Taking the YOU out of YOUtube.

DEFINITELY not too stoked on Googles attempts to destroy youtube entirely. Its pathetic how they keep trying to get people to join google plus and compete with other social networks such as instagram or facebook. Youtube is a huge community. Almost every person has a youtube account whether it be to watch videos, play music or even be creative and make a few videos. But the way their choking the public community is horrible. The way google is setting things is in favor for the bigger corporations such as vevo or other music related channels. I haven't seen anyone famous come out of youtube for a long time anymore because they're slowly killing them off thanks to google. I believe the last guy to get out of there was Fred and he was NOT funny. Not on youtube and not on his movies lol. Some are still climbing and weathering the storm such as epicmealtime. But with this who knows how long because not many people have google plus accounts. Anyway this is starting to become a google rant. Let me close that with this one statement. "FUCK GOOGLE PLUS". Back to more important matters. I could give a rats ass if i remain youtube famous honestly. I love skateboarding and like to share it with the world regardless of views, comments, or whatever. This is another fine example. Me and chris decided to get a little bit of skate in on my day off. As everyone knows we can really skate as much because of daylight savings time and Im always getting off right when the sun sets so the struggle to skate is real. We managed to get these couple tricks in. Check it out. all the footage is filmed by mr christopher. 

Hello Hanger, its been a while.

Its been a long while since I've revisited this place with friends. Its very typical on how this place happens to change almost every time you see it unless you're a local of course. This place is in Sacramento about an hour away from where I live which is in Lathrop. Chris, Jun and I managed to make a trip over there. Unfortunately Devante (a new face in lathrop) and Joey couldn't make it through since they both were helping people out that day. This was a last minute trip to do some no effort lines in an attempt to make a montage in a couple of hours. Jun did most of the filming that day and we were definitely too busy having fun to even film everything in the park because we were all divided into different sections skating to our liking. The park was literally ours the whole day until the lowcard dudes came out. They're really chill folks though and we were skating alot of tranny with them. Unbelievably good also. I couldn't help but envy over the style and variety of transition tricks they had. Such power in their skateboarding. I'm not the greatest transition skateboarder but I have some tricks. I do want to progress a little bit more on that aspect of skateboarding since most of my skateboarding has always revolved around street spots. When I was younger we had NO skate parks or had any older friends that could take us to nice skate parks out of town. We had to make due with what we had. Whether that be a curb, a box, or a do it yourself kicker ramp. We did the best we can with the worst we had. But I figure, this would be alot better for my body since Im trying to be more careful not to get hurt so I can still perform on the job, provide for my family and still do what I love to do. Anyway, here is our little video. I hope you enjoy.

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

"Its poetry in motion, and its chaos. Thus, Beautiful Chaos"

 

I haven't updated this page in a long while so I think I should get back on the grind with this thing. Well past due definitely. This was the new video that I mentioned months ago that we were working on. The thing that differs this from Mudville is the artistic quality and the feel of which the skater or even a universal audience can relate to. The goal was to reach not just the skateboarders indefinitely but everyone else to help understand not just the stereotype but how skateboarders are in actuality. There are a variety of different personalities most of them humble of whom if one gets kicked out of a spot, they would abide by it and just go on to the next one or come back when its closed rather than starting a confrontation with a person doing their job just to get it on camera or for kicks. I wanted the average joe to get a good understanding of how a skateboarder truly feels on that piece of wood with wheels. One can relate if they feel passionate about anything in life. Whether it be basketball, painting, collecting, car enthusiast,  football, baseball, whatever it may be; I wanted then to understand that that passion is what drives us skateboarders to do what we do. To get up after a gnarly slam, dust yourself off and literally try again. Its a stress reliever, a way of life, an art form, a sport, it embodies many different definitions to whichever personality harbors it. But in the end, to us it all leads to one solid word. SKATEBOARDING. Please enjoy this film and please pass it down from generation to generation so that way they know skateboarding isnt about who's the best, or who can do what.... its about having FUN! 

