Lots of team rider coverage goin' on this month!! There's a Krux/Australia article in Transworld with Silas Baxter Neal, Louie Barletta, Justin Strubing and Ron Whaley...


Louie has an interview in the new Skateboard Mag and Caswell has in interview in Thrasher. Go homies!
Check 'em out!

Time for me to go fill out some photo incentive requests...

And he's got some tricks in the Strange Notes airing on Fuel Tonight at 8!!

Airing Friday, June 19, 2009 at 8:00 pm ET/PT (in Skate @ 8), and re-airing several more times through July, FUEL TV will showcase “Strange Notes: Wooden Freakbot.”

“Wooden Freakbot” features professional and amateur skateboarders including Steve Reeves, Tanner Zalinsky, Emmanuel Guzman, Bradley Sheppard, Magnus Hanson, Silent Mike, and Jordan Hoffart.

Also appearing are Clint Peterson, Greg Lutzka, Silas Baxter-Neil, the Flip team, and many more. Shot on location in Santa Cruz, Spain and the Pacific Northwest, here come the “Wooden Freakbots!”

Krux "flow but not for long cause he's comin up" rider Travis Erickson has a vid up on the Thrasher site. Flat out shredder.

I used to skate on this tennis court back in the day. It had really good benches.
We'd have an occasional skirmish with the local tennis players but most of us understood that it was a tennis court first and we'd give it up to the wannabe Federers if they showed up.
More than one time the cops came. This time we didn't see them until it was too late to get out. About 6 skaters got tickets ($280!) and me and my friend Dustin got the royal treatment. They took us to jail for the night.
I was 22 at the time. I called my dad to bail me out. I remember it was around 3 in the morning when he got me. He wasn't stoked. He asked me "So how much longer are you going to keep this up? You're 22. Are you going to keep getting in trouble for skateboarding?" My answer was yes.

Well it looks like somebody figured out a way for us all to get along:

just click the image...

The man of 2008, Silas Baxter Neal, adds another sponsor to his already prestigious list of sponsors (Habitat, Adidas, Elwood, Swiss, Spitfire, Krux). Check out his CCS Interview
and here's a little footy to for you to enjoy as well.
Toodles.

Tommy Sandoval is amazing. Get your manny on, son.

Look who's goin pro. Total ripper. Click on the photo to learn more...

Fuel TV will be airing the Strange Notes gem "Son, get down from there!" at 8pm EST (Friday).
Skater of the year, Silas Baxter Neal, has a full part in this one. If you don't have Fuel, click on this here photo and get your self sorted.

Burnett and the Volcom gang cruised through San Jose and met up with Caswell on a little spot hunt. Checkout Caswell's lil homie Miller.
Where's Doobie and Killer?

G. Smith, long time Krux ripper, possibly the best varial heel in the game, getting a myriad of blunt variations at his shop, Vu, in Baltimore.

So DC's been using Billy Mays in some of their ads and quite properly i might ad:
Billy Mays. Not Billy Mays Hayes from Major League
So it got me thinking (chomping on their idea) that it would be sick to see about getting the Shamwow guy Shamwow Vince to do a krux commericial for us. I mean his day rate's probably not more than a G or so. In my head I was thinking "Krux, they're made in Taiwan and you know the Tawainese make really good stuff..."
Then I saw this: Watch your tongue and decided maybe it wasn't such a good idea anymore.
Pretty harsh there Vince.

