The End is Near!

It's a heart break and a fact that all skateboarders have to face when September swings around. Yes, the end of the season is near. No longer can we count on every day being a sunny, warm and being able to skate without lights and a generator until 9:30 in the evening. The plus side to all of this is that when it is sunny it's the most perfect time for skating. A light sweater for protection just incase you do happen to get roughed up all the while remaining comfortable and not sweating buckets...ah yes, perfection. Below is a good example of a perfect fall weekend: sunny and perfection temperatures.

Peekabo....

It's Beaster! Caballerial.

Met up with Tyler O'Grady and he wanted to

huck at some stair case switch stance. I obliged.

Put your hands in the air, it's Sunday and

sunny!

Mitch got down with

a noseslide.

Jamie backed him up going switch-footed.

There were a few minute kinks to be worked

out.

Jesse, front lip.

"The Dark and Sad side of

Christopher Quick" coming to

a theatre near you!

On Point

It always seems like long weekends suddenly sneak up on us skateboarders and plans to get some solid shredding done never actually see the light of day -until this past weekend. What better a crew to make it happen with the often-ten-deep-or-more Windsor guys. Shred sticks with their respectful owners came from all over -Oshawa, Windsor, Orangeville and myself, Kitchener. Even after nights of heavy partying we were all somehow coordinated enough to beat mother nature as she rained off and on every couple hours and would throw in heavy wind storms here and there. No holds were barred when it came to skating spots. If someone had something in mind we made it happen regardless of distance...within reason of course. One day we were even out and skating by 9:30 in the morning. That's some serious dedication when it comes to talking about skateboarders!

Warm up spot, Vanderhoof. It was probably

around 10:30am when we shot this which meant

we had already been shredding for an hour.

Jesse, 5050 ollie past the curb.

Jamie, boardslide with ease.

Over the course of the weekend we couldn't

tell whether the rain meant packing up or

just waiting it out.

We waited it out.

Mikey, front blunt to fakie.

Andrew lent us the bungee for the day.

Deadly fun indeed. Mikey Plantus isn't ever

allowed to be near one of these things again.

I can only imagine what you're thinking right

now.

Jesse hitting it backside.

Dillon, Dy-lon, Pilon, hardflip.

Over and out.

Until....next weekend?

That griptape....

Spent the last couple days with some of the London crew and checked out the new Emerica video "Stay Gold" with them on Wednesday. Check out some photos below for the antics.

Colin, switch boardslide.

He said the shop ran out of regular griptape,

I'm calling bullshit. Either way that grip is

unnecessary....

....shake junt for life I guess.

Down with....Kitchener?

I was pretty stoked to have Jesse, Hill and Quick roll through Kitchener for the day to try and hit some spots. It seems to be that if I bring someone in from outside of the city it's almost a sure bet for them to get a decent trick. We also hit up Guelph the next day to shralp some spots around there with Mr. Pryma. Unfortunately Sunday was way fucking hotter than Saturday and I think everyone came down with some sort of mild heat stroke while Mitch got the worst of it and started chucking. Heat stroke ain't no joke...hydrate fools.

That's Hill on the right questioning my integrity

and whether or not I know what a skate spot is.

At this moment I was scraping algae off the bottom

of the ditch to try and make it less slick for

my buddy.....

....aaaand action!

Jesse made it out of this one

unscathed. Yeah, no clue.

This hydrant also decided to just pop up out

of no where.

Until next time...

On the Scene

I guess one could say that some rather unusual skate sessions took place over the past week. Something to do with transport trucks in the middle of Dundas Square...yeah I don't quite know what that's all about either. See if you can make some sense of it below.

Ryan and Magnus checking out

a new spot.

It seemed ideal.

A bit of a change in scenery now.

All of Ryan's fans were there.

Concrete Photo Annual

Here are two photos of mine that ran in the Concrete Photo Annual issue.

Colton, front smith. I originally saw a video

of him eating absolute shit on this thing but

knew that if he went back I had to shoot it.

Sure enough...

Colin, front crook in the rain. The man has

'em like that.

Do yourself a favour and check out that issue. It's

got a lot of good stuff from photographers like

Rich Odam, Jeff Comber, Owen Woytowich and

Geoff Clifford.

Meandering

Just a few photos over the past week and a bit for you to take a look at.

Tried to skate some Kitchener spots and got

kicked out of every one we went to.

Colin, back 50.

Went to Guelph to try our luck.

This young is starting to skate

with us a bit. Alex, ollie.

Colin, nollie.

Look close...serious style points.

Forgot to throw this one in the last post. We

did it and regretted every moment of it.

Anyone willing to get wet and possibly a bit

banged up? SBC photo annual is coming up...

Justin on point with the focus game.

*no caption necessary*

"...think there's a big market for camo slip-ons?"

Heading to Whitby for a few days. Bound to get

some goods there.

Like a Moth in the Light

Once again Isaac, Joel and myself took a trip down to Detroit and brought none other than Mr. Williams with us for his first round of skating in the D. Between some authentic tacos in Mexican town, the regular crack heads lurking our sessions and Ben's mom cooking us up some bomb meals it goes without saying that it was an awesome time. It feels like Detroit is one of those cities that never gets old to me. You'd also think that because it's dirty as hell and the city is sketchy at best that we'd skate there once and be done with it. But no, not this city. Take a look below for some Detroit shadiness below.

Benjamin, doubling up on his ollie game.

If one spot could sum up Detroit

best it might be this one. Sketchy,

dirt, terribly built and bum

shit everywhere. Ryan, back d

in the D.

Stopped by the shop Pigeon to do a little

meet and greet with the kids. The young kid in

the front holding up a Love board bought an

8.25 and learned to skate it just to spite the

"older kids" that told him an 8inch was too big for

him. He can skate that thing too!

Isaac, 5050 into the plate at

the roughest spot ever.

Stopped in Windsor on the way home. Hill

got a new whip!

"Wait, you want to do what

where?"

As usual I'm back at home trying to

figure out the next time I can get down

there.

Oh yeah, I finally got a website up and

running. Check 'er out!

http://willjivcoff.com/

Broken bodies, finished tapes and exposed rolls.

Home from the Vancouver trip and let me tell you, almost three weeks of skating from spot to spot, fighting for floor space at night and skating every day really wears down on the body. Check some throw away photos and the video below for a fun time.

Colin, nollie varial heelflip at some blown out

three block in the 'burbs.

A pleasant walk in the park.

Colin has a weird fettish for wall rails. 5050.

Byron and Tim hurt themselves early on in

the trip so they came to spots for moral support.

Colin, 5-0 for warm ups. Pardon the finger/ghetto

sun shade.

Mandatory beach sunset shot.

Breakdown breakdance.

Colin, bs bigspin boardslide for shits n' gigs.

Went to Victoria for the weekend, some nice

scenery and new friends out there.

These were our hosts, Fran and Pat. They

fucking ruled.

Jordan made a montage of throw

away clips from the trip. He'll be

pissed if you don't watch it below.