Cryptic text messages…
Cryptic email from “General”…
and then finally leading me to a Cryptic website….

Black Not Black.net

Check it out and stay tuned….
What up Hull….
Here’s the dealio….

This past weekend at X Games has been cataloged as one of the best in my life for many reasons, my personal experience, the kindness of friends and just all around a good time with my wife and friends…

I most importantly must thank Ken Block and DC Shoes for their hospitality….

Here’s the teaser pic of the VIP pass….

+ Me and my homie Dave Mirra aka THE MOST X GAMES MEDALS IN HISTORY LEADER!!!

Peace out AZ…

Hello Los Angeles with a sweet El Camino towing a same era speedboat in tow…

Hello LA…

The Gold Standard is ON!!!!!!!! Here’s a view from our room overlooking the displayed DC Subaru’s…
Click here for info on what The Gold Standard is by DC Shoes…

Our room was stocked with an assortment of Monster drinks, New Era hat, and HUGE 33 oz Asahi beers EVERY DAY!!!!

The DC Shoes New Era Gold Standard snap back…

The Hospitality suite had a bunch of stuff on display including this Travis Pastrana #199 motor-shoe-cycle…

Kicks and hats…

These are the passes for the banging Friday night party, mind you we arrived on Thursday so plenty of things to do…

The details at The Gold Standard were solid, floormat I mean if theres custom THINGS TO WALK ON then you get the idea…

My brother from another mother Jacob rolled through and he was already laced up, seriously soo many passes…

kicking it out front until we hit The Staples center for Megaramp Skate action…
Wifey and I…

The ladies…
Wifey, Abby and Jamie…

Jake and HIS city LA…

Brian gets all his personal photos from my blog so here ya go Scotto…
He makes me feel short and if you know me, I’m a big dude…
Brian’s Editor and creator of 0-60 Magazine one of the best around…

This is the roll in at the Megaramp… NUTS!

Here’s the gap and the vert…

Here’s the results redemption for Jake Brown after exploding last year…

Dinner with my main man, Victor and Recaro seats, John…
At a solid spot downtown called… Bottega Louie

Spotted my new homie Anthony Napoliton and spoiler alert if you watchd or didn’t want BMX Big Air then you might have seen his or heard about his insane trick….

Guess where Im at??? Downtown LA near Skid Row…
…. SA Studios home of Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol etc….

Estevan Oriol and I…

EO’s bike in the foreground and Victor’s sled in the back…

More whips…

Headed back to The Gold Standard, I liked how the cars look at night that first car was 1 of the 3 DC Shoes Subaru’s that did Gumball 3000 back in the day…

Headed up stairs at The Gold Standard to see consoles of Dirt 2 the video game, pretty cool looking game…

Met this dude,he’s Tal I’ve seen him on his own blog DCMA Collective and we have mutual friends so I thought I’d say “hola”, good dude and can drink 2 beers at once…

Here’s Tal’s and mines mutual friend The Dingo, good, crazy and passionate solid dude, THE DINGO!

The Standard rooftop bar for more partying… Hosted by New Era cap, drinks are on the house…

Wifey and I in the LA skyline…

FRIDAY-
Head to the Home Depot Center for some trial run announcing on the loud speakers…
This is what the course looks likes Wednesday-Saturday night and I’ll show you how they change it for Rally Car Racing on Sunday, it’s nuts what they do!

Seeing my homies run the course…

Block and Mirra finished with Tarmac seeding on Friday…

Running through the X Fest paddock area ran into an old friend Logan Hicks… Such a good dude… Even better artist…

Scotty Cranmer a new homie from Jersey and he’s a CAR DUDE for real!!!
This photo was taken before he receives GOLD in BMX Freestyle Park, atta boy Scotty!

Back to the hotel….
The Standard and their funny stick people images…

We head out to The Staples center for BMX Big Air and MOTO X Best Trick…
Here’s some of the posse for Friday night… It grows as the night goes on just follow us…

We kicked it in the DC Shoes suite with a good view and good drinks enjoying the action of what ensued…
Double front flip on BMX Big Air by Anthony Napoliton but fails to medal=Bummer
Travis Pastrana attempts 720 but slams=bummer
Just kind of a bummer all around even Chad Kagy should’ve got gold but comes up just a bit short and gets silver and Dave Mirra gets bronze which is cool staying true to getting a medal every X Games except one!

In the DC Suite was this dude, Nick Swardson (Grandma’s Boy, Blades of Glory, Reno 911) …

We all did the “Block pose”…
Vaughn, myself and KB himself…

So we head to the BIG BASH @ The one, the only Fantasy Factory for a Monster Energy drink, DC Shoes, New Era bash…
Now the posse has grown…

Saw some homies…
DJ Muggs...

