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 big up Alexey, Pash, Oleg, Mash, Nastya, Skep, the Syberians, the people with the buffet, the strippers, the underground club,  the shitty moscow trafic and all the rest for making me feel so so welcome in their amazing city,

the writing’s well crap, its just scribbles from my drawing book, an most of it was written when i was drunk, asleep, or on the toilet anyhow heres the first part of what happened when leon tried to fight a volcano an the volcano won!

Left Beatons house at about 9, after having had a hearty breakfast of three chocolate buttons and a cup of tea (with milk!) arrived at the plane station with enough time to empty my pockets of all the nails and other ofencive items i had aquired whilst building wharehouse sized chicken sheds with my boss Tuai. made it to zurich alive although im pretty sure the pilot was smashed, he was all over the shop, sat about listening to some splendid live gutiar music waiting for my flight to the big R. after an epic wait, i helped a right golden oldie put her bag in the compartment then sat down for a nice snoze, o yeah the damn plane was late. turns out 10,382,574 humans live in miscow, might come in handy at your local pub quiz.

day 2  Alex is as lazy as me, we didnt get up till mid-day,  ate some scram and went out. Oleg works in some disused factory, just like something out of a saw film, well cool place, i had a little jib about while he did some buisness then we went an sessioned his local mini, all the kids thuougt i was a pro skater haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, i wish, took a lovely walk in the park then hit the hay.

day 3 off to meet the Ldog, haa, he didnt turn up, he called Alex an said; im in helsinki. he had missed the plane then got transfered to stockholm because there was a volcano erupting in iceland, well see if he makes it tomorow. off to the tiki bar now for some windsurf party, stoped at the demoon the way to check out the set up, ramps look mitn as mint tea man. met maria Alexys girlfreind, she said i spoke good english.

day 4 leon would have loved the party last night we arrived to find 6 naked babes prancing about on a stage to the sounds of  vengaboys while middleaged men sprayed them with waterpistols, after a few minuites and enough fake tits to last me till dinner, i wandered off to the bar to get a few stellers in me with Oleg and Nastya,  left Alex an the rest of the crowd watching with there toungs on the floor, spent the rest on the evening watchin babes, oldmen and Alex rock the socks off of the dance floor to the mackerina, damn Alex has got some moves up them sleves of his i tell ya.  sausages and gurkens for breakfast. had a well fun session on the set up today, leon still hasnt arived though, he’s been told to buy a flight no matter what the expence. a chap on a moterbike just backfliped over me, SICK! skated our dressing room for a while while everyone spoke russian then left pretty sharpish after eating everyones buffet, didnt film much as usuall. spent the evening chilling with Pasha drinking beer and eating choco pie, yumm.

day5 leon isnt going to make it to the demo an i think he’s getting pretty pissed off, there aint any flights in the forseable future so i think he’s going to get a boat then a train an i will have gone home by the time he gets here so now im pissed off too. arrived at the show at about ten an had a splended ride on the lovely jump then waited waited and waited till the show started, had a game of skate with Skep in the dressing room for a while then got padded up, well not really. the show was class, afterwards i got interviewed by russian yo yo tv, sod mountainboarding lets all start swinging chunks of metal about on peices of string, well fun.  went home washed, ate, then busted a grove to the club. arrived at about 1 an shared two bottles of vodka (not big or clever) with the syberians who it turns out are’nt really from syberia, some backflips went down on the dance floor, the toilets got tagged and i beat alex at pool, got home at about five totaly smashed and in need of water, wonderfull night. went to a skatepark today where toilets so bad that i had to stand about five feet away an piss as hard as i could, missed it by miles an still had a mini puke from the smell of poo all over my feet. we sessioned the park for a while, i got slayed at skate by a chap, probably the nollie king of the world, pash crashed into a biker and got wild on a wooden wall, we left in alexy repkins bad boy ride, ate some chololate and chicken and tried to ride a plastic cow.

part two coming soon, i think

every month were gona bring you a chunk of old gold, strait outa the atc archives.

this trip was amazing, the first time id traveled with dicko, he nearley lost his eye playing silly twats with a lighter an a toilet roll an pume stacked like a deamon an even snaped is mountainwheelie skate, we were staying in a haunted shed to an it even had something writen on the back in blood, no shitin ya.

we spent most of our time listening to jazz, eating spoted mushroom an wresteling purple an green elfs, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

