JUST A REMINDER

Lee Saunders, Dustin Montie and Chad Dickson head up country with Underworld skateshop to do some skating at the Penticton, kelowna and osooyos skateparks this coming weekend! So if you wanna come out hangout and skate with these guys, than check the dates on the flyers and get out there!

GO SKATEBOARDING DAY VANCOUVER!

As we all know, yesterday June 21st was fathers day, but in our world, more importantly it was Go Skateboarding Day!! The Vancouver turn out was huge, with thousands of skateboarders starting their day at the Plaza. Everyone was happy watching the Emerica team do their thing even if alot of people were a little beat up from watching Andrew Reynolds band the evening before. From the plaza the streets were packed cruising to some of the spots around downtown Vancouver to chuck tricks for cash. As everyone cruised from spot to spot, eventually we caught the attention of the police, but instead of dumping beer, handing out tickets and plain well ruining our event, they just ended up being an escort through the city streets! The day went great ending with the now traditional skate over the Georgia viaduct bridge ending at the Stratchona skatepark for a bbq and more skating to finish the day off. All in all this years day was a success, cant wait to do it again next year!

Lee enjoying the day

Cyrus leading the pack 

The Stratchona bbq and gathering

Im sure the word spread about what went down this beast!

the gathering before the Georgia Viaduct skate

and idea of what each spot looked like

NEXT UP SEB LABBE

Seb Labbe is the next team rider up to send us in some footage to show you people out there in the internet world. Check it out and ENJOY!...keep checkin back as there is going to be more to come!

A LITTLE ADAM GREEN

Adam Green just sent us over some stuff that we are able to show you aswell, so just wanted to pass on the content for your viewing pleasure!

backside wallride

backside tail

MITCH AGAIN!

Mitch Barrette again set us up with another batch of footage for everyone to have a peek at this week. Its lookin good, cant wait to see what else Mitch has in store for us this summer!

THE BOYS ARE GETTIN ON THE ROAD!

Since a couple of our team guys;Dustin Montie, Chad Dickson, and Lee Saunders are getting on the road in the next little while with the Underworld Vancouver team, we would like to pass this announcement out to you:

The Underworld (West) team are going on a skate camping trip to the Okanagan on June 25 - July 2. Our crew consists of Micky Papa, Dan Redmond, Lee Saunders, Arte Lew, Hayden Kelly, Dustin Montie and Chad Dickson. If peeps wanna meet and hang with us, just look for us skating Penticton, Kelowna and Osoyoos' skate parks in the evenings. It's gonna be tons of fun and we are looking forward to celebrate Canada Day with everyone.

MITCH BARRETTE CLIPS!

Mitch Barrette has been out there gettin' busy doing his thing, since the weather has been coming around! He was nice enough to slip a couple tricks over to us to put up here and give everyone a little preview of whats to come in the near future! Enjoy!

KEVIN LOWRY UPDATE

Well its time for yet another quick update on what the guys have been doing with themselves all winter. This time around its kevin Lowry. Kevin spent alot of time in Europe this winter, here's a couple photos and his write up:


well to be honest I haven't been doing much. just skating and hanging out.
I spent 4 months in europe. most people would think o you must have filmed and done so much but for me i have been 4 times and i spent my own money to go so why would i Jump off a building? for the most part I try to enjoy coffee and seeing my friends from around those parts.
at the end I spent a week with the blueprint team just going on missions.
nice to hang with the boys and just talk. To be honest its hard being on the other side of the world and keep in touch.
since i have been home I started working at the skaters south shop. made a short trip to peg to see the new green apple shop and a few friends. it was a super good time. stayed in the mcdermott's basement. other then that my plans for the next while are to stay put work do a few small trips.

chillin and ciggin

backtail

ollie

DREW MERRIMAN UPDATE

Drew among other guys on the team have alot of traveling over the winter. Here is Drews short but sweet update with words and photos of whats been going on with Drew:

so basically i just got back from a trip from montreal, cali, vegas, arizona. jeremy elkin who made lo-def is making another video so i went out to montreal to film for it and hang out and enjoy the east. got home for two days then instantly took off to the states with my family. was a pretty sweet time. vegas was pretty much a blur haha, arizona was too hot to skate unfortunitly, but cali was rad. such a good time out there. got to skate a ton which is always awesome. now i'm home and it feels good. now that i'm home i have been pretty much just been skating all day everyday and hanging out.

Filming away

Frontside feeble

Wallie frontside 5-0

DUSTIN MONTIE VS MITCH BARRETT

It's not exactly what you would think, Mitch Barrett and Dustin Montie arent actually dualling it out sort of speak. These two guys have both spent certain amounts of time on each side of our great country we call Canada, and they just recently did an article for Mike Scotts column on Push.ca. So go have a peek at what these two guys had to say here.

MARC TISON ON THE ROAD

If you head over to the SBC website, you'll find out that our very own Montreal legend, Marc Tison is on an east coast adventure right now with skull skates. Now go have a browse here and read the top 10 things for Marc, being on the Skull Skates Salty Dog tour.

