Charlie Butters

I was just thinking about my brother Charlie B.
When we used to do Hand Plant Sessions in parking lots, when you and a bunch of other skaters stand in a circle while one skater goes into the middle and does a Hand Plant. The ulitmate hand plant was the "Ho Ho" Its when you do a hand plant and go into a hand stand and walk around with you board. You can then do all kind of tweaks.
Usually in a Hand Plant Session, you are trying to show your homies what you got right...
always trying to one up the other dude, like a break dance circle. Anyway.

Charlie used to do all kinds of Ho Ho's. One of them was when he went into a Ho Ho, tweaked it a couple of times, then walked out of the circle on his hands, with the board tweaked in some way and walk out of the parking lot around the building until you couldn't see him anymore then skate back.

It was so rad.
He used to ride a Shut Board or Sam Cunningham.
He was one of the first Shut Riders until for some reason he didn't ride for them anymore, so he started his own company with friend Ian McCarthy called Nimbus Skates.

Him and Ian would soon hand pick the best skaters in the New York City vicinity.
and have one of the best skate teams on the East Coast. Most of the riders became the first riders for Zoo York. Some of them include: Jeff Pang, Peter Bici, Peter Huynh, Bob Puleo, James Lynch, Justin Pierce, Rich Arbitelle, Qulon Douglas, Brian Loki, Ryan Hickey.

It's a little bit of a long story which I would like to write a book about, possibly called East Coast Skate Stories