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    welcome to the Blogside Inn, sit down and i'll treat ye tay a half a Bass
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    been watching the Gary Mariana doc on Epicly later'd, in fact i've been counting the minutes til each new episode is released. if you know then you know, if not here's a link - get on it. and indeed catch up on the older issues, esp Cardiel.
    essential viewing

    http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=15405843001

    make mine's a halfaBass
  3. Master Administrator
     
    check the steez on 2 of the country's favourite rippers.



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    • CommentAuthortrev
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    did ollie get his wee finger cut off
  5. Master Administrator
     
    shit, i know it's friday and there's beer to be swallyed but take a minute and check this oul Karma photo from Brian Ueda. aww man why can't i take a beauty like thon. classic grainny-ass shapes

  6. Member
    • CommentAuthorrichie
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    dorts i ve got the back smiths if you ve got the time?
    back in muff for the next while to study.
  7. Master Administrator
     
    a bit of friday Cardiel? damn straight, hope y'll get a shred this weekend



    Meeting up with someone you really admire, one of your heroes or even a living legend is and always will be an odd experience. And it’s especially true when it’s one that defied medical opinion to get out of a wheelchair that you’ve just watched do 180s on a freezing cold London street on a track bike. Begrudgingly having to do his thing on two rather than four wheels, in spite, or possibly in defiance of everything that’s happened him, Cardiel remains one of the most upbeat, infectiously enthusiastic and positive people you’ll ever have the pleasure to meet. Skateboarding is privileged to still have him.

    Click the link to read John’s words of wisdom

    JOHN CARDIEL: NO SUBSTITUTE

    “I’m in a different situation, but I still feel like when you’re with your girlfriend and you don’t want to cheat on her. Skateboarding’s my girlfriend and I don’t want to cheat on her. It’s fucked dude. I’m slutting out to a bike man, it’s fucked up!”

    What are you doing here in freezing London?

    Honestly dude I got hooked up with a ticket out here and I’m just like, ‘fuck yeah. I’m going’. Why wouldn’t you? What am I going to do, sit at home? San Francisco is eighty degrees right now, but I was like, ‘I’m going somewhere completely different!’

    It’s so cold

    The streets are warm though

    You’re not living in SF anymore are you?

    Nah, Sacramento.

    Is Omar still living there?

    Yeah Salazar, Stefan lives there, Matt Rodriguez, Brandon Biebel, there’s all kinds of skaters up there.

    Omar is into riding bikes isn’t he?

    Yes he’d just been getting into the fixed gear thing or whatever, actually I built a bike for him, like a Redline, a 26inch bike for him, it’s beautiful. He’s been cruising that around a little bit. He’s got his own house out there he owns, he’d doing it you know. For a young kid to own a home and a fucking sick car and shit, he’s doing good from skateboarding.

    Have you started up a bike business or is it just a hobby at the moment?

    I’m trying to start my own business, but it’s kinda hard. I’m doing it out of my house and I’m just using friends to paint bikes and getting other people involved to hook stuff up. I’m building specialty bikes for friends and stuff, but it’s hard to buy products through distributors, as I don’t have a proper ’store’. You have to send a photo of your store in order to get a wholesale price and I don’t have a storefront. So all my bikes I have to buy them at retail, and when you re-sell them it gets expensive, that’s the downfall. But for the main I’ve built like a few bikes that are pretty nice for kids and stuff, it’s a labour of love. You get to build, basically an art project for someone that they appreciate and they ride around town like, ‘yo, my friend built this’ and it gets around by word of mouth and then somebody else wants one. It’s just a trip right now because gas is so expensive, it’s the perfect situation for all this. People have been riding a lot of fixed gear bikes and it’s just good, it’s all positive. I just went to Los Angeles with Julian Stranger like two weeks ago and we rode, and I never new Los Angeles as much as do now since riding bikes through it. You cover so much ground on a bike, from one side of town to the other, I only knew a couple of skate spots and with skates pots you only know what’s right in front of you. With bikes now it’s like, ‘whoah these banks are over here, right and those banks are there’, we were travelling like gnarly…like thirty forty miles in a day. It’s a trip man it’s a really neat way to experience a new town.

    What’s an average day for you back home?

