Pat McCullion "Collective"

I met Pat probably 4 or 5 years ago. He always dressed little different and skated a little different then everybody else haha. Watching Pat skate you can tell he doesnt really pay attention to the skateboard world, he really just does his own thing. His favorite skater growing up was Rodney Mullen. When I first met Pat a lot of the skating he did was freestyle stuff haha. I can tell it helped him with his skating. His balance when it comes to manuals is pretty insane. He can do some many different combinations of manual tricks. He can do a lot of weird flip tricks too. He is definitely one the harder people to be in skate haha. Pat would come to the boys and girls club when I would be working out in the skatepark. He was so consistent with everything. He would do his lines over and over til he got them perfect. Everytime we had a competition there he would always be in the top 3.

The first day we actually went out skating with him we went to the Landis pad in Harleysville. He did a heelflip manny, double flip manny, half cab flip manny, and fakie bigflip manny in about 20 minutes. It was pretty crazy. Another day we went to the Quakertown 6 set in the hallway. Pat's pop shuvit down it was perfect.

One of the earlier times I started skating with him we filmed his manny tre flip out on the granite pad. I was shocked. That pad is pretty short for flip tricks out of manny and he was getting it every other try.

Devon Russell has some tricks in Pat's part. I met Devon a long time ago too. Him and Pat grew up skating together. Devon is the type of kid that wont skate for months and just come out and throw himself down something. I remember him telling me he fs 180d the Souderton 11 and he said he would do it again if I wanted to film it. He called me up the one day and said he was at the highschool and would try it if we wanted to come up. He ollied it real quick and started going for the 180. He took some really hard slams probably 5 or 6 times and then he got it perfect! Right after he landed it and we were leaving we saw cops coming up. Perfect timing.

I was really impressed with pats manny inward heels. He can do these pretty consistently too so we just went to the CVS pad in Souderton and filmed one. It didnt take him very long to get a good one. Pat could kickflip out of manny everytime so I told him he should try 5-0 kickflip. He learned them pretty fast.

Some other tricks that I really liked was the manny kickflip to manny in Telford. Chop had to stand in the street to block this car from hitting Pat as he was riding away haha. These people started yelling at us right when he landed it. That same day we went up to ames to refilm his kickflip manny tre flip out. I couldnt believe how easily he could do it.

Pat's new stuff for our video "Framework" is looking even better.


Pat blunt grab to fakie at the merck banks


360 flip some random circle 5 stair. Pat actually did this twice. Perfect both times.





Pat, John and AJ in philly

Joey Christoffers Footage

Joey just got a new GL2. Here's some of the first stuff he filmed at wedgewood. I dont even know how these guys were skating. It was so cold today. Featuring Collin Bauder, Collin Welch, Erik Mangal, Jeff Colombo, Joey Christoffers and Tore Bevivino. I could watch Collin Bauder do halfcab noseslide 270's all day.



Another clip Joey Christoffers filmed of Erik Mangal at wedgewood. Erik always comes up with some complicated lines that I could never do.

Alex Robinson "Collective"

It feels like we have been skating with chop for so long now but I guess its only been a little over a year. Chop is always a fun person to skate with. He always gets me excited to try something new. He is one of my favorite people to film too. There were so many times tricks chop did that I couldnt believe. Things that I had never even seen him try before he would get in a few tries. He is always down to try something really sketchy and he usually walks away without any injuries.

Chop would always have days where he would just get 4 tricks in a day. One day that really stands out to me was in the summer when Me and Jimmy were on family vacation in Ocean City, New Jersey and Chop was down at the same time. Chop found this spot where it was a skinny ledge with a rail right next to it. A lot like the Drexel one but way harder. Me and Jim couldnt skate it but Chop got a bs feeble and bs smith really easily. Then later on we were cruising around and I spotted this sketchy pole jam that chop ended up doing. Then chop spotted this rail with a barely any ride up. He slid it a couple times with a bs board and after a few tries he got it no problem.

