Extra Tricks for Framework (7/26/10)

Featuring Joey O'Brien, John Provencher, Chris Chihlas, Dustin Detweiler, Kevin Pham, Mikey O'Brien, Billy Simpson, Mark Biedlingmaier, Pat McCullion, Jimmy Simpson, Alex Robinson and Collin Bauder.

Merck Banks

A memorable session we had was at the Merck Banks. Everybody was killin it. I refilmed a bs 5-0 to fakie, Chris Chihlas was doing some real nice 5-0 grinds and John Provencher got a nice back tail on it. John has done some sick stuff there in his "Creatures of Habit" part and "Collective" Part. Joey O'Brien was the MVP of the day. First he did a perfect bs bluntslide to fakie, twice. I thought that was sick enough but he ended up doing a sick bs bluntslide 270 that were saving for "Framework". 

After that we went out back behind the banks to skate the grass gap. Chris started it off right away doing a perfect heelflip in about 5 minutes. He did it again so I could film it. The second time was even better. Jimmy found a random skinny pole and jammed it in the grass at the top of the gap. After a few tries he did a perfect pole jam down the gap. Joey O'Brien and Dustin Detweiler were battling for a few heelflip tricks. Joey was trying fs heelflip and Dustin was trying bs heelflip. They both landed on their tricks probably 10 times. Eventually Joey landed bolts on his trick and Dustin almost landed the bs heelflip right after. After slamming for around a half hour striaght Dustin called it.

King of Prussia Flat Spots

Another memorable session we had recently was a trip to the King of Prussia flat spots. Thanks to my friend Matt at crookiemonster.com for telling me how to get there. The spot reminds me a lot of the Swenksville flat spots we used to skate. Jimmy killed that spot in his "Collective" part. 

Right off the bat Mark Biedlingmaier fs flipped it perfect. Then I started filming and he did it again for the camera. Joey O'Brien did an amazing bs bigspin and got super close to a 3 shuv. John Provencher did a real nice bs flip and Jimmy Simpson did a sick bs bigflip. Kevin Pham was doing some different stuff with ollie to disaster over the gap, Joeys little brother Mikey O'Brien did a nice bs 180 and I landed on fs shuv probably six times but didn't ride away. After that we checked out the woods spot right next to the flat spots and Mark did the front board 270 on the sketchy bank.

On the way home from the flat spots we stopped off at the Sunoco pole jam that we found a while back. Mark and Joey both regular pole jammed it and I filmed a one footed pole jam. Thankfully a cop didn't show up like the last time. 

Norristown Highschool

Another spot we skated recently was the Norristown highschool. This time we weren't as successful. We started out at the stairs. Chop went straight for a 5-0 on the rail right up against the wall. His toes were sliding along the wall so he actually waxed the wall too haha. He got pretty close but after cutting his hand pretty bad and trying it for a while he gave up. Dustin Detweiler landed on a sick switch flip 3 or 4 times and hit his head on one of the attempts. Joey O'Brien landed a  nice bs flip down the stairs. 

While I was filming everyone on the stairs my brother Jimmy did a sick wallride down the 3 stair. Davis Trinh's photo of it turned out real nice. After that we tried to skate the manny pad but no luck on any tricks. Kevin Pham was getting real close to switch nosemanny and I landed on a half cab manny revert.

Check Jack Sabback's sick trick on the Norristown pad at 1:25

Here are some photos from Norristown:  

Jimmy found some bags of shredded paper that we basically bean bag chairs. Perfect for watching all the guys kill themselves on the stairs. Photo by Davis Trinh

Brothers shot! Jimmy found a nice chair for me to use while I filmed everybody. Thanks dude. Photo by Kevin Pham.

Dustin after killing himself on the stairs for a while. Photo by Davis Trinh.

Jimmys wallride. One of the my favorite photos. Photo by Davis Trinh.

Media section haha. Photo by Davis Trinh

Joey O'Brien bs flip. Photo by Kevin Pham.

Sick angle of Chop trying his fs 5-0. Photo by Kevin Pham.

Dustin's switch flip attempt. Photo by Kevin Pham.

Jimmy found these boxes with different renditions of famous paintings on each side, So he did some artsy ollies over them haha. Van Gogh ollie. Photo by Kevin Pham.

Warhol ollie. Photo by Kevin Pham.

There are some older tricks and random ones in this clip too. Joey O'Brien killed the Tombstone skatepark. One day we skated there for a little bit and he banged out tricks off the pyramid over the rail. His kickflip was just one of them. We tried to film some stuff at the Fedex gap but no luck just like last time. We all had fun throwing rocks at the guardrail though haha. Before we went to the Fedex gap we tried to skate China bump. Joey Paone landed on a bunch of varial heels and Jimmy got real close to a impossible. Collin showed up and foot planted the door haha, so sick. They were having a party inside the restaurant and they were having karaoke. That was very entertaining haha.  

