Aquarium

On Saturday Sam told me to come to Guth. As I was pulling in he told me it was closed (it wasn't) and that I should go to Sandy. So I did.

Got to Sandy, hung out with Sam and waited for Jovi, Glenn and Garrison to get there. When they got there they proceeded to warm up. When they got warmed up we talked about where to go street skating. We wound up going to the aquarium.


It was kinda rugged, so Glenn and Garrison did some prep work


Glenn got something


So did Jovi


Garrison didn't land anything...


...but he got something

I'm debating on whether or not to post the photo of what he got. I'm not gonna say what it was, but it involves Sam following through on something he said he'd do as we were leaving.

More from the trip

While Garrison was getting his 5050 Nick was skating in the street. After Garrison got his everyone joined Nick.



Security cares... Not really


Mach Ten 360 flip




Jovi doing his best switch 180, me doing my best attempt to rip off a Ray Barbee add


"Wake up Jeff, put your shoes on, we're at Grandma's house"

Guth Family trip

A couple days ago I hit up Guth for a pre-work sesh. The usual heads were there: Garrison, Jovi, Nick, Mikey, Cale, and some others who aren't really relevant to this story. And Jeff was there. It was the first time I'd seen him since he blew out his knee (speaking of his blown out knee, he went in for surgery this morning to get it taken care of. Get well homie!) and he was mobbin around on his cruiser.

Eventually the talk of going skating came up, and some of Garrison's spots came up. There was a bump to bar and this thing called the Swamp Rail. Eventually (45 minutes, pretty quick for Guth truth be told) we piled into the cars and went to the rail. Here's what we got:



Glenn got out of picking up a family member so he could come and try front boards. Try being the operative word


Glenn's board shot into the swamp after a bail...


...And everyone came to survey the incident. Jovi saved the day with a giant ass hangar


Next board up for a trip into the swamp was Garrison's


Perched like a bird


Cale said it best: George of the jungle

Street skating

I was incredibly annoyed at Guth the other day so I invited Max and Jaren to go street skating. Jaren wanted to skate stairs so I told them about a spot I used to skate back in the day. This is photographic documentation of what happened:



First order of business at a spot is to warm up. Jaren was warming up with kickflips, until this attempt. On this one he bailed and messed up his ankle.


This is Jaren after the bail. He sat around, played on Max's iPhone, gave Clint and Tyler directions to the spot and told Max that every try was the one.


Speaking of Max here he is landing a heelflip. He called it right before this try.


Here's Tyler. He ollied the stairs and 180'd them, but I didn't get a good photo of either one, so here he is not landing something.


The landing was pretty rough and chewed up Max's hands.


Now Max got 2 tricks: a heelflip and a 360 flip. The heelflip wasn't so bad, but the 3flip was a battle of epic proportions and at times it looked like it was going to defeat him


He eventually defeated the 360 flip, but broke his tail in the process. We (Jaren, Clint, Tyler and myself) said it counted cause he rolled away on the broken tail but Max wasn't having it. So he flipped his board around, tried one more time, bailed and ripped his thumb open.