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Here’s 6 minutes of the Emerica team skating & destroying Oz. In order of appearance it’s Brandon Westgate, Marquis Preston, Kevin Spanky Long, Jerry Hsu, Braydon Szafranski, Figgy and Leo Romero. You’d better believe Leo Romero fucking killed it too.
Taken from the Emerica website;
Get Wild in the Streets of New York City with the Emerica team on Go Skateboarding Day, June 21, 2008. And leading up to the event, join the team on tour during Emerica’s Wild Ride from June 10-20. Stops will include Easley, South Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Frederick, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Sayreville, New Jersey.
Click here to watch the trailer.
Here’s an interview with the Young Emrican and Zoo York rider Brandon Westgate, taken from the April ‘08 issue of Thrasher Magazine, interview done by Michael Burnett. Good shit.
Describe the first time you met your Uncle Don-Don.
The first time I met Donney Barley? I’m not sure when the first time was because I’d seen him around a bunch when I was younger. We were roommates on one of my first Zoo tours, when we went to Texas. It was cool. We got hammered. Seamus was wrestling me and we were shot-gunning beers. We ended up getting kind of crazy.
Being an East Coast legend, Donny can be pretty intimidating at first, right?
Yeah, but he’s awesome.
Is he sort of the father figure of the team?
Yeah. He Can take charge of any situation. We got into one situation where we were heading to upstate New York; me, Anthony Shetler and Donny, and Anthony’s car broke down. We ended up at this Auto Zone and Donny starts talking to this random guy and convinces him to give us a ride all the way to Connecticut to the airport. I don’t even know how he got the guy to even give us a ride, but the next thing you know we’re all stuffed into this little Mustang. The guy had just finished putting these pipes on it so he peeled out of the Auto Zone parking lot and instantly gets pulled over by the cops. There were pill bottles in the car, but he says they’re not his, so the cops just give him a ticket. It was crazy.
Are you back East right now?
Yeah.
I understand the East Coast is awesome.
Yeah.
What’s the awesome weather like there right now?
Except the weather. It’s awesome except for that. We just got quite a bit of snow. That’s okay; we can just go to the skatepark.
More footage from Emerica’s site and as always Andrew Reynolds never disappoints…
Here’s the newest teaser for Emerica’s Stay Gold. It’s got footgage of young emericans Brandon Westgate, Marquis Preston and Justin Figueroa in Miami last month and it’s actually a really decent little montage. From what I can tell Emerica haven’t made this available as a podcast so I’ve taken the liberty of doing it for them.
Heath Kirchart, Brandon Westgate, Andrew Reynolds, Braydon Szafranski, Leo Romero yada yada yada, looks like it was an awesome tour.
There’s actually 2 trailers, the first is old but you’ll find that out if you click the link below…
