Shad Lambert Photography

July 2008

Sneaking Into The Xgames: Live Updates

**IT’S A WRAP, NO MORE NEW POSTS** Check the transcript:
I’ll be updating all day I guess, kind of an experiment. I was suppossed to have a photo pass but the credentials got all messed up. Anyway, just snuck into this thing, wow what a pain in the ass! Call up Boosh and ask to borrow his pass if you want to get in…

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How much do you think it will cost ESPN to blur out Leo’s shirt in post production? Leo does not give a fuck!

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No shade for us losers, time for a car bar beverage break!

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Boosh just told me he can sneak in seven beers onto the course no problem. “I can do it, there’s no turning back. I always say retarded shit, I don’t know what I’m talking about.”

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“You just have to be cool, man.”

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How you gonna be cool with seven cans of beer through that metal detector Boosh!??

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Boosh got in, WTF? And I got kicked out, had to run into the stands.

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Adam Dyet says, “I missed the cut by one, it’s because they were bummed I was drinking beer.”

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Koston tried to cross the street and got attacked by fans.

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P-rod tried to walk down the stairs and got mobbed by fans.

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Boosh gets semi mobbed by fans who think he’s…

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Adam Dyet.

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Just walked passed some security muarks. Going through some weird tunnel in the bottom of Staples.

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This bro says I don’t have tunnel rat priveleges, he’s escorting me out.

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Oh awesome, I’m back talking to credential dude who said they still haven’t figured out my credential.

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What now? Big air starts in like 30 minutes. I got to see Jake cheat death last year, I really want him to win this bitch. I ain’t paying for an xgames ticket, that’s fo sho!

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Got denied in three lines, decided to try the tunnel again, I’m in! Holy shit Danny Way just slammed. Medical team checking him out. He’s okay! Whoa, Burnquist just did a frontflip.

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This is Danny Way’s 22 foot air after a backflip. They’re playing ultra dramtic footage about Jake Browns slam right now, violen tear strings stuff. Jake just did a perfect back 360 to perfect 20 foot mctwist, yeah jake! Jake’s workin’ on that 720 right now!

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These jumps count! Danny just knee slid out on his backflip. Pierre Luc kneeslide. Jake back 360 to 21 foot mctwist! Bob is up…. Ohhhhhh shit! Got off balance on a switch 3??? Stomach slide. Jake is the current points leader. iPhone battery getting low, I have to pee so bad. Andy mac just did a 360 judo to miss the judo air.

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Danny with a perfect backflip, to mctwist ooooooooohhhhhhhh no. Danny smacked his shin on the coping. Layed out at the flat. This isn’t good. Feet are moving… He’s up. This dude is nuts. I’m not sure he’ll be back after that. PLG just bailed a 360 kickflip mute. Jakes up…. Sweet firestarter music, missed the 360 ollie. Andy mac just did his 360 judo to quarter pipe judo. Wtf!?? Danny is back! Backflip… 19 foot melon mctwist! This guy has had like 20 surgeries, maniac terminator. Jake practicing that 360 ollie. ***Danny now in the lead with 90.33!

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I hits to go dudes, don’t trip, can hear the anouncer. Back in it, whoa! Bob just banged out that a switch back 180 kickflip to 20 foot mctwist. Jesus. Guess what, Bob is in first. Round 4 coming up!

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I think this is the dude that stole my credentials! And mac just did another judo spin to airwalk to something something bail. Pierre just landed a practice back 360 kickflip to big bro air… Right now it’s Burnquist in first, jake brown second, danny way third. Danny with a backflip to varial mctwist!! Ohhh he slammed on the roll away, otherwise that might have put him in first. Plg just missed his 360 kickflip mute, jake is up, missed the 720. Bob droppin in regs, misses that frontflip. Andy mac landed his thing he does… This is the fifth and final chance for these guys.

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Danny is up, backlflip over the gap to varial mctwist airwalk craze!! What was that? Word just in Danny might have a broken foot right now, like that would stop him. Way in first with a 94! Think that quarter pipe air was a varial
Mctwist boned out? That sounds so gay. PLg just bailed, Jake just missed that 720, one more jump for Bob. Switch back 180 to 20 foot backside 360 frontside grab fakie, wow. It’s official, first place to Bob B, second to D Way, third to Jake Brown.

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All right dudes, it’s a wrap, check the tube for the action.

iPhone Or Die

So for the last couple weeks I’ve been fighting the urge nerd the f@$k out and write about how the new iPhone apps are kicking ass. Well, they just released the Wordpress app for the iPhone, I’m on it right now dudes. Wordpress is a free open source app that powers hundreds of thousands of blogs, including this one, so this means more mobile instant blogging, and of course more spelling mistakes—like how iPhone always wants to change “Yo” into “To”. Anyway, expect some more instant nerdy blog shots now, like when we skate to the bar and Danozone loses his board down the sewer.

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*So far it worked pretty good for this post, looks like you have to manually put html tags in for now, but awesome when there’s no laptop around. I’ll keep testing it out.

Shane O’Neill

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Just met Shane O’Neill this weekend, he’s here visiting form Oz, dude rips, check his minute.

WILD POWER!

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Bumped into another ripper with a Transitions shirt yesterday, his name is Richie and he double heelflipped that church gap. I don’t know his last name, but he’s going to have footage in the Wild Power video that Mike Marasco, Eric Longden, and Cricket are working on. I’d bet on that video being pretty TOUGH!

Oh, and their last flick Via Marina is available for sale with new clips and shit, I think.

Old West To Death

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Grant Schubert is always on the prowl for spots, somehow he found some amazing ditches at abandoned western movie sets from old school Hollywood.
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This is where a lot of cowboy western river shots went down.
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It was rough and rugged, just like the old west.
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Alfaro cowboy’d up!
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After that rode the bike to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to watch the original Get Carter. They have movies here every summer, you can bring in drinks, food, and relax amongst the dead. It was really bizarre riding in between graves, towards the motion pictures…
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I was so entranced by the lights I wasn’t paying attention, hit Sergev’s grave and got bucked. My bad Sergev.


Shad Lambert Photography