Silly Kids Games

Update: Chris Marleau!

2012-02-11T20:04:00.000-08:00

Heres an update on Chris Marleau, killing it bro! Keep it up! See you in September!http://antiqueskate.com/2012/02/10/ripper-update-chris-marleau/

Video Yayze

2012-02-08T10:27:00.000-08:00

Street skating is at a halt, sort of.. Not sure about you guys but Toronto has had plenty of days you can bundle up and hit the dry dirty downtown or wherever. But for the most part skateboarding is on the back burner, unless you're traveling like the Toronto crew currently in SF, or like Morgan Smith in Spain for his DC trip, but i digress.. The point is that it is a common Canadian practice to dust of those megabytes during the winter months, which is what I did. Originally I was going to finally make that second SF edit then a full Toronto edit, but tables: they turn sometimes.

Tom approached me with doing a double header premier at Opera Bob's, and I thought why the hell not! Him and I were aware of this lovely establishment through the triple header we saw about a month earlier, which included: James Theom's Con Leche (no internet link available, that I know of, please link it in comments if there is) Ian Duke's Flipomatic Immunity Vol. 1 (p.s. you should lurk that blog hard) and Jeff Comber's Smoke Break.

So here is that video I made of leftover SF footage along with things shot in the GTA. It is a long butt-fucking awesome capture of the good times had over the past year and a bit (I need more Sudbury footage for the next one). Oh and of-coarse Tom's video should be viewed and praised by all. All hail Tom Berry.

New Sudbury Video!!

2011-12-10T17:54:00.000-08:00

Here it is! YnR, been quite the adventure but was an awesome year!

Hope you all enjoy it!

Click here to watch YnR!!

A Lesson to Be Learned

2011-10-22T07:25:00.001-07:00

So things are starting to slow down...

Yesterday I was roaming the internet and doing my regular - skate websites I enjoy following - following up. I got up to snuff with them but wasn't satisfied yet with my skate smutt.. So I got so ambitious as click yet another link off the side of the site I was on and found this..

(How could I resist right?)

So basically this is what all you razorfiends should be setting your standards to, exhibit A: Boulon, and not this guy..

Boulon kills it for many reasons.. For starters look at the dudes kit - some gnarly cross trainers, gray sweatpants (but not too baggy), obligatory courier satchel (great for keeping any extra swag in there [ex: a lacoste crew neck sweatshirt] and not giving you back sweat which could lead to backnie or, depending on the severity of the backnie, cracknie), a very fitted polo shirt w/ not one but two chains visible and a perfect set of grills and bad-ass attitude to complete this Euro-trash look.

Furthermore he allows those in which we shall not mention to skitch his rig - I'm sure he presented the idea to other extreme sport enthusiasts (perhaps even to a scooterer/scootist (sp?) BAH! the hilarity of seeing that), but they knew better... He rips the fucking legendary bowl of Marseille, he's got foot plants and airs to crotch smash on lock and despite the lack of airhorns he rips to we be steady mobbin.

Enough said. Happy Saturday guys, hope you can find your lines between the scootards at the park today.

YnR Teaser!

2011-08-16T05:34:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

Haven't posted on here in a long time, been super busy with filming and skating for this years video! Check out the teaser!

Teaser, Click here!

- Justin

I guess I've been lazy

2011-08-05T10:59:00.002-07:00

This photo is pretty old and I would have e-mailed it to Potter by now but I'm not sure of his e-mail. I guess everyone else can see it too.

SONY VX2100 + MK1 INTERMEDIATE SET UP FOR SALE

2011-07-11T12:04:00.001-07:00

Unfortunately I have to sell my camera because I need money for school in September. Today it has been sent out to have the heads professionally cleaned. After that it should be good as new. Not sure when I'm gonna get it back but I'm putting this up now in case the buyer needs time to get the money. When I get it back I'll be putting it up on ebay and some other sites, but ideally I'd rather sell it to someone locally. Here are some pics of everything to be sold:

Asking around $1,600 for everything. Price is negotiable. Might split stuff up... If interested you can email me at dan_belanger_7@hotmail.com.

Chris Marleau

2011-06-07T20:17:00.000-07:00

Here's some footage of Chris Marleau at the park,

No idea who shot it so credit will have to wait

California dreaming on such a winter's day...

2011-04-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

So yesterday, in Toronto, the weather has decided to show as many sides as possible. In less then 24hrs it was cloudy, sunny, windy, it rained on and off and snowed here and there.. Whatever, the bad weather got me thinking about sunnier days of the past. As you may or may not know I went to SF last year and made sure to do all things necessary to go back again this year.

The crew was large, across the boards were: Alex Varney, Alix Buck, Ben Buchenauer, Ben Locke, Beth Nenniger, Brandon Shepherd, Drew Williams, Duncan McNaughton, Eric Stuhlmacher, Ethan Kilgour, Ian Duke, Jacob Jurkiewicz, Matt Smith, Steph Bouchard and Mr. Tom Berry.

Vimeo/Youtube

This is the first edit of the trip, there will be more to come. You can also check out Drew's blog Gone Glitchy and gander at some other posts related to the trip.

Spots. Spots! Spots!! Spots spots!!!! Everybody!

2011-03-29T10:30:00.001-07:00

So I was in Sudbury last week and it was evident that you'll be able to shred the entire (current status: partially cleared) park soon, but more importantly you'll be able to hit the streets! For those of you who are naive and in disbelief to the fact that there is street skateboarding to be had in Sudbury then this post is for you (and of course to add to the believers'[sp?] library). Without further a-due here are some spots to skate rape:

Pearl St. Ledge.

LCBO Ledge. This has been waxed in the past so I really don't get why it's not now. Fuck, the sidewalk even got re-bricked like last year!

Fire Station Philly Step.

Arena Pop-out Ledge.

Tom Davies 3up 3down.

Llyod St. Philly Step. There is ancient wax markings visible on this one so go give it some TLC.

Notre Dame Bank to Ledge.

Paris St. Ledge.

Notre Dame Drop Down Ledges.This has been re-done and is now poured concrete. If you don't know what that means it means go skate it..

Notre Dame Kicker. This store has a nice brand new super mellow handy ramp with no guard railing. Not sure if that is to code but I'm sure we don't care.

