Fourduos Weekend

It Felt Like a Fourduos Weekend of Early 2000’s

Once we were out on the road we could literally feel the love as we ran into so many old skateboarding friends.

We decided to hit the road on what quickly became a Fourduos weekend.  If your unfamiliar with the old Texas monthly video montages and message board of the early 2000’s your missing out.  There have been the occasional attempts at bringing it back but the people involved with perpetuating the content of the site have all gone on to have families and careers.  There is always a chance to relive those Fourduos days and that’s exactly what the travel and skateboarding felt like.  We quickly scheduled a trip and shockingly every person we approached about coming along agreed with minimal notice.  Of course that all fell apart just 48 hours prior to departure.  Every aspect of that original destination and travel plans were scrapped.  Regardless the remaining crew made some adjustments and decided to force it, which sometimes can be a bad thing.  Once we were out on the road we could literally feel the love as we ran into so many old skateboarding friends.  First stop was San Antonio to stay with Nathan Pacheco.  We ended up filming and shooting photos that night with a beat up old generator that we didn’t even think would run.  We just found ourselves making it happen as often can be the standard of a skateboarding trip.

After some tries and a bunch of walk off makes Brendan rolled away.

In the Southside Suburban we had photographer Wil Widner, Kyle Rich, Max Peterson and myself and once we arrived in San Anotnio we added Nathan Pacheco to the crew.  After staying that first night in San Antonio and skateboarding the entire next day, that evening we packed up and headed to Austin, Texas.  We had a place to stay all lined up but that seemed to have fallen through.  We opted for a night in a hotel and all took a quick swim in the closed pool as it was the fastest shower and way to get to the Yellow Jacket Social Club.  As we approached the Yellow Jacket the neighborhood had become unrecognizable.  Nevertheless you find the Austin locals holding it down and you quickly get wrapped up in conversation and cold beverages.  Opting to Uber there the crew split up with half of us Uber’ing out to get some sleep.  While the other half decided to keep on going into the early hours of the morning.  The next day had us warming up at House Park and once there we ran into a bunch of Houston locals including Brendan Sanders.  After some time Wil Widner suggested we go skate Nunn Gap just around the corner and that he thought Brendan Could frontside flip it.  With everything already having been done it became a why not and somehow Wil convinced Brendan to go for it.  After some tries and a bunch of walk off makes Brendan rolled away.

Just going along with no plan, no stress and just stacking out clips of old friends.

Our time in Austin continued throughout the next day as we rambled from spot to spot with many skateboarding friends randomly showing up.  It was fun to simply go along with no plan and not stress anything while focusing on stacking out clips of old friends and team riders.  I considered myself very lucky to be in the streets with the time needed to be able to put together an edit after a weekend out of town.  Nathan Pacheco had mentioned that his filmer Izzy said he needed more content clips to make a solid edit.  As I started to film more content of Nathan for their project I found myself filming more content of everyone.  In fact that additional content is what made me able to put together this Fourduos Weekend montage.

Video edit and photos are celebrating the release of the new Southside CAN Help Skateboard Series

The video edit and photos themselves are also celebrating the release of the new Southside CAN Help Skateboard Series.  The  graphics were inspired by the Primitive Skateboards Demo/Signing where we raised 833 lbs. of non-perishable canned goods and the Red Bull Demo/Signing demo Oct. 27th that will also be raising non-perishable canned goods for local food pantries.  Additional inspiration was of our intense #icleanedoutmyclosetforhouston which had us sorting 300+ parcels a day for over four weeks straight.  Applying relief to Hurricane Harvey survivors all along the Texas Gulf Coast.  We wanted to create a graphic with a 1990s feel and to commemorate that experience.

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“I don’t really think you could do it any better than that!”

In previous articles Kyle Rich met up with us but this time we had brought him along as he’s now on Southside Skatepark‘s team.  Having him with us the entire time we ended up getting a lot of footage and photos of him.  Kyle is really talented and has such a passion for skateboarding it keeps you motivated and even sparks you to try to get photos and footage yourself.  He never gave up on anything he tried and often was trying to get something done again due to some small detail that only he would know about.  Wil often was pretty over it during the trip occasionally letting him know, “I don’t really think you could do it any better than that!” as we found ourselves continuing to document, more often than not, perfection.  Skateboarding like a seasoned pro Kyle continued to wreck spot after spot and managed to stay healthy throughout the trip.  It was great seeing him take his skatepark tech into the streets.

He always ends up surprising himself and sometimes even us.

We went from San Antonio to Austin and then back to San Antonio.  Max Peterson made up his mind that he was going to try to skate every spot.  Often he seemed to have a hard time walking as by the end of the trip he was physically exhausted.  Somehow he made it through and skated every spot trying to get as much footage as he could.  He’s always so motivated and down to skate anything that he always ends up surprising himself and sometimes even us.  I enjoyed this trip with my friends and was especially humbled by the time I spent skateboarding with many people I hadn’t seen in years.  I was so happy to be on the road I even tried to get a photo on my all Krooked Gonz everything Beemer seen below.  Thanks for your support and I hope you enjoyed the montage, photos and editorial.

words and video: bigo | photos: Wil Widner

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