Charachter At the Jorge Michael Ramp

After work we all convened upon Jorge's tropical, and unbelievably fast backyard mini ramp for a friendly session. For a late August day in Florida the weather was surprisingly nice, by which I mean not unbearably hot. Between the hours of 8am to 5pm most of the esteemed members of the SPoT staff are mainly, if not strictly, business. So it's always nice to cut free from the office and enjoy the simplicities of a backyard mini ramp session.


This is a pretty accurate portrayal of the management off the clock


It's just not a mini ramp session with Ryan Clements without a tail block. It's just too bad I didn't have my angle sorted out before he pulled out the old reliable


Frosty pulled out a quick layback boardslide


I got a ridiculous amount of photos of Jacob. Not surprising, as he doesn't really stop skating throughout a session


Ian Gow was running some righteous tricks all evening, as is evident with this frontside crailtap


Jacob, feeble


One of the things I really enjoy about a spot is character. be it a brightly colored wall, or foliage and older Ybor City homes


Barak Wiser was definitely hyped to get some photos, which was the case with this backside ollie onto the extension


Barak manhandled lien to tail's on the main part of the mini ramp as well as the extension


Jacob popped a footplant in 98% of his runs


Jacob ended the session with a frontside crailtap, mainly as a shout out to his main homie Ian. It's all family, kid



Ian almost pulled this backside noseblunt on the extension. Such a shame it didn't go down

Thanks for cultivating such a nice area Jorge

Hesh-Lite

Got heshy in the bowl after work the other day with Jacob Krajewski. We shot some photos for Ian Gow's upcoming and untitled 'zine.


I now call Ian "J. Jonah Jameson", who was the Editor-In-Chief of The Daily Bugle, the Newspaper from Spider Man. It's surprising how easily he's slid into the Editor-In-Chief position, really.

"Steve, I want a photo of Jacob for the 'zine." He'll state.
"Definitely. I'm down. Do you have an idea of what you want?"
"Yeah, like, something gnarly in the bowl, but like, whatever he wants to do, I don't care,"
"Umm, okay. I'll shoot that after work."

Ironically, that's not nearly the vaguest photo idea description I've ever gotten


Went a little weird with te flash first thing in the session. I need to turn it down


Ian is injured way too much but he was feeling jazzy. Backside noseblunt stall no land on my board


Artsy


Get loose


Stay loose. Switch feeble


Dylan Perry couldn't resist getting in on the sesh


Yeah, Jacob

Keep an eye out for Ian's 'zine

Lower The Drawbridge

SPoT threw the first Moat Show this past Tuesday and Wednesday. No one wants to go to Surf Expo anymore.


Tim Kulas set up a mini ramp and threw a best trick contest on it. Jacob did this a day before that, but did it in the contest too


Body's alley-oop side rock deal. Still from a sequence


I shot 3 of these front feeble's Tim did, and Body's shirt was up in all of them


Pensyl-vania


Mic


Bucktooth


Montesi


AlBow


George Evans kickflip meloned into the quarterpipe from the vert wall


Jake from Kayo


Bow


Clem and Jim Schubin


Frank from Gator and Dodge from Nike


Young buck came up in the product toss



Get desperate


Sam


Schaef and Pete Kelly

All in all, it was a success. Check Skateparkoftampa.com later for skate flicks and more photos.

Almost There

Here's a blog of bails. I know, this is pretty whatev's in the content department but it's photos of two of Tampa's most stylish and I think you'll enjoy it either way.


When Chris Jata told me he wanted to go street skate and shoot photos the other day I was floored. He's not exactly known for shooting photos and filming


Famous spot. He ollied it pretty quick but considering Lenoce and Ellington have both done amazing tricks at this spot he did this strictly as a warm-up


PJ, fresh off his Game of SKATE win, came with a Switch Flip in mind


While Jata wanted a Front Heel on it


Man, almost


I really, really wish this was a make

That'll Be A Letter

eS came through Tampa on their Game of SKATE tour last Monday.


Let's get this thing going.


Of course RayRay was there. Yonis Molina took him out before semi-finals though.


All of Tampa is totally thrilled Robbie Kirkland is home in Tampa again; especially Scotty


Bristol is back from a nasty injury


Two blog posts with shotguns. Jacob Krajewski asked me to shoot this


Schaefer got into making fun of dudes pretty early into the event


Ha.


Brian- in between Twitter updates


Shaqueefa Threads' Bert and Ernie, Tommy Presley and Chris Jata


RayRay- tre flip




AlBow


Jata- nollie heel


RayRay- switch flip


Sam Bianchini- tre flip


Sam Bianchini- switch heel


Mike Espinosa- switch flip


PJ Castellano- switch flip


PJ Castellano- switch hardflip


PJ- switch backside flip


PJ- just realizing he's won. Congratulations PJ!


Proud Clem


Top 2


I could, but I won't

Thanks for coming out eS! See you next year.