So there you have it 10 spots that vary in skateability but are non-the-less spots. I will leave you with these things to consider, choose when you go to the spot wisely. For example that LCBO ledge would be good to go after 6 because that's when it closes, that drop down ledge is not something you hit during rush hour, and any spot that was in front of a residence you'd want to hit during weekday business hours. Just use common sense and respect the spot, accept getting the boot when it occurs, and leave with out saying anything because arguing is completely pointless when both parties have no understanding of one another. Oh and don't fucking litter, respect the environment because you're going to be part of it someday!

Purge

2011-01-11T13:21:00.000-08:00

Good friend of Silly Kids Games Tom Berry is premiering his video Purge this Monday.

The premirere will be at Ciros, 1316 Bloor st. West, near Lansdowne station starting around 10.

Here's Tom killing a virgin spot real close to my house.
Enjoy his leftovers.

Noseslide

Hard in da Post

2010-12-15T12:41:00.001-08:00

Here is some shit I filmed, with my iPod nano 5th gen, over the past summer. Thanks Peter for letting me post, I look forward to smearing more shit on this site in the future..

waka waka from Andrew Campbell on Vimeo.

Vimeo/Youtube

Top Promo

2010-11-10T12:09:00.000-08:00

This is a little promo Top of the World threw together featuring the familiar face of Jon Piekarski and you may recognize a few others.

Top's been contributing a lot to Canadian skate culture for the past 17 years and has had consistently one of the best teams in the country so you will probably love this.

Highlights include (obviously) Jon's any-flip-into-manual section and some serious destruction from Mitch Barrette.

TOP PROMO 2010... HOT, RECKLESS AND TOTALLY INSANE! from Top of the World on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving

2010-10-22T09:17:00.000-07:00

Bros came down for Thanksgiving, so I decided to borrow a new DSLR from work. Results below.

The high def thanksgiving montage from Rob Roy on Vimeo.

Click the vimeo link to view HD.

Ottawa Locals

2010-10-19T16:21:00.000-07:00

So Chris Marleau and Devin Sager moved to Ottawa and now I have people to take pictures of:

Chris - Front Board

Chris - Bonk Grab

Devin - Back Smith

Devin - Back Smith Encore

Devin - Back Tail

Conpiracy Theory

2010-10-05T19:11:00.001-07:00

I went to Ottawa for a few days.

Pretty psyched on this picture of Joel Mieto.

Joel, Back Tail

I guess Chris did some tricks too.

Chris, Wallie 50-50

Fresh Fish

2010-09-24T09:54:00.000-07:00

These are fun.

Tom, Kickflip

Peter, Crook

Andrew, Wallie

Old photos

2010-09-14T10:29:00.001-07:00

Here's some photos from 2007ish that I don't think I've posted yet.

Dan, Crook

Kyle, Noseblunt

Rob and Devin having fun

Peter, Polejam. Chris Marleau photo

Randy, Wallie

Sudbury Blowout

2010-09-09T10:53:00.000-07:00

Here's a bunch of Sudbury dudes and photos. Have fun.

Wes, Frontboard during the Pinnacle contest.

Wayne, One footed nosegrind

Randy, ollie over the chain

Dan, Front smith

James, gnarly drop-in

James, backlip

Chris, ollie

Did you know...

2010-07-14T09:37:00.000-07:00

When dead fish wash up on the shore, the first thing seagulls eat is their eyes, because they're so tasty?

Here's a bunch of fisheye photos in celebration of that fact.

Andrew, Flamingo

Peter, nollie halfcab heel

Randy, frontside ollie

Andrew, backside boneless

Tom, Backtail

Spot Check: Ottawa

2010-05-16T17:31:00.001-07:00

So here's the deal...

I'm staying in Ottawa for the summer therefore, I am tempting all of you guys to come to me for a change and what better way than to show you a few spots that most of which are under 10 minute skate from my house. I'll be doing one or two more of these spot checks later on but here is the first one:

"Sandy Hill Ledges"

This spot is super fun with two ultra waxed ledges that run into the ground at either end so you can just ride up and grind. Good spot for lines since they're back to back. The closer ledge even has a little grind over gap if you want with those 4 man-hole things. If you continue on, the benches are also made of plastic and can grind as well. Did I mention that you never ever get kicked out? This bitch is a 2 minute hill bomb from my house.

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This pool spot is actually at the same place as the ledges above just farther back in the community centre. Because of the paint they slide really quick and when you get to the end you can pop up onto the deck of the pool. In the second picture you can see that random mini quarter that looks like it belongs not there. Pretty fun to bonk from that into the pool. People have been skating here for years so everyones pretty much just accepted skaters here so there's no need to worry about getting yelled at. Unfortunately it is a pool so come late June it will be filled with water and screaming children so hurry up.

"Laurier Ledge"

This little gem is an easy 5 minute skate west of my home. The run up is a little tight but the waxiness of the ledge allows for smooth sailing. The landing (depending on which way you come from) can also act as a manual so you can grind to manual onto the street. This is on Ottawa U's campus so sometimes you do get kicked out but if you hit it on a weekend then usually no one cares.

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"Lansdowne Park"

This ones a doozy. Right off the bat we have a huge 14 set so if you feel like being crazy look no further. I believe there is also a 12 here that has been feebled and back liped. To the left is the slanted ledges you may have seen in ottawa/magazines. The run to these is a little rough but nothing new to a sudbury skater. They're a lot of fun and actually not to hard to skate. Pretty much everything ever has been done on them (including Northbay's Jon P. front blunt bigspin to flat) but still worth hitting up. This spot is a little far from my home but if you hop on the bus and take either the 7 Carleton or 1 Greenboro/Southkeys you can get there in about 15 minutes. You may remember a few shots of Fielding and Devin skating an up-ledge? Well that is directly beside this. Hit this up weekdays after 4 p.m. and you should be set.

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Remember Tim? Well here's a front tail for your viewing pleasure.

2010-05-07T08:27:00.000-07:00

Come check out The Keepers again on the big screen at Rainbow Cinemas!

It'll be playing in the 3PM time slot amongst many other short films.

$7 for 2 hours of viewing pleasure, not to mention seeing some skating on a huge screen.

Hope to see you all there.

