This is part 3 of my trip to LA where i tested the new P-Rod 3 shoe with the man P-Rod himself and other Nike SB related people. But…. actually in this last part these are only pictures of the trip to SF that i did after the P-Rod thingie. My friends Brad & Cristine let me stay at their house for a couple nights so i could check out the bay area which i never visited before. I had an amazing time thanks to them and Nike SB so……. thank you!

This is Brad Staba (check his brand Skate Mental), he took me to a baseball game since i never been to one. Since the SF Giants weren’t playing he took me to the Oakland A’s vs the LA Angels….Oakland lost 0 to 1.

The whole stadium actually stood up put of their caps and started singin that song….you know which one.

I had great timing that day taking pictures as you can see.

It’s hard to see but this is a hotdog….i ate so much junk that day 2 hotdogs, nacho’s, burrito’s and half a bloody mary!

Next we went to the horse racing track to gamble!

Unfortunatly there were no live horserace going on as you can see…..it was fun though watching locals like

these getting all pumped up watching the race on tv. I lost 20 bucks…bummer.

This is near the horsetrack…Brad is having a cover at this spot on the upcoming Skateboarder Mag. This is spot is raw as fuck i can tell you that.

Hubba Hideout…

John Cardiel……….

are you kidding me???

The OG skate shop

We had some drinks with Chris from King Stampedeeee.

Check out this board with lcd lights! I want one!!!!!

Brad and Cristine’s dog’s Wizard and Kickstand. Thnks for the great time!

This is part 2 of a day with P-Rod, next we went to P-Rod’s TF (training faccility i don’t know how to spell that sorry!) near his house somewhere in the Valley…here’s an overview of the park!

Overal it is a sick little park to have for yourself and your friends… i heared there always kids standing outside the park but he can’t let anyone skate it beside him and his friends because of insurance……..

At night it went down at the pool of the Hotel with Hollywood people beeing all Hollywood silicone tits B-star celebs and these scumbags..

Bigshot Nike SB guys Sean and….damn forgot your name again…sorry!

Scotty from the Hundreds and more people that i forgot their names from…sorry again!

The Spanish crew…

The UK crew….sorry i talked so much shit dudes!

The dude from Monster Mag Germany and the kid from Tacky.

Part 3 is coming up!

Nike SB flew me out to LA last weekend to test the new P-Rod 3 shoe out with other shops from around the globe and a bunch a media. It was a great weekend stayin in the Roosevelt hotel on Hollywood Blvd and skating the P-Rod Plaza and P-rod’s TF. Here are some snaps from the weekend and since i have tons of pictures this is part 1 of 3!

This was my view out of my hotel window…see that crowd in front of the entrance..this is what they were lookin at…

MJ’s star on Hollywood Blvd……

Breakfast for champs

Bjorn from Nike SB Europe and the dude from Tampa sittin next to him!

Before we went to the P-Rod Plaza the shoe designer of the P-Rod 3 gave a little presentation..

Brad Staba trying to break the P-rod 3 skate mental style…

They took us to the plaza in this partybus just like on TV!

Stripper pole and all that! No strippers though……

Some overview pictures of the P-Rod Plaza….it went down on the stairs though check it…

Mr Brad Staba frontside flip still doin it after all these years..

Skate Mental and Nike SB am Shane O’ Neil 360 pop shuvit.

Theodis Beasley frontside 180 heelflip….he’s a nice kid!

P-Rod varial heelflip

P-Rod 360 flip

P-Rod again nollie flip…..it’s gotta be the shoe…

Tomorrow part 2 of a day with P-Rod…

The Hundreds made a special Amsterdam pack (cap&t-shirt) and we will be releasing the pack on saturday the 25th of July. Keep your eyes open on the Hundreds website for pictures of the cap and t-shirt or tune in later this week on this blog or www.ben-g.nl.

It’s no secret i hate tradeshows! But once a 2 years i try to get myself together and visit one and in this case it was the Bread & Butter in Berlin. I broke my personal record this time and spent an amazing 2 hours at the tradeshow! The location of the tradeshow was sick though…..Another good reason to go this time was the PattaxKangol party that was thrown on thursdaynight at some fancy club/cocktailbar! For the rest i had a lovely weekend in Berlin with my girl so it was good times no mather what……I love Berlin…such a nice city!

here some picture’s…..

As i said the location was amazing…..an old airport….

There was a sort of fleamarket for shops and brands where they could sell their old shit and look….they sold the DC Ben G Gatsby for only 20 euro!

And if there is a place where old stock can be sold you can bet Fresh Cotton is there as well!

Although the tradeshow was kinda lame…..I had some great sushi in the evening!

PattaxKangol party…..

DJ lil Viv doing his thing….

Party people…

Check out how big Luigi from Beesmunt Soundsystem is….or am i that small?

Pete Phillie……hehehe…

Big boss Edson having a ball!

Beesmunt boys…

A german specialty……curry wurst…..it was disguisting by the way.

On sunday there’s a fleamarket in Mauerpark and lot’s of other entertaining stuff like Dj’s and this!

Yep sometimes you forget Berlin is in Germany…..untill you get a healthy reminder.

This was also in the park and you may wonder what the hell is going on….

Well this…..there was an open stage for people who wanted to sing! You could pick out a song and go off…it was pretty entertaining hearing German people sing song’s in English with that lovely accent….The best one i heared was this girl doing Sir Mix A Lot with Baby’s got back!

The fleamarket……

Berlin is great and cheap as hell compared to Amsterdam!

If you are in Berlin drop by!