The Next Illogical Step

I've been the proud owner of an iPhone for a while now, it's ok. Crap for photography and can't even shoot video (I'm 3G not the all new bells and whistles 3Gs). My old LG viewty was the best at little gorilla videos, I miss it.

But today I've found something the iPhone can do well.. shoot sequences.



Of course a little bit of animation work is required in post production, still, this little test goes to show that off the cuff skate sequences are not too far away from this blog right here.

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The Bournemouth Bundle

It's been a very, very long time, well over a decade, since Jay, Trig, Gatesy and I all skated together. This Saturday down at King's Park in Bornemouth we got ourselves organised enough to be down there by 10.30 in the morning.



I love this park, especially at 10.30 AM when you have it to yourself. It has a little bit of everything and you can get some serious speed up through the tranny section towards the bowl at the end which then fires you back to a sweet hip back into the 100 ft of mini ramp transition back to the street area. All day I tell ya.




After killing ourselves for the first 2-3 hours without stopping we got some food and came back to have a slightly more relaxed session. We knew that Zac, Alan and Harry were on their way so it was time to regroup before they arrived.

At 4 pm they arrived. 4 hours in the car from London in 30 degree heat, Nice! Harry's face said it all.




But did he let that stop him? Did he let the armada of BMXers that arrived about ten minutes after them stop him, did he get over the fence into the park just shake his head and clamber back out of the park? Well, yes he did. BUT.. a little before the end of the session he got his chakras aligned with the help of some warm cider and decided to get to know bowl-to-mini hip a little bit better.. and hey presto!



Zac was haring it about the park one minute and networking the next. I missed my chances to catch him on film as I was too busy trying to remove as much skin from my left arm as possible in the bottom of the bowl..... twice!

Alan on the other hand caught me early. He was loving the transition at the other end of the park that runs over the driveway, nice long smiths and his latest favorite grind, the Suski. Here's the sequence of the Suski grind in scorching heat.



So the day is going pretty well. The sun is out, the park is starting to clear out a bit, less BMXs for sure, and then who do I spot over the other side of the park? Kev McKeon. Kev was sporting all new Death board, hat and tee as a result of getting hooked up and now riding for Death, nice work Kev, hats off to Nick too.

Kev's always up for ripping, and today was no exception, this sequence is just a taste of the shot's I got in he space off about 5 minutes. Kev has an admirable habit off staying on his board.



Before we knew it it was 6:30 and time to get back on the road. As Kev so depressingly put it "Well that's the end of summer then." I'm hoping the Sun's going to hang around into Autumn for a while.

Get praying.

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Love the Cradle

I remember the first couple of weeks after the new version of Cantelowes opened. The street course was small but always pretty busy, probably too busy. The bowl was the bit that I got most excited about, especially the cradle.

I've only managed to notch up a few backside grinds on the cradle and have watched as it got ridiculous with F-S Airs, Backside Airs, backside D's, I vaguely remember a B-S Smith too, it's almost all been done.

Here's some footage from a while back of Ross and Aaron showing how it should be done


Of course skateboarding being what it is, there's always other ways to use the cradle. While getting his legs warmed up Marcus thought he'd have a look.



Take it easy and enjoy this dry weather while it lasts.

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Gypo-a-go-go

Wednesday was a perfect illustration of just having faith, thinking positive and seeing what happens.

I'd arranged to meet up with Marcus in Camden that night to shoot some photos, of course I wake to the sound of rain. I needed to ride the 13 miles to Soho with a full camera bag on my back, in the rain, in the hope that it would be dry in the evening. I decided to put my trust in the English weather. I know.



Well what do you know, there was a thunderstorm at 4.30 pm but it was still just about dry when I got to the Three Amigos shop in Camden around 7:00. Three Amigos is a proper skate-shop. It reminded me of walking into Surrey Skates as a teenager, loads of boards, a nicely stocked t-shirt rail and a skate video playing that it's ok to sit and watch, even if your aren't buying anything, Kev likes the company.

Once Murcus arrived it was still not raining and we got some shots in the bag and then finally the heavens opened, just in time for the 15 mile ride home. At least we got the shots.

Here's a taste of just a little of what was got...



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Stockwell Sequencizenator!

One of the many that traveled from far and wide to make the Stockwell jam an unqualified success went by the name of Whip.

That's right, you missed him, he was back to the place he loved for so long before moving back down to Cornwall whence he came. Once a local, always a local, isn't that how it goes? He skated like a man possessed from the minute I arrived. To say that he was excited doesn't quite cut it, if you know whip you know what I mean. He slowly destroyed himself over the period of about 7 hours and 10 beers.

Whip loved the first version of the mini vert quarter that Jeremy built, he loves the new one even more.

I told you I'd drag these photos out didn't I?



Whip showing some love to place he
used to call home. FS 50-50 180 out.

Drag out the FUN

I've noticed that there are blogs out there that get an awful lot of mileage out of the Maloof Cup. You know, that big money comp that attracts the big name by offering the big bucks.

Well I have the Stockwell Fun Day. I took a few photos but most of the time I was drinking beer and getting sun burned, I also had to leave early, so my trawl of photos from this year's event isn't as numerous as usual. That's not going to stop me though.

I'm going to try and drag this out for the full two weeks.



Master of ceremonies for the skate stuff was Jimmy, calm, collected, smooth,
are words seldom associated with Jimmy



Whereas "smooth" is exactly the word I'd use to describe
Jack's skating all day. Indy over the new hip.

Up And Running

Yes, Yes!

Ok so it's finally happened, the Lizard Mag has moved the blog off MySpace and onto Blogger. I'm sure there will still be the odd MySpace Blog update but this is now the new spiritual home of the most individual UK Skateboard publication.

Just to keep you going for a day or so here are a couple of picture's from last weekend's Stockwell Jam.

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Johners getting in the way of some gritty social realism.


And here we have Jesus going for the extra big wings




I'm going to have to ask Biebel about this one?