More photos

2010-04-09T07:53:00.000-07:00

The past few weeks have been sunny and warm, so we've been skating tons. Here's some springtime photos.

Andrew Campbell, 50-50

Alix Buck, smith grind.

Tom Berry, Bluntslide.

Haven't posted in a while

2010-04-06T12:08:00.000-07:00

Well I haven't thrown anything up in a little while,

so here is a not bad photo of my friend Tim.

Tim's good, there will be better photos to prove it soon.

Tim - Front 5-0

This is just a random gross alley downtown...

Frisco

2010-03-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

So, I (Andrew Campbell) went to San Francisco recently. Other people came: Alex Varney, Martin Brixx, Andrew Wenckstern, Chris Vacca and Matthew Scott. Varney has been too SF a few times and I'm glad he decided to invite me on his visit this year. If you haven't been you should go, I know I'll be going back.

We stayed at the Green Tortoise as other Canadian Skateboarders did during the same time as us, namely: Duncan McNaughton, the Studio guys (or at least most of them) with photographer Geoff Clifford, Josh Clark, and another horde of Torontonians ended up invading the tortoise at the tail end of our trip.

Duncan McNaughton - Bluntslide

Chris Vacca - Back Tail

If you go you should skate the Avenues. Duncan took Chris and I there one day on the trip but we had to leave them all to shortly after a rude run in with the law. The Avenues are endless with their spots - as is Duncan with his knowledge of skate spots.

San Fran's got THE best vibe for skateboarding that needs to be experienced to understood and the scenery ain't so bad either.

Now streaming...

2010-02-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

Mzungus from Peter Stankiewicz on Vimeo.

Mr. Tom Berry

2010-02-20T00:50:00.001-08:00

This is Tom. He lives near me and likes skateboarding.

We filmed this today. Skating in February is awesome.

Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. from Thomas Whenever on Vimeo.

100th post!

2010-02-01T10:34:00.000-08:00

I don't have anything special planned, so here's a few more random photos.

2010-01-28T08:27:00.000-08:00

I'm in a good mood today, so here's some photos.

Check out the last two in Word Zine #2.

P.S. Seen the new Color yet?

YOUnited Nations - Sudbury

2010-01-12T18:04:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone..

Here is the video that Jeff, Dan, Chris, Kyle and I had put together for the YOUnited Nations contests the Berrics had held..

Enjoy!

YOUnited Nations - Sudbury from Justin Lamothe on Vimeo.

Scrap footage

2010-01-01T15:36:00.000-08:00

Here's some footage that didn't get used in Mzungus. Happy new year.

Serious Business from Peter Stankiewicz on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T07:14:00.000-08:00

It's 3 months late...you should have seen that coming.

Streaming version up soon.

MZUNGUS

Not Quite Landed

2009-12-14T16:23:00.000-08:00

Kinda ripping off Pete here but here are some nearly made tricks... or have been landed and I just never heard about it. Keeping this post-a-thon going.

Chris - Backside flip

Sean - Back Overcrook

(He probably did land this)

Devin - Feeble

2009-12-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

Hey, a little video from Chris Marleau's past.
He's slowly turning white now, but here's where he came from.

Throwaway from the summer time

2009-12-06T19:03:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/8023551

sorry the quality sucks, I have to use movie maker for everything.

I'll make another throwaway thing a post it up sooon.

HEY GUYS

2009-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:00

here are most of the park clips from the summer up until now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBoP8Pe3h8

http://www.vimeo.com/7855692

First T...

2009-11-24T19:42:00.000-08:00

Here's a sequence of James doing an impossible to rock at the park. It was my first T at sequences, it took him a few tries to get the trick. Loving this November weather.

Remember this?

2009-11-23T10:12:00.001-08:00

The Keepers from Rob Roy on Vimeo.

BIRTHDAY POST

2009-10-03T14:34:00.000-07:00

Today is Devin's birthday.

Everyone in the world should wish him a happy birthday.

Him and Feilding came to visit me in Ottawa and we got some shots today,

Here they are.

Devin - Front Nose

Alex - Front 5-0

Photo credit goes to the birthday boy on this one.

Top 6's with Andrew Campbell

2009-08-19T20:07:00.000-07:00

Top 6 video parts

1. Tony Trujillo - In Bloom
2. John Cardiel - Sight Unseen
3. Rick McCrank - Menikmati
4. Jamie Thomas - Misled Youth
5. Dennis Busenitz - Diagonal
6. Justin Brock - Debacle

Top 6 Animals You'd like to Eat

1. Chicken
2. Lion
3. Gazelle
4. King Fish
5. Ostrich
6. Dragon

Top 6 Pros to Get a Hug From

1. Jake Brown
2. Tom Penny
3. Kenny Reed
4. Rick McCrank
5. Chico Brenes
6. Paul Shier

Top 6 Things Worth Getting out of Bed For

1. Peeing
2. Food
3. Getting high
4. T'n'A
5. Skating
6. Bitchez

Top 6 Quotes from Kids

1. "Big Hit man."
2. "Virgins; I love 'em."
3. "I have no legs. I have no legs."
4. "Get another 40, smoke a blunt or some shit."
5. "Mmm, butterscotch."
6. "Stoooops."

Top 6 Flatground Tricks

1. Kickflip
2. Front Shove
3. Front Bigspin
4. Fakie Heel
5. Nollie 3 shove
6. Frontside Flips

Throw Away.

2009-08-15T19:07:00.000-07:00

Skateparks are fun and easy, I'll admit it, I love them.

When there's no time to organize a sesh or to deal with security, parks can be a sweet alternative.

Here's some throw away footy, from The Rail, Sudbury park, and Azilda. Enjoy!

August montage from Rob Roy on Vimeo.

Silly Kids Games presents...

2009-08-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

We need a title for the new video.

After brainstorming, we've come up with these candidates.

We're going to test out democracy here and see if you all pick a good title. I firmly believe you'll all pick the worst one and I'll have to decide for myself anyway.

- Eat Your Fist
- Serious Business
- Child Abuse
- Satanboarding
- Get a Real Job
- Park Sluts
- SkateRape

Sorry Devin..

2009-08-09T23:24:00.000-07:00

The year was 2003.

Jon Knight skated, Misinformed was "pure madness", and

Devin looked like that.

