SHRED OR DEAD

So, this shot of Reilly skating yesterday is actually a bail on a fifty-fifty, which he made several other times. But this is the best shot I got, so you’ll have to deal with me.

On Friday and Saturday I probably had two of the like, best sessions ever. I skated in Newmarket on Friday night, and as small and weird as that little bowl is, the coping is soooo nice. It sticks out just right, and it moves so much better then Keswick. And because of that I was getting fifty-fifties across the short end of the bowl, and even around the corner a few times. Stoked! And on Saturday me and Reilly headed first up to Keswick, where I was actually skating lines. As in, I was all getting up on the coping when I wanted to, doing (albeit crappy ones) frontside five-O’s, and carving around the little bowl. Seriously I under-rated that bowl when I first skated it. And now I’m looking forward to shredding a little bowl in North Burnaby that is a sweet little clover bowl of the same height as Keswick, but the coping is so butter, and not all chewed from bikes (the main reason I couldn’t stick sweet fifty-fifties at Keswick).

AND THEN: Reilly and I switched cars so that he wouldn’t have to drive back up to Newmarket after, and we went down to Markham for some speed lines, and of course, trying to get onto Markham’s crappy coping. I say crappy because it sticks out like zero. So it’s really hard to lock your trucks onto the thing. However Reilly and I were determined and definitely getting up on that stuff after trying for so long. And man it was smooth when we did. Still, I’d rather be able to lock on to it.

Anyways. Since I’m a huge loser, here is a video of me skating in Keswick. Hurray!

Also of note, this video represents MANY of my skate goals for the summer. YAYYY!