The Etnies Skatepark Speed Demon race, known to many (or at least me and my friends) as the death race was happening but no one was showing up for it. That just meant more heats and runs for everyone. It was a cool event having riders start near a pole jam, push their way down into some transition, whip around a bank and over a cone, then over the hump whip around another bank, cross over to the next bank and then go around yet another bank. This is the spot where riders ended up crossing paths and collissions were a good possobility although we didnt get to see anyone collide. Crashes did happen though. The race was fun if you were riding in it which looking back I should have done. Watching it sucked. Even video taping and photographing. It took forever and I couldn’t wait for it to end. Another heat, they said…….”shit” I thought to myself. Anyways the next one I probably will compete in and it is a really cool event, just not many people came out to it. The worst part is I know people who could have shredded the shit out of this course but no one was there. Anyways it was all a good time and everyone who entered was stoked.

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This is an amazing interview with a legendary skater who paved the road for modern day skateboarding. He was a part of the legendary Zephyr surf and skate team, and lived and grew up in Venice Beach, CA (dogtown). Adams was a teenager in the 70′s and skated alongside Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva.

“Jay Adams may not have been the world’s best skater but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.” – Stacy Peralta

“Jay was a natural. He would do things that you would think incomprehensible,” says Jeff Ho, owner of the legendary Zephyr surf shop. “He would do things that would look like they were going to be a disaster, and he would turn it into artwork. He would fucking flow.”

Adams was skating before there were professional riders. There was no money to be made, and everyone skated for the love of it. “For me, skateboarding started in 1965 so by the time the Dogtown era came around I’d already been skating for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.” said Adams.

The things Adams would do had not been done yet. He was an innovator of the sport, a pioneer. “Watching him skate was something new every second, he was ‘skate and destroy’ personified.” said Peralta. It was well known that Adams did not much enjoy the competition, he skated and surfed for the love of it. He was there when they first learned to carve a wall in a pool, when they figured out they could hit the ledge, and when the learned to drop into the bowls. Skateboarding was rebellious, aggressive, and free.

Adams later got tied up with drugs and partying. “Well, using drugs has wasted a lot of years, but you gotta understand when I grew up, in the ’60s and ’70s and even the ’80s, everybody I knew used some sort of drugs. And most of the people I knew and hung around never let them get outta hand. We partied, we surfed and we skated, and it didn’t seem to be a problem. But later in life, drugs finally took their toll and got to the point where they were a very big problem.” Things quickly went from good to bad. “I was thinking man, all I do is sell drugs and do dope and been to jail a couple times. And I’m pretty much a menace at this time in my life.” Jay Adams was addicted to meth, and was in and out of the legal system. He was charged for murder and assault following a gay bashing he instigated in Los Angeles, and landed himself in prison again after being caught as the connect for a buyer and seller trying get crystal meth from California to Hawaii.

He has been through a lot of shit throughout his life, but is now living clean and sober (and is a reborn christian). He is still surfing and skating. Understandably, Adams is thankful to be alive and still doing these things in his 50′s. We recently got the chance to meet and bomb a hill a few times with Jay. It was incredible day, we had a blast. My mind is still blown. “This is my first time bombing hills in about 30 years” said Adams. “Can’t wait to bomb some real hills, Sunday was just a taste.” said Adams.

“This is my first time bombing hills in about 30 years”- Jay Adams. Photo By Leecifer Eisler

Me lurking in the back and Dave Hacket playing the Jay Adams drum. Photo By: Key Dougherty

Well, the man that started it all isn’t done yet, so why do I always hear people telling me they’re too old to skate? Anyway,  meeting Jay Adams Sunday was one of the coolest things that has happened to me in a while. To capitalize on his presence we had Dave Hackett there as well as a plethora of other well known riders who had been in the skate game almost from the beginning, Jay Adams paved the way for everyone though. Because of him they knew carving in a bowl and hitting the coping was possible. He showed them the possibilities on a skateboard. Skateboarding rules! Thanks Jay for everything you have done for the sport! You are a legend, a hero and a skater for life. – Leecifer

Resources

Words from the mouth of Stacy Peralta- http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/peralta/thrasher.html

2001 Jay Adams interview: http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/jayadams/2001.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/jayadams/law.html

Reprinted from Thrasher Magazine- http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/jayadams/

Stepping into the arena, both teams doing warm up laps around the track and the spectators find their seat on the floor or on fold up chairs they brought.  Blue tape marked the track, but this is renegade roller derby. There aren’t really too many rules for the players to abide by and skaters often find themselves outside the blue tape. Spectators even find themselves in the crash zone some times.

