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Well if you really gotta know, I'm from Cleveland Ohio. Ive been skating and been a proud member of Team Insanity since 1988. I have been pro since 1999. I play drums in a rock-n-roll band called the Heartaches, not to be confused with the Heartaches from Belgium, we're from San Diego (surf's up bro!)

(If you want to know more about him go to www.wasteoftime.com )


(posted 02/08/2010)
Tour is going good. In New Jersey now at Garden Skate. We got stuck in the worst blizzard yesterday in D.C. and Baltimore. Had to Cancel the demo in Baltimore but now we have dry roads!

(posted 01/19/10)
Skated a ton this past week. got some new clips for the next video and took some slams. I tried to ollie this huge flat gap. Didnt happen. Instead I got 2 smashed hips and a swollen heel. Lame! now im just trying to heal up and get ready for our U.S. tour coming up.
Get Bent!
Kristian.
P.S. The 5th person to order deck off our web site and tells us who my first shoe sponsor was is going to get a free set of Landshark wheels! Thats right, get on it!
Hint... Watch my 411 Rookies part that is posted on the site.

(posted 01/12/10)
My old friend Mike V. came over the other day to skate with me. I took one picture the whole time we ripped. I know, im an idiot! Mike was nice enough to send me a link to his much better update on our day of shred. Thanks Mike!
Kristian.

(posted 01/08/10)

Greg Harbour and I went on the Daily Habit yesterday. Here are some pics of us on the show. Also some pics of the death metal band "Suffocation" and Darth Gaydar!


(posted 12/21/09)
This past week I , skated street, vert, backyard ramp, worked on the new Bill Danforth/Landshark pro wheel, and saw D.R.I. play. Pretty damn good if you ask me.
Kristian.

(posted 12/02/09)
You want an update? BK is a school bus driver!!!!

(posted 11/23/09)
Lets see here.... I sprained my wrist so that sucks. Been skating a lot of vert latley. Thats been really fun. Ive been hitting it up with Neal Hendrix. He rips! Also have been skating some street and Dave B's ramp. I tell you what, after skating a 14 fott tall ramp, a 7 foot wall with pool coping seems really small.
Kristian.

(posted 11/16/09)
Here are some photos ive been forgetting to post up.
2 of Ben when he came out a month ago to shred.
The pumpkin I carved at my parents house on Halloween.
The after math of me trying to frontside 360 a gap for 2 hours, ouch!
Also this past weekend I filmed some moves and sprained my wrist. I ollied this huge gap at the beach. The landing was sand so I put plywood down for a landing. What does that equal? Ollie big gap to wheel going through plywood on inpact. Slam hard!
Kristian.



(posted 11/02/09)
Well Halloween came and went. A had a pretty good one. I hid a bag of skate stuff in a park in the city I grew up in. Some kid found it at 6:30 am Halloween morning, thats some dedication! I also went skating with some friends and passed out candy to the little dudes that where trick or treating. Sunday I filmed a trick and got a photo of it as well. I did a lipslide on a double sided ledge that had a death drop on the other side. It was sketchy! I almost fell over the other side once. It really freaked me out! But in the end I pulled it off.
Now as soon as im done writting this im going up to Toronto for a few days then heading back to California.
Get Bent!
Kristian

(posted 10/26/09)
This past week has been very uneventful. I came up to Canada to visit family, which was fun, but it rained pretty much all week. I headed down to Ohio today. Hopefuly the weather will be good and I can get some skating in. hopefuly get some footage and shoot some photos as well. I dont really know what more to say since it was cold and rainy all week. Maybe, go get Gray Matters album, "Food for thought/Take it back" Its really good!
Kristian.

(posted 10/19/09)
Oscar (my dog) and myself flew back to Ohio on Tuesday. Its been pretty fun. Ive filmed a couple cool things and got a photo out of one of them. Its been pretty cold here though. Cold weather sucks to skate in! Other then that ive been walking Oscar in the park and picking up his poop. He sure likes to poop!
Kristian.
(posted 10/12/09)
Past week has been really fun. Filmed a couple of tricks for the next 1031 video. Greg Harbour came to town and we ripped the Blockhead ramp! Ben Raybourn got invited to Bucky Lasek's backyard jam, so he came out for that. That Jam was really cool. Good people, good skating , good food. every rad vert guy new and old was there killing it! Miller and son, always killing it! Rune, Burnquist, Salba, and of course Bucky. Thanks to Bucky for hooking it up! Oh, and Bucky annihilated it!
Kristian.

(posted 09/29/09)
Sorry my update was late kiddies! I was serving jury duty yesterday. Loads of fun! This past week has just been the usual skating everyday. Been trying to film a full cab heel flip to backside disaster on a quarter pipe. Ive been close but still haven't got it. I went to Six Flags on Sunday. That was super fun. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Kristian

(posted 09/21/09)
On Saturday night Chad Knight, Dan Nepscha and myself drove out to Yuma Arizona. We did a demo at the public park there. It was really fun. Met a lot of cool kids out there and gave away a ton of stuff.
On Sunday Chad, Dan and myself went out filming in Oceanside. Everything was going really great until Chad took a slam and had to go to the hospital. He was filming me really close and when I went to push my foot went into his nose and sent him flying. He saved the camera but took one hard to the shoulder. He tore a ligament but should be ok in a few weeks. Other then that, I filmed 3 pretty good things and Dan helped me film.

(posted 09/14/09)
Well other then the ushual skating everyday, I was at the 1031 booth at the Crossroads trade show last week. It was pretty cool. I hung out with my dog Oscar and got to see a lot of old friends.
I skated my buddy, Dave Bergtholds ramp a couple of times. That has been really fun. I learned a couple of new tricks.
Im also thinking of trying to do a U.S. tour in February. Any suggestions on where to go????
Ive also been hand dying Landshark Wheels. Im thinking of selling them on the Landshark web site. Would you by any? Hit us up and give us some feedback.
Kristian.

