Habitat/Metal Wheels

Out Now In Sizes 53mm & 56mm

The Wall Ride Art Show

Sept 25th-26th In Asbury Park New Jersey

Eric J Ruwadi 1976-2009

Its been a year but seems like yesterday, Eric was everything this company/club stood for and was one of the few OG Metal guys from 1995 that was still around. He will always be in our thoughts and will be someone we will never forget.

Blazed & Confused

I got to sit in on this tour for a week and I gotta say it was one of the best vans I've been in, the youth keeps ya feeling young and the old keep ya feeling drunk. I you missed this tour you pretty much blew it, between the Air babies destroying everything in site and Ryan Lay's jack rabbit pop this was one for the books.

Asbury Ave....

With spring coming a lot of the guys have been out skating more and more, these days there seems to be a bunch of new kids popping up everywhere you go. Donny's been hitting Asbury a lot and met a few local kids that skate down there every day, kids that share one skateboard between 3 of them. Anyone that skates knows this ain't the way it should be, I mean what fun is it sitting there watching your friend skate when the whole point of skating is to skate "with" your friends, at the spots, down the street, basically anywhere and everywhere you can. When he came to me the other day asking if there was any extra product laying around for these kids and told me there deal it was something I didn't have to give a second thought too. Today we threw some completes together, grabbed some extra T's, hats, shoes and anything we could find that would get these kids stoked. Sometimes I forget why I picked up a skateboard 25 years ago, it's been so long you tend to forget the way it was and just see the way it is, now a days its pure bullshit, everyone wants to be the next big pro or every local kid in the park thinks he deserves free product cause they "think" there the best around here, well I got a news flash for yah, these kids deserve the product more then anyone I've met, they skate to skate and don't know or care about being sponsored or the next local pro. All in all I guess when you come from nothing you seem to appreciate the finer things in life when it's given to yah, things like a skateboard.
LM

Andrew McLaughlin & Division East

I'm Caught In A Bad Romance.......

Arizona.... what can I say, it might just be the best place in the US, aside from Jersey of course, but the locals kept saying " why did you bring Jersey to us". Why you ask, well it rained more in the week we were there then they seen in years, winds up to 80 miles a hour, just ask Fred, he circled Phoenix for 3 hours on a flight in from Miami, ran low on fuel, flew to Vegas to refuel and then back to Phoenix to circle for another 3 hours till the pilot decided they couldn't land and had to fly back to Vegas for the night, this guy spent a whole day in a plane and didn't even leave the country, talk about a great start to a trip....
Anyways once the crew got grounded things picked up as usual, lots of food, lots of beer, cars full of people, lots of driving, lots of gambling, pool games, broken sticks, slapping bouncers, riding in the back of pick up trucks, food, beer, A girl named Kelly Clarkson pissing in a urinal and then posing for the camera, a girl in a ditch and then her showing us how to stretch, cowboy Bill Strobeck, half sack Austin Gillette, Spiderman, What the Heck( worst dude ever), Poker with the Jaws family, Fred hearing a ghost at "4 AM" ring the door bell then knock on the door, Lady Ga Ga, food , beer, and everything else to make this a real shit show, oh wait we skated too.....
All in all AZ was worth every minute, it has been over 5 years since I've been there and I forgot how much that place ruled. Thanks to Matt Price and the homeys for putting up with us NJ Scum and the ones left standing, compensation is on the way. As for me, I got right off the plane and went straight to Asbury for some food and beer. It's no AZ but its were I'm from and trust me that's the best trip of them all.