Old clip I found on youtube from 2006. Featuring Erik Mangal, Collin Welch and Nate. I wish this thing was still there.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Extra Tricks (9/17-20/09)
Monday me and Kyle Schmidt tride to skate the aluminum benches at the basketball courts in North Wales. There was a group of young kids there who had a skateboard and were playing basketball. They wanted to try out our boards and pretty much try everything we were trying haha. The one kid saw kyle waxing the benches and decided he wanted to do it. So for the rest of the time that little kid waxed the benches haha. After that we headed to Collin Fegals ramp. We had a good sesh and then kyle had to go.
I headed over to wedge after that. Joey Paone got a really sick bluntslide trick on the little bank if like 10 tries. He got real close to bs noseblunt sliding the big bank off the kicker. Joey Christoffers had this crazy set up on the quaterpipe. He set up the barrier on top of the quarterpipe and was trying to tailslide it but it kept sliding back. We tried a bunch of different ways so it wouldnt move. Erik even sat behind it and put his feet up against so it wouldnt move haha. It wasnt really working out so he gave up on that. I like to see creative stuff like that though.
Then I filmed erik do a line with a sick manny trick over the barrier onto the marble pad. Evan Howie got a nice single trick over the barrier onto the marble pad.
Thursday morning me and kyle hit up the Patrick Kerr skatepark. It was sick having the park to ourselves. I grinded the coping in the deep end of the bowl. Im sure a lot of people can do that but I was excited. Ive never skated a bowl like that.
Friday the 18th was jims birthday! happy 19th jim!
Saturday it was real nice out and it was Collin Bauders birthday! Happy birthday Collin! We skated wedge all day. Jimmy landed on bs lipslide kickflip out on the brick ledge. He got so close but didnt ride away from one. Hes gonna try it again soon. Chop got real close to nollie backlip fs 270 out. That trick looks so ackward to do. Kevin Pham got a nice fs 5-0 to front board on the brick ledge. Brian Panebianco got a crazy trick on the white bench.
Sunday we took a trip to Bethlehem. It was myself, Erik Mangal, Collin Bauder, Joey Christoffers, Collin Welch and Cory Quigley. Cory was showing us around and the first spot he took us to was real sick. There is a curb launch thing that goes down a really steep hill.
The first trick in this clip edited and filmed by Cory Quigley shows the spot
Right across the street from sidewalk spot there was this sick handrail at this school. Right as we were warming up cory was skating the little stairs next to the handrail. He landed and shot out and his board started going towards the street right as a car was coming down the street. Cory was chasing after the board but couldnt get to it in time. The car ran over the tail and board shot up into the air and smashed right into this other parked car. It was insane! it was so close to hitting cory and when he looked at the car he saw the board smashed the rearview mirror. We were out of there real fast after that.
Then we checked out the Bethlehem library. There is a lot of cool architecture there and in the whole city. Collin and Joey tried the double set there but it was real long with rough runway and landing. They got real close. Cory and Collin skated this ledge thing where you ride on a skinny ledge and ollie over a rail. Collin was getting close to heelflip and Cory got a bs 180. Then a cop showed up and luckily he was pretty cool and didnt give us any problems. He just told us to leave.
After that we spot searched for a while and found a downhill ledge. Right as we were getting kicked out Joey did a nice front tail on it. After that we checked out the local shop Homebase. I was surprised how nice it was. They had a really good selection of everything you would want and they were really cool people. They tried to tell us where some spots were but we had trouble finding them so after driving around in the sands casino parking lot looking for spots we drove back home.
Before I dropped Cory off we went over to the barrier spot me, bauder, and anthony krystopa made so Cory could film a trick. It was pretty dark and Cory's trucks were really bad. On the first go he hit the ramp wrong and flew over the barrier haha. It was pretty halarious. After a few more tries he got his trick and we called it a day. Overall a pretty good weekend of skating.
