Yo, I haven’t posted for a while – I got some stuff going down over here! Wardamercy Jr is about to drop any day now, so I’ve been keeping pretty busy at home. I have managed to squeeze in a few skates here and there, and I’ve managed to get some shots at a couple of sessions. Check out the fruits of my labours:

First up, my favourite skater to shoot, favourite skater to skate with, and all-round favourite, Wes Morgan of Rock Solid Distribution. This shot was taken at the Nutricia spot in Wells – awesome spot, amazing floor, got to watch out for the fart stones, mind!

Wes: frontside ollie, like BOOOM!

Here’s another one from a secret spot just outside Bristol, you gots to have the winter hook-ups. And Mike O’ defo gots’em! This is taken with my current favourite all-round lens, a bog-standard cheapo 50mm.

Mike O b/s lipper up the wedge

More shots from both sessions after the jump-os

Tim (one of two other Tims I met that night); gap to fakie nose manual

Bailey; half cab the barrier

Lally; ollie from sketch to sketch over sketch, with style

DLH!!!!!

That’s how we do it! 10 years strong for the DLH fun day. Organised by Dillon. Punx, Jitterz, Plastererz, Skaterz. Awesome! This year saw the return of Crazy Phil, who built a 10 foot tall ring of fire to celebrate. Predictably the ring only stood up for a few attempts at tricks through it, before becoming a pile of smouldering wreckage in front of the wedge. Then it became a bonfire.

Lil' Dirty Nate; 360 flip over the wreckage of the Ring of Fire

More photos after the jump…

Snaddon; Nollie Heelflip over the Smouldering Ring of Junk

Dave; F/S Rock - proper decked with style

Dillon; Chief of the DLH

There’s more photos on my Flickr

Another Hell Tour went down this weekend. This time the new park at Barnstaple was the destination and we had the usual crew, minus a few. It turns out Rock Park is pretty good, but is not exempt from the usual complaints about British skateparks: Too little area for the amount of obstacles; more quirky than usable; spent loads on a massive gnarly bowl, when most of the local kids were sessioning the blocks.

We had a good session though once we’d shaken off the car-legs and spent a couple of hours getting used to the park layout; and once Wes had set up another board (“This is supposed to be an 8inch, but it’s definitely not…”).

Here’s P-Doggy going over the deathbox to b/s 5.0:

Ollie over the deathbox to b/s 5.0

And some high-grade chilling:

Dave and Gnarly Neil

More photos:

A rare one of me skating (a result of me thrusting my camera into Gnarly Neil’s capable hands):

Frontside nose slide over the gap

The crew taking it easy

Poulet with the wallie frontside boardslide

Wes finding divine inspiration as he changes his board for a wider one

Dave, frontside 5.0 over the gap

More pics here on my Flickr

We went over to check out the new concrete park at Glastonbury on Sunday. It was the day before the official opening so we got a good skate in without having to battle with the crowds! I spent most of the day skating, but pulled out the camera for half an hour before we left and caught these seqs:

Nice b/s nollie180, sw manny, sw f/s 180 out on one of the perfect blocks at the new Glastonbury skatepark

More pics after the jump.

B/s 180, fakie 50, half-cab out at the new Glastonbury skatepark

F/s tailslide, b/s 270 shove-it out at the new Glastonbury skatepark.

Big kickflip fakie on the UK Ramp Hire mini in a secret location outside Bristol.

Learning stacking at Newport Velodrome

I’ve recently been riding at Newport Velodrome with a view to getting my track accreditation. I’m not actually sure what I’m going to do with it once I have it, as I’ve never been one of life’s natural racers. Anyway, I knew I was going to have a bit of time spare before my session started last time, so I took the old camerall down. There’s a few more shots after the jump.

Check out more of my bike pictures on Flickr

This is a bit of an experiment really. It was my first time out with my new 1d mark 1. My first time shooting a sequence, and specifically my first time shooting a sequence with flashes – in at the deep end!

My lighting set-up was pretty ugly – there’s at least one visible flash in every shot! It was a pretty hard feature to light; I had my flashes on really low power to get the recycling times I needed to light up every frame, so I ended up with them really close in and one pointing at the camera. Poor form.

Anyway, for what it’s worth, here it is!

Wes: Tailslide to fakie

Headed out with some of the Bristol heads off the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed forum tonight.

Sideways

Got a few pictures.
More after the jump…

Tim

Louis

Gav

Street riding

Check out my Flickr account for the rest of the shots.

Rogie Backside Smith

Yet another installment of the incredibly civilised Hell Tour. Usual crew, plus a few heads from the Sidewalk forum apparently. Ramp city is amazing, the Simparch bowl got a pretty heavy sessioning and as Wes said, it was great to see Pigdog and Bob in their natural habitat!

Anyway enjoy the photo’s after the jump.

The crew in front of the Simparch fullpipe

Simparch Bowl

Jo Habgood - backside disaster

Joe Habgood - backside air over the hip

Jam at 9 O'Clock

Rogie (sp?) - Pigdog needs to tell me what air this is!

Ideal miniramp overview

Wes has finally passed his driving test and to celebrate he took us on a trip up to Birmingham to skate the Ideal Miniramp. It was kind of half skate-mission, half motorway driving lesson. As another little bonus it was the first skate trip for my new camera. Woop woop!

Check out some more pics after the jump

Freddie - kickflip

Little Dan - rock fakie

Habgood - wallride fakie

For the second year in a row we took a road trip in August. And for the second year in a row it was named the Hell Tour for reasons that I haven’t managed to figure out. Our roadtrips these days are so un-hellish, we roll in Beemers and Benzos, and Pigdog brought his food in a pink tupperware lunchbox.

Bournemouth was the destination this year; Kings Park and Slade Farm skateparks. I didn’t manage to get any shots from Kings Park as I didn’t want to lose any precious skate time between the rain showers. But I got some pics from Slade Farm, an old 70’s relic that’s pretty mellow and really good fun to skate.

The more hellish Trowbridge/Bristol connection and Jam on the right

Skate photos after the jump…

Dave busting out for the locals

Sugarcane from Pigdog

Rain break

Wes frontside noseblunt

Bob – Beanplant to tail.