Monday, September 28, 2009

The Anti-Trip

We were supposed to go to Atlanta for a long weekend trip with the illustrious Gator Board Shop team. But since those bothersome floods came through and ruined our fun, not to mention many peoples lives, we had to pick another option. We ended up on a little Orlando/Daytona adventure.

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First spot was a ridiculous gap in the tourist part of Orlando

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Had to get on a clothing donation box for the homeless to get the angle. It was okay I guess

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After a long battle and some stress we just left. No point in blowing your load on the first day of a trip

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Frank was injured so he was filming the whole time

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The travel budget on these Gator trips is pretty extravagant

The next day...

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I guess you could call them and see what's up. Practical graffiti in Sanford, FL

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Sam Bianchini, back smith

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Brandon Knowles got a couple tricks

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It was sweltering

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This is when we decided to just go somewhere else

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So we went to New Smyrna Beach, and skated my favorite ditch ever. It was even hotter out there for some ungodly reason

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Sam still ripped up the hip though

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Tall Tee, accessorizing

Then we didn't manage to get any more photos from then on until nightfall

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and we still didn't get any skate photos

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So we went back to Orlando, but not before Tall Tee got a new Myspace photo

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It was an Apple trip

The next day...

We got over our case of the over its and went skating in Orlando. The plan was to just go back to the home base of Tampa but we ended up finding some cool stuff in Orlando, even what we want to think is a new spot

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We got something much cooler, but you know, it can't be blogged, at least not yet

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John got some tight stuff on the trip, including this frontside flip over the manhole cover

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But he had to work for it; this slam sounded as bad as the bottom photo makes it look

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So John became my photo assistant and picked up second angles the rest of the day

Thanks for an adventure, Gator homies. See you next time!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Rain Delays

Since we had a mild tropical storm roll through Tampa today I had to retreat back to SPoT and crash the older gent sesh in the back with Jereme Knibbs and Jacob Krajewski.

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We've been listening to a lot of Gucci Mane at the Park lately. Gucci has an...Associate named OJ Da Juiceman. While Frosty isn't into that "stupid ass shit" I want to refer to him as Da Frostman in this post

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Since Rob was going Ragin' Asian with his Sister at the bar instead of skating I made sure to get some frontside grind photos for him, which is his favorite trick

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Clem also had a back D revert on the china bank

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Dang, Jereme

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Justin is the new new guy. Welcome to Innetech Justin. Hit him up for Loser Machine gear as well, he's their sales rep

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Jacob is into switch lip tricks. Switch piv to fakie

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Jereme Knibbs closed the session out with his pole jam no comply into the china bank

Monday, September 21, 2009

Stand And Deliver

Set out for some photos today and got it done, for the most part. Ain't it so nice when it happens like that?

Gotta save the bangers but here's the extra.

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This old spot

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When we got kicked out, by the Principal of the school, he asked how we got in.
"The open gate, sir."

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Aaron would've ripped, but he had a freshly dislocated finger

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Fate

Skated after work and even with an 80% chance of rail we got all the photos we wanted. We skated downtown and didn't get kicked out of any spots. It's as fate would have it I suppose.

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This was Knibbs' spot. We got a sequence here I can't blog, which is always preffered

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So we went to a "fun" spot. The benches Jereme learned blunt slide's on forever ago. It was fun. Jereme almost landed a great trick and I skated too. Fun for everyone.

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Jacob got a little tech

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Alternate angles

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Dylan preferred blunting the nose

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Burning The Wick

Returned to "Wick City", or Clearwater for the less hood readers of my blog, to see what's good with the natural quarterpipe spot.

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Since my equipment was acting badly last time, I had a score to settle. Did it with a posse this time too

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Frank's homie T-Ray got it going pretty quickly. Sorry I cut your hand off, but this was my first shot of the session

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But the bushes were right in my angle. Frank and I used our good ol' boy upbringings to good use and bushwhacked that bush right on down

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John Reece, working it out. He killed it

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The young bucks filmed 2nd angles. Footy check

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Then we focused our attention to the other trannies at the spot

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But the sun showers were blowing it for us. John went to work

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Wanted to go 2 for 2, but the humidy was too much

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Posse deep

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Yeah, Tall Tee

Thanks, Gator homies

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