a dozen years dumber....

12 years ago i would drive by this ghetto loading dock everyday and think about things to launch off of it... usually space out thinking about trying to get a car on two wheels A-TEAM style.. but without a disposable vehicle to practice with my next idea was to ride a motorcycle past it and have someone jump(ollie) over me. i ran it by a few people who's response was kind of like a "well right on" followed up by a subject changer. so i approached Mark Gonzales with the idea, simply because mark is fearless, made out of rubber, and i knew if all else failed i could call him a "pussy" or say "yea you probably couldn't do it anyway" which would send him into a tailspin and for sure wouldand have to prove me wrong. we ended up trying it out and gabe morford shot photos of it, but then they wanted dan wolfe to film it, so we tried it again... stupid ideas turned into fun, which is good enough for me. so 12 years later real skateboards wanted to re shoot it with some of their new pros, Ishod and Jake, these guys are so talented that i knew something insane would go down. Two things, i hadn't fired up the bike in a decade, and Ishod had never ridden a motorcycle. Turns out the bike fired up with a little fine tuning, and the same could be said for Ishod. Thanks to Real for being such a phenomenal inspiration over the years and taking on hair brain ideas like this one.
 max schaaf 2013
 sorry if there is a commercial before the video, it's just the way the world works these days