    Getting up, checking emails and just trying to get stuff going. Dealing with the Anti-Hero stuff I drive down to San Francisco and go work on different t-shirts and sweatshirt ideas and keep things going down there. Basically just hooking stuff, talking with different people, getting stuff going, it always seems to make its self, I really don’t have a proper regime.
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    You’re lucky not to have to work to a set routine

    Right! It’s beautiful. It’s just so blessed I’ve been hurt and just trying to get back and now it’s kind of like I’ve levelled out of my healing and I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do…I’m so confounded by skating and so into that world, I don’t necessarily want to break free, I’m just like…that’s all I know. Riding a bike is just another way to stay involved, but it’s on a bike! It’s a trippy situation, I don’t know, but whatever the case it’s working.

    Are you still having to exercise a lot to keep the movement in your leg?

    Yeah, back at home every other day I have to go to the gym and if I don’t I start to break down, the body starts to break back down. If I wasn’t taking care of myself, if I wasn’t riding my bike and staying fit, I would have to be in a wheelchair, like my legs and everything would just deteriorate. The muscles that I’ve built, they’re the ones that help me to walk. You’ve just got to keep going, keep taking care of your body.

    Obviously it’s a crazy situation you’ve found yourself in and I’m guessing prior to the accident you were going to gym too regularly

    Dude. Exactly!

    Maybe Anti-Hero should make some lycra

    It’s such a trip! I go to the gym at like ten o’clock at night, late, when no one’s there and I’ve got all these crazy exercises on these balls and doing all these crazy, weird things. I’m just going in there doing my shit and I think to myself, that exactly, ‘what am I doing here?’ You see people there trying to get the ‘master physique’ and they’re like, ‘yeah bro!’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t want to be here’. I’m not here for that, I’m here because I have to be here, not because I want to.

    I have noticed that a lot of older skaters are starting to ride bikes I guess it’s because it’s obviously fun and also because it’s a good way to try and keep the old knees moving

    It’s true though with riding the bikes, and especially the fixed gear bikes, when you’re riding down through traffic and you’re looking at a line in front of you and you have to charge this certain line, it’s the same thing as skateboarding, like it’s the same energy, it’s the same feeling you get. You have to calculate your move, you have to have an exit, you’ve got to deal with the situation, like running a red light or something. You’re heart’s up and you’re fucking dealing with the situation, it’s just like skating. In San Francisco we’ve got a lot of hills so you’re sliding you’re going back and forth, San Francisco is all about riding hills, sliding, it’s a trip man. You don’t get to do the tricks but it’s a different way to channelling your energy, but it’s close to the same feelings.

    When the whole fixed gear thing started a lot of people dismissed it as a fashion, and while there are aspects of it that I still can’t get my head around, ploughing through red lights on a bike with no brakes is pretty gnarly

    To me…it’s hard to explain…your love for skating how did it get tied up into a bike? It’s fucked! You don’t want to sit there and talk about bike stuff with your skate friends, it just doesn’t…why am I even taking about this. It’s like, ‘why do I even want to support that?’ I’m in a different situation, but I still feel like when you’re with your girlfriend and you don’t want to cheat on her. Skateboarding’s my girlfriend and I don’t want to cheat on her. It’s fucked dude. I’m slutting out to a bike man, it’s fucked up! It feels like I’m cheating on skateboarding truly.

    Skateboarding doesn’t care though!

    To me I love skating so much, I just want the energy to be involved with skating. I personally wish that all that energy could be contained in skating, but it’s not and that’s why it’s so fucked! I don’t know how to get it out. It is what it is. But I wish I was out skating.

    SIGHT UNSEEN 2000 - -SIZZLA!

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    TREV - he lost it in a dog bum fingering accident
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    What cardiel is sayin i have alot of sympathy with, i dont know if people understand what its like to not be able to skate, im just startin to skate again after about 4 years of not bein able to, it feels fuckin great to do any tricks, i basically have to learn how to skate all over again, i just got a bit of confidence back and did a few grinds on a box the other night, obviously my condition isnt quite as servere as johns but i understand what hes goin through, i even started doin a bit of mountain bikin at the local trails. Ps sorry if i go on about this shit but its part of my life. ONE LOVE
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    • CommentAuthorkellz
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    Big respect to ye monkeyman we all know how DFL you are on the skating front and how much it pains you not to be in the thick of it. Fair play though instead of fucken it all off ye still get into the banter of the sesh, get the heckles going and of course still put in the hours filming and editing so big ups to you!
    Great to hear you are getting back on board man, just enjoy cruisin, get the filmer board out and bomb hills or better yet do what i do when my park goes to sleep, harness up the dogs get on the board and hole on like fuck! It like a cross between wakeboarding, hussky dog racing and chicken its fucken rad and yer das pointers would be ideal for it!
    Anyway like i say great to hear you on the mend and im sure youll be firing out those butter ass back tails in BFast very soon!