Featuring Alex Robinson, Jimmy Simpson, Collin Welch, Cory Quigley and Joey Christoffers. Corys fall still makes me laugh haha
I headed over to wedge after that. Joey Paone got a really sick bluntslide trick on the little bank if like 10 tries. He got real close to bs noseblunt sliding the big bank off the kicker. Joey Christoffers had this crazy set up on the quaterpipe. He set up the barrier on top of the quarterpipe and was trying to tailslide it but it kept sliding back. We tried a bunch of different ways so it wouldnt move. Erik even sat behind it and put his feet up against so it wouldnt move haha. It wasnt really working out so he gave up on that. I like to see creative stuff like that though.
Then I filmed erik do a line with a sick manny trick over the barrier onto the marble pad. Evan Howie got a nice single trick over the barrier onto the marble pad.
Thursday morning me and kyle hit up the Patrick Kerr skatepark. It was sick having the park to ourselves. I grinded the coping in the deep end of the bowl. Im sure a lot of people can do that but I was excited. Ive never skated a bowl like that.
Friday the 18th was jims birthday! happy 19th jim!
Saturday it was real nice out and it was Collin Bauders birthday! Happy birthday Collin! We skated wedge all day. Jimmy landed on bs lipslide kickflip out on the brick ledge. He got so close but didnt ride away from one. Hes gonna try it again soon. Chop got real close to nollie backlip fs 270 out. That trick looks so ackward to do. Kevin Pham got a nice fs 5-0 to front board on the brick ledge. Brian Panebianco got a crazy trick on the white bench.
Sunday we took a trip to Bethlehem. It was myself, Erik Mangal, Collin Bauder, Joey Christoffers, Collin Welch and Cory Quigley. Cory was showing us around and the first spot he took us to was real sick. There is a curb launch thing that goes down a really steep hill.
The first trick in this clip edited and filmed by Cory Quigley shows the spot
Right across the street from sidewalk spot there was this sick handrail at this school. Right as we were warming up cory was skating the little stairs next to the handrail. He landed and shot out and his board started going towards the street right as a car was coming down the street. Cory was chasing after the board but couldnt get to it in time. The car ran over the tail and board shot up into the air and smashed right into this other parked car. It was insane! it was so close to hitting cory and when he looked at the car he saw the board smashed the rearview mirror. We were out of there real fast after that.
Then we checked out the Bethlehem library. There is a lot of cool architecture there and in the whole city. Collin and Joey tried the double set there but it was real long with rough runway and landing. They got real close. Cory and Collin skated this ledge thing where you ride on a skinny ledge and ollie over a rail. Collin was getting close to heelflip and Cory got a bs 180. Then a cop showed up and luckily he was pretty cool and didnt give us any problems. He just told us to leave.
After that we spot searched for a while and found a downhill ledge. Right as we were getting kicked out Joey did a nice front tail on it. After that we checked out the local shop Homebase. I was surprised how nice it was. They had a really good selection of everything you would want and they were really cool people. They tried to tell us where some spots were but we had trouble finding them so after driving around in the sands casino parking lot looking for spots we drove back home.
Before I dropped Cory off we went over to the barrier spot me, bauder, and anthony krystopa made so Cory could film a trick. It was pretty dark and Cory's trucks were really bad. On the first go he hit the ramp wrong and flew over the barrier haha. It was pretty halarious. After a few more tries he got his trick and we called it a day. Overall a pretty good weekend of skating.