This is a link to Anton's sudbury skating site that hasn't

even been touched since god knows when...

http://www.geocities.com/sudburyskate/index.htm

Also, here are some shots of devin doing some sweet moves over a fire hydrant

Above: Ollie

Bellow: Kickflip

Jambo!

2009-07-27T06:59:00.000-07:00

I'm, uhh, in Tanzania right now.

Because I know how much you all must miss me, here's a sequence Andrew shot before I left.

Also, I'm gonna say the SKG video is going to be premiered online on Friday, the 25th of September. This is arbitrary and I'll likely change it, but for now, it's official.

I also need a title for it, so if anyone has any ideas, leave it in the comments. Maybe we'll have a poll or something to figure it out.

Secrets and Beans

2009-07-19T20:42:00.000-07:00

What do you do when there's no spots? You "acquire" concrete and build!

We tried to keep this spot a secret but that didn't really last long at all... still not going to tell you where it is so happy hunting if you don't already know.

Devin sees you

Devin claiming the first Back 5-0

Also... Jeff, Feilding, Potter, and I all took a little drive to lively today where we brushed up on some quarterpipe tricks. A lot went down but the only shot I took was of this bean fakie.

Ms. Parton

2009-07-03T21:45:00.000-07:00

Here are a few shots filmed using a dolly on a track I rigged up on Canada Day.

Expect cool shots such as these in a new video that is in production now.

Fun In The Sun

2009-07-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

Writing stories for these is hard, so here is some shots of northbay men being crazy and chris also being crazy along with a little devin to keep it cute. Enjoy.

Jon P. nollie back heel

Jon P. nollie backside flip

Devin back tail
Shawn front tail to board snap
Tyler switch flip
Chris larger than it may appear back tail
Chris front nose-grinder

Harrys debut

2009-06-02T09:49:00.000-07:00

Hello silly children ,

Pete was nice enough to let me into
the SKG club to add neat photos and stuff,
so I thought my first post should be something intense.
We all know potters got sweet Hogwarts magic but its still
nice to see what that young wizard can do.
Here are some old and new shots of him.

Back disaster

Back blunt

Back noseblunt slide

back nose blunt

Love Skateboarding!

2009-05-30T20:00:00.000-07:00

So, the good fellows at Love Skateboards put out a video a few months ago, and I've neglected to post it until now.

I promised Isaac I'd put it up here to get Love some exposure. And there's a few clips of Chris Marleau in there, too.

Check out their blog for more clips, like a new 2009 promo, and, like...cool stuff, from time to time. http://www.loveskateboardsblog.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday!

2009-05-08T10:01:00.000-07:00

Silly Kids Games has been up for a year now. That's kind of exciting.

So are ollies. So I'm making an all ollie post to celebrate one year of SKG.

Mikey Plantus, Ollie into the bank

Rob Roy, Switch ollie from ages ago

Jordache Bouchard

Chris Marleau

Kyle Pascoe

Hey Chris

2009-04-24T11:06:00.001-07:00

Thanks for leaving, you twit.

And, a bonus portrait of me. Because I couldn't come up with a skate photo.

I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa

2009-04-15T04:57:00.001-07:00

I'm working on a few things to post, but in the meantime, I was too stoked on this photo not to post it.

few park clips

2009-04-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

was going to make a montage but we didnt film enough tricks

http://vimeo.com/4143138

Top 6's with Kyle Pascoe

2009-04-12T15:35:00.000-07:00

Top 6 mini ramp tricks

1. Nollie bigspin noseblunt 180
2. Fs tailslide bs 180 to Fs Noseslide
3. Crailslides
4. Fakie 270 Crooks
5. Fakie Inward Heel to Switch Blunt
6. Blunt to Fakie

Top 6 Sandwhiches

1. toasted tuna with swiss cheese
2. BLT obviously
3. genoa salami and fat free turkey breast
4. black forest ham on pizza bread
5. pastrami and butterball turkey
6. head cheese and blood & tung

Top 6 video parts

1. i
2. dont
3. watch
4. pro
5. video
6. parts

Top 6 Seinfeld episodes

1. The pony remark
2. The soup nazi
3. The phone message
4. The pen
5. The nose job
6. The cheever letters

Top 6 flatground tricks

1. Fakie inward heel big spin
2. Fs shuv-its
3. Inward heel
4. switch heel
5. Fs 180
6. varial heel

Top 6 things about Sudbury

1. Excellent skate scene
2. big dangerous hills
3. no hustle & bustle
4. Liquor stores in every part of town
5. No one knows the dude whos ID i use
6. complaining about the public transportation

The Keepers tonight.

2009-04-10T11:14:00.000-07:00

You already know, I'm sure, but the Keepers premiere is tonight. I won't be able to make it, but I'm urging Rob to send a final copy of the video this way, so we can have a Toronto premiere for some people who can't make it tonight.

Here's a couple photos from dudes in the video, just to get you a little more psyched.

Rob, Backsmith

Devin, Crook

Potter, Stalefish

Dan, 5-0

The Keepers

2009-03-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

Rob Roys video

premiers at Rainbow Cinemas 6pm on april 10th.

$4 admission

http://www.vimeo.com/3927452

First Impressions

2009-03-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

Shooting photos is a good way to meet lots of really good skaters. A lot of these dudes I end up being friends with, and we go shoot photos again. But there's some people who I never see again, and I'm stuck with a one off photo with a short story about a person I don't really know.

Justin, frontside slash

Taylor, Nollie heel. He had a bitch once.

Luke, Halfcab

2009-03-29T13:22:00.000-07:00

a few tricks of a friend i met while i was in florida. hes from Ohio.

http://vimeo.com/3910083

Top 6's with Mikey Plantus

2009-03-28T19:12:00.000-07:00

Top 6 Winsor Locals

jamie jeffreys
lee saunders
justin irvine
hill
jessy tessier
dallas

Top 6 places to find cool shit to skate

heart plaza
big o
eet fuk
the hoof
peace park
orange peels

top 6 tie dye colourways

green blue yellow
purple yellow
yellow orange red
black orange
red blue yellow green purple
red black

Top 6 things about the winsdor house

boufers
brass monkeys
mario
ecw
sauce and weed

Top 6 flatground tricks

front shuvs
switch heel
no comply
nollie trey
fakie flip
fontside flip

Top 6 skaters of all time

cardiel
marc tison
barry walsh
joe buffalo
rob piontek
david gonzeles

Top 6's with Aaron Wynia

2009-03-24T17:27:00.000-07:00

Top 6 videos

1. green apple suppers ready

2. habitat inhabitants

3. blueprint lost and found

4. nota bene

5. static 3

6. transworld a time to shine was rad too

Top 6 skate blogs

1. ineedmyinhaler

2. get creepy

3. 48 blocks

4. will j

5. yours!

