Monday, June 29, 2009

5 foot long boardslide on a foot high ledge

That's correct. I'm moving back up. I felt really good cruising over to the school parking lot across from the CVS. Just pushing with the occasional shifty slide. It was hot, but there was a cool breeze coming along often enough for me to forget. When I got to the ledge I approached it with just above moderate speed. "Let's jump on this thing sooner than later." I thought. I hopped up on that pup and slid like a beast, all gnarl dog like. Then I continued over to the parking lot for a perfect half moon manual (frontside) on the sidewalk before finally ending my run with the best backside 180 nollie I've done since at least 2005.

When this kid showed up (maybe he was a tween?) I gave him the respectful from-one skater-to-another, "Sup?" He didn't seem interested in greetings or salutations, which is fine by me. I didn't really feel like giving him any inside pointers like "how to not push mongo" or "don't wear an XXL shirt with tight pants." Let him figure it out for himself. I threw down another bearded, beer belly boardslide across the ledge and no one was as unimpressed as the only other person in the area with a skateboard, skating the same ledge as me. I even went and threw down another perfect half moon manual. I always pretend I'm Neil Blender and instead of a four inch high curb, it's across the deck of a four foot high mini ramp. And there are fireworks nearby.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

grafton cloth bound cheddar aged bro

A few days ago I was shredding. I was shredding a few .. I had on these shorts from OLD NAVY and felt a little weird at first. Before I knew it I was throwing down sans-ollie manuals over sidewalk corners like you wouldn't believe. I'm an artist... so it should not be looked at as unrealistic for me to be into attacking curbs and whatnot alike, with an attitude of "well I'll just barely ollie.. I'll just tap the tail." People seem to toss around the word "slappy" in a real casual manner. I don't believe in treating raw street skating in such a way. You can grind the inch high curb in your cul-de-sac and pretend it's pool tile and coping down there. Then visit planet lunch.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Vietnamese Ollie














Did a demo down at Clark Park this past Saturday. My sister, brother in law and nephew showed up to check it out. They even brought their own boards and we made it a three man demo. After a couple nose stall variations and some sweet powerslides, we got some VIETNAM food. I ended the session with some frontside ollies off a tree trunk bump.

Friday, March 13, 2009

pizza brothers skateboard co.

Really stoked today. Today being friday, I finished off my work week with a couple cans of beer. The beer was great. The dreams I've been having during the work week have not been too awesome. I've been dreaming about some weird stupid shit. I wish it cool. Let's eat more often. Peace

Jesse Jassonn

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Fakie Dog Pisser




On a Saturday(last), Mrs. Feebs and I decided to take the dog for a long walk. We chose the West River Drive path as our destination. It was a beautiful day and all the snow was melting and evaporating back to the heavens. The HEAVENS! I brought my board along, hoping for something to session in the parking lot. Sure enough we pulled up to a cobblestone curb and it was on.
I attacked it frontside at first. Throwing down such an onslaught of pivots and smitty stalls it was inevitable that one of those stones would finally give under the pressure of an Independent truck weighed down by 190 pounds of man.
I surveyed the damage. "It 's just a roll of the dice in the game of LIFE." I told the cobblestone. "It's either me... or you." I offered, before attacking it yet again with a backside smitty stall. I was locked into that B/S SMITTY so fuckin awesomely, I swear my wife and dog were staring in awe. Maybe not though. I take back that swear. It was fuckin awes to me, that's all I know.
I finished things off with a frontside tail stall shove it out. Then we walked the dog on the path. The dog was cool with the bikers and even the geese. She only lunged at the roller bladers.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Ten Inch Boardslide On A Foot High Ledge

There's a heavily waxed ledge on the corner of 43rd and Locust Bean. It's right by the elementary school that took place of the old dog park. Ye Old Deg Perk.
In any case, I used to session this place all the time. About every third week or so. The setup was a parking lot and a few parking blocks (for boardslides!) Then they installled this ledge on the perimeter for no reason atall. The surrounding sidewalk is "tight bricks" so that right there is pretty nice, and a great feeling. I couldn't manage a switch 270 to back tail, so instead I eased a backside boardslide (after four tries!!) Peace, losers/lovers.

Monday, December 22, 2008

salad grind days







This past weekend saw a lot of old heads getting together for drink and conversation.

I was happy to see and hang with Zang Sign and his girlfriend, Jeff Sign.

When one of us suggested a skate session, we both raised up to the challenge while Jeff Sign stealthily recorded our moves. I can't remember what was first up or last to go down, but I do know we both landed 180 no comply, backside 180 ollie, fakie bigspin and maybe something else. After that we went back inside and proceeded to dance our minds into the furthest of obliviousness before retreating to the backyard. Our shredding found no boundaries. No pavement neccessary. Instead we did acid drops off the burn barrel onto a comfortable bedding of wood chips.