A Beach Cruiser & A Mountain Bike

Only Mikey and Renato went on the weekly early Sunday morning skate session, clocking morning footy in Fullerton and evening footy in Norwalk. JJ, Kevin, Uncle Mike, and I were all unable to go because there was one too many. Someone should have made the sacrifice... Trying to figure out a spot for 2 hours while watching skate videos and eating Chorizo burritos, Uncle Mike finally mentioned the ledges at La Mirada Regional Park. The only thing JJ had to say about the spot was pretty much bitching and moaning. No offense JJ... Kevin's just not down unless the spot is super legit. Determined to find something in this day of monotonous grumbling, Uncle Mike and I both rummaged for bikes to ride to the spot with, which was about 2 miles away. Thirty minutes later we rolled up to the spot with unprecedented bike steez, holding our boards in one hand and steering with the other. After flirting with different tricks, accompanied with consistent bails throughout the process, Uncle Mike took one for the team with a damn fine lipslide bigspin out on the ledge. Props to us on that mission...



High Quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66jUPw7GUc

Ayala Park

Not much to say about this day. Scheduled to go to Pomona and Riverside, the mission ended up falling through due to the societal working duties of our friend Drew Khemtongpru, who has driven these past two missions. Instead, Kevin and JJ went to Chino Skatepark with other friends of theirs. Mikey and I met up with them at the 4 block about 45 minutes after they arrived. Everyone mostly skated the park, except for me who practiced on the blcoks. After sticking a switch hardflip down the 4 block I asked JJ to film. The 1st try filming though ended up with me banging both my knees together, as you can see in the clip below. There was also a baby fetus there who tre flipped it... impressive.

San Pedro/Long Beach Part 3

The bleak sky of smoke and the ash rain it held made skateboarding today much more difficult. But, Drew, JJ, and Mikey had managed to skate so I figured breathing in smoke wouldn't be that bad. Here are some backside heel attempts down a 3 block... Mikey also gets down with a tree.

San Pedro/Long Beach Part 2

The Long Beach Spot, given its popularity and near longitudinal position to the first spot, was our second filming location. I explained its role in high-grade professional skate videos in a previous blog entry entitled, "Long Beach." Mikey filmed on the pole jam, and amazed us all with a trick that is up to par with many professionals: switch pole jam switch frontside 360 out. I wouldn't be surprised to see that same trick done in a Transworld video.

San Pedro/Long Beach Part 1

In light of "crunch time" (the duration in which things are very quickly done), the pressing feeling makes us want to throw ourselves unwillingly down flights of stairs or onto handrails that may very well jeopardize our manhood. It's for the greater good so-to-speak. Trying to get "bangers," or difficult tricks in general, is something we all hate doing but love when we do it. It's as ironic as the common goal. Our trips are becoming more focused around skating bigger sets of stairs, double sets, rails, etc., anything we can get hurt on. So for this entry's media we drove up to San Pedro to film on the famous 10 stair. Drew, JJ, and Mikey all skated the set and got very close. You'll have to guess which one landed it...