6. worona

Lipslide 270 shove. Will J photo.

Top 6 albums currently

fuck this is tough!!

1. caribou/manitoba - andorra - up in flames

2. deerhunter - cryptograms

3. m83 - before the dawn heals us

4. no age - nouns

5. any 80s synth..

6. any belle & sebastian..

Top 6 skateboarders currently

1. paul shier

2. jose rojo

3. rick howard

4. chad tim tim

5. darrell smith

6. mike mcdermott

Top 6 refreshments while skating

1. water

2. blended lemonade

3. grande blended frappuccino..coffee flavour

4. iced tea

5. orange juice

6. beers for homie seshs

backside nosegrind. Will J photo.

Top 6 flatground tricks

1. ollies
2. switch front/back shuvs
3, nollie flips
4. pop shuvs
5. nollie back 180s
6. front 180s

Top 6 ledge tricks

1. back tails
2. back smiths
3. front 5-0s
4. switch front 5-0s
5. nollie lips
6. nose grinds

Top 6 skate shoes
1. any slip ons
2. adidas campus vulc
3. nike classics
4. nike blazer low
5. howard select
6. anything simple really..

polaroiding.blogspot.com

The Keepers!

2009-03-23T18:16:00.000-07:00

This is Devin's reaction after seeing The Keepers, the newest Royal Production.

The video will be premiering at Rainbow Cinemas on April 10th (Good Friday) at 6PM

Admission is $4 and you can pick up the video for only $10. The DVD will also feature last year's short video "Footage..."

Hope to see all of you there!

Top 6's with Chris Marleau

2009-03-19T19:45:00.000-07:00

sequence

Top 6 videos

1. bag of suck
2. inhabitants
3. Static III
4. This is skateboarding
5. Forecast
6. Yeah Right

Top 6 flatground tricks

1. kickflip
2. bs kickflip
3. shuv
4. fakie flips
5. bs bigspin
6. nollie back180s

Top 6 Sudburians

1. Khail Pascoe
2. Corey Teskey
3. Alex Trebek
4. Jeff Bona
5. Dan Belanger
6. Wayne Redbreast

Top 6 Skate Spots

1. Peewee flatbars (Sault Ste Marie)
2. Foundation(Sudbury)
3. Blue waves (Paris)
4. Tranquility rail (Houston)
5. Poppalardo rail (Toronto)
6. 2 block (MTL)

Top 6 Films

1. Snatch
2. Hot Fuzz
3. In Brudge
4. Usual Suspects
5. Meet the Parents
6. Bad Santa

Top 6 things related to Kevin Smith

1. sir
2. checkered slip ons
3. weed
4. half
5. half
6. whole

Top 6 flatbar tricks

1. smith pop out
2. feeble
3. fs/bs nosegrind revert
4. front blunt
5. back smith
6. bigspin frontboard

Top 6's with Jeff Bona

2009-03-19T18:29:00.000-07:00

Top 6 Sudbury Spots

1. Falconbridge (one street of demolition)
2. "The Rock"
3. Ghetto Bank
4. St. Charles (the town)
5. Foundation
6. I'd have to go with the Costco Ledges

Top 6 Sudbury Dudes

1. Chris Marleau (Creee)
2. Justin Lamothe (Jayyy)
3. Freedom 23 (Potter, James and Randy, counts as one lol)
4. Chad Sampson
5. Devin Sager (Rob's with him too of course)
6. Of course Danny Belanger!
7. Corey Teskey

6 Things you've made a smoking device out of

1. Bucket (thanks Palmer)
2. Nestle Water Bottles
3. Beer Can
4. Pop Can
5. Parachute (2L bottle, tape and garbage bag)
6. Apple

Top 6 reasons to get mad

1. Not landing my go to tricks
2. Hitting a rock everytime you go to do something
3. Falling hard on your first trick
4. Trying to calm yourself down after losing your temper
5. Your brand new 1 day old board takes a death trip into Lake Ontario
6. You know your really passionate...nono your really passinit! NOO your passin the LCBO!

Top 6 Pros today

1. Tommy Sandoval
2. Brian Hansen
3. Dennis Busenitz
4. Brent Atchley
5. Tony Trujillio
6. Chris Cole
7. Sammy Baca

Top 6 bands

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Allman Brothers Band
4. Jethro Tull
5. Pink Floyd
6. The Beatles

Top 6 reasons why hockey is better than skateboarding

1. Team effort
2. Less ankle sprains
3. Body Checking
4. Less...well i still do lose my temper in hockey
5. Pride and Glory
6. All those young chicks you get haha

Top 6 reasons why skateboarding is better than hockey

1. One man for himself
2. Even more pride! Even more Glory!
3. The feel is much better
4. Freedom
5. Cruising
6. You can wear nothing at all!

Wizardology

2009-03-13T10:39:00.001-07:00

I'm not a very good writer so I'm going to keep this entry short. Some stills of Potter from the past two years, and one of Randy, too.

Backside air

Inward Heel

Layback Rollout (or something? Potter is too abstract to always know what trick he's doing.)

Randy, 360 flip hippie jump

Wes St. Onge ain't nuthin' ta fuck wit.

2009-03-12T22:51:00.000-07:00

The second wave of my rash of old photos (and in the process, putting off working on my thesis), I bring you some old shots of the one and only Wes St. Onge.

Smith up

Step up back tail.

Kickflip. Check out that griptape art. Wes kills it.

Don't Mess

2009-03-10T20:01:00.000-07:00

I've been sitting on so many photos for so many reasons. Not letting tricks leak, submitted to magazines, as of yet-unlanded tricks and just plain laziness. It's a wonder you lot get to see any at all. It's probably fair to let the better ones be seen, especially with the coming spring inspiring anxiousness and inpatience.

