365 project

Hey hey hey hey, skateboard every day!  Well. I have! Just a quick update.

 019 Before 6am and I'm already falling. 

020 Enjoying the GoPro.

365 vid

013

Getting the Wall ride over the gap for the first time.

365Skate

Another update of Skate All year. Spoiler - It's not all from my basement.

Day 013 Falling in my basement. Failed Blunt rock fakie. Irony is my biggest DIY win was video'd just before this. Video later.

 014 I skated. Then slept.

 015 & park 132. CBMK's awesome halfpipe.

 016

 017 It's -11Degrees Celsius and I'm in shorts.

018 GoPro Chesty.

365skate project

Update 2 of me skating all year.  Too cold or wet to skate anywhere else.

 008 using the pull-up bar to get serious hang time.

 009

010 Fakie pivot (10 letters in trick name)

 day 011 

012 very vertical above the 4foot mark

365Skate project

So as one of my New Year's Resolutions I made it a goal to Skateboard every day.  Less difficult as I just have to go to the basement to skate and it's climate controlled. But I also am going to picture it and hopefully post every week on the progress. I'm trying to make the photo project a little more interesting by throwing the day # into the mix. Pics will get a little more interesting once it gets warmer and I can hit some different parks.

Day 001  just after midnight, Party going on upstairs.

 002

 003 (see a trend yet?)

 004

 005 I'm laying across 5 decks.

006 Amy got this sweet shot. 

007. Fakie pivot 180 rock n' roll fakie. Video is crummy so you'll have to trust me.

The early parks.

When I took the trip in 2006 I lived in Pickering, ON(I still do but whatever).
The first Indoor park I went to was Shred Central back in my inline days(I have no beef with inliners and have my skates still)

RIP Shred.
I'dd also discovered Cummer park in Toronto with some friends.

A "not terrible" park but a real old style of design. One side is really more bmx park.
Before I'dd moved out of Toronto Spectrum Sk8parks had built "TheHoof"

The Hoof, vanderhoof bowl, Leonard Linton Park. whatever you call it this park is popular with young and old. huge bowl and a little street, theres also some power boxes that you can run your own light off.

Lawrence and Weston Roads, Toronto, ON   Medium sizes pre-fab park on a fresh concrete base.

Georgetown, ON  I include this now cause it's a lousy park and I don't want to include it later.  The poor design has all lines meeting in the middle. It's like a drain, a toilet if you will.  probably another Victor, Ford & Associates park.
Spott

2006 trip finale

Coming back into Ontario we needed to make a stop and discovered there was a new park in town.

Kenora, ON  Nice Spectrum designed park by the waterfront.
The rest of the trip went fast and the parks we discovered were surprises. Not all that good but we hit them anyway. I'll hit anything once.

Marathon, ON

Espenola, ON
Well, that's the trip. It wasn't the beginning but it's far from the end.
spott

2006 trip cont. still

Edmonton, AB. Churchdowns park (possibly castledowns, IDK.)
We hit this park after a trip to West Edmonton Mall. I was nuts. There were so many types of stair sets.  The crazy storm was still chasing us so we set off across the prairie in the dark of night, stopping at a sketchy campground in Sask. where we pitched our tents in a wind storm.  Woke up the next morning to find a pile of tattered porn behind our tent. We drove all day to Winnipeg and after hitting a gay bar, back to the forks.

The next morning we hit the Forks again. By this time I was so sore I couldn't ollie and kept falling on the koi.

Leaving Winnipeg we hit Happyland, a small snake run and one of MB's oldest parks.

Then on to ON.

spott out

2006 trip cont.

Back on the mainland two things happened. 1. We somehow did not hit any of the multitude of Vancouver area parks. Recently a bunch of skaters hit as many parks as they could in one day in greater Van. In the video it was mentioned you could hit a different park each week and it would take you a year to hit them all.(http://recordsetter.com/world-record/skateboard-parks-skated-single-day/17631#contentsection)
2. It rained for the first time in 3 months.  The storm literally chased us through the mountains and into Saskatchewan.
So off on the Sea to Sky highway we went.

Squamish, BC.  Darn you RAIN!  this park is my great white buffalo.

 This Graffiti was the most memorable thing in Whistler.

Whistler, BC  The Old snake run was pretty cool but the rest was kinda disappointing.

 Kamloops, BC  This park is on my top 10 faves.  Sweet big park in the middle of a community park.  Did my first spine transfer. A bowl has since been added.
spott out

2006 trip cont...

Vancouver Island

Straight off the ferry and off to Nanimo, BC.  Pine trees! Now I carry a broom.

Ukee bowl. Ucluelet, BC. Bowl in the woods with a mini street section.

Tofino, BC

Vic west. Victoria, BC.  Great time on the island, now back to the mainland.
spott