Pali Ditch and Lincoln Mini

Well ladies and gentlemen - we are back on the program here at Broahtography.com
I am officially out of school... graduated college and have knocked the dust off the old Nikon. Let's get ready for some snappers!

Always a pleasure skating with ZJ Boarding House's original team rider: Evan Edwards
Here is a new ditch spot that Austin tipped us off to...thanks buddy!


Evan- Bluntslide to fakie

This whole session took place today at the Lincoln mini-ramp... a good 825 crew showed up (including newest roommate Eric Viccarone) along with appeareances from neighbor Jay and Jake Eames...


Eric Viccarone- Back Disaster on the big extension


Jason Rogers- Nosegrab backside air


Jason Rogers- Frontside indy transfer


Sean McNulty- Nosegrind pop-in


McNulty- Gap to Backtail

....and now for the banger...


McNulty- Gap to back smith

You better believe that I will be posting on a more consistent basis considering this was my first day back and we already have a crispy post...keep it mellow- stay tuned!

Broahtog in Beijing, China

Ni Hao! As some of you may know- I am on a little vacation in China visiting my girlfriend who is studying here for the semester.
Of course I brought my skateboard and mini-digi cam -
It is about time for a new post, so let's get crackin!

First day in Beijing, had to do some touristy stuff - this is a stone carving inside of the Forbidden City (now called the Imperial Palace) ...I had to stitch two photos together to see the whole thing in detail...


This stair set/ bank thing is inside of the school campus where Catie is studying - I skated it for about an hour trying a bunch of tricks into the middle bank - Kickflip, Shuvit, Front 180, and finally fired off a proper 360 flip ...maybe Catie will film it later..


This was the first skateboard in Beijing that I saw, besides my own - I found it in the sporting goods section of the WuMart (their version of WalMart)...It was priced at 238 RMB (which is about $35 US)...


I had no idea this spot was in Beijing until I arrived and searched YouTube for Beijing Skateboarding...so stoked!


I met a guy named Eli who works at one of the only skate/snow shops in Beijing called "Icon X"
This is his mini-ramp, and it is pretty epic...


This is what the inside of his shop looks like...


Check out the YouTube video I posted!


That's all I have so far ya'll - I may have one more post before I leave, but until the next post- Zai-Jian! (See you later!)

Wild Power Crew at SaMo and Alameda

Today is a sad day...it was unfortunately the last Sunday I am going to have off for a while.
That's right ya'll, Broah is back in school and won't be snapping photos quite as often anymore.

This morning woke up at around noon-thirty along with the rest of the 825 crew...Mikut, Posey and Leo all crashed at the house and woke up ready to skate..except for Leo, who decided to go get tubular at the beach instead.

Anyways...here's what went down at SaMo High....


Jeff Mikut- Back Lip


Richie Amador- Front Shuv

After snapping my 3-ply bamboo deck I went down to the "Z" and set up a 5 ply one...then went to pick up Evan to meet the rest of the crew back in Downtown- Wild Power!!



The Transitions kids were there with Marasco- laying down the ledge tricks...


Money Fiti- Smith grind hardflip out


Tony Montgomery- Back 5-0 tre flip out


Money- Fakie 5-0 front shuv out
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Thanks for visiting "the tog"- will hopefully update sometime in October! Later ya'll.

Wild Power DVD coming soon to a skate shop near you....

Keepin' it local with the bros

So it has been over a week since the ASR trade show madness...my first day back in Santa Monica and not having to work was last Sunday. Little "E" and Tata met me at Broadway school to warm up on the benches, when we stumbled upon some new butter benches...

Started off the session with a predictable trick...

Broah- Crooked grind nollie 360 shuv out

Little "E" backed me up within a few tries

Evan Edwards- Noseblunt

We had to go check out the infamous 5 stair hubba ledge for "old times sake"

Wes came through with a steezy trick...

Wes Tata- Frontside noseslide


Evan- Kickflip back 5-0

Here is what we got accomplished today...
Found a new spot right around the corner- good thing we met up with Tislam at the "Z" - handling it!


Evan- Boardslide pop over (with a bonk)


Tislam- Front board pop over

Lastly, we went to an old secret Evan spot and tried getting legit- Tislam was the only one who came through..
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That's all for now- Join us again next time for another exciting episode of.... BROAHTOGRAPHY.com!

Battle of the Shops 2008- HANDRAIL

The handrail got annihilated once again this year with standouts like Andrew Pott and Marquis Preston

ZJ's Sean McNulty pulled off a back over crooks, front over crooks, and a back lip

McNulty- Front over crooks


McNulty- Back over crooks


Kato- 180 nosegrind


Marquis Preston- Back smith


Marquis Preston- big spin boardslide


Andrew Pott- Kickflip 50-50


Andrew Pott- Crooks back lip


Andrew Pott- Nollie flip Boardslide

Battle of the Shops 2008- TRANNY

For the third year in a row Josh Mattson proved himself to be the most prominent shop tranny rider in the biz...
He did a 540 indy grab on the 9 ft vert section of the ramp along with a whole lot more killer tricks that I didn't get
Apologize in advance for the lack of photos...angles were tough and never really knew when the hammers were coming.



Josh Mattson- Drop to frontside 360 fastplant


Josh Mattson- Smith up the bird's nest


David Loy- Front nosegrind up the bird's nest


Curren Caples- Kickflip front blunt

Battle of the Shops 2008- DOUBLE SET

The double set obstacle was out of control! Jimmy Carlin pretty much handled business and there were some other higlights, some of which I didn't catch-including Moose doing a full cab flip!

Jake Eames put down a few tricks for the "Z" including a kickflip, frontside flip, and a switch flip.


Eames- frontside flip


Active's Jon Dickson- Nollie flip


Jon Dickson- Switch Heel


Timmy Thomas- Tre flip


Jimmy Carlin- Frontside half cab flip


Jimmy Carlin- Heelflip


Jimmy Carlin- Double Flip


Jimmy Carlin- Dolphin Flip

Automatic Magazines Battle of the Shops 2008! -TECH

Here are the sequences I shot of Justin Cefai during the 30 minute technical obstacle jam session.


Kickflip Nose Manual- Euro Manny pad

Justin performs his signature trick as published in this months issue of Automatic Mag!

Fakie 5-0 fakie flip out


Switch nose manny fakie flip out

.....and the banger that non e of the judges saw...

Fakie 5-0 fakie tre flip out


Check back soon for the rest of the coverage