justin and i met up on saturday near anthonys house. we went over to Vista View middle school to skate the main ledge. i didnt skate too much, i just did some warm up shit. justin was handling it for the both of us. although, he kept falling because he would hit these little leaf nut things. justin learned front blunts on the same ledge noah learned back blunts on. i got a picture of it, just not with my digi, but with my cell phone. its weird how that happened. i dont think it was the next day, but the day after vlad met up with me and we went over to mesa view. justins gf lives right around the corner from there, so he just met us there. the weather was kinda shitty, way overcast and cold. but we still skated.
back tail
another angle
these kids played s.k.a.t.e. with us. joey and chris i believe.
i skated around.
justin intensified things
fun.
-brandon
Adventures in Skateboarding:
Vista and Mesa Edition
Adventures in Skateboarding:
No Skating Edition
well, i had ideas to go skating today. but waking up at 11am and realizing that its windy as fuck outside kinda puts a damper on things. its now 2pm and the wind has not died down at all. mostly i would have only considered skating Bell, then maybe peak park. but now im just angry.
yesterday i went to Mile Square park with my friend andrew. we played basketball for about two and a half hours. it was fun. we warmed up a bit, then these two asian dudes, david and quon*, asked us if we wanted to play 2 on 2. so we did. and beat them. then these other guys asked us if we would all play 5 on 5. so we did. then we played again. and again. david turned out to be pretty good.
andrew and i then played catch. like, with gloves and a baseball. that was alright. i wanted to play basketball more, but i was hungry. i hadnt eaten anything since i got up at 11:30. but it was weird, because i wasnt hungry hungry. it was just like, hey, maybe you can snack on something.
i ended up getting taco bell and watching the Laker game as i ate it. i was upset that the Lakers were losing, but then ended up beating the Bulls. without Jordan, they aint shit.
-brandon
went for it.
I planned on skating all day but when I woke up it was wet outside with shitty clouds above. I waited till about 1 and
it seemed to be okay but I was on the edge.
I've been wanting to skate this spot that I saw almost 2 years ago in Berkeley when I saw Sonic Youth.
It's super laid back and fun, except its in Berkeley.
I tired to call people to skate but as soon as they would have been ready I would have been over it so I just went for it.
Haven't skated in so long that spots have popped up, been knobbed, and un-knobbed
Saw a Berrics ad.
Sik.
The weather was perfect when I got there I could skate in just a shirt it was awesome. I haven't skated in a while so as soon
as I started I was tired in the first 15 minutes.
I was there for a bit just trying to see if I could still skate, I can, a little dusty but still works. Board shot into a puddle of water, that sucked.
dude was shredding the casio.
It started to sprinkle right when I got to BART, perfect timing.
Chaper 2 of spring break here to come.
Adventures in SkateboardingWhittier Edition
Today i picked up up justin and we went up to the whittier area. i just recently saw an abandoned Ford dealership that had a gap in the front of it. soo, i had to skate it since its a gap. duh. anyhow, we got up there in no time which was weird because it was rush hour time. it was a bit hot in the whittier area, im used to the lovely huntington beach weather now, not shit la habra. but justin ollied the gap first try and i didnt. it took me about three tries. that made me a bit mad since i used to only skate gaps and stairs. ohh, being young and throwing my body down shit. justin ollied it and tried to switch 180 it to no success. i ollie, fs bs 180. and i ollied in between a tree and a wall. a security guard came up when i was trying that ollie. so i said, "one more try then we're out of here." he nodded. i did the ollie a few times because we werent getting the right shot. which we still didnt. it just doesnt look fun? but as we were packing up he said we didnt have to go since i did the trick. justin and i played skate and i lost. badly. i think i only got "s" on him. he got me with nollie shit. we got to la habra skatepark at a bit after 6. from getting into the park, justin wasnt diggin it. he wasnt landing any tricks. while i, on the other hand, was shreddin. jokingly, i did a bs 180 ollie north. i think i was more surprised i landed it. there were quite a few bikers there, and i nearly collided with all of them. pegs to the shin would not be a good idea. we skated there for a few hours, to justins dismay. my knees started to give out when i would ollie, so yeah, we left close to 9pm. brandon
well thats a handsome young man
INTENSE!
Finally! Spring break. I'm setting my shredding for full shreddededed. I've been suuper busy with school lately and the only time I actually skate is from my house to my garage or to work which is always a fun cruise.
Heres where I'll be at the end of March.
The Los Angeles Latebirds - Flock Yeah II from Brian Sowell on Vimeo.
More Adventures in Skateboarding
Justin met me over at kandaces house yesterday at around 3 or 330pm. we left immediately to aliso viejo park. unpon arriving, it was a bit crowded. a few bikers were lurking around, and even a few rollerbladers. from the get go, justin and i started killin it. he had more of a warmup then i did because he skated from the bus stop to kandaces house. while i just got my board out of my trunk and skated into the park. i would say we mostly skated transition the whole time. i need to get better at that shit. from what i can recall, justing nollieflipped, 3flipped, bsflip, bs360 and nollie bs180'd the pyramid. while i did all the same things but also fakie 3flip, fakie 360shuv, fakie bigflip, halfcab flip and kickflipped the top.
we then skated the middle gutter of the skatepark, im not sure what to call the thing, but its in the middle. we tried to do doubles on the steep bank. i was trying to 5050stall while he ollied under me. but i couldnt stay in the stall long enough. on that same bank, i did a 3flip all perfect and shit. some scary dude saw and high fived me.
we TRIED to skate the bowl, but that shit aint happening. neither of us could really go frontside the curves. sucks because skating bowls looks mighty fun.
it had been maybe three hours since we were there. and my knees were starting to hurt. so we left. oh yes, there was also these christian kids that showed up and started giving out water. but in return, they wanted you to listen to them talk about god. i, never took a water. justin did, but i believe he escaped the lecture before it started. smooth.
noah, mark says you dont skate anymore. get on that.
chase, where are you? call me. i know schools a bitch for both of you, but theres gotta be some shred sled time.
and, so far, im passing my classes at OCC.
-brandon
Adventures in skateboarding
i met up with justin on tuesday. we went over to the costco near his house to skate some red ledges, i put together my new board and began to skate. maybe 5 minutes into the session, i was skating around and some dude almost hit me as he was backing out of a parking spot. he then followed me back to where justin was and told us we couldnt skate. i told him to go fuck himself, because i wasnt in the mood to deal with old people. i continued to keep skating while justin skated away. the man followed me in his truck and asked if i wanted him to call the cops. i told him go ahead you asshole. so he got out of his truck and began to dial. i just laughed at him and justin thought it would be a good idea to go. so we left.
next we went to a ledge spot that hes taken to me before, but i wasnt quite feelin it. plus, i slipped on some wax that someone put on the ground and hurt my wrist. so i was over it quick.
then we went to santa ana park and just did everything. there were some really good guys there. fuckin killin shit, but then i thought, well, its a skatepark soo. justins board shot out and hit my ankle, which in turn made me bleed. but i had no idea this happened until my foot started to twitch before i would ollie. we skated there for about an hour and the cops showed up, so we bailed.
next we went to anf's house and we skated the box for a bit. i got anf to skate with my board since davis took his. hes still got it. skating that is.
THEN justin and i went to vista view and played skate. i think i won? even though we went beyond s.k.a.t.e. but still. he got me with nollie shit, while i got him with basic shit.
-brandon