I always seem to forget just how intense the matches are but after the first few minutes of big hits, pile ups, seeing girls get tripped kneed and elbowed I was quickly reminded.

The brutal pile ups are broken up by people known as the brawl breakers. Although I saw spectators and even a camera man breaking up the fights. (I watched as with his free hand he tried to pull one girl off the other and holding the camera in the other hand as it snapped away.)

The medics had their work cut out for them for the night and the fans got a great show. Both teams skated hard from the beginning until the end. The game ended with the Orange County Outlaws beating the Los Angeles Renegade Rollergirls with a score of 84-45.

The game has strategy and various moves maneuvers and strategy go into the game. There are two girls in front at the start line (one from each team) wearing a line on their helmets. They are known as he pace person. Then there are two girls in the back wearing stars on their helmets (also one from each team.) They are known as the jammers. Then everyone else is blockers (blocker 1, blocker 2, blocker 3). Every time the jammer (star on helmet) passes the pace setter (line on helmet) the team scores three points.

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The California Slide Jam hill looked fun and promising until the cops showed up before we even had a chance to start. With the first hill busted and no planned backup hill we relied on local Drew Edwards and his extensive local hill research to take us to a new hill. “It’s with in skating distance, it’s really close.” We skating for around 10 minutes with the sun blazing and walked up this hill until we got to the next spot. My armpits and back already soaked in sweat from my backpack and the intense sun rays beating down upon me. (I would have rather had brought my car as the day progressively got hotter and hotter.)

Ali Mehraban, Are we gonna get to skate? After getting told the cops were being called at the second hill. Photo By: Leecifer

The 2nd hill was a private road (according to the residents) that had a few houses off of it and Drew’s friend lived in one of those houses. We weren’t even there 5 minutes before we were told that it was private property and we had to leave. 5 minutes after that a different neighbor told us that we were unwanted and they were going to call the cops. “We are supposed to tell them that you know someone who lives here.” With that Drew pushed hard and fast to see if his buddy was home. He wasn’t so we moved on to the next hill

We were skating to the 3rd hill and it was all uphill and it did not seem very close. Ali Mehreban and I decided to turn around, go all the way back to the 1st hill to grab the car and see if we could beat everyone there. We skated for awhile, in fact the car was much farther than I had remembered. We finally made it to the car. We found another skater waiting to try to find where the hill had been moved to. He followed us and we easily caught back up to everyone skating to the next spot. Kids begged for rides and tried grabbing onto the car to let us pull them to the next hill. We left most of them in our dust.

We finally made it to what would be our final destination in our journey around some of the hills of Fallbrook. The ramp was put out and the competition was underway before people even knew it. Judging was done by Max Capps, Ali Mehraban and Michael Hinze.

There were lots of kids shredding it up and most of the kids who were hitting the ramp were also attempting 180′s and we even saw some 360 attempts. Although no 360′s were landed plenty of 180′s and a few no comply’s were landed. Not to mention all the different variations of slides. There were attempts at techsliding, we saw some hard wheel sliding and every variation of stand up slide I know of. We skated until the cops came to tell us they got another call and we couldn’t skateboard anymore in Fallbrook that day. “This is my second time talking to you guys and now you’re wasting my time” said the cop. “We won’t skateboard anymore but would it be alright if we finished our bar-b-que” asked Brett Ciabattini.

Ben Young, Chad Gibbs and Aaron Enns talk to the cop again. "Since we got called if I don't kick you out and someone gets hurt it becomes my liabaility so you guys have to go" said the officer. Photo By: Leecfier

We ate hot dogs, did the podium. Passed out some shwag and everyone left. It ended up being a somewhat successful day and everyone had a good time. – Leecifer Eisler

Podium

1st- Wyatt Gibbs

2nd- Phillip “Swagmaster” Crow

3rd- Tyler Hampson

4th- Daniel Luna

5th- Jimmy Riha

Top Grom

Sam Damashek

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So we didn’t make it out to this one but we hooked Max Capps up with our camera and tripod to see what he would get. After reviewing all the footage we absolutely loved the commentary from Max and Roger Jones. HIlarious stuff! Instead of making this some short video edited to music we decided to pull out a little different flavor, plus we have been digging raw footy lately. We took 45 minutes of footage and turned into 13 minutes taking you through the event.

