who be in da lake

Went to Whistler for a Dave Osato stag party in the woods. The bears were definitely too scared to approach our campsite that weekend.
Osato got blotto and fun was had by all. here are a couple sweet pics, and a wicked awesome lake we cooled off in.

Re-session Madness

Yeah, it's been a while, we're busy!

As most of you know, a bunch of us were on the first leg of the Re-session tour that went through Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Jeremy of Presence BMX came along for the trip and handled the filming end of things (very well, I may add). He got a ton of awesome footage, and this is the edit he put together. It's rad, and you should watch it from start to finish.

Ten Pack Re-Session Tour Eastern Canada Stops from Presence Bmx on Vimeo.

Fresh Whip

I built up a Fresh Volume 781 frame the other day, thing is dialed. Everyone thought the brown/blue would look shitty, but I'm pretty sure it's hot.

Chris Silva Quote Of The Day

" Man, you've gotta stop being so nice to people, they"re gonna fuck you in the ass.... You gotta learn to fuck people, I fuck people every day!!"

Tenpack Toronto Housewarming Party

So, after years of talking about it, Chris and I finally moved into our new house in downtown Toronto a couple weeks ago. The spot is too perfect, with everything we need at our front door. We had a little get-together the other day, so here are couple pictures from that.



















If you're rolling through Toronto, make sure to come by and holler at us. Guaranteed there will always be something happening here.

Some new edits on presence bmx

http://presencebmx.com/vids/

i like presence bmx
Jeremy is good at making videos

Chris Cayford Memorial Jam - Kelowna April 11

Untitled from andrewlazaruk on Vimeo.

Got back from New Zealand 2 weekends ago. it was a really really good time, didnt want to come back. So much fun there and got to see some really cool places. It was real windy lots of the time so it was kind of hard to ride as much as i wanted to but it was still good. The wind made the beaches real fun though. Got to go to this really rad town with a sweet beach called Piha. Thats where the beach pictures are. I guess its a super dangerous beach they have drownings there all the time cause of how big the waves can get. They even film a reality bay watch style show there called Piha Rescue. There are TV cameras all filming on the beach its pretty wild. The other pictures are from this mountain that was used in world war 2 and there are all these crazy tunnels going through it. The video is the little bit of clips i filmed in NZ and some clips from one night riding at the indoor skatepark in nelson right before i left, nothing crazy just some chill stuff from winter. My friend Luke Gilfoyle is the guy on the white bike in there. It was him and his brother Ashley that i stayed with down there. Also if anyone will be near the Kelowna area on easter weekend (april 11) we are having a jam then. Its the Chris Cayford Memorial Jam. Chris was a really cool guy who passed away a couple years ago. He worked at a bike shop in Kelowna and did a lot for the scene. It will start at the skatepark in Winfield around 1 then later in the day everyone will move onto ben lee. Sunday there will probably be a session with everyone at the Penticton skatepark. IF your going to be anywhere near there you should try make it!

Roommate Needed!

So Silva and I are getting all geared up to move to our new place in downtown Toronto. We've got an extra room to rent, so we're lookin to fill that! If you're interested, post up here and I'll get back to ya! We'll be sure to have lots of pictures from our move-in fun!!

Website

My good buddy Jeremy Deme, just started up a new website for his on going video project Presence. A few friends are going to posting on it and some web videos are going to be up on there in short time. Check his new site out at presencebmx.com.

New Zealand #2

Last weekend got to go ride some awesome parks down here and shot some photos with Mike Davies who does the website zombiebmx.com. This is one of them there are a few more on his site. im back in canada saturday evening, which sucks i wish i could stay way longer. hopefully have a short edit of the trip a couple days after i get back.

Winter

This is what I woke up too and dealt with on my morning commute.
There are always positives to this weather though:

1) The line up at Timmys was very short.
2) I love driving the Jeep in the snow.

Random Team Photo

Shot this photo of James after a night out in Toronto. James was up here for a whole weekend and did some riding at The Warehouse. I have a quick video of him from there somewhere, when I find it I'll try to get it posted.

New Zealand

im just over half way through my trip. its been awesome. the weather has been so good except for a bunch of rain and wind yesterday and today. just been riding a bunch and chilling with my friends over here. i love it here, everyone is awesome and super fun to hang out with. the pictures are from a jam that happend last weekend at a skatepark thats real close to the house im staying at. it was really good time, check out zombiebmx.com there is some coverage from the jam on there. the night before the jam, a ton of people came by the house im at and we made cardboard armour and swords and had an epic battle in the front yard. good times. ill try do another post before im back in canada. later.