My long time homie Ed but you might know him as The Rock Da Mullet guy…

Here’s A good pic…
Ken Block, Vaughn Gittin Jr., Brian Scotto, Rob Dyrdek and myself… All good friends of mine…

Here’s my wife Steph and Dyrdek…

Wifey and Abby @ The Factory…

Here I am posing with the Gymkhana 2.1 vehicle which you’ll be seeing sooner than later on Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory August 27th to be exact…

Now, get ready for this one… This is Mary Murphy from So you Think you can Dance on Fox…
My wife and I watch this show religiously (I don’t care what you say, haha) so I had to take a pic… she was super nice and was excitable in person as she is on the show…I didn’t get on the “hot tamale” train as she calls it…
Nice meeting you Mary

Here’s Scotto, Renee Renee and I… short re re….

Tall re re…

Clipse on the stage…

So left the Fantasy Factory to just party more at The Gold Standard…
Saw Nick Dompierre and Adam Dyet Adam ended up with Bronze in skate street…

Mirra and I…

Wifey and Mr. Double front flip on BMX Anthony Napolitan

Right after this pic Allan Cooke throws Napolitan in the pool…

Looks more like Gotham than the city of Angels….

To close out Friday some Late night grub with my new friends…

SATURDAY—-
I catch up with JR, Abby, Jacob and my homie Sal Barbier rolls with us to XGames…

I see Chaz Ortiz new to DC Shoes…

+ My homie Chad Kagy, he’s a car nut and Moto GP Superbike rider now!

This is inside Tanner Foust’s Ford Fiesta….NUTS-O…

This car looks nuts…

Deegan and I…

Sal Masekela and I, we go way back!

Watched Skate Street, here’s “Today was a good day” Paul “P-rod” Rodriguez... He killed it and ended up getting gold

Medal ceremony…

Here’s Koston and myself…

I have found him, this is THE Animal Chin...

Did you see the Skate park, cement was sick…

Old homie CHUX!!!!!1
Toy Machine Racing M’zine days…

Jacob stunting…

The Gold Standard sick bag of goodies…

Dinner time on Saturday night…

PARTY Saturday night….

N*E*R*D killed it and so did TROUBLE ANDREW….
Have you seen the Brooklyn Machine Works X Element Project that Pharrell is involved with??? SICK!

Jacob, Sal and I partied….

JR was bummer downer tired guy haha

EARLY SUNDAY————–
Breakfast with Dave Mirra, Ken Block and Vaughn Gittin Jr…
Headed to the track Dave pushed the rental car, he didn’t need any practice in his rally car he was good in the Jeep Patriot…

Here she is…
THE JUMP…

KB and JR walk the course…

That’s me in the gap…

Ken Block visualizing in the bottom left hand corner…

That slope coming into the stadium is steeper than you think…

Says it all…

JR, Pastrana, KB and Alex (Ken’s navigator) …

Kenny Brack who eventually received GOLD in rally car…

Team Ford…

Chad IS rad, he’s Jimmy Johnson (NASCAR Driver) crew chief, they sponsored the car and put pictures of other people on it, hilarious!

So from this on Saturday night to……

This on Sunday AM for rally car racing….

Caught up with Yo of Rogue Status, JR and Chris Forsberg at the NOS Energy Drink hospitality before I had to work…

The pits…

Me doing my thing in the announcing booth…
So surreal as I was part of the X Games history, so stoked thank you everybody!

Can you spot Jasper (Rogue Status), Fred (Scion), Stephan Papadakis and gang?

Here’s some of the jumps I captured, mind you while I was announcing I snapped these hahaha…

Here’s the final race Kenny Brack winning over Pastrana…

Ken Block is solid as a BLOCK!
Thanks KB for everything…

Tanner and his gang sign medal… Bronzed out….See you in Seattle…

THAT’S A WRAP for X Games 15, see ya next year I hope they’ll have me back!

Parker was given a couple rad shirts from Lucy Block, Ken’s wife.
How radical are these kids Subaru Rally shirts???

I caught some tee’s too…
The Gold Standard 2009 tee…

Ken Block’s new team tee…

Peace out California hello Arizona…
This are the infamous 29 palms windmills…

I have had one heck of a weekend & honestly it was a fantastical in all senses of how ridiculous that word is… be patient, sorry for the delay…
I have a blog coming, it’s good I promise…

I will show you this one pic…and this one video before it all comes in one Jarod DeAnda large post, you know how I do it…
L to R- Ken Block, Vaughn Gittin Jr., Brian Scotto, Rob Dyrdek and myself…