Toad and Salmon's Chili Bowl Cook-off 2009 video

This is our ESPN.com edit. …Good luck with the commercials. … And where is the footage of Mattson puking up his chili all over the deck? On my harddrive that’s where. Could be a directors cut in the works for the end of the month when things calm down for me, September is intense.

Thanks to ESPN for taking interest in the vid, (edit) and it was cool of them to get it turned around so fast.

Thanks to Toad and Salmon for throwing an awesome event, letting us shoot it, AND letting us interview them while they were busy setting up.

Chili Bowl 09

For those of you checking in for TeamJaded’s video of Toad and Salmon’s Chili Bowl 2009, keeping checking… it’s coming. We’re working with ESPN.com Action Sports on this one, and we’re just waiting for them to get it posted. We finished the edit Sunday night at about 2AM, so they should have it up shortly. …One way or another it will be up by the end of the week. In the meantime, check out these screen grabs (yeah screen grabs suck, stills are better, and you’ve probably already seen it all on youtube already… whatever).









The contest was sick. My sunburn is sicker. Oh my god, S.F.’s not supposed to get that hot. Sweating at 9AM…

Here’s the results (poached from skatedaily ’cause I didn’t want to type them out)

Final Results

Open
1. Brad McLain
2. Tyler Martin
3. Josh Mattson
4. Jerry Gurney
5. Tyler Mumma
6. Mikey Curtis

Groms
1. Cory Juneau
2. Ty Hjortland
3. Ronnie Sandoval

Ladies
1. Lexi Barclay
2. Jen O’Brien
3. Vanessa Torres

Chili
1. Jane Ireland – “A Firey Death In Cheats-n-Eats”
2. David Andrade – “Sweet Heat”
3. Brett Howard – “Stow-away Chili”

Thanks to Toad and Salmon for throwing a rad contest. And thanks for letting us shoot it. Stay tuned.

Dear and Yonder

Villa Villa Cola’s, Tiffany Campbell is premiering her new surf film Dear and Yonder in San Francisco this weekend. Details below via Pete Koff.

Friday, August 7th 7-10pm
Party at Mollusk Surf Shop to celebrate the release.

Saturday, August 8th 5-10pm
Outdoor screening of the film at Potrero del Sol Skatepark. Showcases live bands, Thee Oh Sees, Black Bow and Bands from Bay Area Rock Camp for Girls

According to Huck Magazine “Amy Caron, Vanessa Torres and Leticia Bufoni from the skateboarding section of the film will be rolling in the concrete skate park adjacent to the screening at sundown .”

Roughneck BART Tour 2008 Video!!!!

High Res version for the those of you with good connections:

Here’s the long awaited BART Tour vid. Sorry it took a couple of weeks. I had a lot of footage to go through and Abby and I spent last weekend at a wedding in Louisiana. Congrats Crystal and John.

BART Tour is a San Francisco institution hosted annually by Roughneck Hardware. This year Johnny got the party started at Mission Skateshop with bagels, mimosas, and a memorial for Van Wastell RIP. Skating started down the street at Potrero Del Sol skatepark where Ratface took best trick on the tombstone with an all out assault on the damn thing. Next up was 24th Street BART where Chubbs took the honors for biggest frontside wallride.

I rode BART with the crew up until Embarcadero Station where I hopped out and jumped in the Civic. (lame I know) I missed some crazy manuals and a civilian getting taken out. Luckily Hidehiko Fujiwara was there with the one chip, and so was Satva (check out his vid.) BART got stuck on the tracks so I beat everybody to Walnut Creek. Johnny texted me to let me know what was going down, and asked for beer, so I picked up a case of Coors which made the Civic a popular destination.

Walnut Creek was madness with three best trick contests: stairs, transfer, and hubba ledge; switch kickflip, launch to backlip, and kickflip front fifty respectively. The only name I caught was Justin who rocked the hubba. After the contests Charlie tossed a couple of boards and nearly started a riot. The guy who wrestled the second board from the mob was chased out of the park.

Then it was off to Berkeley with Charlie, Lil’ Stevie, D, and Chubbs in the civic for road sodas and quicker transportation. Berkeley went off smoothly and without cops unlike in years past… just good times, bbq, and skateboarding. Jon Stallings took best trick on the big quarter pipe. Ride or Die.

Thanks to Johnny and Charlie for organizing BART Tour. Thanks to Hidehiko for joining forces with me on the video. And thanks to the artists on ccmixter.org for the music.

Music credits:

Lady Fingers
High Stakes

The Psychosomatiks
Fort Minor Remix
(Editors note: can’t find my way back to this url)

Coffeetrim
What Cha Need and
Look at Me

For more Roughneck head over to the new site.

See you next year.