Jon Jon from Devan Stewart on Vimeo.

Bonus, old team rider Mike Lilly deal.

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Too raw, that is all. Thanks MP.

We have arrived and conquered.  Alex, Chris, and Michael already were the last table standing and the solo blade sesh with Garlinghouse went hard.  We abused the hell out of the hot tub and lake front already and the kids are on the mends with the trainer.  Hopefully we get our shred on hard tomorrow, injuries permitting.

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The day started out pretty normal as far as the tours gone.  Lag, coffee, lag, trick, kicked out by a security guard, indecision, and then it got really bad ass.  The Farmer’s always throw a feast every year when we come through on our way to Lake Owen and today was no exception.  They brought out all the big guns, home-made mac and cheese, baked beans, fruit salad, a crazy Farmer dip for chips, brats, burgers, beers, veggie joints, and the freshest sweet corn this side of God’s country.  we sat around and caught up with Mike and Susan and told some stories and then it was time to jet to do some more blading.  We checked out a little diddy at a school in Egypt and caught a fire clip with Colin and a bad ass basketball shot with Sean.  On to the next few spots that we had to pass on and then the sun set.  After waiting a good 30 minutes for John to show up to shoot photos Alex laid down a giant gap and we were off and running for the night.  Minutes later Alex was getting his birthday trick as he turned 25 at the stroke of midnight.  Happy birthday bud.  Back into the smelly van and it was time to shoot a photo of SOTY BAB.  Now John got confused at exactly which bank Bolino was planning on 360′ing into which created several laughs from the peanut gallery.  The mission was crazy, run up covered in shit, which John had to sweep, which woke up the people in the apartment complex, at 1:30am on a Sunday night, with all the lights and flashes set up, the generator running INSIDE the van to keep the noise down, an impossible landing, and branches in the way.  SOTY BAB laced though.  The crew quickly broke everything down and we dipped.  Next spot was the bustiest of busts but we lied to the security guard and just kept filming until Garlinghouse was able to lay down the honey baked.  For the final cherry on the sundae we got kicked out of the final spot at 4am as Sean laid down the perfect transfer with the security guard walking up behind him with a fucking night stick in his hand.  Iced by McDonalds breakfast whose ‘card machine won’t be working for another 20-30 minutes’ we headed over to White Castle where the dudes laced up 30 burgers in under 5 minutes, I guess they were hungry from murdering all day.  It’s 6:21 and I have an hour of compression left, I’m taking a shower and then the video should be live.  Enjoy.

Yesterday didn’t go better any better then the day before.  Yesterday went worse, quite a bit worse.  Got an early start, stopped by a coffee shop and a bagel shop.  Our first spot got blocked by a hippie picnic party.  We brought the van in to get fixed.  At the next spot MC was getting a piece on this fence grind to drop.  He landed it a few times, but not quite how he wanted.  A few tries later, he landed awkward and thought he broke his ankle.  It started to rain, we headed back to FDA to get MC some ibuprofen and ice.  We were all bummed out about Michael’s fall and we hung out while the rain went away.  After it dried up, we decided to give skating another try.  We went to a college in St. Paul, Bfree and I jumped over stuff and it started to storm again.  We called it a night as it stormed really hard and flooded streets and lightning filled the sky.  After another great meal at Hard Times Café, we went to Haynes’ pad to look at photos from the Texas tour.

We got another pretty early start and skated Downtown Minneapolis today.  We had a pretty slow start, rolling about 20 deep.  Colin popped the chip clerry, and Chris backed him up with another impossible trick.  We strolled a couple blocks to the next spot, Alex got a killer move and photo as we were getting kicked out.  Sean and SOTY BAB got deals across the street right when it started to rain again.  Sweet.  Killer session at Hard Times once again of course.  Sean, Jeph, and Bfree went to a dance party night and the rest of us kicked it at the pad.  Tomorrow it is not supposed to rain… hopefully.

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Today was spent moving all my worldly possessions out of my comfortable apartment and routing out on the road until this video is finished.  Floors and couches and $1 double cheeseburgers are about to consume all of our lives as comfort becomes a luxury not afforded to many.  A little swimming and a goodbye to my mother and we drove through the night to Minneapolis to witness the sun rise.  Tomorrow we will be shredding the streets in a very lovely 80 degrees.

Xsjado is the featured presenter of Bfree’s birthday day.  Check em out after the rowdy rowdy here.

Most people when they turn 21 years old go out to a bar and get blasted off.  When you are with your friends on tour in a crazy city and a bunch of drunkards you think it would be 10X crazier.  Bfree turned 21 and we quietly popped bottles of champagne and skated until 6 in the morning.  This tour is more about the group then the individual, and everyone’s ability to sacrifice and stay happy for the good of the group is a refreshing change to what is an apparent selfishness that we see all around us.  Our family is growing stronger by the day and our family wishes Bfree many more years of happiness, and we promise him now that he is actually 21 we will get housed soon.

One of those days where you step outside and you are instantly drenched in sweat.  One of those days where none of the spots pan out.  One of those days that makes you want to give up.  One of those days that gets saved by the best rollerbladers on the planet and a generator.  I live for days like this.

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