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| JT over Chris |
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| Ryan |
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| Chris |
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| JT |
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| JT Fastplant 3 |
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| Chris nose-bonk fakie |
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| Ryan |
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| TL |
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| Ryan |
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| JT |
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| Ryan |
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| TL |
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| Chris |
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| Ryan |
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| Ryan |
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| JT and his first curved wall |
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| TL |
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| Chris |
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| JT |
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| Ryan |
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| JT with a bush-gap at the end of the day |
Celebrating the simpler things in BMX
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
First day of Spring
A few of us got together today to head up North and check out a spot that I had been seeing pictures of for years. So with today being in the 70's I knew it was time. We sessioned it for awhile and then made our way to a local park and then finally ended up in the city. Here's a few shots from today's fun.....it was niiiiice!
Table of the week
This weeks table belongs to Steve Morse. I shot this last week on our visit to the snakerun. For the record this spot in the snakerun is especially difficult to air out of, so a table is even crazier!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Maul's last weeks
As promised I'm gonna drop a few more pictures from the past week at Maul's Bike Shop. If you haven't heard we're moving after 23+ years at the same old location and I've decided to try and document the last weeks in the old garage. We've had all kinds of people stopping by to take a last visit.
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| Canadian footjam |
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| JT |
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| Canadians with their yearly visit |
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| Their truck was packed tight! |
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| Josh |
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| Josh |
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| Pete |
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| Myself and Maul |
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| Maul, Stu and Chris |
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| Stu |
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| Chris |
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| Moe |
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| Mike P. |
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| Mike P. |
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| Maul |
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| TL |
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| Mike |
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| Moe and Chris |
Monday, March 12, 2012
Table of the week
Shot this of JT Ahl today. Thought it was too good not to be this weeks table. Get some!
Dump Park by Stuart Scipione
Today I had the oppertunity to travel to far away parks and enjoy this beautiful weather. My friend Chris and I took a tour of three parks and one in particular stood out. I wish I could say it was for good reasons.>Hudson park is a beautiful non-pre fab park that clearly some people worked very hard to have built. Today upon entering the park I was struck with what looked like a dump. There was more garbage on the ground than there was in any one of the 8 garbage cans located INSIDE THE PARK. One park, 8 trash cans that seemingly nobody was using. This bothers me for a plethora of reasons, not the least of which is it's just flat out uncomfortable. I shouldn't hit a ledge and knock over a half empty bottle of powerade and an entire container of leftover chinese food. Hudson isn't even that bad a town, so it's not like homeless people are setting up camp there after sundown, but it certainly seemed like it.
Another reason this irks me is, seriously, somebody worked hard to have this park built for you spoiled little brats mucking it up. I assume if you're too damn lazy to walk the 8 FEET to the trash can you were probably too lazy to go to town meetings and do the fund raising that was necessary to build the park you are now shitting all over. Other people busted their asses to get themselves a place to go and you have the nerve to spit in their faces in such a manor. I have worked to get parks built and if I ever saw one of the parks I put effort into looking like that you can bet your ass I'd be down there ruining some slob's day. But for real, the dirtiest section of the park sat within 15 YARDS of five separate garbage bins. Inexcusable. The first thing you're parents teach you is to clean up after yourself.But still, the MOST offensive part of this is simple logic. Other towns in this state are trying to get parks built. When a town is looking to build a park they look towards existing parks to get a feel of what they can expect a skate park will bring to their town. Anyone who has worked to have a place built knows what an uphill climb stereotypes can make it. Town organizers already think ill of skateparks before ever seeing one, so when another town goes to look in to setting up a place they are definitely going to go take a look at places like Hudson. The condition I saw it in today would lead to a definite veto.I don't know about anybody else reading this but I love traveling to other towns to ride new things. I'd like it if one day most towns had parks. But if Hudson is any indication we are all taking a huge step away from that goal. Every time I get to a park one of the first things I do is clear trash. It's part of the responsibility that comes with the gift of a place to go. These are our parks, it's up to us to take pride in them. If you see a bottle on the ground put it in the trash. If you see someone tossing crap on the ground call them on it. I'm not saying throw down, but enlighten them to the impact they have on the BMX and skate communities acting so selfishly. It's the butterfly effect. One piece of trash makes it ok for two pieces of trash. One bad park in the state makes all parks bad. Try not to be such friggin slobs.
Another reason this irks me is, seriously, somebody worked hard to have this park built for you spoiled little brats mucking it up. I assume if you're too damn lazy to walk the 8 FEET to the trash can you were probably too lazy to go to town meetings and do the fund raising that was necessary to build the park you are now shitting all over. Other people busted their asses to get themselves a place to go and you have the nerve to spit in their faces in such a manor. I have worked to get parks built and if I ever saw one of the parks I put effort into looking like that you can bet your ass I'd be down there ruining some slob's day. But for real, the dirtiest section of the park sat within 15 YARDS of five separate garbage bins. Inexcusable. The first thing you're parents teach you is to clean up after yourself.But still, the MOST offensive part of this is simple logic. Other towns in this state are trying to get parks built. When a town is looking to build a park they look towards existing parks to get a feel of what they can expect a skate park will bring to their town. Anyone who has worked to have a place built knows what an uphill climb stereotypes can make it. Town organizers already think ill of skateparks before ever seeing one, so when another town goes to look in to setting up a place they are definitely going to go take a look at places like Hudson. The condition I saw it in today would lead to a definite veto.I don't know about anybody else reading this but I love traveling to other towns to ride new things. I'd like it if one day most towns had parks. But if Hudson is any indication we are all taking a huge step away from that goal. Every time I get to a park one of the first things I do is clear trash. It's part of the responsibility that comes with the gift of a place to go. These are our parks, it's up to us to take pride in them. If you see a bottle on the ground put it in the trash. If you see someone tossing crap on the ground call them on it. I'm not saying throw down, but enlighten them to the impact they have on the BMX and skate communities acting so selfishly. It's the butterfly effect. One piece of trash makes it ok for two pieces of trash. One bad park in the state makes all parks bad. Try not to be such friggin slobs.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Snakerun with Tyrant and 2X4
Had a good session today with the TYRANT crew and Van Homan and the 2X4 guys. Last night at the 90 East premier Van and I got to talkin' and I asked him if he wanted to come along with us to go back to the snakerun. He was headed back home to Jersey and with it being on his way home, he was down. So we all met up at a small park in Middlefield Ct. and proceeded from there. Theses are a few of the pictures from today.
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| Mike P. over ice |
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| Riker barspin |
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| Mike P. |
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| Brian |
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| Mike P. |
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| Steve Morse |
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| Pete |
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| Pete again |
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| Van jumping these dubs that guys have been sweatin' for quite sometime |
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| Turndown |
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| Riker |
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| Van |
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| Pete |
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