(posted 09/08/09)
I tried to shoot a photo of this trick over the weekend. Its a spot Ive been trying to conquer for a few years now. Well it just so happens I still suck! I flaked out 2 days in a row. Its scary! Its on a main road with lots of cars. You land or fall and go right into traffic. It sucks! Now im getting ready to hang out at the 1031 booth at the Crossroads trade show at Black Box for the next 2 days. Great! Its a slippery down hill slope of no fun.
Kristian

(posted 09/01/09)
I went to the forest last weekend and got poison oak. Damn!
Kristian

(posted 08/28/09)

I just got back from a pretty awsome trip. I flew down to Mexico City on thursday to do a demo. After landing I was picked up and taken 2 hours away to the city of Puebla. It was great. Did a couple of t.v. interviews and had some good food. My hotel was this 200 hundred year old old nuns convent. It was turned into a high end hotel. Super cool! The next day I did some radio interviews then went an hour away to the city of Tlaxacala. Awesome there as well. Did the demo and spent some time with the locals. Everyone down there was so nice and hospitable! The people at Jumbo took really good care of me. I cant wait to go back!
Kristian.

Check out the two sets of photos below!




(posted 08/17/09)
Well , Ive been super busy traveling and skating. I went to Woodward west a couple of weeks ago with Ben and Jaws. that was super fun , skated a lot! After that I came back home and my mom and nephew came to town. We did a bunch of fun family stuff for a whole week. We went to Disneyland! Thats is always a good time. Over the weekend I went out shredding and filmed a clip. Now im getting ready to go to Mexico City on Thursday to do a demo. Hope its fun!
Kristian.

(posted 08/04/09)

It been a super busy summer. After I got back from the Cayman Island I flew out to Chillicothe Ohio for 2 days. It was to do a one man demo at the grand opening of their new public park. It was really fun skating with the lacals. I judged a contest as well. All in all it was a great time. I have attatched a few photos of it to check out.
After the Ohio demo Ben Raybourn, Aaron "Jaws" Homoki, and myself drove up to Wood ward west for the week. Going there is alsways a blast. I posted up some dumb photos I took. There are a couple of Jaws, Ben and Gymnist director Lynae, A roller blader(because I knew you kids would love it!) and the band we started for the talent show. Enjoy.....or not.
Kristian.


(posted 06/08/09)
Crazy week! The team flew into San Diego on tuesday. We hit the road for tour on wednesday and it has been super fun. We picked up Ben in Houston on Thursday and did our first demo in Tupelo Mississippi on saturday. Thanks to Nate at Life Blood skate shop for taking care of us! By the way, Nate should have done the demo because he rips! If you are ever in Tupelo look him up. They have a really cool scene there.
Today we did a demo at JNS in Paris Tennessee. It was a was great! The park was on the 3rd floor of this old building. It was really cool. Clark, the owner hooked it up! He had hotel rooms filled with food and drinks for us. What a great site after a long day of skating! Also a big thanks to his wife because I think she picked out all the great snacks!
O.K., im going to bed now. Driving to Georgia tomorrow.

(posted 06/01/09)
Well ive pretty much have just been in tour mode latley. Been packing promo boxes and stuff like that. We hit the road on wednesday and I still have a ton of stuff to oraganize. I have to go up to L.A. in a few minutes to pick up our tour van. Im hoping I can fit my guitar in there somewhere.
Other then that I watched my wife run the San Diego marathon on sunday. Thats 26.2 miles. Yeah crazy! And I was complaining that my feet hurt from standing for a little while. Im a puss!
I think there may be a new video of me and my friends up on the site now. Its from 1989, I was 14 years old. Yeah, im old! Get bent!
Kristian.

(posted 05/26/09)
I saw my buddys band from Cleveland play this past week. They are called Midnight. They rip it up pretty hard. They played some weird place in Long beach. If you ever get a chance look them up. They are kind of like Venom. If you like Venom I think you will like them as well.
On saturday I got a call from Jim Gagne at 6:00 am. He wanted me to meet him at the park by my house at 7:00am to skate. I dragged my ass out of bed and we shreded till about 11:00 am. After that I thought I would go home and catch a nap, but then I got a call from Nepscha. He wanted to go skate some ditch in Temecula. He picked me up and the Shreding continued! Check the photos attached.
#1. Me nose blunt slide.
#2. Nepscha showing the toxic river that my board went in 3 times and I think his once.



(posted 05/18/09)
I felt an earth quake last night! Yeah, pretty crazy huh? On saturday I went and saw Janes Addiction play. It was the first time I saw them play since 1991. It was great! The band was all original members. Best show ive been to in a long time! Other then that just the typical shredding. Skating my ramp and the local Oceanside parks. I surfed on saturday and sunday. That was fun, I really suck at it though. Anyways thats about it. Music pick for the week............? In spirit of the amazing show, i'd have to say Janes Addiction, "Nothings Shocking". By far one of my favorite albums. Go check it!
Kristian.

(posted 05/05/09)
The web guy is so mad at me for doing this so late in the day!(thats right - 1031 Web Bandit) Sorry web dude! I was mowing my lawn. Anyways, this past weekend I went out filming with Nepscha and Greg Fountain. I got some stuff. it was pretty fun. My dog Oscar barfed on my couch. That sucks! He is on my lap right now, I hope he doesnt barf on me! Well I have to wrap this up so I can right up a new press release for later this week. Do you kids think you know what it is? e-mail me what you think the big news im about to announce is all about. If you are the first one to guess correct within the next 3 days I will send you a deck! Get to work!

Kristian.


