A cute and harmless BOMBING a car of a good friend of mine. (Namely Roar Berge, Norway´s first hard core surfer. Roar is still ripping). Footy by Tania Nyberg.

Everybody loves stickers! Young or old ? our generation and the new generation just love it. Maybe the elder hate it? I don´t know. I guess even they are fond of stickers. Stickers is something we find defying us as a person ? stating our image kind of. Weather it is fly-fishing equipment, graffiti, tattoo, surfing, MMA, skateboarding or whatever the sticker is "branding". The mix of stickers and logos on your car or laptop makes you namely the one you are. It reflects you!

Stickers are something that catches our attention and fascination when we are kids. As kids we just get super stoked on getting em and we stick em on our bedroom door, skateboard, pc, mobile phone or just wherever. Stickers are fun.

Interesting side note: It took us quite a long time, nearly two years, and four collections, before we got the perfect sized popular SHIT Talking Bubble paper hang tag shaped as our bubble logo and as a real sticker ? fitting perfectly in the die-cut of our SHIT perforated grip.

One of our best and cheapest ways of marketing back in the days when we established the Trademark, (and still are), we are talking about 2000 to 2004, was to bomb with our SHIT Talking Bubble Logo stickers wherever we travelled... Ski lifts, road signs, night clubs, skate parks, bins, road lights, the city picture etc. At some party´s we put em on random peoples back while patting them and saying "hi man/girl... ohh, my mistake... you looked like a friend of mine", and they were walking around with a sticker on their back all night ? a funny and super effective way of marketing.

Bombing was so effective that we gave thousands and thousands of stickers away. It cost lots of bucks in the end. But we got our name out there, people have noticed the name and logo ? and often just didn´t know what it was about. And the curiosity stuck in their mind inconstantly until they read about us in a mag or online.

There was a time that we got many complaints from random shops downtown, private persons who had gotten the SHIT Talking Bubble sticker on their car or mail boxes etc. We even got a call from the Oslo City hall after a Norwegian Skateboarding Championship downtown in Oslo... because of road signs etc etc was bombed with our stickers. It was so much complaint that the marketing became bad marketing for some. And to upset or destroy private people´s property was never the intention. The result was that we had to quit giving stickers away for free.

The result after being cool and gift full, giving out free stickers to everyone who asked was that people (often kids) had so many SHIT stickers that they stupidly stuck them all over... who to blame? Off course SHIT! We gave them away for free. We took immediately responsibility ? and still today our stickers cost a few bucks, but upon all purchase, in shops or online, we off course give some for free.

Interesting side note: I got accused for bombing a bar in my home town where my girlfriend worked ? I was kicked out for twelve months... No joke. At that time I did nearly no bombing, but people (crew and friends) went berserk. And I got the blame.

Sometimes even people get wild and put the stickers on their ass, forehead, tits (we are now talking about girls), or rad guys with the sticker on the chest or wherever. There are a dozen crazy pictures out there. It is pretty funny!

I have even bombed world famous skateboarders and good role models like Danny Montoya, Kenny Anderson and Jeremy Wray (my hero back in the days) at ISPO tradeshow many years ago. They thought it was hilarious.

The SHIT Talking Bubble Logo Sticker is way funnier than "competitive" companies like Quicksilver, Volcom, Vans etc. Cause it is more hilarious with a SHIT bubble logo sticker on a person's back than example a square DC logo , right? (That said, I will add that I admire and look up to the mentioned companies).

Bombing stickers is the definitively most effective and cheapest way of marketing. No doubt!

Visit one of our shops and ask gently and you will get a SHIT stickers for free. And put it somewhere smart. And feel free to send us your contribution of a SHIT sticker at post@shittm.com and post it on SHIT on Facebook. Remember to tag SHIT and yourself.

Bomb stickers ? not countries!

I have been training regularly at Torggata Bad og Treningssenter downtown in Oslo since I opened the SHIT FLAG STORE Oslo back in 2009. And first today I noticed the hilarious temperature meter hidden in the corner in the sauna...

It is most elder people (50 and up) that exercise here, and this is a confirmation that it doesn´t become any better the elder you get. I guess it only gets worse... Hahahaha!

The man in the mirror... Hehe.

Had a good training sesh today at Torggata Bad in Oslo. Keepin myself in shape! It is a funny place to exercise as it is many elder people there. :) Good atmosphere every time!

Last visit in Barca (aka Barcelona) with the team I also got a few tricks captured on both photo and tape. This trick here is a trick that I have ever done before. It was like it was meant for me to try and do that trick at exactly that spot at exactly that day.

(This flick shows a try and not the one I busted).

Filmed by Oystein Janke Ellingsen. Edited by Frode Goa.

It is soon time for me to collect all my latest unseen street skateboarding footy and make a pure street flick.

This poster is hanging at the SHIT warehouse just outside Stavanger. It makes me miss snowboarding a bit. I am doing a basic Fs 360 Indy over this nice road gap and yellow Seat car a sunny day. This is the best shot of me snowboarding.

As I am commuting to/from Oslo and have been doing it more or less since beginning of 2009. I always drive over the mountains in spring/summer when there´s no snow. And the other day I drove pass the spot where the picture above is taken about ten years ago.

This is how the spot looks like in summertime. You see the SHIT DEATHSTAR in the backgrond there. We were coming from right to left, and the kicker was not so far away from the metal fence thing there.

