Arizona Trip - Day Two.

Ah yes, the annual spring time Arizona trip. For the last few days I have been skating around the Phoenix area with Alec Beck, Colin Cook, Mike Limb, Broah, Zach Plehn, Jose, Tyler Kindred, and the Edwards bros. I missed out on the day one skating cause I couldn't leave LA until the evening, but check Broah's day one post. On the second day of the trip I wasn't feeling very inspired to shoot so I spent most of my day skating, but here are the photos that I did come up with.

The first spot we hit up was this skate park in Chandler with this pretty burly bank to wall. Alec handled a back tail no problem.

Mike frontside airs into the same tranny that Alec just tweaked an indy out of as Ian captures the footy.

Yeah this photo sucks, but I had to post it because of the awesome view of Alec's rear.

Teamwork. Another view of this epic threesome at work.

After Chandler we hit up the infamous Tempe skate park. As it was getting dark Alec was killing this cradle thing in the bowl, so I was forced to whip out the camera. Here he does a proper back smith.

A long lens view of Alec's gnarly back smith.

After getting bored of back smiths, Alec moved on to back crail slides. Here he delicately pinches his nose with sophisticated steeze.

Now go check out Broah's day two photos and sequences.

Killing it in the streets of Santa Monica.

Last Friday I met up with Tyler Kindred to skate around Santa Monica and get some urby as fuck photos. After accomplishing that we met up with the one and only Jake Eames who was soon followed by Michigonians Dan Mancina and Max Schwartz. Oh yeah and Cory was up in there too but I didn't get any photos of him (sorry Cory!). All in all, it was great session. Here are the photos I came up with. Enjoy!

If you've seen Scummish Activity then you've seen Tyler do an epic line with a switch tre over the sand gap then wallie this tree. Here he adds a nose grab for extra urby points.

I couldn't decide which photo I liked more, so you get both.

After hitting up the beach we rolled over to this wallride spot on Lincoln and Tyler killed it with an extra little method grab out.

Heres the long lens version.

Later on we met up with Jake and skated this other sketchy wallride spot on the side of SAMO next to the freeway. Jake was pushing backside wallrides no problem.

Jake is awesome.

And he is good at skateboarding.

I can't believe I caught Tyler smiling.

Jake producing some epic shadow puppets.

Is that suppose to be a duck?

Uhhh.

Stoked.

Not stoked.

Dan shows up!

I had to snap a photo when these guys on scooters came by.

I love skateboarding.

Jake thinking about his next attempt.

I still love skateboarding.

Right towards the end of the session Max comes through and lands one of these ridiculous mega pop crooked grind taps. There is only a couple inches of space between the edge of the ledge and the fence. Needless to say I had to make him redo it for a photo. He landed it a couple more times but I never really got the photo I wanted, lets go back and shoot it again Max!

Scummish Activity!!!

It's finally here!!! Check the trailer if you don't know what this is. To pick up your own copy you can either head down to ZJ's at the corner of Main Street and Ocean Park in Santa Monica. Or you can order one online from their website. If you don't live in the US or Canada and you want one you can email me at tfitzgibbon@ucla.edu and we can work something out. Anyway, in honor of the official release of Scummish Activity I am posting up a bunch of photos that I never posted and are of tricks in the video.

This heelflip from Mike Limb is in the friends section, and it's fucking insane.

But what is even more insane is that Josh Campos nollie flipped the thing, which is one of his bangers towards the end of his part.

Josh is amazing. Switch backside flip.

Josh actually didn't land this nollie 180, but you check out the slam he took in the bails section.

Alec Beck shows off his versatility with a switch pop shuv over Josh's rail gap.

Another angle of the switch pop shuv.

Jake Eames shares a part with Ray Maldonado in the video, but for some reason this ollie wasn't in there. Whats up with that Jesus? I'm calling you out.

Tyler Kindred has a few tricks in the friends section. This steezy front feeble is one of them.





Eddie Flores also has a mini part within the friends section, this back salad was his last trick.

Alright so this back lip from Alec Beck didn't make the cut because he back lipped something better, but still Alec killed this rail in is part.

This switch flip from Josh Campos is massive, but it didn't even make the cut for his part, thats how amazing his part is. If you wanna see the footage of this switch flip you'll find it in the bonus montage.

Yeah I know my photos of it suck, but i was haven't major camera difficulties and ended up having to shoot film for the first time in a while. Oh and only two of my flashes were working. Anyway, if you've seen Scummish you know that this is the last trick in the video and it's a front crook indy grab that certainly speaks for itself. I was honored just to be there and witness the madness. If you've seen John Cardiel's epicly later'd then just think back to what Julien Stranger said about his drop in at burnside, thats what it was like witnessing this.