Lee Yankou Covered in Concrete

Just wanted to say, Congrats to Lee Yankou on his buttery Concrete Cover shot by Dan Z in SF! Fuck'n A.

Philipp Schuster in San Francisco

Red Bull sent Philipp and I up to San Francisco to skate, and just hang. We ended up hanging with Lee Yankou and just having a great time, especially for a Austrian who has never been to the United States West Coast. Here is the write up from the trip.

Plus we made an really cool desktop. Download that shit below and post on your friends desktop.

SOTY SF Weekend Blurrr

Went to SF for Thrasher's SOTY, here are a couple posts from the trip.

Red Bull for SOTY (day 1)


Ezekiel (sorta day 2 / 3)

Ezekiel Welcomes Lee Yankou to the Team

I just put the finishing touches on the new Ezekiel "Welcome to the Team" video with Lee Yankou. Congrats Lee, we are stoked to have you!! You the man!


Plus if you got time, read, Ezekiel's post on "Catching up with Lee Yankou" here.

Thanks to Jon Sherman at Sus Monts for working with us on the footage. If you haven't yet, go out and buy a copy of SUS MONTS, or just click the link here to paypal a copy. Don't sleep or they might sell out!

The Lee Yankou Interview

Lee Yankou (our sole Canadian Ezekiel Team Rider) and I did this quicky interview for the Ezekielusa.com site - Just breaking it down about Tigers, Interviews and Life. Check it out.

Osiris Ad with Lee Yankou

On the same day of this wallie shove, we headed over to this rail which has been soo typically shredded often, but Mr. Yankou found a way to skate it a different way.
While shooting this photo, I asked him if he was going to fakie or straight. He replied quickly, "Dude... straight!" Arguably, I commented "But, I think fakie might be easier, since your body is already going that way," considering the trick was super knarly. He finished our conversation with a hype'd smile, "Naw, man.. Straight is way sicker." Obviously I didn't have much to say after that.

What was funny is rumor has it, that this was supposedly going to be a cover for Concrete Magazine. Another rumor was this cover was at the press, when we all saw Andrew Brophy photo in his Skateboarder interview. Quickly withdrawn and replaced nicely with a Jamie Tancowny cover. Thanks to Osiris Canada for the quick pickup of this photo and Concrete for even a chance of a possible cover, plus Lee for ripping man!

Lee Yankou with a Wallie Shove in Concrete

As any typical Canadian would, Lee Yankou skated this spot, like it was the best spot ever. He kinda discribes it best in this Concrete article, stating that yes, its kinda rough, and your wheels would get caught in the bark, but basically, wallie shove was something he was hyped on. He cranked it out.. twice. Then we went on to skate more and shoot this gnarly ad that will be posted, as soon as it gets printed. Kid's good.

Thanks to Concrete and Lee for doing all the legwork. I kinda just pushed the button.

Color Magazine / Lee Yankou

A while ago when Lee Yankou was staying in Long Beach, he called me up to go skate. We headed over to this stairset over bar, which I had seen in video's but never been to officially. Well, Lee crushed this thing with a hardflip, hauling ass, would make it over, land it, then roll straight into the curb (on the median in the middle) So he wanted to ollie up the curb, so we spent another 30 mins so he could land it then ollie up the curb. Dedicated.

Funny thing is, this was actually the first time I had ever met Garrett Hunt, who was awesome, we ended up inviting him to go on that Ezekiel Northwest Tour. Awesome. Thanks to Color Magazine for running this spread, i really liked this photo, and I am glad it got used!

Lee Yankou NEW OSIRIS AD

LEE YANKOU!! I love this kid, he's super awesome, or as Magnus calls him "Yank the Tank" hahha.. We shot this a couple months ago, actually from this day. He had just gotten on Osiris a while back and it worked out well! Thanks soo much Osiris Canada for hooking this up.

Come skate with Lee Yankou

Lee Yankou is my Canadian buddy, who has couched his way into the hearts of the yanks and some of the broads too. Has been skating up a blur here in LA and making things happen!
He called me to skate LA with him and the Stereo Kids. Danny Supa, Daniel Shimizu, Mr. Hoang, Benny Fairfax and Tony Silva are all found in the shadows of the Hollywierd buildings.