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Skate Mission 1

Published on May 18, 2010 in Skate. 0 Comments

Let it begin, the skate season is upon us. I’m fired up. Yesterday, three of us headed from Revelstoke to skate Slocan, Kalso, and Sky’s bowl in Trout Lake.

There is nothing like wiring frontside grinds on concrete coping after the annual five month hiatus forced by BC’s winter.  The feeling is unbelievable.  It seems that it always takes a few tries to get them. After a little while though they come back and the mighty frontside grind goes down with force and grace.

Slocan, BC is a town of a few hundred about 75 km from Nelson, BC and somehow they managed to build the best bowl in the BC Interior.  It is so smooth and endless lines flow. It has an 8’ deep end, with various other heights, pockets, and hips to hit. I’m not sure why they didn’t put any vert in the bowl and really is the only major drawback.

Kaslo has a fun park if you are passing through. Pretty rad little street zone and the bowl is fun, although kinked in spots.

This fella Sky built a bowl in his yard in Trout Lake and was nice enough to let us skate. It is a very fun bowl in a very chill and great setting.

The drive from Kaslo to Trout Lake is 100 km of back roads. It is unbelievable and one of the most awesome spots in BC. We checked out spawning trout along the way. The biggest I’ve ever seen 10-20 lb each.

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How did you grow up?

Published on March 7, 2010 in Skate. 3 Comments

I love this photo. This is the Idaho Falls park. Some punk kid surviving Mormonville by learning to ride concrete.

Oct 2009

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Ridgway Dave

Published on March 7, 2010 in Skate. 0 Comments

There is a very good chance, the only person to skate this mini-ramp is in this photo. Few people love skateboarding as much as Dave. One of my favorite people of all time. Haven’t seen him in a few years. Ha.

Dave Phillips. Pivot to fakie on an atypical transtion. Classic.

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Invert. 1990

Published on March 1, 2010 in Skate. 0 Comments

Invert. Circa 1990. Rockford, IL.

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A little manifesto

Published on January 21, 2010 in perspective and Skate. 2 Comments
My life changed when I was about 12. I’ll never forget learning to ride a skateboard. I never stopped and it shaped my life. All aspects of it. It is only now, do I realize its vast and super positive influence on me. In many ways it set me free.
Skateboarding was an avenue for me to be creative with my lifestyle. I think back about music, where I’ve lived, my attitude, relationships, and even why I came to the mountains. Skateboarding.
Skateboarding was the basis for me to pick up a snowboard and head to the mountains, which in return lead to climbing them on rock and snow. In a way, snowboarding for me is simply an extension of skateboarding. Climbing is simply an extension of snowboarding, by being in the mountains. For me they are all connected. That is awesome.
I’ve always had a way of evading authority and the norm. A gift of the 80′s and early ’90′s skateboarding lifestyle. Everyday I go to work and see people that clearly can’t see outside the box. I go to the coffee shop and see people confined by the norm. They simply can’t see out.
I am now at a point in my life, where I can see outside the box on so many levels. Rules don’t apply. We make our own. We decide what is right and wrong for us. We don’t have to play by the confines our our society at any time during our lives. Our jobs, marriages, raising kids, and how we live can all take unique and beautiful paths.
Thank you skateboarding.
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