Raven, Cody, Grady and Jesse at SV

On Saturday, Raven, Cody, Grady and Steven were skateboarding at SV. I quickly exchange my board for my camera instead and shot those photos.






Cody FS air.









Cody melon grab.












Cody BS air.












Grady 5-0.












Grady dropping in. Looks so scary.











Grady invert.












Raven warming up in the small bowl.











Raven 5-0 to revert.












Raven disaster.

















Varial kick flip.













Jessy nose grind.

Matt and Byron at Ben Lomond

On Sunday, we met Matt at the Ben Lomond skatepark. Matt likes to scoot not skateboard. Nevertheless, He can pull insane tricks.
Benoit worked his early melon grab while Lucas was doing laps with his scooter.




Lucas and Benoit.

























Lucas having fun.














Byron ollie to fakie.


















Byron smith grind. Fall colors enhance the photo.











Byron gap.












Matt fence stall.














Matt disaster?



















Take II.













Matt super-man.
















Matt super-man.









Matt tail wip.










Matt grind.

Benoit's skateboarding class with Eron

Today we scheduled a skateboarding class with Eron at the Santa Cruz skate shop on the 41 first.

Benoit can put a nice sequence in the ramp, like drop-in, BS kick turn, FS kick turn, BS kick turn. It is more difficult that it seems since the ramp is super fast.

I am learning FS kick turn so I could someday bring it to FS air. I have also learned how to do fakie 360.



Eron gives Benoit some tips before he tries the early melon grab.














Benoit early melon grab.












Eron ollie.
















Eron having some fun.

Grady, Steven, Frank and Jessy at SV

Grady, Steven, Frank and Jesse Santoyo are fun to watch skateboard. Today was a great day with some sun finaly.






Grady getting ready for the Costello gap.









Grady Costello gap.












Still Grady.

























Steven Costello gap.










Jesse Santoyo is such a strong skateboarder. During the TMB 2006 contest, none of its photos came up good. Today was his lucky day. The only 2 shots I took, look fantastic.



Ollie to grab.












Jesse huge FS air.










Grady and Frank were launching from the big bowl and worked on some nice tricks.





Nice board :)












Grady Japan air.










Grady Japan air take 2.












Frank, nice board too.










Before I left to pick up my kids at the art classe, Steven was kind enough to skate the big bowl and launch big FS air.



Steven rock'n roll.












Steven FS air with Grady in the background.













Steven FS air with Frank, Grady trying to kill the photo.













Steven still FS air, my favorite shot.

Eron at the 2006 Tim Brauch contest

Eron warming up.











Eron BS air.












Eron FS air.













Eron gets ready for the 50-50.










Eron on the Costello gap.