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Hammer Blading

This weekend was absolutely wild, not only in terms of skating, but just...well in every way.

The weekend begun on Friday after work at Garrett's. I arrived to Garrett & co plus a couple beers. Mcmanus and the Boonenites arrive late and we stay up even later talking about what the next day holds.

So after a long night with very little sleep we get up and make some breakfast.

Garrett manned the Cappuccinos/Joes:

And Adam and Thomas handled the eggs and bacon:

After a hearty breakfast and a little hanging out, we left for the first spot to meet Mr. Jamie Olmstead. I didn't really document the first spot, because Jamie was filming and I actually really liked skating this spot. But after getting a couple clips and warming up at the first spot, we headed out to do some gnarblading.

Also, on a semi-unrelated topic, one of my best friends/All American Hero, Nate Macgregor got back from Iraq and came out and shredded with us, it was so good to see this dude skating again. He literally hadn't skated in about a year and came back like he never left, it was really awesome to see my dude shred it up again.

This spot was a massive 19-20 stair handrail that appeared to be at a 45° incline and had a huge plastic barrier at the bottom right to the side of the rail. Despite all of these obstructions, Garrett, Thomas and Cooley get to work.

Garrett laced this half cab topsoul:


This isn't the best pic I've ever taken, but Cooley laced all day, and I had to get a flick in here, he actually grabbed the fish all the way down I just shot him as he was beginning to jump off:


And Thomas got my fav pic of the weekend with this AO Soul:

After this we skated a gnarly kink rail but my camera died, so for the rest of the day, it was all footage....a lot of crazy footage.

After the hammers were laced and the day was out, we headed back home to get food and party.
Here are a couple pics:

The partying was awesome, rowdy, and wild, had a blast and then it was time for sleep.

After a goodnight sleep, breakfast, Emanon, and Volume, we decided to try and beat the rain to get in some last minute blading before Jamie had to leave. So, In the most awesome ninja/business blading session I've ever had, I got a lot of footage, and this really awesome picture of Garrett:

After we did everything we needed to do there, it just went off. I spent most of my time filming, so I didn't get any picture of the madness, but there is so much footage.

So the last spot turned out a lot shorter than expected because of the rain, but Thomas and I managed to get this really awesome of pic of him on this rather deadly obstacle:

We all parted ways, myself and a couple other locals skated some park, and then I came home to stare at my lady and write up this blog.

All the footage we shot this weekend is going to Jamie for his current project, which should be awesome. You should be able to catch it all when it drops sometime in November.

I'm taking it easy this coming weekend but there will most likely be some chillerblading sessions happening, so gimme a call.

SOMO

Welp, Southern Motion is completely uploaded minus the awesome bonus section stuff. You can see the entire video for free HERE.

And thus SOMO is finally over.

But no worries, SOMO3/6/Ain't no Lobos is in the works and promises to deliver, and since I've finally moved into the millennium and purchased an HD cam, it might even look a little better too.

Adam's new park/street joint is edited/compressed and ready to view I'm just going to give SOMO some breathing room and post it next week...maybe tomorrow if I get enough comments requesting it, otherwise I'll wait til next week.

But anywho, there is about to be multitudes of skating this weekend, and if you aren't on board, you should be so hit me up!

Old Dogs New Tricks

Had a super good session this weekend with a bunch of homies. We found this really awesome new rail spot and took Tim there to get a couple clips and a nice flick, its not the best shot I've ever taken but the trick was perfect:

After we finished up there, we headed over to this spot where we been frequenting a lot lately
and right after Nick laced a couple clips, we got a pick of this sweet topsoul he did on the higher part of the ledges:

And its always nice to cool off after a nice blade session:

And that pretty much wrapped up the blading for this weekend.

I've been really busy working on a lot of blade content, having a camera again is pretty awesome, we've been able to have a couple really productive past couple weeks.

On Monday, I'm uploading a new Mcmanus short, and I'm pretty juiced about it. Its half street and half park and all raw. My dood has definitely been stepping up the game and I'm juiced to see what we're going to be able to put together this year.

I designed this poster from a shot I found on the Smithsonians Flickr a little while back and I'm pretty juiced about it, now I just have to find the money to print it haha. I designed it at 39x60, but that's going to cost like $110 just to get it printed, so I'm probably going to wind up with something half that size...I think it'll look good in my new apartment.

Also, with the new camera, I've decided to hold off filming for a new video for now and releasing a lot of online content and just giving footage away as its needed. Hopefully I can get a couple names out there that need to be out there and get people excited about what's going on around here because the scene is definitely picking up and its pretty awesome.

Anywho, the homies are in town next weekend, so blade times as always. See you there!

A day with Garrett Slobey

So I recently moved into a really sick new pad near downtown Greenville and who lives two doors down from me but the one, the only, Slobey-won-Kenobi.

For those of you who don't know who Garrett is...well, you probably haven't seen a Rejects video ever. Garrett hails from that gnarly crew of dudes that used to skate drop rails throw knives at peoples faces. With my new domicile being so close to Garrett means only good things for 2 reasons, 1. Garrett is always cooking some kind of delicious food at his house/drinking good beer that he loves to share and 2. Garrett is down with blading all day and anywhere.

So, Garrett calls me at noon and says he wants to skate which was all the motivation I needed. So we go grab a bite, warm up and then get to business. Here are a couple pics from the day:

After a good session, we headed back to our homes, cleaned up and then went back over to Garrett's house for amazing food and night of glass smashing good times.

Also, here's a really cool picture of Riley Hilsman:

That's about all I have for an update now, but I'll continue uploading Southern Motion in the other post and now that I'm moved, I'll be a little more diligent about updating the blog...word!