Pre-Summer Jitters

Well, we are having this lovely short burst of warm weather, which certainly calls for skating. So far, each time I have gone out, the layers of rust are slowly falling off, and I am getting my tricks back, as well as learning new ones. Trevor and I were able to skate the Falls skatepark while I was down for a few days from London. That session lasted a few solid hours of non-stop manny pad skating. That was no doubt, the best day on a manny pad I have ever had. After the session, we went and chilled at the shop, then skated this guys barn sorta thing. Very simple with a box, flat bad, and a small drop, or transformable manny pad. Skated that till about 2:30 in the morning. Trevor and I were training our flatland by doing 10 tricks in a row of the same trick. We did this for a bunch of tricks. It was a super super fun session, but today, my legs are really sore.

The jitters part is that my right knee (the one I destroyed at the end of my part) has been acting up again, and really giving me a hard time by locking up, or just really hurting when doing simple movements. I have scheduled a doctor's appointment, and am hoping that my knee won't have any issues. I'll let you know how the tests go when I go for the appointment.

Are you MOCing me?

Yeah, it has been too long for this update. No excuses, I was simply drinking and skating with good friends.

Ok, now to the point...About a week ago, my friend Trev and I filmed and help shoot a local online talk show. It's called MOC Talk. It is a show that interviews local, and/or up and coming artists. Either in art, music, or anything like that. They are curently working on episode 3, but you can check out episodes 1 and 2 by CLICKING HERE.

They also have a Facebook group which you should check out and join. Check out the group by CLICKING HERE.

I wish I could talk about episode 3, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. These photos will have to tied you over until it is released.

Another day

Well, I am back in the falls till Wednesday I would say. I am doing nothing but working on pictures from recent work, and also preparing my knees for snowboarding on Tuesday. If you must know, I have started working out, trying to become a bit more fit, only because it's winter, I'm eating horribly, and not skating that much. So doing my standard crunches and sit-ups. I have also started using this weird machine in my basement that my parents got from my grandparents. Hopefully I can become a lot healthier for the summer.

Here is another picture from the snowboarding competition. This is Matt Bujok doing a Front Blunt on the handrail. He may have done a 270 out of it, but it's a single shot, so we will just call it a bluntslide!

Premiers!

My good friend, Dave Hnatiuk finally premiered his european tour video called "The Very Brilliant European Skateboard Adventure". The whole video was amazing! Props to Dave with a trick I have never even seen done before with a Fakie Half-Cab Double Heelflip Manny at Parrallel. That one made the crowd go bonkers! The video had a fun vibe with all-round amazing skating. Even some funnies of 30 Champagne bottles being corked, one after the other added some humour into the mix.

The night was great, see a skate video, and then afterwards some friends and I went to Crabby Joes to watch UFC 94. St. Pierre dominated. The dinner was hella good too! And no Erika, you can't have my hoodie!

Anyways, go buy this video from Dave....definitely worth the money!

sorry for the delay

Yes, I know I slacked HUGE on the daily update, but here is some good news. The next few days will back packed full of photos from some recent work I have done. So suck it!

If you trust want an update, this week, I did some job hunting, and went grocery shopping. The other day, I photographed a internet talk show called "Moc Talk". Check it out, it's pretty sick with live performances and whatnot. Today I went and photographed a few of the Dialogue Headwear guys at the McMaster snowboarding Jib Jam. Dialogue's very own Yuri Tereshyn took home first place respectively.



Here is a shot from one of the many gap to tricks that Yuri pulled on the kinked rail. This would be a "Shifty to front board" according to Yuri.

I hate UPS

Just because I am home, and they choose not to knock on my door, doesn't mean I should have to wait an extra 5 days to get my radio slaves for my flashes. I have been waiting on this for a while now, but it hasn't shown up yet. Luckily I didn't have to shoot anything this weekend, so that was a blessing. 

I need a job, can anyone hook a brotha up?

Friday....

Not much went down, chilled at the shop, bought some shoes, a hat, a t-shirt, and a hoodie. I'm pretty hyped on the hoodie since I needed a new one for a long time. Anyways, I ate the biggest meal I have ever bought from Wendy's. Double cheeseburger meal, with 3 chicken snack wraps. I'm a slob. Anyways, with that meal actually filling me up, I had the rest of the day to play some online poker where I won a few thousand bucks. I want to play for real money. 

After the shop closed, Trev and I headed out to the mushroom for a few brews and some chicken fingers. We were watching the winter X-games where this nut on a snowmobile almost landed a double backflip. I was screaming in the bar of how insane it was. I'm not too sure many people cared. Oh well. 

I hate UPS....