An exhibition at Exhibition

Today I Met up with Mr Errington for a quick warm up at Exhibition skate park before we went street skating. Instead of just cruising about and getting ready for the streets Jamie decided to put on a 15 minute demo for a few kids on their bikes. Here are the results of that 15 minutes. Click to enlarge the stills.

Super tweaked Ollie transfer.



Then on to the bowl. FS 5-0 to fakie.



Fs ollie disaster.



This how an ollie should look.



Then it was on to the rail. Ollie over into the bank.



He finished off by casually kick flipping over the rail to flat.



Afterward we went street skating. Jamie bagged a nice trick that we're hoping might get published, although there is every chance it won't so it may be making an appearance soon.

Ben.

Wasters

Apologies for the lack of blogging this week. Here's some stuff from a funny session at the wasteland on Sunday. Much more coming in the form of a montage soon.


Jimbo, big spin pivot to fakie.



Fs shuv-it nose pick.



Jamie, BS noseblunt.



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Wasteland update

I managed to uncover some good news today about the Wasteland. Apparently building of the planned university complex is not going to start any time this year. Two blokes were lurking by the entrance when I left today and we got chatting about what was going to happen to the place. They work for a project called Youdecide which basically spends money that developers have to give to local communities when they build in an area, it's how they 'give back' to the community. They said there is no date for the commencement of the building work and they don't expect it to start for 12 to 24 months. The money that the developers have to inject into the community will not be seen for years but they did say that if we got ourselves organised we could put a bid forward for the money to go towards a skateboard park. It's obviously a long way off and may never materialise but at least we have the wasteland for this summer.

Here's some photo's from the archives to celebrate. CLICK TO ENLARGE the stills.

Jimbo, fs smith 360 fs shuv-it out. WOW! July 2008



A very young looking Glen, fs board flip out.




Nial, fs flip. August 2008.



Joe Hill, fs feeble. May 2009.



Jimbo, fs crooked. August 2008.



Here's to another year spent basking in the sun at the wasteland when we can't be bothered to go street skating.

Ben.

March on film.

Here's a mixture of portraits and skating shots taken from a roll of film that I shot throughout the month of March. Shot on expired Fuji PRO 400. For anyone who shoots film I suggest picking up some cheap expired film, it is usually about 1 or 2 pounds and often produces interesting results. This roll had literally just expired so the results probably aren't that much different to what Fuji 400 usually produces. As I did with the roll from the Blueprint demo I have had to reproduce these images by shooting the prints with my digital SLR, this once again means that they are not as clean or as sharp as the actual prints.

I shot this roll at a number of locations including Redcar brick banks, 5 bridges and the Wasteland. They look better larger so just CLICK TO ENLARGE.



















Jamie, fs flip disaster.



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Wednesday with Will

Couple of cheeky little sequences of Will from Wednesday morning.

This is a tough spot to skate but it met its match today. FS big spin.



Another tricky spot where fast feet are required. A tidy little ollie up, flip then manual.



Ben.

Blueprint Demo

I decided to shoot 35mm film at the blueprint demo, simply because digital demo shots don't really do it for me. I don't have a scanner so I decided to use a spare afternoon to digitally reproduce the prints using my 40D, because of this they are a little soft and not as clean as scanned negatives would be.

Adam's veins were full of free Red Bull and he started to get pretty excited.



Connor's now well documented facial injury.



The demo got underway at about half three. These shots are from the first half hour or so, I ran out of film pretty quickly so decided to go Digital and got a sequence of Tom Harrison. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Neil smith, fs nosegrind.



Tuuka Korhonen, bs noseblunt slide pop to fakie.



Harrison eye's up the big block.



Bs nosegrind shuv it.



Big bs ollie whilst Brady watches on.



Chewy Cannon, switch fs nosegrind.



Tom Knox, bs smith.




Ben.

Daewon

A compilation of one of the greatest skateboarders ever.

Archives

More photos from the past.

Jimbo with a pole jam that is much gnarlier than this suggests, flash misfired on this one so he doesn't pop out that well. August 2009.



Dan 'the main man' DVS getting tech with a front side flip switch manual. Feb 2009.



Jamie front blunting quayside quarter. Feb 2009.



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Easter Fun-day.

Easter Sunday was spent skating the Mecca that is 5 bridges. Blogged a couple of days late due to some heavy bank holiday partying.

Jimmy Boyce was on the session. He found what appeared to be a bag of speed, but he decided to get a natural high by licking the sap out of a tree instead.



I then climbed the very same tree to get some angles. On the way down I preceded to dangle by one arm from the last branch which then snapped and sent me falling 5 feet flat onto my back. Luckily the bark on the floor cushioned my fall and saved me and my camera serious injury.

Jimbo with a switch heel manny and a front blunt.





Yours truly with a fakie 5-0 shuv and a fakie nosegrind shuv. Shot by Jimbo.





Ben.

Good Friday

As always the session started at the wasteland where the puddle was huge and everyone was over it, except for Wizzley Snipes who prooved he's not just a heel flip kid anymore by hard flipping a puddle.



Then we headed to the spot everyone loves to hate, River 5. Hammers were thrown down left, right and centre.

Glen was doing front biggies on demand, he probably made about 5 in the space of about 15 minutes. I did shoot a sequence too but it has been lost in the Matrix.



Jamie then showed everyone whats what by busting out a number of slick maneuvers.

Believe or not but this is a make. Some serious ninja action on the switch flip.



Check out the catch on this Nollie Heel, well above the top step. Jamie also landed various other tricks just for shits and giggles.



Dan was rocking out all day.



The session then moved on to quayside ledge for a short period of time before me and Will made our way to the Heaton TF at Peter the Saint's house. Jimbo was killing it as the video shows.

Flip fakie.



Jimmy Boyce was also up to his usual antics. Frontside transfer and a blindside transfer.





Check out more tomfoolery from the TF below.

Ben.