mucho passion? never heard of it.

this is pretty funny. my favorite part is the story about trying do blow with the zumiez guy after he got punched in the face by rowley. classic.

yankee swap

no class no values

movements are systems and systems kill.

my new favorite song

shred barn

first broadcast from the FTM training facility with a special appearance by j-lew.

whoop that trick

what the fuck? so here's a little scuffle between sum security kooks and a couple a skaters in downtown portland oregon. now i'm no tuff guy, but i have been in a few scrape ups and one thing i know for a fact is that if sum fucking security guard hit me in the fucking head with my own god damn skateboard and then stood there and waited for me to react, i would beat that fucker down like ike beat tina. i also know for a fact that if any of the dudes from my crew saw one of our bro's getting smacked up, they would be in that motherfuckers face like a rabid wolverine. it would be just a hurricane of fists and blood and cries of metal fixing until the rent-a-cop was comatose lying in a pile of his own shit. it seems like with the current popularity of shred sledding this type of thing has become much more frequent. theres just more dudes out in the streets so odds are theres gonna be more confrontations. also every kid out there seems to have a camera so everythings documented. i remember really loving fucking with security guards back when i actually street skated. they're usually not the brightest in the bunch and if shit got hectic u could just skate away. i guess these kids are suing these guys but thats lame if u ask me. they should've just whooped that dudes fucking ass in the streets and left it at that. no need to get the law involved. if the security guys end of losing the case and pay a fine, then that means all security guards in the PDX area are gonna know about it and be afraid to confront skaters. they're just gonna call the cops. i don't know about u but i'd rather deal with sum idiot security guard than a no mercy post 9-11 storm trooper of a cop. they have guns and pre-mature ejaculation problems which makes them very hostile.

new fat bill footy

that fucking impossible over that bench dylan reider does at :54 is one of the most insane things ive ever seen on or off a skateboard. i saw the ad with the still photos but seeing how fast it happens on video is nuts.

this dude again?

G.I.S.M.

best thing to come outta' japan since the rape of nan king.

frecks kills

from that slave video i've been so hyped on. killer icecross song too.

new fix the metal team member: colton harris moore

In the forests and remote islands around Seattle, police are setting traps for a barefoot teenage outlaw who has eluded them for nearly two years.

Police say 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, whose escapades are turning him into a folk legend, is a one-man crime wave, responsible for 50 burglaries as well as stealing light aircraft, which he taught himself to fly from video games, and several speedboats.

He lives in the woods, shuns shoes and catches his own food. His only technological aid is a pair of thermal-imaging goggles to hunt at night and his weakness is pizzas, which he asks to be delivered at the edge of the woods.

For some Harris-Moore is a modern Butch Cassidy: a surprisingly agile 6ft 5in cat burglar who thanks his victims by leaving them notes and cheeky photographs of himself, which have sold for £300 on eBay.

Thousands subscribe to his Facebook page and his image appears on T-shirts with the logo “Fly, Colton, Fly!”. Local rock groups have penned songs about him.

Hollywood producers have lodged lucrative film deals with his family and offered to pay for lawyers if he gives himself up.

Raised in a caravan on Camano Island, an isolated community in the Puget Sound, Harris-Moore started living wild at the age of seven. He would break into holiday homes, steal blankets and food and vanish into the woods for days.

In April 2008, after being sent to a juvenile detention centre, he complained that the beds were too short for his lanky frame and went on the run.

Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises.

Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: “He still doesn’t know how to land a plane in one piece.”

He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American.

This was followed by the largest manhunt in recent memory. Three dozen sheriffs, aided by specialist armed units and an FBI helicopter, fanned out across Camano Island but failed to capture him. “We saw him, we think, but it’s like he disappeared in front of our eyes,” said one sheriff.

His luck may be about to run out. During a recent sweep a rifle shot was fired at police, raising his status to “armed and dangerous”. His mother, Pamela Kohler, now fears that even if he did not fire the shot he will be held responsible.

Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing.

“If he shot that gun, it was really stupid. I don’t expect him to come out of the woods alive.”

coastal carnage bro!

this shit was like a year ago but i just stumbled on it so i thought i'd throw it up. crazy collection of rippers on one crazy ramp.

heel toe magic

strange brittish people with skateboards. looks good.

holy shit this kid is good.

that line at rye is is nuts. i'm realy fellin' that front smith to blunt fakie at KCDC too.

barbarians at the gate

i've never seen this and i can't believe it ain't out on DVD. i saw this trailer in a 411 a long time ago and was always on the lookout for a copy. never found one.

do damage.

jereme rogers says goodbye to skateboarding. sort of.

whoa. the last shit i heard of his was all whispers but this is some seriously next level douchebaggery.

FTM training facility

mini's bones

RAD DAD | MySpace Video
it's fuckin' on bitches. fix the metal. fuck the world.

slave "radio television" is fucking rad

holy shit this video is good. ripping skating, shredding tunes and some seriously good art direction. that dude frecks is the man.

yup that's mike vallely.

what a jerk.

potential fix the metal graphics

official fix the metal brand launch probably later than never. i guess we'll make some stickers at some point but who knows.

flip demo? rye airfield?

Flip Feast Demo at Rye N.H. from Eastern Boarder on Vimeo.

never heard of em'. i heard there was a demo in shrewsbury but it wasn't no flip.

wheelers hate chickens

return to oz is like having a bad acid trip and coming down off shitty cocaine at the same time.

old hank rollins

just look at the fear on the kids face when he realizes that rollins isn't just an untouchable figure of media folklore and that he's actually very real and about to drop hammers on his face. priceless.

new fix the metal team member: this dude

this dude is the new FTM supervisor of thuggin' it and lovin' it. "for all my niggas in jail i'll throw some weed in the wind for ya'..." pure poetry.

fuck you hyannis. what the fuck are you gonna' do about it?

yet another epic road trip with the team. we hit wellfleet (rad) and hyannis (shit). total lifestyle. fix the metal.

stakk attakk

wrathchild seems pretty shred. never heard of em'.

general decay

daddy never understood

lou barlow kills.

deathcrush

the bed is on my foot

pretty fukked. wonder if it's real or if she was just all spun out on german meth.

chylde of fire

witchcraft fucking shreds.

this still makes me laugh for some reason

fix the metal in no way endorses dos equis. it's too expensive. if fix the metal is gonna' go south of the border, it's tecate all day.

don't steal bikes bro'

Bike Thief vs Street Justis from triple on Vimeo.

burn them.

to all my friends goin' through some shit

wether its head injuries, knee injuries or divorce, rise above. fix the metal.

more metalheads being epic

the intro is fukkin' stupid but man this shit is funny. the midwest clearly has the best metalheads.

no title (title in the works)

that jake johnson face smash is hard to watch. it always sucks when people slam and start making that weird moaning sound that u only make when u hit yer head super hard. all this photosynthesis era stuff strobecks been sittin' on is great. the gear was fukkin' terrible then though huh? all that athletic swishy pants crap was just awful.

casual sunday inspiration

i'm gonna skate with jazz in my head all day today....

geraldo can suck it

amsterdam looks kinda' fun

whoa dude. i came across this piece of bizzaro theater while trolling the interwebs fer the new flip vid. as many of you may know, ive been high on drugs before, but this dude is hiiiiiiiiiiiggggghhhhh on drugs! holy shit! must be nice to be a legend in an industry that celebrates self destruction. oh and by the way, did anyone see chris cole's "bangin" on the berrics? fukkin craze but im gonna have to quote sum shit i read on clyde singleton's blog which was sumthin' to the effect of that cole only skates cuz he's good at it. pretty spot on i think. he rips and does sum ground breaking shit but i just don't feel any passion coming out of this dude. he's like a scientist or some shit and i HATE science.