Featuring Alex Robinson, Jimmy Simpson, Collin Welch, Cory Quigley and Joey Christoffers. Corys fall still makes me laugh haha
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Mangalwood Promo
Heres a Mangalwood Promo edited by Collin Welch. Featuring Erik Mangal, Brian Panebianco, Tore Bevivino, Collin Welch, Matt Powell, Nate Welsh, Collin Bauder and Pat Dooney. Some classic wedgewood footage in there. Back when the plastic benches were still there.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Erik Mangal skating a barrier
Now that there is a barrier at wedge again I thought this clip was appropriate. Erik Mangal and im pretty sure its Collin Welch skatin the old barrier 3 years ago. The kickflip is so perfect and I really dont understand fakie ollieing that thing! Erik Filmed a sick manny trick with the new barrier the other day.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Extra Tricks (9/11-12-13/09)
Friday me and Kyle Schmidt skated Collin Fegals mini for a little and then had a good sesh at wedge before I went to work.
Saturday it rained all day so no skating. Pretty lame.
Sunday we started the day off at wedge. I filmed Collin Bauder do some nice lines using the banks and the new nipple at wedge. Theres a orange barrier at wedge again. We had a good sesh on that. Erik Mangal was poppin switch ollies and switch 180s over it. Chop and Tyler Lindsay were doing some good wallies up it and I learned one footed wallies up it.
Then we headed over to the Prudential rail. Chop, Collin Bauder and Joey Christoffers were skating, Kevin Nguyen and I were filming. The security guard kept circling around the parking lot but didnt say anything so we thought we were good to skate. Chop got a nice fs lipslide pretty quick. Joey got a sick crook on it and Collin was working on switch fs boardslides. Then joey started doing the sickest bluntslides to fakie on it. He landed on it a few times. One time he did a nice split and ripped his new pants.
Then a cop and the security guard rolled up. I knew it wasnt good when he parked me and joey in. The first thing he says is that were trespassing and were gonna get citations. He was a pretty big dick and the security guard was even worse. If the security guard would have just said something to us we would have left but instead he just calls the cops. The cop made it even worse when he said everyone that was under 18 has to get picked up by their parents. So Tyler, Chop, Joey and Kevin had to have their parents drive all the way there and pick them up. Kevins dad had to leave work early to come get him. The cop said were gonna get the citations in the mail and we will probably have to make a court appearance. Sweet!
After that I headed back to wedge. Erik Mangal and Evan Howie were doing some sick stuff on the manny pad. They set up the barrier in front of it and were doing tricks over it into manny. Im gonna film that stuff soon.
Overall not the best weekend of skating but some good stuff went down.
Heres a clip with some old and new extra tricks featuring Collin Bauder, Alex Robinson, Dave Hayes, Rob Martinelli, Pat McCullion, Joey Christoffers and Joey Paone.
The first clip of Collin is probably a year or so old. That was a crazy setup. Joey Christoffers would have definitely gotten that bluntslide if he got a couple more tries. We were gonna save Joey Paone's blunt half cab heel out but he got a better trick today that replaced it.
Saturday it rained all day so no skating. Pretty lame.
Sunday we started the day off at wedge. I filmed Collin Bauder do some nice lines using the banks and the new nipple at wedge. Theres a orange barrier at wedge again. We had a good sesh on that. Erik Mangal was poppin switch ollies and switch 180s over it. Chop and Tyler Lindsay were doing some good wallies up it and I learned one footed wallies up it.
Then we headed over to the Prudential rail. Chop, Collin Bauder and Joey Christoffers were skating, Kevin Nguyen and I were filming. The security guard kept circling around the parking lot but didnt say anything so we thought we were good to skate. Chop got a nice fs lipslide pretty quick. Joey got a sick crook on it and Collin was working on switch fs boardslides. Then joey started doing the sickest bluntslides to fakie on it. He landed on it a few times. One time he did a nice split and ripped his new pants.
Then a cop and the security guard rolled up. I knew it wasnt good when he parked me and joey in. The first thing he says is that were trespassing and were gonna get citations. He was a pretty big dick and the security guard was even worse. If the security guard would have just said something to us we would have left but instead he just calls the cops. The cop made it even worse when he said everyone that was under 18 has to get picked up by their parents. So Tyler, Chop, Joey and Kevin had to have their parents drive all the way there and pick them up. Kevins dad had to leave work early to come get him. The cop said were gonna get the citations in the mail and we will probably have to make a court appearance. Sweet!
