Featuring Mike McCrorie, Jon Mervine, Devon Curry, Jimmy Fossile, Josh Lowery, Paul Mashett, Billy Simpson, Frank Smith, Vinni Prosseda, Jimmy Simpson and Kyle Schmidt.
Friends section featuring Evan Warbrick, Devon Russell, Jimmy Burke, James Cowley, Craig Pederson, Andy Ventresca, Eric, Nick Schmidt, CJ Bowne, Dave Messa, Zach Webster, Chris Balch, Bill Luskin, Pat Hennigan, Tim Reardon and Pat Owens. Filmed by Billy Simpson and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Jimmy Simpson.
Our 2nd full length video "Focus" from 2006. This was when Jimmy was getting more interested in filming and editing. I think it's a pretty good jump from our first video as far as production quality. Watching it now Jimmy would probably say something about all the face shots, long intros and the amount of film burns, but I still think he did a pretty great job for the time. I remember being really psyched when he figured out how to make the text write out on the titles. This was definitely a local friends video. We weren't really worried about whether or not a persons trick was that good or anything. We just put in whatever our friends were doing when we went out skating.
Watching it now theres definitely some stuff that standouts to me. We skated with Mike McCrorie a lot when we made this video. We would skate all the local Souderton and Telford spots with Mike, Devan Curry, Josh Lowery and Jimmy Fossile. Mike was always down to skate gaps back then. I like his fs 180 and switch ollie over the shellys gap. We skated that gap all the time before they fenced it up. Jon Mervine would skate every spot we went to. He did some tricks filming for this video that really surprised me. He never really skated switch, so the switch fs 180 down the Schwenksville 7 was definitely random. I was psyched on the fs halfcab heelflip down the little drop at the Quakertown flat spot, since Jon and I had just learned that trick around that time.
I always really liked Paul's part and the stuff he did on the Harleysville court benches. Those benches were kinda high and he did some really different tricks there. His pop shuvit onto the wooden door couldn't have looked better. The stuff he did on the Harleysville court benches was really sick, like the fakie shuvit 5050 180. I was still kind trying to skate gaps when we were making this video. It doesn't seem like much now but I'm glad I switch ollied the Quakertown 6. I haven't done anything like that in years. The day I did the kickflip manny was really fun. We had a few really good sessions at that Phonexville guardrail spot.
Watching it now theres definitely some stuff that standouts to me. We skated with Mike McCrorie a lot when we made this video. We would skate all the local Souderton and Telford spots with Mike, Devan Curry, Josh Lowery and Jimmy Fossile. Mike was always down to skate gaps back then. I like his fs 180 and switch ollie over the shellys gap. We skated that gap all the time before they fenced it up. Jon Mervine would skate every spot we went to. He did some tricks filming for this video that really surprised me. He never really skated switch, so the switch fs 180 down the Schwenksville 7 was definitely random. I was psyched on the fs halfcab heelflip down the little drop at the Quakertown flat spot, since Jon and I had just learned that trick around that time.
I always really liked Paul's part and the stuff he did on the Harleysville court benches. Those benches were kinda high and he did some really different tricks there. His pop shuvit onto the wooden door couldn't have looked better. The stuff he did on the Harleysville court benches was really sick, like the fakie shuvit 5050 180. I was still kind trying to skate gaps when we were making this video. It doesn't seem like much now but I'm glad I switch ollied the Quakertown 6. I haven't done anything like that in years. The day I did the kickflip manny was really fun. We had a few really good sessions at that Phonexville guardrail spot.
Frank Smith really surprised me with the switch ollie down the 6 in ambler. His ender manny was crazy. Vinni really came through with this video doing tricks and skating stuff that was really out of his comfort zone. His stuff on the orange barrier is still sick. Me and Vin always liked manny tricks so I always really psyched we both got our tricks on the long oakridge manny pad the same day.
A lot of stuff in Jimmy's part would still be sick today. His is probably my favorite part. He was always ahead of everybody. His switch flip line at the highschool is still sick and that back tail on the orange barrier was pretty damn scary. Kyle was the oldest in our group of friends. I always liked his style, especially when it came to grinds. Kyle had those balanced nosegrinds when most of us could barley do them. You can't really tell in the video but the loading dock that he 5050's is so freakin high. I've taken people there now and nobody's even come close. He does lines in this part that I still cant do. I always liked his line out front of the Souderton Highschool with the quick ollie and 180 over the two grass gaps.
Heres a clip of some leftover tricks we had for "Focus" featuring Mike McCrorie, Vinni Prosseda, Kyle Schmidt, Frank Smith and Billy Simpson.
Jimmy was always particular about what he put in his parts. He had a lot of extra footage that he didn't end up using so he made this part as a bonus clip on the dvd. Sorry about the quality of this clip, it was uploaded 6 years ago.
Another extra clip on the "Focus" DVD of some falls while we were filming this video. This has two of the worst experiences I've had on a skateboard. I dislocated a few of my toes when I was trying the Schwenksville 10. I kinda calmed down on skating gaps after that. The other was my awful attempt at the West Chester rail. We pulled up to the rails and I got really psyched cause Jon Mervine went for it right away. That hurt like crazy but it's pretty damn funny to watch now.
This is a clip Jimmy put together of a session we had at Jimmy Fossile's personal basketball court. Definitely a fun time.
The Boys and Girls club skatepark just opened up when we were making this video. Jimmy put together this clip of a few sessions at the park. Featuring Mike McCrorie, Jimmy Simpson, Vinni Prosseda, Mike Yandoli and Billy Simpson.
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