Summer Time

It has been so hot lately, that everyone just looks like this all the time. It was so hot in the city the other day that people were skating around in their underwear. Well, just Nick was I guess. But, it was hotter than a Mother Fucker too. He laid his laundry out on the rail and threw in a boardslide for good measure.

Nick with the longest boardslide of the day on the top of the rail.

4th of July

Such a display of patriotism is almost poetic, isn't it.

Saturday July 3rd

3 PM- Out of work

3:30 PM- Out if the shower

4:15 PM- Leave for train

4:42 PM- Miss train by two minutes

5 PM- Pat shows up more than two minutes late

5:30 PM- After sitting on our asses trying to figure out what to do for a half an hour, we decide to drive into Brooklyn.

5:35 PM- Pat locks his keys and cell phone in his car

6 PM- Leave the train station toward Wading River and a spare set of keys.

7 PM- Return to the train station, retrieve phone and keys, and leave for brooklyn.

8 PM- Arrive in Brooklyn and park in some street neither of us know.

9:30 PM- Get on the bus Philly Bound

12:15 AM- Walk in the door of Brysons apartment....finally there!!

Thats pretty much the story of the trip to Philly for the 4th. Traveling was not our forte, we had seen smoother journeys in our time. But, one thing that was on for the trip was full on, no holds barred skateboarding. Pat, Bryson, and Nick all killed it all day, along with everyone else at the park. Harry Potter was there and did the craziest Frontside grab into the square bowl I had ever seen. Well the photos tell the story better than I can so....Here you go.

Pat Hobbs Crail Slide

Fs air

Fs lip around the corner

Rock rewind

Shooting fire works perpendicular

Big Ollie...He even looks shocked

Frontside

Backside

Pat Hobbs...this is so gnarly backside lip, revert over that old ass spine

and for those who wondered, this is the color white after one full session at F.D.Gnar.

Happy 4th from FDR

Happy two day late 4th of July everybody!!!!!! Images from the 4th of July party at FDR are soon to come but for now, The Captin salutes you!!(thats patriotic.....right???)

Hill Billie Heelflips

Sometimes I feel like writing....well, here is a picture of Nick

Chelsea Piers Park

Pat with a bs 360 melon!!

The new park in NYC is so right. Normally in New York every skate park is ok to good. Everything is fun but there is one or two things they just put in the wrong spot, or just got built funny. There was nothing wrong with this park, the design is real fast and real fun. My only complaint would be the volume of kids......it was nuts how many people were there. I must have gotten into 3 or 4 collisions and about 13 close calls. All in all no helmet, no money, concrete park in NYC...I LIKE IT!!!!!

KickFlippers!!!

Another day-venture out to nueter...and another hammer was dropped on the door. James Kickflipped off the ramp we made out of the first door and over the other door. It was tight!!! Two kickflips, two photos and then it was all about sitting. Good Day

Good Ol' Saint Pat

KIckflip number 4 of 4 on the day for Bryson.....Not that any of them were that bad but he's a bit of a perfectionist.

So Saint Patrick's Day this year, I decided to spend in NYC. I avoided all of the traffic, and parades, and most of the drunken morons that took the train in with me by hiding away under the bridges downtown. We spent most of our day under the Manhattan Bridge, under the influence. Actually minus our trip under the Brooklyn Bridge, we spent all of our time at the Manhattan Skatepark. No photos really happened at the banks but, it was a necessary detour knowing they are being closed down soon. ]

Sky-Rockets at Night

Sky Rocketing over the handicapped, Bryson boosts this ollie to flat. It dose not get more gansta than that. This is another shot from the day at nueter when mike got broken. I have one more to edit up from that day and some sweet saint patties day pics from NYC coming up soon so saty tuned....

the latest news about last October

Lost post alert....Throughout my time in life i have had many different email addresses. I have two that are the same username for both yahoo and g-mail. I have wegerchris@yahoo and wegerchris@gmail. I originally had a blog on one email and never really did anything with it. Then I started this one with the other. and amidst the chaos of moving away from Philadelphia I posted this on the wrong blog. So here is some new-old news....enjoy

Neuter

James Arroyo Nose manual Switch-a-roo to manual.

Come one come all....From the same minds that brought you the Uter fad of 2006, I present to you Neuter. The New Uter. Im not about to give you directions here but the spot has apparently been around for some time so it shouldn't be to hard to find. It is a sweet little gem in the making too so, expect a lot more photos from here real soon. Kind of a build it your self park just like its predecessor Uter. All in all it was a super fun day skating with Bryson who was up from Philly Killing it out here on the Island. More to come.

EMERGENC....

