Deity speed boads...not just for skating anymore!





BOOM!

Mary's Ville.

According to Team rider Joa's mom(Epic shuttle driving lady that she is)its the Mary's Ville festival of speed this week. Many of our team riders made the trip up to the northwest of the states to put themselves to the test and get to the bottom of the hill first or die trying.


Among the team riders there are Joel, Joa, Alex and some asian guy who isnt Chris. (just kidding Richard!)

We who had to stay home wish our team mates all the best of luck! Bring home a podium guys!

Ahhhh, Maryhill, how I wish I could be there.

In other news, "Dirtbag" Tom Stetler joins those of us in the NOCO area and is HUNGRY to do some skating. Hes currently short one speedboard however, so maybe give him a week or so to get a new one but make sure to give him a call soon to do some skating! Good to have you up here Tommy, although honestly, I wish you didnt have to be all things considered.


Included is an older picture that ive always like, one that shows Deity in its youth, back before all the top mounted goodness.

More skate related updates coming soon!


Ty-

Deity looks back on CANADA!

DEITY IN SUNNY CANADA!!!

so its about time to put together a little edit about my time in Canada!!

I was lucky enough to get to spend 7 days in Canada, skating, chilling, and generally having a good time.

Day 1



Linds dropped my off at the airport, early in the morning.... boring hours and hours of sitting, waiting, flying, etc... Awesome Canada customs took all my smokes. JERKS.

took the skytrain to downtown van to wait for my ride. Two hours and three chais later, my ride arrived! Arrived at Dubes house where we ended up grilling and drinking a few beers. The ground dried up shortly after dinner was finished... and Pidgen and Travis took us on our first bp session! What a difference Canada roads are to RADo roads... stop signs, 90 degree corners... but still fun. I hung back and chilled, very fun. After the session headed back to dubes to chill and get ready to skate JAKES RASH in the morning.

Day 2 JAKES RASH

Early morning drive to the ferry was foggy and wet. Not looking good for race time. Ended up driving in behind the landy van where we chilled and talked until we loaded up on the ferry. The ferry was rad. I've never been on a ferry, and it was rad. The bay, mountains, and islands in every direction. EPIC.





Finally, we loaded off the ferry and a short drive later were at the JAKES. It was wet. barely. The hope of a dry road lingered on the horizon. Alas, the rain gods love to crush dreams. It rained RAINED and rained that day. I've never skated in so much water. It was terrifying, and awesome.



Skitched out on one of the corners and went from 1st to 4th in seconds. DAM traction. check out this video edit of the race by Jackson!!



Headed out, got on the ferry, and crashed at the house.... more skating to come.

Day 3

Cheap and awesome breakfast at Bons. YUMMY. Saw my good friend and old school NOCO rider JOSH Weisfield, the kid who i started to dh with.

epic session at the BPS TONS of people, lots of riding. EPIC.

Headed to cypress and connector road after the bp session.... Connector is the GNARest switchbacks i have ever seen. 22% grade (or something ridiculous like that.)
into two hairpins. The first run left me breathless and with a huge black bruise on my ass. BUMMer. Skated more cypress with the sector crew...
Dinner at an all you can eat sushi place. YUM. Beers and sleep before another day of SKATING!

Day 4

Another cheap and awesome breakfast at bons. Double yum.





EPIC HUGE AND AWESOME session on cypress. Deiy, Sayshun, Skunktech, Hopkins, Otang, Longbrdlarry, Sundae, 5 Mile, Sector, and a couple others were represented. Check out Jeff and Riley's vid that highlights cypress (look for the yellow aero lid). draft train action at 60 plus. boom.

Jeff and Riley's Super Excellent Adventure Pt. 2 from Riley Harris on Vimeo.

Super fun night downtown with the Puerto Rico boys, Kyle Wester, and James Kelly. Skating in traffic, tons of bars, and chilling by the bay.









This was my fav night of the trip.

Headed back to Dubes to sleep and head to goldrush in the morn.

Day 5 SAT GOLD RUSH.

Hopped in with the puerto rico boys to drive to gold rush! It was wet wet wet. I seriously NEVER saw the sun while i was in Canada. Goldrush has to be one of the SICKEST racecourses I have ever had the honor of attending. Fast, tech, and downright hard to skate in the wet rainy conditions.





