Pizza's "Southwest Side Story" Photos

Being on the road with the Pizza crew is quite the experience. You have a bar back, an Uber driver, a business major—accompanied by several already accomplished scholars—an en route correctional officer and a couple full-time skateboarders. Luckily, everyone has the same agenda: get the hell out of Dodge and ride skateboards. Five states in 12 days was a task that required everyone to keep it eight more than 92 in a tightly-packed van spending every waking moment together. Luckily, the Pizza dudes are a tight niche. —Kyle Duval

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Ryan Martin gets the legs going with a switch 180 to start off the trip

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We got to this school as the sun was going down. Ducky Kovacs wasted no time putting together a few clips on this waist-high bar. Back 5-0

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Ducky, crooks

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The giant location pin we stole from a car dealership naturally turned into the new soccer ball for morning hype
    
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I’m not sure if Ducky is going through a Billy Idol phase or what. Anyways, here he snakes through a boardslide

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Bryan Whalen, aka RB, aka Big Red, aka my occasional Uber driver is a wizard on the board.  Wait until you see some of the lines he put together. Nollie noseslide

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We spotted this bar to bank from the highway and Jesse Vieira’s wheels started spinning.  Noseslide yank over

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These guys might read the Bible. Footy check in AZ

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Next up was TX. Ducky, feeble tail grab in the brisk town of El Paso

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Dirty Joe and Diego from El Paso took us around for a few days and showed us this virgin hubba. A little TLC and some truck rubs later and Andrew Dellas rolled away from this 5-0

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We made a bet and told Ducky we'd buy him a lap dance if he landed this Smith grind. Needless to say, everything is bigger in Texas. Right, Ducky?
 
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RB, switch ollie

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Ducky, fastplant

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No matter how many times I see this, it still blows my mind.  Michael Pulizzi, kickflip hippy jump

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Quick stop at the ol’ Grand Canyon

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Jesse, feeble transfer

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In skateboarding, sometimes getting lost can be a blessing. After a few boardslide attempts, Ducky switched it up and back 50-50d this beast first go

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Ducky, ollie over to frontside Smith

Ducky Ollie over back smith 2 1500pxThe cops gave us five minutes to skate this spot and Ducky fired off three tricks in our allotted time. This ollie over to back Smith was a rad one to witness