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Quite the 14 dayer...
Antosh Cimoszko, Backside Boardslide to Fakie 5-0
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Adam went back to Thunder Bay yesterday to go to the grand opening of the plaza there, and to see family. TJ doesn't come back until the 30th, which leaves me by myself for a few days. My sleep schedule is all out of whack, I woke up at 5am today... ended up cleaning the entire place and doing the stack of dishes. Just woke up from a nice nap, which I probably shouldn't have had, oh well. Skate time.
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New sushi place opened down the road and someone drove through the window
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Just got back from Maple Ridge skatepark. King Of The Concrete contest was going on, presented by Riders Boardshop and Monke Skateboards. Coors Light bus picked us up at Bonsor infront of Push skateshop and we headed out there at 1pm with free beer onboard. Contest started at like 4, then we had to leave at 6:30 because the bus had a tight schedule. Lots of sick tricks were being thrown down, rain stayed away, and the sun came out for most of it. Super fun day!
A few days ago my bank called me and said that someone copied my debit card and pin number and that they had to put a temporary block on my card and that I would need to get a new card. I guess I put my card into an interac machine somewhere, and it scanned my card and remembered my pin number or something, then they tried taking out money. Sketchy. Got it all under control now though.
David Rouleau from Gnarcore.com was super stoked on one of my photos of Mike Klinkhamer and put it up on the site. TJ and I always check out that site for brocklebank edits, so I'm stoked!
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Emerica's Wild in the Streets, Go Skateboarding Day was today. The entire team came out yesterday for a signing at Underworld with a Leeside session afterwards.
Who I saw:
Andrew Reynolds
Bryan Herman
Ed Templeton
Heath Kirtchart
Jerry Hsu
Kevin "Spanky" Long
Leo Romero
Jamie Tawncony
Atiba Jefferson, photographer
Patrick O'Dell, photographer
Beagle, Shake Junt filmer
I'm sure there were others, but I can't recognize everyone. I didn't want to babysit my camera all day, I actually wanted to skate, so I lugged my cell phone camera around instead. 2 megapixels is all the craze! Here's some pics I snapped:
Atiba Jefferson, Bryan Herman, Kevin Spanky Long, Jerry Hsu
Beagle shotgunning his first Canadian beer
Micky Papa, Kickflip
Boneless shuvits were being thrown
...as well as 360 flips
Andrew Reynolds lofting a frontside flip
Leo Romero ollied the whole thing, then he back 180'd it, then Jamie Tancowny backside flipped it, then Reynolds frontside flipped it
we went to hotspot 5 block
then we went to the hotspot curve ledge... no curve rail this year though... it got capped.
skating through the streets!
we went to victory square 8 set
blocking traffic
we went to the giant black double set downtown (didn't take pics), but Reynolds frontside flipped it, Hopkins indy grabbed it, and tre flip, heel varial and airwalk almost went down! here we are at new spot
new spot, cash for tricks
over the rail we go
skating through downtown
wild in the streets!
pushing uphill got tiring after a bit
but we kept going!
skating to strathcona skatepark
almost there!
we made it, hotdogs and redbulls by donation (going towards leeside) made everyone happy
Beagle saying hey
Aj McCallister olling super high
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Adam Hopkins, Frontside Crailslide
Adam Hopkins, Frontside Boneless
Adam Hopkins, Backside Crail Stall
Julian Lansigan, Kickflip to Fakie
Adam Hopkins, Frontside Air
Adam Hopkins, Popping out of a Blunt to Fakie
Adam Hopkins, Nosepick
Blunt to Fakies
Andrecht Inverts!
Adam Hopkins, Taildrop from Fence
Julian Lansigan, Backside Smith
Adam Hopkins, Backside Tailslide
Julian Lansigan, Fakie Crook
Adam Hopkins, 360 Flip to Fakie
Thought this was funny
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It was a sunny Saturday yesterday, and RDS held a Block Party and Best Line Contest. Cash prizes $500 for 1st, $300 for 2nd and $200 for 3rd place. Live performances by Oakalla And Dj Syd Cee. The Coors Light bus was there, along with the girls. Free beer and pizza never disappoints me. I snapped some pics with my cellphone camera, excuse the quality. Lots of people came out, everyone killed it, and I got to see some old friends!
The Coors Light girls
The setup
Product toss crowd
Beers and skating, mmm
Riley Pilkington starting it off with shotguns
Daniel Empey, backtailing with a cast
Jordan Repin, Frontside Smith Kickflip Out
Arte Lew, trick... no idea
Arte Lew getting tech with a Switch FS Shuv Nosegrind BS Revert
Andres Tsougrains, Backside Tailslide
Micky Papa taking the cash
Some kind words from Micky
Bro wrestling
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Been taking lots of photos lately, so stoked... and summer is just around the corner! The circus is in town:
Adam Hopkins, Frontside 50-50 Monkey Flip
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I'm 21 years old now, birthday was on the 8th.
Roommates TJ and Jason got me some Jager and bought me a cake... with a fish on it
Went to Centre Distribution with Adam Hopkins so could pick up some boards, saw this sick car in the parking lot
SportChek is having a sale on Hawk decks, better hurry
A guy was cruising around Bonsor on a Segway wearing a dragon shirt, epic
This is what happens when you're drunk and you try to do shuvits
Dylan Davies got a little bloody in the Bonsor Bowl
Adam Hopkins, Method
Andrew McComb, Frontside Nosegrind
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Went looking for spots yesterday, found some goodies. Hit up 7/11 for a slushie afterwards, new flavour out... strawberry limeade, amazing. Back on May 8th, when we were skating that set, Brian Noppe took some photos of us. He finally got around to sending me the photos, here are some of them:
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Skated plaza for a bit with Adam Hopkins, TJ, and Jason. Met up with Adam Dufour, had some costco. Met up with a few guys and re-shot a photo. Then we went with some more people to a fair sized rail, but we got kicked out right away. So we had a chill sesh at the Joyce rail. Shane was climbing a pole near the rail to have a bird's eye view on the sesh, but the cops didn't like it and gave him a ticket (pretty sure they wrote it... they hassled him enough about it). Weirdly, they didn't mind us skateboarding, instead they gave me their contact card and told me to email them the photos that I was taking... they were stoked! Oh, and Matt Macleod, my farmer's tan is ruder than yours.
Shane Holm and the bike cops
Jordan Repin, Frontside Feeble
Tyler Holm, Frontside Crook
Jordan Repin, Frontside 5-0
Jordan Repin, Frontside Salad
(sorry for the crappy focus job)
Jordan Repin, Frontside Nosegrind
Jordan Repin, Frontside Nosegrind (diff. angle)
The Crew from left to right
Sean Cromie, Kyu Tae Kim, Clayton Uhlig, Brody Mutch, Shane Holm, Jordan Repin, Adam Dufour, Tyler Holm
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My birthday is in a week, turning 21 on the 8th! Adam Hopkins is moved in now. Jason goes back home on the 16th, then TJ is visiting family in Ontario from the 17th to the 30th. Here's a photo from April 26th:
Adam Hopkins, Backside Smith
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Beginning of a new month, feelin' good about things. Went to Squamish today, snapped a few photos. On the way home we went to the Britannia skate spot, and we bumped into Dave Kerr and snowboard photographer Oli Gagnon, stoked to meet them! Adam Hopkins is moving in today. Here's the photos I took:
Adam Hopkins, Crail Grab
Mike Klinkhamer, Bare Footer
Adam Hopkins, Frontside Tailslide
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