(posted 05/12/09)
Who care's what ive done the past week, Ben is pro! I dont really know what more to say then that. I skated, played music, walked my dog and turned Ben pro. Thats about it. Get Bent!
P.S. listening to Social Distortion "Prison Bound".
Kristian

(posted 04/27/09)
Im listening to Embrace right now. It was Ian Mackay's band after Minor Threat. Pretty good stuff. I skated the Blockhead ramp yesterday. It was a really good session! Other then that...... same crap. I watched the Sixteen video the other day. Do you kids remember that company? It was crazy to see some kids in there that are now well known names. Zarred Basset, Danny Diccola, yeah they where just little kids killing it in the video. Funny stuff. Anyways.................Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(posted 04/20/09)
I shot a photo yesterday with my old friend Matt Mecaro. It was super fun. Other then that its just been skating everyday and blah, blah, blah. Hey, when are you just gonna realize my updates are just boring? I wake up, work on 1031 stuff for the first half of the day, go skate with my friends, come home, eat dinner, play with my dog, play the guitar and go to sleep. Wow! Really exciting! Maybe Im just in a bad mood? Sorry, Im getting old and cranky. Oh! I went to Hensleys for a birthday get together for Dave B on friday. Dave B. is the guy that does BlockHead skateboards and films for "Built to Shred". That was fun! And then Duane Peters band "Gunfight" was playing there as well. Super fun! Anyways, Album of the week..... Mucky Pup, "cant you take a joke" Get Bent!

Kristian.

(posted 04/13/09)
Whats up skate nerds!? Everyweek when it is time to write this weekly update, I think to myself, " What the hell did I do this past week?" I dont feel like anything is worth writting about. I will give you a list of things Idid this past week. Enjoy or dont!
Skated, played guitar, played the drums, played with my dog, worked on 1031 crap, listened to music, almost walked straight into a rattlesnake with my wife and dog, saw wild turkeys flying(I didnt know they could fly), got surrounded by huge bulls on a walk with my dog. Thats about it in a nuttshell. Get Bent!
Listening to Rights of Spring, check them out!
Kristian.

(posted 04/06/09)
Beside the ushual skating everyday, my band "The Heartaches" played a really fun show in the desert on saturday. It was a sort os renegade show. It was 5 bands and a bunch of people camping out in the middle of nowhere. We ran all the amps off of generators, and went for it. Before I got there the rangers kicked everyone out of the original camp site , I guess because it was getting too rowdy. So everyone moved to a new site about 8 miles away. Our lead singer "Bill" was too hammered by this point to break down his tent and go to the new site. So he never showed! He sat out in the desert with his girl all by themselves, wasted in the middle of nowhere! So funny! So we played without a lead singer. It was fun though because our gutarists wife jumped on the mic and sang for us. Pretty cool night of music and camping!
Check out the Kelley Deal 6000!



Kristian Svitak.
(posted 03/30/09)
Lets see here. Well besides the regular skating everyday, I hooked up with Chad Knight, Jeff King, and the "Built to Shred" crew on saturday. It was super fun. We built a wall ride using a sheet of plywood. Check the photos attached. Chad doing a rock to fakie shuffle, and Jeff King blasting a frontside wallride. After that I went to see Suffocation and Carcass play at this crazy metal fest. It was great! Carcass killed it! It was fun people watching as well! So many black t-shirts! I purposely tried to wear my nerdiest clothing I had. I had a feeling the crowd would be wearing their most tough and satanic clothes they had. And I was right! I feel like when people are signing songs about Satan and trying to act like they are some hardcore satanic metal dude, they might as well be talking about the Easter Bunny. Its all fiction to me. Whatever, Im going to start a Death Metal band called Kittens and Rainbows. We will sing songs about how we like to give hugs to puppies! Damn im rambeling! Awesome bands, weird crowd, like sheep of another herd. Im a jerk! Sorry to all of my metal friends! Go skate!!!!
Listening to the "Goops" from NYC. Check them out!
Kristian Svitak.

(posted 03/24/09)
This past week Ive been doing a lot of work oraganizing the 1031 summer tour. Looks like it will be real fun! We will be going all across the country and then making a week long pit stop in Cleveland to shoot an article for Thrasher magazine. After that we get back on the road and continue on with tour. We will be releasing more details once it is all set in stone! Other then that, just skating. Me and my buddy Mario went out and filmed a trick on Sunday. It was super fun! Stil listening to "the Darvocets", They rip!
Kristian Svitak.

(posted 03/16/09)
Yo! I just back to California last night. Just trying to get back in the swing of things. Here are some photos I took. There is one of me frontside ginding the bowl at the memorial park in SanDiego. Another one of me ollieng the chanel at another San Digo park. Greg Fountain, one of our flow dudes doing an andrecht at another S.D. park. My buddy Chuck doing a blunt on Jim Hills secret ramp in Cleveland. One more of me, frontside rock Jims ramp in Cleveland. Hell yeah! Im listening to an old Cleveland/Kent band, The Darvocets! My buddy Larry was the lead singer. He just hooked me up with the c.d. when I was back there. Check it out now!!! Do The Crop Circle!!!!
Kristian Svitak.




(posted 03/09/09)
Blah, blah, blah, blah! I flew to Ohio last tuesday for some personal stuff. Havent really skated. Its been really cold and raining. Ive also been spending a lot of time with some old friends and family. Im supposed to skate my friends ramp he has in a warehouse this week. I will try to get some photos of the ripping. Until then, do yourself a favor and go get "the age of quarrel" by the "CRO - MAGS". You wont be dissapointed, unless your some emo kid.
Get Bent!
Kristian.

(posted 03/02/09)
Well Ive been shredding a to with my old buddy, Chuck. He went back to Ohio on Saturday. Here are some photos of him and I skating some parks and pools. Rip it up!
Kristian



(posted 02/23/09)
Ive been skating a ton! My buddy from Cleveland (Chuck) came into town on Thursday. Weve been skating every park in San Diego. I have some lame photos below to prove it. They are probably all blurry. My band played a show on Saturday. That was alot of fun! Now Chuck and I are on our way out the door to shred more parks. Get off the computer you nerd! Oh and go listen to "Soul Rotation" by The Dead Milkmen.