The last few tricks are some of the older ones. My friend Pat Hennigan let us borrow his pole jam that he made in shop class haha. We brought that thing to a bunch of spots. My one footed pole jam manny is from a few years ago. I recently filmed a lipslide nosemanny 180 out on the wedge planter so I threw the regular one in this clip. John's line at wedge is from this past winter when he was just getting back into skating. He's got some sick back tails on the bank.

Davis Trinh got a new lens for his camera. Heres some portraits taken with it. 

Trying to look serious haha. Photo by Alex Robinson.

A nice photo of Kevin Pham. Photo by Davis Trinh

Kevin is always smiling. I like that. Photo by Davis Trinh

This photo is from 3 or 4 weeks ago when we had a awesome session at the bump to grass gap in Harleysville. Pat McCullion did a nice varial flip and Jimmy did a perfect bs bigspin. This is a photo Davis Trinh took of the bs bigspin. 

Pennys City Hall Line

A nice warm up line from Penny from a couple years ago at City Hall.

Extra Tricks for Framework (7/6/10)

Featuring Zach Panebianco, Pat Hennigan, Joey Christoffers, Pat McCullion, Anthony Krystopa, Alex Robinson, Dustin Detweiler, Kevin Pham, Billy Simpson, Jimmy Simpson, Collin Bauder, Jeff Colombo and John Provencher.

The first 4 clips are some older ones that have been on my computer. Zach is pretty sick on rails. I was showing him the Moes gap right next to the rail that Joey Christoffers ollied and kickflipped a while back and he decided to front board the rail. The ride up is pretty sketchy without a sign and the kink on the end didn't make it any easier. Joey Christoffers line at baldi was filmed over a year ago now. I cant believe how fast time goes. He did a sick line there with the long board that were saving for "Framework". They're knocking down the Souderton Highschool so I thought it would be cool to film somebody do a line there like we used to do when we were younger. The 5 and 4 were one of the main spots for kids who skated around Harleysville, Souderton and Telford area. Pat is so consistent, he had no problem 360 flipping the 5 over and over again to do the line.

Collin Bauder did a sick pole jam 360 at wedge recently and while I was filming him do that trick Anthony and Chop rifled off some pole jam tricks. Right before Chop went to try the switch pole jam and fell, he cut off Dan Trauger. Karma Chop haha. Dustin is one of the younger guys at wedge, who is getting a lot better. His nollie back tail revert on the quaterpipe was really stylish. Kevin Pham has landed on switch nosemanny 360 shuvs probably 10 times now. I feel for you Kev.

I got a 5-0 fs shuv across the planter at wedge recently, the 5-0 180 was warming up for it. Jimmy learned one footed fs tailslides pretty nice the other day so he threw a little line together. Jimmy's quick ollie up the curb pole jam in philly was a lot harder then it looks. It was a fast set up.

Heres some photos from a random day at wedgewood:

Collin skating his long board. Photo by Erik Mangal

Collin ollieing the sketchy bank gap. Photo by Billy Simpson

Collin bs 180 one foot indy over the bank gap on his longboard. Photo by Erik Mangal.

Another view of Collins trick. Photo by Erik Mangal

Erik aka Karate Kid

 We took a trip to dustbowls recently to try and film some stuff. We didnt get too much there but it always fun to cruise around. Kevin got a one footed wallride on the one of the bank to wall set ups. I can't believe it was a year ago that we skated the dustbowls when Collin Bauder, Joey Christoffers and Chop killed it. From the dustbowls we checked out this bank spot in Conshohocken that finally dried up. Thanks to my friend Matt for giving us directions to the spot. Check out his site Crookie Monster. Jimmy ollied the little gap a few times and did a gap to fs tailslide on the banks. John Provencher did a blunt to fakie on the bank.

Heres some photos Kevin Pham took at the fish banks:

The end of the clip is just a few tries of Collin Bauder trying to get a mute 360 over the sketchy transfer at wedge. He tried filming it on three separate occasions trying it for probably 40 minutes each time. I don't know how he kept trying it for so long. Landing on the steep, short bank was the part that was giving him trouble. Last week he finally got it with Penny filming fisheye and me filming long lense. Good work Collin!

Penny took this photo on his phone of one of Collins attempts.

This is Bams part from Toy Machines video "Jump off a building". This was one of the first videos I ever had. He skates the dustbowls at :20 seconds and :30 seconds. The ollie into that skinny bank is so sketchy in person. I think Joey Christoffers melon grab off the kicker tops Bams.

Heres some photos Jimmy took on his disposable camera while we were at the Dustbowls:

The tunnels are probably 20 degrees cooler then outside.

Jimmy getting a little creative drying off his shirt

My favorite one. John while skating the quaterpipe.

The essentials. Lots of water, my camera and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Me and John

Yeah Kev. Kevin got super close to fs wallriding one of the bank to walls.

Gettin Gnar!