Photos by: Brooks Fritz

Hmmmmm hot pockets. Aren’t they great? So while everyone else is busy focusing on going bigger and bigger with giant cool guy bowls and super sized mega ramps and gaps and rails that could possibly kill you I’m riding the fun shit. Mirco machines! I mean seriously a mega ramp? Are you trying to ride that thing? Or how about  a 20 ft bowl? If you are good for you but that’s not for me. I’m not trying to kid myself and I’m not trying to knock that jock stuff either but that’s pretty much what it takes to ride that super sized big boy stuff.

And well, thank god I’m getting more and more comfortable with being a pussy

Here’s some photos from a recent session with Kyle G, Darrel Delgado and Ry in San Clemente, California

I’m Sorry, you cant blast your 12ft jock air in this one.

Or maybe I’m just bitter I cant blast 12ft jock airs?

Darrel Delgado. Do I need to explain more?

I was too busy skating when Ry was rolling in all over the place and trying to get his first front side backyard shallow end grind. He did get some backside ones in though

Where’s the god damn prizzy!

No this is not a photo of Darrel crying. This is a photo of Darrel crushing the fuck out of this shallow end with a front side grind where 97 out of 100 people would be crying trying to get a grind.

Kyle

No it’s nothing like the fake shallow end at your local skate park. It’s the real thing and it’s not easy.

What you don’t like front side grinds? What do you expect? Front side flip nose blunt backside revert?

How about backside grinds?

What is this? Tricks? Get that garbage outta here? Don’t you know we only front side grind and back side grind backyard pools. I guess Kyle didn’t get the memo that tricks aren’t allowed and did a crail in the shallow. I thought I was going to get hit in the temple so I geeked the photo.

Whoa Duuude! That would be totally cool if it was 1974. What are you doing front side carve grinding cant you just stand up on that brick coping?

I guess you would just have to be there.

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No hands down allowed means no make yet for kyle on this front side rock slide.

Darrel doesn’t like the comment I previously wrote. So this is what you get instead.

TERROR

Photography/words by:

Brooks Fritz

I sure love this skateboarding stuff. It’s really a good time. Pretty much the best time. And with that said there’s nothing better then riding some round walls. I dont even need to do tricks or “maneuvers” to have a good time. I can just ride the skateboard these days and be content. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing but, it is what it is.  Anyways, here are some more front side grinds and front side airs for your viewing pleasure or viewing hatred. Oh yeah, and some bodacious tubular action. Remember, this skateboarding stuff is supposed to be fun. Not something to stress about. Why did you start in the first place?

Wake up Davey! Open your eyes. You are grinding a backyard pool for Christ’s sake….

No it’s not a fun box. It’s a death box. Hang up there and you might be taking a nap on the drain.

Sorry to break this news to you.  If you don’t ride a skateboard your not grinding.

Dude. Your pants aren’t even close to being tight enough. Where is all your flare? And why are you grabbing in between your legs?  Don’t you know you have to tuck your back knee in to get on Fuel TV?

Right in the neighborhood I grew up in…

Dave’s Ramp. I have fun here.

DJ Dickfoot. Aka DJ Mongo. Go to the Royal Dive on Monday nights to enter Richard lips World of Music….

Not really a round wall but close enough. Anytime you dont have to put your feet down is a good time in my book.

Oside surf team in between heats.

LOCALS ONLY!

Damn foam ball was trying to push me out the back…

Richard Lips doesn’t feel safe pulling in with out his helmet.

It goes on for quite a while……

Shaka Gnar! I put some illustration on this one to show you what’s going through Pat’s mind. This place is always glassy and about head high. The tide is always good too. Here’s Pat backdooring a deep section after pumping down the line for days!  GO GET SOME! - Brooks

Words & photos by: Brooks Fritz

Have you ever been to the center of the Earth? If you have it’s an experience you will never forget. It was about a month ago I got a call from my friend Davey Rockit saying he was driving out to Arizona to meet up with Cobra Kyle, Sizar and Bakersfield Ben. Davey was driving out there solo since nobody around here really likes to leave their comfort bubble of San Diego and asked if I would like to join him for a super happy fun time skateboarding weekend adventure. I told him I could go but I had to be back by Monday morning before 5 AM for daddy day care duty. He was cool with it and the journey to the center of the earth was on…

Davey picked me up around 11 on Friday and we were out. Look at that driving stance. He does not mess around.

Road to nowhere.

Or everywhere.

Depends on how you look at it. Damn I should be a poet.

The mud butt mobile: After being on the road for a while we started to get hungry. Davey being the world biggest consumer of different foods spotted this guy on the side of the road. At the time It sounded really  good and boy it sure tasted good. But I would avoid these things at all costs. Davey and I had the worst shits after eating off of this diarrhea device on wheels. Seriously I shit 7 times before 10 Am the next day after eating this crap… Maybe it’s too much information for you but you know when you cant wipe anymore because it feels like you have road rash on your bunghole? Yeah it was like that.

Homeboy already knew what we were in for.

After the mud butt mobile we were back on the road and made it to Arizona by the late afternoon. Here’s the Cobra Commander. Being the nice guy he is he greeted us with a couple of frosty beverages and a some moon cabbage. Then it was time to go skate some backyard pits.

” Hey we should be on the roof of the car looking for pools just like in that movie Dogtown “

It’s always fun jumping fences into strangers backyards…

A lot better then mud butt and a lot better then your hometown excuse for a skatepark.

“You do it like this”

This is what it would look like If you were one of those nosey neighbor types peeking through the fence wondering whats all that noise going on. Here’s Cobra grinding the hip where you cant even drop in.

Angle number two.

Peek a boo! Now I see you!

After skating the amoeba for a while we were running out of day light. So we headed to another pool for a quick session.

Capsule is clean. This thing is wide open.

Bakersfield Ben’s ballistic backside box grind in front of the broski’s. All we needed was some brewski’s and then it would of been Ben’s ballistic backside box grind in front of broski’s with brewskis…

Sizar grab grinds some slab coping while I try to get all National Geographic.

I should of shot a sequence instead. Sizar drifted a good 8 ft on this no justice frontside air photo and the session was over.

Everyone was thirsty after skating the pools so we decided to hit up a couple of horrible bars and call it a night. Here’s Cobra commander hydrating the troops before nappy time.

Now you are probably wondering where the center of the earth part of this story is? Don’t worry it’s coming. Stay tuned for part two next week and have a good weekend. Maybe you will leave your comfort bubble. I did and it felt grrrrrrreat.  -Brooks

Going to Arizone to shoot/skate something different. See ya in a week….

I Liked this one…..

Oh wait, what’s this do I see?

Looks like we might fit in right through here…

Dont want to say much about this except keep your eyes peeled. Everywhere. You just never know. I know it’s all been said before. But I just had to say it. Just keep your eyes open.

grrrrrrrrrrrrreat

OOh she’s got some curves to play with.

Cobra checking it.

Cobra grinding it. Giving it the ok.

Nice side pocket. But then again Cobra grinds pretty much everything.

Oh fuck, the neighbors bitching. we’re out…..