An Edited version of Ben Johnson’s Texas Plant!

Twi-Light with Ken Fillion & Max Peterson, Embassy Doubles

Take 2

Max Peterson

Killer Style

Max in the street course!

News from the RAT (Regional Amateur Tour):
Saturday started off BLAZING hot. This year’s Houston stop of the R.A.T. was conducted at the Katy Mills Mall parking lot. The $1,000.00 1st place cash prize was enough incentive to bring out the best Texas has to offer on the amateur circuit. The clouds started to roll in right as the heats were getting announced. The clouds were dark, very dark! then came the rain, a light sprinkle turned into a gnarly storm, which brought on a 53 minute rain delay. The crew got busy with the squeegee. The practice session was on again. All the guys ripped it up. More rain, this time hard windy rain. The RAT crew called it an Official Rain-out! “We’ll try to get it off tomorrow @ 9:00 am”. That means a 7:30am Sunday wake-up call!! That meant one of 2 things, we could pull an “All-Nighter”, party like Rock-stars, and see the sunrise. Or I could set the good example and feed the team, tell some stories, chill out, get a good night’s sleep, and be ready to charge the RAT @ the crack-of-dawn. We choose the second option.

Edward Sanchez is “Officially” now Eddie Hana! He killed the mini-ramp. Benihana’s to fakie, Blunt kick-flip fakies, Blunt judo kick to finger flip, Ollie blunt melon grabs. He has an arsenal of tricks. Ben Johnson killed it as well. Ben usually likes his breakfast, but this Sunday, he skated w/out his Egg McMuffin. “It’s to early for tricks” he said. Overall it was a good time. The contest got warped up before 2:00pm. Just enough time to get to SouthSide for the “Young Guns Showdown” were $4,000.00 was at stake in the street competition. Our lone representation in the Showdown was Eddie Hana. He ripped it up, but didn’t place in the money. I could tell he was physically drained from the days events. Eddie will be off this Wednesday to the Warped Tour in Chicago and surrounding areas, before heading to this years Oregon Trifecta with Ken Fillion, Todd Prince, Ben Johnson, Gary Morris, Priscilla Lee and Gene Hare. Oregon promises to be an adventure! The results from the RAT are as follows:
1. Ke’Chaud Johnson
2. Ryan Thompson
3. Edward “Hana” Sanchez

I’d like to give a special Embassy shout-out to Cockfight’s Jeremy Smith. This kid kills it! His Frontside Boneless is 100% punk rock, Phillips would be proud!!! My top 3 had Ke’Chaud 1st, Eddie Hana 2nd, and Jeremy in 3rd!! Below are the pics. I’ll start it off with Groovehouse’s pics from Saturday before the storm. Thanks Eric!!

The Benihana by: Edward Sanchez

Eddie, photo: Groovehouse

Ben Johnson, photo: Groovehouse

Mad Style!! photo: GrooveHouse

Eddie “Hana” Sanchez

Ben Johnson, Texas Foot-Plant

Ben Johnson

The “Tongue Twister”

Eddie Hana

E.D.D.I.E.

He killed it ALL Day!!!

Eddie & Lee

Saturday got Rained out!!

A blast from the Past. Todd Prince, the late, GREAT… Jeff Phillips, Ken Fillion & John “Tex” Gibson. Bryce took this pic in Louisville, Kentucky during an NSA event 1988!

Howdy!! Summers in FULL swing and it’s HOT!! in Texas. This coming weekend, Houston has a lot on the agenda. Saturday is the comp @ Katy Mills Mall. This contest has $1,000.00 1st place in the Ramp & the street competition. Edward Sanchez & Ben Johnson will be here to represent and battle it out for the cash. On Sunday it’s on to Southside Skatepark for the $4,000.00 that’s up for grabs in the street competition. BUSY WEEKEND!

Below are a few pics from this week. The doubles action of Ken Fillion & Max Peterson was captured by GrooveHouse. The pics of Priscilla @ Culver City are rare to the fact that they’re the only known pictures of Priscilla not wearing her trademark skirt! Priscilla’s stoked to skate w/ the likes of Jake Piasecki & Lester Kasai. With that kind of influence, and talent surrounding her, we’re excited to watch her progression. Priscilla is a SPECIAL breed, and we are very proud of her!!! Troy Chason finish’s off this post with some KILLER pics by GrooveHouse. Troy is recovering well, and is expected to be ready for ASR in San Diego this September. Stay tuned for more news!!!

