Andy Mac

10 minutes of Encinitas kidney bowl in just 2:14

Richard Cheese covers Just Like Heaven by The Cure and I skate my home park with the kids.

fun sesh w/ @grindforlife crew

My teammate @DiasSandro killing the qualifiers in Boston

Here's some footage you didn't see on TV. It's from the preliminary rounds before they let people in to watch and before they turn the cameras on. Sandro qualified first.

New Inventors w/ Tony Alva http://bit.ly/2hMrAU

 Skateboarders have been doing Tuck Knee Frontside Airs since the mid 70's thanks to this dude.

Skateboard stamps

A while back the U.S. Post Office decided it was time to do some action sports stamps. Not sure why they decided to model the skateboard one after this photo that Grant Brittain shot of me at Board Aid, but they did. And I thought you had to be dead to have your own stamp.

   
 
 
 

old school mom learns new trick

My mom is pretty old school. She's famous for clipping out newspaper articles that catch her eye, dropping them into an envelope and sharing them with me via US Postal service. Recently though, she made a big step toward the 21st century when she shot a photo of an article that she'd cut out and emailed it to me. This one is from the Boston Globe. Thanks mom, and you saved yourself almost $.50 in postage too. 

 

Boston, all wrapped up

In case you missed it live on NBC, here is a little footage from the finals of the first stop of the Dew Tour. PLG with takes it with Team Positiv (Sandro and I) right behind him. 

  

feeling the love in Boston

Cover of the Herald and tons of support from my hometown crowd. Thanks to everyone that came out or tuned in. Proud to be from Boston.

Another long time brother

Ran into my friend John Hobbs at the train station tonight. He was the guy that took me to my first ever back yard pool when I first got out to SoCal.

Championship banners

Sure are a lot of banners in here...

Live with Dune on @fueltv

 

Long time brother

Kevin Robinson and I hanging out front of the Garden.

AndyCam- triple jump montage

The James Brown Arena was the site of the ASA Triple Jump in Augusta. The stands were not packed like I’m sure they were for old James, but his spirit was with us. We all had a smokin’ good time in the South rolling with a whole new style of skateboarding. Papa’s got a brand new bag.

Matty in the morning kiss.FM

Morning radio. Always fun. Click here and scroll down.

What is really going on?

AndyCam- BMX

Whether you are into BMX or not, you've got to be able to appreciate the pure athleticism of guys doing double front flips on bikes. Plus it looks pretty sick.

if you're near Boston this weekend...

Here's where I'll be for the Grind for LIfe after party with Bern Helmets. See you there.

 

Bones Bearings - a life saver

Landshark tour with the @Zumiez crew

GSD at the S.B. Park with ice cream bonus

Lunch at the Harbor before the session

hanging @positivskate/Powell S.B. ready to rip on GSD.

Jump ramp demos in 2010

Who would have thought that all that time kicking at the jump ramp in front of my house when I was a kid would one day pay off. I've not only done, I've gotten paid to do, two jump ramp demos in the past week. Rocket airs and Airwalks still have that mass appeal. Who knew?

AndyCam- Augusta Triple Jump + Cub Scout meet & greet

Here's a clip from the first few practice jumps at Augusta this weekend. This ramp is so much fun I couldn't get enough of it. I was wishing there were six more jumps after these two. Awesome. 

According 2 this huge crowd

I 'won' the 1st demo.

Triple jump is on

hard to see but that is Zack. He does bike flip back flips these days. BMX is pretty sick.

my triple jump board

Looks strangely similar to my vert board.

65mm, 80A. Out on the cruiser board.

AndyCam-@itsPLG, but don't call it follow footage

Can't quite call this one follow footage because I'm next to and in front of PLG the whole time.

Thank you Johnson family

Just got a sweet box in the mail from my good friends in Michigan full of presents for the whole family. You know those red vines on top are for me. Word.

The doubles that never were

Well, we never got to do it in front of the 8 thousand people at the Staples Center but I did shoot some AndyCam footage of the routine we worked out in practice.

Jenkins brings us the Sidewinder- new Inventors @go211

Go now.

 

Eminem in the building

He's better than jump ramps, I guess.

This is what we were gonna skate

But we got downgraded to hitting a jump ramp up into the stage. We followed Usher's set. Good times.

Look who just showed up N.E.R.D.

Biggest jump ramp demo in sk8 history

Just went down in LA in front of 8000 people. Now we're watching Jane's Adiction do the Mountain Song.

working it out... I hope.

T. Hawk and I have got our doubles line down. We're trying to get everyone else on board in time for impending show. Here's what it looks like from my angel...not so good.

Ready 2 rip

Lincoln, Staab, Lyn-z. Coffee in hand, bright and early and ready 2 rip.

not a new trick, not a new bowl, but they're both new 2 me

 Frontside feeble grind over the box at Lance's bowl. One of my favorite 'new' tricks in one of my favorite 'new' pools.
 

AndyCam-following PLG

classic old photos skating as a kid in Boston

Here's a fun read about growing up in Boston as a skater and what it'll be like heading back there for the Dew Tour in a couple weeks. They found some good photos from my book "Dropping in with Andy Mac" which you can now download for the Kindle if you are so tech. 

 
 
 

It's not about the money

When I was a sophomore in high school I got my first 'real' job. That is, a job that paid me minimum wage and had taxes taken out. Up to that point it was always just helping my brother with his paper route or getting $5 bucks to shovel the neighbor's driveway. The gig was at the YMCA in the town next to mine. It would cost me $1.50 in bus fare ($0.75 each way) to ride the half hour commute to the Wakefield YMCA one day each week. Once there I would teach a one hour skateboard class in the gym to about 12 kids. Not long ago my mother found some old paychecks that I had evidently never bothered to cash. Here's one of them:

That's right $4.62, less the bus fare and I was pulling in $3.12 per week to do what I loved to do... skateboard. I've since worked out how to get paid a little better but to this day, it's not about the money. I love skateboarding.

I'm not afraid bring the cheese

On a related note, I once dressed as Kriss Kross for Halloween. 

Celtics circa 1982

Its not that I don't follow the NBA any more but it has been a while. Did somebody say something about a classic Celtics vs. Lakers finals? Something about Boston sinking 3's last night like Bird used to do?

I'm going jumping

Just added a few things to my schedule. One of which is coming up in Georgia real soon. Never done one of these before. Stoked to play like I'm a BMXer.

All Del Mar Sk8 Ranch

By Grant Brittain last night at the Heated Wheel show and some awesome stuff from Blender.

Fat chance

What are the chances of running into a Storm Trooper and Neil Blender in the same day?

storm troopers?

Random storm trooper sighting in Del Mar today.

goodbye television

My friend Tony Hawk gave me this TV/VCR thing for my birthday eleven years ago. It's the only TV I ever owned, until he gave me another one more recently. So, this one goes the way of Goodwill. This marks the end of my days watching the entire Bones Brigade video library on VHS. Still no antenna on the TV I have now, and still no cable hooked up to it--I'm just able to hook up the DVD player and watch movies on something other than my computer. Life is good.

 

video from Shanghai (jumps and bowls)