Yellow flat bar

So today I didn't do anything what so ever, I chilled at home all day, very unproductive, until Andrew texted me and said we should go do something, so I picked him up with the intention of going to take lifestyles in some parking garage, but when we drove up the parking garage we found this yellow flat bar that was like 3 feet high, and Andrew managed to do a front board on it!


Front board!

I shot a long lens angle to, you can view it HERE

Xmas and Saturday stuff

Xmas was pretty rad for me. Chilled at home all day, ate a great dinner, and scored well on presents. Here's a little list on what I got for Xmas.
-Canon 50D
-Canon battery grip for 50D
-One pocket wizard
-other camera stuff
-iTrip
-Beanies
-$25 industrial gift card
-$25 chase gift card
-Canon Photo printer
-Photo frame
-Flood lights from myself to me
I haven't got my stuff from my grandma on my mom's side so we'll see what I got then.



Today, I finally got new flashes but I can't use them until I get the pocket wizard sync cords. Skating wise Me and Andrew went skating with Mike T, Jarrad, Tyler and Kyle Adams at Big Surf, I didn't shoot any stills there, I only shot a few sequences on Mike's 1D MK1 so if I see those i'll post em' up. After words me and Andrew went back to my Dad's house and kicked it, then we went to Pecos for rest of the night.


Andrew, Front feeble. First skate photo shot with my 50D and it had to be a park photo. Oh well.

Going to Tucson tomorrow with my friends Alex and Dylan. Should be fun. Look forward to that post tomorrow.

Xmas eve eve

Tonight Andrew, Matt and myself met up with Caleb, Derek, Nick and Zak at the 3 flat 4 in Phoenix and lit it up to skate, film and shoot photos. It was a pretty fun little session. Here are some photos from the session.


Andrew Crawford, tre flip. Andrew did this back in August, and never got a chance to get good footy of it. So we went back tonight for him to film it. I didn't like photo from August at all so I re shot and got a way better result. You can see the old photo HERE. I also shot Walker Otto's front shove on this the same day.


Andrew, front shove. I guess Walker doesn't really throw him self down anything anymore, so Andrew did this front shove dedicated to him because Walker never had a chance to film it.



Also, today I went to pecos with Andrew, and Stevie D and Eric O showed up, so it was fun skating with them!


Stevie got a steezy new hair cut!!!


This is Eric O's face


Tonight I bought myself a early xmas present and got a set of lights, because I realized they come in handy for skating and they also can be used for photography stuff to so i'm hyped on them, look for some cool non skating photos soon!

Sunday

So on Sunday, Me, Derrick, Cody, Jarrad, Dustin, Chris and Mike T went skating in Phoenix and Tempe. First we went to Southern Ledges and everyone got lines, and I learned Nollie back 360's! Then we went to Big Surf and skated that for a few hours.


Dustin Cutlip, frontside air. I shot like 4 photos here and I'm not hyped on any of them. Probably because it was overcast the whole time and the colors just look ugly. And I'm about sick of my flashes, they can't light anything up, so glad i'm getting new ones.


Jarrad Nelson, ollie fakie


Chris, front tail


Dustin, back blunt to fakie

I have one semster left of high school

All I wanna say to that is Oh Sh*t. Really! It feels like just yesterday I was a freshman, and now i'm almost done with high school and going to be moving on to college. Its crazy.
I made this post to let y'all know that I'm almost done with high school and that its winter break and I'm going to be skating a lot so look forward to a lot of posts this break!

Saturday night

This is really odd that I'm doing everything at night when its almost winter. You would think being from Arizona you'd wanna light up spots and hang out at night in the summer, but nope we're doing that in the winter when its cold. Haha.

So Today I chilled at home, helped decorate the xmas tree, and just lurked the interwebz. Also, one of my cats at my mom's got in a fight or something with a small dog because there's these bite wounds on the top of its head, poor kitty. Enough talking about my cat and more about tonight.

The night started out at the UBF team party at Mesa East bowl in AJ. Its super cool that Lisa invites me to these things, I don't skate for UBF, but I'm basically the team photog so it's cool being a part of the UBF family. Basically everyone was there, Lisa, Craig, Allison, Dustin, Derrick, Andrew, Jarrad, Tj, Travis, Cody, Bailey, Alli, and even Taylor the sol tech rep for AZ and Shelby the Circa rep for AZ came to! We bowled for a few hours, and I did okay considering I'm not good at bowling at all. Allison designed these sick shirts for the party that say "I only skate because I suck at bowling" which is true, even though I suck at skating to haha.

10pm rolled around and I headed out the the music venue called Club Reb in Tempe because a few friends of mine who play in a band were headlining a show. Anil asked me to shoot some photos so I did. They played a really good set, really good music to. Click the link to check out their myspace, LET FATE DECIDE After the show, we hung out for a bit. Then I went and chilled at a friends house for a little then went home and edited the photos I shot from the show. Now its 2am and I'm making this post, so if there's any errors its because I'm barley awake right now. Two crazy nights can take a toll on me.



Anil


David


Jake


Nate

I haven't shot a show in over two years and this is the first time I haven't used a flash and let the spot lights the venue uses do the work. I like how they came out.

Friday Night

So tonight me, Derrick, Mike T, and these little turds named Joey and Tyler went skating in Phoenix and Tempe at a couple spots to film and shoot photos. Mike T pretty much has a pro status filming set up, 3 spot lights, a good generator that isn't super loud, and two cameras, so he's set. (For those of you who don't know, Mike T is the new Team Manager for UBF, so he'll be filming a lot for the new UBF video so its going to be even 10x more sicker) Mike's a really cool guy, always down to go shred. Tonight was the first time I didn't have to drive around to every spot we went to so I was super hyped.

The first spot we went to was this 3 flat 4 out in South PHX, its at this Muslum church so its super buttery with a marble floor run up.


Derrick did a really nice switch flip down it. I tired shooting this fisheye but Derrick hit me twice so I got over it. I really want to go back during the day and re shoot this

After we got done here, we went to this ledge spot in Phoenix that we found driving back to downtown, before we got to skate it the little turds broke the ledge so we left haha. We decided to head back to Tempe and we stopped at the mortuary ledges for a little bit.


Derrick Lines, front board pop out to fakie


Mike T can shred to. Front Smith through the bricks. Mike T was one of the only guys to ollie ASU 15 btw.

I shot seqences of both these tricks but idk if i'm going to post because i'm to lazy to make them haha

Big Surf

So yesterday my friend Alex who rides scooters asked me if I wanted to go to Big Surf and shoot some photos of him and Jon riding it today (Sunday0. Knowing I probably wasn't going to do anything today I decided to go. I haven't been to Big Surf in two years and I forgot how sketchy it was going. We parked next to Oceanside hockey arena and walked around and found a hole in the fence so I didn't have to hop any fences. I haven't shot with any scooter riders in almost a year, so it was cool hanging out with some old friends.


Jon learned all these flair and flip tricks. So he busted out a flair tuck.


Jon, tuck no


Alex craving around this drain thing.


Jon chillin

So has we were leaving we noticed the huge gate in front was open and people were working, it was pretty sketch. They saw us walking out and didn't seem to care so that was cool.

A Saturday in AJ

So today Matt and I made the trip out to AJ to skate with Andrew and the kids out there for the day. We only went to two spots but Andrew got footy at both spots so it was a good day. After we got done skating, we went to UBF and ate Hot n' Readys and watched U of A beat USC, so it was a really good day.


Andrew didn't want to skate this when we were going to the spot for someone else to skate, but he ended up heel flipping it. He landed this one.