The Oregon Trifecta is just around the corner! Oh yeah, I added a few pics from the Duane Peters Gunfight show this past Saturday!! We went and rescued Duane from sound check. Took him to checkout the skatepark, and then off to our favorite watering hole, before returning to the Meridian for the gig. “The Master of Disaster” put on a KILLER SHOW!! Also a shout out to Josh Nelson & Jakked Rabbits, those kids ROCK!! Enjoy!

Embassy Doubles starring Ken Fillion & Max Peterson, photo: GrooveHouse

Priscilla Lee skating Culver City w/ Jake Piasecki & Lester Kasai

Priscilla Lee

Jake Piasecki, Priscilla, Alex, & Lester @ Culver City, photo’s by: Lester’s Girlfriend

Troy Chason, photo: GrooveHouse

Troy Chason, Houston Skatepark, photo: GrooveHouse

Duane Peters & Fillion @ the skatepark

“The Master of Disaster” checks out the bowl!

Todd Prince show’s the Love!

Duane Peters & Ken Fillion

Duane Peters Gunfight @ The Meridian 07.12.09

Goatman

These were sent in by Priscilla’s dad Kevin last week!! Priscilla will be going to this years Oregon Trificta in August!!! I added a pic of 7 year old Alex Lee, (Priscilla’s little brother). This kid ripped up the Combi-pool as well!!!

Priscilla, showing off her griptape job!!!

RIDE WITH PRIDE
Priscilla Lee

Pris!!!

To Fakie

7 year old Alex Lee

Today was the Van’s Warped Tour in Houston, TX. IT’S FREAKIN HOT. 103 degree’s in the shade. It was almost as hot as Edward Sanchez, who happens to be on a Texas Warped Tour winning streak. He took home the gold for the second day in a row, Yesterday was San Antonio Warped Tour. I can talk about Edward, because he’s the newest member to join the Embassy Team. CONGRATS Edward!! Edward hails from San Antonio, Tx. where he grew up with Embassy team rider Ben Johnson. Edward will be joining Ben, Gary Morris, Priscilla Lee, Ken Fillion & Todd Prince and the rest of the Embassy cast in Oregon, for the 2009 Oregon Trifecta August 5-9th. A big shout out goes to Gary Morris, who made the trip from Oklahoma City, and received 4th overall. All the skating was killer, Huge Embassy Props to everybody that skated, everybody ripped it up (way to represent Texas!!).

This is the 15th year anniversary of the Warped Tour, and it has changed a lot since 1995. I miss the vert half pipe and the tops pro’s showing off their vert skills. The bands back then were solid hard-core punk rock (Unlike 3OH!3, gimme a break!). Not to mention 90% of the venues were indoors in a climate controlled arena (AC). I’ve got to hand it to the kids who showed up stoked to see their favorite bands, spend 8 hours in a parking lot “dust bowl” with no cover or no shade, spend their parents money on $7.00 lemonade’s. It’s the scene that creates a demand, and Van’s Warped Tour has capitalized on the branding out of it. It all goes hand-in-hand. Overall it was a fun time for all, except probably for the 3 goons in black speedo’s. Nuff said, it’s time for some fireworks, real Punk Rock and Bar-B-Q @ Todd Prince’s.

Max Peterson

Embassy Oklahoma Chapter: Gary Morris

Embassy’s newest team Rider, Edward “SICKNESS” Sanchez

Edward Sanchez killing the Mini-ramp

Edward

Gary Morris

Gary Morris

Max Peterson, It’s HOT out here

The Peterson’s

Gary Morris, showing grip tape skills

E.D.D.I.E.

Texas Heat!

We’d like to give a big TEXAS shout out to Christian from Concrete Disciples for the killer review! Concrete Disciples review of EMBASSY SKATEBOARDS Classic 9″ Pool Shape.

We really appreciate the kind words! Here’s the deck.

-Photo by MRZ