I'm going to begin by posting a couple of year old stills from our trip last January to Houston, which mostly haven't been seen because they submitted for print but never ended up making the cut.

Joel Watamaniuk, gap to noseblunt

Joel again, switch tail over a long gap

Chris Marleau, feebling a famous rail.

Watamaniuk Twins, back 180 nosegrind and switch crook on a high bust ledge.

The photo in the link was taken by some fat creepy dude without a clue. It was pretty funny at the time.

Isaac Watamaniuk, frontside noseslide.

On a final note, who checked this blog from Paris? That's awesome.

Inspired by Dan Waddell

2009-02-11T20:59:00.000-08:00

Don't take this seriously, it was 'filmed' with a Sony W120 digital camera.

Take "The Keepers" seriously, it will be out in March.

Get hyped!

Rb.

MOTHER FLICKER

2009-02-09T16:17:00.000-08:00

It's the dead of winter and I'm fully immersed in school. Maybe I'll make a cool, worthwhile post soon. In the meantime, enjoy this flick and swish and Chris Marleau.

2009-01-07T07:59:00.000-08:00

Yo everyone,

By now everyone's probably getting some form of cabin fever, be it building a miniature carlsbad in your basement to tech deck on, buying those rubber trucks to practice your flippers on mommy's hardwood, and trying to pretend snowboarding is as fun as skating. Well I just wanted to upload this little ditty that I had on my Facebook since last Spring. Hopefully it makes your blue balls for skating even bluer.

Rb.

The Good Old Sketchy Barn Ramp....that i miss passionately!

2008-12-22T20:40:00.000-08:00

Jeff Bona here on Justins account, here is a little montage I made last night with some old barn ramp footy and a few throwaway clips from the past year, it is outrageously testicularly just kidding. No such words ladies and gents lol but anyways enjoy homes ill see you sudbury dogs next skate season....SK8 OR DIE!........One more thing, there will be another Royal Production coming out this winter representing the sudbury skate scene i am stoked as hell, Rob's a dominent editor and also a kick ass skater so we shall see how this one turns out...in the meantime keep skating dogs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT9XwA73fDo

Lo Def

2008-12-15T09:50:00.000-08:00

I'd like to take this space to direct everyone to something awesome in skateboarding.

Jeremy Elkin' newest video, Lo Def, is a low budget, short, gritty, 12 minute long free production featuring some of Canada's raddest dudes.

Riley Boland is easily one of my favourite skaters in Canada right now. He's creative, talented, gnarly and looks like a pussy, all things I like in skateboarders. Most of all though, he's an eccentric weirdo hippie who skates lots of tight tranny. And his bomb drop into the big O is unfuckwithable.

Josh Bos skates like he's Bobby Puleo but with spots that aren't as cool. Good part visually, although it's technically very lacking. Please note that Bobby Puleo can still lack all the technicality he wants, he'll still be forever awesome.

Hugo Balek seems really annoying, but extremely gifted. His ollie with that bonk off the chain was so cool.

Seb Labbe is skilled beyond reason; see his sequence in the newest Color for proof. There's, however, some kind of generic weirdness about him that makes him difficult for me to swallow. He would fit in well with all the current Krooked ams, which is appropriate considering he rides for Krooked flow. It's just strange to see someone nollie tre a set, then do a line with a 5-0 on a stair and a back 180 into a cellar door, and then do another line that starts with a nollie flip noseslide. His last two tricks are still mind boggling, despite my distaste.

This is probably the best video I've seen in a long time. Nothing has been this fun to watch, or this inspiring to go out and create something, in a long time.

Ives Brothers

2008-12-15T09:13:00.000-08:00

A good friend and all around ripper, Dallas Ives, got a short "Droppin' Dimes" segment on Push.ca.

I got a poorly captioned photo in the piece. Maybe it can be a new nom-de-plume.

Here's an old sequence and a random still from the archives.

Drop in to boardslide

Back Lip

Dirty Harry's top 6's

2008-11-18T23:53:00.000-08:00

Top 6 Harrison's

1. harrison ford for sure
2. George harrison
3. Harrison University in Old School
4. www.harrison.ca
5. Harrison beach hotel on harrison lake

Top 6 Angry Bands

1. killswitch engage... i grew up on that shit
2. sotreum - rip
3. opeth
4. alexis
5. pantera
6. simon and garfunkel

Top 6 Sudbury Locals

1. young dan cause he never talks and it makes him mysterious
2. devin cause of his sweet tight pants
3. but it should really be 2.1, robin roy cause of that sick biggie shirt
4. chris marleau cause last time i saw him he had the dirtiest mustache
5. potter cause of his wizard magic
6. gangster wes....no one will ever make tall tee's as cool as he does

Top 6 tricks that feel good

1. backtails
2. front 3's
3. heelflips
4. backsmith
5. varial heels
6. nollie heels cause i'll never ever do them

Top 6 Cities to visit someday

1. melbourne
2. tokyo
3. helsinki
4. amsterdam
5. egypt
6. lively

Top 6 video parts

1. MJ fully flared
2. devin sager that feeling cause he filmed pretty much all of it in liek 2 weeks. his whole part hes wearing gloves
3. kenny hoyle its official
4. john motta happy medium
5. mike mo forcast
6. morgan smith momentum - its short and gangster like him

Top 6 things about Livley

1. alex bedards basement
2. swimming in simon lake
3. slutty girls
4. getting drunk for the first time
5. kara cantwells bum
6. white on white crime

Riding Walls

2008-11-18T22:54:00.000-08:00

Wallrides are, like...gnarly. There's no other way to describe them.

This dude totally isn't.

This post is in celebration of going vertical, not half assing it down some slope on a longboard and full pads.
Seriously, who the fuck does this kook think he is?

Isaac did this wallride in a neighbourhood we were advised to leave before it got dark.

This really couldn't be any gnarlier. Out of a rough rock, onto the wall, and then back in fakie...Cards would be proud.

I know this is going to get James hyped, but probably not as much as he was when he was boosting these stratospheric wallrides.

Finally, an ancient wallride done by a then miniscule Potter.

Some Damn Good Jazz

2008-11-09T21:18:00.000-08:00

Two youtube links. One is essential watching, the other is total bullshit.