There was an EMERCENE yesterday with Mr. Mike. He was getting very nautical doing Ollie's over this boat (to be honest it was a sandbox shaped like a boat, but you get the picture), when suddenly man overboard. Final verdict is....splint for a week, followed by 2 to 3 months with no surgery. The face says it all....

Ahhwooooo...

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand, Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's, Going to get a big dish of beef chow mein. Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! You hear him howling around your kitchen door, You better not let him in. Little old lady got mutilated late last night, Werewolves of London again. Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! Huh! He's the hairy handed gent who ran amok in Kent, Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair. You better stay away from him, He'll rip your lungs out, Jim, Huh! I'd like to meet his tailor. Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Ahwooooo! Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen, Doing the Werewolves of London. I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen, Doing the Werewolves of London. I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's, And his hair was perfect. Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London, Huh! Draw blood! Ahhwooooo... Werewolves of London...

In dog we trust

Urban surfing at its finest. Connor was having so much fun doing this but, not as much as bruce. Man that dog loved to run around. We did this like 20 times before bruce needed rest. he was one happy pup that night.

That was a fully man!!!

Pat full cabbin' the hip

shot this the other day when james rode the monster... I have been kinda busy since and didnt really play with it until just now. Anyway I really like how it came out and am glad to be shooting something besides the fisheye.

When they designed the skatepark in Riverhead NY, I always questioned what the hell this thing was for. It is like waist height, maybe 100 feet long, and on a mellow downhill. Seemed to me like it was more of a design flaw than an obstacle. Well good ol' Jamie Arroyo had to go and prove me wrong and 50-50 that whole jawn.

p.s. He decided that he needed to ditch the helmet for this one too!!!

Riverhead Skatepark

Mr. Basso

First post back on the island. It has been a little while since my last post, and well today is the day that, that I change all of that. Went to riverhead today with the boyz and met up with our friend Pat. Pat lives like 4 minutes from the park and pretty much kills it. Shot a few bs melons today and well here are the results......

Water-Melon

Pops Park

Nick has been crashing at my place for a little bit now and he has been paying his keep with all of the blunts he keeps bringing to POPS.

To sum up Pops Skatepark, the new skatepark in kensington, all I need is four words. Not bad....Not Good. Let me first start out by saying I am not one to bitch about a free skatepark. Thats how they should be, I feel we should start a movement to free them everywhere, but that is another rant entirely. But there are some issues in pops park that I feel make it a difficult place to skate. Nothing is particularly wrong with anything in the park, all of the pieces work, given the proper room. But at Pops sometimes I feel that things are a little too close. All this can simply be solved by just skating the park more. It is tight but you can do tricks there and well....ITS A FREE SKATEPARK. Leave it at that.

Nick Kershak $$$M$O$N$E$Y$$$

The Offbeats

Nice dance moves ehh?

Every time I go out shooting, I always end up with a bunch of shots that have something special about them but are not the shots that I would use. Either a weird fall shot that looks kooky, or maybe something when I was checking focus and light. These are the offbeats. The Offbeats is a project I have been working on for quite some time now, for a while without even knowing I was. I have always been fond of these images and have just recently started to put them together into one body of work. I got some cool ones the other day and was happy to add them to the body.

Bryson

Thread the Needle

Holy crap is this image a horizontal???? I bet you thought my camera was unable to do that.

This spot is at 1700 Market street, read the sign, and it is super tight. I can not explain how sick this shit is so you need to go and see it for yourself. You need to carve around the corner and avoid the corner of the building, quick set up, pop an ollie, and contort your body into a weird way to fit through the signs. This shit was a squeeze seriously, it is like 2 feet wide and 2.5 feet long. Bryson had to kick one of the first couple away and wound up hitting his knee real hard and sat down for like 20 minutes. But, like the trooper that he is he got up and came through. The new roomate, Nick came through with it too. The angle I got it from above looks real sick, but only got to take that one frame because security came out and gave us shit. But the money maker is below.....enjoy!!

F. D. aRchives

Okay so this month in the fd-archives I pull photos of my all time favorite time at the skatepark. It was a random weekday afternoon in mid to late October, Halloween time. I was sitting at home doing nothing productive, so I decided to take a trip to the skate park. Grabbed my board, camera, and some film and headed out.

When I got to the skatepark I felt like I stepped into a music video. Was I dreaming? was the band playing in the middle of the skatepark? What was going on.......After some investigative research I found out that the locals were having a show to raise money for the park. Chuck Treece, from Bad Brains, was playing with one of his bands and everyone was dressed in costumes. It was pretty sweet to see Artie from Pete and Pete do a miller flip out of the pool in front of the band....that was probably the highlight of the day

"Strongest man, in the World," pulling a miller flip over the spine.