I look stoked, but I'm not.

Fish and chips and fricking killer here. YEAH.

night of chilling and drying out clothes at the camp. set up my tent and got ready for RACE day.

Day 6 SUN GOLD RUSH

Woke up to a the sound of bloody murder coming from the loco. Someone got mad and threw a shit ton of stuff in the fire. I laughed as I sat and watched it happen... skaters crack me up.



Headed to the hill to SKATE!!!



Thanks GOD it was kinda dry. After one practice run it dried up and was ready to rip. Super fun day of skating. Zen and Reimer ended up taking me out, wish i would have had some dry practice on this course. Bummer. Check out the rayne video!



Had a chill night with Cal, Mark the Shark, and Kyle...



Parted ways with the puerto rico boys who were so good to kyle and I... THANKS GUYS!!
Got ready to head back to the states in the morning.

Day 7.

Driving, flying, waiting, sitting, more flying.... Finally returning home to my BELOVED RADo.


All in all I had a great time. Lots of rad skating with rad people. Thank you Canada for your hospitality! Special thanks to Cody of 5 mile for being rad, Dubes for letting me crash at his house, the puerto rico boys for driving my ass around, Sundae skates for being awesome, and Mark the Shark and Cal for getting me to the airport!!!

-Joel Putrah.

HIGH altitude, mountain bombing.

Epic sesh this last weekend. Rolled to Estes park to do a early morning sesh on one of our most EPIC roads.

After gulping down some tasty margs at Estes most premier restaurant, we passed out so we could wake up at 5am to go skate.

Despite the early morning haziness, the sesh was epic. Myself, Zak Maytum, Kyle Wester, Calvin Staub, and Justin Dubois raged the rocky mtns that morning!!

attack of the phantoms from Jim Callahan on Vimeo.

Special thanks to Linds and Karla for Driving!!!

-Joel Putrah

Woooooooooo

It was a Deity day all day long at the NOCO Outlaw!

Phil placed in the top 10,

Alex was in 4th,

Joa came out in 2nd place

And of course Joel and his glorious pecs held up the world in 1st!


It was an utterly awesome day! We had moms, dads, even grandmas present to watch. Special thanks goes out to team Pagan, Jim Callahan supplied some surprise schwag for all the little groms(and the big ones too!)to enjoy.

Hopefully Chriszorsatrons5000 will have up some pics of the event real soon!

Here is a video from Mr. Rolo!

http://www.vimeo.com/12345179


Diety sweep through the whole NOCO Season in my opinion!!!



Ty-

Outlaws, YEAH!

Race tomorrow baby!!

Noco Outlaw series officially launches with its first race!

Hopefully the entire team will be there shredding hard and representing! Lets show ColoRADo how hungry we are for hometown podiums and tear it to pieces!

30+ confirmed racers, hopefully a few stragglers will appear as well.

GET SOME and get PUMPED!!!

See you all tomorrow for some racing fun!

Also included is a random picture of Joel, modeling some jeans.

Ty-

CANADA!!!

TEAM RIDERS JOEL PUTRAH AND DAVE HANDSOME ARE GOING TO BE SHREDDING CANADA!!!

wish us luck! We'll keep you updated on whats going on!

RADO all ready took danger bay! we're coming for jakes and goldrush!! TOTAL RADO domination!!

-Joel

Race race race!

Oh yeah, its that time of the year again. Time to race baby!

With BBDH behind us, Danger bay, Gold rush and Jakes rash all in the same month, its officially race season. And I think we all know what that means, thats right, its NOCO outlaw time.


The first of the 2010 series kicks off in Masonville on Saturday June 5th at 4pm.

Feel like racing? Be there!
Know someone who owns a longboard? Bring them!
Invite everyone you can who wants to skate, and also feel free to bring hot chicks to spectate.

See you all at the race!


Ty-

New Team Member!

Woo!!! new flowteam rider JOA LADWIG! At only 17 years old Joa is already a pro at Starwars trivia and strives to be the BEST book binder of all time. But seriously when this kid isn't grounded he is shredding the gnar at your local NORco hills. Watch out Colorado Joa will be a contender at the upcoming NORco outlaws.



Love
Chris

BBDH!!!

BBDH!!!


most epic heat.



