Friday, July 22, 2011

Kitsch Skateboards: Brad Sheppard...


So, I first saw this video back in 2006, was so enamored by it that I tried contacting them to see if they would be interested in donating soem product for a skate night that soem of mai friends used to do every Thursdei at a bar in Chicago.
They would have a DJ playing skate rock, punk and metal, free giveaways, free old school fingerboards, Lowcards, Thrasher beer coozies, $2 PBR talls, $1 corn dogs, and 6 or 7 TVs all playing different videos from the 80's up into the 21st century. Every time I called Kitsch nobody answered.

I still go back and watch clip a few times each year because it's just so good and raw, the spot they skate are gnarly, you can hear how rough the ground is that he's riding on, especially the bricks.
His name is Brad Sheppard and this clip is from the video called Baby Steps from Kitsch Skateboards, a Canadian company.
I really like his BS180KF steez, the way he's so quick on his feet, and his quick land-then-ollie-again skills. I don't think he rides for them anymoar or if he still skates.
I found this old blog that hasn't been updated since 2009, but it's still cool to look through and see all the old footy and updates.
They will be featured in the new Late Summer 2011 issue of SBC Skateboard, Canada's National Skateboard Magazine. I bought one of these at a skateshop in Toronto back in 2001 a few blocks away from where I played a show with the band I was in at the time.

As of the end of this post I am currently listening to "Turn To Dust" by Blood Feast from the album "Chopping Block Blues" released in 1989 on New Renaissance Records.
Real Speed Metal from the heart.

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