PHOTOS BY: BROOKS FRITZ

Rick had a ramp. It used to be great. Then the neighbors bitched about it so much that he had to tear it down. The neighbors probably thought that was the end of that, but it wasn’t. Rick, being a smart guy went down to city hall and figured out what he had to do to have a ramp in his yard legally. (yeah, you can do that) So he got his permit and built a smaller ramp. That was that and the ramp was pretty fun. Just your standard 12 ft wide mini ramp. Then a few weeks ago I was informed by the infamous Beer Beagle that he was going to put corners on it. You wouldn’t believe how much of a difference a couple corners can make. Or maybe you can. I don’t know. I don’t know if you like to turn on your skateboard or not. Maybe your trucks are so tight you never even thought about turning. I’m just trying to make a point on how much better rounds walls are compared to just going back and forth. That actually gets me thinking. You ever watch those “soul bowl” competitions? I would always get so frustrated watching those things because they would have this huge bowl yet almost everyone would skate it back and fourth pretty much never even touching the corners. Talk about jocking out… Well enough of that. Here’s some photos from yesterdays afternoon session at Rick’s ramp with Kyle Galahger, David Presley and Bart Steed.

I bet the neighbors are hyped on Kyle’s hurricane.

The neighbors also love to blast the worst music when anyone tries to skate.

It’s such a laid back lifestyle down here in San Diego brah…

Bart lives up on the central coast where they are pretty laid back too.

Texas plant.

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Davey with a few different variations of the tailblock.  here’s a frontside two hander.

Ever hear a Japanese person say front side tail block? If not you are really missing out.

Or even backside tail block by a Japanese person is great. Like our friend Gyo. He would say hella gnarly frontside tail block and for some reason it would just make everyone’s day.

Bart, front side rock slide

Crail slide

Lein to tail

Davey’s  so good he does them with his eyes closed.

uhh. what are you doing? Holding down that sheet of masonite? Kyle was trying to learn inverts. But I prefer to call them hand plants.

We ended the session with the 18 pack being polished off right when Davey launched out to this smith on the the Chet Childress Nike money making device.

Have a good week. Enjoy tick tacking around.

Tags: backyard ramp skating, Bart Steed, David Presley, kyle gallahger, Ricks ramp

PHOTOS/WORDS: BROOKS FRITZ

This I guess this week it’s going to be the Monday Fritz files…. Just to keep you on the edge of your seat!

In part one last week we left off with a day under the bridge at Burnside.That was a fun time besides having a minor case of the airplane legs. But that’s just another excuse to make myself feel better about drinking beers and shooting photos instead of skating. Our NW host Ryan never seems to have a hard time skating so I was fortunate enough to get a few decent photos. Our agenda was really no agenda. The four of us (Ryan, Davey, Luke and myself had 5 weeks to do whatever wherever. We just knew we had to be in Seattle to fly home after the 5 weeks were up. After spending a few days in Portland hanging out at Jamie’s house started to get antsy and decided to head to the coast to meet up with the youngest old man I know. Mr. Cobra Kyle Gallagher.

This isn’t Kyle. But Mr Richard Lipz himself in the flesh… Enjoying our RV’s luxury living quarters on the way to that one skate park with the giant butt hole.

Dont drink that… It’s 1,200 hits of liquid acid….

Kyle arrives… We had a session at Mcminville.

The vagina hole bowl at Mcminville is great for photos but isn’t the funnest thing to skate. For a change everyone was skating the street course.

Ryan Willians, aka BOOHJAH..

Low to high ollie to truck bash.

Luke was so hyped on the session at Mcminville he decided to get a tattoo at the local shop in town so he would never forget it. What could be better then some flaming dice?

After Luke’s episode of “Oregon Ink” we went to a friends house where his driveway is funner to skate then your local skate park. And that’s just the cement that was left over from the basement.

Proper tailblock.

Sweeper

Amarilla

Our friend Derek Plourd decided to meet us at Bainbridge.

5.0 revert

And the crowd goes wild!!! Luke loves Bainbride. And why wouldn’t you?

Board meeting…

Skateboarding can be fun.

After skating Bainbridge all day everyone was pretty hungry. So we decided to catch the ferry over to Seattle to get something to eat. And what could be better then a bag of Dicks!

