“The BCSA presents the 1st annual GnarBQ & Nontest Saturday September 26, 2009. Up Rise Skate Shop is sponsoring an outlaw pusher contest starting at 11:00 am from Martin Luther King Jr. Park off NW Walnut Blvd in Corvallis and ending at the stakepark, located at the intersection SE 2nd and B streets. For more info see the flier after the jump. Thanks to Diego Banuelos for our flier. BBQ and live music starts at 12:30 pm. Sk8 competition starts at 1 with beginner and intermediate, advanced to follow. Live Music includes They Wont Stay Dead, Richard Hedders, and the Angries. Line up and more info to be posted soon here and at our the BCSA website: www.bcskateboardingalliance.org. Full flyer after the jump.

Contests are back at Aumsville, Oregon, thanks to Ravage Skateboards and the rest of the sponsors of the “Don’t Drop Out, Drop In” contest. Thanks to everyone who entered or helped out. Thanks to Mike Estes for the photos and for heckling me for not being at the event we sponsored. We were out of town, not lazy! more of Estes pics, a few from Carl Warren and video from Crust Productions after the jump.

This is a shot of a Salem local named Billy who was visiting the Redmond, Oregon skatepark at the same time we were there over the weekend. Enlarge-o-rama.

Jake Ferranti sent a few shots of a cool spot in NE Portland: I was with a friend roaming the NE portland area when we came upon a couple fun banks. One alongside a yard, homeowner was cool as hell and she let us ride as long as we wanted. It needs edging tho but we made do. Looks fun to me. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this. Yes I can. There are spots like this hidden all over. Don’t ask me, I haven’t been there… yet.

Here’s some footage from the Oregon State Fair Open. First annual, I guess. I forgot to post about it until the day of the event, sorry guys. Described to me as “Raw , blurry and , well, crust.” Don’t worry Albany locals, I’ll get to your contest too. I’m still behind a Trifecta day after all. Sheesh. – Thanks to jesus Crust for the tip.

In case you missed it, it’s Skreech at the Trifecta, skating a deck with the nose broken off. I’m not sure how you do that. In any case, don’t feel bad for him, he’s got his own model out on Addikt now. Enlarge-o-rama.

Jessica Starkweather at the Oregon-you-know-what, you know-know-where edition. I take this shot of her every time I see her at Pier Park, though usually the timing is better, as it’s actually a double truck frontside carve grind. Enlarge-o-rama.

14 year old Kyle Ohlson keeps sending me photos. I’ve advised him to size down his watermarks and lay of the photoshop filters, and he takes my advice and sends me more photos. So here you go Kyle. This shot above is Jake Selover. Apparently the locals at this Bend skate spot have taken to wearing costumes on their Friday night sessions just for the heck of it. Whether or not they are also taking advice from GVK is unknown. More after the jump.

This would have been a good photo, were it not for the fact the skater has no head. You go to work and you come You sit around every day You got a lotta, lotta Jackin’ down the street on my funky three Tell me why there’s people bigger than me Six foot yesterday, now I’m five foot three ‘Cause I’m headless On paper, it’s perplexing. But hearing it in context is another thing. Name the band jack wads.

Here’s a shot of Mark Partain that I took at some event that I was at. Can’t seem to remember what it was called, or when it was. All I can remember is someone saying the crowd smells like beer. Enlarge-o-rama.