Baker has a Deathwish.

Today was the Baker/Deathwish skateboard demo.

It was sick.  A bunch of the industries top dogs were at the Wilson Skatepark in Chicago throwing down.

Antwuan Dixon was in the house.  He skated a bit.  Dixon landed a nollie heel-flip down the set with some careless style.  He was rocking some crazy zig-zags in his hair.  A straight G for sure.

Neck Face was on the microphone throughout the demo.  He started out kinda tipsy.  Later he was pretty drunk.  Throughout the demo he was calling out everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Kanye West.  He was stumbling around asking the crowd where they were at.  

For those who don't know who Neck Face is just google him.  He has been doing graphics for many companies such as Vans, Thrasher Magazine, Baker Skateboards.  He has had a couple shows in California and has various graffiti pieces around the world.  Neck has some serious street credit for sure.

Andrew "Boss Man" Reynolds was the first one in the park.  He destroyed it.  Reynolds can literally frontside flip anything.  He was charging everything.  The bowl's, rails, pyramids.  I know why he gets the nick name boss man.  I was fanning out the entire time.  This is one the most important men in skateboarding.  

Boss Man.

Kevin "Spanky" Long was also there shredding.  Apparently he just flew in right before the demo and man was he destroying everything in sight.  This is another guy my friends and I would watch videos of before going out and skating.  It was awesome.  It made me feel like a little kid again.

Reynolds.  I know I got a lot of photos of him.  But I mean come on he is a living legend.

Brian "Slash" Hansen is one of the new Deathwish Am's.  After watching him skating in person I'm pretty excited to see his part in the new Fallen Footwear video.

The teams started skating the stair set in the middle of the demo.  The kids crowded around for a show.  This is Reynolds with a nollie 360 down the set.  

Jeff Lenoce was at the demo too.  I believe this is a nollie varial heel-flip down the set.  

Theotis Beasley was another one who was ripping the entire demo.  He landed this backside flip within a couple of tries.  

  

Lizard King is the skater I fanned out the most to though.  He destroyed everything in the park.  He was a super chill dude too.

After taking this photo he kind of waved me over to him.  We talked for a little while.  He is working on getting sober, but one beer here and there can't hurt he said.  King is trying to get his business man on.  No more getting wasted, he is ready to be a skateboarder he said.  So props to him on that.  We also talked about Shad Lamberts web site.  King said that Shad is one of his favorite person to shoot photos with, and that he is just an all around chill dude.  

I also noticed that he wasn't sporting any Circa sneakers.  King said that they just were not paying him enough money.  That they kind of acted like he was a nobody.  Which is understandable.  "I've always liked Vans ya know?" said Lizard.  

Lizard King has one hell of a career ahead of him.  So that was a smart business decision on his behalf.  If you haven't already checked out his part in the new Baker has a Deathwish video.  You should probably get on that.  

Yeah those are face tattoo's on Antwuan's face. 

 When the demo was dying down I found Dixon chilling with Neen Williams and some other Chi town locals smoking some sticky icky.  Straight G for sure.

At this point of the demo Neck Face was trashed.  He was hollaring and making a scene in the parking lot.  Neck know's his sports though.  He was shouting out Chicago basketball and baseball team statistics and players.  

Some other skaters at the demo were Jim Greco, and Bryan Herman.  Greco stayed in the van a majority of the time.  He seemed upset or stressed out or something.  Herman was out and about, signing autographs for all the kids.  

Overall the demo was awesome.  It was a real treat to see all the guys, friends and I looked up to when we were kids, skating in real life.  They all seemed like pretty nice dudes too.  They didn't freak out on any kids or anything which was cool.