United in Cali

Well United is back in Cali again filming for the video, but this time its Nathan and myself and the new world traveler Coxy for filming the stunts! Nathans flight got delayed so he doesn't get in till midnight now. James is fighting the heavy eye pretty bad. Here he is at 22 hours of of no sleep...


Here he is at 22 hours 30 min haha...



More to come later I'm sure

Back to TN

Made it back to TN last night around 2am after a 13 hour drive. Got up today rode Downtown. Nathan is back on his horse after a week off from a hurt foot. I head back home tomorrow night and Steve, Nathan, and Walter will be headed to Austin on Thursday to hit up some spots out there. I got Steve to do a couple move for me tonight so I could make an update tonight.

Dub Rail Hop


180 Dub Rail Hop

Steve De Busk

So we made it to Rochester last night and are staying at Steve's house for a few days. Went out today for a bit of a ride around. Steve is filming for a Props Bio so we went to a really cool spot in downtown. I had a chance to snap a shot of him to make an update for yalls. I on the other hand was not riding today cause I almost got KOed skating this quarter at Blackout today. I was doing some rock to fakies and I guess I got lazy and hung the trucks and fell straight to the back of my head haha. It hurt so bad. I got a mild case whiplash and a sore tailbone. I hope to be riding in the comp tomorrow but we'll see.

Trick or Treat Contest

I am in Boston at the moment going to ride the colored shape ledges today. Aaron Ross myself and Walter decided to drive up to that Trick or Treat contest from Nashville and thought it would be cool to go ride the shapes. Its like 6 hours out the way but oh well. Nathan was suppose to be with us but he hurt his foot and stayed home. We had the chance to stop be they city first. I called up Ed and hooked for a bit. I was pumped to get the tour of all the shops and even the Red Bull office there. Ed took me to see the Post, Front St, Dah Shop, and rolled through the Banks for about an hour, love that spot!

Back on it...Well kinda

Sorry for not really posting anything in a while, for all those that check this. We had this taking off for a while cause of the updating going on to the site. My computer decided to take a little holiday trip(*my hard drive crashed*)the day before the site got done. So I took it in to get looked at 2 days later, right before a 3 week trip. I didn't get it back til I got home. When I did get it back I didn't have Photoshop any more and still don't. I should have it next week sometime, I hope.

These are taken with my cell phone camera and no its not an ipnone....I get one the end of the month, after a long long long anticipated wait. I had to wait for my contract to end before I could switch to ATT, it was either that or spend $250 to buy out of it. I chose to wait so I could just get my wife one also with that money.

This was in Salt Lake while hanging out at the dour tour. Dakota wasn't there, but if he was he would have said something along the lines of "Hey BRO, why don't we just take my sweet bus back to the hotel".


This was during the vert contest at the SLC dour tour. Its Kagy doing an unturn down. I just happen to catch the house flashes! What are the chances of doing that again?

Uneven

So my back has been acting up on me for about a month 1/2 now. It has done this before, like 4 times now. I thought it would have been ok after about 3 weeks or so like before, but nope. I went to the chiropractor 3 times 2 weeks ago to try and see if that would help it get better before Will Stroud came to town trying to finish up some Levi's filming of Nathan and I but it wasn't working out so good for me. Back was not happy with me for trying to ride it off either. Nathan was able to get a few good things done down in BAMA and up in Nashville. I just shot photos of him haha wishing I could be riding with him.




Went to the Chiropractor again on monday just to give them another shot but this time I wanted to get another X Ray cause I haven't had one since the 1st time I went to visit, like 4 years ago. I was able to get some snaps of them from my phone just before I left. He said that my hips are UNEVEN and talked about how that was causing the pain in my lower back. Woke up today with less pain so I hope to back riding soon. I leave for the ESPY Awards Tuesday. Van Homan, Aaron Ross, Nigel, Garrett Reynolds and I are going to be doing a 15 min demo during the awards. I really want to be riding by then. Back home on Thursday for a few days then my wife and I are off for our cross country drive to the X-Games.

Should have some photos up from the awards show while i'm out there.

X-Games 14

Looks like Nathan will be joining me this year for his first ever X-Games. Congrats homie! I'm pretty psyched to see how it turns out for the US X games, being its first time for a "real street" contest.

40D is Back

Well after a wild last few weeks, better things seem to be working out for me. My home owners insurance was able to cover my loss of camera stuff that got stolen in Barcelona. Got a new body and better lens plus 2 nice tripods. Bought a 15mm fish out of my own pocket just because I have been needing one so I thought why not get it now. As soon as I got the stuff out of the box I messed around in the garage with my rigged up flash umbrella's. I have a real kit on the way but I already had these that needed to be tested. Afterwards I went out with Seth to try to get a few snaps. We got some pretty good stuff that I'm saving to see if any of his sponsors need them. I'll try to throw up a couple of the ones I wont use for anything.

My rigged up tripods.


Messing around with a mirror.


Testing a helmet for portraits shots.

Mocha being used for some shots.



Smokey in the window hanging out.

123...

On Friday I was dropped from the Primo team. I'm still not really sure exactly what happened, but I do know there're a lot of misconceptions about the situation, most of them coming from the press release put out by Primo.

First off, I'd like to say that United is not starting a parts company or really even expanding their line of parts other than maybe a couple of small items. In any case, I never had any plans of leaving Primo to ride United parts. I was completely happy there. I told Nate that several times, and I only had Ian call him to try and convince him as well. Ian wasn't dealing with Primo for me, he was just trying to back up what I had already told them.

Second, I don't know what bike checks or sponsor lists Primo is referring to. I'm pretty sure I list Primo as a sponsor every chance I get. I have occasionally run competitor's parts, but that was over a year and a half ago and only for about a week or so, and even then there was no bike check. And as far as stickers go, I always have Primo stickers on my bike. I'm sorry if Primo feels differently.

I didn't want to write this but I felt I had to clear things up on my part for the people who don't know me. Seeing Primo's press release really upset me because they could have come to me first about those issues. I don't want this to become a back and forth ordeal so this is my final word on the subject. What's done is done. I've had an amazing five years on Primo, and I appreciate everything they've done for me. I'm just really bummed on this whole situation. Not only did they kick me off the team suddenly and without a good explanation, but they publicly made me and United out to be the bad guys. I just wanted to clear a few things up and present my side of the story.

-- Corey Martinez

Primo

So I guess I'm off Primo as of today. The only thing I got from it was because I don't run enough stickers or I guess have the photographer take photos of me where the primo stickers are showing. I think there is more to it but they wouldn't tell me. It was a good 4 and 1/2 nearly 5 years.