    One love
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    May day, i think twas last year or the year before i was skating byrons bowl supping a beer in the sun. this year i get to cart boxes of tiles - JUSTICE

    got a wee shred yesterday afternoon. the sun shone briefly but the howling wind made it feel like november. anyway good to get a bit of sunday shreddage.
    Muzza, on the hi-low poker machine. smith


    healy trying to escape from Alcatraz with a fence bash


    Minister Brown landed up. he's aff the fags and on the lolly pops with a vengeance.
    heavenly kickflip
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    speaking of warriors of Christ, here's a few lost photos from Mini's stag do. eggzellent stuff
    (fuck me i've 1 million photos that haveny seen the light of day...)











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    • CommentAuthorGibbo
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2009
     
    Big Al's Big Stag this weekend coming. Shit's so big that the venue is the 'whole' west coast.
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    • CommentAuthorwallnut
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2009
     
    Fwak that back tizzle photo is so rad! Winston's €5 flannys never tasted so good.
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    oh SHIT! is that a 1/4er frame there, Jay get that shit built up right ( wee platform and that), and tell me how wide it is and i will get ye a bitta metal so we can get stalls on the go. need to learn blunts like the wans from down south
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    i drove down there in the snow to lift that quarterpipe a few months ago - the basta weighed about a tonne, so it was left.

    here's a few more to beat the winter blues

    andy devine - fs bs


    johill, SWITCH frontside rock on ireland's only vert ramp.


    johnf 5'OH, the most refreshing fruit drink we know


    oisin is CONDORMAN!


    f100 with hp5 shootage
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    richie cunnigham - ollie to frontside bluntslide to backside tailslide transfer at a spot that's shitter than it looks and smells


    lisdoon bridge, moments before we climbed down inside for a shralp


    seamus na galway, wallrides the impossible


    we were lost til we seen this, then we were really lost


    coming home from a skate the other day i sighed and said 'fuck man you really miss the volcano on a day like this', which was greeted with either silence or smirks from around the van....what do you bastas know anyway. i tip a 40 to you my friend


    3200 grainny ass kodak
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    • CommentAuthorrichie
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2009
     
    who is richie cunnighams clothes sponser? he's always wearing rad tee's.
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    think hes on Lidl distribution and aldi shoes
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    he also rides for dax wax. Keeps his hair if perfect shape no matter what stunts he's trying
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    certainly sponsored by Brut aftershave...he's the most heavily scented skater since alan healy.

    got this watercamera set-up, total bastard to use, floating in the sea with a brick weight in your hands trying to focus a decent action photos. anyway, quare craic and no doubt good for taking skate photos in the pishing rain






    does anyone still go the concept bowl? be keen for a rattle at it soon
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    i would be up for going down with ye dords, canny ollie but i'd say i would probly be ok to skate a bowl (maybe)
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    • CommentAuthormarcb
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2009
     
    give us a shout when yous are goin - 07936251515 - never got to skate the bowl myself with a healthy ankle, would love to now

    ps oisin made a £20 bet he'd kickflip that 13 in the photo, hes lucky im a nice guy and never took the money!
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    • CommentAuthorConcept
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2009
     
    That Mini-b kicky flipper is bonkers! \M/\M/

    The bowl formally know as Concept is open from time to time if you know the right/wrong people....Im off to further my career as a Full time self paid sligo Pier Diver/Stout tester!

