Varsity Ledge TNS, 16/07

With no lift in place to whisk us away to the Icy playground, Taylor and I found ourselves at a bit of a loose end. Ghent is away, so who are we meant to turn to for direction? After consulting Ghent’s bible, we realised that we really just wanted to hit a ledge and the Varsity seemed as good as any. First there are a couple of shots of Erik and Blair at the Bathurst and Dundas park, then the rest of the shots are from the evening’s skate.

Blair gets first photo with an awesome top mistrial, even more incredible that he managed it with a skateboarder wedged firmly up his backside.

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This entry was written by Guy, posted on July 19, 2009 at 2:24 am, filed under Session and tagged TNS, Varsity. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Total Photo Overkill!

Ok, ok, so I got a new camera and I can’t put it down.

So much about learning photography is hit or miss- I just hope I get less shit at it before my endlessly patient friends are completely bored of hearing “Can you do that again? I missed it, sorry”. Thursday Night Skates are a bit up in the air at the moment- nobody seems able to co-ordinate far enough in advance that we all move as a Unit, so we end end up in tiny little groups across the GTA, grumbling about how no-one seems to want to skate together any more. Not true!

From a Downtown perspective it is difficult to get to parks outside the city without a car unless Kevin or Dan drive (and now we have enough skaters downtown that we need both to transport everyone out there), and with our little scene blossoming again in the city we’re exploring and finding new things to skate every time we go out. I promise we’ll start to see more of a united front in the coming months; it just requires better planning and co-ordination.

Enough waffle! Last night we ended up skating a great ledge that Dave recently spent the time bricking and waxing conveniently over the road from St George subway station. Its an awesome spot and once we’ve finished bricking everything it’ll be great for some awesome lines.

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This entry was written by Guy, posted on July 3, 2009 at 11:39 am, filed under Session and tagged Dan, Dave, Jay, Kevin, Taylor, Varsity, Wheat. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.