One day that stood out to me was when we went to the swenksville flat spots in the woods. Chop was skating the top of this high bench. Chop did a bs crook on it before but I accidentally taped over it so we went back and he did the crook even better. Then he pulled a really nice bs smith out of nowhere.

Chop gettin some air off a wooden kicker at the swenksville flat spots. I miss that spot.

A few tricks that really surprised me were the kickflip back tail and the fs hurricane run on the metal edge ledge at wedgewood. Chop has just learned kickflip back tails at the boys and girls club the day before and just did it the next day on that ledge. The one day we were at wedge and I had to go to work so I told chop that he could try the line with the hurricane once but I had to go. The first time he tried the line he got it haha. We left right after.

The ollie over the perkasie rail was one of my favorite tricks. I really liked the way he did it. The boardslide on the rainbow rail thing in perkasie was crazy and really spur of the moment. It had really sketchy ride up and it was long and high. Chop is the only person I know who can bail on handrails and not get hurt. He stood up a few times on it after a few tries he got it perfect. Right after he landed two guys came out screaming at us. Perfect timing.

Chop always gets something at China Bump. I have a hard time skating this spot but he managed to get a trick there pretty everytime we went. We went there one day and chop did a quick bs pop shuvit over it. Then he started trying bs flip. I remember him saying something like dont make fun of me cause I cant really do this trick. Id never even seen him do it on the ground and within probably ten tries he got the biggest bs flip over it. That was pretty shocking. Chop was the first person I had seen skate china bump with the cart next to it. I remember the first time he put it there and did the crook, me and tyler were freaking out haha. He did it probably first or second try. Then when we went back he did a bs 5-0 and a bs lipslide. The backside lipslide looked so good.

Chop surprised himself when he landed the halfcab kickflip over the city hall 6 set haha. He had tried it for awhile another time we skated there and after a bunch of tries he got one that was perfect. He had the biggest smile on his face after he landed it. Chop thought the gap to 5050 in Lansdale was easy and really wanted to fs smith it but my friend jeff colombo got a big ticket there so we never went back. I was shocked at how he just went for it. I only know a few people who have done anything on there and chop made it look easy.

Overall I really like Chops part and his new part for our video "Framework" that were trying to finish sometime in 2010 is looking even better.

bs 5050 shellys ledge. This ledge is seriously so hard to do anything. Its a lot higher then it looks. Before chop did this I had only seen people do noseslides and boardslides. bs 5050 is sick. plus there is a chance you could fall backwards into the stairwell


5050 gap to rail


Half cab kickflip city hall 6


Boardslide hatfeild rail

16MM Wedgewood Short Documentary by Brian Panebianco

Penny made this sick, little documentary about wedgewood. Pennys footage turned out really great. I got to film Pennys front tail 270. It was really fun using that camera. I love the first shot of Bauder riding and Tore's front blunt looks so good. All of the tricks filmed were first try too. 16MM footage is not cheap so everybody had to be on point haha.

Billy Simpson "Collective"

My part from our video "Collective" 2008. I thought my brother did a really good job on the edit. Its short but I worked really hard trying to get some tricks to make a part. While we were filming I hurt my ankle pretty bad and couldnt skate for a while.

Their are a few tricks I was pretty proud of. I was pretty happy with the nollie shuv manny 180 out. I had just learned fs 180's out of manual and that manny pad at Kids of America is perfect for harder manual tricks. I thought Jimmy filmed it really well too.

The Taildrop off that metal railing doesnt look to hard but that bank is pretty steep and really rough. I would always pass it driving to wedge and one day me, Jimmy and John Provencher stopped in their to check it out. I took some falls and after a few times I got it. Right as we were driving out we saw a guy coming out of the building to kick us out. Thats always a good feeling haha.

I learned pole jams kind of late. Me, Vinni Prosseda and Mike Yandoli learned them together one day at wedge. The next day we came back to wedge and I filmed the pole jam fs 180 and vinni got a line with a regular pole jam. It was a really good feeling learning something new and getting it on film at the same time.

