Been awhile...

Hey everyone!
   It's been years since I've posted on this site..  I was in bed the other day thinking about this blog. It got me stoked to come rewatch and look at photos. I recently started filming skating again before winter came and ended up with a little video. It's approximately 5-6 days of filming skateboarding at the parks that we have around Sudbury. Just a fun little video but check it out! Can't wait for next season. Going to be a good one.

Enjoy the holidays!

-Justin

Don't call it a comeback.

Here are some photographs I took of Scott Varney, in chronological order, going from point A (The Baitshop) to point B (Jacqueline Moleshi's house, Scott's girlfriend) during early/mid November of 2012.

 So we/I have been away from the site quite a bit/while but we/I are all doing separate things now-a-days. It's not that we've grown up, I sure haven't at least and don't plan on it anytime soon. It's not that we've moved on, well maybe to a certain degree; but we all still skate - which is why this site was created - and that's what counts. With this post I just want to wish everyone the best with their new adventures and say thanks for the formative years we all had together.

You can catch up with some of the stuff I've seen on Pointless and it'd be rad to see you post anything related to you're current situations too, skate related or not. After all: we all came from the same place so it's all relative.

Thanks guys,

Andrew

I guess it's been a while...

Here's something for anyone who still checks this.

Tanner Christoph, Heelflip

Randy Marion, backside nosepick

Malcolm Yarde, Switch Bluntslide

Nolan Waller, Nosegrind pop-out

Wayne Redbreast - No Comply 360 Flip

Chapter the Last

WOW what a short story! .. not. So I've been off my computer the last little bit, and just getting acquainted with the city - Well I was when I had initially started this (my second documentation of mtl) but then I got distracted with life. I've come to realize that there are spots on spots in downtown Montreal. It's sick! The city in general is, however my one complaint is about the food prices. Like there are a million shitty places in Toronto to get too much of something  for 5 bucks. Then again I am not a local... But luckily both Hugo and Kyle (MacDonald) advised me on the cheap eats at Dagwoods*. Everywhere else seemed to automatically come up to 10 bucks or more.

Thursday was a rain day so I had to be a tourist. With may the 4th just passing and the Centre des sciences de Montreal having a Star Wars Exhibition I couldn't resist. It was snick. Friday, uh I forget Friday, no wait.. I ended up skating just above downtown. Around the McGill campus**. I honestly worked the shit out of myself skating this city and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Now the weekend, well things got trill.. Had another killer skate during the afternoon then headed on over to Parc La Fountaine to finish the session with a few brews. By far the easiest way to get to know the Montreal homies is to hang out at that spot. Anyways so there was a Palm Isle 12 year anniversary jam this night and a pre drink bbq at Adam (Green), Josh (Clark), and JS (Lapierre) They're definitely sitting on some prime real estate and Adam's got a rad dog named Jazz. So we went to the bar crew deep after slowly leaving their house, trying to get like ten plus drunk dudes to leave sometimes is hard. This was not the case for the night considering the alcofuel empty and the pitchers were only 12 bucks at the bar. Sunday started slooooooowww, can you guess why? If so let me know cause I can't remember.. Woke up above the sheets fully clothed (better then stark naked, especially when sharing a room with 12), you know those type of nights. Ended up not having a hangover though so I got more skating done and went yet again the p.laf to cap off the weekend. The weather was unfuckwithable and the usual suspects rolled through the park.

Montreal's a big city, and I didn't realize that, I'm actually pretty ignorant but I've got street smarts. The people are nice and friendly, for example they look you in the eye when they pass by on the sidewalks more often then not, un-like Toronto. I got the understanding that the general public live a care free lifestyle over here. It's good shit..

I miss you mtl! Your cheap beer, friendly people, laid back lifestyle,  good (but rough) spots, poutine and but of course.... your smoked meat.

À la prochaine!

P.S. delayed post due to going to Detroit on may two four (which I was under the assumption would be this weekend, you know, having passed the actual date of the 24th and all.) Will I post about it? Probably not.

*  The server there was a friendly fellow but I knew there was something off about him that I couldn't place.. But at last it surfaced the second time we met.. "did I show you my roller-blades last time" enough said right?

** Fixing that crack at the bottom of the double down hubba is always an option.... or not.

Chapter the First

Alright so I'm doing it (posting again) and what have I got to tell you... Well I checked out some live music last night at Le Bobards which is a sweet-modest-sized-bar, they have an excellent layout with the bar being accessed in the middle at all sides (hats off to the two ladies behind there, just killing it,  and never ceasing to move.) I couldn't tell you the bands name but they kicked out the jams and for what it's worth they're the house band for every Tuesday night, I think..

Oh yeah, randomly ran into Hugo (Balek) last night whilst I was just roaming the neighbourhood, and he grabbing papers (you know for paper work) to go the Clifford's (Geoff) place and do... business stuff..... We exchanged digits and skated today. We'll be meeting tomorrow too. So big shout out to Hugo for showing me around!

The big session ended when the rain came but thankfully the benches at Parc La Fountaine are moments away from my hostile. So as the saying goes "when one door closes another opens" and on my way back I started a new session that goes a little something like this:

The Poutine Chronicles

So I’ve arrived in MTL, things are looking good (weather aside..) because I’ve already come across two classic spots of the Quebec scene, whoah... I totally just took in that I’m in another province, I mean it’s not like I crossed a boarder and had to make nice with blue dudes so it kinda just passed by unnoticed (especially for the fact that I was working at sleeping a hangover from the night before off.)

After getting a coffee at the terminal, lurking the internet and sobering up I decided it would probably make sense to see where my hostile is located. Sure enough it’s only around the corner, shwing! And if it wasn’t raining you can be damn sure I’d be skating.

Oh yeah, so incase you’re wondering, its just me and my skateboard and we’ll be fucking shit up for 8 days here..

I got my ass hear real cheap and highly recommend you doing the same cause the girls are nice and they're adorable with there accents. Let’s hope I don’t blow it - or do depending on how you look a that. I’ll post more as time comes, or not?

Things to do:
-Skate
-Smoke
-Drink
-Poutine
-And of course get that Montreal smoked meat! naaaaa meeeeeeeen?