Pedro is a Saint

Since Pedro is such a nice guy he decided to lend me his DSLR for the rest of my trip, I'm stoked! I'm sure everyone that reads this was stressing when they heard they wouldn't be seeing anymore juicy content but fret-no-more. Take a look below for some flicks!

Parc Guell

Myself with a coffee at Parallel

Fruits

The old men are vicious out here.

Will loves Gossip Girl.

JB! By the time you read this he will

already be back in Michigan.

Spectating.

A digi photo of Alex's front blunt. He didn't

land this but it's still nice lookin'.

On the Up and Up

Homeboy Colin Findlater just got a profile on the Supra website. Congrats buddy!

http://www.supradistribution.com/team/colin_findlater.php

Perma-Fucked.

That title, of course, is in reference to my digital camera that decided to focus it's own shutter the other day while the gang and I were out shooting. Unless I can get ahold of a DSLR somehow, it's digi point and shoot photos from here on out! Gotta make the best of a shitty situation somehow.

Skateboarding.

It used to be my birthday.

Donezo.

Birthday Blogging

It's my birthday and it also happens to be raining so we're lazing around for the day and waiting for nightfall. Here are some stills and sequences from the past few days. Met up with the homies from the Windsor Hut and then some. Take a look!

Byron, warm up kickflip 5-0.

Lankmaster Zach, 5-0 180.

Geoff Strelow

Things didn't go so smooth after warming up.

Brandon

Jordan, back smith.

Brandon, warm up nollie crook.

Jordan, kickflip.

As a special birthday bonus, I'm giving YOU guys a gift, check out the prequel to Marty's new part in Make Friends With the Colour Blue, Make Friends with Marty!

Child's Play

We decided to head out to the Sant Marti rail the other day. Sure enough, madness ensued. All sequences below were shot in under 30 minutes.

Byron, switch crook.

Nollie nosegrind.

Kickflip frontboard.

Nollie tailslide to fakie.

Nollie noseslide.

Nollie front crook.

New Arrivals

I know, I know, I'm in Barcelona and have only updated once or twice. But here we are, on our third blog post and ripping away skating-wise. A new homie Jeremy Tuffli has been added to an ever-growing list of new friends we meet out here, skateboarding is a truly a universal language. Moving on though, just yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Jordan and Brandon to our apartment while we bid Matt farewell. That being said, today was their first day of skating in Barcelona but they didn't let jet lag or any excuses get in their ways. One month has already flown by...I'm afraid to think of how quick this one will go.

Jordan, 5-0.

Jeremy, bluntslide pop into regular.

Pedro filming at sunset.

Matt, backside 5-0 on one of

his last days.

Byron frontside flipped this set and Pedro

shat his pants.

Congratulations Marty!

Fellow friend Marty Murawski was turned pro this past week. Congratulations dude!

Cuenta la Mierda de Perro

Ah yes, we're still being eager beavers and doing the skate tourist deal but we've been getting busier and actually shooting some photos. I'm not too sure what we're going to do next month without Matt here, he's always the one to wake us up, drag us out of bed and get us to go skating before noon. Since we've actually been skating spots other than Macba and Parallel we've also been meeting some new skate buddies and getting casual pro sightings - it's pretty tight! I can't tell you whether or not these updates are going to become consistent so sit tight.

This rail was a ton of fun. Byron,

just-learned nollie front feeble.

Matthew, back smith.

Marty showed up for a day. He's on some next

level trickery.

Matt, gap 5050.

"I hate manuals." Byron, kickflip nose wheelie

nollie flip.

Hola!

We finally made it to Barcelona! Bad weather, cancelled flights, getting switched to different planes and lost luggage made one hell of a journey getting here. That airplane food didn't help either.

But the city...ah yes, the city. The architecture is like no other place I've seen. To me, it seems like this entire city was made with a skateboarder in mind. Lightly-cracked sidewalk blocks so your wheels clicked, granite everything and perfect ledges everywhere really made all of us ask, "Why does this exist?!" Our new homie Pedro has been showing us around and even hooked us up with a spot book he made. What is normal to him has been blowing our minds with every other push through the city, I honestly mean it. So far we're just "skate tourists" in this city while Pedro shows us around. Soon enough we will be getting down to business...if you know what I mean.

This thing.

This probably shouldn't exist, but it does.

Not actually.

This place blew our minds.

Five spots in one? Sure, why not!

Pedro cruising to the metro.

Parallel

Is your mind blown yet?

Will Jivcoff Video

Took one last road trip to Michigan before I head out for the next two months. Ben gave us a place to stay and his mom hooked us up with a fat breakfast each morning along with some other goodies. Did some after sessioning at Landslide and caught up with the homies for the last bit of 2009. See you in 2010 suckers!

Real street skating...in December!

Ben got a new camera.

Anything you can ever imagine

finding is in here.

Just being an American...no big deal.

It's cold again.

Now for some footy!

Ben did a line.

Isaac did a new trick.

Joel did a line too.

Mike also dropped in to do a hammer.

A snowy, cold hell.

Yes, it's winter. Yes, we're in hibernation. Do you need a better reason to watch a skate video? I think not! Do yourself a favor and watch "City of New Lights" filmed by Jarvis Nigelesky and with parts from a bunch of west coast heavy hitters by the likes of Chad Dickson, Dustin Montie, Spencer Hamilton, Lee Saunders and many others.

You were expecting photos, weren't you? If you can wait three weeks I'll have some goods for you. I know, I know, it's going to be hard but it will be worth it.