some photos

So this week is the start of the mid term already. I'm going to be growing white hair before I know it. Anyways this week was okay, it had its big ups and downs, skated Monday after school then did night school, got a lot of work done, drank 3 1/2 Red Bulls one night, didn't stop talking for an hour, mom got sick and was in the hospital for 3 days, she's all good now tho and I skated all day Saturday and shot some photos!


This is David Chambers, never heard of him until I went skating in Phx with Derrick and Marcus and we met up with Eric, Dan, and some other guys and he was with. He did a nice frontside flip over this rail.


Josh, back 50-50. Met this guy a couple weeks ago when I was skating in Phx with Derrick, Marcus, Dan and Eric. He shreds.


Gustavo, ollie. If any of you've been to ice house ledge in downtown phx then you've probably seen this before. Kia was having some show thing to display the Kia "soul" so the building called ice house was open. Ice House is rave venue by the way. Anyways Gustavo talked the security guard working the thing into letting him skate it so he ollied over the rail. I got to test drive the Kia Soul to, dope car.

Sweep is gay

So there's this thing they do at my school called "sweep" and if your late to first hour, like if your not in your class the second the bell rings a security guard will send you to the cafeteria for you to sit and do nothing for the whole period, its one of the worst things ever because all you want to do is sleep but you can't. I went once last year and decided its much better just to go back home until 2nd hour, because sweep is an unexcused absent anyways. So today my sister wakes me up at like 7:15 and there's no way I could of picked Matt up then got to school in ten minutes, so now I'm home and I guess I'll give you a little update.

I got my new car last Sunday, its dope, I <3 it. Haha. Last week was pretty boring, I really didn't do jack, but I started night school, and it wasn't even that bad, and I have friends in my class so its cool I guess. Pretty much the highlight of the week was there was a KKSM demo in Payson, and Carney and Chris came to town for it. We shreded the KKSM warehouse Friday night, shot photos and stuff, real fun. Then Saturday was the demo, we spent pretty much the whole day in Payson. Caleb, Barbie, Tyler and I drove up there for it, it was pretty sick. Sunday I went skating with Marcus, Matt, Tommy, Tony and Simon. We went to the bump over hydrant gap thing and a hand rail, shot photos and got footy, it was a pretty good day.

Anyways that's all really that went down, sucky update, my brain isn't really working yet so most of this is blah type haha.

PHOTOZZZZ


Shot this last Sunday. Derrick, Switch backside nosegrind.


Matty B, 50-50. This hubba is so hard to skate, I don't understand how people do it.


Carney is a beast, this is just a regular stalfish but he did so many gnarly tricks on this quarter pipe, Carney will shred your face off.


Marcus Carr, frontside flip.


Tony Christopher, yes the kid from the woodward show. He's lived in AZ for almost two years now I think, he's a beast.


Tony, back smith.
It was so hard to start skating this, it wasn't because the ground or anything but it was these little turds who kept on running around, so annoying!

Welp, that's all for now.

First Week Done

So the first week of my Senior year was pretty cool. I love all my classes. Non of them are dull and boring. The only thing that sucked was I have P.E. first hour so that means I get to run around and get all sweaty then I get to go to class feelin icky. It probably won't be that bad, I think the only reason why it sucked was because the AC wasn't really working in my classes so I never really got the chance to cool off. I like PE, its fun and it wakes me up in the morning. I'm really starting to like getting out at 11:33 every day. The first couple days I was kinda confused, I felt like I needed to go back, like the school day wasn't done for me, but I'm' getting used to it, its cool getting home around the time I used to wake up every day this summer haha.

So I guess I'll update you guys on a few things, I finally got a new car. It's a 2005 Mazada Tribute, my Dad is driving it to AZ from Utah has we speak, it was my grandparents car that they let me Uncle use and then they sold it to my dad.
Here's a picture


Other than that there's not that much going on, I'm going to ASR and Crossroads at Black Box trade show in San Diego in a few weeks, its going to be rad. I think I'm' going to Newport Beach for a day so I'm excited. I'm definitely going to get a crap load of Dough Boys for the ride home.


Now its the weekend, I'm probably just going to do what I usually do on a weekend, skate. Here's a few photos for you guys.


Stevie D is getting good folks, look at this front Salad, so steezy.


Derrick Lines getting some work done and throwing a nice Nollie Flip down Foothills 11. This was from earlier in the summer, I think this is going in AZ Steez for something but I'm not sure.


Dane Federer. Back Smith. He did a better back smith later, but I like this one because the buttery sky.

Goodbye Summer 09

Yup. It's that time of the year again...school. I go back to school tomorrow. This summer has definitely been a good one. Made a couple California trips, went to Washington, made some new friends, lost some old ones, got old friends back, realized a lot of things and experienced a lot of new things. This blog is just to look back on some of the things I've done this summer. So lets do this.

Um I'll start with shooting with the UBF guys. I started skating with the UBF guys in like April, but didn't really shoot with them all the time until like late May, I started skating and shooting with Derrick, Eric and Andrew a lot, then I met Cody, Tommy and Dustin. So pretty much all summer I've been shooting photos of these guys and I'm really glad I met them because they are all amazing skaters and helped produce a lot of good photos. All summer we have been shooting for the UBF shop drop collage for AZ Steez, and my photo feature for AZ Steez. And that hasn't came out yet so I can't show you the photos, but I'll include those photos some where in this post.

I shot a lot of skateboarding over the summer, so here are some of my favorites that I'm not using for my Photo Feature and the UBF collage.


Andrew, heelflip


Walker, front shove


Matty B, heelflip


AJ, revert thing


Andrew, 5-0


Derrick, switch front crook


Vance, stalfish


Zac, back tail




I've gone to Cali a few times this summer, really fun trips, it was fun spending time with friends that live out there and enjoying the nice weather to. For better blogs on the Cali trips, go father back into my blog and you'll see them. I went to Orcas Island this summer to, it was soo fun. Check my blog for that to.


That's really all I can cover right now since I already covered most of it.

I'm real excited for my last year of High School its going to be super fun and i'm sure life changing. I need to go to bed. Enjoy!!!

Tucson

So today, Derrick, Andrew, Dan, Marcus and I decided to go to Tucson because we haven't been there all summer. So I woke up around 7, got ready and picked up Andrew, got some food then picked up the rest of the guys then was off to Tucson around 10:45ish, we got there around 12 so it didn't take that long. On the way to Tucson we were trying to figure out where to go for the first spot, so I mentioned colored ledges and Marcus was like "yeah! those f-ing things" and he kept on calling it "The Thing" so from now on that spot will no longer be known has the colored ledges, it will now be known has "The Thing". We made the mistake of going to that spot with out wax so we left and we went to downtown and tried to skate, but I guess the whole downtown/court house place is a bust now because we got the cops called on us for skating the court house court yard thing, lame. So we left and got some wax at this Asian food market place that smelt like crap and went to a 8 stair hubba at a church, the same place where Malto does that 50-50 down that huge rail in his And Now part, that rail is sooo big its not funny, Malto is a beast. After that, we headed back over to "The Thing" and shot some photos and got some footy. Then since it started to get dark we headed over to downtown one more time to try to get some footy. After being successful in downtown we got some drinks then headed back home. The ride home was funny has heck, we pretty much spent the whole time prank calling every famous skater that we had phone numbers of, sooo funny haha.


Here are some photos from today


Derrick did a backside flip over this bump like 5 times. It was funny we couldn't skate the thing during the day, we got kicked out twice trying it but we come back around 7 and its cool haha.


Marcus did a nice backlip on "The Thing"


some sick hubba we found. Never been touched