The Weenabago Projekt 2: Tosh Crosses America
Words: Rob Brink The Skateboard Mag, April 2008
Back in 2005, Tosh Townend and a friend from high school had the grand idea to bring a low budget skate tour up the West Coast, from Huntington Beach to Vancouver, and do it wild style. Instead of waiting ‘til Tosh’s sponsors initiated and funded a trip, they took it into their own hands, pooled their money together, bought an RV, called a few friends (Wes Lott, Jake Rupp, Brent Achtley), hit the road, had a great skate and a great time and called it the Weenabago Projekt. Shortly after, they released a video of the trip. Somewhere during that time, they knew they’d do it again one day. Then, “again” happened in August 2007…
I saw the trailer for your new video… the Girls Gone Wild vibe…
Yeah, it’s gonna be pretty good. Comedy for sure. We got a lot of good footage. I think it’ll be out in April.
Honestly, I've been known to say that sometimes Paul skates a little "too perfectly" for my taste. But sitting there last weekend watching this thing, I didn't realize how much P-Rod really destroyed everything until I got around to editing the footage today. So many first try bangers on the entire setup all done so perfectly... a well-deserved victory if you ask me.
This is the final three minutes of the Maloof Money Cup, in order, with some of the non-makes cut out. Paul Rodriguez, Nyjah Huston, Andrew Reynolds, Darrell Stanton, Jereme Rogers, Chris Cole, Terry Kennedy and Ryan Sheckler... carcass tossing for 100 grand... I mean, your viewing pleasure.
I really think Dennis Busenitz got robbed today at Maloof Money Cup by not making it to the finals. I'm quite disappointed actually. He is, by far, the most exciting person to watch ride a skateboard these days. Cheers to you Dennis... for doing shit the way you do it. It doesn't go unnoticed.
JULY 13 UPDATE!
No kiddies, I'm not wrong. Dennis didn't qualify on Saturday evening, but once Sunday rolled around, the powers that be decided to make it top 10 from Saturday makin' the cut, not top 8, . As a result, Dennis got to skate another day and I, as well as many others, got real happy.
And while I'm putting up photos of things that were nice to look at today:
