Wednesday, June 1, 2011

me and gonz 14yrs ago.....

i kinda forgot about this one.

i would drive by this
bump almost daily coming
from andy/wiggys ramp
back to the house.
but it was rough and slow
and just kinda lacked
due to the fact that by the time
you finished pushing your
ass off and got to the top of
the thing you were almost
at a stand still. Mark and i
were skating my vert ramp
from time to time and real
needed ad... so i asked
Mark if he wanted to ollie over
me on my motorcycle.
Mark always seemed
down for trying
some different kinda skate
shit. So we went by this spot
and i pulled out my
massive street legal mc90. I get
throttling and mark would
clench onto my shoulder with
his long fingers and nails and
we would haul at that bump..
he kicked it away a few times
only once the board into my
side. It ended up going down
pretty quick. My shoulder was
black and blue for days
after from Mark grabbing on for
the tow. The spots still
there and i still have the mc90.
mark you down for a redo?




thanks for the reminder
and all the rad content

Vert is Dead

18 comments:

matt machine said...

sick. hey m i wacked a little thing on the blog for a thankyou for my stuff mate.
your buddy m

Phil said...

Fanfuckingtastic!! Thanks for the years of inspiration.

shiftace said...

with all the flip tricks dudes throw down at the maloof cup and on the dew tour..sometimes a plain ol big ollie is just the ticket..hell the cover of Thrasher is dedicated to one. Great post max.

jason webber said...

the smile on your face says it all.

Jaybird said...

id love to see a re-du.

antihero1972 said...

really you almost forgot this one, its one of my favs, it pops up from now and then on blogs. Its cool to know how it went down completly unplanned. cool shit!!!

Justin said...

Did you redo this for Real to Reel? Wasn't there an ad explaining that it was never filmed the first time around?

max schaaf said...

was there..? did we?
huh. i'm gonna eat some ginko
and see if i remember. maybe we
did do it twice.

Dan said...

love this ad..do you have a copy of the cheryl dunn video w/mark skating inside a german museum on a long board? maybe i spelled her name wrong er? interwebber's will know

Dan said...

figuring out my own bullshit...i was fortunate enough to make his boards for the show>>aloha>gonz fucking rules.
http://youtu.be/jekTJtfqhKo

cummin from gummin said...

Max. what was the song in your video part for the Deluxe World Wide '99 spot. Where you are talking about all the cuss words and such?

tom said...

so rad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sywtYlIqOOU

max schaaf said...

dAN.. they show mark skating that
board in that beautiful losers doc.
it's rad footage.

max schaaf said...

that song was by -the bodies-

Dan said...

thanks max-gotta check that out..

Anonymous said...

awesome

circus leo said...

best skateboard ad ever

The Hawk and Buzzard said...

Bring back street plants.