3 more weeks.

I have 3 and 1/2 more weeks of school left. We don't do anything expect party and take finals during the last half week of school so it doesn't count. This also means I have 4 weeks to save up for my first California trip of the summer, which means I have to work a lot. Anyways, this week was pretty chill, skated Pecos a couple times during the week. Found out that I can get closer to fakie heels than regular ones, and its not fun when to get hit in the face with your board because you can't kickflip right. Haha.


I went to Tucson on Saturday with my friend Andrew and we met up with Eric Hill and some other guys. Shot a lot of photos and they turned out pretty good. I'm pretty psyched that I'm starting to shoot with a lot of good people. I'm starting to notice how my photography is progressing.

Here are the photos from Tucson


Eric Hill, tailslide


Derrick Lines, switch flip


Derrick, tre flip.


enjoy!

Photoz

So I shot a couple photos during the week and I wanted to share them with you guys, or at least the one or two people that look at my blog. I found out i'll be the featured photog for AZ Steez skate magazine for the September/October issue, so I have now till August 1st to shoot 5 pages worth of photos, I won't be posting some photos for awhile, probably the only photo's you'll see till that issue comes out will be park photos or photos I don't think meet my expectations for the mag. So enjoy and look for future updates!

-Shelby.


Shane Short
Rock n' Roll Tempe Tombstone


Stan Smirnoff
Boost


Shane Short
Front Side air.

5 more weeks

Summer is just around the corner. I can smell it. Its coming quick, in yearbook we are making the end of the year slide show already, Prom is on Saturday and I'm already doing Senior stuff for next year. Crazy on how fast this year has gone by.

Anyways, I've been pretty busy these past couple weeks, having my friends come in town a couple times and just been real busy and now i'm starting to chill for a few weeks before summer starts.

Last week or two weeks ago, i don't remember, anyways, Zac and Chris were in town for the PHXAM, Chris wasn't skating it but Zac was. So pretty much all last week I was hanging with them.

The PHXAM was fun, Me, Rachel, Stevie, Ninette, Britt and Sergio went the first day, Zac didn't do to well but at least he was there and made an appearance. After Zac's second run we left with some of the Ergo and Untitled guys and skated a few spots then went to the warehouse and called it a day. Sunday was pretty fun as well, we didn't end up going to the last day of the PHXAM, instead Me, Stephen, Rachel, Zac and Chris went skating. It was pretty fun, ended up having a broken tail light thanks to Zac and an orange. Later that night we chilled at the Weigele's and went to In and Out and I didn't end up getting home until like 1am.

Last weekend we had a three day weekend because of Good Friday, so on Thursday night I went skating with Matt and my friend Andrew, he's an AJ local, and he kills it, he rides for UBF.


Back lip

Andrew is such a beast he front shoved the big Emerald Center sign.



It rained this weekend and I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty nice. Pretty much just chilled with everyone this weekend. Pretty fun.

Also, I got a new hair cut last week. I like it a lot.


Welp, that's about it.

Cali aftermath

So i've been home from Cali for three weeks now and these past three weeks have been pretty busy, skating and working a lot more. I'm trying to get my Dad paid back so I can get some money saved up to go to Cali a couple times this summer and to go one more time before school gets out in May. I'm 6 1/2 weeks from becoming a senior in high school. I've been thinking a lot lately and I finally came to the decision that I'm going to move out of my house a few weeks after Graduation and move to Cali to start my adult life, I know its crazy but i know I can make it in Cali and its all in God's hands and I know he'll point me in the direction I need to go. Anyways, so Zac, Eggy and Chris came back to AZ with us when we left Cali for a demo in Lake Havasu and they hung out in Phx for a few days.


We went to Pecos the day after we got back and had a nice little session. Zac was throwing down. He did a nice Switch 5-0 pivot from the small quarter to the extension at Pecos.

After the guys left for Havasu, life was back to normal in AZ, just school, work and skating. I didn't really have any big skate trips lately, just some nice Pecos sessions.


Its been real windy here lately, kinda sucky but one day there was this huge tumbleweed at Pecos so we put it next to the up ledge and Randen did a kickflip over it. I don't like tumbleweeds tho, my flash hasn't been knocked over yet by a board but that day a tumbleweed hit my lightstand but Randen saved it at the last second, i'm not kidding it was centimeters away from hitting the ground, closest call i've had.

Last Thursday my good friend Rachel from Oregon/Idaho/Cali came to town to go to the PHX AM and to hang out. Its cool to have her back in town, she's a fun person to hang out with.



Matt and I went skating last weekend and he came away with this nosegrind on a 3 flat 3.


On Tuesday Zac and Chris came back to AZ because Zac's skating in the PHX AM, props to Ninettie for making a 6 hour car drive Monday afternoon to Newport Beach to pick these guys up because Zac's car wasn't starting. After school Tuesday me and Matt met up with Zac and skated Pecos, then picked up Rachel and Eric and went to Poeria park for a little then we went back to Pecos and met up with Stephen and Britt then we all went to Chandler and skated. After words we hung out for a bit then we all went home around mid night.

Matt and I didn't have school Wednesday because the sophomore's had to take AIMS. So we got to help move the KKSM office and skatepark to a new building. At first when we were loading the stuff into the truck at the Weigele's it was only Matt, Chris, Zac, Rachel, Eric, Stephen and I, it took us like 2 hours to load everything, then once we got to the warehouse Mason, Britt and a couple other people showed up and helped move stuff and it only took about a hour to unload everything. We took a break and chilled for awhile, while they we're cleaning out the warehouse so we could set up the skatepark. After the warehouse was clean, we set up the skatepark and started skating. Everyone was there, Chief, Jacey, Lizzie, Eric D, Eric O, Rachel, Robbie, Zac, Chris, Hannah, Barbie, Matt, Stephen, Mason, and more. It was fun skating and hanging out with everyone. We skated some more, I took some photos which you can look out here.
http://sirenskate.com/2009/04/siren-squad-kksm-tf/

Thursday, Matt, Eric O, Stephen, Zac, Rachel, Sergio and I went skating, then we went to the warehouse and skated some more. Chris, Hannah, and some of the guys from Untitled skateboards came to. We skated until about 12:30am, it was fun. Then I got to go home and get 5 hours of sleep, to wake up and go to school.

Whelp, thats about it, going skating after school and PHX AM this weekend!!!