By: Brooks Fritz

A good friend of mine JC is about to take the plunge and tie the knot with his lady. With the midget stripper bachelor party not happening we had to think of something for our bud to do with his last few days of freedumb. So what did we do? Drank heavily, skated a private bowl and got our camp on. The Standard operation.

Cobra’s Creation

Kyle made this. It’s good. Really good.  It’s private though. Which means you most likely will never get the chance to ride this. And you would never guess where it’s at. All I can say is it’s by the beach booyeeeeeeeee.

Scotty Keller, stale fish

Sketchy K has been killing it for days. Years. Hell, decades.

Nose Pick

Deep end has some umph to it

Cobra Kyle Gallahger

At 23 years old going on 43 Kyle’s getting shit done. Building rad stuff all over the country to skate and skating the shit like no other. He can talk shit because he can back it up. I mean look at this bowl he built. The thing is tits! Well the session was on and Kyle decided to finally put the hand plant down.

Timmy T

Beer beagle thought Kyle could do it better. If this was 1989 that wouldn’t of even count as an invert.

Hey, my flashes fired!

How did it feel to do a invert in your own creation?

Shallow end session

Brendan Klein

After skating we headed to the camp site for a shit talkin, beer drinkin, hot dog eatin good ol time. What else do you want? Midget strippers maybe?

Poor JC. This trip was for him and He got broke off in the first 40 min of the session at the bowl. It really sucked. Everyone felt really bad but what can you do. At least it wasn’t the beginning of a 30 day long trip or anything. Oh wait marriage is for life and this is going to be the how JC starts his life as a married man. Limping down the aisle! Anyone looking to buy a Tony Hawk original bottle nose in mint condition? JC said he wants to sell it to get more fishing gear…

Get bent!

or snagged…

I dont think there is any fish over there.

Hey Davey, what do you think of having to go back to reality tomorrow morning and not be camping and skating and hanging out with you friends anymore?

When we going next?

Tags: backyard skateboarding, Cobra Kyle, get bent!, JC, kyle gallagher, private bowl, surf fishing, take a couple of runs and hit the pch

Words and Photos by Brooks Fritz

I think Mondays are the new Fridays for me. At least for posting my weekly story. Maybe it’s the gardener with his blower on for like 6 fucking hours straight on Fridays now. He used to come on Saturdays but people complained they couldn’t sleep in until 1pm. Me having a kid I don’t really sleep in so much now so it never bothered me. But now he comes on Fridays and it blows. Literally! ha! So I live in a town house complex and they hired this gardener and he has one of those backpack blower things. You know what I’m talking about right? Well here where I live there is a ton of eucalyptus trees and they make a mess all the time. So blower boy is out there seriously all day with that thing on blowing the crap out to the main street only to be replenished by more leaves and branches, etc almost instantly. What does this have to do with skateboarding? Absolutely nothing. Even though one of those blowers would come in handy at spots sometimes. I guess I’m just babbling on. That is it. Now it can be called Babbling Brooks Fritz Files.

This Northwest story could go on for quite a while.. Do you want it to? For now I’m going to end it with some highlights and randoms from the rest of the trip. I seriously could stretch this thing out for weeks.

Oceanside Terror Chapter members Davey Rockit Presley and Cobra Kyle Chicken Nugget Gallaghger

I’ve been told the North West is green because it rains there, A lot.

Kyle’s Car = death metal all the time

BREAKFAST TIME!

Breakfast with Kyle = Sparks, Bloody beers, Barely cooked almost raw bacon, burnt eggs, and lots of cheese.

After breakfast. It was time to release the mudd butt. What better place then the lake!

If you have been to Orcas Island and haven’t been on the rope swing your blowing it.

Ryan can backside ollie well.

Really Well. No nannies needed when you land everything almost first try.

there was a burn ban going on the entire trip.

Look at those three fags hanging out on the bridge. Oh wait, those are my friends.

It’s a whole lot easier to grind over vert when you have loose trucks. Davey Rockit turns on his board and grinds at the same time. Hence the name carve grind.

Mike Petersen, Nose blunt slide. Orcas Island.

While Rhino was busy shooting a photo of another dude Mike was trying these noseblunt slides. I stopped skating and grabbed my camera and took advantage of Rhino being busy. And of course I shot it terrible… Plus my camera at the time only shot 4 or 5 frames a second. But thats just the excuse I make to make myself feel better.

Luke learned fs airs before he learned to ollie.

This is what the North West looks like to me.

Ballard City hill bomb.

By this time of the trip our host Ryan had had enough of us and dropped us off in Ballard, Washington. Fat Chris took us in and we skated Seattle area for a few days before our flight back home to SD.

West Seattle Bowl

Backside grind. Luke Puke Face Girling.

Davey Rockit fs grinds.

cards and beers

The best of times. The worst of times.

Have a good week. -Brooks