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Leave philly at 10p.m. friday. get to bed at 5:30a.m. saturday on a floor with a towel for a blanket. 8:30 we are up and skating. Tons of Dudes, lots of cameras, too many laughs to count.

long car ride made easier with a good ol’ etch-a-sketch

it quickly turned into a game of “here, hold this for a picture, but you cant read it”

ray has a great sense of humor (sometimes). he can laugh at a name created out of a serious situation. (if you dont know what the nickname “speed bag” came from you dont know ray)

classic

early a.m. first stop

dont just assume cuz it wasnt me

next stop…and it was a short one

a real short stop for obvious reasons

4″ high approach, tons of concrete and steel…CONGRATULATIONS…you built the only pile of shit that will withstand the next terrorist attack

this place fucking rules

one look at this 8 yr old kids grip tape and i realized the little fucker was calling me out…

the parking lot for this park is also shared by a huge pool with a water slide and high dive. the locals call it their pool, i would call it a toilet and shower for a bunch of out of town sweaty skaters

on the road again

this place fucking rules and is 20 min away from the last.

after about an hour a tsunami hit

rep your colors

more of “here hold this”

this is what happens when you leave your camera in the car while going into the gas station for a drink

a “textbook” body

hate to break it to ya but peep the ring on his finger…..he is taken

sunday a.m.

8 feet wide… 5 feet deep…steep as fuck..this little waste of space is tighter than your 10yr old girlfriend

Park Builder #1: “hey, the park is all finished, whats in this box?”

Park Builder #2: “oh yeah, the handrail we ordered”

Total piece of junk, steeper than most ladders. next time, just forget it

NEXT

huge bowls, a cradle and a place tie your horse

some call it vandalism, some call it art, either way whoever drew this masterpiece i will call “pure genius”

crunches

birdseye burtleman

to the builders of this park…next time take your leftover concrete with you or just make statue of a pile of crap

still reppin

on the way home…from the highway you can see this place

ironically i slammed in the bowl directly on my ipod and broke my headphones during this…

double shaka

“here hold this” on the way home

pic is too dark but it was only the beginning. i wish you could see the sweat on his forehead. stuck in dead stopped traffic on a major highway his asshole was puckering

all lanes stopped means entertainment for everyone. (video documented)

look at that sigh of relief?….roadside blowouts is why god made socks

all this in 2 days. great crew, great times. all parks were free and pretty much within 20 min of each other. leave your helmets at home.

 

If it has 2 wheels and a motor i want to ride it. if it had 2 wheels and a motor i will race it. a good friend races flat track motorcycles on a national level. i always kid around about taking one of beasts for a ride figuring i would spin a few laps on a practice track. nope. next thing i know im entered in an amateur race class with a some simple instruction and thrown to the wolves on his race bike. he was riding in two other classes that day so i really didnt want to crash his bike. kipper came along and rode another bike of his aswell and will verify that this shit is not nearly as easy as it looks. (note: all coaching and instruction goes right out the window as soon as you are on the starting line)

pitcrew

coach said i had the fastest most unforgiving bike on the track. great

“there is no front brake, put it in 2nd gear and EASY on the throttle” its that simple

this is my new pal ralph. Track photographer and easily the best guy ever.

this is his business card. with his “wife” he says

how its done

spread out…here come the idiots

dark and blurry i know

me and kipper on the final turn to the checkered flag. it was a photo finish.

easily a very addictive hobby. ready to go again. the amount of improvement from our first practice laps to our last race of the night was huge. i only came close to hitting a wall once. no broken bones. no broken bikes. thanks mark. where we racing this weekend?

 

yeah i know…its been awhile. considering my last post had snowboarding, i guess i have just been busy. well im blowing the dust off this blog by showing you how we celebrated america’s birthday with “real” fireworks not this bullshit everyone is pedaling on the roadsides. if you cant lose a limb, its a glorified sparkler.

every year a friend of mine has a huge get together on a farm down near quakertown, his father-in-law blows thousands on the “entertainment”

start them young…(note:all spectators were 75yrds away, only a select few are involved in the lighting)

Defusing

i always get the job of reloading the mortars cuz im always the only sober one. it sucks. fingers are numb for hours afterwards. this year we were short a guy so kipper was helped reload as i loaded and lit fuses

1 0f 2 tables full of small cakes, with plenty supplies to reload

mortar crew, waiting for dark

fire in the hole

 

click here for a firsthand 20 sec clip of us turning Q-town into Baghdad. (our view)

 

 

