April showers bring May....Skateboarding?

My apologies for bringing the rhyme in the title to the next level...couldn't think of anything more awesome than that. Although, upon considering what to write I did start to look at the whole idea of rain in a new light. Normally us skateboarders are damn bitter when it's anything but nice and sunny out but in the case of winter we embraced it more than ever. You may notice the lack of snow in the photos below. That, my friends, is all thanks to the rain gods. (Don't come back until next April...thanks!)

This might have been one of my favourite months out of the season this year, I can't pinpoint why but I'm betting is was due to golden sun, lots of fresh shredding and finally being able to not freeze your ass off while skating.

Everyone, crowd around the internet blog and take a peek at what a skateboarder's May looks like!

Can you believe I ended up shooting with Damien
AND Ben at the same time? Those are the type
of things you hear about in myths. A perfect
backside flip for Ben.


Byron, nollie bigspin. Two bangers in
one day...gold! Click for better sequence.


Damien Peters sighting! Backside heelflip in
the rain.


This was one of my favourite shots from the
season that also went into the Color Goldbook
issue. They didn't use this timing but I like
it better. Byron, switch heel.


Don't ask why I went to Guelph.
Harrisson, crook.


Same deal, don't ask, don't tell.
Byron, frontside flip.


TONY TRUJILLO? Nope. Josh Cowan switch
back 180ing a double set.


How to chop off limbs 101 with
Will Jivcoff. Sorry Matt! Switch frontside
heelflip over the flatgap for Mr. Scott.
Click for better sequence.


Isaac, pop shove.


Colton, 5050.


Scott, heelflip. I'm not bullshitting when I say
this was the coolest spot ever. Mini Golf R.I.P.


Cameron, kickflip.


Kody, back smith stall.


You know what happens in June...don't you?

A New Beginning: April

By the beginning of April it was evident, winter was dead and spring was springing up. By this time it was becoming a daily routine to actually go skateboard outside...PNR was a thing of the cold, frozen past! Another thing that was becoming more evident was the amount of sun in our new days, it wasn't getting dark at 4:30 in the afternoon anymore! The coolest thing about April was the amount of drive everyone had to get out and skate some spots OUTSIDE of a skatepark. I'm actually just going through files on my computer now and am noticing that out of all the months of the skate season 22 different days of skating came from April.

Don't be shy, take a look at raw motivation!


Ben, backside kickflip. That bank
is not fun or easy to skate.


Dalton, a high crook.


You ever see that sick video 2bangers1day? Dalton
was the star of that one. Crail stall.


Erik, bank to bank ollie. Some homeless guy
passed us on this day telling us he was going to
be in the movies. Downtown Kitchener? Yes.


Adam Zid, wallride king. Straight
up ollies right onto that wall
baby!


Jamie, backlip. This one went
into a checkout he had in Color
magazine Goldbook issue.


Josh, heelflip. One of my faves
from the season.


I warned you about pure determination to skate,
right? Joel went so loco he took up biking.


Ben setting the record straight with a proper
tre bomb at the bump over the sidewalk.


Isaac, tre flip.


Joel, tailslider.


Hands down one of my top three favourite
photos of the season. I was pretty bummed
this didn't get run, oh well. Erik, ollie against
his will.


TJ - PJ.


Byron, front feeble. I remember his words so
well, "We aren't leaving until I'm rolling away."
I was stoked on that.



That's enough of April, next up, May!

A Chilly Stoke: March.

There are some moments you just really remember. Although I would prefer to have no memory at all of the winter months I can't help but to remind myself how stoked I was to be skateboarding outside in the middle of march. I guess it had been such a nice day (probably about 0 degrees Celsius in the sun) that some of us were determined to get our skate on. Well, I guess that super nice weather carried on because I do have a few files from the middle of March and on.

Anyways, I present to you a desperate time in a skateboarder's life when the sun is out but the salt and snow hasn't melted away.

Josh, nollie bigspin switch manny. Click for better resolution.


Ah yes! The first True Love event at the
skatepark. Some of the skaters shoveled out
a pathway just to skate the humps while Pat
and Hooper cooked some hotdogs and
hamburgers. That was a good day.


Right after filling up on hotdogs and burgers
we hit the streets! Joel switch heel over the
hydrant. You KNOW everyone went nuts.


Palmer, switch frontside
flip.


Scooter, backside feeble popover.

R.I.P.: 03/16/2008 - 11/10/08

Well...there isn't much to say except for the fact that I woke up this morning to the death of skateboarding. Oh yes, today it snowed and didn't melt away. I regret to make the announcement but today was the day (I think) skateboarding died for another season.

I know, your first panicked reaction was, "But Will, what am I going to do without blog updates?!" but I have a solution! Over the next month I'll be posting photos from each month this season, not for me, but for you!

And if you really must know....


THAT was my morning. Depressing? Yes.
Stay posted!

Loyalty JUST went out of style!

What was looking like a nice Saturday ended up like garbage. The sun was out and everything was all good until the clouds rolled in. Down came the rain and eventually the hail and here I am actually considering going to Pipes N Railz tonight. I'm not sure what to think of myself...

If you're just as bored as myself take a look at some photos that I've never posted on here before. Enjoy!

Erik, a healthy hippie jump.
Early summer memories...


Aaron, lipslide 270 shove. He got this
one really quick...I remember this day all
too well.


Duke, rock to fakie. Ah, I really
miss Detroit and all the dudes
from there.


