Enjoi Slap article / Franz Lyons

Barkow just called me and told me to check out the Slap Mag site... You might recall that a couple months back the Enjoi team rolled through Columbus while they were on tour.. Franz, Joe and Dan took them around town. Well today there is a tour article up on the website. on page 6 there is an animated sequence of Franz doing a frontside bigspin off the loading dock into the bank. It's really fucking good.
Go here to see it: http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1749&Itemid=27
Hell yeah Franz!!!

Canal Winchester update

Well...... I went there...It's not done yet. Actually it looks done but I think they're letting the concrete cure.

Gage @ Ollies

Gage Smith posted up a pretty good edit from a recent trip to Ollies Skatepark in Kentucky.

Canal Winchester park

Looks like Canal Winchester got themselves a small concrete skatepark....
"Who? Skates" out of Kennybunkport Maine built the park. It looks really small but it could be fun. I'm hopefully going to check it out tomorrow afternoon if the weather isn't too shitty. The park is only a few miles from where I grew up. Canal Winchester is on the far Southeast side of Columbus. The park is near the intersection of Groveport and Gender roads.

The picture is taken from http://whoskates.com/

NEW Embassy website / video

Embassy Boardshop has completely redesigned their website. Eric Barkow and Jake Westrick did a super good job. There is a ton of stuff to check out, new products, team page, video section, etc. most definitely worth a look: embassyboardshop.com

EMBASSY VIDEO
Ok, so exactly two years ago, the shop made a video; had a premiere at Carabar and it was never shown again. The video wasn't edited at all until a couple days before the premiere. They managed to throw it together, enough to show at least...In the haste of getting it done one whole section was accidentally cut out (myself, Adam Lowe, Ricky Critchfield & Brenten Turner) and nobody saw it. After that showing the plan was to film more and re-edit it. That never happened and it was decided that it just wouldn't be released. People have been bugging Barkow a lot about seeing the video so with the relaunch of the website, the video is now been added to the site. It's about 20 minutes long and features Gabe Peterson, OJ Hays, Max Palmer, Ben Perkins and has smaller parts by Franz, CJ, Taylor, the whole IGLU crew and other friends.. Mike Newton (me) Ricky, Adam, Brenton, Jeff Trasin, Joe and Dan Charlton, Darius, Yon, Gary,Jerome, Sammy, Shane, Ginger, Steve, Stu, Kaleb, Max G. and a bunch more kids... go to this link to see it:
http://www.embassyboardshop.com/category/video/

FLOW Again...12/15

We rented the Flow Skatepark again... about a 25 person session.
Here are some photo's

Joe Charlton: Nosegrind 180 out..
Jake Westrick: Gettin' vertical!!!!
Kaleb Mericle: Gap over box to tailslide
Ben Tolford: Smith Grind

Flow 12/7

I hate winter. I actually like snowboarding..but just about everything else about it sucks...

Now that the highs are in the 30's It looks like the majority of our skating will be indoors. Last night, myself, the Embassy kids and a few other friends rented out the Flow skatepark. Ben, Taylor, Gabe and Dan killed everything. Dan nearly killed himself; he took one of the hardest slams I've seen in awhile.

Here's a couple of crappy iPhone pics I shot.

CJ: back tailslide up the extension on the mini & Ben: stand up 5-0 on the vert quarter.

Milk Bar x Insturment

Milk Bar Boutique @ 1203 north high street in the Short North is having it's 2 year anniversary party this Saturday night Dec. 5th

At 10pm they will be hosting the Columbus premier of the Insturment video. I missed the Cincy showing, so I'm stoked I can go to this one.. Come out support Taylor and have a good time.. The event is sponsored by Embassy Boardshop.

- Limit edition {milk bar} t-shirts
- 20% off everything including sale items
http://milkbarboutique.com
http://shopmilkbar.blogspot.com