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Ben and Dre visit Toronto

Guy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:00:18 +0000

In May two of my best friends visited Toronto for two weeks to catch up, hang out and generally save on time talking on msn. Ben Sach is a very talented video editor and Dre is one of the nicest, weirdest, funniest gents in the world. They got searched at arrivals in both directions, ate enormous quantities of Lucky Charms, drank Mountain Dew and root beer by the gallon and skated far more in a fortnight than they previously had in a year. Here is the skate video!

Ben has made several edits you might have seen online, such as the Rummaged Montage-

and the Rampworks 10 official final edit.

Dre has made all kinds of advances in the streamlining of global mining software. And has a wicked haircut.

Skating some street downtown

Dave Ghent — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:25:57 +0000

We went street skating the other day, and decided for film some clips. I put together an edit of the best clips. Hope you like it! By the way, you can find all these clips on www.daveghent.com/BladingFootage

June 9th street session from dave ghent on Vimeo.

Taylor and Guy at Garrison Creek

GuyC — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:06:29 +0000

So its been at least two weeks since I posted anything and I swore that would never happen… good grief, we suck at updating. Speaking of which, Wheat owes us some BBQ photos!

Here’s a session that Taylor and I filmed one sunny afternoon at the Garrison Creek (/Stanley Park /Slaughterhouse) ledges.

Expect another edit of last night’s bike gang tour of the city. Oh yes, BIKE GANG. We’re THAT cool.

Victoria Day Disarray.

Wheat — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:42:13 +0000

What could be better than a long weekend to mark the beginning of what is looking to be a great summer in Toronto. All of the blokes, hardheads, and crackerjacks made it out to a rousing session at Ellesmere Park and Garrison Creek yesterday. If it is any indication of what is to come, how can we not be excited for this summer. We seem to slowly be taking over every park and spot we go to. Busted shins (Jay Smith), dirt covered tees (Jong), and the smell of rendered pigs aside, the skating went off like last nights fireworks. Full size pics at our Flickr link.

Jay ‘The Karate Kid’ Smith gets low on a backside unity.

Guy saw Star Trek before the session, and busted out this vulcanized 720. Come back to Earth buddy!

Ok, so I get mixed up with all the unity tricks. So here is Dub with a frontside savannah? Or perhaps an alleyoop unity. You decide.

Frans didn’t show his face today, so Hans had to ‘pump, pump you up’ all by himself. Front royale 540.

“Show a man a fishbrain; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fishbrain; and you have fed him for a lifetime” Jay Smith.

If Blair laced a full speed AO top porn, would you follow?

Maybe its not Karate, but some kind of zen state skating. My fav trick of the day, Jay with an AO fish 360 out.

Ever see a 40 km/h spike? Neither have I.

Second Spot, Garrison Creek. Dan with a styled out top acid.

Taylor is trying to steal this trick from me. Full speed mizou.

Dave will soul grind….your soul.

I don’t think I need to tell the story about the fish again. Blair fishbrain.

British Invasion / more like a whimper

Guy — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:15:52 +0000

Dre and Ben arrived this last Friday afternoon from Bristol, UK to visit for two weeks.

Despite being five hours ahead and being awake for 26 hours straight, the gents have gotten stuck straight in and brought presents with them…

Which made this Guy very happy indeed! Even if I didn’t look it.

Some airs were had… and felt a lot easier with crazily light skates, new fiziks and new wheels.

K-God also showed up and threw down some vert steeze with some sick soulgrinds and a 360.

Dan Lefebre busted out a sweatstance the week before; this seems as good a time as any to include it.

He also rocked a sweet kneeslide to layback fishbrain stall on the edge of the foampit. Rockstar.

Ben Solt also turned up from Belleville and busted out some Euro bodypresses.

Thanks Wheat and Ben for taking such great pictures!