Showing posts with label church or skaten old person skating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church or skaten old person skating. Show all posts

Friday, August 5, 2011

Upjohn Skatepark : frontside practice

OOOF! The price of radness is paid.
The Set up

The Bail

 All taken with the timed shutter of my cell phone camera so the scenes captured are kinda random. Unfortunately I didn't catch a single successful frontside carve or....attempt at frontside slasher grinds. 

For those of you who are interested:  Limited Edition Fun Til Death stickers are available.  Send me your address and i will mail out a few. Excellent addition to helmets, skis, poles, skateboards, etc. 



Friday, July 15, 2011

Lansing, Michigan Skate Park

Fun Til Death!
 - I have been having so much fun as of late that i haven't had much time to document it here.  Fun has included: family camping trip to Lake Michigan,  construction of the Glendale mini-half, and trip to Ranney Skate park in Lansing, Michigan.  

most of the pictures of the park in Lansing turned out horrible. The spot is worth a visit- lots of fun lines banks, transition and some spot where kids can flip their boards around.  Especially liked the banks here.




Todd drops in the pool.




preparation of the grounds




Cutting Tranny

the two dimensional view


Tuesday, May 31, 2011

does this carve make me look fat?

The Bert Slide is certainly Fun Til Death.  Being a skateboard trick that is low to the ground - falls or crashes from attempting this extremely stylish move are relatively mild. These pics are a compilation, that looks like a series. I pulled out of a couple of these....but i also lost control and fell out of many of these.

This is all a little later than usual dawn patrol church of skaten at Upjohn park.  The park had some wet spots, but you know....wet spots are always the result of fun.  West Michigan had a ton of fun storms, which over the week proceeding and during the Memorial Day weekend of 2011 i had opportunity to camp in. Upjohn park as well as a lot of other spots in West Michigan were flooded.



The 'thane lines on the bank remind me of ski tracks.


On the Old Man Army forum, some one mentioned looking into your arm pit as a method for getting the frontside crave down. They were right, and it has started to open lots of lines for me.

I am wondering if it is too early to start thinking about Ski Boots.  I am financially committed to the binding system i am running- just thinking about an upgrade on boots.

Often fun til death must be planned out months in advance.


Ok- so I am really happy about getting this high frontside on our local bowl. This is real progress. However,  when i am really invested in balance and some one takes a picture- looks like my gut is huge... I think that this may be a result of the Chi Gong- sinking my chi into my tan tien......or maybe the beer that i sink into my gut.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

dawn patrol on judgement day

Date Line: May 21 2011
                 6:15 am
                 Upjohn Skate Park, Kalamazoo....Michigan

 Fun Til Death often includes being on Dawn Patrol.  If you can get up, get out, do your thing and get back before the children awaken fun can be had.  In the winter this includes it being really cold before day break and skiing between shadows. In the late spring, it means a welcoming sun.  Considerably more fun can be had in a shorter period of time if you don't have to wait for runs, and of course in the winter it means the feathery powder of the morning.
If you would like to see a great video of folks staking kalamazoo see: this video

All in all my skating was not particularly good. felt like i was flailing quite a bit. Even my burt slides were kinda weak.

Below are pics from dawn patrol this morning.

sunrise over the alter of the Church of Skaten

If you really eat shit, you could limp over to Bronson Hospitial

buttery smooth concrete..the metal transitions are great when the work, and a little scary when they start to  peal up .