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Repeated jumping down starirs and miscalculating burly handrails will take a toll.

He has to give himself shots every day to help it heal better.

And while he is down he creates sweet cigar-box guitars to shred.

Josh Harmony: MAN.

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And this was what it looked like.

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This girl pulled up and impressed us.  She rode off bad-ass style while some of the guys chased after her.

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It all starts with innocent kazoo hits.  Speaking of Matt B, he has a cameo in this movie.

And soon you got leather clad rebels pissing on high...

Rad-Dads hitting up the local betties...

Dan Lu getting creepy...
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And JLay typically sour with the whole affair.

Sitting it out.

Can't phase Daniel though.  Up with the dawn and getting coffee for the bros.  
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First night out Collin's board goes in the water.  

In true bro-style form, Dan Lu gets at it.

He was all smiles of course.
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To celebrate, Collin gouged a vagina into his shin. Happy Birthday!

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It started it's period right away. 

He took to nature for some R&R.
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Things started to get weird over in Cacka.

Packed up the van.

 

Said goodbye to the bros...

And all the little people.

Stocked up.

and stoked out.

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Vans teammate and good buddy Gilbert Crockett came out for a meet up.

 

We all fall down eventually.

Doing things.

Representing.

You can't take it with you.

Just sleep it off...
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Daniel is way out East getting radical on a solo mission.

The one and only. 

Even when Ed isn't there, he's there.  All these spies...

Double check to make sure its kosher.

Rainy day homework.

Hey the rain didn't stop Burke...

What a wild thing.

The sun sets on the forests of Cacka.

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Lets start with the RVCA signing: Only about 10 people found it worthwhile to get off their ass to go meet the new SKATER of the YEAR, Leo Romero, along with some of his team-mates like Cairo Foster, Keegan Sauder, Josh Harmony, Austin Stephens, and Ed Templeton. Only a small handful of people thought, "Yes, I will go and talk to these pro skaters who are there just to hang out and talk to me, perhaps they will answer some of my questions and I will be enlightened." Perhaps getting something signed by a living legend like Leo Romero is a "Gay" idea and you are way too cool to do something so stupid. This guy took some time from his day to say whats up. And he lived. And nothing bad happened to him. And the kid above came to show us his Toy Machine tattoo. All his burning questions were answered.

Here's a close up of what, let's hope, is not a future regret.
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This is my shitty photo of the sign outside, I meant to get a better one when I got out of the car, but soon forgot to do that, so I'm left with this. I'm sure there's a better one floating around in cyberspace.

There was a photo booth set up, that simultaneously gives you a print, and emails a version to some database, and also shows up on a screen outside the photo booth so everyone can see whats going on. So if you think you are being private while getting your sack out, you are not. Grif, with a random lady.

Carl and Grif.

Matt B and Tess, lets make it tad dirty...

And now it's all over the place.

Deanna and I knew better, and we are sober, so we have no excuse for our actions.

As you can see in our last post, Matt Field was busy doing "Yoga Moshing." I spoke with him briefly, and he said he has been 3 years sober. That cup he holds is coffee. But I must wonder about other drugs. Doing yoga to hardcore metal bands could be a future workout video, I think he should trademark that shit ASAP.

Uno mas foto booth sneak attack. (with bonus crotch dig.)

Behind the back guitar solo action.

The balcony was for gamblers, better use your sense. Collin, Jerry and Tancowny - a coincidence?

The moment had arrived. Kevins post yesterday was from above, and I am down below...

Jake emitted some words about the greatness of Leo Romero, and how he deserved it more than all the other people who were whining about their favorites for Skater of the Year, like Grant T, Andrew R, Dylan R, all great athletes to be sure, but not however, the chosen one for the year 2010. No one goes as balls-out as Leo does every fucking day, with no regard of all life in his path including his own.

Lets all shed a tear.

Get this fucking hippie lettuce out of my shot.

Over sized novelty check received.

And a guitar was presented as a gift, which actually caught Leo off guard, and was a touching moment.

Backstage, Leo had his own VIP dressing room, just like the headlining bands, like TSOL.

The guitar is sweeeeeet. I hope he plays "Mi Cara" on it.

Elated vibrations.

This thing is heavy, I wonder when a murder will be committed with an SOTY trophy?

The limelight.

You know you're big time when you have your own dressing room just to get an award.

You are tonight.

"I wanna be on the Toy website." Wishes granted every day.

Erica was there to congratulate Leo on his epic year.

"I am honored to have this human in my life." – Ed T.

