San Francisco - Return to 3rd & Army

With nowhere new to go and much time on our hands, 3rd & Army seemed to be the best contender. Before getting burned on the spot (we spent another 2 1/2 hours here), we at least managed some footy out of the sesh. Kevin and I were the only ones down for lines, seeing as how Joe was still battered from the hubba and Pork just wanted to chill. I landed a semi-sketchy switch flip - fakie front nose line followed by a close but never landed back smith - noseslide bigspin out line from Kevin. Afterwards, I had Joe nosebonk this little ledge for whatever footy, which Kevin and Pork became interested in. So instead we filmed a nice little triples nosebonk for the entry. After the bonking, Pork landed manual kickflip on the entire stretch of the manual pads first try, which was very impressive. Lastly, Kevin finished the tired session with a back smith stall on the man made quarter pipe for a picture. And that concludes the San Francisco trip! The remaining footage not seen in these blog entries will be shown in the video, so please remain patient. Otherwise, enjoy the last San Francisco entry!

San Francisco - Fort Miley

After trekking up a lengthy forest-condensed road, we arrived at the abandoned military base, Fort Miley. This is one of the best spots in San Francisco that we visited. It was basically a small tranny skatepark, like Huntington Park, with a banks, rails on top of the banks, and two different rectangular pyramids. The sesh was chill and we got some tranny footy while we were there. On the pyramid: Kevin landed nollie inward heel, Pork 360 flip, and I switch bigspin. Joe was drained from Hubba Hideout and didn't skate. On the other side of the pyramid, Kevin did switch frontside 360 and I switch backside flip. Kevin also 5-0ed and tailslid the bank (the waxed side). Since the pyramids on each side formed a large rectangular top, it was able to be skated as a manual pad. On this manual pad kevin landed nollie heel manual and later nollie flip manual just before we had to leave. The Fort Miley session concludes the end of the second and last full day of the San Francisco trip (but there's still one more entry). Enjoy the mini video!

San Francisco - Hubba Hideout

Expecting to see the famous original hubba knobbed (prior to this I was told they were knobbed for the second time), a picture text from Joe told me otherwise. At the time Pork and I were leaving Walgreens after purchasing batteries for the digital camera. We only expected to visit this historical landmark and take pictures of it, but fate had intended something more. It was truly a sight to see that even after the epic battles between the local skaters and the San Francisco City Council, Hubba Hideout had still managed to flourish; but at a cost. After the dust wafted from the battle scene, the city council decided to serve one last blow in attempt to shut down Hubba Hideout for good; they ordered the tiled landing to be removed entirely. All but for a walkway to the stairs perished. However, in our everlasting luck there happened to lie a large sheet of wood (probably from the locals) set perfectly on the landing, enabling the Hubba session to continue. Joe had a thing or two up his sleeve so he began rolling up to it. Typically for Joe, a noseslide was imminent. After completing his signature feat, Joe realized that the circumstances of San Francisco were very temporary, and decided to step it up a notch. So after a long nail-biting 45 minutes, Joe finally managed to bust a fat crook on the nipple-high ledge (we could see a smug smile forming from his cheeks on the ride-away). We gave our congratulations then hastily packed up for Wallenberg High, the famous 4 block we had no intention of skating, but definitely seeing. With crook being one of Joe's prized pieces of footage, I'm afraid you must wait for the video to see it! In the meantime you're stuck with a noseslide. Enjoy!

San Francisco - Mission & 15th St.

Since everyone was tuckered out from 3rd & Army, Mission & 15th St was a small session that only Kevin participated in. Although the end of the day, Kevin was still down clock some footy. After turning up no results with manual 180 out, I persuaded him to do a chill line for the blog. After landing the 180 up and switch flip off, he gave manny 180 out a few more chances and landed it! Enjoy the footy!

San Francisco - 3rd & Army

Being one of San Francisco's most original and well-known spot, 3rd & Army was presumably our first destination. 3rd & Army ledge. The session was started off with a line from Pork and Kevin: the former doing hardflip-kickflip nose manual and the latter landing nollie noseslide fakie-switch tailslide. Pork skating 3rd & Army. Only a warm-up kickflip nose manual of Pork's and a sketchier version of Kevin's line will be shown. Joe was then eager to add a new manual trick (nose manual nollie 180 out) into a line, but due to a couple of hardy primo bails, he was over it. So Joe just stuck to his trusted kickflip manual and went on to nosesliding a huge ledge afterward. Utterly high 3rd & Army ledge. After a 2-3 hour session at the ledges, we booked it to the Mission & 15th St 3 stair ledge/manual pad. Enjoy the media!

San Francisco - Intro/Day of Arrival

**And we're back! Sorry for the lag but capturing and labeling tapes took up much blog time last week. The synopsis for the trip would be best explained as a fruitful yet challenging skate adventure through the bowels of one of skateboarding's finest cities, San Francisco. With limited knowledge of the city, a skimpy spot itinerary, and only two full days to skate, we were fortunate enough to have never have found ourselves at a dead end. Overall, we ended up with a decent amount of video-worthy lines and tricks as well as more lower-scale tricks, which will be the ones shown in the blog. On the day of arrival we did the typical unpacking of the car (suburban in our case), Pork 'yo dog' at the suburban, and setting up of the hotel room (which was a dope one by the way). The bros. in the hotel hallway. With this entry being the introduction as well as the day of arrival, there will be no audio/video media. Sorry! So enough of this entry and let's take a gander at our first spot of the trip, 3rd & army!

**Note: I know it doesn't fit, but I included this picture of Pier 7 as a memorial of the once great manual pads; rest in peace.