Robert Brink - Writer

Dueling guitars...

January 28, 2009 | Skip To The Comments (0)

I swear I was there, dude! Ask Leeper.

A strange number of people have inquired why I didn't do some sort of blog on the Crossroads thing and have assume I'm some sort of ASR cheerleader because of it. Scary, odd and very untrue, but I'm glad people are at least paying attention. I'll say I'm definitely a Grind for Life/Aaron Fotheringham cheerleader though, and ASR was a vehicle for me to be a part of that, so I'm appreciative in some ways.

I mean, of course I went to Crossroads. It was really rad. Great energy and it's sincerely exciting to have something new and skate-only happening. Long overdue. It felt like home and I was around all the great people that make skateboarding amazing and not the ones that make it whack.

Vai vs. Maccio... kinda like ASR vs. Crossroads.

I really respect the way Jamie Thomas does shit sometimes. But honestly, I had a hurt back from totally shredding the etnies TF so hard last week... well, trying to anyway. And, quite frankly. I wasn't in the mood to be the "blogger guy" all day.

Sometimes it's nice to see things with your own eyes and just experience them for yourself, not through the eyes of a two-inch LCD screen or viewfinder all the time. Not to mention, it's easy to know when all the other sites are going to do coverage of an event and it's going to be a blitz of similar content. Why add to that if I don't have something unique to offer? I mean, what don't you know already? Sheffey was there. Cole ripped, like always. Antwuan was probably wasted and the Hubba girl was smokin' hot. ABD.

That said all my friends at The Skateboard Mag, Thrasher, DLX, TransWorld, SPoT, Know Skateboarding and Skateboarder and so on all have lovely post-Crossroads delights for y'all to enjoy. Support them all.