News about the new skate park in Lathrop.

As you probably already know I've been attending these Lathrop city council meetings for quite some time already and they have ceased as of recently due to the fact that the plans have already been turned in. Everywhere I go I always get this question, "So when is the park going to be finished?". I actually got that today by some retarded little scooter fag.....But we all know we dont want those over there.. ESPECIALLY BIKES. Anyway, I finally got to speak with Gabe today. We had little chit chat about our families and how I've been doing with my new found family. After that we went straight to business. So bid is already in the air for contractors. Even better news is that they added a few hundred square feet to the skate park thanks to some strategic financing. Great job Gabe! A bigger park is always a better park especially for the little scoot rats that happen to slip through the cracks throwing their aluminum pieces of shit in the air. The bid should stay afloat for about 60 days. Thats about 2 months kids. We should be breaking ground in the beginning to mid Spring of this year. Project wont be completed until 2014ish. I know its a new park and everyone wants to skate it but PLEASE! DONT SKATE IT WHILE ITS STILL BEING BUILT!! Cement takes a while to dry and I'm not looking forward to having to skate ledge with a chunk missing out of it because some biker fag thought it was a good idea to hit it up prematurely. It's OUR skate park so lets treat it with some care? yeah? We designed it... well.. for the people who actually attended the meetings, so we should take care of it. Even if you didn't part take in the actual meets its still your park. Its going to be the sickest park around here so lets keep it sick and not fucked up. Gabe also hinted to me about managing the park since its going to be packed. Lets be realistic here. You and I know that that park is going to generate so many new faces around for the first few months. It's probably going to keep generating new faces within that year once word spreads and it actually turns out to be good! So having an actual skater manage the park is a good thing. Of course this is volunteer work but I have a feeling I'll be skating the park alot more since work will most definitely be kicking my ass until the later hours. Thats cool with me if im not paid for it as long as i get to skate it when no ones around ;D. On top of that I can kick out the faggy scooter kids out right? Most likely that cant happen since the park is designed to be a multi-use park. Anyway I figured Id write this newly found information here rather than explaining to people one by one each time the question arises. So remember, its our park! Lets take care of that shit and FUCK scooters!...and bikes ;D

MUDVILLE PARTS 1-10 FULL! :D

It was a great ride while it lasted. If you've been following up with these posts then you know it was a very hard and stressful journey. But nevertheless, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. So much fun, great trips, and bonding with friends. The video ended up turning out GREAT! So much great feedback from facebook, instagram, twitter, and especially youtube! This by far is my Mona Lisa I give out to Stockton and Lathrop. South side Stockton in particular because thats where it all began. There are some msgs within the videos. If you want to know them you'd have to ask me ;D. Mine is pretty obvious. This will most likely be my last full lenth video I ever make and probably the last serious video part I ever make. Hours of editing and unpaid work but the fruits of my labor is worth it to inspire so many people with out skating. Remember that skateboarding isn't about getting sponsored or any other hype shit. Its about having fun with friends and just enjoying the ride while you can. You might meet some dicks along the road but you  can tell them to go lick your ass while they spit that shit haha.

-Ivyn Taasin

I hope you enjoyed it! Thank you to all the companies that help make this happen, all the skaters, my homies. Rob did a good job in pickin up the part, chris did a great job in filming, everything turned out great. swag

MUDVILLE

ALSO! If  you havent seen mudville yet! CHECK IT! 3 parts out of 10 are already out.

CLIP OF THE DAY - IVYN TAASIN

This is me when I had varial heels before I sprained my ankle and lost them forever. This was taken early summer/late spring of 2011...or was it 2010? I really dont know. I have so much footage from long ago that I dont get to use at all.. Alot of them are tricks I cant do anymore. But anyway, I just remember it was a hella hot day. Me Nate and George were chillin at the park what felt like a desert. I wanted to get that trick real fast and it came to me pretty quick. Didn't take that many tries. Now when I try to do it it takes forever and 2 days. Skateboarding is funny like that I guess.

