Travis McCormack blunt in a pool in Long Island NYC • photo by Rob Erickson
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Not sure how I missed these photos, but I’ve had them for over a year now and I never posted them. Enjoy. All photos by Ben Weathers Travis McCormack- Gripping the coping with his toes on this Tex plant. Travis-frontside ollie, power-propulsion courtesy of Satan Vermont Ripper and Maven Skateshop owner, Brendan Foster, flying through a crailslide. We are very pleased to announce that Totally teamrider James Pitonyak is now also skating for NJ Skateshop! Congrats James!
And make sure you bookmark THOS! I’ve spent hours on that site, and there’s still so much great material I’ve yet to see. Check it out, and if you aren’t familiar with Team Steam, it’s time for you to do some research!
When I was in high school, I frequented a skatepark in Pennsylvania called “Cheapskates.” I loved that park because under its roof you could witness some of the world’s best skateboarding any time of the year (Team Steam, Shut team, SEAN MILLER, the Lopez brothers, the Sigafoos twins, and the list goes on)…especially during the cold winter months when it seemed like the only option for riding a skateboard in sub-zero temperatures with dirty mountains of snow covering most of the landscape was to take cover in a warm, dusty, and smelly Cheapskates. Cheapskates made stickers back then, and I believe the graphic on it was created by Ken or Jay Sigafoos (?). Anyway, the sticker said “I skated Cheapskates in the long cold winter of ‘88.” I feel like I remember them making another one which had a similar graphic, but said “I SURVIVED the long cold winter at Cheapskates.” Filming and editing by John Andrews Things I like – Transition. Tight transition. Street skating that involves transition. Mercyful Fate.
Yeah, like the title of the post suggests, Totally teamrider Kurt Kamrad got broke…Kurt busted his collarbone and had to have a metal rod put in it. Hopefully he’ll be back skating again soon.
While we’ve been getting hammered by snowfall over this last couple of weeks, I’ve heard a lot of people making all the common complaints – “I’m sick and tired of shoveling,” “my back is killing me,” “they plowed me in again,” “the neighbor’s kids are idiots,” etc. etc. Well, while most people are complaining and/or cozying up on a warm couch with a bowl of chips and some hot chocolate, James Pitonyak & co. are out skateboarding. Yes, outside. After some good old fashioned hard work, and a few days of no snowfall, James and his crew had the local skatepark’s ramp all shoveled out and dry. So last Sunday, in the middle of an outdoor park covered in snow, we had a sick 2-hour session. Yeah, even I got out there and skated with them. I wasn’t stoked on the few slams I took in that cold, but it was worth it. Plus, I was just getting amped on the amount of gnarliness James was able to throw down under, dare I say, such extreme conditions. This miniramp aint no 4 or 5 foot tall mellow-tranny style ramp. It’s a 6-foot with surprisingly good trannies for a cookie-cutter township skatepark. So when you see the stuff James is doing in the video below, you know it took work for him to pull it off. Check it out. Oh, and the footage was shot with a pretty nifty HD camera, so be sure to select HD when you watch it.
Mike checks in from Oregon with a rad video to keep us stoked through the harsh winter everyone seems to be having this year.
video edited by Matt Yula Just got these pics from Travis and they’re from his last trip out to the northwest. These were taken at a park in Arlington WA. Check out the sickness of his frontside grinds over the loveseat. photos by Keegan Reed |
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