Have a good week. -Brooks

Photographs & words by: Brooks Fritz

Another north west trip? You better believe it. What? You don’t like it up there in the land of concrete and trees? Everyone talks about taking trips to California. Well if you didn’t know it sucks balls here…. Skate park wise at least. But I guess we do have great weather. Weeeeeeeeeeee! Sun shine! But if your looking for something other than nice weather. I suggest heading to the North West. And for all you North West protectors crying right now. Dont worry. Your scene is already blown out….  Here’s the first part of maybe three of the Oceanside chapter north west TERROR tour….

TEAM: (left to right) Dipshit photo goon, Davey Rockit, Richard Lips, Captn Boohjah

THE TEAM RV: The four of us piled into this thing to make it our home for the next 5 weeks. Talk about luxury….

DEAF PAUL: says welcome to Portland, Oregon.. (not really hence the name deaf Paul)

WU WELLER: From one bridge to another straight off the airplane and we headed straight to Burnside to meet up with Portland chapter member Jamie Weller. Here he is demonstrating a proper low to high free lunch ollie.

RYAN WILLIAMS: Ryan was hungry for some free lunch and got in on the meal himself. This is not just a flying butt shot. It’s also a lien air.

Alley oop angle 1 (its too easy shooting photos of this guy)

In yo face alley oop angle 2! Seriously Lib Tech, why aren’t you paying Ryan to skate?

and if that wasn’t enough here’s a sequence… I like frame 5. Most people have to have bindings on to do that shit.

Do I really need to write a caption for this one?

It’s pretty self explanatory dont you think?

MIKE ZINC: crows nest view of Mike’s pillar launch into the big bowl.

JAMIE WELLER: yeah I know, you probably all ready seen this photo before. I’m just going with the flow and putting the photos in the order they were taken. Blunt to fakie on this is no joke. The run up is rough as fuck. Most people would give up after a couple tries. Luckily for me Jamie pulled it within a few tries before my beer got warm.

SPERM ART: After a full day under the bridge we headed back to Jamie’s house. This is Sperms gift to Davey. Who says board graphics suck these days?

There you have it. Part one is done. Part two coming next week. Have a good weekend. Do something… -brooks

Photo and words by: Brooks Fritz

Here it is. The conclusion to my trip out to Arizona.

After the alcohol only store we ended up all with vision like this at a place called Toy land.

This place is crazy. Made out of wood, foam and concrete.

Ever had a Gunslinger before? Its when you drop a shot of whiskey (preferably crown royal) into a pint of Pabst Blue Ribbon with root beer schnapps  and slam it. A few of those fueled Cobra long enough to get a few Plexiglas wall rides.

Toy Land’s skate Museum.

Seen a couple wooden wheels in there.

Vaster’s school work earned him a A+

A better view of Toy Land  the next day.

Finally. The journey to the center of the earth begins…

“Where the hell are we going?” ” See those peaks on the Horizon? ”

” I bet this is what it feels like to be a Mexican! ” Run to the hills! ”

Sticker bush madness. No way around it. Your going to have to walk through it for a long long time. Glad I was wearing pants.

Mud tromping. Another thing that cant be avoided. Are we seriously going skateboarding or just torturing ourselves?

” No one told me you had to wear fucking pants!” I couldn’t stop laughing. The whole time I could hear Kyle pissed because he wore shorts. Picture walking miles in this shit. All for some kick turns.

We made it. Welcome to the best thing in the world.

I thought I was going to rag doll to my death getting down there.

Whats up Danny Way? Bob Burnquist?  That mega ramp shit you guys do is nuts. Much respect to you, but lets see you tackle this one. Roll into this thing and carve the outer edge of the pit of death. Get a hold of me if your into it.

it’s pretty surreal being in here…

Kind of gives you a size reference. Jump off from there and your going to the flats…

Kyle, mach 5 frontside. Should of seen the ones I didn’t get a photo of.

Sizar

Bart Steed

” Great, now we gotta get out of this thing. ” It’s way steeper then you think. Pretty much the scariest place you can skate. If you break yourself off in this thing you are doomed. Even if you dont break yourself off it’s hard as hell to get out of. Some of the crew had to take their shoes off to get out. I was tripping for a few minutes there. With my big stupid heavy camera bag I thought I might not be able to get out. It took a good five or six attempts to make it. The wind rushes through and you have to wait for a window of opportunity of no wind for you to get a good run at it.

Then even if you were to get out of the pipe which wouldn’t happen unless you have a 100ft of rope which of course you wouldn’t have with you you still have a long hike back to civilization.

Busted.

After the hell hike being moments away from being back to the truck I spotted a Fish & Game officer all camoed out in the bushes with binos. Who knows how long he was looking for us but I knew right then and there we were done for. Luckily no one ran and luckily when we did get popped it wasn’t on federal land where the hole is. If that had happened we would of been screwed. Huge fine, pretty much banned from Canada, put on the terror alert list and pretty much cut from all big natural pipe missions again….