A couple new tricks for me were the bs 180 nosegrind and bs boardslide to switch 5-0. Pat Owens would do bs 180 nosegrinds so easy and I wanted to learn them. I was really excited I got one in my part, especially in a line. I always liked boardslide combo tricks like Kenny Reed and Paul Shier do. That day at the Ambler benches I was trying to come up with something and the boardslide switch 5-0 just kind of worked.

I was really happy with nosemanny 3 shuv and nosemanny bigspin. I always liked doing nosemanny 3 shuvs on the granite pad and it felt great to do it on something higher. I had tried the nosemanny bigspin a bunch of times so when I finally got it I didnt realize I was rolling away for a few seconds. Definitely a good feeling.

The Crook 3 shuv was the same way. I had done one at wedge on the metal edge ledge but my friend Kyle already filmed it on there. I landed one sketchy on the plastic bench at west broad and after a bunch of tries I got lucky and landed a good one. I was really surprised and I think Chop, Jimmy and Tyler were too haha. That was the best feeling trick.

I didnt really think my last trick was too difficult but I havent seen too many people do it. I always liked doing switch shuv reverts on the ground and that North Montco pad is the best one ive ever skated. I had done it on a the small manny pads at landis but I thought it would be cooler at North Montco. It felt really good when it worked out.

I dont have too many photos of myself skating cause im usually the one taking the photos.


skatin at china bump


Lipslide at Baldi


skatin at the checkerboard benches in ambler.


This was so hard to come back down the bank.

Video Experiment by Jimmy Simpson

My freshman final for time/motion at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The short video is intended to recreate the overload of visual information in the city. Each frame was printed using a terrible grayscale printer and painted, inked, and torn by hand. There are over 700 paintings in all that make up the video. Music: Bon Iver- Team

-Jimmy Simpson

Jimmy Simpson "Collective"

My brother Jimmy's part from our video "Collective" 2008. I cant believe its been a year since we finished the video. Skating has always come pretty easy to jimmy. I always feel like im just catching up with tricks jimmy was doing two years before me haha. I really love this part. Jimmy did a great job editing it and I think the song choice was great. There are a lot of tricks that stick out to me in this part.

I love the way the back blunt on the bank at wedge turned out and the front tail on the merck banks was perfect. That spot is so hard to get the right angle and speed. The ollie from the high to low skinny ledge and kickflip off was so sick. I thought just ollieing it was awesome but he thought it was too easy so he threw the kickflip in there.

The day we filmed the noseblunt line he just learned them that day. He did it once perfect but I messed up the filming. I was pretty bumbed but he did it again even better. Jimmy always got good stuff at the Baldi banks. The back tail shuv and kickflip back tail were really surprising. I love the boardslide shuv on the aluminum benches. That was another random one that he learned that day and did it first try when we started filmin.

Jimmy's switch fs flip line at the now unskatetable flat spots in swenksville was the best line ive seen there, he made it look easy. Jimmy's ollie over the rail was so sick and it was pretty scary in person. The smith kickflip out looked amazing.

The last ollie was actually the oldest clip in the video. We had just premiered our video "Creatures of Habit" and left for Ocean City, New Jersey the next day for family vacation. We had always looked at that gap years before but there was always a car parked in the way. That day we saw there was no car there and we knew there probably wouldnt be another chance to skate it. He charged at it and got it after 4 tries. It was a really great way to start filming for the video.


Triples on the flatbar!


Old photo of jimmy skating in Telford. I could never time my ollie right on this bump, jim had no problems haha



This day Jimmy got so close to switch crooks bigspin out



Eating pizza on one of our philly trips last winter. That was a fun day.



feeble to fakie at china banks, which is no longer there.


At the dustbowls. Its a really fun spot but its one of the worst places to go on a hot day

Summer Montage #3 by Kevin Nguyen and Davis Trinh

Here's the 3rd montage from the summer footage Kevin Nguyen filmed. Edited by Davis Trinh. Featuring Kevin Pham, Alex Robinson, Billy Simpson, Greg Jones, Kevin Nguyen, Jimmy Simpson, Tyler Lindsey, Joey Christoffers and some random perkasie kid.