Finally getting to this...

Gardenskate streetstyle

Don't vote

Don't try, nothing will change...

Go skateboarding instead...

We have no idea why kids have the day off from school on election day - they can't vote. But we decided that they shouldn't have all the fun... took the day and heading down to Bristol, CT to skate Rockwell Park. Good times

coping killers wanted

let's see whatcha got:

I consider it a success just because the blocks held to the deck. That aside, I created quite a lip. In fact, I had to put so much mortar underneath to compensate, that essentially, I added about 2-5 inches of abrupt vert to the top of the ramp. SICK!

old and new

Ry sent me an email this weekend with some good pics of the qp being prepped for the first pour. Also a couple of me and him shralpin' for the first time.

The homies gather for some serious planning and development prior to the pour.

Some more of the seriousness.

Seriously though, here's a good shot of the qp just before we started to mix.

And now for some shred.

Headless horseman rock n roll.

Ry's tail stalls from time to time.

Now and again we all get lucky.

Ry also sent some other cool shit he created. enjoi

for a little under $30

I got this stuff. 4 patio blocks, a 3ft parking curb, and some cheap primer. also got me some extra angle grinder masonry disks....and away i went

Clack clack clack.....

clackity clack clack.

shit should do the trick, no? it's almost october, no time to pour any more. gotta shred while we can.

sessions

went out and scored a 3 ft wide parking curb.

then one two tree foh patio blocks to be made into some pour man's pool coping for the qp with cheese.

we been skatin'. parking block and pour man's pool coping to be painted and set this weekend. stop by for a sesh if you're bored fools

Round 3

Seeing piles of rubble on the side of the street doesn't get your average person all that excited.

But as you can tell from the previous 100 D4L posts, we're not your average people.

Me, Ry and C loaded up the truck with shale in between sips of budweiser on a recent saturday -- I mean, what better way to spend the weekend than moving around large heavy objects.

I cobbed together some templates, hammered in some ridiculously bright organge stakes, and held my breath with each pour that the "templates" would hold.

My truck is only a half ton, and we needed about 50, 60 lb bags of crete to finish the entire bank. So we filled my truck up with 3/4 of a ton and poured as much as we could. I think we've progressed tremendously since the first pour. We've probably got another 1/4 - 1/2 ton of crete to pick up and mix in order to finish the job. Hopefully we'll be able to post some pics of dudes skating this spot, real soon. Until then, we'll leave you with a pic of a dude who looks like he was TKO'd in rd 3. This is what happens when you build and skate a manny pad (after 20 beers), instead of pouring some sick crete:

Blue Collar weekends are all the rage these days. Pour it n' Destroy it.

Retry

Some of you may remember that I posted a video of a mini-monster bowl sesh. It was a cute little video that had a Bob Dylan song as the sound track that added to the silliness of the bowl. I guess Sony had issues with that, I mean, it got nearly 300 views, clearly I was taking advantage of Sony and Bob Dylan. Not only did they have issues with the soundtrack, they also, for unknown reasons, had issue with the video... Youtube promptly removed the entire video. This pissed me off quite a bit. I understand the legality of the stupid song, but the video? Fuck you Sony, that was me and my boys having fun, you have no right to remove my video (well, maybe they do, Lance will have to look into that one). But whatever, here's the video again, with no soundtrack. Like I said, fuck Sony, fuck Bob Dylan, and fuck Celine Dion (she fucked me on another video regarding my mom - R.I.P.). It's no wonder that people constantly steal music - the recording industry is fucked and they get what they deserve.



Then again, you might get lucky

How could I forget?

We heading up north to check out Slayer, but before we did, we hit the Creature Dome...

Then more blood shed...

Pier 62

I let Lance ponder his back yard while I pondered this...



Irene was there... she's better than you.






Marshall has "tricks"

Black Slab-bath

19 bags of crete. myself and the little guy in the back had some work ahead of us the other morning. not so great view of the form and the gravel leveled up to the bottom of the form, on the left hand side. i supported the forms with hand-made stakes, screwed into the form...and with large rocks dug into the ground. pretty janky. at the end of a couple hours, this is where i was....

got a little artsy while i was trying to send a message to my boys ...

but this is a good view of where i was after screeding, mag troweling and finally, using the pool trowel to finish..

this is the seam connecting the slab to the previously poured quarter pipe. a little sweeping then grinding after she's cured and it'll be good to go.

2nd pour came and went. hopefully it'll be cured enough to skate by the end of the week. this pour was a little extra wet (nice) because i was a little afraid that the crete would go off too quickly like with the last pour. 3rd time's the charm. until next time

--d4L

Concrete

The shit rules. Right?

Well I for one do not get to grind nearly enough of it lately. So we got the hell outta the Gayrage, headed out back, and grabbed a couple of these.

I cleared a spot. PJ designed and cut the forms.

Keith and Ry joined me 'n PJ one Sunday when we could've all been spending some quality time with our beloved families. On top of that, none of us has any real experience with pouring concrete. But with a little (little??) hard work, some tips from youtube, multiple Budweisers and some luck, we came up with this. It's a tough angle, but the ramp is roughly 3 ft high and a little over 5 ft wide.

Actually, we came up with something a lot worse than that at the end of the day. The quarterpipe was (is?) in rough shape on the surface. I'll spare you the details, but concrete goes off fast, particularly when you mix some dry crete on a real hot day....that's lesson 1 for today.

So, we had a really shitty surface. Totally not skateable at first. Depression set in, but shit, if we can build a bowl in a one-car garage, we can pour a quarter pipe. Right? Bueller?

Anyway, I've spent the past couple weeks resurfacing the quarter with some real good, life saving shit for all inexperienced masons, called Cement All. The rest of the time I've been leveling out the flat area. This is where we're at....

What in the hell are we building out back? God only knows. We have no idea. But we'll share the photos as we progress.

-D4L

Family Vacation

Wild in the Park


Slayreville

pdubbsz-it

Creature Dome

Little skateboarding lately, and even less documentation... but ideas are marinating at the moment... we might bring old roads back to life. Until then, check out the Creature.

shredgnarly

the mini bowl got shredded to pieces the other night by two former One-In-A-Million finalist... John Marshall and White... but you'll just have to believe me - not one camera was pulled out.

Over a year ago...

we went and skated vert in New Jersey, then....

A gentleman who runs the site The House of Steam grabbed some photos of mine from a trip to the DWGVR and he recently asked for some more. It made me look thru some stuff from said mish to Jersey, which led me to remember that I never posted those photos. I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone of viewing my spectacularly crappy photos...

Vert is hard work, some people (me) make it look hard, other people (see below) make it look easy.

Friday at Garden Skate




Allen's is a hard place to take photos... who wants to stand around and not skate (even if you're a coping scratcher) and because it's such a massive ramp, it's hard to be in the right place at the right time. Did I mention that I take crappy photos?