(posted 02/16/09)
Well boys and girls, sorry it took me so long to get this out. My computer decided to not work anymore.
This past week was really good. Lots of skating, filming, and shooting photos. I went out with Dan Nepscha and Matt Mecaro on Saturday and shot a photo of a backside wallride over a gap off of a loading dock. That was really fun. I picked up Ben Raybourn from the airport up in Orange county on Saturday and we ripped! We got some photos of Ben and then we went and skated at Transworld. They are in the middle of moving so the "built to shred" guys where there filming for the show. They invited us so we went and had some fun shredding through the hallways. We built a bunch of weird obstacles out of filing cabinets and desks and whatever else was laying around. Some other guys where there too. Neil Heddings, Anthoney Schultz to name a few. Super fun! After that me and my friends found this broken rail and I skated it and shot a photo of it. Thats all I got for now. Go listen to Corrosion Of Conformity "eye for an eye". Rip it!
Kristian.

(posted 02/11/09)
Yeah its late! So what! I was helping my buddy put down some flooring yesterday so I forgot. All I did this past week was skate, film, and work on 1031 stuff. Big deal! My ear hurts!

Kristian.
(posted 02/02/09)
Friday my band "The Heartaches" played a show up in Long Beach. It was really fun. We played with Mike Watt! If you dont know who that is, go look him up. Saturday Chad Knight, Dan Nepscha, BK, and flow dude Greg Fountain did a demo in Riverside Ca. That was really fun as well! Sunday I filmed a trick then watched the Steelers hold it down for the Rustbelt and the rest of the midwest. Since the Browns will never be in the super bowl I might as well back the next best thing. One more thing! Today my band "The Heartaches" will be playing live on the Daily Habit on Fuel T.V. Check it out jerks!

Kristian.

(posted 01/26/09)
Yo, whats up? Pretty fun past week. On Wednesday we had a booth at Jamie Thoma's trade show over at Zero. It was way better then the asr trade show shit! For all you kids that dont know what asr is , its a trade show for skating but there is also all this surf crap too. What the hell does surfing have to do with skating? Jamies gig was way better, All skateboarding, no bullshit! anyways we had a booth there and hung out.
Talked to a lot of shop owners an friends. I even made toast and gave it out to anyone that wanted it! Who doesnt love free toast? B.K. showed up with his posse, it was rad. Later that night, my band the HeartAches played the after party over at Hensleys. It was super fun!
Over the weekend I went out with Chad Knight, Dan Nepscha, John Rattray, Keegan Sauder , and Mike Burnett. Chad got beat up pretty bad trying to ollie this gap and then Dan got straight dropped trying to railslide a double kinked rail. It was brutal! I filmed some stuff yeaterday that was pretty fun. Thats it suckers! I hate typing!
p.s. Check the photos below of our stupid trade show booth, BK's broken base plate, and his wonderful tatoo's!
kristian.

(posted 01/20/09)
Sorry this is a day late. Been skating a lot. My band the "HeartAches" went up to L.A. on friday to be on the Daily Habit on Fuel T.V. It was pretty fun. It should be airing February 2nd. Should be good! When we where there I ate too many snacks back in the green room. My stomach wasnt very happy. Othe rthen that Ive just been skating and filming. Its been really hot out here in S.D., its been in the 80's the past week! Believe it or not, I wish it was colder. Im listsning to an old favorite of mine, the BuckPets. Their first album to be exact. I like it a lot but if your some hard core punker dude you may not like it. Bye-bye!

Kristian.

(posted 01/12/09)
this past week was pretty rad. My band the HeartAches played a show. We played at the Casbah in S.D. We played with my favorite San Digo band the Widows and Bob Log. It was fun. Greg Harbour went with me and shot some photos. Me and Greg also have been skating the new park by my house we also shot some dumb photos there as well. Yeah its been fun. Skating everyday and playing some rock and roll! Rip it!

Kristian.



(posted 01/05/09)
Whats up suckers? I just got back in town from Toronto and Cleveland for the holidays. Not much new going on. I got up at 8 am today and rode my bike to the new skate park by my house. I ripped it for a couple of hours and now im back writting this with my dog"Oscar" on my lap. I think im going to go skate my friend Dave B's ramp a little later. Im hungry! bye-bye!
My pick of the week......... Angry Samoans, "back from samoa" Go get it jerks!

Kristian.
12345678.........LANDSHARK GO!

(posted 12/29/08)
Im in Ohio right now for the holidays. Was just in Canada with my inlaws. Super fun , super cold. no skating going down, just freezing my ass off! Listening to lots of Angry Samoans and Death in Action. Go check them out!

Kristian.

(posted 12/15/08)
I skated a lot this past week. Chad and I ripped it up on saturday. Filmed some stuff and then it rained. Chad took a bunch of photos so they will either be here or on his page. My Band the "HeartAches" played a show down in San Diego saturday night. It was really good. We played with one of my favorite S.D. bands the "Widows", They rip! It got pretty hectic. Bill our lead singer got his shirt ripped off and lots of band equipment was flying. Listening an old live Exploited album and an old Cleveland band, "Civil Disobedience" Check it suckers!

kristian.

(posted 12/10/08)
Sorry this update is a little late. I just got back in town from the Tampa am. It was pretty fun. I was there with Ben Raybourn, Danny Diccola, Aaron "Jaws" Homoki and my Buddy Dave. I grew up with Dave and he is also the I Path tm. Ben, Danny and Jaws all blew their runs but they still had fun and ripped the bowl in the back. I would have to say the highlight of the weekend was going to the local goth club "the Castle". Its always a good time sitting in the shadows watching all the wanna be vampires! The best was we got Jaws to dress the part for it. It was his first time going so we told him he had to do it. We got him a girls shirt from walmart some sparkley belt and some eye liner. Here are some gay photos, enjoy!

