Tore and Joey at Shields Skatepark Contest

Tore Bevivino and Joey O'Brien killin it at the Shields Skatepark Contest. Tore got second place and Joey got 6th place. Tore told me that during his practice run Joey accidently did a bigspin switch back smith down the rail when he was trying a bigspin front board haha. Never seen or heard of that one before.

 

I've only been to this park once but it was really fun. With winter comin up I'm sure we'll be going back soon. Heres an old clip from March of Myself, Joey Christoffers, Anthony Krystopa and John Provencher skating at Shields. Right when we got there Joey went straight to the handrail and front tailed it. So crazy.

Ambler Shop at Shop Showdown

Joey O'Brien, Tore Bevivino and Kevin Leidtke skated for Ambler Skateshop at the Shop Showdown contest and got third place. Wish I could have checked this out in person. Heres some highlights from the contest. Joey's part in our video "Framework" is getting better and better. He films like 3 tricks everytime we skate. 

Extra Tricks (11/04/10)

Featuring Billy Simpson, Kevin Pham, Kevin Nguyen, Joey O'Brien, Pat McCullion, Cory Quigley, John Provencher, Alex Robinson, Joey Paone and Dustin Detweiler.

The first two clips were filmed by Davis Trinh. Thanks dude! The rest I filmed.


Sorry there hasn't been many updates I've been pretty busy with school. The past month or so we've been skating wedge on Saturdays and Philly on Sundays. We got a lot of stuff at wedge lately, too much to talk about. Everybody has been killing it. Some spots we've been checking out the past month or so were the black banks, the under the bridge barrier spot on 8th and brown, the huge jersey barrier off the loading dock near christian street, 3 block, mini Baldi, Oregon ledges and some other random spots in Philly.


The black banks are really tough. John Provencher and Cory Quigley got some good stuff there. I still can't believe Fred Gall ollied the gap at :55 seconds in this clip. It doesn't look like too much in the video but in person it's impossible. The bank is super rough, its really hard to get speed and it's a big gap. 





We got some sick stuff on the big Jersey barrier off the loading dock. Tore back tailed it and front crooked it in the Sabotage video. It looks pretty big on video but in person it's way bigger and pretty freakin intimidating. The ground is real rocky right where you land so you have to move the barrier pretty far away from the loading dock in order to clear the rocks. John Provencher got a fs smith on it, Pat McCullion got a bs 5-0, Chop got a fs nosegrind and Cory Quigley got a bs crook on it. 


Kevin Talyor does a sick kickflip front board on the barrier at 1:27