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Epic Sunday #1

We have been getting together to skate on Sundays for a while. Sometimes they are epic days for us. We have so much fun that we wanted to share it with you. So we are making it a point to do more than one Epic Sunday video (we have another one ready to edit) and hopefully we will get to do a bunch of them before we are done.

Hopefully you enjoy this as much as we did. But then again watching isn’t as good as doing. Go skate!!

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Skateboarding can be rewarding in so many ways. Since day one I started building things to skate. The wood across the grass to get a longer run, the janky quarter pipe that fit on the sidewalk, the bigger quarter pipe that could be disassembled and reassembled in the flat driveway next door and put away because the parents wanted it out of sight, the jump ramp that fit perfectly in the mini pickup and on and on. These days the DIY spirit of skateboarding is alive and well and there are projects all over the world. We have a great one in Seattle called Marginal Way which I have had the great fortune to put money into as well as work. Sunday was a work day and though I came unprepared I did my bit… The park is coming along great. Keep up with it on Facebook or the website.

Oh… and by the way. If you skate a DIY spot and show up when it’s being worked on and don’t put in some work or at the very least drop off a six pack then don’t bother skating it. Be part of the community of skateboarding or quit and ride BMX or start jogging.

If you don’t have a DIY spot or a place to skate then what are you waiting for? Build and destroy! There are plenty of how to’s on the internet. Go do it!

Go skate!!

By the way… new hoodies up in a few as I’m building that part now but had to ramble a little bit…

Stencil Deck

Since a new deck was needed to go to the UK with (a one man tour of sorts) and we weren’t quite ready to screen decks (yes that is coming your way in the not so far future) I had to make due with a die cut vinyl stencil that Mikhel made a while back.

Here’s how it went along with some Oh My Back Instagram photos…

  1. Mask off the edges so you can see the laminates and then paint the deck. In this case I sprayed it black.BaseBlack
  2. Next apply the stencil and a lot of blue tape and newspaper so you don’t get paint where it’s not wanted. StencilOn Continue reading Stencil Deck