#1. Ben putting eye liner on Jaws.
#2. Jaws is queer.
#3. Two flamming ams!!!!
#4. I threw Ben in between the bed and the wall because he was bugging me.
#5. Jaws at the club, wow!!!!
#6. Fuck you Dave!


(posted 12/02/08)
Svitak has the flu but he tells us he still is going to Tampa. What a trooper. He had a great Thansgiving , but after that it was all down hill ( even more so who would have thought!) The whole weekend for him was spent passed out on the couch. See the video's below....

This is how he felt and acted



This is how he fought it


(posted 11/24/08)
I just saw Joe Jack Talcum again last night. Was it good? Duh! Of course it was , it was great. Me and my friends made a set list for him on the way to the club and he pretty much played every song. I re shot my Innes ad on saturday and filmed a full cab heel flip on my friend Hodge's ramp. That was fun! His ramp is neon green. Just thought you should know that. I can never even remember what I did the week before. Or its just to stupid to write about. What more do you want to know? Turn your computer off and go skate!

(posted 11/17/08)
Lets see, Been skating a lot! Filmed some tricks and shot some photos over the weekend. I shot a possible new Innes ad yesterday. I did a b/s heelflip off this hip into a huge bank. It wasnt hard to do the flip into it but really scary going down the bank backwards! Pretty sketchy! I also saw Joe Jack Talcum play another show up in Long Beach, it was amazing! If you dont know who he is, look him up! My band the HeartAches opened up for Mudhoney saturday night. That was really fun. It was a sold out show. O.K., im going to go mow my lawn now. Go listen to "not richard but dick" by the DeadMilkmen!

kristian.

(posted 11/12/08)
I probably just had one of the best times at a show since I was in high school!

On thursday I flew to Houston Texas for the "make a wish" skate bash. I got there and first had a little meeting with the guys over at South Shore distribution. After that I went to the Raybourns house for a good dinner made by Bruce Raybourn himself. After that I got a good nights sleep.

The next day Ben was at school so Me and Bruce hung out, went to a music store and I bought a kazoo and a clown wistle for Ben. Friday, this is where it gets really good! By this time my buddy Dave (Bens tm at I path) was in town so we all went to the "make a wish" thing and skated. It was really fun! Ben didnt skate the bowl contest much because it turned into a big snake sesh with 4-5 guys in the bowl at one time. I guess they had something to prove?

Anyways we caught wind that the DEAD MILKMEN where playing 3 hours away in Austin! So what did we do? What any good team manager would do, go to see the DEAD MILKMEN play!!!! It was at a festival called fun,fun,fun fest.So me, Dave and Ben hopped in the rental car and drove. We got there when ALL was playing. The DEAD MILKMEN played and it was amazing to say the least! After the show we went out to 6th street for some pizza and more fun. Our next dilema was, do we go back to Houston in the morning for more of the skate stuff or do we stay and see Kevin Seconds, D.O.A., Cro-Mags, and the Bad Brains the next day? Duh!!!!!!!!!!! we stayed for the festival!

We got there nice and early. Oh, there was also a skate ramp there put up by Find n Grind skateshop. what could be better? A mini ramp with D.O.A. playing on stage while you rip!!!! It was amazing! We skated the ramp all day and took breaks to get closer to the stage for the bands we wanted to see. The guys from Find n Grind hooked us up all day with drinks from back stage. Thanks guys!!!!

Kevin Seconds played it was great! I got a chance to talk to him a bit after he played, super cool guy. The Cro-Mags killed it! They pretty much played the whole "Age of Quarrel" album. they also played a Minor Threat song. The place went ape shit! Then the Bad Brains played! Amazing. HR is out of his mind! Tons of old hardcore songs!!!!

Earlier in the day I ran into Dean Clean and Joe Jack Talcum of the DEAD MILKMEN. We talked a bit and Joe told me he was playing a solo show later that night at a small bar on 6th street. So of course we went to see that as well.

It was great! I got to meet Rodney ananomous and their new bass player Dandrew. Nice guys! Anyways it was great because there where only about 30 people there and Rodney was next to us singing with us while Joe was on stage playing Dead Milkmen songs with his acoustic guitar. It was very sureal to say the least.

I can blab on much more about it but I think you get the point. And I hate typing! Wow, what a great time!

Kristian

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#1 - me eating pizza late night after the dead milkmen
#2 - ben eating pizza " " "
#3 - me and Rodney Anonomous at the Joe Jack Talcum show
#4 - Joe Jack Talcum in all his glory

So thanks to the super dupper surfing skills of me the 1031 web guy here is a clip of the Dead Milkmen from FUN FUN FUN FEST below that is one of The Cro Mags!







(posted 11/04/08)
Yeah, we had our big video premiere on Halloween. It was great, but we where all too dumb to take any photos or film anything! We suck! Go to the Thrasher site and click on "Burnout" then click on "all hallows eve". Burnett hooked it up for us! Hes got some really good photos up there! BK called me from Boston when he and his whole family and all of his friends where on there way to the premiere out there. It sounded like it was going off pretty hard. That sounded kind of wierd. Oh well, its all down hill from here.
Im listening to 7-seconds "ourselves" right now. Check it!

Kristian.
(posted 10/27/08)
This past week? Well I skated a bunch! I went to the Volcom Damn am contest to check out the new up and coming kids. It was o.k. the course looked fun though. But, be sure to check out the "Daily Habit" on Fuel t.v. today. Me and Ben will be on there today! I dont get that channel so let me know how dumb we looked! Also "Turn Up The Hell" premieres on Halloween night! Also im listening to Dinosar Jr. "youre living all over me" right now. Go check it out!

