Busy Week

           Hello All,
 Sorry for not posting for awhile. I was in Hawaii. It was lots of fun but I won't bore you with the details. Basically, Now I know why there are no professional skaters that come out of Hawaii. There are only a handful of parks on the island Oahu and none of them were anything sort of comparable to what we have here in SoCal. I made sure to pack my board just in case when we left. I'm glad I did. I hit 3 skateparks. I can't quite remember the names of them. There was the 1 skatepark that stood above the others and so did the riders. As we were touring I spotted a skatepark on the side of the rode. Mostly bowls, a spine, and a couple ledges. But it was super fun. As we walked into the park I saw a guy come flying out if the bowl, grab his board and make the shape of a cross with his body. That's right, he did a Christ Air atleast 4 foot out of the bowl. But the one thing that this park had in common with the other skateparks on the island was no transitions.
          Now I don't know why it didn't have good transitions, but it was like a wallride on every banks, quarterpipe, and halpipe. And this was at all of the park. Another park I went to was on the coast and it took alittle bit of time to find and to be honest, It wasn't really worth it. They just thought that they could take a black-top basketball court and glue a few ramps and ledges to it. There was 1 feature worthy of praise and that was a wallride to ledge that was really fun. I banged my leg up pretty good trying a front 180 of and kicking my front leg too much. But other than that, it was a decent park.
         The last park was how do I put this.... Impossible to get into. That's right. I saw it and got all excited that I would get to skate it. It had a spine, some banks, and a mini-pipe. But when we got up to it there was a huge fence and no way in so we had to leave. Obviously I was dissappointed but atleast I got to skate a little.
       As for the surfing, There were NO WAVES AT ALL!!!!! We circled the island and even on north shore. No waves. And if there was anything there were swells that would push you into rocks when you're snorkeling. But I would have surfed if I could but alas, I could not.
      Fun Trip and a long blog post. We got back home at 3 in the morning last night and my dad being the best dad ever took me to the Vans Skatepark in the City of Orange. More about that trip in the next post.

The Customary Trip

           The made the usual trip today with my dad. Encinitas skatepark, beach, then oceanside smaller skatepark. It was really tiring but totally fun. Since it is Father's Day, I got my dad a new board that is flat and more his style (Bowl and more vert based riding). He tried out his board there and really liked it. I used my normal board, but 1 of the wheels broke so I started using my other board. They was a contest going on today, that made it so that we couldn't use the street course towards the end but it was still fun. I spent most of the time on the mini-ramp anyways. Then we went to the beach. The sand was so burning hot that my dad and I still have trouble walking without having the bottom of our feet hurt. We spent some time in the ocean which was cool.
           Also, High Cascade session 1 has been going for a couple days now. They are officially open for the summer. I wish I could have gone this summer and I almost won a contest for a free session but I'm hoping to go next year for sure. One cool thing they have up there this year is the Bagjump. It looks like so much fun. Kinda like what Mt. high has but on a bigger scale. They had one last year but this one is better. Also, They have the skate tour where you go to different skateparks around Mt. Hood. I hope to go next year.
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Shaun White's Home Park

          This last weekend I went to the Encinitas skatepark. It was fun. Shaun White wasn't actually there, but I know that  he goes there a lot. Now, I haven't dropped in for a while. I don't know why, probably because I faceplanted trying to drop in on an X Games vert ramp. But this last time, I decided to try it again. I started off on the mini-ramp just to remind myself what it was like. And it was still fun. So I spent the rest of the time at the park, trying to learn tricks on the coping. I got a couple 5-0s in. Which I had never done. I plan on going back very soon!!!

Frendly Gathering

             The Frendly Gathethering was over this weekend. I wish I could have been there. It was up at Mammoth and they looked like they had a lot of fun. There was an old school halfpipe competition, a giant slalom, and plus the camping. The lake Crowley campground is where the actual camping and partying went down. Bands performed and it looked like a blast. In other news, it looks like there might be a Rancho Bernardo skatepark put in soon. I was at RB Alive and there was a whole booth dedicated to "operation skatepark". I would be totally happy if that happened. It was a very cool weekend.

Poway Woot Woot

  Yesterday I went to the Poway Skatepark. It was lots of fun and not very crowded either. You would think that 12 to 2 on a Saturday would be pretty crowded but apparently not! There were some pretty good local kids there. I'm talking 10, 11 years old. Anyways, It was definitely hot out there. The snake run was fun as always and the bank on the other side of the park was even more fun. I was trying Footplants and Bonelesses off it the whole time. (I landed them both I might add.) Just a side note, since they put in that fingerprint scanner and those cameras, there has been fewer thugs coming in unless they hop the fence. Anyways, I thought it was a fun session!

Am I the Only One Who Likes Groomed Snow Better Than Powder?

           Over the weekend, my awesome dad and I decided to take a weekend long trip to Mammoth. We packed up got in the car and hit the road at 6 am. By 11:45 we got there. It was a beautiful day up in Mammoth. We checked into a hotel room and headed staright for the mountain to get some runs in. The setup was super sick. They had a jumpline on Forest Trail that was amazing. Also, The superpipe was great. 22 feet high of pure awesomeness. I loved that and rode it all day!!! Eventually the mountain closed for the day at 3 but it was still an awesome day!! Then since we still had time left in the day, we went to Gomez's in the Village which was cool! And after that we headed to the Mammoth skatepark about 5 minutes from our hotel. It was a very natural feel to the park which was surrounded by trees and snow covered mountains. It was awesome! Then that night it snowed! the forecast said 2-4 inches, but fortunately or unfortunalety, it snowed atleast 7 inches before 9 am. We walked 2 blocks in the freezing cold snow and caught a shuttle to the mountain. 5 swurvy snowy minutes later we were at the mountain and headed straight for the Gondola. The winds were unbelievable and the Gondola shielded us from the winds. Unfortunately, with that kind of weather, the groomed fast snow thats great for jumping, jibbing, and Superpipe riding (The snow I love), all freezes and then your left with ice or super deep powder great for slashing and spraying (The snow my dad loves). Since I'm not the biggest guy out there, I couldn't maintain any speed even going straight down. I didn't give up on freestyle riding, however, it wasn't as fun as the first day. Overall, It was a very good trip even though we drove for 12 hours over all and only Snowboarded for 6 hours. Totally worth it.