Johnathan Ball

JBall Ruff Bike Check 2025

After over 2 months of being injured from a broken rib, we’re back today to show off my current Ruff Glimmer build plus a short session. Shoutout to the sponsors Ruff, Master, and Resist for keeping the build fresh.

Trying something different with no music on this one. Let me know if you like this or prefer with music.

Shoutout Pizza for filming. His bike check coming next!

Off Track Ep. 35 – JAKOB SANTOS

Today we’ve got Jakob Santos in the virtual studio! This took me 3 days to edit so please watch and appreciate the effort that went into this.

We discuss his long history of action sports, riding for SE twice, his massive amounts of Fixed Gear success, switching to Bike Life, and so much more in this hefty 2.5 hour long episode.

Crew Defender 26 Promo

A while ago Deacon and I headed out to Hawaiian Gardens skatepark to film this fun little promo for the new Crew Defender 26 complete! CG finally posted up the full size promo on their YT. We had a lot of fun on this one and the bikes are a great entry level complete bike.

Bianchi Pista Concept 2004 Build + Ride

I finally acquired my holy grail bike, the Bianchi Pista Concept 2004. After getting it built up in my garage, I met up with Pizza and Deacon to ride to the beach and get a little flat ground session in and break in the build. 2009 me would be proud! Full res photos of the build to come soon. Enjoy!

SMC PARK SHMIXTAPE 2025

2025 park shmix with a real camera featuring most of the local squad casually filmed over the last few years!

Squad includes: Marco Marquez, Johnathan Ball, Corey San Agustin, Matt Spencer, Chase Henley, Max Vargas, Kareem Shehab, Deacon Wong, Lucas Petruzzelli, Jonathan Thompson, Jacob Santos, and Kris Sundet!

Farewell Courttek V1 Build

I’ve been riding this exact frame for nearly 3 years now. It’s technically the 2nd Master Courttek prototype and even has a special engraving on the bottom bracket with my name on it, which the production versions didn’t have. It’s time to say goodbye though.

My good friend Paul and I shot some final pics of the bike to commemorate it and put it to rest properly. I’m not usually that sentimental about my own bikes, but I’ve become really close with this one for probably obvious reasons. I never thought I’d have my name on a frame and I’m still blown away by the amount of people that wanted to buy a frame that had my name on it. Seriously big thank you to everyone who snagged one.

Why are we saying goodbye to it though? All that i’ll say for now is that it’s not because the frame is broken. RIP Courttek build, you served me very very well!

Full gallery and bike check after the jump.

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Volume Thrasher V1 Revamp + Ride

I recently revamped my Volume Thrasher V1. The old school style build was fun, but it was time to optimize it for better tricks and really deck it out to feel the best it can. After building it up I caught a session with the boys and got hurt pretty bad. Enjoy!

Side note, this is like the 3rd video involving a Thrasher V1 that we’ve thrown on the blog this week, wild coincidence.