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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

South Shore pt 2



Well, I have returned from the South. It was rad down there. I also went to philly for my first time which was awesome. However, in Raleigh I was trying to bs tail some ledge over a double set that retard face 50 kickflipped, and I ollied too high and locked a back lip and fell flat to my lower back. It almost put me out for the rest of the trip. I skated in pain through philly because I couldn't help myself. BIG UPS to Matt Hall, and Jimmy Kinslow for hosting us.

HERE I will post the rest of the photos and footage from the trip.



N.C. State, this is that spot in the new toy machine video

Johno
"Help, I'm gay"

North Carolina: I was hyped
Thats that realness

Raleigh, NC

Raleigh, NC

Pickin up Jimmy from school in PHILLY

This spot was amazing

Thats what im sayin

Jimmy Kinslow and Cj Linde

LOVE PARK Ledges

LOVE GAP in the dark

tssssssss

Philly in the dark

Back in Boston at Cj's
Snow in Allston

Snow doubt
Food leftover from the trip

YEAH

WHOOS A TURTLE!?

wait...

These planters?

Yes, they're gay

CJ's ready to go

shore

Nice rail

tsssssssss

Young Winston, Annapolis, MD

Annapolis, MD

Weird Locals

CJ on the snooze
Annapolis, MD

Washington DC

CJ's board got caught

Freedom plaza Washington DC

State house from Freedom Plaza aka pulaski park
CJ drinking his skateboard

DC Gold rail so crazy

2:30 Am in North Carolina

WHOS A DOG?

shredding


free peanuts

southern hospitality

A hawk

North Carolina




Friday, January 21, 2011

South Shore pt 1


Well, I am now several days into my journey to the south and I've finally made it to my laptop. Me and SBS alumni CJ Linde have spent the last 2 days traveling as well as skateboarding. We departed from Boardwalk Skateshop (www.boardwalkboston.com) on Wednesday and drove down to Annapolis, Maryland. We spent the night, woke the next morning to a beautiful town in a part of the country I've never visited. We went for breakfast at Chick & Ruth's Deli which is a very prominent breakfast spot to the locals. I enjoyed a bacon egg and cheese on wheat toast as well as a pancake.


We shredded the whole way to the breakfast joint, finding unique spots along the way! Look forward to seeing the skate to and from C&R's as well as the rest of the trip in the new brocam clip coming upon my return. Keep an eye on the blog, it'll appear within the next week.
After breakfast, we drove a brief 45 minutes to our nation's capital, Washington DC. We didn't know any locals or where to look for spots, but it worked out real well.
We started off with just parking and brocamming around the blocks of downtown looking for spots. After some successive brocamming and lack of ability to find legitimate spots, we decided to find the legendary Freedom Plaza (aka Pulaski Park). Thanks to Cj's sidekick, we were able to find an address to the spot and the GPS connected the dots.

We shredded Freedom Plaza, met some locals, and then went to fetch Cj's vehicle to find another place to park and skate. We came across a spot I've seen in Focus Magazine but thats all I've ever seen of it. The picture is below. We skated there, and with 45 minutes left in the meter, dropped the VX off in the car and broke out the brocam. The Washington DC section of the clip should be good.

After the brief brocam sesh and discovery of the best spot ever that also happened to be the biggest bust ever, we decided to go on a hunt for the white house. We got to the street but there was a huge line just to get down the street. We decided it was best to make the 7 hour journey to North Carolina. So here I am, 4:13 am now in North Carolina, about to snooze.




as in Jersey

Delish.

Washington DC Canteen spotting
First National Christian Church, Washington DC