    SNAP!...coming soon
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    Whereabouts is the diy cement quarter hosting the fine switch f/s rock?
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    concrete q is in belfast, near pete's local 'the parliament' and is surprisingly EASY to skate ....!

    a feast of music on the horizon
    therapy?- 14th, neds atomic- 23rd, rory gallagher's feast of buckfast- 30th ......CMTF





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    Any chance of my Hai Karate back Dords?
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    • CommentAuthorbrianc
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2009 edited
     
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    • CommentAuthorGibbo
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2009
     
    Pity our recession doesn't bear such fruits.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8013670.stm
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    bored, suffering bouts of severe depression or apathy after a weekend of carnage? sick of watching youporn? too hurt to skate? waiti8ng for your buddy to call round for a shred? waiting for a big delivery of tile adhesive in from Belfast?
    why not check out this new vbs show - skate england? part 3 features out very own Rockabilly 'Rome. good viewing
    (*who the fuck does that frontside 360 over the hubba- Vile? vile indeed)

    http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=19255875001
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    • CommentAuthordar
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2009
     
    http://supercoolantogang.blogspot.com/ UPDATED blog with footy etc
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    summer evenings at letterkenny - hard tay bate.

    the lightfooted stalwart of steez, dainty Davy (takes after his big brother with his massive pop and lightfooted wonders!)


    decky devlin - nollie flip tail revert. park ruler, and easily one of donegal's top 10 skaters!
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    • CommentAuthorrichie
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    sick decky!
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    • CommentAuthorshaneNW
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    nice decky! Now scheme yer course n lets go skatin. Kna'mean??
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    • CommentAuthorOisin
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    jaysus baye
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    • CommentAuthorsdGav
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2009
     


    Nob's back!
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    • CommentAuthorbuckfield
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2009
     
    dats some quality shreddin right der, YEAH NOB!!!!
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    • CommentAuthorGibbo
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2009
     
    I like the way at the start the lion's roaring but his mouths not moving.
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    • CommentAuthormb420
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2009
     
    big ups, nobs tha man
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    • CommentAuthorwallnut
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2009
     
    Captain crunch! That MC was right, cereal is tops. That eidt was teeeeight.
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    • CommentAuthorBonza Buns
    • CommentTimeMay 14th 2009
     
    that edit was soooooo sick, as was deckys flicks
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    i'd be down for a BYO jam in belfast - i could bring a few boxes and bars. st annes or new spot (if you thought it would be bust free)
    perhaps early summer - easily done
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    in the past 3 years i've been on almost 60 stag dos, no shit. here's a few photos from al collins' big weekender in mayo, where the shining sun brought an energy to the skate session that the oul fellows gathered had long since gave up hope of.

    al collins takes the final leap of faith- fuck me thon was coul


    jaizuz, no need young man.


    the gill hovers in the air waiting for the grim atlantic to engulf his senses


    unisex changing room


    beers, bbq, and bros - the ultimate combo


    5 man 6 man crew. pictured are Uncle Gibbo, Some Retard, Marndawg, cunninglingus, Minister Brown, Some pervert, Philomena Begley, The Prince, Jeroid, The Nude, The Mutt


    2 wee tinkers from the caravan site joined us for the free tucker - tomato sauce baps and bottles of stout



    after 3 hours solo behind the wheel, relief comes in the most unexpected places - The Basta Factory in Sligo!!


    *kodak slide film, cross processed for her pleasure
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    The car park photo with the barbeque is like a dream session haha.

    So whats the verdict on the Belfast BYO Jam? St Annes would be the best venue I guess. No eventsec, plenty of space and perhaps a 10 stair throwdown for those in the mood?
    Tom J, I seem to remember you posted some photos a while back of a polejam and some ramps you had.
    Entry fee - one skateable object ( be it wood, angle iron, whatever)
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    • CommentAuthorwallnut
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2009
     
    John "Cunnilingus Dillon", after years of abstinence he can't get enough of that wonderful muff. Good times!
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    the blender is DEAD , long live THE BLENDER 2.



    on tour soon, with a more user friendly transition and manly glass tiling job.
    cheers to mini brown joinery for the additional aid
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    • CommentAuthorBonza Buns
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2009
     
    jay give me a text next time ur heading to the TF for a roll, that looks sick
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    neds atomic dustbin, sats night in wolverhampton - what a session..........









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    there was once a time when i was fairly handy at vert riding....well, handy as in drop ins, tail stalls, the odd slash grizzle, , but things have changed and im older and feareder now....had to give it one last lash though.....

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