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Heading to Las Vegas for the Collegiate Wake Nationals with Empire Wake.

Bachelor Party in Big Bear

Rocking out with my brobrahs in BigBear for the weekend at Austin Galante of The Bad Fathers hiphop rock band's bachelor party. Obviously the posts pretty much end at the introduction because, hey, it's just poor taste to tell about the happenings of a good bachelor party. But we're in Big Bear at Avalanche lake and it's amazing to get out of the city of LA and be in the wilderness.

This house we're staying at us amazing.

American Crew Forming Cream- Also offers a great product for natural looking hair

American Crew Forming Cream is another great product to get natural looking hair with some texture.

Lanza Urban Moulding Paste- Awesome Hair Product

Lanza Urban Moulding Paste:
Great hair product for soft spikes. This product will allow you to mess up your hair and separate chunks to give you that rockstar look.

Get some D:Fi Extreme Hold Styling Cream

I Highly recommend getting some D:fi Extreme Hold Styling Cream for all of you who want to spike up your hair.
This product is best for short to medium length hair and is an awesome cream for styling.

Epic Battle - The Exchange - Fencing and Swordfighting

The Most Epic Game of Chess Ever- The Exchange by Manifest Film.

So I've posted this once, but check out this second version of THE EXCHANGE, starring Machi Block and Yoshi Ando.
Share your thoughts-

Yoshi Ando is a very well known Japanese Actor in Hollywood. He's been in a lot of bigger movies and does great work.
This film piece was directed by Anthony Pietronomaco. In my opinion it's a masterpiece on swordfighting and swordfighting technique. While not everything in the choreography is orthodox, THE EXCHANGE is a fantastic blending of East vs. West swordfighting style. The white fencer is Machi Block (myself) trained in traditional fencing at Montana State University. I'm a gold medal winner in the Inland Empire division and have studied Epee, Sabre, and Foil.
The black kendo fencer is Yoshi Ando. He trains under one of the most well respected traditional Japanese sword fighters in Hollywood.

This was such a fun piece to try out. This version is edited as an Epic Chess Battle, as Fencing is often compared to mental chess.



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Got to start blogging more

Here's a quick video edit of our time in Arizona with the AWA and the Ski Pro Rail Jam. Next we're hitting up the Beaver Lake Wake Fest down in Arkansas. We've also started working with Robert Absher of Absher Films and also Windy Moose out of the Carolinas. We're stoked to keep digging deeper into our favorite wake scene and hope that all our fans out there keep spreading the love!

How to have cool hair- for guys

So a while back I was starting new in my life. I'd just broken up with my girlfriend of 3 years, I was graduating college soon, and I just wanted to find myself in a fresh way. Who was I really now, who did I want to be, what was the next stage in my life going to bring me? These were all questions I had to ask myself. After spending 3 years of your life in a relationship and then having that not be a part of your life anymore, you learn that you've based a lot of yourself on that one person. Now that she's gone though, who was I going to reset and become?

The first thing I wanted to do was grow my hair out. Why? I don't know, I just wanted a bit of a change. I needed a cool factor to help me feel back on top of my game. So I started looking for a new hairstyle that I could try. There were tons of youtube videos on asian guys hairstyles, anime, j-rock, etc... These styles were really cool. But there wasn't much out on the web for white guys, and definitely nothing for redheads.

So taking some inspiration from the asian hairstyle tutorials I was watching, and after coming across some other really cool styles from scandinavia (Sweden and Norway mainly) I decided to give it a go. 

I began messing with my hairstyle a lot. I made a couple of hairstyle tutorial videos, and before long I had gotten tons of views from all over the world. I realized that there are a lot of guys out there looking for unique and cool hairstyles, and by uploading a few videos, I could help inspire someone like I'd been inspired, to try something new and unique. 

So there you have it, a few videos by me on how to have awesome hair. Haha, enjoy and go crazy with your own. 

There are a few more hairstyle tutorials for guys on youtube that I've done. 

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Beards

I'm thinking about growing my beard out, what do you think?
Haha

Elevated Clothing Spring/Summer 2013

New EL3VATED TANK TOPS for Summer 2013

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Elevated New Tank Top Production

Today Zach and I spent most of the day out in the shop working like crazy, printing up new tank tops for the summer sports action fun. We're gearing up for the Empire Wake Collegiate Wake Championships in Vegas as well as a summer Fashion Show at the W In Westwood on April 27, a day before my birthday. Stay posted!

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AS I AM Music Video Featuring Machi Block and Elevated Clothing

A while back, sometime shortly after I moved to LA, I linked up with a band called "As I Am." They were shooting a music video for their new song Mr. Anxiety and I was brought in as an actor. I never got to see the finished product as the band broke up shortly after due to hard times in LA. However, they were really a very talented group and a great bunch of guys. My friend Daizo just shared this link with me and tonight was the first time I got to see the finished product.
Here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mpiLAR6i8&feature=g-all-u

Collegiate Wake Nationals, Red Carpet Events in Hollywood, Spreading like crazy

What's up FANS!! So much going on. Kavadba and Elevated is growing like crazy, spreading all around the world, and getting in tons of new events and areas. We're blessed!

Collegiate Wake Nationals presented by Empire Wake is coming up in mid April and we're one of the top sponsors. We're so stoked to be working with the ASU Wake Devils and Sac State Wake. These guys are going to kill it at the event!










Had a red carpet event last night in Hollywood: Manifest Destiny, put on by sikmix.com and lyricalwave.com, sponsored by Elevated Clothing. Check out their sites for some of LA's hottest DJ's and artists.

Andrew Schar Rocking Elevated

The incredibly talented singer/songwriter Andrew Schar from South Africa is now rocking Elevated Clothing! My brother, Zachary Block, used "Warrior Poet," by Andrew Schar in his feature film, "Fathoms Deep" and as a result we hooked up Andrew with a few shirts and a DVD.

It's a very cool thing to have someone as awesome as Andrew wearing our product. Of course, we have people as cool as him wearing it everyday, because we value all of our fans! But we checked out one of his youtube videos and sure enough, he must be loving the shirts because he seems to be wearing them frequently. We LOVE THAT!!

If you haven't had a chance to see Fathoms Deep yet, you can pick up a copy at the website http://www.fathomsdeepmovie.com It's been getting a lot of very quality reviews and is worth the purchase.

Thanks for your support Andrew!

SMASHBOX STUDIOS- Machi Block stars in The Exchange

This last week Smashbox Studios had their FACE OFF Competition featuring close to 100 works of art including photography and video. I was blessed to have starred in a film piece titled "The Exchange," shot by Anthony Pietromonaco which premiered at the FACE OFF Competition.

The Exchange is a very cool choreographed sword fight scene showcasing the differences and similarities between Eastern Japanese Sword Fighting and Western European Fencing. Because I was a Gold medal winning fencer in college at Montana State University, I was cast as the role of the European. Working closely with Anthony, we both choreographed the entire 3 piece fight scene and then cast the Asian fencer. It was my absolute pleasure to then work along side the very well known Yoshi Ando, bringing the choreographed sword fight up to speed and finesse. - "Letters from Iwo Jima," "The Pacific," "Good Soil," "War of the Wolves." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2090377/

Here is the video of us sword fighting. It was an incredible effort, shot on two RED cameras in SmashBox Studios in Hollywood, and worked by an amazing cast. I'm very appreciative to have been a part of it, and hope that you enjoy it.

http://vimeo.com/32480268