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Last summer I got to work up at the Element Ymca

skatecamp. They put together a polished skate video

every week to give the kids something to get hyped 

on back home. This is my favorite of the weekly videos.

The steez skit throughout is super funny, towards the

end of the first camper skate section I got triples with a

couple campers and this is also the week that a runway

and kicker ramp gap was built over the fire! So epic.

Definitely takes meback to the time spent up in the woods.

 

You at least want to skip ahead to the fire jump session.

Pirate Town

Hit up the renegade spot out by U of P last Saturday.

Ran into Bud who had a sweet motor bike. 

People have really been going for it building wise.

There was a lot of new stuff.

Mike Frontside rock. The slightly over vert.

Its kind of funny that directly across the river

from the largest urban forest in the U.S. 

people go out of their way to hang out in a

polluted wasteland.

Ben blunt fakie in the kink area.

We also stopped post burrito at Pier Park which

would have been more of a sesh pre burrito.

Mike got hit by a train (see video).

Pirate Town from Matt Yula on Vimeo.

San Fran

Bomb hills not countries.

Sean Young is still on the top of my list.

Met up with Sam Z. from skatecamp.

Super fun. Thanks for the tour bro.

Last stop skating was a quick sesh at Ft. Miley.

Phil Shao...

After being in 'Merica for two weeks it was rad

to be in a coastal liberal oasis with arty stuff 

all over the place.

Apparently, the OG. Philly steak is

actually in S.F.? Check the Trans America

building in the background for confirmation.

 

This mural reminded me of the kind of 

stuff you would draw in your notebook

in junoir high. Awesome.

Roswell

My inner junior high sci-fi geek was

super amped on stopping in NM to

see some UFO freaks. All those nights

watching Unsolved Mysteries had me

imagining cool stuff in this town. 

Cool stuff there is, but you have to

get psyched on its cheeziness and

not really expect much going in.

Someone in town has a booming fake UFO

in the side of your business business.

Marketage

Photos from here down are inside the

"international" UFO museum. The

exibits ranged from (mostly) elementary

school science fair quality to Planet

Hollywood like movie prop steez.

The piece above was presented as

evidence that ancient cultures were

down with UFOs...

Apparently if you drive to Area 51

you see nothing but desert, they

had the photos to prove it.

McMinnville UFO siting

implantage

Kanis

Little Rock is one of the few places lucky enough to

have a legit seventies era skatepark pool still

going. Every time we visit getting a session at

 Kanis is on the top of my list. The fact that its very

similar to FDR in a lot of ways probably influences

how much I like this spot. Its got tight and awkward

trannys in addition to gnar poured deck coping

 all the way around.

   

In recent years, locs have begun motivating

the expansion of the park on a slab right

next to the old bowl. Here we have the most

 literal tomestone in skateboarding.

 Future creature ad?

This thing is really hard to skate. Zit/nipple.

Super good tranny on the back wall, looks like the

 begining of a bunker.

mine field. Peep the spinage.

On the other end of the park you have a sick tranny

to bank wall and a couple unforgiving j.b.'s.

 Going through the corner was sketch,

 only half assed an attempt.