Good Metal!!!

If your in the Austin area go grab Killing in Apathy's debut album "Last Man Standing" it's now available at Blackfly, Cheapo's, Encore and Waterloo Records! Get your copy today!

Davelle @ Demens

Davelle stuck the Demens rail the other day & armani was there to grab the sequence... check it.

Backyard Skim Session

Yesterday afternoon the skim was decent in our backyard & Brent was there to grab a few... here's the highlights... to see all the pictures from this session click here

Best Trick Contest

Christmas Party

This Saturday Night at The Finest Skateshop...

Ho Ho

If your in the south west fl region this weekend go check out the Ho Ho Skim Jam in Marco Island. U.B.C. Skim Team Rider Ryan Mietz will be there competing. Plus the front moving in should make for some good conditions. So go to the beach and support skimboarding & Ryan.

St. Pete

Tommie from The Finest Skateshop posted this and we couldn't agree more...

The Finest Skateshop is tired of the Bullshit that is going on in our Skateboard Community. We our tired of the shops threating or beatening up kids for supporting skateboarding at local skateparks. We our tired of shops throwing rocks, paintball, and etc. on other shop windows. We our tired of shops getting other people to do there dirty work by breaking in skateshops and trying to rob them. We our tired of other shop sending there riders or there people to come in and run there mouth.

This shit is not SKATEBOARDING at all! Skateboarding is about freedon, expressing urself, and having fun. Skateboarding is not about being negative and destroying the Skateboard Community. Skateboarding is about getting together and making a positve change in the Community.

Instead of beatening up people for Supporting Skateboarding just go do a normal Game of Skate instead of fighting. If u dont like a shop dont go and do stupid things to it. Just go mind ur own business and worry about ur Skateboarding.

The Finest Skateshop supports Skateboarding and wants to build a positive Community. We support a United Skateboard Community!

late,

c'mon everybody the fact that it's even had to come to this is absolutely ridiculous there is no reason to be acting like this, we're already looked down upon enough don't make things worse.

U.B.C.

Fog

Another foggy day on the beach I think there might be a fun little long dong wave put there but I really can't tell.

Land & Sea

So if you haven't figured it out already we're crazy about Florida around here and it felt like it was about time to make an official U.B.C. coat of arms and why not dedicate it to our great land that is Florida. This was a long and thought out process that took some time to finalize I think the final version was like the 9th draft but after alot of creative criticism and long sleepless nights deciding what should be included we all decided on the one featured here so just for kicks I'm going to make my best attempt to break it down for ya...

1.The surfboard: this is a template taken from one of Dobbs's most common shapes he used to do; standard shortboard with a big ol' fat rounded pin at the bottom.

2. The jelly fish: this is the same jelly from the green jelly shirt and when representing FLA waters it just seems appropriate, those things are all over the place around here.

3. The waves: yes we got waves in Florida on both sides to, if you don't believe us then good lets keep it that way.

4. The state: what coat of arms wouldn't be complete with out featuring the land your dedicating the whole thing to, also notice the star, that's the area where this whole thing we call u.b.c. was created in.

5. The anchor: this one's pretty self explanatory; we spend alot of our time here in FLA tossing these thing's off the bow's of boats... it just seemed appropriate.

6. The Palm: do I really need to spell this one out for ya...

7. The Mermaids: people will try to tell ya that mermaids don't exist, well than those people have never been to Weeki Wachee Florida, because if they had been they would have seen a plethora of mermaids swimming about. If you've never been I sudgest you go and maybe wear this shirt well your there I bet the mermaids would love it.

8. The Orange Blossom: another staple of Florida's great landscape, that smell is one of the greatest smell in the world... that & sex wax.

The Land & Sea shirt is now available in 3 different color ways in our online store go check em out.

Turkey Classic Recap

So the Turkey Classic Sim Comp went down over the weekend out on Pass A Grill Beach and we we're there to help with the event. The gulf was Gulf was about as flat and glassy as it could be and the tide was crazy low all day which all made for horrible conditions, but it didn't stop everybody from throwing down. Brent & Ryan both entered and did good... due to the flat & dry conditions thought it made it really hard to complete a trick, saw a lot of nasty fall thru out the day and Brent's hands we're all cut up from falling on all the shells but it didn't stop him from advancing to the semis. As always we had free oranges for everybody and a few cold ones to sip on. All n all it was a good day. Here's a few pics from the event to see all of em click here... plus we should have a little video of the event up soon so check back for that.

