Fourboard with J Funk

Another edition of fourboard, this time with the brains behind Bolts and Buttah and 7 Plys of Love, Justin "Can't Stop The" Funk

skate videos
1. Sight Unseen
2. Mosaic
3. Static 3
4. Bag of Suck

pgh skaters
1. Doug Plezia
2. Drew Windon
3. Panza Bros
4. Jerms

road trip destinations
1. NYC
2. Baltimore
3. Philly
4. Akron with a the whole crew

things about making a skate video
1. The first couple months of a new project. Enthusiasm is high, ideas are fresh, and getting footage is easy.
2. The finished product. Putting in hundreds of hours with your friends to create something you’ll always look back on and realize just how much fucking fun you had.
3. Premieres are fun
4. Getting your scene on the map!

least favorite things about making a skate video
1. Stressing over skateboarding?
2. Not being motivated to film
3. Not being motivated to edit
4. Not being motivated in general

things about having brothers who skate
1. Not many lone sessions
2. Half the driving time
3. You can tell them that that trick sucked or don’t want to film them and they won’t get offended unlike your friends.
4. Is there four good reasons?

skate tricks
1. f/s 5-0’s in tranny
2. I like b/s 180 nosegrinds
3. Flatground switch flips
4. Long ass 5-0 fakies

spots to not skate at
1. Heinz
2. McKinley in the dead of summer. Ground turns into tar.
3. Milliones. Probably Pittsburgh's best spot but I skate that place way too much
4. Atwood

things about working for UPMC
1. UPMC
2. Can
3. Suck
4. It. They shut my school down

reasons Rebuilding Mexico is not on DVD
1. We don’t actually own a copy ourselves
2. “What’s Rebuilding Mexico?” (I don’t want to have to explain that to anyone)
3. Kickers were a huge part of our life
4. Loading docks were a huge part of our life

things about having a mini ramp
1. Best warm up spot ever
2. BBQ’s and ramp jams in the summer days
3. Skating and not having to ollie is something I am appreciating more and more
4. Neighborhood kids using it as some sort of jungle gym

reasons not to film someone
1. I’d rather be skating
2. “Film this for throwaway”. Not real big into documenting every trick you’ve ever done
3. If “I might get lucky” is uttered. Just let me know if or when you’re close
4. I’m hungry

ways to beat Zach in SKATE
1. No- complys!
2. Anything not basic switch
3. Anything not basic nollie
4. He’ll still end up beating me

memories from the Bolts and Buttah premiere
1. We found out there was no projector with 10 minutes till the premiere. Jerry Cooper miraculously pulls one out of thin air and we get it hooked up as people are rolling in. Thank you Jerry for everything.
2. Drew Windon facing backwards and cheering for things he was definitely not seeing. Drew had a great time.
3. Doug Plezia getting a well deserved nod on ONEUP
4. Everybody that came out to support!

little this

I've wanted to make a new post for a while, but I just don't have a lot to report.

Jerry Cooper, Big Jerms and another One Up rider will possibly be sharing a part in Focus Skate Mag's upcoming video 'Rise and Shine' to be released this fall. Filming has already begun.

Someone built a new ledge at Polish Hill. I bumped into Luke Bennett skating at the warehouse spot and he said something about it, so when my friends and I left the strip we cut up past the Bowl and sure enough there was an angle ironed ledge there, ripe for the grinding. Always good to see.

The Atwood lot has a new addition as well. That's right, another manual pad. It seems that if you skate it before 9pm you're in the clear, but after that the feds call down the thunder (a security guard who looks like this - ) and you will be told to not skate there anymore.

and I am very thrilled to see that Josh Stewart's 3rd installment of his Static videos will be released this summer.Here is the trailer.