The Passion Trip

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Thrasher just released the first part in a pretty Keroucesque tour video Of Lizard King's signature Supra tour.Lots of people love Lizard and lots of people hate him, but I obviously wouldn't be writing about this vid if I didn't enjoy the dude and his skating. Even if you aren't that stoked on Lizard himself, there are enough gnarly supporting characters along for this ride, that any one who likes skating should be able to find something in here to get them psyched. One word; Figgy!! It looks like the premise of this trip was that Supra, in celebration of his new shoe, let Lizard hand pick a crew of his homey's to drive around the Western US in an RV and do some demos, while promoting the shoe I guess. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig. In attendance, in addition to the Liz man himself was Nuge, Figgy, Dickson, Thomas Bonilla, Mumford and Neen; a pretty stellar crew considering everyone of these dudes fucking kills it, and who doesn't love them some Mutt coverage. In obvious Green Room fashion, the trip started out with mandatory beers and spliff, before embarking on what was sure to be one hell of a time. The first stop on the tour is CCS Ventura, which appears to be a mall shop. Not being accustomed to skateboarding being very welcomed in a mall setting here in Toronto, I was super surprised to the see the heavy turnout of kids at the mall. It looked like a Bieber signing or something along those lines, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez... The dudes didn't actually skate at the mall signing, which blows me away even further that that crazy amount of kids showed up for a simple signing. I love skateboarding and skateboarders are rad ass people, but I definitely don't think I'd wait in line all day to meet them, if they weren't skating. But then again most of the dudes are pretty entertaining, so who can really blame the kids. After the signing, the spirit of the passion trip is embodied in sketchy human form when the crew meet a young trail hopping woman by the name of Cali May and bring her in the RV for a quick spliff and beer. I think that's a testament to the idea with a positive and adventurous attitude, who knows what you'll run into. After releasing the train hopper back into the wild, the boys start the day off with some obligatory shotguns before making their way onto Arizona. Stopping at a park for a demo, we get to see the first actual skate footage of the episode, which I was stoked on, as I can only watch so much party footage before I want to crack a brew myself. Dickson, who I can't fucking wait to see in the Deathwish video, puts down a pretty tight nose slide kickflip on the parks hubba. Lizard, the man for whom the tour is named, laces up some fresh blue passions and lands a pretty sick fakie ollie fakie manny and Thomas Bonilla comes through with s super tight lien to tail on the arm rest of crippled Richie Belton's wheelchair, with him sitting in it. Fucking Rad. Some more hype skate footage is soon to follow and it's safe to say Figgy is a fuckin bowse. Kickflip the channel at the Cowtown demo was gnar and I can't wait for another video part from this dude either. The part of the episode that got my most psyched was definitely the late night, after demo session Lizard solo missions at the bump to flat. A lot of people talk a lot of shit about the Baker dudes and their whole laissez faire, don't give a fuck attitude, but I really don't think this is the fact with these dudes at all. If nothing else, this episode is a testament to how fucking motivated these guys are to skate, despite all the partying, and I think that speaks volumes. The fact that they did 2 demos in the sweltering Arizona heat while still searching out a street spot to skate after and finding time to thrown down a pretty gnarly hammer on (fs 180) it really suggests nothing else but passion. These guys truly are passionate about skating, and life in general and I think that's super inspiring. That's pretty much the end of the first episode, but I'll definitely tune into the ones that follow. They're pretty funny and the skating is pretty sick fa sho! So why not watch?