Josh Mattson for Ace Trucks

More Nelson...

Nelson and other dudes of length. Grosso's boardslide = Arcadia pride! photo: MRZ

Josh Nelson Pro-Tec Pool Party 2010

HUGE backside ollie during practice. photo: Peter Furnee
Floating above the square.
photos: unknown. Nelson won the longest backside grind contest for the second year in a row. Three-peat in 2011? Hopefully, he won some cell phone minutes...

NorCal Death Match stop #2

Nor Cal Death Match stop #2 is coming to 621 Skate Shop in Livermore, CA on Saturday, June 26th. Brad and Josh dominated the last contest they had there back in February. (see photo for the horizontal smiles and the $$$!) Check this link for some footage of that contest.

Still milking that SF Underground contest...

Rob from Lowcard shot this vid of the SF Underground Friday practice sesh featuring Mattson & Brad.

Nor Cal Death Match: Stop 1

Nor Cal Death Match series. Stop 1: Surf And Skate, Citrus Heights, CA. Get these two together and things go off!

Josh Mattson, ollie out, 5-0 to revert back in. Gnarbuckle. 1st place. photo: Chud
Brad McClain, nose pick on the extension. bonus for 1st to land something on the gnar wall. 2nd place overall.

Gene Boles, another satisfied customer

Here, you have another satisfied Small Beating Skateboards customer, Gene Boles. Gene's riding his Josh Nelson deck over the steps at Fred's Pool. There's only about 6" of transition in the shallow so, yes, Gene is gnar! We're skating Fred's on Sunday, so if you want, meet us out there. If you don't know where it is, then you're not invited, don't ask... photo: Jamie Camp

Brad McClain backyard boosting.

Brad boosting a serious f/s boneless at that San Mateo pool. Don't bother, it's gone already. filmed by Rob Garcia

Interweb jams

Sometimes you're ahead of the curve by being way behind it... Small Beating is now on Facebook.

That's a lotta herb

More coverage of the SF Underground contest here. Yeah, Brad!

Con-BRAD-u-lations!

An amateur skateboard contest, punk show and human gargoyle convention all rolled into one. Mattson was a one-man pro demo, literally. Hendo got beaten by a 10 year-old and our own Brad McClain walked away with 1st place plus $2,000 for his troubles. The check was 8 feet long so it had to be broken into a few pieces before Brad could fit it in his car. Pics and vids to follow. Maybe....

Clothe thyself

The shoppe just keeps expanding. 2 new shirts hot off Ron's presses. Get some here.

We got posters!

B(rad) McClain posters can be had when you order from the Small Beating shoppe. These can also be seen hanging in your local shop, if said local shop doesn't suck.