Gershon Mosely was offered by both Evol and Maple for sponsorship....but instead,he ended up riding for Human Skateboards along with his 3 grand a month paycheck...Ronnie Bertino was kicked off Plan B when he made a derogatory comment about Mary Ternasky in front of Danny Way...In other news,Powell Skateboards has started manufacturing Rollerblades..i don't know how well they expect their new business adventure to do...but Powell is no stranger to bankruptcy.....Semi-unknown skater,Jason from Arizona is the only person thus far to actually conquer the 35 stair rail at the Long Beach convention center..with a succsesful ollie 50/50...the rail has been boneless grinded by Adam Mcnatt ....and unsuccsesfully attempted by Chad Muska which was featured as a snapshots from hell ad.....Evol Skateboards has already started working on their next video..which will be called Revelations..for those of you who went to the most recent tradeshow,you might have seen the revelations promo video...in which Adam Mcnatt grinds a waist high 103 foot long rail which is shaped like a giant "s"....Chet Thomas will be recieving his own shoe model from Globe shoes.....Mike Judd was kicked off T.S.A. and Tyrone Olson has taken his place.....Mike Frazier now rides for Toy Machine...T.S.A. will have a new video out very shortly.....Emerica also has a new video out called "yellow"...i'm not sure if it is out in stores yet,but you can read the review of it on my videos page....E's will also have a new video out shortly....Jason Dill now rides for Sal Barbiers company.."23"....Adam Mcnatt will have his own shoe model shortly with Evol.....Aaron Snyder no longer rides for Maple skateboards.....Another new wheel company is coming up,Honky wheel co. is owned by Geoff Falzone,who also owns and runs Famly snowboards.....Heath Kirchart..and Steve Berra have both left Foundation...and are now back on Birdhouse skateboards....Steve Olson has also left Foundation..and is now on Chad Muska's company,Shorty's.....Plan B has a new amateur,Rick McCrank from vancouver.....Marcelle Johnson has quit Evol skateboards...and is now riding for a new company called Farm which is distributed by Human skateboards.......also the Adam Mcnatt and Tyrone Olson shoe prototypes are finished...but Evol will be changing their shoe division name,so far on the list Alias,Centauri,and Unit seem to be the most popular name choice among team riders....Dave Mayhew is now also riding for the Evol shoe division....Chad Muska will also have a shoe out with E's....Alright..it's time to update..i've known about this stuff for quite some time now..but i never had the time to update..first of all..the Evol shoe division has changed their name to Osiris,riders include Mcnatt,Tyrone Olson,Mayhew,and Gershon Mosely....Human skateboards have started another sub-company called Enemy,and from the looks of their video that premiered a couple weeks ago..its seems really good....Brian Emmers has left Evol..and now rides for Plan B skateboards,which is also rumored to be breaking away from it's World Industries co-ownership...Neil Mims was kicked off Evol...and now rides for Human.....Mako Urabe is also off of Evol...and is currently sponsor-less.....Voice skateboards has changed their team lineup..which now includes Kanten Russell,Brandon Turner(keep your eye on this kid),Peter Smolik,and Pete Lehman(which his sponsorship is way overdue..ever since Thomas fucked him over on Toy machine).....and Chad Muska won the "skater of the year" award at the after trade show party last week.
I'ts been a long time since the last update...and most of this i've known about for a long long time now so don't be surprised if you already know this stuff...Human Skateboards has finally ended...after months of f.b.i. surveilence...they finally had to close down...it did seem a little odd how you never saw anybody riding a Human board...yet the company was making millions of dollars.....Voice skateboards has also gone under...leaving the team to find someone else...Kanten Russell has switched to a japan based company call True...which has nothing to do with Willy Santos' clothing company also called "true".....Brandon Turner is on Shorty's.....Pete Lehman is now riding for Evol Skateboards.....and Daxter lussier is currently riding for World Industries....however he me be quitting soon...after sending them some footage of some crazy 5.0 on a 15 stair handrail...World Industries response was.."Going big is alright..but we want you to stop that and do some more technical stuff".....Osiris Shoes are the new shoes from Evol..the riders are Dave Mayhew,Aaron Snyder,Gershon Mosely,Adam Mcnatt, and Tyrone Olson.....Rodney Mullen has started his own company called The A-team with riders Gershon Mosely,Chet Thomas,Marc Johnson......Jamie Thomas has quit Toy Machine and now rides for Zero....Chris Senn now rides for Toy Machine...Frank Hirata now rides for Maple....there is also talk of a secret shoe company being started that plans to steal every good rider from every shoe team.