Updates!!

Hey guys, hope you're all well. Sat next to Joe McDonald watching Family Guy on AdultSwim after an awesome day. Spent all morning at the Razor Headquarters in Cerritos, Los Angeles, which consisted of pretty much messing around on the Razor toys, Lewis and Sam were just racing around on the "parking lot". I took some time in the advertising and marketing department to see all the stuff that was going on (There's some good things coming up so definitely look forward to it!) We got some T shirts that are offensive towards *a particular scooter brand* ( ;D ) as well as the brand new Razor Phase 2 wheels and forks. Joe felt brave enough to try out a new scooter from Razor called the "Sport Pro", which is basically an Ultra Pro with an 83 degree headtube angle (like TSI) with a slightly different cut on the nose and dropouts. He's really enjoying riding it so far and without a doubt you'll be able to check it out when he's back riding in the UK.

While we were there we also checked out the final factory-finished Phase 2 Scooters; the Jason Beggs signature and the John Radtke signature models. Jasons "color" scheme consists of Green and White (white, bars, green deck/grips, with wheels that look a bit like the old Stan Smirnoff Eagle signature wheels) with"RAD-style" bars with the gussets. John's scooter is pretty much just black with classic T-Shape Bars They both look awesome and John and Jason are really stoked about them. In the day, Cary Mosbrucker arrived at the office after flying in to Los Angeles from Washington and it wasn't long before he was shredding the parks. We then grabbed some lunch and before we left we met up with super-OG rider Mark Atkins. Mark was on the original Team Razor in 2001 so it was really a pleasure to be there talking to him. He said that he's now riding again and showed us a vid of him sending some flips and stuff at his park (since back when he rode, backflips=pro) He hooked us up with some T-Shirts and Caps from his clothing brand "Fatal". After that we hit up a skatepark called Knottsbury (sp?) One of John Radtke's locals and where he did his 'famous' backflip triple tailwhip and backflip whip to bar over the spine. It was really awesome and something I wish we had in the UK haha. We were there for a while doing some filming from the UK and Team Razor USA did some filming as well. Joe was stoked on his Inward Bri and his 720 haha. Cary was there sending so high airs which looked awesome. After that we hit up the park that's really worth mentioning; Chino in Chino City. This is a skatepark that a lot of UK riders may know and wished to ride, and I must say that it's such a perfect skatepark with a good atmoshere. We saw Dakota Schuetz there with his bro Hunter which was cool (If you saw him at NASS, he's more talkative and sociable on his own turf i.e California :'D ) Also there was Nick Darger and Jarrod Bruns from 951/Scooter Zone and Jon Knudson from Blunt USA. It was great to see them all ride; they absolutely kill it. We didn't do much filming at Chino since we were all having such a good time riding; but we're planning to head off there tomorrow and make space on the Team Razor camcorder so we're hoping to film some good clips for you guys to check out when they're edited. If you didn't already know, outdoor skateparks in California shut at 10 o'clock; at which time the lights just turn off, which is as scary as it sounds for anyone which is doing big airs or about to drop in haha. From talking to the various riders, it sounds like the majority are pretty hyped about the first stop of the USA Razor Global Domination Tour in Escondido, So-Cal. We also have word that the Addict crew will be there, as well as Josh Kish from Inward (maybe he can teach me flairs? :3) and Cooper Klaar from Phoenix (360 Bri-Whip flat? ;D) But yeah, as mentioned before, we're planning to head off back to Chino in the evening, after spending our morning at Scooter Zone in Riverside CA. This particular scooter zone was the original of the handful located around California, which is exciting since this is the one I would've chosen to visit. Apparently Riverside is in "the ghetto", but I'm sure that's still okay haha. I'm hoping they have good stock, since me and Dom were looking to pick up some RAD Crowbars before we head home, since I'm pretty sure there's no pairs around in the UK and shipping is often rediculously expensive.

Oh one more thing; these past couple of days we've been eating out at this food franchise in California called "In-N-Out", which is a bit like Wimpy's, they sell various burgers with fries. All the food is made fresh and tastes great, we're already fans and will most likely return there a few more times before returning home (which is NOT what I wish to think about right now!!!)

We've finally got a laptop sorted out so doing these updates will be a lot easier and more frequent, so I'm looking forward to giving you even more updates about what's going on and hope you enjoy checking them out. Peace.

-Ben Grantham