shitarded

chaz casually learned 540's today on a bike. craze.

chris johanson

perfect.

shralp-tober continues!

i really love the skate scene around here. fix the metal.

brujeria - "consejos narcos"

saw these dudes in SF a couple of years back and it was scary.

space vacation - "keith's sister"

this has been kickin around a few skate blogs but this seriously SHREDS. they're playin' in boston on dec. 21st.

darkness with a capital d

looks good. fenriz is an ugly motherfukker.

meth mouth

i'm watching the episode of the office rite now where packard takes a shit on the carpet in michael's office. classic.

northampton is one word

FTM went to hudson and northampton yesterday. not north hampton.

this place is crazy. definitely worth the drive.

vhs nostalgia - anti hero "fucktards"

i think i put up a link to watch this last year but i just found it on youtube in pretty good quality so i figured i'd do a little write up about it. the first time i saw it rob dalby had it in a pile of videos at his e-court cave of an apartment in keene. i remember freaking out cuz he had it he was just kinda like "oh that videos okay". okay? i quickly educated him to the overall gnar-ness that this video represented and after a few careful viewings he was converted. im pretty sure its what inspired our love for projectile vomting and was the catalyst for some of the other reckless behavior we engaged in that insane year. i find it interesting how really raw videos like this seem to hold up over time while some other videos that seemed real slick at the time end up looking dated. im sure it has a lot to with the skaters in it as well as the sort of lifestyle that is portrayed throughout but goddam this shit is still bad fukkin ass.

deathwish has a pabst

lucky fukkers.

all hail the juggallo's

i know there's a couple a trikks in there twice. computers are hard.

chocolate chip cookies... FROM HELL!!!

my mind is a garden

this dudes been gettin' a lot of coverage on FTM lately but who cares. skateboarding really needs a few more cynical fukks like this right now.

two tickets to shralp-adise!

these are from the epic sesh at rob's ramp a few weeks ago.

rad dad over the channel


seriously schralped. check out the look on both their faces. full intensity with the pink powell set up.








so much fun. fix the metal.

full pads dad

fix the metal.

crispin glover...

you sir, are a genius...

this is pretty cool

o'dell re-created hensley's old part with a bunch of new jacks for a music video for a band i never heard of. good idea.
oh and hey ralph...

apparently there is already another HATED outta' chicago. fukkers.

shralpy friday

uh oh. someone figured out how to use imovie...

poor reggie...

uh...

that was kinda fukked....

kill all cops army of the rich

its fukkin' weird that even with how popular skating is right now the dudes on the front lines that are actually out there fukkin skating in the streets still gotta deal with this crap. seriously, fukk all cops. fix the metal.

TERROR "fuck those guys"

the third part doesn't have any fukkin audio. youtube is gay nowadays.

oh chuck manson...

why you so epic?

you make the call

whos the bigger kook:

doug brown?

or todd falcon?
im goin with doug brown just cuz he threw in his own dvr'd dew tour footage. close call though.

bro'card

shralp much?

hosoi was king.

a fist in the glass eye of jake phelps

god i love spazz. i wonder if anyone still plays music like this. they should.

this happened one time

fix the metal

second best dude ever

whoa.

chill bitch.

the best dude ever

just look at the stalefish at :54. gnarnia.

holy shit holy shit holy shit......

dude. ive been looking for this FOREVER!!! i was forced to watch this in guidance class in like sixth grade. one of the funniest things ive ever seen. mallgrab at 1:20.

live fast die

get raped

hells yeah!

happy 9/11

shralp much?

east coast. 1987.

walk it off bro'

or not.

bro'manship

shredded londonderry to fukkin' pieces yesterday. bro'seph brought down the ill ass sound system and shit got hectic real quick.

rad dad got this. i don't know if that dog pisser was intentional but it's dope. there was a ton of shit gettin' thrown down all over the place but in true fix the metal fashion, none of it got filmed. trust me though, it was epic. ask anyone who was there.