It got me thinking.
For starters, how much the internet and the media can ruin a celebrity in about, oh, 1 day. Sometimes I think about how things have changed and how back in the day we (like I was there) used hide infidelities and mistakes of celebrities and now its all we seem to care about. I think I'm getting on a whole separate topic that deserves its own focus but in my opinion it doesn't seem like anyone looked down tremendously harshly on Kennedy for his affair with Marilyn Monroe and yet the whole country focused on Lewinsky's cigar-job till the end of Bill's term. I'm not saying its wrong that we scrutinize celebrities so much but for a country that is so enamored with the lives of movie stars, pro athletes and the powerful we sure do put them through the ringer. How would you feel if you made a mistake in your life (wet spot) and it was suddenly a topic the whole world is judging you on? People who don't know you or the situation. People who most likely have their own secrets and problems they'd rather not share with anyone.
Just sayin folks, do unto others as you'd have them do to you before you knock em for a moment of weakness, a photo with a bong, or hooking with someone not so atttractive in the park. What would the weekly world news find on you if you mattered enough to have people constantly outside of your house or taking telescopic photos of your stomach from 1.8 miles away?

The entire world is now big brother and believe me, they're all on youtube.
Waiting for you to do something amazing like this

Told you that it should have been its own thread. Anyway, where was I?... Oh yeah, Shamwow. Maybe I shouldn't be empathizing with the twisted but who hasn't had to punch off a Miami hooker when she bit your tongue and wouldn't let go after you tried to kiss her?
Reminds me of when I was a kid.
I went to pet my neighbor's Cocker Spaniel and that thing chomped right on my hand. I was trying to shake it off but it wouldnt let go. Like I was seriously flinging that little guy all over the place like it was a stuffed animal and it just held on. It was unreal. I had to punch it off and I remember feeling guilty while I was hitting it. He bit all the way through my hand.
I learned a lot that day. Don't reach you hand out to strange dogs. Its ok to punch the shee-ot out of any dog that does try and attack you. In fact if a dog starts chasing me or is about to attack I get this feeling of 'Bring it on bitch!' (I only call them bitch if its a female dog) and get excited about destroying them. It usually scares them away. They can smell the opposite of fear as well.

So what's the point to all this? Nothing really. Just trying to squeeze as much mainstream media clips into one blog as I can. Thank you Billy Mays, Shamwow Vince, George Michael Phelps and Mr. Perseverence at the liqour store. Without you we'd all be bored.
Lets see that liqour heist one more time. This one's the best:


amazing like this

Whooo-wee! Murph is hot on that dang internet right now. He's got some sweet new footy over on the Mystery site: Dan Footy
As well as a full interview on the ESPN site:

That's right, ESPN. Now I can checkout one of my favorite skaters and then go see how horribly my Warriors are doing. Oh well. There's always next year.
I feel like this photo of Dan and Shaq is exactly what I need to round this blog out.

Thanks Big Murph. Thanks Kazaam.

Click on that truck above and you just might win a pair of Mr. Foster's new Cairoglyphic trucks!!

leave it to these dudes to get creative and have what appears to be the most fun one could have in a "training facility"...
oh yeah and if you're wondering why there's an enjoi video on the krux blog just ask cairo, nestor, caswell, and louie.
props to evs, enjoi and all the homies.
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Still in the Sharkey era. The man loves the babes. This one was filmed at the local obstacle park in SC. I remember that I was supposed to be skating in it and had a full meltdown warming up and went home. I don't think I realized quite how slutty the theme was. I probably would have stuck around to watch. Kinda mad at myself for not being in that one...

I took over some time after this one and it was the only commercial I remember that got a small amount of email criticism. Something about sexism in skate advertising. It is pretty lewd but I don't think it glorifies skankiness like a girls gone wild commercial or anything. In fact I think it makes fun of it. Go to school kids. Don't be like these girls.

And yes, Krux downlows do have the lowest kingpin of any low truck. There's nothing like trying to grind and getting stuck on the kingpin.
In no way was that supposed to be a sexual innuendo... but yeah, that's what she said.

So we're working on a new commercial over here for Cairo's truck. Eric Noren is back on board and we got to talking about some of our commercials from the past. As a sort of count down I thought I'd post some of our classics with a little back story:
Krux Happy Fun Commercial

This one is not new. Hell, it may have even been in 411 its so old. I think this was Matt Sharkey's concept. I think he was the first Krux brand manager to really run with the "our trucks our fun" approach. Cab was on. Colt and Caswell were blossoming into big guns and me...? well i just fell down.
Filmed in De Anza park (which used to be Fish Banks) in beautiful Sunnyvale California I believe the concept was just to film the bros playing skate. With the music, the slo mo and the smiles it all really came together quite simply.
Oh yeah, for the record I won that game. :p

Good gravy the Krux team killed it in 08! Look at all these covers!

