Shawn Hale #2.

Hover Hand.

Shane put together a very strong part for Birdhouse at the beginning of the year. It's full of unique wallrides plus no comply and wallie handrail moves to go with some ledge tech. He's also developing a special physical therapy slipper that helps rehab your feet after a day of skateboarding. Shane is wearing a pair of Vox shoes in the photo.

I was going to post a week of 2012 Birdhouse, but their ads ran spottily that year so I dropped it back to 2011 and had more success. For the future, I think there's going to be some Toy Machine, Cold War era Zero, and DGK. I want to do a Life Extention week, but I've only found three ads thus far so I'm not sure if that is going to happen.

I went over to Jamestown Skateboard Products on Friday night to see a couple of bands (Vial, pictured) play their garage. I got to skateboard upstairs while the bands were doing soundcheck. I had fun just doing a bunch of ollies and boardslides while cruising around. Saturday and Sunday were kind of clunkers. I only skated my ledges in the driveway and it wasn't really working.

The photograph is by Patrick Driscoll.

Transworld - April 2011 Volume 29 Number 4