After that I headed back to wedge. Erik Mangal and Evan Howie were doing some sick stuff on the manny pad. They set up the barrier in front of it and were doing tricks over it into manny. Im gonna film that stuff soon.
Overall not the best weekend of skating but some good stuff went down.
Heres a clip with some old and new extra tricks featuring Collin Bauder, Alex Robinson, Dave Hayes, Rob Martinelli, Pat McCullion, Joey Christoffers and Joey Paone.
The first clip of Collin is probably a year or so old. That was a crazy setup. Joey Christoffers would have definitely gotten that bluntslide if he got a couple more tries. We were gonna save Joey Paone's blunt half cab heel out but he got a better trick today that replaced it.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tyler Lindsay "Collective"
I met Tyler a few years ago through John Provencher. I liked the way he skated right away. He was always down to skate some crappy spot and thats why I like skating with him. The first trick we filmed was the bs boardslide to fakie on the physical theraphy banks in souderton. That spot sucks and is so hard to skate and he got a few tricks there. Tyler is always trying to rig up some sketchy spot. like his wallride on the barrier. He found a piece of wood somewhere and set that thing up. A perfect example is his pole jam in his part. That was at the telford library in the tennis court. The ground is really bad and there are a lot of cracks in it. Tyler found that pole somewhere and decided to push it under the broken blacktop and made a sick polejam out of it. It was real steep too.
Tylers stuff at the merck banks was sick. that spot is hard to get anything. He did the blunt to fakie so easily and fs 5-0 revert is so hard with that skinny path. The last trick in his part was insane. That bank spot is in perkasie and it's real high. I can barely get a good wallride on it and he managed to boardslide the top and make it look like nothing. good work!
Heres his part from our video "Collective" 2008. Filmed by Billy and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Jimmy Simpson
Tyler Lindsay Scary lookin drop in. I liked how geometric everything looked
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One of my favorite photos. Tyler Lindsay bs boardslide
I love wallride photos. Tyler Lindsay bs wallride
Tylers stuff at the merck banks was sick. that spot is hard to get anything. He did the blunt to fakie so easily and fs 5-0 revert is so hard with that skinny path. The last trick in his part was insane. That bank spot is in perkasie and it's real high. I can barely get a good wallride on it and he managed to boardslide the top and make it look like nothing. good work!
Heres his part from our video "Collective" 2008. Filmed by Billy and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Jimmy Simpson
Tyler Lindsay Scary lookin drop in. I liked how geometric everything looked
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One of my favorite photos. Tyler Lindsay bs boardslide
I love wallride photos. Tyler Lindsay bs wallride
Monday, September 7, 2009
Extra Tricks (August 31st - September 7th)
Monday we skate wedge. Joey Paone got real close to a back noseblunt on the big bank off the kicker we set up. John Kroesser got a sick noseblunt and switch bluntslide on it. He made it look so easy. Then we headed over to the Circuit city gap. Kevin Nguyen landed on front shuv like 5 or 6 times but didnt roll away. I give it to him for even trying that. Were gonna go back sometime.
check here for the attempts:
http://billysimpsonfocus17.blogspot.com/2009/09/extra-tricks-729-3009.html
Thursday we skated wedge. Chop, Mark Beids and Dustin did some sick tricks on the polejam. They set up the flat bar and did a bunch of sick combo grinds. Mark makes it look so easy. Justin let me use his sick fisheye lens so chop could film a nice line using the kicker and the little bank. Joey Christoffers got a massive kickflip off the kicker.
Friday I turned 21! Erik bought me my first legal beer. Thanks Erik! He also filmed a sick line on the manny pad and ledge.
