The House of Steam presents…
“NO WAY!” its Jay Henry or…
“To Bleed or not to bleed“
put this in your web page and smoke it
I went to the Vans Warp Tour yesterday, it was pretty cool. Sure there was 1 million and four 13 year olds there but it was still funny. I was able to con my way in for free by saying I was going to skate in the contest, but I only skated after it was over. I saw a friends band play, Hot Rod Circuit. I missed their electric proper set but saw them play an acoustic set in the MyGaySpace tent, and they really have something going on. They got the 13 to 17 year old demographic lock down that’s for sure. When I skated I was pleasantly surprised to run into my friends Brian 2C and Lane from Washington DC representing the Gorilla Fist Clothiers. Lane took 3rd place in the contest and was doing a fine job of throwing down on the 6 foot tall 20 foot wide mini ramp. They flowed me a few shirts so I was able to tell everyone I got sponsored. Then I was skating with some red neck looking dude who was killing it, and when I went to tell him he was shredding I realized it was Mike Vallely!
Man that kid can lay some hot smack down on a mini ramp. I was bummed to hear that his band had just played, but we had countless other hot punk and metal type bands playing on the stage right next to the ramp. The best part of the day was when I fell down and busted open my elbow and was able to bleed again, god it had been hours since I had a good bleeding, all part of the show folks! Sorry no pics, but my new friend Maggie is not only a hottie, but claims to be a photographer, so hopefully I can start to document the carnage and debauchery that has become the epicenter and bane of my existence.
Signing off until next time;
Jay “the machine” Henry
Always a pleasure Jay. Vallely is a great friend of the site so go check out his band Revolution Mother!
Hope you enjoyed our second installment of “NO WAY!” its Jay Henry. If you are on the East coast and have something that needs staining in blood let me kno, Ill have Jay over there in a flash reporting on it.
Ps. Flow me some of that Gorilla Fist Clothing!!
Also…
Im sure everyone has seen the video of Jake Brown practically falling out of a 4 story building when his board went squirrelly on the Espn Mega ramp (im not gonna show it hear) Just wanna say we are glad you are ok!!
I do long for the days when face high was enough and skaters where athletes not stunt men. I guess no one will be talking about Chris Miller slamming at The Pipeline in an Upland anymore.
So is skating too Evel Kenievel now? What do you think?
Jake Brown
East Coast Pride by Tom Groholski
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Jay, you sound like a crazy dude. As far as jake brown goes…he should be dead. Falling 50 feet from the sky being knocked out and walking away ? HIS SHOES BLEW OFF like he’d been hit by a truck. INSANE. Skating has become a specticle for sure. When someone finally does die, then maybe they’ll think twice about hurling themselves 50 feet in the air at a distance of 200 yards at, what, 70 miles an hour ? I am all for pushing limits but the mega ramp is a death wish.
I saw Jay Henry Slam from 7 or 8 feet doing an airwalk at CCCC from our rear view window as we pulled out. He wound up rupturing his spleen.I dislocated my entire shoulder falling in the flat bottom doing a rock to fakie! I never skated as good again. Jake Brown fell from 45 feet plus and walked away in his socks. The only peeps responsible in turning our sport/lifestyle into something where the ramp is more important then the skating are the people who buy the tickets. Go watch Nascar I say.
I am assuming the basketball skit at the start of the video is to emphsasize the size of Jake Brown’s balls ? Boy’s got big one’s !!
Did you notice that the ESPN Slam video has been removed from YouTube.
J-
Jake Brown is probably my favorite modern vert skater. I saw him do the “Hippie Jump” at the Tampa Pro a couple of years ago. Knowing Jake a little & seeing some of his after contest antics in Ybor City (after the Tampa Pros – something about being put in a garbage can and thrown off a pool table with Schaefer) if anyone could walk away from that Slam it would be Jake.
Taylor
I couldn’t believe how his shoes went flying off.