Crucial Viewing

Silly Kids Stuff

Sudbury's Greatest Misses

2008-11-08T12:00:00.000-08:00

While searching through the greatest misses archives, I came across some epic but forgotten bail shots, along with some other noteworthy misses.

Corey often has a God-delusion, alluding to his clear mentor, Christian Hosoi. Here, Corey rips Christian off with a Christ Air like pose.

Devin doing some coping dancing shortly after Fully Flared was released. Videos influence the kids.

Rather than a stairway to heaven, Jeff took this 50-50 straight to hell.

This miss is only accentuated by the bum sleeping in the background.

Harry was getting out of the way of my sequence. Luckily, he made the shot even better.

Peter Stankiewicz's Greatest Misses

2008-11-05T20:59:00.000-08:00

We all know I'm barely a competent photographer. I don't really know what I'm doing and I kinda squeak by on good photoshopping and fancy lighting.

Sometimes, you just can't polish a turd. So, without further ado, I present to you, the biggest airballs I've ever shot.

Nice angle for this backside 360 off what looks like a curb. At least you know it's his backside.

I chipped my tooth while skating a ledge spot. Really, really great miss.

This one's a two parter. First I almost get hit. Then I stay safe and blow the photo.

I'm not going to actually comment on these.

Potter's not drunk?

2008-11-02T15:46:00.000-08:00

I made this a long time ago but had forgotten about it.. mainly because I had already used this song in another video.. the Matt's mini ramp one.. but oh well.. This was the day before I had left for North Bay and also due to the fact of Potter drinking a little bit too much he fractured his wrist with that last bail.
enjoy.

sw flip front glitch

2008-11-02T10:39:00.000-08:00

http://vimeo.com/2134094

Ignorance is Chris

2008-10-27T12:36:00.000-07:00

I've been spending a lot of time with Chris Marleau lately. Consequently, I've seen him do a lot of stupid things. (see School Days)

Starting off...Chris was so hyped on landing his trick, he had to make sure I got the sequence.

The Chris-Beam.

After jocking the beam so hard, Chris tried a new sport - something between football and skateboarding.

Chris going long and hard.

Here's an old one from our trip to Houston. Chris stretching for a banger?

Click for sequence. Seriously.

But he's not all bad. He's done some cool things lately.

Feeble pop over to hill bomb.

Backsmith to art-fag.

Abstract back lip.

Thanksgiving Weekend Montage!

2008-10-18T12:24:00.001-07:00

A bunch of us had met up from all being away from Sudbury for college and etc.. it was definitely a fun time to see the old gang together again. Enjoy!

Online Flash Games are the new skateboarding

2008-10-08T20:37:00.000-07:00

It seems like no one has posted anything for a while. I'm going to assume everyone's reason is the same as mine: online flash games.

Ginormo Sword is an extremely addictive game where the only real objective is to get a big sword and harm bad dudes.

Fantastic Contraption is physics game where you have to get a red ball into a red square. Not that hard, but lots of fun.

I really wish I did more with my life.

Winter's-a-comin'

2008-10-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

Yo everyone, winter is coming. Here is some footy of a time when shirts were optional.

School days

2008-09-03T16:47:00.001-07:00

Septembers back, that means less skateboarding and more book learning.

Luckily, Toronto has a new Sudburian skate transplant - Chris Marleau.

Chris meets a new friend at Bickford Adult Learning Centre.

Little Daniel was in town for some pre-collegiate skating, and couldn't get away from schools anyway.

Bunh buhhhhhh. Pop shove at UofT.

New Spot..

2008-08-28T12:54:00.001-07:00

Well right now there is this flat gap that should be destroyed ASAP because it wont be there for ever.. heres a line we got.. i did it the try after we got the boot.. this spot is also well lit up at night too, so if you do get the boot during the day.. hit it up at night.

The spots on Lasalle at the new Good Life building.. brand new pavement and the gaps basically the same size as foundation.

120 fps Skateboarding

2008-08-28T10:59:00.000-07:00

I was on msn the other day chattin' it up when my brother found this video and told me to check it out.. I found it amazing so I decided I'd let everyone else give'r a peek.

http://www.vimeo.com/1340684

"The worst best trip ever" Part Two

2008-08-28T10:06:00.000-07:00

Jeff Bona and Potter had went to Toronto a few weeks later after the "The worst best trip ever" and also had ran into some problems while they were down there, so Bona decided this would be the second Worst best trip ever and came over to my crib and edited himself.

enjoy!

Missed Connections

2008-08-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

Upon coming home from San Francisco (photos soon, I need to get them developed and scanned) I got a call from Andrew, who told me that Potter and Jeff had come to Toronto for a few days. Excited as ever to shoot with them, I met up downtown that evening. Nothing especially exciting happened that day, and we all agreed to meet up early the next day and shoot some more. Immediately following that, I get a call from Isaac telling me to meet him and some other Kitchener dudes about, so I do for the rest of the evening. They had in tow, two yanks with planks, a spanking duo named Justin and Ben, from Detroit (if you're reading this, let me know). You can find some photos from their journey up here on Will's blog. All around, they were a great couple dudes who will hopefully come around in the near future.

Anyway, next morning, we meet up and start getting busy downtown. Everyone seems to have ideas of what they want to get for the day, so we get busy.

Wingardium Leviosa - Potter's secret to floating big gaps to lipslides.

After day two finished with a sudden outburst of torrential rain, we headed back to Andrew's place to rest for the night and our planned final day of skating.

The next morning we wake up, go downtown and then take the train to Oshawa to skate the newly erected Courtis Park, aka, Robbie Pointek park. It's right down the street from Randy's house and in his little time in Oshawa he's gotten pretty good at ripping the shit out of it.

Randy looks like he's going to shit on a dick - Lein to tail in the deep end of the penis bowl.

After we were done with the park (and the residents of Oshawa) we hopped on a bus to catch the final Go Train home, only to find out that it went by before we could get there. Incredibly hyped, we head back to Randy's house with plans to wake up early and catch the train the next day.

Ever shinned yourself on coping? It sucks. Kyle knows.

The crew, hyped for one more day in the 'shwa.