Saturday me, jimmy, kevin pham and herb went down to the city. Jimmy showed us his apartment and we cruised around the city for a while. We found these c ledges that were pretty hard to skate. Jimmy got real close to a front board pop out trick. Then we skated to city hall. Kevin got really close to front 3 shuv over the 6 stair but didnt ride away. I give it to him for even landing on it. I dont get that trick at all.
Kevin needed some help getting on this thing so herb let him stand on his shoulders haha.
Herb probably organizing the next fight club match haha.
Jimmy sizin it up
Jimmy trying to front board and pop out over to regular on the other side. He got real close.
Herb caught me mid yawn.
Jimmy got a little tired
Sunday me and jim had a family birthday party so we skated wedge for a little in the morning. Collin Bauder came back from school for the weekend. Him and some people built a little nipple at wedge. Its really fun. Good work guys! Joey Christoffers and Collin killed it. Im pretty sure they got the first kickflips on the nipple. Overall a fun week of skating.
Monday was labor day so most places were closed. We started out at this 9 stair in souderton. I havent been there in a few years when my buddy ollied it. Chop stepped it up and 5050 the rail! it was pretty scary. The run up is bad and there is a wall at the bottom of the rail on the side that would mess me up. But after a few falls he did it real clean.
Then we went and checked out the physical theraphy bank in souderton. I forgot how sketchy that was. It so hard to skate. Then we went over to the grass gap to manny pad in telford. My brother jimmy killed that thing over the years. He got kickflip manny, fs 180 switch manny, ollie to nose manny and heelflip manny over it. Me and kevin pham skated it together. I got switch fs 180 manual and kevin got fs 180 manual. I took way longer to do my trick. Thanks for filming chop!
We checked out a couple other spots and then headed to the alderfer 2 stair ledge/manny pad in Harleysville. Chop landed on fs lipslide to manny shuv out but didnt roll away. Tyler fs lipslid the whole thing to fakie. After that we checked out another rail for chop to do at pilgrims pride. Im pretty sure tannor west feebled it a while back. Chop was testing it out but we got kicked out before anything could go down. Overall a fun day.
check here for the attempts:
http://billysimpsonfocus17.blogspot.com/2009/09/extra-tricks-729-3009.html
Thursday we skated wedge. Chop, Mark Beids and Dustin did some sick tricks on the polejam. They set up the flat bar and did a bunch of sick combo grinds. Mark makes it look so easy. Justin let me use his sick fisheye lens so chop could film a nice line using the kicker and the little bank. Joey Christoffers got a massive kickflip off the kicker.
Friday I turned 21! Erik bought me my first legal beer. Thanks Erik! He also filmed a sick line on the manny pad and ledge.
Saturday me, jimmy, kevin pham and herb went down to the city. Jimmy showed us his apartment and we cruised around the city for a while. We found these c ledges that were pretty hard to skate. Jimmy got real close to a front board pop out trick. Then we skated to city hall. Kevin got really close to front 3 shuv over the 6 stair but didnt ride away. I give it to him for even landing on it. I dont get that trick at all.
Kevin needed some help getting on this thing so herb let him stand on his shoulders haha.
Herb probably organizing the next fight club match haha.
Jimmy sizin it up
Jimmy trying to front board and pop out over to regular on the other side. He got real close.
Herb caught me mid yawn.
Jimmy got a little tired
Sunday me and jim had a family birthday party so we skated wedge for a little in the morning. Collin Bauder came back from school for the weekend. Him and some people built a little nipple at wedge. Its really fun. Good work guys! Joey Christoffers and Collin killed it. Im pretty sure they got the first kickflips on the nipple. Overall a fun week of skating.
Monday was labor day so most places were closed. We started out at this 9 stair in souderton. I havent been there in a few years when my buddy ollied it. Chop stepped it up and 5050 the rail! it was pretty scary. The run up is bad and there is a wall at the bottom of the rail on the side that would mess me up. But after a few falls he did it real clean.