Cairo's latest Thrasher gem.


Silas taking fools out at the spot with the best trick... again...


Loopty Lou's insane. Look out Bob, we're going to throw this kid into the grand canyon.


Yet another for Silas. You go boy. Thats how you get Skater of the Year!


Shoot. I don't even think I have all the Krux team covers gathered here. Our team just rips too damn hard.

Whatchoothink Sponge-E?
Covers Baby!!!

I love how Silas trumps Short Dog on the marquis. You go boy.
Here's a behind the scenes look at how one rolls to their own SOTY.

Silas' limo.
So right after this is where my camera died on me. Amazing.
Checkout the video and and photo booth babes on the Thrasher site:
Silas' Party
Congrats again, Homie.

Silas is skater of the year.

....and Silas rides Krux. Our first SOTY and we couldn't be prouder.

Bros doing methods. We tried to get some where we were hi fiving but it didn't really pan out.

Click the link below for some sweet photos on the TW site of Silas, Louie, Strubing as well some guest shredders during our trip to Australia.
Krux in Oz
I recommend clicking the right arrows to speed things up a bit. Faster action.
Oh yeah, by the way... SILAS IS SKATER OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So bad ass.
Look at this guy. Not even playing by the rules.

Total ripper. True skater.
Silas would be ripping right now even if he didn't have any sponsors or recognition for it.
Good job, Homie.
I think Joe Esposito said it best: Sweep the leg

Brought the Flip Mino camera (see past blog) to Oz and got this footy. The following may or may not include a 3 legged dog named Trifke, some soccer hackey sack and footy of the homies shredding! Big ups to Jevin and Rhino
Peep.

Here's a link to all the Krux on the CCS site. CCS Lasers

CCS Lasers

Checkin in from down under over here. On a Krux mish with Louie Barletta, Justin Strubing, and Silas Baxter Neal. Chuggin VB's, shredding halfpipes with no flatbottoms and throwing roos on the barby. Real talk.
Here's SBN shralpin this sculpture till we got the boot. Son, get down from there.

Sorry (wils) my photos ain't the crispiest. What can I say? I'm not on Flickr.
Justin's proper stee makes up for it in this shot though...

Silas gettin busy in this hog too. If you got pumpin good the whole cement structure would rock with you. Extra inertia. Tricks of the trade.



Had a shop signing at PSC in Melbs. Good lookin' Senor Mapstone.



Here's the cheesiest caption of this post; Blood, sweat and beers.

This is what surrounds this sick plaza in Sydney. Get your shred on and book down to the beach for a swim. Hey, its a lifestyle...

Backin this ride. Toyota commuter. So sick.


In between sesh's you might find the squad tryin to stay loose and get a solid hack with this flat soccer ball we got. Louis keeps it loose with the hand in pocket style. Not for the faint of foot. Helps to be italian. He's been destroying the spots on this trip. Back to the hack: So far the record is 99. I find I only truly get warmed up if I kick it hard into myface a few times...



I'm gonna end it with this power purchase we picked up in duty free. Its a collapsable cooler with a radio and speakers that you can hook your ipod into. Look at all the tasty bevs we got int there. Good ol VB, some ginger wine, Beam and colas...mmmm...
Only thing is they don't call it a cooler down here. Its an Eski. Something to do with eskimos I think although I haven't seen any down here. I'll keep lookin...

So that's round one of our trip. I'll conclude this baby when I get home. We should be getting some sick footy for the notes and some shots in Tranworld cause the homies are shredding hard on this trip. Good lookin fellas. Krux forever. I'm out.