Just got an email from Jim Thiebaud...Real's new pro Johnny Romano is doing quite well. Here's an update from his dad. I'm not sure where you can make donations and/or get the decks, but keep asking your local shop or hit up Deluxe directly maybe? Mine is in the mail. Stoked!
This past Saturday, I drove approximately 80 miles to Victorville to check out a Pharmacy Board Shop/RVCA demo and pizza party featuring Leo Romero, Bryan Herman, Spanky, Austin Stephens and Raymond Molinar.
Upon arrival at about 2:30, not much was really happening yet, and no free pizza was in sight, so we decided to hit up this harsh mexican place near Pharmacy for lunch. The waiter didn't even know what an Arnold Palmer was. Way uncool.
Thirty minutes later, once lunch was finished, eager to see the demo, we walked outside only to hear a woman (just a passerby, not a skate mom or anything) ask a security guard. "Hey what happened over there?"
The security guard shook his head and responded: "Kids."
Dyson Ramones and Benny Fairfax are two other newer favorite ams of mine. Dyson busted a show-stopping backside 360 over the Euro gap off the top of the pyramid at last year's Tampa Am contest that seems to have burned itself into my brain permanently. I seem to lean towards the stylish fellas nowadays, and Stereo has surely assembled a wonderful ensemble of them so far.