Holy crap!

Watch him here.

Now go skate on your day off!

Yeah it’s raining, and although we needed it to combat the drought we’ve been under, it does suck when you’re ready to skate and the sky drops on you (I was just about to run out the door to hit the bowl when I got soaked). Take comfort in the fact that the Chicken Coop will be back in just a few weeks… so rainy days will just mean skating indoors (or under your carport if you have one).

Before we begin, I want to be clear that I’m not menitoning the name of, nor am I picking on the skater involved with today’s subject… we actually know him, and he’s a good guy. I blanked his face out because I don’t want there to be any confusion… we have no beef with skateboarders, especially not the skateboarder in the image below. Having said that, I’d like to take the opportunity to point out some funny things on the cover of “Clipper Magazine,” something you may already have a copy of if you live in the region. For those that aren’t familiar, Clipper is basically a coupon book… for around $1,200, you can get the cover, as Go Big has done below. I numbered a couple of things of interest:

1. “In action for over 10 Years”. Actually, it should say inaction for over 10 years, since Go Big hasn’t done anything for the skate community since it started… other than accept money from skaters. You’d think that in 10 years, and with the money that Go Big and Mandeville have, there’d be a really nice skatepark in St. Tammany parish… hell, even a crappy skatepark for the locals to ride on (public or private). Well don’t wait for Go Big to do anything… rather than creating a scene, they’ve chosen to latch onto ours. Morons.

2. (a) Noone wears Go Big shirts at the park. Seriously… not even Go Big’s employees wear Go Big shirts on a normal day of skating at the park. The reason? Because they’re ashamed of being associated with the place. Sure, the skater in question is wearing the shirt for the ad, but on a normal day, it just doesn’t happen. Go Big’s own employees are too embarrassed to represent the place they work for… hell, some of the employees won’t even work at the Hammond location because they know how lame it was for Gary to open it in the first place.
(b) You’re welcome for the rail. If it weren’t for Small Time Skates, the rail in the above photo wouldn’t exist. A perfect example of Go Big’s parastic philosophy… let other people do the work, then exploit it like the jerks they are.

3. Tricks over blades! C’mon now… you have a guy on a board doing a trick over a rollerblade? That’s so terribly sad that it’s funny.

4. Our shoes get free publicity! Yeah, you guessed it… those shoes came from Small Times.

Make no mistake, everyone… Go Big is not a skate shop. They sell skateboards, but the shop’s mission isn’t to support skateboarding or skateboarders… they don’t care about you. Not only does the money not go to skateboard-related causes, it doesn’t even stay in Hammond, it goes to Mandeville. As it stands, Small Time Skates is still the only skateshop in Hammond… and it happens to be locally owned. Stay Small.