chaz double mall grab


this random dude was doin this in the dark. u can see all the ghost orbs of shralpers past tellin' him to chill the fukk out but he wasn't hearin it.


nick did this second try.


first try didn't go to good though.


carnage.


bro' down much?


in an exercise of pure bro'manship, bro'seph actually grabbed steve's board that he had left behind at the park in the hopes of returning it to him on a later date. i was gonna throw it in the trash.


summers fading. fix the metal.

shralp in, shralp out

we went to newburyport for a casual sunday sesh that turned out to be not that casual

birdo scratched the top of this behemouth


i got this shitty line


zak got this backside flipper


thought it was off when it was on. classic mistake.
another great day with the fix the metal crew. down fer life.

forty nine seconds of my trife ass life

way to go paul. this is yer first appearance on FTM but hopefully not the last.

zak attack

found these gems while i was lookin thru the archives. the frontside wasn't a make but i've seen him do it a bunch and i think it my be the best skate photo i've ever taken so whatevs.

dad gets rad

nick martin aka "rad dad" blessed us with this ground breaking maneuver yesterday:

never seen that shit before. it also was done 3 times in a row cuz i kept blowing it filming wise.

a little bro'seph coverage. sick impossible. or just a bad tre' flip. you make the call!
fix the metal.

coming up next on the main stage we have mercedeeeeeeees....

zack, shawn, birdo and me went to conneticut last weekend and it was fucking awesome. five parks in two days, all epic concrete. nobody had a camera so i'll give u this instead. fix the metal.

when jump ramps attack....

i actually felt bad after about the fifth viewing.

dave gets dropped

there ya go dave.

i support this type of behavior

i went up north for the weekend....

good times.

r.i.p.

taken out by a fukkin' hornet sting. what a fukkin' bummer. carpe diem my friends. fix the metal.

alley oops poops

this is from a couple of days ago. sick shit.

front to bakk. fix the metal.

the black circle eh?

where do i sign up?

yup.

still funny.

this would sukk

dude....

what the fukk? is this just a joke gone waaaay to far or is this dude serious with this crap?

ice cold pabst 12 pakk bottles $9.99

went with some of the team members to do a couple of demos in mass yesterday. first we stopped at worcester and commenced to shut it down. zak has all the photos from this sesh and whatever shots dont get used in the transworld photo issue i'll put up in the next post. we actually shredded so hard that we pikked up some new sponsors. the fix the metal and vans shoes beer coozie collabo' will be out this fall.

after worcester we drove out to peabody. rad dad into the fire

bakkside killer


stonehenge.

we all agreed that this was one of the best concrete parks we'd ever skated. a beautiful little gem hidden deep in the north shore.

hit up this spot on the way home. epic curb just seconds away from the rad dad compound.

shawn actually landed this fakie bakkside three but this photo is way funnier than the make.

sweeper to front pivot. another epic day. bro's, brews, bowls and dank nugs. hit the road bitches. fix the metal.

moments like this never last

R.I.P. dash snow. im seriously bummed about this. i never met the dude but i sure knew his work and it was fucking inspiring to say the least. tiny vices put up kind of digital retrospective of his work:
http://www.tinyvices.com/blog/2009/07/14/dash/
a lot of death around lately. fix the metal.

broadside

chekked out this epic D.I.Y. spot in nashua the other day

grimey.

ghetto blaster

weed.

this thing was cool. and yes we had to "fix the metal" on the bottom a couple of times. the quarter pipe thing next to it was super fun but of course i didnt film even one of the dozens of trikks zak rifled off. i'm pretty sure i remember seeing both frontside and bakkside hurricanes go down but i dunno. i was hella' stoned bro.

zak manned up and took the drop. i don't know if this place has a name yet but im gonna take it upon myself to give it one, broadside. broad st. + burnside = broadside. clever eh'? big shout out to the dudes who built this shit. new hammy needs more spots like this.