Papa Serna’s Birthday Present

Some incredible stuff went down last night, all in the name of Mike Serna. Times like this remind you that you have great friends because of skateboarding.

The man that makes it possible, PK (thanks for letting me poach your lights)

Mark

After an epic session from 3p-12a with stair lurkers, PK opened up the shallows and fired up Smash Skates’ Kevin Burke, and Old Man Army’s Mark Partain to see who could get the first grind of the night over the stairs at Ridiculous Pool (with $2.78 on the line…).

Dirty Ben.

Dirty Ben at Chino.

Salad Days.

http://larryransom.com/

Youth Brigade.

Break down the walls.

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/

Never have too much of a good thing.

As requested, a short clip of awesome by Mr. Mackaye and crew. And even though Fugazi has already been posted, you can never have too much of a good thing. Plus these are 2 of my all time favorite songs.

Thank you, Glen, for the heads up.

take one for the team.

It’s an unfortunate reality that during most skate sessions someone is going to go down. Sometimes they go down pretty hard. Well yesterday, Mr. Lightner was the recipient of the short straw.

A little sore, but thankfully, no broken bones.

One a lighter note, we had an amazing session and Kyle brought out his camera arsenal and went to work (pre-obliteration of course)

Jake Reuter, boardslide over the stairs. First time done by anyone at Ridiculous.