Some of you Louisiana locals may or may not know that there’s a second Small Time Skates located in Columbia Missouri… the place is DOPE… it’s just like the Hammond shop in the sense that it’s 100% skateboarding (skater owned and operated, anything fake gets kicked in the grill).

It’s run by my friend Shane, who some of you may have met (he’s usually carrying around a camera or three). Anyway, if I can everything to work out right, they should have a full-on website up and running by this weekend. All of our friends in MO will be able to open up their own homepage and see what’s going down in the area, just like we do right here. I’m really excited to see this happening… there’s a good scene over there, and I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a few of the MO locals via MySpace (we now have well over 500 friends… don’t forget to add us).

In the meantime, check out these pics that Shane sent me…

…this is Alex “Animal” Vestal throwing himself down a drop that would break me in half. So sick… I can say with 100% honesty that you will never catch my old carcass doing anything like this, haha.

Now check this beautiful monster:

How sweet is this? I really need to go to Missouri… this thing is making me drool like a bloodhound with a hambone.

Anyway, get ready Columbia… you’re about to have a new home on the web. Much love.