Tony Trujillo. Let me stop here and tell a story about the TSOL concert going on upstairs. The dance floor was soaked in beer, and a massive open pit had formed where a few willing and desperate slam-dancers were out looking for the few others to clash into. (The kids these days call it a mosh-pit, but I prefer the older "slamming" myself.) The wetness of the floor made it real slippery. Needless to say, the floor was quite gross with the mixture of beer, vomit, and hundreds of shoes walking all over it. The people moshing were falling all over it, and a few wasted girls were out there falling into the floor face first, getting groped, and rolling around in the filth. Tony T (seen above) was mopping the floor with his own wife! He had her by the feet, and was skidding her tits and face down all over the floor in circles and then rolling around while making out? I'm not sure, but that's sort of what it looked like from my angle. People were getting more aggressive as TSOL got more heated. And people were slamming mega-hard on the slipery floor, colliding and crashing with spectacular pile-ups. Ian Deacon from Flip Skateboards slipped onto his dome and was knocked out cold. I watched people pull his limp body from the alcohol puddled floor. I emailed him later that night and asked what happened. He was in the hospital getting 7 stitches and sent me this gruesome photo of his injury. Enjoy.

Oh yeah, that thing.

"I wish I got this back in 1990, boo-hoo!" –Ed Templeton

"But seriously, I'm jealous. Can I take this home for a little bit?"

"No."

A certain milieu.

Leo went into TSOL's dressing room and stole their beer. The SOTY can do no wrong tonight.

"Gimme some chocolate milk." –Jerry Hsu

"No, dude. It's my chocolate milk!" – Dan Rogers

"Ok." Dan relented.
After the event, many people congregated at the Phoenix Hotel in the Tender-Loin of SF.

It was all fun and games with Josh, Matt and Tess.

"Boy, was that chocolate milk ever satisfying."

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Yeah, that's Toy Machine's last Skate of the Year, Brian Anderson. Bad Ass.

Grif attracted some female humans to him with his animal magnetism.

Shrewgy and Keegan. Shrewgy is the guy who sponsored me on Thunder back in the late 80's.

Kevin and Leo get close and awesome.

Both of Toy Machine's SOTY's together, BA and Leo.

The night was still young for Leo, who was spotted as late as 4am on Newell Street, drunk but still standing.

"Lemme smell your folicles Deanna, yep, you're Mexican, I can smell it."

The next day I met up with BA, it has been years since we had the chance to sit down and talk in any signifigant way. This was long overdue!

SF.

The night after in San Francisco.

Deanna and I were walking around Union Square and ran into Wiggins and Chris Cole, who was with his family ice skating. So random and rad.

SF cop.

Toy Machine's slogan for 2011.

Drove home on Sunday.

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Obligatory punk band rage-a-thon.

Matt Field making friends.

 

Handstand contest.  Field wins.

Tess thought it rocked, obviously.

Finally, time to present the award.

Making it reign.

Speech time.

Nailed it.

Ed and company looked on with pride.

TNT with a little SOTY to SOTY advice.

BA and now Leonard, the only Toy SOTY's so far...

Schmitty crept up and and scared Deanna.  I think Leo was in on it.

Congrats Leo!
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Picked up Diego from the airport.  

Went straight into a sesh with Bill.

Caught Bennett on a metropolitan piss break.
I don't know how I feel about this...

Diegs was beside himself.

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Sinclair gets nerdy.
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Oh yeah! LEO ROMERO is Skater of the Year!!!!

Leo's final trick during the Brain Wash filming.

Liked a caged animal.

At least it's bro-style.
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Oh yeah! LEO ROMERO is Skater of the Year!!!!

>>>>>>>>>>ENTER THIS CONTEST!

Have you made your mandatory purchase yet?

Bow in servitude to the Bloodsucking Skateboard Company.  Dildo gouges await all naysayers. 

Brainwashing tests are still being done.
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Oh yeah! LEO ROMERO is Skater of the Year!!!!

Sinclair vs, Rothmeyer

First and Last Ed T.

>>>>>>>>>>ENTER THIS CONTEST!

I'll help you after I finish this cig mom...

Wake up to the sweet sounds of Josh Harmony singing you a song...

"C'mere kid, your getting a photo with me if you like it or not."

"I see a Wal-Mart right there! Get off the freeway bitch!" –Billy Marks

"I'm usually thinking sinister thoughts." –Matt Bennett

Texting at dinner? Way to block out your homies.

Breaking shit is what makes a Toy Tour fun.

Destruction comes both on and off the board.

Washing off the paintball obliteration from the Tum-yeto van.

Even Nick and Matt were helping out! What bros!

Gratuitous Nick T washing car coverage.

"You missed a spot asshole." -Diego

After I finished cleaning the whole van ghetto style with the squegee Billy shoots one at my window. That was the last straw, I had to go "dad" on his ass.

A little forced clean up builds character...

Diego helps get Burn-Dog limbered up for the night session.

"I never did this stretching thing..."

Matt B watches Jordan do some things down a 9-stair.

Austin too.

Then Diego joins in. Here is some music to listen to while looking at this photo and reflecting on the end of this epic tour.

Mike was a trooper on this journey.

Wasn't there a rave in the last post?

Burndog says, "Count me in!"

Another dollar lost...

Sinclair coming up then back down...

Thanks for the sweet tour everyone.

Respect your dead fellow pawns.
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