So many funny things happen on tour. Tonnesen got robbed today. That was pretty bad as thei got a analog camera with lot's of great shots. Damn what a shame!

There was a lot of wind on some of the spots today. Despite that Kim P were killing it. This Nollie Invward Heel into this bank was just on the return from a good spot were I busted a lot of tricks and lines. Happy that we caought it on both photo and film. Will be revealed soon for sure.

This was just another productive day for me personally. I was surprised over my self as a matter of fact. That's stokeness! :) The Bs Tailslide to fakie up this ledge on the pic below was also a spot we found cruising from one spot to another we had in mind. I also nailed a line here, so you'll see the Back tail on film too. :)

Kim with a nollie inward heel.

Ellingsen with a wallie Bs 50-50. This is one of my favorite spots. But we were busted by the Police. That was a shame, cause I busted a coulple of lines. Have to get back there soon.

Ellingsen chillin.

Very nice random ledges. Me with a Bs tail to fakie. Yes! All the way up! ;)

Pjuuh! Even on a "vecation" it's hard to find time to blog and edit pictures. Day four was hard but good, and we got another productive day with lot's of tricks and lines busted despite everyone had a bad hangover from New Year's Eve until early morning!

It was pretty windy and kinda cold. But despite of that the boys busted a lot of tricks on new locations.

Here are some pics from our New Year's Celebration. We had such a good time that everybody for some reason forgot about the time, and we were 10minutes overtime before one of us took a look at the wath... 00:10! We were already in 2010! We had a good laugh and cheered and partyed until early morning...

The crew! :)

The two new lads on the boat! Ellingsen and Karlsen! :)

Here are a little flick mainly from this fourth day:

Ellingsen and his grilfriend between the sk8 locations.

:) Stay tuned for more Barca feelings!

Risi and Ellingsen in a good mood on a nice location somewhere in Barcelona.

First: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yesterday, the final day of the fabulous year of 2009, and day three on this trip, was a very exhausting and terrible day!!! Why? We woke up early, met Ellingsen 45minutes too late at Starbucks, it started raining... Some of the crew overslept, some got lost, some had no more battery on their phone so we couldn't reach them, some had no keys, some got split... We cruised streets and walked all over Barca and spent a lot of time in the underground from stop to stop trying to locate spots and to find the others and hook up. The day started 08:00 and the first trick went down about 15:00!!! So a lot of lurking around. :P

Spanish Oranges tastes about 10 times better here than back home in Norway. Amazingly fresh and tasty!

Here is the smashed jar filled with water or something. Pretty sick and lucky that noeone got hit.

Tonnesen, our golden boy, at work. Classic Bs Tailslide.

We're as I write preparing the New Year's Eve dinner at our apartment. And we're drinking and cheering!;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D

Stay tuned! Love from Barca!

23 degrees Celcius makes one hot! :P

Day two, with 23 Degrees Celcius, here in Barca started really slow, because everybody were tired and worn out from day one... Classic failure kicking to much upon arrival day and using too much energy. Despite that, after nearly all day was "wasted"... We got busted and kicked out of the POLICIA two times, and the sunset came to early, we captured some great tricks on both film and pictures. Some leftovers are shown here below. We're having a blast in Barca, and we're very productive. Enjoy...

Some spanish lunch snacks and fresh pressed orange-juice between the sessions... Risi, Ellingsen and me.

Tonnesen with a loooong Fs Feebs.

Kim with a Sw crooks. (Pic by Tonnesen).

Tonnesen with one hot trick among many other cool tricks. He's just amazing...

Stay tuned for a blog of the absolutely last day of 2009... Namely 31.12.2009! With great love from Barca! :D

Stavanger as we left...

The winter arrived our hometown with a white layer of snow for about week ago. Ice cold but still able to get some skateboarding down in our local park and some surf as the surf season just kicked in. We've planned this 2010 KICK OFF team tour to Barcelona for a long time, and it was Ellingsen that pushed it trough. (Thank's Ellingsen?). We were all super happy to leave the ice cold North and chill in Barcelona for s while.

Risi and Kim departing ice cold Norway!

It is Ellingsen, Kim, Tonnesen together with Risi on camera 1 and 2 and I on photography. Some footy and pics of both Risi and me will also be captured and published. ;)

The crew... Arriving Barca was pretty nice, warm and comfortable. Ellingsen arrived a day before us and confirmed 18degree Celsius and sun. Warm as hell. Cruising the streets in only a T-shirt.

Our first day has been very neat. Kim busted a insane banger that ever have been done on the spot before. And it was perfect. We captured it on Tape cam, HD cam and Photography... You just wait and see! ;) But he suffered with some rough bails before he busted it. That is for sure.

Kim preparing...

Kim STOKED! NO DOUBT! :D

Tonnesen warming up with a Sw Bs 5050.

Kim with a Fs Tailslide Shuvit on a popular and famous Barca sk8 spot. Risi getting it on tape! :)

Ellingsen and Tonnesen ripped as hell as well. And we had the first day super productive. And all were very happy, satisfied and stoked. Just can't wait to get some more on tape tomorrow.

