Trippin’ Out in AZ.
It’s been a few months since we took a quick trip to AZ. I was waiting to post until I went through the video I shot, but that’s not going to happen any time soon. So here are some images and the short version of the trip to Arizona back in March.
KB and I left Thursday afternoon and met up with everyone at Goodyear. This park was big and rad. After driving for over 5 hours, I was too lazy to shoot any photos…or do anything for that matter.
Michael Serna Jr. over the channel
Danny Sandoval nosepickin’
Went back to Gobber’s to crash out. Before we called it a night, Zach Abrams had to take a plastic banana board to Eggplant on the extension.
FRIDAY
Woke up early Friday morning and headed out to a glorious ditch.
J.r. Lasater, Boneless
Dudes
Sam Keeley, Crail blockage
Kevin Burke, Wall ride
Stopped by Peoria on the way back. This park was super fun and we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves.
Gobber, guns blazin’
Papa Serna, FSG
Back to camp for refreshments
Joe wastes no time
Night fell and things started to get heated. Gobber’s Friday night ramp sesh was going off in full force and some heavy dudes showed up to rip. I fired off a few shots before it got too crazy.
KB, lien on the extention
J.r., layback grind to revert over the loveseat
SATURDAY
Raged most of the night and woke up early Saturday to hit the road to Tuscon.
Stopped by Frog pool.
Lurkville USA
Serna Jr, side wall attack
Stopped in Coolidge. Fun park in the middle of nowhere.
One of many reasons that AZ rules.
Got to Tucson. This happened.
We then went to check out the Santa Rita park. Huge keyhole bowl and some rad little bowl and flow areas.
Checked out this crappy thing, but surprisingly some heavy shredding went down.
Pyrotechnics
pa-pa-Papaya. You had to be there
SUNDAY
KB and I split off from the group Sunday morning to meet up with Chris Livingston and skate some pools. I knew who Chris was, but this was my first time meeting him. One of the nicest dudes ever. Randy Muller from New Orleans was set to meet up with us, too.
Randy Muller, air the box
Livi, lien to tail
KB, 5-0 over the box
Randy, back smith over the box
Livi, front smith over the box
I think KB would agree with me when I say that these were two of the funnest pools we have ever skated. We didn’t want to stop, but it was getting late and we had to head back to CA. We got a few more grinds in and hit the road.
This trip was, by far, one of the best I have ever been a part of. Thanks to Serna and everyone that made it possible. Huge thanks to Gobber for the hospitality and the rest of the AZPX/WSO crew for showing us around. Thanks to Chris Livingston for taking us to some amazing gems. Finally, thanks to KB for co-piloting. Until next time.
Additional photos by Sam Haines and Serna Sr.
Goldy Grail.
Go Skateboarding Day – June 21, 2011.
Go Skateboarding Day is this Tuesday. Here are some local events going down. If you can’t make it to any, go out in your driveway and do a powerslide at the very least.
Ben Hatchell.
Montclair Contest 6/4/11.
Serna and the city of Monclair held their annual skate contest at Montclair Skatepark this past Saturday. I have to say this was the largest turn out of all the years I’ve been and these groms have really stepped up their game. Didn’t take a lot of photos, but here’s what I got.
The people that make it happen
Riley Fryer
Tristan, going for best trick with a nose bonk on the table.
Eggplant
Alan Lapointe
Logan Catt
Andrew Miller was ripping, but took a heavy slam at the beginning of his heat. He shook it off, but called it a day.
In between heats, some heavy shredding was going on throughout the park.
Josh Rodriguez
Kyle was going off as usual. Table annihilation
Brian Wilkinson
KB
Results
10 and under boys
1st Julian Torres
2nd Kiko Francisco
3rd David Branom
Girls
1st Sarah Thompson
2nd Pauline Branom
3rd Jordan Abraham
11-14 Boys
1st Tristan Rennie
2nd Logan Catt
3rd Dontae Overton
15-18 Boys
1st Riley Fryer
2nd Alan Lapointe
3rd Gage Boan
Best trick (a table was involved at one point until someone got hurt)
tie-Tristan Rennie and Alan Lapointe
Busenitz Maloof Money Cup.
Maloof Money Cup New York was held over the weekend. This is the man that, singlehandedly, made it interesting for me to watch. Busenitz!
Top 3 if you care, 1. Greg Lutzka 2. Dennis Busenitz 3. Ryan Decenzo.
Josh Rodriguez 540.
Josh Rodriguez spinning one at Montclair skatepark yesterday. Click image to watch.
Legend.
Pro-tec Pool Party 2011 Results.
As expected, insanity went down at the Combi yesterday.
I’m sure you’ve seen them already, but if you haven’t…
Pros
1. Pedro Barros $30,000
2. Rune Glifberg $18,000
3. Andy Macdonald $10,000
4. Nolan Monroe $4,000
5. Alex Perelson $3,000
6. Omar Hassan $2,000
7. Steve Pineiro $1,500
8. Mike Owen $1,000
9. Sky Siljeg $750
10. Sandro Dias $500
11. Joshua Borden
12. Joshua Rodriguez
13. Michael O’Friel
14. Nathan “Jimmy” Beck
15. Brad McClain
16. Bruno Passos
17. Daniel Cuervo
18. Zach Miller
19. Tony Trujillo
20. Matt Boyster
21. Mike “Darkness” Barnes
22. Anthony Furlong
23. Josh “Skreech” Sandoval
24. Bob Burnquist
25. Bennett Harada
26. Ronnie Yerman
27. Lincoln Ueda
28. Michael Brookman
29. Evandro Menezes
Masters
1. Chris Miller $18,000
2. Steve Caballero $9,000
3. Lance Mountain $5,000
4. Tony Hawk $2,500
5. Eric Nash $1,500
6. Duane Peters $1,000
7. Sergie Ventura $1,000
8. Pat Ngoho $1,000
9. Rob “Sluggo” Boyce $500
10. Steve Alba $500
11. Tony Mag
12. Brian Pennington
13. Paul Wisniewski
14. Nicky Guerrero
15. Jeff Hedges
16. Josh Nelson
17. Aaron Astorga
18. Mark Red Scott
19. Steve Steadham
20. Pat Black
21. Mike Rogers
22. Geoff Fletcher
23. Dave Reul
24. Ken Fillion
25. Jon Jon Bryan
26. Jake Piasecki
Vans has heat recaps here: http://www.offthewall.tv/show/Pro-Tec-Pool-Party-2011/index
Ozzie has a quick write up here: http://www.concretedisciples.com/bto/item/4256-the-deliberation.html