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.

Keeping it Local

The past couple weekends it seems like I've been doing some more skating around Kitchener and inviting people to come skate the plentiful amount of spots that we have here...if you'd like to call them that. In the end it's not only productive but ends up being a lot more fun knowing that the spots around here still have some life and offering in them. Take a look below to see what I mean.

Drew with some fancy footwork. Frontside 5-0 backside

bigspin out.

Scott, kickflip.

A frontside Matt Smith grind.

Joel, polejam manny.

Colin, crook.

Colin went to war with this 

hubba. Backside 5-0.

Let's put an egg in our shoes and...

It appears that the temperatures this week are going to start making a steady climb into the double digits and today it started it's venture upward. Ben and I met up at the park to take care of some business at the dirty gap before meeting up with a few others. After that we took off to Laurier to check out what the new spots had to offer and had some fun there. Upon arriving Sir Matt Pancer also decided to show up after being out with an injury for pretty much the entire summer. As we were vacating the campus the agro security guard with a heavy Irish accent that all the skaters around here are befriending tried arresting us...better luck next time bud.

Back in action and saucier

than ever.

Security is doing their job well

these days. 

Lucas, almost-noseblunt.

First day back and hoppin'

on hubbas? Not quite, no need

to risk another injury. Here's

to another five years!

Matt, noseslide.

Original Yolkster Ben Locke, bump to bump

 tre flip.

Ben, backside biggy.

Until ne- will there even be a next time?

Potentially Dead

Since the season is coming to an end very fast us skaters are scrambling to make plans to skate and scrounge every last day that the weather is in the double digits. Unfortunately the double digit-temperatures have come and gone and by the looks of it they aren't coming back for many months. Because of the long weekend I was able to cram some heavy skating and as I sit here typing this update I'm starting to realize it may very well have been the last weekend we'll have for skating at all. The frost and snow warnings at night kill any hope of skating for much longer than another two weeks at the most. The life story of a skateboarder on the east coast....

The next stop for Danny Way.

Relax, Lucas did not fall in while doing this

5-0.

Potential future room mate

Jordan Moss got down with

a front smith.

Mitch Donovan, another 

potential roommate. 

Tim, hard flip with ease.

I had never met Dillon before this night but

he showed up and started blazing these nollie

heel's down this new 3 flat 3. I felt obliged to

shoot a photo.

Another new homie. Cole, front

lip.

Until next time. This may be a very long time.

New Love Skateboards Promo

The good homies over at Love Skateboards put a new promo up to build some hype for their new video which is due during winter 2010. Do yourself a favour and head over to their site to check it and their other goods out.

www.loveskateboards.ca

Ben Schwandt, heelflip.

Drew Williams, wallie frontside 180.

Isaac Watamaniuk, backside 180 switch 

nosegrind revert.

Joel Watamaniuk, front

blunt to fakie.

Ben Locke, ollie out backside kickflip.

Absolute Neglect

It's been almost a month since I've updated my blog which means I've been nagged for the past three weeks or so to update my blog. The regular weekend trips to London almost end with me wanting to kill Jordan because he doesn't stop telling me how lazy I am and how shitty my blog is without a new post. He might just be the only dude that checks this thing though. Regardless, check out the last month in photos!

Getting to skate this spot is rare. Isaac, front

wallride.

Surfs up bro! Colin, nose manny nollie 3 shove.

The only sequence that matters. Byron, crail grab.

Colin checkin' his stee.

Joel, front blunt to fakie.

"I always slam on manny's"

-Byron

Anthony McManus showed up

one day to break dance.

Colin, warm up 5050.

Isaac, crook.

Gavin rolled his ankle because of this so I'm

throwing it up. Back smith.

Until next time...whenever that may be.