Southern Motion Poster #1

I know I know. I haven't updated in like 2 weeks my bad. I have the Boone Trip stuff written and the screens and all I just haven't posted, so my b. But I did finish the very first Southern Motion Poster featuring Adam Mcmanus. So view and, hopefully, enjoy.

Boone Benefit Comp Weekend 07-18 - 07-20

So, I get off of work at 11:00 meet up with Tim Taylor, Kevin Dowling, and Adam Mcmanus at our house. For anybody unaware, Adam's car is always nasty, so before we head out, I do some militant style cleaning inside his ride to make room for our luggage. At about 1 in the morning, we get on the road and head to Boone.

The ride up was filled with good conversation, funny jokes and a few random bathroom breaks. I think we actually got into Boone at about 3am and didn't manage to get to sleep until about 5am. Nonetheless, we get our 5 hours of sleep in and get ready for the next day.

Kevin and Adam had slept at Andy Kruse's house the night before so at about 10 we called them and had them meet us at the park. When we get to the park, there were an unusual number of rollerbladers there, which considering the cause, was very exciting.

The Glenny's were the ones who actually threw this thing together, and they had $600 for the winners, lots of prizes, free food, and free drinks, they really went all out to make this thing go off the way it should have, and it did. Its amazing, the Boone park is so small but every time I make it out there, its always so much fun and so many people throw down. Check out the edit and see for yourself:

So a job well done by the Glenny's and Thomas Martin for organizing the event.

After the comp, we managed to get in some post comp skating on these ledges under a bridge. It was a good sized session with a bunch of good tricks, check them out:

Joe Matty AO Neg Acid:

Joey Adams Zero Top Soul:

Richard Nguyen 270 BS Unity:
Smiley BS Backslide:

After this spot, we headed out to AP State to skate their campus, and wow, this place is a haven for skating. amongst the many things we skated some strange obstacles and managed to get some rather interesting clips:

Joey Adams Laced this hop to ledge roll straight jump over the rail:
This pic doesn't do it justice but Tim laced this 540 to ledge roll down and around this brick planter to a drop royale on the rail...yeah:
Thomas did this nipple high ledge roll to electric box gap as well:
Notice the Drop on the Other side:
Drop Angle:

This wound up being the last spot, now it was time for friends and beer. Upon arriving to Thomas' apartment, we were greeted by Kevin and Andy, who had been drinking since the comp was over, and they provided great entertainment. Some memorable moments, when Kevin stole a random laptop and held it on his shoulder calling it the "boombox", Kevin proclaiming his love for Dustin Hinson, and Kevin asking Adam what our generation has contributed to the world and Adam responding..."myspace." So really, dirty took the show that night.

So here's to you dirty hahaha:

The next morning we woke up, had some bojangles, and headed to this weird mountain rail spot where we all did a little skating.

Me with a Farf to Topsoul to TTS:
Amac AO Fish:
These Never End Well:
But he came back to lace the Top Acid:
And Tim with a Soul BS Royale to Tru Soul:

After an hour or two there, Andy suggested that we all go swimming at these waterfalls here in Boone. So, we make our way back to Thomas' house and then leave to find these waterfalls.

On the way there I have to admit, I was a bit annoyed because it was taking a while to get there and I was on a bit of time schedule, but once we got there and parked and I could hear the waterfalls, I swear, nothing mattered anymore and that feeling was reaffirmed by the actual site of the waterfall.

Twisted Falls:
Wedge Himself, with the intro pre Misty:

After hanging out for a bit and jumping off of these rocks, we got our things together, hiked back to the car and headed home.

On our way back we stopped at this spot to get a couple of clips and got a few really good ones of Andy doing some awesome Mushroom blading into this bank.

Due to some personal problems, I had to trek back home a little earlier, and in a less excited mood than I wanted (my bad guys) but got home in an orderly fashion, got business taken care of and rested up for the week to come.