What a EPIC weekend! Tons of skating crashing, partying, etc.
Huge shout out to everyone involved in the bbdh, you guys KICK ass!

Next year is going to be bigger and better, yeah RADO! Also, a shout out to the hw and slc dudes! Thanks for keeping the weekend fun, you guys are welcome at my place anytime.

Congrats to all the deity riders who ripped HARD over the weekend, you guys are sick. Everyone was reping deity hard and I was stoked beyond belief.

Here are a couple pics of the rad riding that went on during the weekend.

BTW deity should be here on WEDNESDAY! If you are a flow or team rider, make sure you contact me on how to get your deck!

Joa was also tearing it up this weekend, look out! This kid is going to be a ripper!


Joel takes the cons round to place 5th.


Kevin SHREDDING.


Handsome SHREDDING.


Alex SHREDDING.


Chris SHREDDING.


Philip SHREDDING.


Fellow NOCO rider JOA SHREDDING.

Everyone was shredding!

-DEITY SHREDS!

BBDH Blood Spill!!

Super rad weekend here in Colorado! Top racers from all over the world coming to race Buffalo Bill Downhill '10. Congrats to Deity team rider Joel Putrah for placing 5th overall after racing and advancing past rippers Louis Pilloni, Kawika Omoto, and James Kelly to name a few. After getting knocked out in the Semi Finals by Zak Maytum and Nate Lang, he managed to come back with an overwhelming victory in the consolations, even after getting cooped into the hay by smelly Kelly. Check it out.



Don't worry Jimmy, we still love you.

Also, congrats to team riders Kevin Herring, Alex Silva, Phil Silva, and Dave (Handsome) Hanson for an epic race day, most of which advanced to later heats.

Team riders shredding up NOCO!

This is what it looks like when deity team riders get together and shred some hills with a few friends in NOCO. Truly epic skate day, although I spent the entire time shuttling or taking pictures!

Handsome Dave, Phil, Richard, Chris and myself(Ty) all went out to some runs with Joa, Eli and Levi. I had the baby and I was still mourning my deck a little so I didnt skate, but I had a blast just the same.

Included are some pics, some are less than ideal, but I wanted to get some of them up just the same.

Chris gets new leathers!

I've been trying for YEARS to get my friend pat to sell these leathers to various of my speedboarding friends. Finally i convinced him to sell them to Chris! They couldn't have gone to a more stoked rider.

Here are some pics of Chris's girl in his leathers. I couldn't resist.

A sad, sad day...

Today I mourn the passing of an old friend. I was skating the masonville run with Joa, Eli and Levi when I decided to skitch up the hill.

Joa was driving, and I waved at him to roll the window down, which he interpreted as me saying to go, my board was at an angle and unready to go up and to avoid having my legs/foot ran over I had to yell stop and leap off my board only to hear a sickening crunch.

My beloved deity drop through that I got almost a year ago is no longer ride-able, and I am so terribly heartbroken and sad.

Needless to say, I am not going to be skitching any time soon on my top mount when I finally get it!

Included is a picture of my poor poor deck.




Ty-

UNC boardercross

Woo Deity made it to the UNC boarder cross! Deity was killing it all day last Sunday with Joel qualifying 3rd Alex 4th and Chris (me) 5th. Joel finished 2nd overall and team member Dave "Handsome" finished 3rd good job guys!

also here is some rad pictures for your viewing pleasure

Joel fails at directions!!!

So pumped to be a part of the deity team, this is mostly a test post to see if I did things correctly!

Joels directions in the email he sent out were incorrect, I will inform him of such so he can explain what he did wrong and why nobody but him can post on the blog!

Hoping we all get to shred it hard at the boardercross event on sunday! Hope to see some or all of the deity team there!


STOKED!!!


Ty-

EPIC morning bomb today. David "handsome" and I did a early morning run of a very very special Rado run. At sunrise, it was foggy and visibility was rough. Even so, I clocked a speed of 71.3 despite the heavy fog. Handsome also had his personal best at 64.9.

What a way to start the morning.

Supa Fast from Joel Putrah on Vimeo.

The Midgard Toppy.

Check out the new vid of some of the testing that went into the Deity Topmount: The Midgard.

Deity longboards: Rado testing from Joel Putrah on Vimeo.

-Deity.

Welcome to deity's BLOG!! we'll have stuff up sooooon.

-Joel