Mike Rusczyk was a longtime am for Foundation, but took the plunge and turned pro in 2006. Because he'd be a man-am for a while, Foundation and Mike sorta made a big deal out of his retirement from am-status. It was funny from an outsider perspective, if you got the joke, but may have overshadowed Mike's real talents on a skateboard. Mike's always been a creative person and it shows in his skating as well as in his everyday life--Mike can skate anything with style whether it be rails, blocks, gaps, or transition. Check his parts out in Cataclysmic Abyss right here:
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Emericans in Vancouver 2009! Featured
The Emerica Team made the trek up to Vancouver over the first weekend of Summer, 2009 for some madness and chaos. An otherwise completely boring autograph session was spiced up when some kid asked all the team guys to sign his arm, claiming he was going to get the autographs tattooed... and sure enough, he walked out of Underworld went and did it. Wow. At least Ed drew some artwork to go along with his sig... that was the beginning to a great weekend. Following the Underworld visit, the crew headed to LeeSide, where, joined by a modest crew of rippers, they sessioned for a couple of hours.
After some dinner, the crew headed to the Biltmore to check out The Goat and No Age. No Age is a two-piece from L.A. who play a high energy post-post hardcore brnd of punk rock. The Goat is the supergroup with my old dear old friend Shane Heyl, backed by Andrew Reynolds, Beagle, Spanky, and Atiba Jefferson. Their set was energetic and there were more than a handful of hyped up fans in the front row who knew every word! And of course on the street outside following the show there was all the prerequisite drama that is quite common during Vancouver skate events: drunken fights, crying girls, pissing in doorways and the subsequent yelling, and loud requests from neighbors and barkeepers to keep the noise down...