 

and a cell phone video from the spectators view

no severe burns, nobody hurt, god bless the U S of A

 

 

Wanting to get on snow one more time we left around midnight friday to find it. Temps near 60, lots of sun when the clouds moved, and non existent lift lines made for a good time

Whiteface Mtn. near Lake Placid,NY. Top half is still hidden by the clouds in the a.m.

top of gondola, a little over half way from top

clouds rolled out…top of Whiteface

parking lot is dead center

looking down on the top of the gondola

pat fell and had a slight yardsale at the bottom of this section. pat is at 4 o’clock the brown spec at 9 o’clock is his favorite hat

Buss is a ham for the camera

 

gondola life

if only this was a sequence

 

leaving a lil mark in the parking lot for the locals

winter olympic training center

 

long jump towers

no bladder control

whats a guy gotta do to get a little privacy around here?

Do yourself a favor and search the Gaudi’s Unfinished Cathedral if you have a few minutes to kill. its a must see sight when in Barcelona. My pictures suck and im not gonna even try to give you a history lesson. for good pictures and a full story search it…

last night in the big city.

an attempt at a traditional meal. Our food ambassador was given free range to order for all of us but some of what Po wanted to order for us was not highly recommended by our waitress. ex. pigs hoof…she said “you are not ready for that”

low carb

only one bowl got shredded on our trip and Heezy killed it with the most style

Night is not over. a little rest so he can rage all night

“me llamo Ballins”

homeward bound

im smuggling home a cankle. hope i can get it through customs

thats a wrap

Down to our last day. There cant possibly be anything left to see in this town

the train stop for our home. My spanish is bad but i think is pronounced Licky-you

Taking one pair of shoes that are too big for you to begin with, bad idea

610 Posse rolls deep in spain

Ans kills. Ninja style. just a silent killer. He got tons of footage

another piece of graf i wish i could claim. whats that mean in spanish?

i have never seen PoHeezy eat shit so hard in my life as he did at this spot. and in case i missed it. he did it again 5 minutes later. Just as hard as the first, if not harder. i saw both

back lips

nosebluntsss

birdseye view

This locals ride screams “all business”

is it too early to recycle the “blunt to lip” joke?

I was asked to document the architecture for a certain lil lady so i did

as seen in a lil movie called “fully flared”

across the street

and across the other street

and across the other street

whats guy mariano or mark johnson got on heezys line?

 

From the first thought of skateboarding in Barcelona this spot was the one i wanted to go to most.

a downhill, smooth approach and dudes. cant ask for much more than that

“mongo”

When in Spain bring back a real souvenir. LoLa Garcia at LTW. i cant thank her enough for canceling another appointment and fitting me in, and for doing two appointments worth of work in one.

done.

tattoo shop art

 

 

“DUDE’

 

never too early

these stairs appear to lead to the end of the earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i set my camera dead center on the floor and pulled the trigger

 

 

 

 

dont know allison, but she didnt have to draw anymore attention to it… shit was big

 

 

 

 

 

 

local watering hole

 

 

 

 

 

local

 

 

 

 

 

enough..tomorrow we visit the best spot ever

 

Take a day off and go sight seeing

nothing fresher then meat right off the pigs leg

for $50 you can get tons of fresh seafood for breakfast…and a beer

new favorite fruit

serious knocker

for $3 you can fill any oral fixations you might have

ballins got a heater

his pops RBC would be proud. ask him about RBC.

yes it says %100 Wild in 7 dif languages. perfect

more street performer bullshit

never mind the cigar, peep the mustache at this point

assault weapons for sale

all aboard

stunt junkie

pole trickster

did i mention his creepy “kid toucher” mustache

from what i heard the view up here is amazing. not today

next time we go inside

Moving on…

you get one guess on who raged the hardest last night…

wow. another perfect granite slant. weird

one guess on what heezy is dreaming about (refer to previous)

and what ballins is thinking about. he smoked alot of cigs on this trip

still a cankle. elevating doesnt do shit

this is where the dudes live

i think 4 grown men live in this room now

famous spot, perfect ground, perfect ledges, flat bars…only thing missing is a toilet

toilet found

dbl sided jaunts

ballins got his line

ballins demonstrates a flawless “mall” grab

So phil gets to spain and realizes he only brought the pants he had on. after 7 days of skating and raging the bar scene they were a bit ripe. left with no choice he went euro with a new pair of knickers. to rep a euro style means you have to leave your nuts at home. word on the street is they are overly tight where it counts

pre-game

i dont know charly but i have a feeling his bike tours are intense.

next time we take a day off to be tourists