Then we went and checked out the physical theraphy bank in souderton. I forgot how sketchy that was. It so hard to skate. Then we went over to the grass gap to manny pad in telford. My brother jimmy killed that thing over the years. He got kickflip manny, fs 180 switch manny, ollie to nose manny and heelflip manny over it. Me and kevin pham skated it together. I got switch fs 180 manual and kevin got fs 180 manual. I took way longer to do my trick. Thanks for filming chop!
We checked out a couple other spots and then headed to the alderfer 2 stair ledge/manny pad in Harleysville. Chop landed on fs lipslide to manny shuv out but didnt roll away. Tyler fs lipslid the whole thing to fakie. After that we checked out another rail for chop to do at pilgrims pride. Im pretty sure tannor west feebled it a while back. Chop was testing it out but we got kicked out before anything could go down. Overall a fun day.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Vinni Prosseda and Kyle Schmidt
Vinni Prosseda crooked grind. Photo by Billy Simpson
Old photo of Vinni on the way home from philly.
Old photo of jimmy, vinni and John Provencher at wedge
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Vinni filming his manny shuv at penns landing with Jimmy filming
All of Vinni's footage was from fall and winter 2008. Me and him would get out of school early at Montco and go straight to wedge. He kind of got out of skating once spring and summer came. A lot of that had to do with his knees bothering him. We had a lot of fun skating and filming this stuff. I remember we both learned pole jams the same day. The next day he filmed the line with the bs flip and I learned fs 180s out.
The day we went to Philly we met up with Vin a little later at the china banks. I remember he just learned boardslides on the quaterpipe at wedge and this was a perfect set up for it. He did it perfect but I missed the trick! I felt bad making him do it again haha. The crook shuv in ambler was a surprise trick. I dont think he had ever done it before and he landed like 3 that day. The bs flip on the bank at philly was sick. That thing is pretty hard to skate. The Penns landing manny shuv was really surprising. He got that first try when we started filming. I remember thinking I filmed it bad and he did it 3 more times haha. Sorry Vinni! Vinni said he wants to start coming out again so hopefully he will have some stuff in our new video coming soon.
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Kyle always has something weird to show us. Here we were listening to this really weird ring tone he had haha.
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Kyle at wedge years ago
Kyle's kickflip attempt at the dustbowls 3000. He landed on it a few times but didnt ride away. I still like the photo.
Kyle has always been the type where I would have to kind of persuade him into filming haha. I try to capture them as there going on but he usually does them off camera. I remember being surprised by the lipslide to nosegrind. That was really random. I like those kind of tricks. Also the tailslide on the up ledge. That spot is so hard to skate. I've never filmed anyone else land something on that. The run at wedge was awesome. I told him I had just learned crook 3 shuvs and that he should try it and he learned them that day.
Heres Vinni and Kyles part from our video "Collective" 2008. Filmed by Billy and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Jimmy Simpson.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Extra Tricks (8/29-30/09)
A good weekend of skating. Saturday we started out at the Souderton Highschool. Everytime I go there more and more stuff is torn down. Chop ollied the 11 on this oldschool vision board. I really cant believe he did that, that thing is so hard to skate. Kevin Pham got so close to bs 180ing the 11. Then on one try he knew he didnt have enough speed so he tried to jump the stairs. He landed on the last stair and slipped out and landed right on the last stair ass first. That was pretty scary, He couldnt breathe and he was shaking. I really thought he broke his tailbone or something. luckily he was alright after an hour or so.
Kevins Parkour impression. didnt go to well.
Kevin bs 180 11 attempt. Check the clip for the attempt.
Chop ollie 11 on the oldschool board. He got it in 4 or 5 tries.
Then we headed to wedge. Randomly we decided to stop at China bump cause jimmy said he wanted to switch fs bigspin it. After 10 or 15 tries he got it perfect! good work jim. Chop got real close to a fs wallride and took so slams. Tyler got real close to switch bs 180.
