PJ Ladd “cruising” NYC

Posted in Amazing skate clips on September 7th, 2012 by corpo

This clip is so good that even PJ haters like Fuzz were blown away. Note to Plan B: Film east coast PJ. Note to Adidas: You’re blowing it, give this man a shoe.

skate journal: Fuller’s Ramp then Longmont Park with a fun crew (Sept 5, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on September 7th, 2012 by corpo

Carleigh, Jake and I pulled up to Dave “Best style of anyone ever” Fuller’s house about the time the sun was setting and quickly hit the ramp for a bit before dark. Carleigh said she was struggling, but it still looked like she was having fun. Fuller was skating good. He has a huge bag of tricks and with that style it rules to watch. Best fakie pivots ever. Jake wanted to bring a couple tricks and did. Back blunt on the coping and parking block side as well as pivot fakie on the parking block. I skated ok. The smaller setup was definitely a little weird on ramp, but easier for throwing into disaster. I put together several of my basics and almost got a front tail on the parking block side, but it was getting too dark.

Off to the park! We got there and the lights weren’t on. Turns out there is some problem and they don’t turn on until 8:22. Carleigh and I killed a few minutes by pumping over the bumps in the kids playground. Then the lights turned on and our crew got even bigger. Add Bernie, Scotty, Colby, Fuzz and Dean. Awesome. We mostly skated the little qp at the top of the over vert and the ledge. I was pretty hyped by the new PJ Ladd clip I’ll post soon so I was trying more flippers then normal. For awhile it felt like I might skate great. Had a line of halfcab flip, crooks, b/s flip on a mellow bank to turn around, front 50 shove, but didn’t roll away. Tight. Jake had a line of of kickflip, crooks, bluntslide the little qp. Dean almost had front 50 front shove. So much was happening I don’t really remember. Fuzz was ripping way hard. Fuller had awesome ollies on the little qp. The list of tricks I almost landed was decent, but I was getting the shaft bad. Oh well. I gave up on the ledge eventually. Jake almost got lipslide to front 5-0. Fuzz literally landed like 30 tricks. Back 50 front 180 out.

We were kinda thinking of leaving, but Bernie was deep into trying fakie 5-0 fakie treflip out. We stayed an extra hour just watching him get close. While he was skating Dean and I and eventually Fuzz and Jake messed around on the little bank. Dork tricks mostly. Dean had a super good back no comply to back tail. The rest of us did some stuff. Bernie ended up getting his trick without a flip. Everyone was hyped for him and we left.