The Gav’s just did a pop in so…
Top 5 things The Gav misses about hanging out at Girl:
1. Being told I look fat
2. Not skating the park
3. Getting slapped in the face by Rickk
4. Sitting on Rick’s couch suffering thru a 20 min conversation with him about he shouldn’t of lost $300.00 in poker the night before
5. Two hour lunches

Top 5 things about riding for Maple
1. MJ surprised me with my first package at my house after school
2. The Donger reading his poetry to kids at demos
3. TM Ed Dominick, convinced my parents to let me go on a cross country US tour at fifteen and assured them I would be protected. Strippers and beer in the room on day one
4. They asked me to call Mark Appleyard to try and get him on one time. I did, it was really really awkward
5. Turned me pro Read More →

Mike’s Top 5 tricks he’d like to see referred to by their original names:
1. Feeble grind—grapefruit grind
2. No comply—43
3. Fakie frontside flip—frontside halfcab flip. You’d never call a halfcab flip a fakie backside flip because when you do you disrespect Steve Caballero
4. Hardflip—frontside varial flip. Shit ain’t hard anymore
5. Howard flip—Markivoch flip, because Rickk refuses to do them in public

Daniel Wheatley’s* Top 5 freakish things about being freakishly tall:
1. When I moved to LA and had a shaved head, ladies often asked me if I was black
2. Knocked myself out on a door frame and rolled both of my ankles on the fall
3. Having to get tested at age 16 for Marfen-hands syndrome
4. Bill Strobeck telling me I must have a steak in my pants
5. During my senior year I grew 7 inches

*Daniel’s 6’9″

Top 5 things Rudy is tripping on today:
1. How many beers I drank this weekend
2. Bianca Chandon’s Insta. He only has classy models, no hoes.
3. I was tripping on Hoarders. How do people live like that? How do they get to that?
4. I definitely tripped getting a huge nail in my tire this morning. A $120 bucks, boom! Gone!
5. I was originally wearing a V-Neck and I had to leave it in the car and change my shirt. I got too insecure. But the comfort level is night and day with a V-Neck.

Daniel Espinoza’s Top 5 things about going pro

1. Do I get a raise?
2. I can force my friends to ride boards with my name on them
3. I can finally tell chicks I’m a pro skater
4. I’ve been thinking about getting braces
5. There’s really no difference, same shit

Atiba’s Top 5 pointers for beating pro skaters at a game of SKATE:

1. Pressure flips
2. I’m not worried about going super slow…
3. …or having bad style
4. Catch ‘em on a hangover
5. Play Eldridge

Sam Muller’s Top 5 Sunday family dinner* guests:

1. Sam Newman
2. Feds
3. Marquis Preston
4. Nakel and Sage
5. Invited Carroll but he never showed up

*Every Sunday night the Muller family and a guest, or ten, have dinner at Amalfi with his parents picking up the tab. As of this writing, I have yet to be invited.

Hershel’s wife Sarah is now a Girl employee, so…

Hershel’s Top 5 things about working with your wife:

1. Carpool buddy
2. Can borrow money for snacks and not feel bad about never paying her back
3. More girls in our boys club at Girl
4. Now it’s really the family business
5. Who wouldn’t want her around all the time? She rules!