Kristian

(posted 10/22/08)
Well, a lot of stuff went down this past week. first off, Ben came back in town and we went on the "Daily Habit" last tuesday. It was fun. Check the photos. Me and Ben getting our noses powdered by the make up girl before we went on. We are soooo gay! There are some we took of eachother on the set and then one of us with the host, Pat. Incase you clowns out there dont know, Pat is a really cool dude and knows whats up when it comes to skating. On our way back home, our limo driver; thats right, they sent a limo to pick us up and take us home. Arent we "high class"! Anyways, he had to take a 2 hour detour because some wild fire shut down the freeway. We ended up on this mountain overlooking this big lake. Check the photos again. We finally made it back to my house and ate hot dogs.
On Saturday we went out to the "Rumble in Ramona" contest and had some fun. Ben killed it! He wasnt "invited" to skate it but he did what any good skate rat would do and dropped in! By the end of the night he got 2 awards. He got a pirate bank for doing a bonedrecht and some wierd piece of metal for an all around ripper award. Some other highlights where my friends band the Smutt Peddlers playing along with Duane Peters, JFA and some other rad bands I didnt catch the names of. My favorite part of the day was watching Christian Hosoi do a christ air right in front of my face! He was stoked and so was I. All in all, I think that was the best contest I have been to since my buddys put one on about 13 years ago back in Cleveland. Live punk bands great skating and a very non cometetive attitude. Thanks for the fun day and restoring my faith in skateboarding!

Kristian.



(posted 10/13/08)
This past week Ben Raybourn and myself flew to Wilmington North Carolina to have a meeting with the guys at Eastern skateboard supply. It was pretty awesome! They have their own private park there, so after having our meetings we ripped! I can honestly say it was one of my favorite parks. Something for everybody and all birch wood! I love that stuff! Everyone there is super cool! Thanks to Subhan for letting us crash at his pad and for driving us around.
Im listening to the first album by Smashing Pumpkins "Gish". One of my favorites since about 1990! You have to be in a mellow mood for it so dont be trying to crank it on the way to the punk show. Check it out!

Kristian

(posted 10/06/08)
Once again I cant really remember too much of the past week. What I do remember is the googy vs. regular contest. Yeah thats right, I was there. I picked up Ben and his I Path team mate Aaron "Jaws" Hamoki from the airport Thursday night. Friday was the bowl contest. At first they weren't going to let Ben skate because of some world cup contest rules. Then they said he could skate in the locals contest to "prove himself". If he made top 3 in that he could enter the pro contest. Well to sum it up in a nutshell, The people that where giving him a hard time getting in and saying " Ben Raybourn, I never heard of him" where giving him a check for $1,000.00 for 3rd place in the pro bowl contest at the end of the night! Nice work Ben! Check the photo I took from the weekend. #1. Ben during the contest. #2. Me, really getting into it at the contest! #3. Ben after winning, passing out in the car on the ride home. #4. Ben showing his check he got for doing some stunts.









(posted 09/29/08)
UPDATE!!!! Ive got nothing. I skate almost everyday, big shit. Do you want me to talk about paying my bills or feeding my dog? Here's some news. "TURN UP THE HELL" video premiere, Halloween night at Hensleys flying Elephant pub!!!!! Also my band the HeartAches will be playing!!!! I know, so what.

Kristian.
(posted 09/22/08)
This past week has been pretty fun. Been skating a lot! Nepscha, Daxter Lussier and myself skated this rad ditch by my house. Check the photos bro! Daxter got really artsy and shot the one of me doing the f/s 360 over the hip with Nepscha giving the "thumbs up". Then I tried to shoot that one of Daxter doing a f/s flip over the hip. As you can see Im not very good on the timming with a little digital camera. In reality Daxters f/s flip was huge! I just suck and shot it to early. Sorry Daxter! Also I got a dog from the O.C. animal shelter. His name is Oscar. Check him out! P.S. I like corn dogs!

kristian.

#1. Oscar
#2. Me f/s 360 over hip, Nepscha thumbs up.
#3.Daxter Lussier F/s flip over hip ( I shot this really bad!)








(Posted 09/16/08)
booooooooo yaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
I can never even remember what I did the week before. I know I skated a lot with my friends. We had some good sessions on my mini ramp. Been hitting the raw streets. Finished "Turn Up The Hell" and sent it off to the duplicators (thank god ). I got a dog from the Orange County humane society. His name is Oscar. My band finally played together after a 4 month hiatus. Looks like we will be playing at the 1031 video premiere on Halloween at Hensleys bar. Watched the G.G. Allen documentary, that never gets old. Oh yeah, suck it!

kristian.

(posted 09/08/08)
Ive just been working really hard on finishing up Turn up the Hell. Ive got Jeff Biedenblah in from P.A. living in my garage for a couple of weeks. He is the dude editing this thing. Should be good, Its almost done! Went down to the ASR trade show on friday. That was lame as ushual. So many "Bro's". Makes me want to shoot myself in the face. One good thing about it was that NSS had my new pro model shoe down there. They where working hard at making me look good because I need all the help I can get.
We where out skating on saturday when Officer Collins with the Oceanside humane Society decided to have a power trip and bust us for skating at a school. It was lame, he was so lame! The real police showed up and pretty much thought the whole thing was a joke. she was a sergent with the O-side p.d. she pretty much smiled at us and let us go. Way to go dog catcher! Feel free to contact Mr. Collins and let him know what a good job he is doing!
sunday I filmed a b/s heel flip into this huge grarly bank. I almost died, but I didnt. darn!

kristian.

