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News 08 12 30

Happy Birthday to Bly!
16 years old today!

Look out world he'll be driving soon... or in Bly's case -- probably driftin' -- watch out Tokyo!
Now that he'll be able to drive he'll be driftin' in to shred your local skate spots and Buffalo Wild Wings.

BTW since Bly and Sheckler share the same birthday they will be having synchronized Etnies birthday events in their respective cities (jk).

News 08 12 28

I traveled to Clarksville TN to meet up with Andrew LaPenna, his bro Sam, Gage, and Ethan of the FSS crew. Some photo sequences of Andrew are up in the right hand "pics" column. Footage of Andrew in Clarksville TN coming soon.


 

News 08 12 20

Wes Driver and I traveled to Nashville's 6th Ave to skate. Footage of Wes at 6th Ave coming soon.

 

News 08 12 13

The Chimp Take Over deck series is out and on sale in select core skate shops.

 

News 08 11 20

New "best of" video edit for
Bly Nantz

Click here to watch Bly Nantz's best of video

 

News 08 11 09

Andrew LaPenna takes second place in the Brentwood TN contest. Congrats to Andrew and thanks to Franklin skate shop and the YMCA for making this event happen.

 

News 08 11 04

So this video of the Free Flow Tour contest at 6th Ave surfaced on the web. Andrew was not on the Meanwhile team when this contest occured. Andrew's skating in his finals run was what originally caught my attention and asked him to join the Meanwhile team. The featured final clip of this video is part of Andrew's finals run where he laid down a tre flip lipslide. Ultimately Andrew received second place. The skater who was given first place is the person featured dropping in on the vert wall.

 

News 08 10 24

New footage from the fall tour has been added to the VIDEO page...

Bly's has two video clips. The first video shows him tearing it up at Ollie's skatepark (in Florence KY), and at Louisville's public skatepark. He goes of the Ollie's gap and lands rediculous amounts of harder tech and switch flips.

The second video shows Bly at the Florence KY concrete skatepark and at the DC Plaza in Kettering OH. Never let it be said that Bly can't skate rails -- he just has to find one he likes. He also hits a huge front krook very reminiscent of Sean Malto.

There's still even more fall tour footage from Andrew LaPenna... Andrew walks into Ollie's and owns the place as if he were a local. FS nosegrind on a big hubba, tricks up the BIG euro gap, and sick runs on the half pipe. Although injuries and exhuastion caught up with the team by the time we got to the DC Plaza -- Andrew still was able to BS feeble the 9 set.

More fall tour footy coming soon...

  

News 08 10 14

New footage of Andrew was added to the VIDEO page...

Andrew earning street cred in Nashville. He tears down the Metro Center Big 4. Go check out his video - he goes big!

  

News 08 10 05

New footage of Bly was added to the VIDEO page...

Bly puts together some lines on the Meanwhile ledges boxes. Last time I filmed him on the ledges he was mostly going front side, this time (you guessed it) he goes back side. Seriously good lines.

  

News 08 09 03

New footage of Bly Nantz once again "Mr Clean" rolls away spotless. This footage is extra "crispy bear" with finger lickin' goodness. It's so good it'll grab ahold of your attention like a theif in the park (as the Beastie Boys soundtrack to this video says)... Yes... I've lost my mind and all these coded messages and inside jokes make no sense...YET!

Listen and watch carefully...
This Bly video and music is sync'd up so that it's almost as trippy as when you start "The Wall" at the same time as the third roar of the MGM lion at the beginning of The Wizard Of Oz...

So was this VIDEO page update more interesting to read than the same old "video page for (insert skater's name here) has been updated - go check it out"?

  

News 08 08 29

New footage of Andrew LaPenna skating in BGKY from Saturday August 16th. He had never been to BGKY to skate before -- see how he tears it down on his first day!
Go check it on the VIDEO page.

  

News 08 08 24

New footage of Bly Nantz skating in BGKY from Saturday August 16th. Smooth ledge tricks at the skatepark and some new street tricks from spots around BGKY.

You'll find it on the VIDEO page! Go watch the footage!

  

News 08 08 12

It's Official... Andrew LaPenna is the newest member of the Meanwhile team. Bly and I made the trip down to Nashville to skate with Andrew at the Franklin Plaza and Metro last weekend. Needless to say - we all thought he killed it... Don't believe me? Go check out Andrew's footage on the VIDEO page or his profile on the TEAM page.

  

News 08 08 05

Bly and Blue Wallace team members Casey Duncan and Fred Jones entered an edit of their footage into an online contest that ShredOrDie.com and Birdhouse skateboards hosted called the "Trick To Do List". As it turns out our guys won the contest! The Birdhouse and SOD judges rated our video as the winning footage. Congrats to our guys for the winning the contest. Click here to check out Shred Or Die

  

News 08 07 24

The TEAM page has been updated. Individual pages for each of the team members are now up. Links to footage available on each of their pages. Check them out.

  

News 08 07 14

Two new videos of Bly added to the VIDEO page...
OK - well one video is actually a new edit of Bly's 2008 footy highlighting the best clips from January though June 2008. The second video is brand new (from today) where Bly puts together some lines on the new ledge boxes I just built. Remember that Bly is regular footed - not goofy. Being that he practically skates switch more than his normal stance (and because he doesn't push mongo when riding switch) it's hard to remember sometimes that what he's doing is way more difficult than he makes it look.

  

News 08 07 08

Meanwhile decks are available at Blue Wallace skateshop in Bowling Green KY. For a limited time when you purchase a deck you get a Meanwhile shirt for free. Sizes and colors are limited - get them while they last!