205: NC Adventures/Merry Christmas Post

So as it turns out, I had a ton of time to take off work so with all those days, I decided to make my way up to Boone, NC to help Rory Marrett celebrate his recent graduation.

On my way up there, I stopped in Hickory, NC and kicked it with homie Joe Matty and headed up to Greensboro to skate the old 915 park, Joe managed to lace this pretty cool vertical soul stall, note the lace face:

Later that night we stopped by at the infamous Wizard saloon had a couple beers, and wound up at a weird late night bar I can't remember and learned all about hot wings and a cultural dance phenomenon called 'the cat daddy' absolutely fascinating.

The next day, NC homies came up and skated, got some footage, had a good time and NC native Chris Zachary put together this cool little edit of everyone shredding:

After that, I headed up to Boone to meet the homies and proceded to have an awesome evening.

For the remainder of the weekend, we explored this abandoned high school we found, this place was incredible.

The building itself looks like it was fully functioning one day and the next day everyone dropped what they were doing and just left, zombie apocalypse style, its wild...and very eerie.

Every window is broke, every door is kicked open, spray paint is everywhere literally everything that is breakable in that high school that isn't important to its structure, is either broken, or spray painted, kids somewhere just completely ravaged this thing.

Here are a couple sub par pics I shot at a ledge...or table inside of the school:

And here are a couple shots of Thomas and Cooley skating the exterior:






And to give a little more insight how amazing this place was, we spent the entire weekend filming and made this edit:

After another awesome trip to Boone, I headed back to SC and got ready for the Christmas week to come.

After my short work week, this past Friday, I drove with Slobey up to Nashville, TN to kick it with his fam for a day and do a little skating, after some good shredding with locals Chad and Taylor, we turned in for the evening and got ready for family times.

Anywho, enjoy the edit, Merry Christmas and I'll see you doods for some beers this coming weekend.

So Hood, So Good

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Boone Trip 02 Part III

Another awesome day to conclude this crazy weekend. There was a lot less skating and a lot more chilling today but man it was fun. We spent a good deal of our day getting our nature on drinking beers and throwing frisbees in the mountains.

The day ended with a few slices, a few beers, and this really weird, really random half pipe somewhere in the middle of the mountains. Jon managed to keep the daily picture trend going with this pretty wild backflip 180 spinny madness maneuver:

After that, Garrett and I headed back south to the homeland and started to get ready for the week ahead.

Yard grease, halfsocks, shoes, and stubbed toes included, this weekend was awesome and hopefully only one of many more to come in the next few coming months. But for now, I'm tired so I'm going to bed, see you dudes next weekend.

Boone Trip 02 Part II

Day 2 in Boone started off right with a home cooked meal, and many cups of joe and kicking it in the beautiful mountain weather.

Shortly after, we headed out to Wilkesboro, NC to skate a pretty fun competition put on by the young Mr. Hunter Kale. It was really cool to see all the youth out and shredding hard, it was a pretty good turn out and was a really good time. Blake Hyatt came thru with the win, followed by the savage Slobey in 2nd and Thomas Martin in 3rd.

After the comp and some food we headed out to skate downtown Wilkesboro to help Jon Cooley film for his up coming Day in the Life for Chosen few and after today it's definitely not one your going to want to miss.

There was definitely a lot more footage than photos but I did happen to capture this crazy Slobgnar Disaster Topsoul:

After the session we headed back to the Martin Mountain home mansion to kick it and eat delicious food.

I swear everytime we come to Boone, we always end up getting a lot of crazy blading done, drink thousands of beers, and eat the finest food, it's a good/fun lifestyle to have, no yard grease.

Here's some photos of the chow Garrett whipped up:

Anywho, the day was accomplished the night is young, the beers are many. Got one more day to kick it and do some skating.

Boone Trip 02 Part I

So after work on Thursday Garrett and I headed down to Boone, NC to go kick it with the spolf twasting Boonenites.

Upon arrival and a couple beers, we headed out to go see a Dr. Dog show, needless to say it was awesome.

Later that night we headed back to Thomas' new mountain house and continued the party, chilled in the hot tub for a bit, threw knives at peoples faces and then called it a night.

The next morning we didn't have any real plans other than to just kick it, but low and behold we wound up going to an amazing spot and getting some really awesome photos:

This picture doesn't do the difficulty of this trick justice, but I was pretty juiced on the outcome:



And Cooley laced these pretty crazy tricks as well:

The night ended with grilled deliciousness, and hot tub times...well I say ended but its only 9 and you never know with the Boone folk.

Tomorrow we're headed out to a contest in Wilkesboro details here so hopefully we see you guys out that way.

200th Post Look Who's Back

Finally healthy enough to skate again, lots of footage, a lot more to come, welcome back homie.

Finally, an update

Well, the past month or so has been really crazy. I've had a lot of work on the side and a lot of people staying at my house mostly to go skating. Footage has been abundant but pictures have not...until this weekend anyways.

Phil Gripper and Stefan Brandow have been in town a lot skating and its been very productive and a lot of fun. This past weekend we really handled business and got a lot of really cool rollerblading stuff done. Here are a couple pics:

Stefan Brandow Laced this pretty large gap first trick of the day first try:

Garrett Slobey came out and destroyed this ledge:



And also destroyed his shin attempted to land the above AO Topsoul:



Stefan also jumped into this pretty wild bank towards the end of the day:



And this guy was caught helping Stefan shoot:

Then at the last spot, Phil landed this deadly royale, we got back to the house, realized it was too dark so we got up early the next day and reshot it...so it was pretty much the first trick of the day after a long night of hanging out:

All in all its been a pretty radical past month and I'm still very busy with other projects but the ball is still rolling and there should be a lot more coming in the future. So stay tuned.