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Saturday 04/12/08 |
| Started the day bright and early with a fun little session at Homewood park. The day was sunny and beautiful, but slightly chilly (55 degress) with a weird cold front and VERY windy!
I had fun skating the little mini-ramp again, and was pleasantly surprised to see Peter Karvanen and Ben Gilley show up. I hadn't seen Ben in about 8 months. We caught up
on all he as been up to in his life as a pro skateboarder. haha He is home for a short while but then off again to travel and skate all summer. Rough eh? Peter and Ben were
playing some games of SKATE. I was just playing around, going through my tricks just to make sure I had them still, and teaching a LOT of the little kids how to pump and/or
drop in. It's always fun to teach the next generation. Around 2 PM, I headed off to Vets skate park. It was PACKED! Along with the usual 20 or weekend locals, a church group
from Cullman showed up with about 25 more kids! Eddings and Spinosi were holding court at the bowl. I jumped right in and had a blast. Great day to be skating. Too bad we
don't have the other old regulars showing up. Maybe that will change soon. |
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Peter tranfers over the hip with a nice ollie as the kids look on
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Peter pops a sweet backside ollie to tail
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Unknown transfers over the hip into a frontside 50-50
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Peter midway in a nice ollie
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Ben Gilley pops out of an ollie blunt
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Ben pops another ollie blunt
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Peter follows up with an ollie blunt too
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Peter and Ben...old friends
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Ben pulls a tip-toe backside ollie to tail
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Skaters and spectators around the bowl
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Not much unused space in the street section
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Line up to the bank and rails
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Busy bowl for once
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Eddings in the thick of the crowd
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Jason learns double truck carve grinds in the shallow!
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Line up in the street section
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Mark hucks up a frontside air
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Jason hits another double-trucker as Eddings looks on
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Another shot of Eddings in a frontside air
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Gonzo from Cullman ripping the bowl
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Ground level as Eddings takes to the sky
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Eddings plays king of his kingdom
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Scott rides a 50-50 down the 5-stair hubba
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Jason Green's company gets represented!
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NO SESSION SUNDAY! 04/13/08 |
| The idea for this session started with posts on the SkateAlabama.com forum. Someone mentioned getting folks from Huntsville down to the park. I quickly reminded all that
every time we plan a session, no one shows up...so maybe the reverse was true....if we didn't plan a session, everyone would come? So I dubbed this "NO SESSION SUNDAY".
I showed up at the park a little after it opened at 1 PM. Quite a few kids were already there. It was also chilly again and much more windy than yesterday. Maybe that's why the
session curse struck again. It ended up that only Tim Spinosi and me showed up to skate. The Huntsville guys had last minute changes in plans. We made the best of a beautiful day
regardless. The sun was out, and we were riding skateboards. What more could you want?!?! The wind made it tough at times to skate. It was just that windy out. With only Tim and I
skating (along with the local kids), it gave me a lot of time to work on whatever I wanted. I had fun actually trying some new tricks out there and working to get others down even
better. It was a good day. |
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Michael hits a nice smith grind down the hubba ledge
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Michael in a smith grind from another angle
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Solomon learns a new trick...and no it is not dropping in! haha
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Solomon doing it again with some style haha
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Scott flips the bench (1.38 Mb video)
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Solomon gets another one
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