Oh gods I am not good with computer!!!

So I started to update shit, and crashed chrome about 5 times. I'm also drink some Lagunitas Maximus IPA, which makes intelligent decisions exceedingly difficult. There are now some links on the side of the page. Also, Lifeblood skateboards will be up at Wilson next Thursday. I really dig these guys, and I've been riding their (and Bacon's) decks for a bit now, they're excellent. YOU should check them out!

A small update.

I'm going to try to get back on top of this blog. Here's a picture of Alva, he was at Wilson. It was awesome.

Boards, Bling, Road Trips

 New Board! This comic is excellent. I tripped out when I saw Bacon had the comics as their graphics. Bacon boards are excellent, they hold up till the grip falls off. I have two old nasty ones that are technically still rideable, I just couldn't keep riding them, they got sweat-dripped and puddle soaked and the miscellany.



The top actually looks really nice too. If I were the type who put fresh boards on my wall I'd get a few more. I've been trying to figure out if I can stain old decks the same color as some furniture, while still being able to see the old graphics, damage and stickers. I'd want some badass lounge chairs and an ancient looking chest, with matching decks on the wall.


Also, not that this is a side-note, I got engaged.




Three day weekend at Lake Delton this weekend! I'm joining in on the fiancee's family reunion, and they're renting a cabin less than a mile away from the park! They won't understand, but I'm going to sneak out for at least a few sessions. It's awesome when you get to ride a park several days in a row, you get such a better feel for the place.

Anyway, going to try to post more, but I need to take more pictures. Think I'm going to do a friends/acquaintances post, and link to the Chicago people I've found as I lurk through the internets. There's a lot of us out there, and we should all link each other up!

Don't put wax through the laundry.

I got super lucky on this one because I used a ziplock bag. Check your pockets!









Still melty.

Farmington Hills - Riley Skatepark

HEY! I just realized I have pictures of Riley skatepark over in Michigan. I was trying to stitch them together, but I must have been dancing a jig while I took the pictures, and it just won't work. So here they are in leftish to rightish order. I believe this is a Grindline or Dreamland with local contractors doing the non-transition work.




Deep end. I never slashed the pool coping so I can't say if it was nice or not. I was lazy and out of shape last fall. 10' I believe.


Ah my first cradle. So fun, spit me out a few times, but I have no complaints. The concrete is a little rough in there, but to get that high you need to be moving fast and a few bumps are the least of your worries. There's a video here. And that kid made me damn nervous I thought that kook was gonna fall.


To the right. The coping has a pretty big diameter.


TACO!


The smaller flow section. The hips are perfect. The short section is really short, and one side of the spine is way too small. There's pool coping on that extension, which has a really steep transition.

What you can't see is at the bottom left lip of the last picture, it's a quarter to bank extension. The quarter has bowl corners so you could carve up on to the bank, and onto the quarters on the top mid-deck. The bowl is on the other side of the upper deck to the left of the picture.

The park also has a really neat jersey barrier that is very long and curves. Some traditional street stuff, which is well separated, no boards flying into the bowl. You can also climb up on top of that cradle if you so dare. Excellent park, not without its flaws.  Worth the 4ish hour drive from Chicago. Go get some.

Comic-con Chicago

Went to the Chicago comic-con a few weeks ago. I'm not a comic fan, and I don't usually go to these types of things, but I definitely had a good time. We went to an afterparty with some of the cast from BSG. There were lots of costumed individuals, and it was pretty interesting listening to what the actors had to say.

Batman and Robin.

Brent Spiner - Data from Star Trek, he was genuinely hilarious.

Colonel Tigh gods damnit!

The BSG panel. Apparently we were supposed to have special passes to be up this close, but we just walked in and sat down unknowingly. WIN!

Batman. Not sure who the robot is.

Baddies from the ninja turtles. There were lots of people in costume. First thing I saw when I walked in was the perviest looking guys taking lots of pictures of catwoman....

William Shattner. He is a kook. Either he looooves to talk about himself or had the most brilliant strategy for not taking questions from the audience. He talked about his upcoming shows for 20 minutes, then went on a 20 minute description of the winter olympics, and took 1 question about being the priceline negotiator.

These were ABSOLUTELY EPIC iron man costumes. I'd be surprised if the movie studio didn't send them for publicity. They made realistic stomping sounds and everything. Totally pro.

Colonel Tigh cut me in line at the bar. I was fine with it.

Jess is officially a fangirl.

I just stepped in because I didn't want Jess taking a picture with the pretty boy alone.

Another pic of Tigh because he's awesome. He spent like 20 minutes with an autistic kid and made his day.

No judging! Sci-fi is awesome!

Retro-post: San Jose

Went to San Jose back in March. Didn't get to skate as many places as I would have liked, but Lake Cunningham and Santa Cruz were wonderful. I so want to move there. AND IT'S NEVER HUMID! It was 70 degrees all week, in Chicago it was snowing.

Wish I spent more time riding this one, tight transitions and stairs like a pool.


It was super hard to get speed at that cradle, not sure if it was bigger than Riley in Michigan.



The pipe, and a really big hip!


The huge vert wall.

Should have taken more pictures, LC is ~60,000 sq. feet. I'm not sure if that includes the big flatground area for spectators. It's still huge, kid in a candy factory.

 I guess I didn't take any pictures of the Santa Cruz park, only a few videos. That pool is definitely my favorite of everything I've ridden.

I have more old pics I'll post later, and I'm going to Roselle today, I'll make another stitch, because those are fun, but Roselle isn't interesting at all.