After skating the beach we did a little mission to this super steep and rough bank at the bottom of a curling bridge over PCH. Josh stuck a few proper blunt fakies.
Another blunt fakie from Campos.
Alec of course felt right at home on the sketchy thing and was killing it. Here he toe pokes on a steezy front rock.
Beck again handling a backside nosepick, no hands.
Eventually he decided to just wallie over the whole thing.
Then added a backside 180 to that.
Another angle of the wallie back 180, with Fern getting some proper BGPs back there.
Alright, this is where the post gets super interesting. Campos on that texting proggie.
Campos on the banana tip. I should sell this photo to Red Bull.
Here are the scattered photos and videos I've taken over the last two weekends.
Yeah thats me at SAMO haha. The lipslide is pretty weak but I didn't feel like trying to film it a bunch of times.
Alec had the idea to skate this middle school gym roof bank thing and we got a couple photos just before running out of light. Beck stuck this back 360 no problem.
After the back three he went for back 360 kickflip and landed a pretty sketchy one just before it got too dark. Hopefully we'll go back sometime soon so he can get a clean one.
Skating the sand gaps on the weekend is always a struggle because there are so many damn people around doing all sorts of shit. We were only there for a little bit, but I managed to capture a couple tricks over the gap. Christian Schultz does the 360 flip to nearly hitting the jogger, and Colin Cook does the steezy switch backside flip.
After the sand gaps we eventually made it over to this ditch in the Palisades. We only stayed for a few minutes so I didn't get the chance to shoot any legit photos, but I did mess around a bit. Thats Josh Campos doing a nollie backside flip back there.
Colin was killing it that day. He stuck a real nice backside flip.
Skated UCLA a little bit today. Suraj was doing these front shuvs on to the death bank.
The more art farty angle.
Tyler was trying a trick down this sketchy set, but he wasn't really motivated to stick it with no filmer around.
Eventually Austin showed up and the first thing he did was this ollie that he slipped out on. Right after that he tried another trick and busted his foot which took him out for the day.
Tyler jumped on this rail a couple times but got kicked out before he could stick anything. I was pretty hyped on this bail picture though.
Alright, so the recent spurt of posts is probably going to slow down now, yesterday was my first day of classes and winter break is officially over. On Sunday, my last day of break, I skated the northern portion of my lovely campus with a hefty crew.
Before meeting up with everyone else, Josh Campos was killing this ledge. I wiped out the camera for a second and filmed this ledge to manual trick.
We met up with everyone at this famous spot in front of the Public Policy building. Campos had these nollie backside flips on lock, so I had to capture one.
I decided to experiment a bit, shooting from inside the building entrance. Thats Jake Eames tossing a switch flip.
It's a little hard to tell, but thats Colin Cook catching a kickflip in the distance.
Another Jake Eames switch flip.
I decided to film some more of what was going down off the ledge. I'm pretty sure Jake Eames stuck this fakie heelflip first try.
I kept being annoying and asking people to try back to back tricks, my persistence finally paid off and Garrett Blair and Campos agreed to throw back to back 360 flips. Awesome. Cefai's frustration was building up for a while before this, and it finally boiled over after this fall haha.
Some people left, but the session continued over on this concrete slab. Here Josh comes through with a switch nose bonk.
Another view of the nose bonk.
Jake has epic pop, he probably could of kickflipped over a ledge twice as high.
I'm not really stoked on this photo, but I had to post it because of the trick. Switch flip up and over.
One of the things thats cool about shooting photos with Campos is that he likes to be involved in the photo process. He's always down to do whatever is needed to make a photo just a little better. Here he is talking to me after the switch flip.
I wanted to shoot a photo from up on top of this hallway over hang thing and Josh asked me what would look good. I told him a backside flip, and he quickly obliged and stuck one.
Josh killed this bike rack gap, one of the many tricks he did was this nollie backside flip, multiple times. Watch out for a banger of a nollie backside flip in his next Scummish part.
Skated around UCLA and Westwood today. Got off to a pretty late start, but still managed to get some stuff.
Showed up to UCLA and Austin Squire was already front boarding this rail. I climbed up on top of a wall to snap some shots and two boardslides into it a cop on a bike gave us the boot.
Tislam Smith is gnarly. After getting kicked out we skated this little bank thing on top of a parking lot nearby. This here is Tislam doing a frontside ollie of death into that little bank. On the left is a 5 story drop and to the bottom right is like a 20-30 foot drop, so fucking sketchy. I just shot this one photo then decided I didn't want to encourage anyone to keep doing it and get them killed haha.
(double click and fucking watch it in HD!) Shot a couple little videos of people skating the bank thing. Here Jake Eames killing it. I love watching Jake's flip tricks because they always look so epic and powerful.
Here is Austin messing around. Remember that there is a huge drop on the other side of the bank.
After the parking lot spot we checked out this rail spot in the hills of Westwood. Austin was the only one feeling up to it, and easily slid this boardslide to regular and to fakie.
I got a couple different angles.
Austin was done but I asked him to slide it one more time so that I could shoot from this angle, and of course he snapped his deck. Sorry Austin!
I'm on a roll now. So a couple days ago I skated at UCLA with a pretty big crew. Right as I showed up Tyler and Tislam were already getting beastly on this rail at the Wooden Center. Unfortunately we were also getting kicked out at the same time so I couldn't really set up for a photo. I dig whip out my camera for a second though and got this shot of Tislam tweaking out a front nose. Can someone tell me what Tislam's full name is? I was in such a rush that didn't even realize I was shooting at 3200 iso. After the rail I spent about an hour shooting photos of Tislam, Josh, and Austin throwing themselves down this ridiculously long set of stairs. Unfortunately none of them landed their shit, so I'm not gonna post the photos.
(Make sure to double click on the video and watch it in HD). Yesterday (new year's eve), I went skating around Chinatown again. After skating this famous metal ledge spot for a while I busted out the camera right before we left. Max Schwartz stuck this switch backside nosegrind pop out (like a champ) right away, and we moved on to the next spot. I love Max's switch backside nosegrinds and one of my favorite photos I've ever shot was of one: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/1395049290_f1ec009d01_o.jpg
After the ledge spot we went to this nearby street gap. This is just a snap shot I took while Josue was warming up. After this he got gnarly and stuck a ridiculous trick, but I'm not gonna post up that photo quite yet.
I also took this video of Josue's ollie, but my camera really couldn't keep up with it in the lowlight and with Josh moving so fast. At least it shows how fucking big this gap is.
Last but not least Whitey came through with this amazing and not at all faked, Airwalk. Steeeze. Check the facial expression, so smooth.