FREE ORANGES

Come out to the the Turkey Classic this weekend on Pass A Grill beach. U.B.C. Skim Team riders Brent Brewster & Ryan Mietz will both be competing,plus the new season is finnaly here and we'll have most of it on display and available... plus crazy discounts on last seasons left overs, plus FREE ORANGES.

Come On Out

Keep it in the Streets

Harvest Jam

So last weekend at SPoT was the Harvest Jam. Me and Tommy we're there getting signatures for our skatepark petition and raising awareness about the couse. It was a long day but the weather was perfect and everybody had a good time. Armani took most of the photos. Here's a few of em'

The skim was good though

Monday evening at upham the skim was goin off with some on average chest high shore break. I was able to swing by for a minute and grab a few pics of one our skim team rider Ryan. Unfortanitly something went wrong and my camera didn't feel like focusing that day so the pictures aren't top quality but you can get an idea of whatr was goin on by the looks of a couple...

Nothing Epic...

Huricane Ida came and went before I could finish ranting and raving about everybody that comes out to surf these storms. So I'll take that as a sign that I need to shut up already and just go surf.

Anyway lets talk real quick about the hype and then the let down I'm just as guilty as everybody else for claiming this as the Big Storm, and can you really blame us it was an extremely slow summer on both sides of florida, but don't take this wrong way sure the storm could've taken it's time and spun around the gulf for a few days giving a nice week of solid clean head high surf, but it didn't. It just zipped thru and gave us some really fun chest high lines for a day or so. Well unfrotanitly I missed mondays session because I was to busy trying prepare for a week off, and complaining about people. So I made a point to get up extra early on Tuesday with hopes of something to surf, so I'm glad I did the waves didn't last all day but it was a good time.

I said I'd take pictures so I did the only thing is the wait in between sets was a really long time and I couldn't stand on the beach that long so I snapped a couple real quick and this is the best one I got. As always gulfster.com did a great job of compiling tons of pics so go there to see what this storm had to offer.

Oh yeah we should have fun wind chop for the rest of the week so go surf

About Friggin Time

Just as I was about to official give up on the worst huricane season in recent history... good o'l Ida comes out of nowhere and by the looks of things she doing exactly what we want her to do. This should be a damm good time and I swear I will do my best to get photos this time I really mean it. Also if I can just ad one thing that clearly needs to be added. If your one of those people that don't actually surf on a regular basis but as soon as a big hyped storm rolls thru town your on it and then you and as many random "oh yeah I surf" friend's pile into a minivan, grab your china popouts and garage sale specials and then charge the most popular spot. Well that's fine if you are one of those people, who am I to judge, we all had to start somewhere right.

Anyway if you've actually been reading this blog over the past couple of years then you've heard me go on and on about this little issue of mine one to many times, so I'll try to wrap it up by just saying "very politely" if you don't really surf but want to tell everybody how you surfed the big storm go right ahead, maybe just don't go to better spots and if you do maybe try paddling out down the beach where the crowd isn't so thick, here's a little tip to for ya; there's a good chance it's better down the beach anyway and the only reason that one spot is super crowded is... well I'm trying to be polite so I wont dive into that. Anyway all I'm trying to say is some of us wait anxiously all year for these storms to roll thru our back yard so please respect that and understand you don't need to go surf where everybody else is and if you do then please respect the people that have a little more experience and skill then you currently do, we can avoid fighting and hostility if you avoid us.

Quick Sample

In the process of rounding up all the halloween pics so make sho ta check back...

Come On Out

We'll be there all with a the st. pete skatepark petition and tons of detailed information about what we're trying to do. Plus grab some u.b.c. gear in the product toss...

Happy Halloween

Check back next week to see some photos and a full recap of all the debauchery that's going down this halloween weekend.



Thanx nasty for the pumpkin...

Long Dongin'

So last weekend we got a fun little swell that rolled thru. Me & Scott went out for a late afternoon long dong session and Claire was nice enough to come out and try to get a few pics...

Welcome To The Team Ryan

Ryan Mietz is the newest edition to the U.B.C. crew... here's some pics of Ryan skimming at IRB courtesy of stpetephoto.com keep an eye out for more to come.