The Shady Bunch Gallery

The Shady Bunch is a group of rather dubious people. And that doesn't mean they smoke a lot of doobies (well, actually...). It does, however, mean that these disreputable characters come into your town like an old-timey motorcycle gang with their funny outfits and oversized footwear, taking over and terrorizing your main squares. They dance around on handrails as if to say, "Look at us! You use handrails to help you get up stairs while we tap dance on them because we are just that awesome." The Shady Bunch comes through like a storm, dump a huge pile of snow and put on their little show, leaving nothing but destruction and devastation in their wake. We would like to show you some photos and videos that were taken on the two most recent sightings of this group of rail marauders as a warning. Warning: Viewer discretion is advised due to graphic radness. The first sighting was at the Rock A Rail in The Hague, followed shortly by a second at the Frontline Rail Jam in Stockholm. So be careful, The Shady Bunch might be running amok in your town square before you know it!

ROCK A RAIL
Connecting to the Method satellite in the livestream broadcast booth with ADT.Big gun + big muscles = David DoomShit is about to get seriously serious.Wotjek loves to get these contest tubes ready by lubing up a nice front board before really getting down to business.Ollie Dutton playing mind games and getting that spread eagle backside boardslide thru the kink.Denis Leontyev dropping a hot one off the balcony onto the down bar and putting that slippery Salomonder to the test.Mary Luggen streching out her hip with some aerial yoga during the ladies heat.Gina Somaini knee punched out of the rail jam early. The brightly-dressed people were there to help.Hillary Helgason ripped it up in the girls heat! Oh, wait the girls heat was over. That is none other than Captain Harold himself coming in hot!Since Air & Style got canceled Ethan Morgan decided he might as while send some rotations at Rock A Rail.Nothing trill about this fella, Will Smith tail tug to wall rub.Halldor tried to clear the close-out but his shred steed wasn't having any of it...Felix Engstrom going for the hardway back one gap out. He never really stuck it but watch his Daggers part to see him clock the shit out of this trick.Gulli Gundmunsson planting some fast moves onto the putting green.No way! You're stuck? Jesse Augustinus and Bonus about to help Dasha get out of the tree she was perched in.Halldor finally made it past the double close-out drop-off rail, backside wall scrape with a little fingerbang action. Man, that is mouthful! Halldor doesn't make it easy on us "reporters".Dominik Swagner pissed that his hat fell off,  he is going to add a little string to make sure it stays on from here on out.WIll Smith tuckin' and chuckin', tuck knee tweaker to boardslide.Max De Vries, tip grab to frontside lipslide. Look out for this 14-year old ripper at the Rock A Rail for like, the next decade.Cees Wille's shoulder wasn't feeling it and bailed on the rail jam early. Get better soon, buddy!Eiki Helgason working out the kinks as he gets harrassed by a phalanx of camera-wielding stalk-arazzi.Predictions and intense color commentary was going down in the broadcast booth. That bottle of vodka was also going down. Fast.Chris Cab crucifies his vocal cords for the Dutch masses.Chinese downhill!Double trouble, Len Jørgensen, the one-footed winner, & Wojtek Pawlusiak sharing a railsliding moment in the finals. True Bromance!It was Simon Houlind's birthday so his girlfriend and homies threw a pie in his face. How nice of them!


FRONTLINE RAILJAM

Onto Stockholm's Sergels Torg. Yep, the Shady Bunch made a white mess out of that place too.Zebbe Landmark's fans came out, both of them.Remember CD's? The 90's hip hop was thumping all day.Frontline hoodies were on every body. Tove Holmgren getting some coverage from local TV after winning the Rock A Rail the previous week and for being a generally badass shady babe.Wojtek with the standard frontside lube job to get the party started.Len was excited. You could tell cuz he started howling and grabbing his crotch MJ style.Zach Rawles 5-O, no problem-O.Tove getting sideways on the down bar before she went down and went straight to the bar.Artem Smolin likes to unstrap sitting down, it's more relaxing.Kas Money front blunted. He doesn't actually need to look where he's going. It's that easy for the little prick.Felix Engstrom feeding candy to children. Kids, don't trust this shady bunch!Especially not this guy! Halldor with big back lip thru the dip.Rachida serving up a back nose fajita, extra spicy.Zebbe leaving his (Land)mark on the DFD.The riders were mesmerized and the crowd was hypnotized. That photographer fell asleep, that little girl doesn't know what she is doing here and her brother just farted.Front 3 from big D. Denis Leontyev went full Hulk in Stockholm, FS270 to FS boardslide A Bataleon bromance, Jaeger Bailey & Ethan Morgan, it's about to get extra Euro in here. Jonte Lindhe nice n' precise on the kink rail. BS nose with a 270 slice out.Simon Houlind letting his natty dreads flow in the wind......but if you notice they don't really flow in the wind, I think there still pie in there from The Hague. There is definitely still pie in there.Jepa Rontti propelling himself at the DFD, but I forget what happens next...something awesome, no doubt."Her ass was this big!" Zebbe tells last night's story mid-bluntslide.There was some lady's boobs on one of those posters in the background. I swear. Anyway, check out Artem's frontside boobslide on the stinky kinky.Dina Treland about to drop it like it's hot!Len strapped his cap to his back pocket to balance out this front blunt through the DFD. Could we call this cheating, perhaps?Ethan doing his best Simple Jack impression after leaving another divot in the landing. Everybody knows you never go full retard!Eiki is a multi-tasker. He can dance the funky robot while while stomping the shit out of this back one switch 50-50 back to regs.Ethan & Ludde reading the sponsor list off the rail together. Front board courtesy of herr Ludwig Lejkner.Eirik Nesse about to get his Wookie on. Oh, apparently they are Norwegian pot-holders? I guess shit was getting too hot in the finals so Eirik had to bust them out.The host with the most, Kareem the Dream, showing these shady kids how to lock into a squared-up front board and avoid the dreaded "Twizzler effect".Rachida riding backup in the finals for the ladies after Tove had to take a seat. Thrashida handled that shit, no probs.Wojtek putting a mean lean on this nose slider.Ethan touches his toes every morning for 2 whole minutes to get ready for this one.Check him out, blasting off the launch pad with this rocket air to frontside lipslide.Toni the Kerkelator revving his engine through the kink on the back blunt.Halldor knows how product placement works: 7-9-13 belts keep your pants on and with that perfect sag height. Pushed out back tail, almost like a hurricane if he was skateboarding.Bonus riding the rails like he had magnets in his base. 27 in, 27 out. Props on 2nd place, homie!
Ah shit, I dropped my keys! Kas Lemmens with that look back hardway BS 270 in to fakie on the way out. Props on first place, you human preztel!Thanks to all the sponsors, riders, organizers, filmers, photographers, bars, coffee shops, livestream geeks and homies that helped make this happen. Stay shady, people & see you next rail jam season!

All photos by Dasha Nosova