Shredwood 2009

Some photos from the Sredwood 2009 contest held at the Redwood City skatepark.

Andrew Langi was killing it in full effect. Here we got a huge tweaked frontside air in the bowl.They set up a big extension in the bowl for the best trick contest. Langi came through with a Madonna to Tail.All the way from across the pond, Ben Raemers has been on fire lately. He took first place in the best trick with this insane front blunt on the extension.

Random SF day

Yeah, yeah. I know it's been a while. I'll start updating again more. I promise.

Will came down to San Francisco not too long ago. We hit up this school yard spot with a nice set of stairs. After a pretty good couple games of skate, Will, along with his buddies Andy and Casey, starting hitting up the set.


Will has been doing switch flips a lot. Here's one.


After Will's switch flip, I ventured on to the roof to get another angle. It worked out pretty well for Andy's Nollie Back Heel and Casey's Tre Flip.

New Post.

For the hell of it.

It's been a long time.


David Urke- Frontside Nollie
Sorry it took so long to post this, Dave.

These are the some shots I took from my roof, a little while ago.




Look for a photo by me in the Latest Low Card

Also look for my photos on the SLAP website.

28th and B (and more)

We've been building some new ramps at the park. It's been pretty good for photos. So, here are a bunch I have shot over the past month.


Andrew Dellas - Fakie Tuckknee from the old into the new.


Ricky Krull - Frontside Ollie


Tristen Moss - Crailslide


Tristen Moss - Backside Disaster


Taylor Bingaman - Ollie to Fakie


Taylor Bingaman - Backside Ollie


Sean Stout - Taildrop into a not-yet-finished ramp.

I have also taken a few photos outside of the park:


This is a photo of Will Greyson doing a Bigspin Frontboard. It's a little hard to tell what it is, but if a certain someone (who happens to be in the aforementioned photograph) would sell me a certain camera which he inherited, then I could have shot a sequence of it. Jackass.


Blue Turner - Big ass feeble.


Blue Turner again - Back Smith.

My ankle hurts.

In memory of David Zolotar

David was an amazing person and skateboarder. Always there to lighten th mood or keep us on our toes. If there was one thing David was not, it was boring. His absensce leaves a big void in the Sacramento skate scene. This switch Bluntslide (taken in 2005) is the only photo I ever shot of him. I really wish I had shot more.

Roll in Peace.

Sleep?

Yeah, whatever. Photo time.


Jeremey would have definetly landed thing Blunt on the R and 2nd wall, but that bar one the top didn't let him pop back it. Who's got a hack saw?


This is Justin. I had another frontside flip photo of him earlier on the blog. I labeled him as "Some Kid." Well this Frontside Flip is considerably larger, and his name is not "Some Kid." It's Justin. Get it right.

Oak Park Gap:

Oak Park gap confuses me. It was as if someone was like:
"Let's build an absolultley perfect gap, with perfect run up and perfect landing. Yeah. And let's put it in the shittiest, most dangerous part of town."

Been here a lot latley. I don't like going here though. It's to stressful to keep an eye on all my equipment ALL the time, and there are all these lurker kids that ALWAYS follow you to your car after the sesh is over.

Never the less. It's good for shooting photos.


Randy Leal - Frontside Flip


Blue Turner - Crail Grab


Caleb ? - Nollie Flip


This Drew guy is REALLY good.


Back Tail

Spring Break Fun

So I was back in Sac for spring break. My main goal was to seriously shoot as many photos as I could. I think I did pretty well.

Zach Taylor:

Zach is a man am from my dad's home town of Akron, Ohio. He rides for Matt Rod's company Frontline. He's sick. He called me up to shoot this wallride nollie out into a sketchy bank. This spot is right next to a barber shop, and at one point the barber came out and said, "Have you landed it yet?"

Sean Stout:

Sean's a cool kid. He just calls me way to much.
"JOE!"
"What Sean?"
"Get you ass down here! Let's shoot a photo!"
"Alright. Where you wanna go?"
"Oh. I dont know."

When we did get this photo of a giant lipslide down Safeway rail, the conversations changed into something like this:
"JOE!"
"What Sean?"
"You post that photo yet?"
"No."
"I want that shit for Myspace!"

Tristen Moss:

Tristen is sick. Too bad we was pissed off all the time beause he was riding the wierd "Funky Yoyo" wheels. Good thing we wasn't riding them when he pulled is Pivot Fakie on Madison wall.

Kyle Duval:

This was Kyle's first time skating the table at Southside. Yeah. He pulled this stylie Nosegrind. Butters.

Aaron Harrison:


Aaron took me out to this ridiculous wallride spot out at McClellen Airforce Base. He wanted to shoot an Ad of a kickflip wallride. Unfortunetly, we got kicked out a the security guard. It's probably a good thing we didn't spend to much time there. I hear that place has pretty high toxic waste levels.

JR Dias:

Yeah. JR pulled this Switch Ollie down this massive gap. IN A LINE. JR is amazing. Hands down.

Dave Urke:

Dave is one of my favorite people to go out shooting with. Not only is he a great guy, but you are almost garunteed to get a photo. This day we went out, we went t this spot, which everone describes as "a spot I skated when I was 15." Whatever I thought I was fun. Dave pulled ut a Front Blunt.

After this spot we headed to this crazy gap-to-rock bank spot. I feel like a dick because I basically made Dave ollie into a sketchy rock in fading light, and the picture was out of focus. Sorry Dave.

Blaine Barker:

This was the first time I had ever skated with Blaine. This guy is ridulously good. He has the hook-up with DVS and definetly deserves it. This clean Backside Tail is just a taste to his smoothness.


I don't even know what to say about Blaines Frontside Flip Wallride. I was just blown away.

To see more of Sean, JR, and Blaine check out this promo for the new DigiLurk video.