The amazing Ammon

Today's post is to celebrate one of the most innovative, inspiring pieces of art and imagination ever laid before our eyes. Ammon is wondrous to behold. He blends the perfect amount of style, imagery, emotion, and hollucinagenic mind trips to make you question reality and want to fly.

Ammon is one of the best friends you could possibly ask for. He's the funniest person I know, and one of the smartest as well. Just having him around makes whatever it is that you're doing a million times better and funner. This entire year, it's been our goal to have another Ammon part in our video, and we were able to pull one off last minute. Ammon flew in Wednesday night, we got up Thursday morning and filmed and edited his part, we put it with the rest of the video, and we had the premier the next day. This was at the point where I had lost touch with reality and feeling in my legs, and I just didn't care anymore. I had a wedding in two days and hours left to go with working on the video. But making Ammon's part was like a quick little gust of fresh air that helped me keep going...

Ammon is like the Reptile of Bolts of Thunder. You know, Reptile from Mortal Combat who only comes out when you beat Johnny Cage flawlessly on the bridge during a full moon and you finish him off with a fatality. Then Reptile comes out from the spikes at the bottom, and you have to fight him. He's pretty much just a greet Scorpion or Sub Zero. I don't know if he even has any cool moves. He wasn't on the cover of the first game, and you couldn't be his character. But by the second or third Mortal Combat, he was a regular player, and you could even be him as you battled your way to eternal bloody glory. But Ammon's not going to sell out, and he's always going to remain the secret rider. We made his part easier to watch than it is to fight Reptile, it's not secret at all. We didn't want to hide our brightest star under a bushel.

Ammon's part is fun, it makes me laugh, and it brings us back to our roots of good old fashioned skateboarding with your friends, no matter what they can or can't do on a skateboard. It's fun to watch, and it makes me want to go bomb a grass hill sitting down. Thanks Ammon for the good times and imagination...