This last week me (tom), the midget (mick), the fit one (tuai) and the wise old one (bazzer) drove out to austria to get wild in the fresh pow.  The drive there sucked, 27 hours of sore ass horn beeping heaven. We were gona be staying with mountainboard legend and king of portugal Alex Broumbass, but i had forgot to get his number or  find out were he lived, we knew it was somewere in a village called Ellmau, so thats were we headed. We found the king later that evening looking kinda like a bear crossed with a snowboarding tramp, got setteled down in his pad, had a few schnapps then hit the sack.  Got up well early to get our boards sorted (big up “Freaks on Snow” for that!) bought a few lift passes then hit the slopes, this was the second time the fit one had ever stood on one of them slippery boards, the first time being in england a few weeks before but he picked it up pretty fast an we ended up at the park by the end of the day. That evening we dined like kings courtesy of Simone the queen of Portugal, and after tea we set up some lights out the back an sessioned the worlds smallest snowpark, well fun.

we spent the next few days getting up early and spending the whole day out in the mountains, we hit some amazing pow through the trees and found a windlip which got had, frontflips (the midget landed everything first try), backflips, rodeos, corked 5’s and some sick stacks. By the end of the week we were ready to throttel the next skier that tried to snake us in the lift queue, Mick had got stuck upsidedown in  tree, and we had found a dead mouse. One night Alex and the freaks had to do a demo in the village so we went to watch, it was one of the weirdest things id ever seen, there was formation skiing, an ald old man drinkin schnapps an riding wooden skies then alex and his crew shreading the hill in some well weird clothes, anyway, i cooked that night an we had a few drinks then hit the houses little park again.

Our lift pases ran out with one day to spare so we set about re-shaping the park outside an had a sweet day of jibbing about. We left the next day after saying our good byes after swaping a snowboard for the promise of a crate of vegemite. The drive home was as bad as the one there, I dont think ive ever been in as many trafic jams in my life we ended up avreging 40mph over a 2100 mile drive that was mostly motoway, but it was well worth it i tell ya!

big thanks to Alex and the freaks for making our stay so delightfull.

o yeah, last chance to get your mits on one of these spankin limited edition hoodies before they get sent out on the 1st of march, dont miss the bargain, go to the t-shirt page if you an buy one if you can be assed, cheers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day 16

feling good, weather aint great though, spent the mornin doing crap on this excuse for a website, boring!  listening to metal right now, how about that ey Pume! About to have some lunch then were going to do some filming, didnt do any filming but me an Kodey had a sick ride then Paul an Ak went into town an me an Kodey stayed back an had a few beverages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day17

off to the beach today, had to wait aroung for a few things so we didnt get there till dark, spent another nice afternoon chilling out in crystal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ate some sweet food on the way that goes by the name of picachineo or something like that, basically shit loads of little chunks of ham and cheese, ummmmmmmmmmmmm. The house we were staying in turned out to be a 300 year old beauty owned by Toniees family.

At about midnight we all busted a grove down to the local skatepark which turned out to be the sketchiest thing ever, on the way me an chunk found a class little street jib an spent a while pissing about there, bugs and heat make it hard to sleep!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day18

went to the beach this morning an had a little surf on a board with no nose then caught a load of sand crabs which was pretty cool, then we went for a buffet lunch were you paid for your food by its weight, damn mine was heavy, chunks taking a nap now, lightweight! Just been snorkeling, well not really, i thought i was going to drown so i got out pretty sharpish, we had a  dead fish fight which was pretty cool then spent a while trying to body surf, no joy though. Ak’s feeding a gang of rouge turtles chocolate biscuits an they’re eating out of his hand like dogs, now were driving back an Fernando Gonzalo is snapin shots of every woman we drive past, dirty perv!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day19

lastnight was amazing! after probably, na, definatly the best barbeque ever and some of the most intence laughing ever done we walked about three miles with a stray dog to a nightclub were we nearly got in a fight because i moved my hand when kodey went to give me a hi five an taped some guy on the back of the head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than that it was well sweet, we all got down to some epic robot dancing, don’t wana bost but mine was by far the best. I think there was a mega tall girl and a girl with braces in there someware, on the way home i persuaded some of the others to go for a sunrise swim in memory of Tuai an Ollie, it was one of the highlights of my whole trip, pissed up basking about in the warm ocen in the south of brazil with a bunch of mates at sunrise. damn im a jammy bastard! now were driving to the airport an im feeling like shit, hung over. Its sad to be leaving this amazing place and all the amzing freinds ive made, but at least the weather will be good back in england!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

massive thanks to Lucas and the rest of his family for making this trip possible and showing me the best time!

as im sure you all know this winters been such shitty weather so we had to find someware new to ride rather than the trusty old atc backyard, mt hawk skateparks just down the road an works pretty well for a mountainboard so we took a frew trips down there, this time Mick came along an showed us all up on the vert proving that he does indeed have massive nuts, o yeah part of the car fell off on the way down so we (I) had to tie it back on with a scabby old sock that Muzzer magicly pulled out of noware.

enjoy!