Heat wave, dead flat, guidos, traffic. East coast is in full summer effect. To get away from it all team rider Luke Ditella spent the last 2 and a half weeks on the west coast shooting video and feeding turtles bananas out of his mouth.

200 kids + 100 degree weather = one hot mess of skateboarding. Thanks to Vans, Redbull, Skatetheroy.com, Silk City Skateboards, and the Boardroom for putting on a fun event.  For more photos check out Skate Theory. 

So I went to the bar last night with the Intern and we had another dude shirt sighting.  Hey broh… Thanks for keeping it real and throwing a shocker… stop by Elation in Ocean City or Ventnor and pick up some new gear.

 Here is a photo of the new “off kilter” and “blinded” boardshorts on display at Elation.

Our Jersey/Delaware rep came by today and we hooked up his UM Surfboards van with the new UM logos and some ergo shiz. 

A few years ago… Before we were really a company, we set off on a 1 year east coast tour in an RV.   To make a long story short, we gave away a ton bunk tee shirts.  To make another super long story short… Justin, the owner of Focus Magazine, was in Galactic G Skate Shop , in Orlando, and snapped a camera phone pic of a kid still rocking that shit.  Hey kid sick shirt… Thanks for the support…  Go to Antiapparel.com and cop some new shiz.

Thanks Justin!  

Jeff  Von Beaver Pelt (chief in charge of nothing) and Robbie Da Prince (head honcho) showed up wearing the same thing yesterday.  Not 20 minutes later we received some lifestyle photos from TUPAT (ergo staff photog/ …Lost Legend) of Shea wearing the same thing… a little weak photoshop work and Viola.

 If you never heard of Tupat… here is a couple clips. 

Team rider’s Alejo Marin and Josie Graves along with ergo flow squad’s Carlos Trigo have been blowing us up down in Puerto Rico, tagging up everything and anything possible.

Dylan Graves’s car 

 Aaron Griegers car

Carlos Trigo killing it with the ladies

We came across a bunch of footage that we were sitting on from Surf Expo.  Since its almost time again we thought we would share it.  Enjoy!

Sam sent these photos over of him and his friends destroying their buddies car for the fun of it.  They were about to drive it 36 hours south to pick up another friend in Mexico City until Daniel (guy on the ground) jumped off the balcony landed on the windshield and sliced Sam’s nose open from the impact as he was sitting in the car ready to go… hope this doesn’t affect his creativity.

Being a New Jersey Shore based company we run into the problem of Guidos coming in and taking over our shore towns every summer.  You may not think this is a big deal, but the shit is getting out of hand.  Guidos, wide backs, juice necks, ginnys… Your bound to cross paths with these Italian tool bags here at the Jersey Shore. Guido videos are one of the funniest things on you-tube but, if your not familiar with the term ‘Guido’…. we have posted some photos and video clips below to bring you up to speed. Your typical guido devotes his life to the following things: spiked-out blown-out “brooklyn fade” haircuts, gratuitous portions of hair gel, fine italian linens, cadilac escalades, gym memberships, anabolic drugs, euro-rave velcro sneakers, massive techno fist pumping, tanning salons, jagerbombs, and excessive club drug use. Recently, the local population has grown tired of the guidos and have been very hard on them. We just wanna let all the guidos know that we appreciate the grade A humor you bring to our beaches each summer. Summer would be so boring without these goofy fucks around giving us something to laugh at.

 They even have their own website http://njguido.com/ 

This clip is really funny and defines everything above. 

This clip is from people trying to stop the madness. 

 Along with another anti-guido cult that has been tagging this everywhere.

This shit is insane.

Alejo left this voicemail the other day and everyone at the office was frothing on it… so we have decided to share it with you.  If you don’t know Alejo… check out this photo that ran in Transworld Surf last issue.

We pack a ton of boxes here and love screwing around with the people we ship to. We draw rollerblades, rainbows, unicorns and all sorts of gay art work on the inside and put random things in with peoples stuff to mess with them. So the other day we needed to mail  Andrew Cannon a reimbursement check for the AZ trip.  Instead of sending it regular mail with a stamp… we decided to waste some cardboard and send it fed ex.  Enjoy! 

Surf photographer, Ryan Miller, sent us a video the other day of some epic party footage of him and a few mates.  It was shot in Scotland a few weeks ago while everyone was there for the Oneill Highland Open in Thurso. We had no idea what we were in for….. These guys were going totally nuclear at some radical euro club. There was wild trance dancing, double-dutch jump roping, and an enough air humping to make your head spin.  He said to put it up on the blog… We emailed him back to double check and his response was,”Fuck yeah blow that thing up!!!!!!!!”….. so here it is!  I am sure you will see some familiar faces.  Enjoy!

Thats right… we even have interns.  Here is a sequence of one of them getting  shacked.

We were greeted at the beach today by a sketchy dude in a rubber raft filled to the brim with kilos of stickers. The cops swooped in and we got out in the nick of time. We already have the product into our distribution network and plan on plastering every neighborhood you ever heard of.

The block is hot.