(posted 09/03/08)
Update!!!!!!!! I swam with a sea lion. How dumb is that? There where about 15 of them in the water with me. The ocean is weird! We got our new boards the other day, thats cool. I went camping and saw 3 bears! Arent you glad you took the time to read this? Here is my album pick of the week..... Fugazi, "Repeater" and "In on the kill taker". Dont be stupid, go get them. I know you love your Sublime and Good Charolate but do yourself a favor and flush that crap and go get these albums. Really anything by Fugazi will be good. Every album rips!

Kristian
(posted 08/25/08)
I have been listening to a lot of my old death metal tapes from high school latley. Bolt Thrower, Deicide, Morbid Angel to name a few. Also Ive been listening to a lot of my old Staight Edge tapes as well. Mainly a lot of Youth of Today. That was a good band. I feel like when I was younger, as far as music went, we lived in the moment. The movements like punk and straight edge and hardcore where all happening at that time. Now I feel like those kind of bands and young kids today are just trying to recreate the "old days". It just doesnt seem current. Does this make sense? I think im just getting old!

(posted 08/18/08)
Im writting this as I battle the flu. Yeah rad! Lets see, well on sunday Ben , Chad ,and myself went to Woodward west for the week. It was super fun! We skated everyday and played around in the gymnastics gym. I didnt take any pictures but we did film some crap and made a little video. Im sure it is somewhere on the site by now. I dont really know what more to say about it, I mean there isnt a whole lot to do there other than skate and eat crappy camp food. Jumping on trampolines is fun! Oh yeah, Ben got in to the gymnastics demo with some Olympic gymnist and was getting more cheers then her! It was great. She was really good, doing all kinds of fancy stuff but then Ben would jump on the trampoline after her and just go crazy and almost die everytime! The kids loved ben. That was really funny.
I was skating at one of the outdoor parks the one day and I noticed Pamela Anderson sitting in the grass watching us skate. That was weird but she was there because her little boy was there as a camper for the week. I felt kind of bad for the kid because all you heard where jokes about her all week long. The poor kid is probably too youg to even understand the fame of his mom and dad. I mean I know I would be bummed if I heard kids talking about my moms boobs all day. Anyways, yeah that was kind of interesting. Now I have the flu.

(posted 08/11/08)
I left Ohio on tuesday and drove for 2 days straight! Got back to California on thursday and spent the next couple of days catching up on mail and paying bills. So Fun! Ben Raybourn flew out here on Saturday night and is staying at my house. Myself, Chad and Ben all drove up to Woodward west Sunday morning. Thats where we are now. We will be here for the next week. We are going to try and film some crap while we are here and have it up on the site later this week. Thats all I got fo now. Go buy the new Breeders album "Mountain Battles" its really good!

(posted 08/04/08)

Na, na, na gonna have a good time, hey, hey, hey! I sure do miss watching Fat Albert. I saw it the other day for the first time since I was a kid, it was great! Anyways, All ive been doing is skating all week long. Nothing too exciting. Filming, shooting photos. I did get a pair of samples of my new shoe coming out on NSS. They look really good! I went on an all day park tour with some old friends of mine. Were all in our early to mid 30's so its pretty amusing. They get together every sunday and skate a bunch of Cleveland area crappy parks in one day. I got to go along yesterday for my first time.
I leave Ohio tomarrow (tuesday) to go back to California. I should be back by thursday. Thats right, Im driving! So While your watching t.v. and playing video games all day tuesday and wendsday I will be sitting in my car driving. YEAH!







(posted 07/28/08)
I went up to Toronto this past week. It was super fun. I skated a really good ramp in a barn. It was like 4ft tall, then it went up to 6ft, then to 6.5? Then on one side it had a vert wall that was maybe 8 or 9 ft tall. My measurements may be a little off but you get the picture. It was surfaced with old masonite so it was a little slow but still super fun! Thanks to Steve Kiely and his brother Andy for hooking that up! I also Saw my buddy Steves band play a show up there as well. The name of the band is HiFi. It was pretty hectic! By the end there where 2 girls from the crowd on stage taking their shirts off. I guess they just couldnt help themselves! Maybe I should start bringing a camera with me when I go out. Im sure you guys would have appreciated that!




(posted 07/21/08)
More news in only one week later? Yeah, I dont know either. Do you people even read this crap? Well here it goes.
I've been filming and shooting photos almost everyday for the past week. I'm still in Cleveland and its been pretty hot and humid. I went out last tuesday with a film crew for Fuel T.V. They where in town for the "Dew Tour" (how exciting!) and they wanted to go film some other syuff rather then just filming that "Radical" contest. So I took them out to 10 of my favorite spots and we filmed a segment for one of their shows. It was pretty fun but very tireing! (if you got nothing better to do see some pics of all this 'excitment' below-the web editor) We had a big skate bash at a pool in the woods yesterday. That was awesome! A lot of old friends came out of the wood work for it. Oh, I know!
I finally talked to BK (Brian Kennedy) the other day. He is our flow guy from Boston. He went on tour with us this summer and he killed it. I've been trying to hit him up since tour to tell him he is going to be on the team but he dropped his phone in the toilet and has been mia til now. Anyways I told him he has a spot on the team if he wants. He said he is super down so be on the look out for a BK profile on the web site soon!

Kristian

I'm Kristian Svitak and for the next half hour I'm going to bore the hell out of you!

Front side rock any time as Johnny Rad would say

Mommy I cut my hand

Yeah thats a really good way to grip a deck!

(posted 07/14/08) Well after driving 8,000 miles on our summer tour I decided to get in my car and drive another 2,500 miles to Cleveland so I can skate, film and shoot photos for the month of July. Im a driving maniac! Things have been good. Im supposed to hook up with some guys from Fuel T.V. today to film a segment on Cleveland street spots them Im going to shoot a photo of a pressure flip! Can you believe that shit!? If it turns out good I may use it for a 1031 ad. Anyways I will try to put some really lame photos up here soon. I forgot my camera back in California so I have to get my friend Chucks. He did text me a photo of a big shit he took the other day. It was huge and disgusting! Maybe I will put that up here. Would you kids like to see a photo of Chucks dump? Ah, maybe not. Anyways, yeah im in Cleveland shrreding til August. As for the rest of the guys, Chad is in Japan doing demo's, Harbour is in Denver filming for "Turn UP THE HELL", Nepscha is drinking beer and filming "BIG MOVES", and Ben Raybourn is eating candy and not brushing his teeth.