CLIP OF THE DAY- ROBERT TAMAYO

Today's clip of the day is Rob and his 360 shuv up the lathrop skate park bank. The tre shuv is another trendy trick like wallrides, wallies and front foot catch tres. But I admit, aside from all the trend skating I really love the way those are thrown down things. On another note, I edited this one a little differently from my other clip of the days (if you havent seen the others because I havent posted them here, please feel free to view them on my youtube channel). I think I'm going to start using this edit alot more from now on. One mistake that I did catch later like Marks "Clip if the Day" is that I rendered the quality in 720p rather than 1080p. Fuck! It was left over from the night I was trying to make older clips work again that weren't in HD. But oh well right? Rob's trick came out pretty damn good still.

CLIP OF THE DAY! - MARK LOPEZ

Mark Lopez gets a clip of the day by request. I wanted to save this for the Mudville video but he suggested otherwise. I cant argue with that, it is his footage. Mark Lopez has varial heels better than anyone else I know. I've seen him take it down small and big stair sets and even seen him get real techy with that trick. I lost this trick after I sprained my ankle. Personally, I think its a pretty fucking rad trick and if you ever get it make sure you get that shit on lock so you never lose it. Mark has been out of commission as of lately due to a knee injury I believe. I gave him some suggestions on how to help him recover faster so he can hop back on that board again. Hope he recovers quickly!

A few street sesh pictures of us not skateboarding :D

So as of lately I've been eating alot of hot steamy SHIT! My fiance is getting mad at me for staining my clothes with my own blood.

This tree has nothing to do with skateboarding. Instead of this tree maybe I should've took pictures of the half naked cheerleaders practicing their routines. But nah..

Maybe I lied a little bit about the whole "pictures of us NOT skateboarding". Nate was really trying to get buck on this hubba. This bad boy is a dangerous obstacle.

Its been a while since I saw my boy Nico! Almost been a month. I believe the last time I saw him was at my babyshower for my son. He was throwin some shit down at the courthouse earlier. Unfortunately for I didnt take any pictures of that and we got kicked out by a fat guy.

Chris lurking around as usual. He's officially gained my trust with the camera. His camera skills along with his skateboarding skills have been improving. But he did complicate things earlier when we tried to pick him up at his house haha

Rob came out of the cuts to join us in this session 30 mins before the sun officially set. Its all good though. We ended up hitting a few spots in the dark that was pretty well lit and the camera was still able to film really good too with minimal light! Wait till I get a light for this bad boy then filming under low light conditions will be no sweat.

Four Based Bro's-tage

Featuring Ivyn Taasin, Candy Elizondo, Chris Consul, and Emilio Garcia

Filming by Ivyn Taasin
Additional Filming by Candy Elizondo, Chris Consul and Emilio Garcia

Edited by Ivyn Taasin

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Freedom

This is my liberation from everyday life. My break in your typical "scheduled routine". This is me breaking the shackles of whats to be expected of me. This is my freedom

New spots

Finding and making new spots all the time. Sometimes you just got to look really hard or use your imagination a little bit to make something fun. With a little plywood we made a ollie quick set up over a curb and over a gap. Fun spot. After a while it feels like you're playing hopscotch

Ivyn Taasin: Fakie Inward heel up the bank

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Stevie got gnarly as fuck on this day. No one expected to have a good street sesh. Especially here.

Stevie V - Back 50

WE OUT HERE

Rob doing a Backside flip. Pretty sick sequence.

WELCOME

Let me start by saying I'm glad I have a place other than youtube to showcase my video's in addition to my photography as well. This is the first video I shot using my new equipment. I recently bought a Canon T2i and a new laptop that can handle the HD performance. Please check this out and subscribe to my channel :D