Toronto & The Polson Pier Trip

Well, another trip is in the books for a few guys on the AGK team. Trevor Nedea, Matt Bujok, and his girlfriend Emilee, along with myself went to Toronto for a fun 2 day adventure. The first thing we came across was the Polson Pier was closed, including the indoor skatepark from 100 KM/H winds right off of Lake Ontario. Not only did it close Polson Pier for the day, but winds were so bad, that the Burlington Skyway was closed, creating massive traffic headaches. Thank God for Matt Bujok and his driving abilities, and also knowing the back ways into Toronto. Matt took his car and I took mine, we had to weave in and out of traffic so many times to keep moving, and also so we could stay together as a group. Our trip up took us a about 4, 5 hours, yeah, 5 hours! But we were moving the whole time since we took back roads once we got off the highway. Once we entered Toronto, we stopped off at a local indoor skatepark called "Shred Central". When we got there, we had an hour to skate, and Luckily the guy charged us $5 instead of $10, since the time was running low. We just started skating around, and then Trevor and myself started skating the 6 set that they have in this park. It was fun, Trev got a switch flip, fakie 180s, and basically all of Trevor's stock, go-to tricks. I was bumming around on a sore knee, but I was still able to pull my nollies, Nollie 180s, and I was fortunate enough to land a nollie flip quite cleanly within a few tries. Bujok started filming, and Trev was hittin the Hubba with a nose slide. Trevor was trying a noseslide shove out, but just couldn't pull it off due to the slippery wooden landing. I was trying to pull a nolie back-heel down the set, and I would land on the board basically everytime, but once again, that wooden landing would just slip me out. They were closing and the owner wanted to see me land it, and I had like 10 tries, and on each one I landed on the board, but I just couldn't ride away. We ended the night going to Bujok's sister's house to stay for night, and she lives in Oshawa. We got there, set up all of our stuff, and just uploaded any footy we got from that day, and also watached the Lakai Video "Fully Flared", and some of our older footy on an LCD projecter with a 100" screen. It was so sick! After that Matt and Trevor were playing Halo for a bit on the Xbox 360, and I decided to go to bed. The next moring, we all woke up at around 10:30am, and went upstairs to enjoy some Bagels with cream cheese, and a cup of coffee. We watched some funny new video thing from Australia while we ate. Once we finished, we got ourselves cleaned up for the day, packed up all of our stuff and headed out. We stopped off at Zellers quickly to pick up some tapes for Trevs camera. Once that was done, we headed out to Polson Pier. They have a pretty decent set-up there. Trev, Matt, and myself skated (and streetboarded) for a little while, bangin out some tricks on every obstacle there. Eventually Bujok left to go snowboarding on the Jib set up they have at Polson Pier. Trevor and I kept skating, and it got hot in there. We drank so much liquid it was insane. Anyways, we all got some good footy, from the park, and we eventually had to leave from exhaustion. We left around 6:00pm. Hit The Gardnier, which was jam packed, due to rush hour traffic. Got home at about 8:15ish, and were happy to be home. It was such a fun trip, and we are planning on going up next week.

Here are some photos from the trip.