Roger Jones came back from the grave for this contest. He’s just skin and bones.

Ben Hryn throwing down a super steezy squating stand up slide.

The event seemed really cool. It was a very laid back contest with the crowd choosing the winner through cheering. It was more of a bro down skate session with all the homies. Anyways Daniel Luna won the open section.

Max Capps loves being “on time.” This is him sitting in the car an hour before anyone else showed up.               Photo By: Leecifer.

November 13, 2011. The crew met up for another SDDRL (San Diego downhill racing league) Outlaw race. The race was scheduled to start at 12 with about 30 minutes of practice but these things are never on time. Over an hour later after everyone showed up the we caravaned to the hill and started racing right away.

 Ben Hryn swoops his arm over the camera and photog.                                Photo By: Leecifer

 Max Capps (gold helmet), Ryan Ricker (white helmet) and Key Dougherty (black helmet) halfway down the hil in a tight pack. Photo by: Leecifer

The hill was a steep drop which flattened out for about 100 ft then dropped again to the finish line. The radar guns had the open riders topped out at 48 m.p.h and the groms topped out at 43 m.p.h according to a radar gun at the bottom of the hill.

Tim Del Rosario (skins) and Ben Hryn (right) neck and neck coming into the second drop trailed by Rick Kludy.                                 Photo by: Leecifer

 Tim Del Rosario (left), Max Capps (center) and Ben Hryn (right) come in neck and neck and neck towards the second part of the race course in the final heat.                               Photo by: Leecifer

Heats were run one after the other and the actual race part didn’t take too much time. The racing was close with tight packs and some close finishes. We ran the final heat 10 minutes before San Diego’s finest showed up to let us know we were not welcome back ever.

Walk faster Max. He’s coming for you. Photo by: Leecifer.

We then moved to another hill to BBQ and do the podium. Our new police officer friends showed up again to our new location kicking us out, this time off of a public street. So we were able to complete the race minutes before the cops came.

Spencer Adams (left) throws the football around while waiting for the burgers to cook. Ben Hryn (right) waits for another chance to catch the football.                      Photo by: Leecifer

Tye Donnelly cooking up burgers. Darin Neiner picking which trophy he wants and some SDDRLer’s swooping on food. This is what SDDRL is all about.                             Photo by: Leecifer

What’s in the football Key? Shady…..                   Photo by: Leecifer.

After our first BBQ was shut down we moved it to the bottom of a long driveway belonging to friends of SDDRL. The driveway known as Hamburger Hill featured several hairpin turns, leading up to a few enormous houses at the top. This hill was rad and had a super gnarly off camber left hairpin turn near the bottom.

Max Capps navigates the gnarliest corner ever with steeze.                               Photo by: Leecifer.

Carter Monacell gets extra steezy at Hamburger Hill with this roastbeef slide.                                  Photo by: Leecifer.

 Chance Vinograd makes a double grab slide look easy.                                        Photo by: Leecifer.

Carter Monacell throws a toeside predrift overlooking the valley.

After all was said and done we held the award ceremony and handed out some shwag from the sponsors. – Leecifer

Groms

1st- Chance Vinograd

2nd- Elijah Vinograd

3rd- Ethan Vinograd

4th- Carter Monacell

Photo By: Leecifer. Grom podium. 1st (center)- Chance Vinograd. 2nd (left)- Elijah Vinograd. 3rd (right)- Ethan Vinograd. 4th (bottom)- Carter Monacell

 Masters Division

1st- Justin Clark

2nd- Darin Neiner

3rd- Tye Donnelly

Photo by: Leecifer. Masters podium shot. 1st (center)- Justin Clark. 2nd (left)- Darin Neiner. 3rd (right)- Tye Donnelly

Open Division

1st- Tim Del Rosario

2nd- Max Capps

3rd- Ben Hryn

Photo by: Leecifer. Open division podium shot. 1st (center)- Tim Del Rosario. 2nd- (left)- Max Capps. 3rd (right)- Ben Hryn

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