Monthly Archives: January 2009
just keepin my eye on the prize.
When you get saved you immediatly want to find others that are on the same page. I heard alot about this shawn mandoli when i was deep in the faith. You just want to meet these people ya know, get some encouragement, see if there faith is real or what? Yea so i met mandoli and he is rad! Loves jesus-people-and is still awesome at skateboarding. So here is the proof. Ps a couple others r in dis as well.
Cheers
One thing i was looking forward to was meeting rayunderhill. About a week before the trip joe gruber informed me he worked at eastern skate. I did meet him and I did pray for him. My heart goes out to him and his beloved family! Loed Jesus please bring releaf where it is needed! Amen. This edit was made a year before Rays death. My condolences to his family!
Ray Underhill spent the past two years battling a Chordoma brain tumor. Despite the condition’s debilitating effects, Ray maintained the kindness and strength he was known for. He was an example to his family and to his friends of what it means to be a father, a husband, a friend. Throughout his ordeal, Ray never let his spirit succumb to the cruelty of his condition.
After surgery, and several radiation and chemotherapy treatments, Ray passed away on Friday morning, August 1, 2008, at a hospital near his home in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Ray will be remembered by some as the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade pro of the late 1980s with the smooth style and deep bag of tricks. By others in the skateboard industry as the Gullwing Team Manager or Web Master at Eastern Skateboard Supply. To those of us who knew Ray, he’s remembered as the guy we wish we were. The one we wish everyone else would emulate—his candor, his kindness, his sense of humor an example to us all. If everyone in the world were just a little more like Ray, what an amazing, peaceful place this would be.
His wife Kerry, and their children Keaton (13) and Olivia (8) lost a husband and a father on Friday. And skateboarding lost a brother—one who made his mark on his board, but who went on to affect us all in far more profound ways for who he was off his skateboard. Quite simply, he was the best of us, and is tremendously missed.
skate and live people!
I uploaded this video I shot of deigo awhile ago. I stumbled on a picture he drew of himself. It looks exactly like himself. Good job. Anyway I am thankful to the Lord for skateboarding. That door has taken me many places. Talk soon