As luck would have it, none of us woke up early enough and Jeff and Potter ended up missing their bus home, again. I haven't seen them since and can only assume that they have been decapitated on a Greyhound somewhere along the line. Hopefully their footage makes it home, at least.

capreol montage

2008-08-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

went there yesterday. i skated so loose so i filmed this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiej1A8KEeg

watch it in high quality.

Toronto Trip "The worst best trip ever"

2008-08-11T08:41:00.000-07:00

Shawn decided that for the long weekend we should plan a skate trip to Toronto, which I was so down for because this summer has been so dull and it's sort of a tradition for me to go to the big T-dot at least once a summer. Shawn ended up gathering Me, Jamey, Wayne Porter, and Westley. Luckily we had Andrew Campbell who let us stay at his house for what was suppose to be 3 nights but ended up being 4...

You're probably wondering why I have "The worst best trip ever", well a lot went wrong while we were in Toronto, for me, I had a staff meeting and I missed it so now I am going to be jobless at the end of the summer but that's pretty minor compared to what happened to Shawn and his car. First thing is we park the car near the CN tower and went and hit up a bunch of spots all day, and after like 5 hours of skating we go to the car to get some dranks and what not and then we realize we don't have Shawn's car keys anymore which was really shitty, we checked every skate spot we went to and did not find them either, so we had to train it everywhere for the rest of the weekend, which is probably what we should have down from the beginning, but yes, we we're suppose to leave monday to go home but stop in Brampton to skate the new park but we couldn't due to the fact we were key less and Honda was closed, being the long weekend, so thank god Andrew let us crash at his house again even though he had to work early the next morning. So then early tuesday morning Shawn, Westley and Jamey took off to get the car towed to Honda to make there special key needed, which wasn't cheep. Thats not all though.. on our way home in Barrie we we're cutting through a parking lot to hit up McDonald's, as we were pulling out we ended up driving in which seemed like a sidewalk but ended up being a deep hole where sidewalk was suppose to be, so that did some damage to the bumper of Shawn's car.. slacking construction people had no signs up or anything and it was also pissing down rain at this time. One thing I have to admit though, is Shawn is a champ, for everything that happened he still laughed in the end which is sweet.

Good news though, is we all had a blast in Toronto.. word up thanks Shawn!

p.s. in like a month, you should expect some north bay footy to be thrown up on hurrr

Do The History

2008-08-10T07:47:00.001-07:00

This past weekend, Devin and I were in MTL for the KNOW?SHOW, a skate & lifestyle trade show where we got to see and do a lot of cool shit. Friday night we went to a party in the back of a parking garage which opened up into a room full of collectible vehicles. I'm talking old police motorcycles, and a straight up race car... the kind with the wings on them, not that Ricky Bobbie shit.

Anyway, that night, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a guy with super thick glasses on. Influenced by an open bar and big city mystery, I crept over and said "Hey man, do you always skate the Big O?" He said, "Yeah man," pretty enthusiastically. The conversation went on about skating, and it turns out thick glasses man, a.k.a. Barry Walsh, knew where Sudbury was. I knew this because when I told him I was from there, he said, "Oh yeah, the dime or something?" I said, "Nickel, but close enough."

Enough random dumb talk, check him out skating the Big O, think to yourself how good he is, and then when you actually skate it someday, realize how good he is.

Shred-bury

2008-07-31T09:20:00.000-07:00

I stopped in Sudbury for a weekend on a whim. I learned new things, saw old friends, and had a gay old time.

I couldn't visit that god-forsaken place without taking some photos, so here we go.

Chad sliding a graceful front blunt.

"All Hail Cardiel."
Jeff gets carded on a 50-50 bonk.

"Close but no cigar"

2008-07-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

Corey and I we're filming last night and he almost had this.. but then his stupid wheel fell off.

for future references bring tools if you plan to skate all day.

CODY JULY

2008-07-24T19:57:00.000-07:00

Here is Cody. He's quite the thrashbot and if you see him at the park you should probably not get in his way.

Watching him destroy goofy or regular is more fun than snaking anyway.

Enjoy these back to back hambones.

Thanks to Frank's

2008-07-21T22:54:00.000-07:00

This post is in sincere dedication to Frank's energy drink.

Seriously. It tastes just like RedBull, but with a sweeter aftertaste. Plus, it's a dollar cheaper, and we got some 2 for 1 coupons making it, like...a good deal. And it comes in Lime and Pineapple. So feelin' it right now.

Tonight, me and Andrew were skating around, and stopped in at the local 7/11 for some liquid Frank. Upon both downing the small cans, we skated the bay inwall ledge for hours, in a surprizingly fun session.

Andrew, 5-0 in a tight spot.

Peter, back 180 nosegrind, 180 out

Change yo'self

2008-07-14T10:56:00.001-07:00

Over the past few weeks I've worked on a little mini interview with Change Skateboards, to put up on their blog. It's finally up and looks pretty good. Take a look if you've got a minute to read through some long winded answers.

Change Skateboards

While I'm linking to other skate blogs, I've been really feeling Police Informer, and the Chrome Ball Incident. They're two blogs on roughly the same subject matter, 90's skateboarding. Both worth killing time on.

Police Informer
Chrome Ball Incident

And to make this a worthwhile post, here's a sequence of Andrew doing a classy yet dirty polejam.

2008-07-11T21:56:00.000-07:00

took a little trip today to skate this spot

http://vimeo.com/1325351

more toronto

2008-07-10T19:29:00.000-07:00

some throwaway stuff from T.O with Colin Jon and myself.

http://vimeo.com/1318937

You can stand under my umbrella.

2008-07-10T18:20:00.000-07:00

Daniel came to visit and we had a fun couple days, despite security, blazing hot weather, and endless missions to nowhere.

Rain was impending the whole time, and we wanted to get busy.

Daniel ollies at a police station before the rain hits.

Dan, being the trooper that he is, didn't let the rain stop him from skating buttery Toronto spots, so he did some tricks with wet griptape.

Kickflip with Jon lurking hard

Front board in a dirty, wet, stinky alleyway

And, for a new twist on things, I got a sequence!

Peter, drop-in grinder

Capreol session

2008-07-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

Jon, Jamey, Chad and I decided to go skate Capreol for the day.
new hours 2 till 9.. ballin'