As many of you are already aware, the park in Petal Mississippi is nearly ready… it looks good, and as reported by Big Tony and company, it looks to be a pretty solid place to ride.
Unfortunately, the park will indeed be pay to skate. We’ll see how long that works out.
Thought I forgot? Aww hell no.
Jordan. Frontside nollie with weightless float. Click for a very slightly larger version.
What I guess was supposed to be a game of skate wound up turning into a really sick jam session, with breaks for the little guys to ride the bowl. The night was Byron’s, and not only did he have all of his friends, he had nearly the rest of the local Hammond skate crew in attendance to give him props on his birthday. These are my photos, so apologies in advance.
Click the pics for a larger version:
Birthday Byron…
Gerry toting in some nutrients.
Chrissly Bear around the shallow pocket.
Big frontside snap transfer over the hip, into the deep.
Sequence: Chris and Little Trey, doubles over the deathbox and into the pocket. Be sure to click this one.
Little guy to fakie.
Family and friends.
Jordon, buttery ass front 5.
This is a stupid photo of a perfectly good back boneless to tail by KC. There’s a reason why Gregory takes pics and not me.
Back feebs. After homie did this, he did a frontside over the doorway. You kinda had to be there.
Phantom Dave prowls some lines and gets his carve on.
This is Jordan doing one of those ally-oopy style nollie things from the tranny to the bank. It’s ridiculous to see in real life. Everyone kind’ve hushes so they can hear it smack down perfectly.
This sequence defies physics. This should be a epic slam, but instead it’s one of the gnarliest things I’ve ever seen. The deathbox (the rectangular hole cut out below the lip in the deep end) is called a deathbox for a reason. I’ve accidentally dropped in on it, resulting in injuries that kept me out of the game for quite a while. What you’re seeing below is a 50-50 being brought in on top of the death box. (Someone please remind me what his name is)… if you look closely and follow the path, his rear right wheel fell over the deathbox and into the tranny, versus getting caught in it, a recipe for disaster for sure… but dedication to pull it in prevailed, and our firend here pulled it off:
KC plows over the doorway with a high speed front disaster-monster.
Back smithers over the box.
Mini triples in the deep!
It’s like every square inch of the place is full of happyjuice.
Click it for a bigger version. Imagine if it was actually a game of “SKATEBOARDINGISSICKBUTSOISMYBROTHERSBANDTHEY’REAWESOME.” It would take five days just to get to the apostrophe. w00t w00t
Greg sent me a number of photos this week, but I’m putting a couple off to the side to show you as we roll through the week. I’m sitting on some really good pics, but I’ll upload them as we all trudge through the work week. This week’s pic…
George brown, front smith, grown man steez son!
…due to technical difficulties, I don’t have a larger version of this pic. Once I get one I’ll update this post.
And with that, a hat tip to the Reverend Martin Luther King, and props to everyone that understands that we’re much more than the skin we wear.
…I do believe in skate supremacy though. It’s pretty much a scientific fact that skateboarding’s better than whatever you got there that isn’t skating.
Pick up this issue of Thrasher (February 2009 issue):
…as of this writing, it should be the issue sitting there wherever you buy magazines.
…two pages from the back cover is this Four Star ad featuring Max Schaaf:
Hell yeah! Max’s full page ad costar’s our very own Coop! Anyway, go get a Thrasher now before they run out, foo!
…we have a lot of different homies named Trey here, so a number of years ago we started putting an adjective in front of the names of our various T-dogs. This is “Little Trey,” who has since outgrown the adjective we gave him so many years ago. Front 5-0, stand up steez over a box of death. Click the pic for a larger version…
Greg went on a trip to Florida with Big Tony, Casey, and the crew… and lucky for us, he got some snaps (click the photo to see exactly what’s going on, trust me):
Make resolutions? Set some goals? Don’t care?
We hope none of you guys and gals blew off any fingers… they help a lot for tricks requiring grabs!
PEACE!