Stay tuned! Love from Barca!

It is awesome to own a skateboard company. One of the advantages is definetivly when ur out skateboarding, snapping boards or just wearing them out, and picking out a brand new deck for FREE! That is a great feeling! :) I can imagine that PROS and sponsored skateboarders do get the same good feeling. But I admit that sometimes I have forgotten to think about how great this actually is!

The pic above is setting up a new deck before what became a good session @ BEKKESTUA in Oslo few days ago together with Tonnesen, JAY, Kim P and Mr Petter Garaas!

The old board is now on my livingroom wall! Nice art.

:D

A couple of good shots of me street skataboarding on my secret and beautiful spots were exposed on tacky.no. Hidden spots in Mekjarvik outside Randaberg that is my hometown (countryside) just outside Stavanger and in Oslo. It is my good friend Alex that shot em. He is awesome! Maybe Norways best skate AND party photographer! :D

Second try (Yes! Believe it or not!!!) BS Kickflip at Randaberg. I love BS flips and I love Randaberg!!! :)

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Nollie Bs Tailslide by the ferry harbour at Merkjarvik outside Randaberg. I was supposed to pull of a Bs Nosegrind... We were there for hours. I asked Alex about the time, and he said "soon 200 pics of bails". I just had to realize I could not pull it of. But the location is so beautiful, and the spot is not skated. So I busted one of my favorite tricks on a couple of tries. :)

This one is neat! Love this one. Also a secret spot by the harbour in Oslo. Steep handy rock to fakie!

I got more quality shots like this, but will keep them secret for a bit more!

Chack out Alex's site; www.alexholm.com :D

Nuart Opening was a blast! The works in SKUR 2 down by the harbour are just insane. And all the different pieces legal/unlegal around the city are just wild!

I am super proud to be a partner of this important cultural festival.

It is just insane that the worlds leading street artists are here in town. Wearing our NuSHIT T-shirts!!! :)

Asmund Wikene with a cool powerplant on the vertical quarterpipe.

Eirik Svensen (ex SHIT flow skater) with a powerful fs wallie.

Leon, our hero, cruisin in a shopping basket transformed into a cool office chair! He is one of the important artists and bricks of the whole Nuart!

We skated for about an hour. Gustav Tonnesen took some pics that will be exposed on nuart.no and shittm.com soon! A whole lot of cool tricks went down! Unfortunately I did not get a snapshot of the artist DVS that cruised with my skateboard with a glas beer in his hand. He pulled of a couple of heel flips... A bit rusty there! :D

We just arrived Bergen's pride; FYSAK HALLEN. A major new skatepark that set the new standard for skateparks in The Kingdom of Norway. Gigantic indoor skatepark with bowl and a very neat street course. A Micro ramp as well. Also showers, café with lots of snack and food. And the skatepark is also built so there is very low noise even if lot's of dudes are skateboarding. After cruising it I must say I LOVE IT! Yes! With BIG letters!!! ?

These pics are from the outside, we arrived too late to get a skate session... Damn!

..the reason why we're here is because FYSAK HALLEN are hosting the NORWEGIAN SKATEBOARDING CHAMPIONSHIP 2009!!!

Will Tonnesen win again? :P

I accidently ran into Dogtown and The Z Boy Crazy Dog aka Ray Flores during my last visit in US. Cruising at Venice Beach we met the old vize dog, and checked out his board gallary at Venice beach in LA.

Ray Flores and me sitting in the back of the gallary at Venice chatting and admiring the old original Californian DOG TOWN skateboard.

I was wearing one of the cool SHIT BRONZ H T-shirts as you can see on the picture (above) and that was what Ray found his quriosity and interest in as we bounced into him. I told about SHIT's "BRONZ H" project, and that I came from Norway, and we started chatting; He told about his own snowboard and apparel brand he had ages ago named "BRONZE AGE" - and stated that Norwegian snowboarding heroes Jorgen Novik and Terje Haakonsen was good friends of him, and Jorgen was PRO for BRONSE AGE back in the days.

This was thrilling and we chatted for hours about Norway, BRONZE AGE and BRONZ H, SHIT and more.

The gallary is amazing, the first skateboards (made by hand) in Venice was hanging on the wall together with multiple PRO models of ALVA and CRAZY DOG himself and many other important for the skateboarding history. It is RAY that did the artwork of the famous ALVA logo... I was amazed and stoked to meet him!

Ray has been on the 70's Pepsi Team and have been World Champion back in the days. He has also many PRO decks. And I talked him to sell me one were he signed it as well. He is a true core skater that influensed street skateboarding in the birht of skateboarding.

Ray signing his own old PRO model (replica)... This one is priding my livingroom!

Ray was super stoked on SHIT, and we have been discussing a lot after this first random meeting. Ray is really keen on having a SHIT FLAG STORE @ Venice...

Check out Ray's Gallary online @ www.boardgallary.com