Marc backside ollie transfer from the pipe to the small in Montreal's Big O

SAN DIEGO 09

As you may remember in Febuary, team riders Dustin Montie, Lee Saunders and Ryan Bonnell headed down to San Diego for most of the month for good times, filming and sunshine. Well Lee just happened to take his video camera aswell and captured some extra's from the trip. Apparently he can do a bit of editing himself aswell, so here ya go San Diego extras.

DREW MERRIMAN!

The new SBC Skateboard mag made its way into our hands here at S&J and what do you know, our very own calgarian consolidated representative, Drew Merriman found himself having 2 photos in the issue! A very impressive wallie photo from his winter trip to barcelona and a recognize in the back of the mag! Keep up the good work Drew!!!

Hell of a wallie backside 180 in the Spanish Adventures article!

Check out!

S&J Sales Welcomes Lee Saunders to the Team!

S&J Sales proudly welcomes Lee Saunders to the team roster representing World Industries skateboards and Thunder Trucks. Lee is another Vancouver transplant originally from Detroit Michigan, later moving to Windsor Ontario. Since Lee has made the move to Vancouver he has been working his way into the Canadian skateboard scene with a great positive attitude and motivation that makes you want to be around him. We have watched him progress and gain new sponsors such as Osiris Shoes and Underworld Skate Shop and definitely feel that he is a worthy addition to our team. We cannot wait to see what Lee brings to the table in the near future. Welcome to the team Lee!

heres some footy of Lee doing his thing.

GREG BREWER UPDATE...

Greg Brewer has been spending some time back in his homeland in the maritimes of New Brunswick away from Vancouver for a bit now. Since no ones heard or seen the man in quite sometime, he decided to send us a couple photos and a blog update. We all hope to see you soon Greg!

Greg backsmithing for the east coast der buy
For the last few months since my great escape from Vancouvers life of skating as much as possible, drinking on the beach, and just plain NOT freezing my ass off. I've been trying my hardest to get up to no good on the East coast. Fredericton New Brunswick is the location. It's a great place to visit but it's packed with 8 foot tall snow banks and every road coverd in black ice. Getting to the liquor store and back safely gives you something to celebrate. You could emagine the celebration after driving in a white out for 3 hours both ways just to skate indoors while it's -40 degrees outside. No shortage of places to play pond hockey though! For now the snow has melted and summer is digging it's claws into our frost bitten ground. I've been out canoeing and camping already, traveld to a few surrounding cities on skate trips with the homies, drivin dirt bikes for the first time. And after a hard fought battle. Finaly learnt late shuv's from an East Coast legond himself, Matt Craig. Thats my update. Time to skate!

Greg three flippin away!

Dustin Montie

We found the sum up of Dustin Montie from his footage throughout the seasons of Underworlds Underattack show. In the final episode they edited everyones combined footage into little parts to finish the series off, we had shown you Ryan Bonnells a while back and yesterday Dustin Monties had been but online, so here it is......enjoy!

JUST ANNOUNCED.....

A few of our boys have been quietly working hard on an upcoming project over the past year and with a few short months left until the deadline it has been announced! City of New Lights is going to be premiered in November 2009. Be on the lookout for parts from S&J riders, Chad Dickson, Dustin Montie, Lee Saunders and Ryan Bonnell with such others as Micky Papa and Spencer Hamilton. Check out their blog and keep coming back to ours to keep up on whats going on with all these guys!

KINGSHIT HAS ARRIVED!

The Awaited first print issue has arrived!...S&J has a stack of coverage in there and the issue is looking real good! There is a full Mitch Barrette interview, Elements Hugo balek has a full interview, Expeditions Spencer Hamilton interview among many great articles and photos for your viewing pleasure. The Mag is FREE so i suggest getting out to your local shop and grabbing yourself a copy ASAP!

The Cover 

Adam Green starts it off with a full contents pager

Element's Hugo Balek

Spencer Hamilton 

Mitch Barrette

Mitch on his grind

Mitch flippin switches!

Mitch yet again for the new S&J add

More news on the way very soon so keep checkin' back!

Bobby Paul

This past Saturday one of the newer shops in the BC lower mainland, Bobby Paul hosted a grand opening, which included skating, bbq, drinks, music by Matt the Alien and the monster bus and good people hanging out. S&J riders Dustin Montie, Chad Dickson and birthday boy Lee Saunders headed out there for the good times. The even lasted from 12 till 4 and a good time was had by all. Dustin Montie kickflip to fakie
Chad Dickson Three flip to flat

Lee Saunders Going for the distance on a long ollie

The birthday boy enjoying on of the burgers that were available for donations

Lee bloggins.....

It seems our boy Lee Saunders has started a blog for him and all his friends put up interesting things going on in their lives and things that excite them. Usually it seems to be the boys skating themselves etc. so here you go, click the link and enjoy.

a small preview that Lee had added to the blog


More Lee news coming very shortly!