Photos: Brooks Fritz

With all the development going on out east of San Diego ranches and other random properties are quickly getting dozed by the dozen and leveled for more cookie cutter “affordable” housing. Don’t forget with all the traffic that brings the roads need to be redeveloped. So widening of highways is going on as well. Who cares right? You should. It’s creating  new options for some skateboard riding right now. Maybe you are thinking, Boring! More pool stuff? Wheres the street skating? Guess what? This is street skating! It’s just taking place in people’s back yards instead of on there front porch handrail. If you cant see that by now then take off the horse blinders.

Want Directions?

Find the silos.

Then turn at the cactus field and

look for the lone house getting over grown with plants and

you will find

a square that is better then a lot of rounds.

Not a shoe box. The corners are good.

Oh I almost forgot! This is the pool with the infamous love seat Jamie Thomas did that layback front side rock on for a Circa ad a few years back when pool skating was the next cool thing since girl pants on dudes. Well that awesome hand down, excuse me layback rock forever embarrassed himself and pretty much got him blacklisted from the backyard community. Why? Because if you have been to this pool you would know that anyone coould pretty much do that there. So why the hell is the “chief” doing that there? Just kind of funny I guess. That and the other shit he tried to pull at the pool in Albany while on King Of The Road for Thrasher didn’t help either.  All joking around put aside, Why would you ever try to put the directions to a pool in Thrasher because the locals didn’t want it blown out? That’s just ridiculous.  Think I’m making this stuff up. Google  it. Actually here it is lazy bastards. http://www.theskateboardindustry.com/tsi/article.aspx?ID=295

Kaboom! I mean Verboom Dairy

A rare square with good corners. They don’t come around too often.

The square was more of a solo recon mission to see if everything was good to go but other then that not much skating went on. Yeah I took some runs but think about it. Do you want to skate a pool by yourself? I sure don’t. I have that kind of luck where I would try to keep it mellow and then something stupid would happen and I would get broke off  and left to die at the bottom of the pool. But maybe that is just me.

Drop it likes it’s hot.

After the Square mission I met up with  a few friends to skate some other ranch finds.

Ripe ranch pears are good.

Hand picked, ripe, fresh and ready to go.

Do you see the weird happy face in this one?

Sweet butt shot of Darrel Delgado huh?

Jamie Weller got the stairs…. not before Cobra though.

No need to tell him. Willis knows no hands down are allowed.

-Have a good week.

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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

Photos & words by: Brooks Fritz

This is the tale of the mighty knights looking for the Key to the Nile. Secret missions in the heart of the jungle riding the range. Ranch hands from outer space on a mission to Mars. We are your backyard friends. We are the Backyardigans!

Together in the backyard again.

In the place where we belong.

We always find things we’ve never seen before.

That’s why every day we’re back for more.

“Robin Hood The Clean”

The “best clowns in town” thought it was a polka palace party. No riding the range this day.

“Le Master of Disguise believes It’s Great to Be a Ghost”

Escape from Fairytale Village at the garbage trek on the the quest for the flying rock.

“Pirate Camp”

“Pirate Treasure”

Eat a piece of Samurai pie and get going on your own viking voyage…… -Brooks

Backyard mini amoeba… Being mini you might think it would be easier to skate. Not a chance. But then again I like these kind, cause your not disappointed when you leave that you didn’t even get a grind.

Darrel grinds it with no problem. This guys got all the shit pits on lock.

Where’s the prizzy?