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Tuesday, November 27

Weekly Grind - 11.27.01

By Sean Mulligan
EXPN.com

"This is a strange kind of rest, because I feel like a guest, when I'm right here at home I'm not right here at home" -Fugazi

Well, now the Emerica team will have a place for all of them to rest. While some teams find nice little houses for their team to kick it, Emerica has decided on a 9 bedroom mansion. Is this going to become a bad episode of TV's Big Brother or the latest trend in skate residence? Oh...wait...Big Brother was the latest trend in TV...oh well whatever. Taking up shelter in the new crib are: Erik Ellington and his wife, Luciana, Andrew Reynolds, Heath Kirchart, Justin Regan and Beth, as well as Emerica filmer, Jon Miner. That still leaves a few beds empty for when Mr. Templeton, Donny Barley or mansion regular Bryan Herman wants to roll in. Check out emericaskate.com to see who has dish duties for the week.

The guys over in the DC camp have been donating much of their time to various charities in the past few weeks. Josh Kalis was recently at the Make-A-Wish Foundation Skate Jam on Nov. 10. After attending the event down at the Houston Southside Skatepark Josh hooked up with Rob Dyrdek and Brian Wenning to do some filming.

Meanwhile, Danny Way, Colin McKay and Jason Ellis took part in the charity food drive at the Encinitas YMCA skatepark. The event was used to help families out for Thanksgiving. Colin is currently recovering from shoulder surgery so he was on the sidelines, as was Danny, who was resting after a long shoot at the DC Superramp. McKay was the MC for the jam, which featured Ellis, Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, Bucky Lasek, and Matias Ringstrom.

After landing covers on Thrasher and SLAP respectively, Paul Machnau has left Brigade and Bones Wheels and Caswell Berry has quit Powell and Bones Wheels. Both riders will continue to roll with Bones Swiss Bearings though.

Maybe all of this is because Bones is now offering the Bones Super Swiss 6. The new bearing features six balls instead of seven. The balls are 20% bigger, their stronger, accelerate faster, have a higher top speed and less rolling friction. Bigger is better, right? Well, that's what my girl always says, but you should find out for yourself...available soon.

Also coming with some new product, or at least the same product with an old school color, is the next in line for the 80's series Krux trucks. Wallride Yellow should be available in your local stores as you are reading this, so go see what all the hype is about.

Back to the Brigade side fo things, Pat Channita is finished with physical therapy and should be riding in top form soon.

Andy Macdonald has been very busy lately. He has a new signature watch out from Swatch and a new toy jump thing-a-ma-jig from Tech Deck Christmas is right around the corner...Aside from all of that, Andy finished 4th at the Crail World Cup in Brazil a few weeks ago.

Also at the comp were Bob Burnquist and Rune Glifberg, who finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

The Foundation crew is going on little jaunt through Puerto Rico and Panama. Along for the ride will be Justin Strubing, Jon West, Daniel Shimizu and Tony Silva. The boys will be there from December 3rd-17th for the Tour de Foundation en Latin America. Check out tumyeto.com for more info.

In other tour news, the Girl team is currently on the Harsh Barge holiday tour. Check for it in a city near (or far) to you.