Friday, November 20, 2009

The Gonz!


So here it is, yesterday I get a call in the midst of my making cannabutter.*Ring* *RING* Me:"Chello?" Ninja: "Marlon! you should come out to Richmond, Kromer is here...he rode here on his Harley!" Me: "What? no shit? Richmond huh?! Fucking down as a clown!" Ninja: "I called Kev, but I think he's sleepin, you should hit him up and Toan too cuz Krome's boards in his trunk... and mob down here and we'll shred!"
Me: "Word! will do, aight then I'll hit em up then hit you up. Peace!" Ninja: "Peace!" Shortly thereafter i meet up with Kev, pick up the Loccs and we were off. Got to Richmond about 2:45 pm and Ninja and Steve came a bit later and it was oooooooooooooon duuuuuuuuuude. Super awesome radical fun sesh; hammers were dropped, doobs were toasted, Henny, Seagram's 7 Whiskey, Patron Gold, and Hamm's were drank, and Taco Bell was munched,and at one point tried to freeze our fucking hands off! Then as we're winding down from the sesh we decide to peep some shred vids on the macbook. We watch a couple Shuriken parts, some Cory Kennedy and then the new 4Star Clothing Europe Tour Video. And while watching this amazing film of legendary shredders, I was just captivated by the abilities of one particular individual, The Gonz, a nickname that reverberates through the pulse of the skateboarding universe. Mark Gonzales, simply put, is one of the raddest human being ever to set foot on a skateboard.
The man exudes style and bodaciousness! He mills about on his stuntwood just TERRORIZING spots. He get's it straight and rides Krooked. He's a zip zinging maniac who enjoys giving vexed zoot suiters 4star gear, draining his lizard, kickflipping his mountain bike and just being an all original skateboard artist. Dude can shred whatever, if he gets board with the regular old skate he starts shredding a 9 inch long board with 215 Indy's in the rain, boardsliding whole handicap rails(he's just plain ridiculous) when there's supposed to be a whole team demo going on. Do yourself a favor and pop in Blind Video Days or any of the Krooked videos and just basque in the wild, spontaneous spirit that is Mark Gonzales. May he shred forever, and forever shred!

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