the video is done and the premiere's having been going off, be on the look out for dvds in a shop near you within the next few weeks

the dvd will be a must have.

SD LOC'd OUT

The homie Twin ( adam stephenson) used to film all the sd locals down here. He's the first person i met down in san diego when i moved here. He's how i met john lupfer and everyone else and he used to make rad montage videos of all the locals. Here is the last one he made, which has footage of me, john, jordan taylor and many more. Its sick

THE PEARL PREMIERE IN REVIEW

For the most part, the jump off premiere was almost an utter failure. We made a deal with the hotel that we would get enough people in the place to meet a $4,000 minimum in bar sales. We also agreed to rent 10 of the 23 rooms in the hotel. On top of that, we promised them that we as skateboarders wouldn't get too crazy and that no more than 160 people would show up, since that number is the capacity of the bar and the pool.

The video was supposed to play at 8pm, and they were to shut down the bar around 11pm. Pearl hotel is a classy establishment, and i think they were expecting a classy crowd. By 7pm, every inch of the hotel was packed with grimey skateboarders drinking their own beers and smoking cigarettes everywhere they're not supposed to. my guess would be that 350 or more people were packed in the bar and pool area. Surprisingly, for a skate event, a good percentage of the attendees were lovely ladies. People were jumping off the banisters into the pool, sneaking into the hotel through the kitchen and getting progressively more wasted as the minutes counted down to 8pm.

Meanwhile, I was busy exporting the video in my car driving back from ivery's house where we'd been editing the video for the previous 48 hours, with no breaks. I get to the hotel and the place is gnarly. So many homies showed up i was almost moved to the point of tears, but i was far too overwhelmed to sit and get sentimental. I still had to burn the dvd!

So i'm in my room, burning the dvd, feeling like i'm on cloud 9. It was 7:45, the video was being burned, the hotel put on a trailers loop of all the web videos we've been putting on the blog, and the crowd was getting hyped. The hotel manager told me he was getting nervous and he wanted to play the video to keep the crowd controlled, and i assured him we were on schedule.

With 7 minutes left on the IDVD countdown, the worst thing imaginable happens. My computer completely freezes. With 7 minutes left, the burning program that comes with the macbook pro decides it can't complete the process. We diagnose the problem, which was due to having far too many applications up and running at the same time, along with a completely maxed out hard drive. Both of which i hadn't taken the time to check before beginning the process, which to my deep remorse could have taken me a total of 30 seconds.

After i shut down all the programs, delete an entire music folder, and retry the burning, i hear a knock on my hotel door. Its the manager, and he tells me that the hotel is getting its ass kicked and unless i have the dvd ready to play that moment, he's pulling the plug, calling the cops, and kicking out the entire party.

fuck.

I explain the situation and tell him itll just be a few more minutes, but he apologies and says there's nothing he can do. The party's over.

So there i am, in my room, watching the dvd countdown the minutes until the video is completed as the cops are storming the hotel kicking every single person out. The bar gets shut down so we can't meet the $4000 minimum, the video hasn't even been played, and as far as i know there’s tons of drunk skateboarders outside getting arrested.

once the place gets cleared out, the dvd completes the burning process. I have the dvd in my hands while the whole party is kicked out of the premiere! I tell the manager its ready to play and he runs to put the video in.

This is when the magic happens. Somehow, once the video starts playing, people just start appearing in cheers, as if from thin air. People run in from all unguarded entrances, through the kitchen, over the fences and around the back. Herds of people stumble out of the ten hotel rooms, and as the john's video starts playing i hear loud cheers and look back at a packed bar and a full upper banister of homies.

After the video played, the manger called the cops once again and San Diego's finest cleared out the masses.

in retrospect, The SHUFFL premiere happened exactly the way it should. Skate homies showed up from far and wide to watch a homie video, the cops kicked us out and the higher authority tried to stop the fun, but in the end we got to do what we wanted to do anyways. Sounds much like what we do every time we go skate. Almost an utter failure, with a solid victory in the end.

Thanks to everyone that showed up and made the party fun.

SHUFFL

here are some photos provided by nick lamm and jason hainault

David met people at the door who didn't have tickets to get in. This was pre-Crave transformation

John was wasted before anyone showed up. Kelly and John, bros for life

Paul and his boys

the crowd begins to grow...

poolside kicking it with danny wallace, spencer and tomgrom

Wearing a banner is part of johns new osiris contract

Heavy C, kelly bro, nikki and diego...partying

harry and sean conover

jimmy carlin showed up but didn't get to see it. Kong flashes number one for jimmy cuz he's the best

andy, lester and....

CRAVE!!

Paul and mike fitz. Fitz didn't get to stay

Ben Shapek and harry

Katie and the crew of her babes

Heavy C, ji-san, and ryan being a gentleman

fake hackysack

lapdog, nikki and smolik.

Paul and his crew

lesar, ji-san and his lovely lady sarah

PD

Lenny, kelly, me and nick tucker

shuriken and jimmy are boys

chris troy claimed the hammock

definitely post CRAVE transformation

disaster....

...as the crowd gets big

Russell and boof, the drunken alias of lupfer

spencer prati and amanda harlan

crave was probably the reason they called cops

nikki and her babe friend

sk8mafia

marshall, lefever, and jamie p

lenny

larelle, contemplating a jump into the pool

dave abair aka dave ababy

crave and his mafia affiliates

jimmy, jimmy and jimmy

PLAY IT already

DC and DC

what cops?

and it plays....