A HUGE congrats to long time empco family member Joe Sexton for just landing the END part in the new MackDawg video CHEERS!  Joe’s first pro model debuts this season and he’s already out swingin’ hard! First it’s cleaning up HCSC’s America’s Next Top Pro Model Rail Jam at Mt. Hood and now the ender part in the most anticipated shred flick of the season?   Joe is straight murdering it right now!

MN’s Zac Marben also has a part in the new video, so this is the must have video for anyone in the Midwest!   The Midwest’s top 2 slayers in the same vid is the only reason you need to spend your lunch money on CHEERS.  Time to visit your LOCAL shop!

After a long day on the road we stopped off to visit some old friends at House of 1817.  If you don’t know about House of 1817, now you do.  Keep an eye out!

For as long as I can remember we’ve been doing these Famous Dave’s BBQ outings whenever we’re in Minneapolis.  We started doing this like 7 years ago with Joe, Hodge, Jake Olsen-Elm and a few other 1817 cats.  Nothing like some good ol’ BBQ with good ol’ homies.

After BBQin it up we headed back to the 1817 crib to work on a special project that you’ll be seeing more about on EMPCO and 1817 very soon….

Japanese grassroots drifting at its finest….

Caught up on some reading this weekend… New snow mags have been hitting hitting mailboxes and local shops for a minute now.  Between the snow/surf/skate/auto mags I piled up this month, King Shit reigned supreme without a doubt.  One word… Quality.  No wonder the cover says The King Of All Skateboard Magazines…. Thanks to Crispin Cannon for sending us this issue!