RADBUTTS.COM

TROY ELMORE : SMITH GRIND

Jokers 8/6/09.

Hit up Jokers with Russ, Chris, Jake R., Jimmy, Carlos and Jake J. the other night. Not the greatest pics, but had a great session…good times.

Carlos

Russ

Jake Reuter

Chris

Jake J.

Door. Knob.

NorCal Trip Day 2 – 7/25/09.

Second day was spent at the Lake Cunningham Skatepark in San Jose. Most amazing place I have ever been to.

Kevin
Upside Down

Back of the Monolith

Tailslide down the Pipe

Art
Nosepicker

Goin’ Big

Chris
In the Travel Lodge

Dan C

This kid wanted me to take his pic and said he could do a fakie flip off the ledge. He nailed it first try and I forgot his name.

Later in the afternoon the locals showed up and proceeded to show us how to properly ride this park.

Cab

Mitch

Mike

10 yr old, Rakai

Jason

Michael

That pretty much sums it up. Skated a lot of new stuff, met a bunch of cool peeps and only one casualty (hope you are feeling better, Tim). All in all and amazing weekend with some rad dudes. Thanks for the good times.

More pics here: http://discussion.socalskateparks.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=721

Day 1: http://radballs.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/norcal-trip-day-1-72409/

YET, ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT

As Mr. Wong said in his post two days ago…”It’s an unfortunate reality that during most skate sessions someone is going to go down. Sometimes they go down pretty hard.” Well, sometimes it’s not the rider, but the board that gets the ‘short end of the straw‘- in this case, Sam Hell’s stick…snapped. (Dude shoulda been riding a Smash).

Sam Hell : Caveman drop > board break.

Q: And one more thing- who the hell is this guy..? (A: aZn ballz)
(photos : Lightner)

Too Good For Tuesday…

I know we usually do music on Tuesdays, but this one couldn’t wait. I’m sure B. Wong will be posting a vid tomorrow to accomodate this epic photo by Glen E. Friedman…
(hint hint).

ED “CHILLAXING”

CYCLE ZOMBIES

Rolled over to Scotty’s Garage, while Him and his brother Turk worked on some new dumpy frame that Scotty picked up for parts. Their good friend Will stopped by (who’s friends with Max) and hung our for bit, and talked some quality shit. Good conversation, good vibes, and good tunes.
A good bike seat is key to enjoying your ride and can make the difference between a painful slog and a grand adventure.

Be sure to check out their blog– it’s heavy and epic.

(photos : Lightner)

radballs
July 30, 2009
bikes, photo, posted by Lightner, rule, skate, surf
Permalink

NorCal trip day 1 – 7/24/09.

A few of us decided to head north last weekend to hit a few parks and ultimately end up at the Lake Cunningham park in San Jose. Chris, Art, Kevin and I loaded up and started the trek up the 101. Bill, Jeff and Dan weren’t far behind, coming up from SD.

We arrived in Santa Cruz mid-morning on Friday at the Wave Park. Tim and Stan came down from Sacramento and met up there too. Park was a lot smaller than I expected, but was sick and the locals were ripping. Chris and I shot a few photos.

Kevin
Ollie

Bill

Tim
FSA

Chris

Art

Me

Dan C
Lein

Met up with Chuck from NHS at the park and he invited to the shop for a little tour.

This photo speaks for itself. So much history in this place.

The Crew

Huge thanks to Chuck for taking the time out of his day to have us over. I’m sure I can speak for everyone when I say it really topped the day off. He hooked us up with some shirts and stickers and we were on our way.

Next stop was the Frederick Street Park, which was a fun snake run…in the 70’s. Now it’s gnarly cheese grater asphalt with a little bank at the end. We made the most of it and it ended up being kinda fun.

Filmed by Chris

From there, we headed over to Derby Park. Just a snake run into a banked bowl, but a cool piece of skate history. We all had a blast and the locals murdered this place.

Filmed by Chris

We all gathered up any energy we had left and stopped at the Scotts Valley Park. This was a super fun park. Had a pretty wide range of tranny stuff and a few ledges.

Jeff
FSG