Sam Lowe on Dig BMX

Our boy Sam has an interview over on the Dig magazine website, check it out here. He tells a story in it about a stolen bike which sounds pretty scary and James Steele gives him a pretty solid reference in it as well.

Photo in ride/New Zealand

Me and Al Shantz shot some photos at the skatepark in penticton right before it snowed and 2 of them were in the letters section in new issue of Ride.  Al shot the one of me, and there is one of Al in there too that i took. 

Im also going to New Zealand tomorrow for 3 weeks. Super excited about that. Just going down to see some friends down there and hopefully film some stuff.  I think ill be able to post stuff while im there. So hopefully ill have some pics up during my trip.

Old timers

Chris Young and I went to Bonsor Pipeline in Burnaby to get a bit of riding in and to work a few (alot) of the winter cob webs out.
This is a no bikes park, but we are as old as the crusty old school skaters and they don't seem to confrontational, and we always have a good time there.

One night at the Warehouse

I figured it was about time to actually try out my new camera and see how it worked. Word to the wise, if you're planning on buying a Canon HG-10, the .mts files it records in are a bitch to work with. Nice camera, though. Got a few things done, so I threw together a lil edit. Hope you guys like it.
Chij

One Night At The Warehouse - Chijioke Okafo from REPSET on Vimeo.

wOODwARD wEEKeND

A few friends and I were off to Woodward for the weekend, I had no idea that there would be a massive southern Ontario presence there when I arrived. After everyone was settled in to where they would be staying either at the lodge on Woodward grounds or the Inn a few minute drive down the road from Woodward. So as the kid inside took over, everyone raced over to the nearest indoor park to get riding. The days were pretty much filled with lots of different riding. Everyone road everything which was good to see people who road the rails and flat banks were also huckin into the foam trying new aerials and I followed suit.

It was weird to see all us Canadians dropping like flies. It seemed as if the long winters took its toll on us and we were not in shape to make it through a Woodward weekend, haha. after the first day I had a horrible pulled muscle in my left arm and lots of others had their own issues from whiplash to sprained ankles. Everyone was kept in good spirits though, which I was glad to see. We were in such good spirit that the last night there all the dudes from the lodge wanted to drive over to the Inn to mess around with the other Canadians staying there. So we packed a van with about 10 people and we were off! No plan is sight just a bunch of random ideas getting thrown in the air as to what we were going to do...So we get to the Inn and decide to walk right in and someone decided to start a shoe throwing fest and screaming "were coming back" as to scare the people staying at the Inn thinking that someone was coming back in the night to do something, it was weird but whatever. As all that went on something hit the ground and shattered so we all jumped back in the van and boogied out of there.

Everything turned out fine, nothing went wrong and we got away without getting into trouble. It made for some funny conversation that night and the next morning though. Some look at Woodward as a place of dreams or a training facility to progress their riding, in some ways I guess it is both of those but I see it as a place to have fun with friends, meet new ones and come home with lots of new memories.

Awesome Weekend

Me and my friend Chris Geistlinger went to Nelson to ride the indoor on saturday for the day/night. Had a real fun session saturday and a quick one on sunday before we headed back to kelowna. About 45 min into the drive home we hit some black ice on a corner, started drifting across the road, front end went into the ditch, slid for a tiny bit then it caught in the deep snow and flung the truck into a half front flip/barrel role kinda thing. We landed directly upside down, in the ditch, on the wrong side of the road pointing the wrong way. I've never rolled a vehicle before so it was a pretty sweet ride. Once we realized we were both totally fine, we just stared laughing. None of the stuff we had with us got wrecked. Chris had a laptop in the truck that was just sitting in the back during the crash and nothing happend to it. I had a video camera in there too and it was all good. Our bikes were in the box of the truck and they seem to be ok, haven't looked at mine to close yet but it seems alright. Chris' landed beside the truck kinda but mine was buried deep in the snow directly under the box. It took almost 2 hours for a tow truck to come and get us, which kinda sucked. Overall though we got away super lucky. The truck was completely written off, but us and all our stuff were fine.