Gift Video: "It's A Wrap" Premiere!

The Gift Skateboards video "It's a Wrap" premiered on Christmas night, with free flow alcohol, food, and gifts, so you know it was fucking TIGHT AS SHIT!


Eric from Nike giving the intro talk.


That stache is looking fresh!



Ahahaaa


Boss' graphic is too hard.



Double tsingtaos.


Chipper had some action in the friends section.


She farted?



Who farted?


Merry Christmas!

Venice of the East: SUZHOU

Since the deadline for the Gift Skateboards video is coming up soon, we took a trip to Suzhou for the weekend to get some stuff done. Suzhou used to be a river/canal city, and you could get around by getting water taxis, people just paddling canoes around town. The city's huge now, but still slightly more traditional than Shanghai and Shenzhen are. The skatespots in Suzhou are too many, mostly never been skated before.


Shanghai railway station, packeddddd.


Guess where we ate.


The whole underside of the bridge is a huge long television that plays shit you see in the IMAX theaters.


weeee, lights


more


This shopping center area contains more skatespots than Delaware has to offer in its whole state.

so purrrty


Jay Meador and his kickflizzer


beamer


This club was pretty happenin. Except drinks were super expensive, so we got drunk outside before staying here till 4am. What's up with the chandeliers?


Suzhou cuisine


canooodaling


renaissance man


shoulder cam steeze


power stall

Dork Trick Tip of the Week

This clip featuring Johnny Tang and Boss at LP is hilarious: http://www.stickiestoftheicky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dork-trick-tips-3.mp4

Make sure to check out my homie Matt's site at www.stickiestoftheicky.com. His shit is illlllin'.

This town's big enough

for two Johnny Tang's.

The Asian AVE from Tommy Zhao on Vimeo.

Direct Video Link: CLICK HERE

It sure would be rad if Youtube would be unblocked in China...

2009 AST China Invitational

So the real reason we went to Beijing was for this skate contest. Due to outstanding circumstances, I didn't make it for the day of competing but you can peep more pics and find out more coverage from the contest at this link: SkateHere.com.


And the winner is.


The course was pretty shitty.


Pouchers.


Monster teeth hubba.

New VidClips for the Week

VIDEO LINK HERE.

This is the Quiksilver miniramp that Brian has stored in some warehouse in the middle of fucking nowhere in Shanghai. Probably the most perfect mini I ever skated, but I suck at mini anyway.



VIDEO LINK HERE.

This is a short clip of us just skating to LP. Hollaaa

I put the link up under the videos just in case they don't work right in the States... or in China, haha.

SMP Sessions Yesterday

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO LINK

Make that Quadruple

Some more pics:


Nanhui, Shanghai


There are more ledges here than in all of Delaware combined.


This thing was rad as fuck. Manny pad + gap to hubba.


crammed


flatbar session

Show Some Love

Scrap footy from LP.

Golden Years

Here's a clip from the ledge spot in Beijing. Sorry about the shitty logo being in the upper right, it's for work. Speaking of, if anyone is in China, you should bookmark www.daibiao.com. They need feedback on how to make their site better... both in content and visually. Hook a brotha up.

Big Ass Pierced Tongue

Took a trip to Suzhou yesterday, a city about an hour away from Shanghai. Has some great skate spots and less of a bust factor than Shanghai. I stole these pictures from Johnny Tang's Facebook. So... go buy some Nike SB's.



mini big four.


sexy.


Thanks Tyler for the shirt hook up.


Illest thing ever. Big ass tongue shaped thing.


Hard as fuck to skate.

Chopstick hustlersss

Here's a vidclip consisting of abd's, sketchy landings, and shaky filming. Starring: Me (Tommy Zhao), Jeremy ____, Johnny Tang, Alex Huang.

Youtube version: (double click and watch in High Quality)


Vimeo version:


Chopstickkks from Tommy Zhao on Vimeo.