Have a good weekend. -Brooks

ps. I know, we geeked it leaving a a car on the road….

The funnest and scariest time on the four wheel wooden toy…

Photos & words by: Brooks Fritz

At the end of part one we ended our day at a local dive bar with some beers after skating a couple of Arizona’s finest pools. The next day I woke up in the morning with one hell of a stomach ache and knew instantly it was a severe case of the mud butt. I’m not sure if it was the food we ate from the mud butt mobile on the way out to AZ or the shitty keg beer at the bar we drank or the sketchy pizza we ate the end of the night. I suspect it was the combination of all three. So after the 7th shit of the day all before noon we made our way to the local swap meet. On the way there we got pulled over by a motorcycle cop. Something about looking suspicious. He asked Kyle for his drivers license and Kyle asked if he could get out of the car to get his license since it was in the door. The cop said no and walked back to his car. He was gone a good five minutes most likely running Kyle’s plates and all four us Davey, Kyle, Sizar and myself were about to shit our pants. Not because we were stressing on the cop but because we all drank a bunch of coffee and seriously were about to shit our pants. The cop finally came back to the truck and asked Kyle why he was shaking acting so nervous. Kyle was straight up with the cop and told him we all just had a bunch of coffee and had to take dumps. The cop laughed and said we shouldn’t be in this neighborhood and that’s why he pulled us over in the first place. After he said that he let us go on our way. Just shows for the most part if you are straight with the cops they will be straight with you. Not always but you know what I mean right?

Here’s Kyle’s with his swap meet purchase. A ski mask and some imitation Blue Blockers. Not bad for 3 bucks.

So you want to skate a pool? OK. Well drive around and find one. It’s that simple. No excuses needed. You don’t have to rent a plane like they did in Gleaming the Cube or know the right people. Just get in your car, on your bike or simply just skate though your local neighborhood and find one. That’s exactly what we did with this one. After the swap meet we just took a random turn on a random street and found this random house with this random pool. The only problem was it was covered up with a janky wood deck. Not really a deck but more of a way to discourage people from getting into the pool. It didn’t work. Piece by piece we ripped that thing up.

I’ve never seen so many black widows before.

It was super loud ripping the plywood off of the 2×6’s. So loud I thought for sure one of the neighbors was going to freak. But no one did. No one came out. No hassles what so ever.

Cleaned up nicely.

The Black Widow Pool: Yeah, it’s pretty much perfect. The side wall is perfect. shallow end is perfect. Deep end is perfect. No kinks anywhere. Just a perfect backyard pool. Good transition everywhere. Even the shallow end stairs were in a perfect spot. No one could find anything to complain about with this pool. Unlike your local shitty skate park “pool” that was made to skate by so called experts yet it’s nothing like a pool and completely sucks to skate. Just because it has tiles and pool coping and maybe a box or stairs doesn’t mean it’s a good design.

Yet this thing sits in a backyard of a bank owned house made by people who had no thought of making it for skateboarding. Go figure.

Sorry I don’t have more photos of skating going on. I had to skate this one as much as I could.

With no warm up and no room for error Kyle rolls in first run. Who does that?

Grinding over the box is one thing. Grinding the hip of a pool is another. It looked liked Kyle was going to get two birds with one stone. Then it didn’t.

The Session was pretty much over. At least the skateboarding session was.

After Kyles stack at the black widow pool we headed to this store where they only had alcohol for sale. You could imagine everyone was really disappointed.

I know I know. Where the hell is the center of the earth? This story is longer then I expected. Stay tuned next week when we finally make it to the center of the earth. Have a good weekend. -Brooks

A few weeks ago my friend Kyle came by my house and said that Matt Dyke said we’re blowing it if we aren’t skating pools in Oceanside. So with that motivation Kyle picked me up and my 5 month old baby girl Brooklyn and we were on the search. 

An hour or so later we found this mini amoeba. 

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Not so deep end. 

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C S P M A B G 

( Cobra side pocket mini amoeba backside grind ) Adult eye view 

Angle two, Brooklyn’s eye view. 

Shits retarted. With how the real estate market is right now pools are poppin up all over. Fires helped that too. Or maybe I have just been blowing it and needed Matt Dyke’s motivation to get out and look around more instead of having the pools handed to me. Either way Brooklyn was hyped. Can you claim you barged your first pool at 5 months old?