A few weeks ago, Chris Martindale took a quick trip up to Alaska and sent over some photos. He’s got a family full of “boat” people. His dad is part owner of a boat yard that does really nice yacht remodels (that’s where Chris works) and his uncle owns fishing/research boats, that Chris has spend numerous summers on with his cousin Mike Leask when they were kids.
“I help my uncle and cousin drive there fishing boat from Seattle to Sitka. Its a 5 day trip, basically driving a thousand miles at parking lot speed. The trip was a lot of fun, but I dont understand why people would live up there this time of year. It snowed everyday on us. Here’s some photos.”
Brian Chase put together a video with Chris Martindale and our friend Joe Pennell for the Nike Aprentice contest (I think). The video is a mix of new clips with clips from Brian’s video Fresh Fish and Chris has some amazing clips. Check it out!
So, we’ve been hooking up Chris Martindale for a while and we are not sure why it took so long, but you can check him out on our team page now! Chris just dropped a REALLY good web video and we are going to be doing a bunch of stuff with him on the site soon!
I was actually riding with Chris a few hours ago and snapped a few shots that we used on his team page. Chris is an amazing dude and we are psyched to have him on the team!
Chris Martindale just sent over some photos of his tattoo. He got the shading done a week or so ago and is going in for another session real soon… I think Chris is completely nuts, but I’m sure a lot of people are stoked on it… I know Chris is!
Chris Martindale has been one of my best friends for almost 10 years now. We met riding bikes at the Greenlake jumps in Seattle and since I moved from Seattle to Vancouver a few years ago, he has spent many weekends up here visiting and riding the parks. We have been hooking Chris up with bikes for a bit and while he was in Vancouver visiting last summer we just started to film some random stuff and it ended up turning into an edit for the website. Along with the footage from Vancouver there are a few clips from our trip to California, some stuff I filmed with him in Seattle, and bunch of great stuff with Steve Machuga. And even though it took me a while to put it together I’m super psyched to have a full edit of Chris for the site!
Our good friend Chris Martindale had his first session on his sleeve the other day. Prior to this, Chris didn’t have any tattoos and definitely jumped in head first with his first one! There’s still a lot more to go and I think he’s getting it all done real soon, so we’ll post some more photos when he gets the color going and stuff… I filmed with Chris a bunch recently and I’m just finishing up a webit for the MacNeil site right now, so keep your eyes posted for some shredding from Chris! Yeah, that’s right, I said it… WEBIT!
Jay, Travis Collier, Chris Martindale, and I headed down to L.A. to check out the Nike Lightning Bolts art show, hang out with Gary Young, and do some riding. The trip was awesome and It’s always rad to chill with our friends in California. The trip started with Jay and I driving down to Seattle to meet up with Chris Martindale, we got a cheep flight out of Seattle, so Travis met up with us later in the night after taking the train down…
The first day in LA was the Nike Lightning Bolts show and we had a blast. The show was rad and Travis and I had plates in it. The next day, we rode some street and had a night session at the Santa Monica park. On Friday, we headed down to San Diego to ride with Gary. It took us a bit to get down, but we had a lot of fun with Gary. Saturday, we were back in LA, where I hosted an art class with Nike, then we hit a birthday party for Jim Bauer and Mike Ardeleans friend. After an hour and a half sleep, we were up and on a plane back to Seattle.
