Thrasher Magazine

The Bay Area weather was perfect for this year's Lower Bobs event dedicated to P-Stone. Austin Kanfoush, along with Raney, Santi and Julien, put in some major work repairing and prepping the park. They even built a wooden extension that became the centerpiece of the contest. Neckface, Mike Kershnar and friends of Bobs came through with a fresh coat of paint, and Fatty Mack kept the money coals hot for The Big Dog, cookin’ up burgers and brats to keep everyone fed—just like P-Stone would have wanted. And in true Preston fashion, bell peppers were abundant with everyone's favorite beverages inside them. The skateboarding going down blew minds and the crowd had to stay on their toes to avoid stray boards (and skaters). This year we also had a gnarly women’s jam that stoked out the scene. And of course, DJ Juan Love was keeping the vibes high, handlin' the tunes all day. Roll through to see every rip and rare sighting from one of skateboarding's best days. —Joe Brook

Photos by Joe Brook, Rhino and Eric Palozzolo

First things first, we got a few ground rules at Lower Bobs. Read and abide

Nasty Neck always puts it down for The Bible and the boys

Mike Kershnar paints up a wall for The Big Dog. With the art locked down, let's walk around to get a sense of the crowd...

Happy to see the Maigetter fam in effect

Schmitty was stoked to see the boys

Rhino and Red with Clayton Perez, Odin Hubbard, Felix and Oscar Maigetter

Waffle brothers—Curren Caples, Ronnie Sandoval, Elijah Berle and TM Matt Bennett

Deathwish and Baker boys in the mix, Taylor Kirby and Zach Allen

Dandy Harris from 510 in a Vans sandwich with Zach Sheats, Cierra Xavier and Justin Villano

Bira shows off his arm-strengthening techniques for filming lines with a death lens. Learn from the best, kids

SF OGs Bryce Kanights and Joe Fong

San Pedro's finest made it up to Oaktown—Ronnie Sandoval and Robbie "The Rooster " Russo

Lefty shows Wes Kremer and Evan Smith how to properly use a bell pepper

Two Ricks from Canada—McCrank and Howard

East Bay resident Jim Thiebaud shares the love with Zach Allen

And of course, we got multitalented Big Hongry, a king in his court

John Alden and the judges figuring out the heats for the contest

Meet the judges: Tommy Guerrero, Elissa Steamer, Rob “The Wu” Welsh (or Waylon Rob Welsh if you choose) and D'ontae Smith

EMB's famous Chico "Chico Sticks" Brenes and his fellow icon of The City Karl Watson. FYI, Karl was the king of spitwads at EMB back in the day

Dreamland’s Mark Scott checking the vibes from the extension

Neck and Arco—who wore it best?

P-Stone tribute, money coals forever

Frank Gerwer with ATL’s finest—Santi, Kamal and Peyton aka DJ Fari

Gnarhunters—Rachel and Elissa Steamer

ATV Ishod Wair chills with Big John Fitzgerald before dropping in

REAL skateboards OGs Tommy Guerrero and Max Schaaf

DLX homies Harry Lintell and Mack Scharff, not to be confused with the guy in the photo above

Fatty Mack is always keeping it fired up

Rob Welsh and our 2008 SOTY Silas Baxter-Neal

Video visionaries, REAL's Tim Fulton and Thrasher's own Ewan Bowman

More of our guys! Cole Mathews and Dylan Christopher

The Kanfoushs on a skate date for real

This whole thing wouldn't be possible without Lower Bobs OG builders/shredders Peabody and Raney Beres

Portland's Emile Laurent, Angel Dust's Wheatberry and Wicked Workshop's Neckface. Now let's get to the skating!

First up, Tony Trujillo breaks the ice with a slob fastplant

Then Raney Beres gets the blood flowing with a proper Smith vert

Ishod swervin' through crosstown traffic

Back in the corner, Ronnie revs an FSA

And Christian Henry brings the heat with a frontside lipslide

Rad dad Hugo Boserup hops on the extension with a nosegrind yank

All eyes in Ishod, frontside noseblunt

Tyson Peterson mesmerized the crowd with a sample of psychedelic moves like this primo slide

Jamie Foy flys a foot off over the hip

Style for miles, Mami Tezuka locks into a proper front Smith

McCrank catches a stalefish

Curren gets the O-face from the crowd with a heavy-duty noseblunt on the new addition

Cody Chapman and Raven Tershy bring Derby vibes to Bobs

If you can't find him, just look up. Chances are you'll see Pedro Barros spinnin' a stale 540

Ventura boys Jake Anderson and Curren Caples like what they see

Grantihero, backside nosepick with a few frogger hops on the extension. You saw the clip! 

Tony V scopes the scene while John Cardiel brings the heat on the wheels of steel

MC Neckface killed it on the mic all day. Thought he wouldn't?!

Santi, Julien and Max Schaaf all pitched in to to make hand-crafted pepper trophies. Let's see who walked away with one of these rare awards

Women's top three: Mami Tezuka, Nicole Hause and Lara Botto. Nicole knows the drill!

Men's top three: Ronnie Sandoval in first, Raney Beres in second and Pedro Barros third. GT got "The Most Fired Up" award

Ace's Shrewgy and Joey Tershay with SF legend Noah Peacock

Bay Area locs all got excellent nicknames—Kristina Mar, Mad Max, Cyrus, Seagull, Josh, Peabody, The Gut, Chunty and Daf Noah, just to mention a few

Alright, we gotta dip. Let’s have Grant end things on a bang. Now go watch the video and spark up a session for the one's who can't

Thanks to DLX, Vans and Thrasher for making this event happen for our skate family. We know P-Stone, Hubbard, Phelper, Grosso and Hammeke were loving every minute of it!