I'll be moving apartments soon here so the posts may be a little scattered, but I'll be filming so, if nothing, expect a big post in the future! Peace.

*I'm all moved in, and back on track.

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Filming Update 07-15-08

Oh internet!! where to begin??!! well I suppose i should start by apologizing for not posting anything in so long. I've certainly been skating and filming and lots to tell you all about so I'm going to try and keep these short but with lots of pictures as to not waste your time!! Here goes!!!

Well I'll start from the beginning, which is some 3-4 weeks ago before I left for vacation, myself and Mr. Mcmanus went out to film before i left for the beach and managed to get a few clips at these red up rails. I'm not very please with the way the clips showed up so I'm just going to post a picture I took instead

Adam with a steezy Front Savvy:

The other tricks he laced there included a little rail to rail action but most of those, along with some other footy, where sent to Adam Killgore for this project he's working on that I personally am excited to see. But that was pretty much all we accomplished that particular night.

Moving right along to a Tim Taylor Session, the weekend after I got back, Tim and I got right back to filming and skating and we managed to pull out these two clips at different spots.

Here is a sweaty on a flat green rail Tim showed me:

Here is some kink drop in madness on these odd brick roll-ins Tim found:

This wallride spot and a little park pretty much concluded the first week back which was pretty exciting.

To give you an idea of how big it is:

Nick Bates last session in Greenville be safe at basic:


Crazy Leg Bates again:

Tim with a wallride through:

The next session would be this weekend, and at the moment I'm absolutely juiced on. For starters almost everybody that has a section in my video was in town, which I love sessions with all those guys and it was raining. Now on any other day, that would be a bad thing but I've had this song and idea in my head for a very long time that I wanted to include in the video and it just so happened that people needed to be skating in the rain for it, so this was a perfect opportunity. Basically, we skated two rain spots, got enough footage for me to make this short edit, that will be in my video, and after we dried off/the rain cleared we got another 2 spots in with alot of solid footage. So to spare the writing check out the screens:

Skating In the rain Tim Taylor
and I don't want to spoil these for anyone who wasn't there, you'll just have to get the video to see what these turn out to be, believe me...its worth it!!!

Tim Taylor Topacid Tru Mizou
Tim Mono Roll
Thomas Martin zero Pornstar:
Guess how this ends?
Smiley Fish Mid Grab
The dry spot #1 Adam Mcmanus mid budget trick:


Thomas Martin gap over the rail to Pornstar to Pornstar cess slide over:
Its not a Greenville session until Thomas winds up getting hurt (required stitches):
And Adam at the last spot with a Back Royale to Tru Front Farf:

Furthermore, I think I just finished editing the rain section that I'm so excited about and titles are soon to come!

A little bit of a set back has occured, Benny Harmanus, who if you don't know, owns/runs Chimera wheels, is putting together a video, and due to Adam's current flow status, most of all the footage that we currently have and are currently getting is being sent to Benny for a full section in their new video, which is extremely exciting. Like I said, its a bit of a set back but not a negative one at all, something good is definitely coming out of it. So now, you just have two really good Adam Mcmanus sections to look forward to! Stay on the look out for those.

Well sorry there weren't that many descriptive/mildly entertaining words in this one but there are just so many pictures that I thought it would compensate. Next time, I'll be a little more articulate haha.

Oh Cancer Benefit Comp in Boone for fallen roller Ryan Glenney this weekend!! Be there and Support the cause. See you there!!!

Southern Motion Trailer #1

Well well well back from vacation and back to business. I've been working on this trailer for a few weeks now trying to get everything the way I like it and while its not exactly what I wanted I felt it was close enough to post. So without any further introduction, here is the very first Trailer for the second video installment called "Southern Motion."



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I also took some pictures/shot some video with Adam Mcmanus the other day, and we got a couple clips/photos. However, I'm going to wait until next post for those. Soooooo...stay tuned!