After that we headed to wedge. We set up a launch ramp onto the big bank at wedge. Chop got a nice nosegrind pop in on it and Anthony Krystopa got a noseslide on it. Kevin Pham got a fs 5-0 revert on the bank. I landed a wallie noseslide and wallie crook on the white bench. I was pretty hyped!
Sunday Jimmy left for school and hes living in the philly now. Good Luck Jim! Sunday me and chop went on a mission together to this rail. It is a 17 stair round rail that is ridiculous! It really just seems like a snowboard rail. There is no runway so he had to go really slow and just balance it. It was on a slight angle and really long. Everytime he got halfway down he would lose his balance and jump off onto the stairs. Then one try he held on through the whole thing and rode away! We were both completely shocked haha. Definitely the craziest thing ive ever seen and filmed.
After that we met up with Kevin Pham and Tyler Lindsay. We headed over to wedge and had a quick sesh. Then we went spot searching around norristown. We found this awesome pole jam at a closed down dealership. It was set up right over a grass gap. Chop got super close to landing it but fell cause the ground was so messed up. Then tyler got two in a row! I landed a one footed pole jam over it. Thanks for filming Chop!
Me doing a one footed pole jam and chop filming. Photo by Kevin Pham
Tyler Lindsay Pole jam, me filming. Photo by Kevin Pham
Then we headed to this spot in Audubon that we skated a couple weekends before. Kevin got a nice run. He did a pole jam and then bs 180 over the barrier. I landed on nollie bs shuv manny fs shuv out probably 7 or 8 times on the manny pad but couldnt get a good one. it was pretty frustrating. Thanks for filming so long kevin! Overall a really fun weekend.
Kevins Parkour impression. didnt go to well.
Kevin bs 180 11 attempt. Check the clip for the attempt.
Chop ollie 11 on the oldschool board. He got it in 4 or 5 tries.
Then we headed to wedge. Randomly we decided to stop at China bump cause jimmy said he wanted to switch fs bigspin it. After 10 or 15 tries he got it perfect! good work jim. Chop got real close to a fs wallride and took so slams. Tyler got real close to switch bs 180.
After that we headed to wedge. We set up a launch ramp onto the big bank at wedge. Chop got a nice nosegrind pop in on it and Anthony Krystopa got a noseslide on it. Kevin Pham got a fs 5-0 revert on the bank. I landed a wallie noseslide and wallie crook on the white bench. I was pretty hyped!
Sunday Jimmy left for school and hes living in the philly now. Good Luck Jim! Sunday me and chop went on a mission together to this rail. It is a 17 stair round rail that is ridiculous! It really just seems like a snowboard rail. There is no runway so he had to go really slow and just balance it. It was on a slight angle and really long. Everytime he got halfway down he would lose his balance and jump off onto the stairs. Then one try he held on through the whole thing and rode away! We were both completely shocked haha. Definitely the craziest thing ive ever seen and filmed.
After that we met up with Kevin Pham and Tyler Lindsay. We headed over to wedge and had a quick sesh. Then we went spot searching around norristown. We found this awesome pole jam at a closed down dealership. It was set up right over a grass gap. Chop got super close to landing it but fell cause the ground was so messed up. Then tyler got two in a row! I landed a one footed pole jam over it. Thanks for filming Chop!
Me doing a one footed pole jam and chop filming. Photo by Kevin Pham
Tyler Lindsay Pole jam, me filming. Photo by Kevin Pham
Then we headed to this spot in Audubon that we skated a couple weekends before. Kevin got a nice run. He did a pole jam and then bs 180 over the barrier. I landed on nollie bs shuv manny fs shuv out probably 7 or 8 times on the manny pad but couldnt get a good one. it was pretty frustrating. Thanks for filming so long kevin! Overall a really fun weekend.