Joe, another Detroit-er. The man is the king
of front crooks, can't you tell?


Isaac, backside kickflip. This is latest shot
out of this bunch. We got this on a little weekend
trip to Kingston.


I'll have to apologize to the fans that came looking for park photos and the amount of time we shot all these in, none of that today.

Turning Back the Hands of Time

Ah yes, you really know things are going to hell when that day pops up that you turn the clocks back an hour. Night comes quicker, cold gets colder and you and I get unhappier. I guess I shouldn't be worrying because we do have about another week and a bit of nice weather.

On this particular day it was actually really nice. It was a little chillier compared to some of the recent weather but everyone was soaking it up while it lasted. A bunch of us only got around to skating some stuff when it came closer to the night so not much of a photolog mission today. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the updates somewhat steady for the nice week ahead.

Isaac, kickflip.



You can't have everything, where would you
put it?
-Stephen Wright

Mackenzie Campbell!

Mack has been featured on the blog quite often and for a good reason: he's killing it. Over the past year or so this young gun has done a lot of growing up and is on a path of destruction. He's slowly evolved from blonde streaks in his hair and a helmet on top at the skatepark to ripping it in the streets. I would say the whole migration from the skatepark to the streets has a lot to do with Mack's attitude and how he looks at skateboarding. His maturity surpasses his age by many years and is generally one of the first kids I call up to get a shred mission happening. Have no doubts, this kid will continue to progress and kill it and I won't ever hesitate when he calls shotgun.

No helmet, no streaks!


I had to put the stress of "last try" on Mack for
this one since we had to be somewhere but it was
indeed last try. Frontside 5050 backside 180 out.


Kickflip.


For some apparent reason everyone loves
these ledges. They are infact shit but Mack takes
care of business regardless. Backside 5-0 shove.


Backside 5-0


Front blunt over the rust bar...no wax necessary
for this young man.

Excuse me while I zoom through...

I just got back from Kingston today and was in the mood to extend my long weekend in the name of skateboarding. I hollered at Mack, Luc, Graham and Andrew and we all went out to get some filming and picture taking done. Everyone got a little bit of something and we even found a little new gem to skate. I don't imagine I'll be doing too much skating this week because work has scheduled me everyday until Saturday...just what you want when the skate season is on a close.

Gary doing a personal
never-been-done front feeble
pop over.


Mack-Dawg, front blunt.


Fence hopper extraordinaire
Lucas going vertical.


Mackenzie zoomin' on through with a cannon
ball.

Schralpin' in Kingston

This weekend was a great one. It all started with a bangin' Thanksgiving dinner with my family and then heading off for some great skating. Mother nature was all too kind with the weather as well...I'm talking about sweating with the sun beating down on you, it was awesome! Back on track, Isaac, Joel, their brother Aaron, Cameron and I all headed down to Kingston to get our skate on. We didn't really know what to expect but ended up meeting some of the nicest dudes who were down to show us a bunch of great spots. Everyone ended up with some real gems (footy, photos and new friends) and had a great time. Thanks to Aaron for letting us stay at his place and Soren, Jamie, Brock, Cameron and Francois for showing us a good time.

Aaron with a crook at Kingston's junkyard.


Joel backing up his brother with a switch one.


This is Brock crooking. He had the meanest
pop-outs on these.


Francois with a high back tail.


Soren, front nose. Pop? Yes.


Honourable mention goes out to Francois for nosesliding my shoulder while trying to backside heelflip some stairs.

A Nice Fall Day

These are the days I really like about Autumn. Sun shining, perfect skate weather(17-20 degrees Celsius) and some homies. I also happened to have school and work off so it was only multiplying the awesomeness of an already great day. I would also like to give a huge thanks to Jon Eby for letting me borrow his digital camera...I owe you heaps!

Quick ollies up and trick over the gap.....not so easy with metal caps threatening your roll-capability.

Cameron, frontside 180.


Isaac, kickflip.


I got film back today too...yummy yummy.

Ninja Cheerleaders

For the weekend Isaac, Joel, Aaron and I headed down to Toronto to get some skating and filming done for the Love promo. We met up with the likes of Matt, Drew, Justin, James, Duke and many others; our crew for the first day was pretty deep. Just as we were getting in to Toronto on Saturday everyone was waking up so a bunch of us warmed up waiting to go out. First spot of the day Aaron got a trick (I would consider it a combo with the dodging traffic aspect) and after being over that spot Drew got a trick as well. Heading on to the UofT area we dorked around on some ledges and Isaac got a trick on a steep bank. The day was coming to a close so we got some dinner and started walking around to check out Nuit Blanche. It was supposed to be an art show but we didn't really see much to check out. By midnight-1am most of us were dead from the day so back to the apartment we went only to have Isaac stoked out to watch some crappy movies.

Sunday was a really mellow day. The city streets were somewhat empty because the art show (Nuit Blanche) had run until sunrise. We took advantage of this but kept it mellow ourselves. Joel got a line somewhere in between and we also met up with Peter. It was around five and we were all pretty tired and hungry so we started heading for the van to give our weekend a close.

On a side note, the sweater weather is finally here. There might be a month left of skating so everyone is really trying to milk the season for what it is. Also, don't ever mess with a cheerleader by day/ninja by night...those chicks can seriously mess shit up.

Joel and Duke doubling as traffic watch.


Next spot.


Duke providing friendly support for James.



Oh yeah, I appologize for having to resort to cell phone pictures. If I could have forseen the early death of my actual digi I would have done something about it.