Hard in da Post

Here is some shit I filmed, with my iPod nano 5th gen, over the past summer. Thanks Peter for letting me post, I look forward to smearing more shit on this site in the future..

waka waka from Andrew Campbell on Vimeo.

Vimeo/Youtube

Top Promo

This is a little promo Top of the World threw together featuring the familiar face of Jon Piekarski and you may recognize a few others.

Top's been contributing a lot to Canadian skate culture for the past 17 years and has had consistently one of the best teams in the country so you will probably love this.

Highlights include (obviously) Jon's any-flip-into-manual section and some serious destruction from Mitch Barrette.

TOP PROMO 2010... HOT, RECKLESS AND TOTALLY INSANE! from Top of the World on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving

Bros came down for Thanksgiving, so I decided to borrow a new DSLR from work. Results below.

The high def thanksgiving montage from Rob Roy on Vimeo.

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Ottawa Locals

So Chris Marleau and Devin Sager moved to Ottawa and now I have people to take pictures of:

Chris - Front Board

Chris - Bonk Grab

Devin - Back Smith

Devin - Back Smith Encore

Devin - Back Tail

Conpiracy Theory

I went to Ottawa for a few days.

Pretty psyched on this picture of Joel Mieto.

Joel, Back Tail

















I guess Chris did some tricks too.

Chris, Wallie 50-50

Fresh Fish

These are fun.


Tom, Kickflip












Peter, Crook

















Andrew, Wallie

Old photos

Here's some photos from 2007ish that I don't think I've posted yet.

Dan, Crook

















Kyle, Noseblunt

















Rob and Devin having fun












Peter, Polejam. Chris Marleau photo


















Randy, Wallie

Sudbury Blowout

Here's a bunch of Sudbury dudes and photos. Have fun.

Wes, Frontboard during the Pinnacle contest.

















Wayne, One footed nosegrind

















Randy, ollie over the chain

















Dan, Front smith














James, gnarly drop-in

















James, backlip

















Chris, ollie

Did you know...

When dead fish wash up on the shore, the first thing seagulls eat is their eyes, because they're so tasty?

Here's a bunch of fisheye photos in celebration of that fact.

Andrew, Flamingo

















Peter, nollie halfcab heel

















Randy, frontside ollie

















Andrew, backside boneless

















Tom, Backtail

Spot Check: Ottawa

So here's the deal...

I'm staying in Ottawa for the summer therefore, I am tempting all of you guys to come to me for a change and what better way than to show you a few spots that most of which are under 10 minute skate from my house. I'll be doing one or two more of these spot checks later on but here is the first one:

"Sandy Hill Ledges"

This spot is super fun with two ultra waxed ledges that run into the ground at either end so you can just ride up and grind. Good spot for lines since they're back to back. The closer ledge even has a little grind over gap if you want with those 4 man-hole things. If you continue on, the benches are also made of plastic and can grind as well. Did I mention that you never ever get kicked out? This bitch is a 2 minute hill bomb from my house.

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This pool spot is actually at the same place as the ledges above just farther back in the community centre. Because of the paint they slide really quick and when you get to the end you can pop up onto the deck of the pool. In the second picture you can see that random mini quarter that looks like it belongs not there. Pretty fun to bonk from that into the pool. People have been skating here for years so everyones pretty much just accepted skaters here so there's no need to worry about getting yelled at. Unfortunately it is a pool so come late June it will be filled with water and screaming children so hurry up.

"Laurier Ledge"

This little gem is an easy 5 minute skate west of my home. The run up is a little tight but the waxiness of the ledge allows for smooth sailing. The landing (depending on which way you come from) can also act as a manual so you can grind to manual onto the street. This is on Ottawa U's campus so sometimes you do get kicked out but if you hit it on a weekend then usually no one cares.

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"Lansdowne Park"

This ones a doozy. Right off the bat we have a huge 14 set so if you feel like being crazy look no further. I believe there is also a 12 here that has been feebled and back liped. To the left is the slanted ledges you may have seen in ottawa/magazines. The run to these is a little rough but nothing new to a sudbury skater. They're a lot of fun and actually not to hard to skate. Pretty much everything ever has been done on them (including Northbay's Jon P. front blunt bigspin to flat) but still worth hitting up. This spot is a little far from my home but if you hop on the bus and take either the 7 Carleton or 1 Greenboro/Southkeys you can get there in about 15 minutes. You may remember a few shots of Fielding and Devin skating an up-ledge? Well that is directly beside this. Hit this up weekdays after 4 p.m. and you should be set.

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Remember Tim? Well here's a front tail for your viewing pleasure.

Come check out The Keepers again on the big screen at Rainbow Cinemas!

It'll be playing in the 3PM time slot amongst many other short films.

$7 for 2 hours of viewing pleasure, not to mention seeing some skating on a huge screen.

Hope to see you all there.

More photos

The past few weeks have been sunny and warm, so we've been skating tons. Here's some springtime photos.

Andrew Campbell, 50-50












Alix Buck, smith grind.

















Tom Berry, Bluntslide.

Haven't posted in a while

Well I haven't thrown anything up in a little while,

so here is a not bad photo of my friend Tim.

Tim's good, there will be better photos to prove it soon.

Tim - Front 5-0

This is just a random gross alley downtown...

Frisco

So, I (Andrew Campbell) went to San Francisco recently. Other people came: Alex Varney, Martin Brixx, Andrew Wenckstern, Chris Vacca and Matthew Scott. Varney has been too SF a few times and I'm glad he decided to invite me on his visit this year. If you haven't been you should go, I know I'll be going back.

We stayed at the Green Tortoise as other Canadian Skateboarders did during the same time as us, namely: Duncan McNaughton, the Studio guys (or at least most of them) with photographer Geoff Clifford, Josh Clark, and another horde of Torontonians ended up invading the tortoise at the tail end of our trip.

Duncan McNaughton - Bluntslide

Chris Vacca - Back Tail

If you go you should skate the Avenues. Duncan took Chris and I there one day on the trip but we had to leave them all to shortly after a rude run in with the law. The Avenues are endless with their spots - as is Duncan with his knowledge of skate spots.

San Fran's got THE best vibe for skateboarding that needs to be experienced to understood and the scenery ain't so bad either.

Now streaming...

Mzungus from Peter Stankiewicz on Vimeo.

Mr. Tom Berry

This is Tom. He lives near me and likes skateboarding.

We filmed this today. Skating in February is awesome.

Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. from Thomas Whenever on Vimeo.

100th post!

I don't have anything special planned, so here's a few more random photos.