Extra Tricks (8/22-23/09) and Game of Skate #2
As Saturday Me, Alex Robinson and Tyler Lindsey met up with Tyler, Pat Hennigan and Pat McCullion at Colin Fegal's mini ramp. Then we went spot searching for a while. We spotted a huge deer at one spot. That was pretty awesome haha. Then we headed to wedge. Travis Iffrig got a sick nollie bs 5-0 across the planter. At the end of the line he ollied one of the brick ledges long ways! He made it look so easy.
Sunday was a good day. I picked up Tyler Lindsey and Alex Robinson and met up with Pat McCullion at the Souderton Highschool. I haven't skated there in years and there gonna tear it down soon so we figured we should skate it. I graduated from Souderton and me and my friends grew up skating there. It always brings back memories skating in the courtyard. Im gonna miss it when they tear it down. Pat McCullion got a nose manny across the long skinny ledge near the 11, that my brother Jimmy 5050 like 4 or 5 years ago. The drop is 5 or 6 feet high and coming out of nosemanual would be pretty scary. He made it look easy. Chop was messing around fs 5-0ing the rail on the 5 stair. He was just messing around but I still think it was sick. Then we had a firecracker session down the 4 and 5 haha. That was pretty fun.
Later on we went to Davis' Game of Skate at the Harleysville Courts. There was probably 15 to 20 kids in the competition. Of course I had to play Pat McCullion for my first match so I got taken out haha. There were a lot of good games but my favorite was Erik Mangal and Jimmy's game. They went back and forth for a while but Jimmy ended up winning. It ended up being Brian Panebianco in Third place, Pat McCullion in Second and Tore Bevivino in First place. The whole thing was sick. Thanks to Pat Owens for bringing the boxes and kicker to the courts and to Davis for organzing the whole thing. Good work Davis!
After that me, Tyler Lindsey, Kevin Pham and Tim Mchllhenny went to the Landis in Harleysville. We had a good session on the manny pad. Tim got a switch flip manny, I got a nollie fs bigspin manny, and Kevin got a sick hardflip manny. Me and Kevin really didn't expect to land our tricks, so it was a really good feeling leaving there landing tricks we've never done before and getting them on film. Overall it was a fun weekend.
Check the extra tricks (8/29-30/09) for a clips from this weekend.
Sunday was a good day. I picked up Tyler Lindsey and Alex Robinson and met up with Pat McCullion at the Souderton Highschool. I haven't skated there in years and there gonna tear it down soon so we figured we should skate it. I graduated from Souderton and me and my friends grew up skating there. It always brings back memories skating in the courtyard. Im gonna miss it when they tear it down. Pat McCullion got a nose manny across the long skinny ledge near the 11, that my brother Jimmy 5050 like 4 or 5 years ago. The drop is 5 or 6 feet high and coming out of nosemanual would be pretty scary. He made it look easy. Chop was messing around fs 5-0ing the rail on the 5 stair. He was just messing around but I still think it was sick. Then we had a firecracker session down the 4 and 5 haha. That was pretty fun.
Later on we went to Davis' Game of Skate at the Harleysville Courts. There was probably 15 to 20 kids in the competition. Of course I had to play Pat McCullion for my first match so I got taken out haha. There were a lot of good games but my favorite was Erik Mangal and Jimmy's game. They went back and forth for a while but Jimmy ended up winning. It ended up being Brian Panebianco in Third place, Pat McCullion in Second and Tore Bevivino in First place. The whole thing was sick. Thanks to Pat Owens for bringing the boxes and kicker to the courts and to Davis for organzing the whole thing. Good work Davis!
After that me, Tyler Lindsey, Kevin Pham and Tim Mchllhenny went to the Landis in Harleysville. We had a good session on the manny pad. Tim got a switch flip manny, I got a nollie fs bigspin manny, and Kevin got a sick hardflip manny. Me and Kevin really didn't expect to land our tricks, so it was a really good feeling leaving there landing tricks we've never done before and getting them on film. Overall it was a fun weekend.
Check the extra tricks (8/29-30/09) for a clips from this weekend.
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