This is for any of you that are interested in checking out some new music. These are just some of the bands from my personal collection that I think are worth checking out. There is everything from crazy grind core to mellow wuss music. Rock and Roll will never die!
Its all in alphabetical order even .

Angry Samoans
3
7-Seconds
999
AC DC
Adolescents
Aerosmith ( their old stuff from the 70's is my favorite )
Agatha Crawl (my brothers old band)
Agent Orange
Agnostic Front
Angelic up starts
Anthrax
Anti Nowhere League
Archers of Loaf
Artificial peace
Bad Brains
Bad Religion ( 80's and earlier )
Battalion of Saints
Beastie Boys
Beehive and Barracudas
Belly
Big Boys
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Biohazard
Black Flag
Black Sabbath ( the ozzy years )
Blood of Christ
Bold
Bolt Thrower
Boulder ( from Cleveland)
Broken Bones
Butt Trumpet
Buzzcocks
Carcass
Chosen Few
Christ on a crutch
Chuck Treece
Cider (from Cleveland)
Circle Jerks
Civil Disobedience ( from Cleveland )
Cock Sparrer
Corrosion of Conformity
Crass
Creadence Clear Water Revival
Cro-Mags
Crumbsuckers
D- Vision
D.C.Youth Brigade
D.I.
D.R.I.
Dag Nasty
Danzig
David Bowie
Dead Boys (Cleveland!)
Dead Kennedy's
Dead Milkmen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Death in Action
Deicide
Descendents
Devo (Ohio!)
Dictators
Die Hard (from Cleveland)
Die Kreuzen
Dinosaur Jr.
Discharge
Dolly Parton
Doom
Dr. Know
Drive Like Jehu
Eagles
Elastica
Embrace
Eurythmics
Excel
Exploited
F.Y.P.
Face Value (from Cleveland)
Faith
Faith No More
False Prophets
Fang
Figure Ground (from Youngstown Ohio)
FireHose
Flogging Molly
Foreigner
Fugazi
FU's
G.B.H.
G.G. Allen
Gang Green
Golden Earing
Gorilla buiscuts
Government Issue
Gray Matter
Guns and Roses
H-100's (from Cleveland)
Heart
Helmet
High Back Chairs
Holy Rollers
Hot Snakes
Hubble Bubble
Husker Du
Iggy Pop
Instead
Ivy Green
J Mascis
Janes Addiction
JFA
Joan Jett
Johnny Cash
Joy Division
Kelly Deal 6000
Kiss
Kneecapers
Kraut
kut-u-up
Labor League
LA's Wasted Youth
Lead Belly
Led Zepplin
Life Sentence
M.D.C.
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Midnight ( from Cleveland )
Mike Ness
Ministry
Minor Threat
Misfits ( old stuff with Glenn Danzig, not that new crap! )
Moody Blues
Morbid Angel
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Mr. Bungle
Mucky Pup
Mudhoney
Murphys Law
N.W.A.
Naked Raygun
Napalm Death
Negative Approach
Neil Young
Nip Drivers
Nirvana
NOFX
Obituary
Operation Ivy
Pack
Pagans (cleveland)
Pailhead
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Phenix (my dad and uncles old band from the 70's and 80's)
Pink Floyd
Pitch Fork
Pixies
Plug Uglies
Poison Idea
Police
Porno for Pyro's
Primus
Prong
Psi-Com
Public Image Limited
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M
Radio Head
Ramones
Rancid
Raxola
Razors
Reagan Youth
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Righteous Pigs
Rights of Spring
Ringworm (from Cleveland)
Rocket from the Crypt
Rolling Stones
Rollins Band
Rudimentary Peni
S.O.A.
S.O.D.
Samhain
Scatterbrain
Scream
Seaweed
Self Gradifukation
Septic Death
Sex Pistols
Sham 69
Shelter
Sheryl Crow
Sinead O'Conner
Siouxie and the Banshees
Slap Shot
Slayer
Smashing Pumpkins
Smogtown
Smutt Peddlers (not the rappers!)
Social Distortion
Social Unrest
Sonic Youth
Sound Garden
SSD
Steve Miller Band
Stiff Little Fingers
Stooges
Subhumans
Suffocation
Suicidal Tendencies
Sultans
SuperSuckers
T.K.O.'s ( from Cleveland )
Teen Idles
the Accused
the Amps
the Atoms
the Beatles
the Boys
the Breeders
the Buck Pets
the Clash
the Cranberries
the Creepy Creeps
the Crusties
the Cure
the Daggers
the Damned
the Germs
the Glove
the Go-Go's
the Goops
the Heart Aches
the Hives
the Hunns
the Jam
the Jesus and Mary Chain
the Lurkers
the Mark Russo Quintet
the Motherfuckers
the Outcasts (u.k.)
the Real Kids
the Rezillos
the Saints
the Spits
the Stitches
The Third Degree
the Users
the Victims
the Weirdo's
the Who
the Widows
Thurston Moore
Tom Petty
Twisted Sister
Van Morrison
Venom
Verbal Abuse
Vibrators
Victory Flag (from Cleveland)
Violent Femmes
Void
War Zone
Wesley Willis
White Stripes
White Zombie
Wipers
Wire
X
X-Ray Specs
Youth of Today
Zwan

Since you were so good as to read all that (hopefully you just scrolled down to the bottom) enjoy the video below of 'The skate Witches' boo ha ha ha!

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