Swaimer

Above: Derek Swaim 360 shuv.
Edmonton montage, care of Something Legit.
32k for a bowl, and oh yeah you get a house.
Forget your damage deposit.

Just call me Gus

Above: Mastrovito frontside ollie for the kids.
It's been awhile since I actually liked the way a photo came out. Thanks Matt.

Above: 5-0 on some slippery vert.
The existence of this seems to provide definitive proof of my unlucrative ability to predict the present. Not only did I not not know during my last post that Matt already has a photo blog; I also didn't know that his friends apparently call him Gus.
If you've every been to Burnside you know this pic of Matt is nuts.

Skate for Nate

Above: Mauer pulls a pivot to fakie
A handful of us hit the West49 park for an early morning session in memory of Nathan today.

Above: Tan managed to dodge the bearded groms long enough to stomp a 3flip.

Above: Mastrovito front tailblock

Above: Mastrovito is also quickly turning into my personal photographer. I expect so see the creation of his photo blog shortly. Grumpy old man back smith.
Thanks to everyone who came out and made it a fun session.
How have I never seen this before, and why do they have what appears to be field hockey sticks? The last trick is an ender ender if I've ever seen one though. I'd be way more interested in Street League, the X-Games and the like, if they were based more on whatever was going on in that video.

Musical massacre

Above: cell phone pic of Suggit's Giant Human tat.
My iPod, like a lot of people's I'm sure, is filled with some truly terrible music. However, whenever one of these musical grenades pops up at an embarrassing moment, I can lay the blame squarely on Nathan Matthews' shoulders. I used to regularly go over to Nathan's and basically ask him to, "Load up my iPod with whatever cool music the kids are listening to these days." I don't know what strange desire led Nathan to download some of these tracks or if he was simply trying to mess with me. I like to think it was a bit of both. It's been a long time since Nate lived next door and I've been able to poach his music stylings, but here's a top ten list of songs on my iPod that I blame on Nathan.
1. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
2. Vengaboys - We like to party
3. Spice Girls - Wannabe
4. Rihanna - SOS
5. Will Smith - Gettin jiggy with it
6. Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom
7. Mortal Kombat - Theme song
8. Debeers - Diamonds are forever theme
9. Blink-182 - Pathetic
10. Pirates of the Carribean - A pirates life for me
Thanks Nate.

Never Forgotten

Nathan Matthews 1980 - 2010
I miss my friend.

Fakie Stacy

Above: Stacy Gabriel fakie 5-0 varial flip out. Shot on a Canon 1D
Found this gem stuck in a sub-folder on a back up drive today. It ran in an old SBC Edmonton article.
Overheard at Plush today, "Do you sell those Justin Bieber hightops?"
Cool stuff. Rad maneuvers.
These French Fred Cliche commercials are crazy good.

Legal Limit

Is it just because of my self-imposed hermit lifestyle that I've never seen these before, or are they only in random Quebec washrooms? Personally a $2 bathroom breathalyzer seems a little sketchy to me.
This.

Light Flurries

Wait, so it was +5 in Edmonton today! It sure wasn't here (Montreal).