I am not so fond in snowboarding anymore as skateboarding and surfing have completely taken over.

This is the poster for the PEPSI SNOWBOARDSHOW that I pulled off downtown Stavanger in summertime ten years ago.

A special shout out to Thomas Andre Olsen, Andre and Orjan who all ripped that day this pic were taken. And Ola Callander, Jorgen Michaelsen and Thomas Gausel Olsen.

Fun fact: I was sponsored (Flow in Norway by distributors) by Vans boots, Smith goggles, Option Snowboards, Switch bindings and NFA Snowboard clothes back in those days. And I was representing Surfsentrum Surf Shop downtown Stavanger as I also worked there. :P

I am back in Stavanger for a few days and I had a good workout today at the gym. I have been training for some years and I feel it helps my surfing and skateboarding a lot. Most by reducing risk of injury, but also having better control of the body.

I had a good sesh at my friend Hansi´s gym STAVANGER MMA SENTER. Check it out here: www.stavangermma.no. (You´ll also find em on Facebook). Hansi is an good MMA fighter with quite a few titles, and he has even made this fight-cage in the gym that they train/fight in. (Hansi was skateboarding much back in the days, and he is also surfing).

I think it is great when people have a variety of interests and keep on enjoying it even if it might be a big contrast to skateboarding or surfing. It makes every one of us more individual.

Back exercise.

A trick not captured on picture nor film of me before. The classic Varial Heelflip. One of the tricks that I love the most.

The flick reflects a typical skatebaording session. Only a handful of tricks was captured and edited to this little flick.

Skateboarding is so fun, and busting tricks feels just great. This session I landed a new trick that I ever have landed before, namely Heelflip to Bs Tail. I have tryed it a dosen times, but have just not ever landed it. Unfortunately the trick was not caught on tape. But I am stoked about the trick and hope to get it on tape or take a picture of it soon.

It is Thomas Andenes that fimed the tricks and I edited it myself. Thomas is an good skateboarder. Thanks Thomas!

Mentzoni, Odda and Thomas visited Oslo this weekend, and we have been hanging out and skating. And I was lucky to have Thomas film a couple of tricks of me just ten minutes before they headed back home towards Haugesund.

-ENJOY THE FLICK! ;)

Bigspinflip To Bs Tail. It´s also captured on tape and will be out here soon. (Pic: Thomas Andenes)

I have been skateboarding active since beginning of the 90´s at the time when skateboarding just got leagle in Norway. Skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1979 to 1989. This makes over two decades with MUCH skateboarding and wearing out a couple of dosen decks and shoes.

Learning new tricks are hard. It is repeating, repeating and repeating... And suddenly you get it right! That´s a great feeling and worth all the practising. Learning new tricks now a days (for me at my age..) happens very seldom. But damn how sweet it tastes when you first make it!

While skateboarding you every now and then try new twists of tricks that you are already safe on doing. And one of my favorite tricks (and a trick that I am safe on doing) is Kicflip to Bs Tail. And a new progressive twist of that trick is this Bigspinflip To Bs Tail that I just learned. I´m pretty stoked busting it!

This is a classic Kickflip to Bs Tail.

This new trick (Bigspinflip To Bs Tail) is captured on tape with a few more tricks from the same session. I will get em out here soon.

I googled Bigspinflip To Bs Tail and found only one video of it. (Here´s url: http://youtu.be/Xvb6gchgQn4)

A quick stopper on a good sk8 sesh.

Mentz, Odda and Thomas came to Oslo for the weekend and we were all rigged up and ready for a nice sk8 sesh after my work. We cruised up to this very nice spot just ten min from the Oslo shop. The spot has many various curbs and nice concrete ground.

After skating about an hour my wheel rolled off and away while doing a Smithgrind... The outer bearing had exploded and all balls were gone...

Normally I always have a spare bearing and sk8 tool with me in my bag, but not today. I brought no bag. Dammit! And nobody else had a spare bearing either. So it was a quick stop for that sk8 session. It was good as long as it lasted though. Good hanging out with the boys. They rip!

Good friends and awesome skateboarders.

Early bird! Hitting the water about 06:00 in the morning.

For the past weeks I have been surfing Saltsteinen in Larvik. Larvik is just to hours from Oslo, so I push the pedal on the SHIT DEATHSTAR to the floor right after I close the shop at 17:00 in the evenings. If no traffic jam, I am in the water a bit over 19:00 and surf until sunset and totally dark. (About 21-22:00). This is time enough to catch some good waves and to get real worn out.

Cutback early morning at Saltsteinen a nice sunny September day.

After the late evening sesh I chill in the SHIT DEATHSTAR and enjoy the silence and listen to the waves hit the shore. I camp at the spot crossing my fingers that there are something left the upcoming morning.

I wake up the day after when it gets bright enough (about 05:30) and have a quick look at the sea, and then have a classic oatmeal breakfast (that I love) before I jump in the cold and wet wetsuit and hit the waves again.

I have had many good sessions at Saltsteinen and brought my Gopro cam with me every time, capturing the atmosphere. I made this little flick that I hope you enjoy.

I surf a couple of hours in the early morning and drive towards Oslo a bit before 09:00 so I can make it to my SHIT FLAG STORE in Oslo in time. I open the shop 11:00. Having a surf sesh early morning before work is just magic. Makes my day! You who surf know what I am talking about! :)

Pretty nice spot. And with awesome locals.