Thanks to Thomas bringing some fun. Thanks to everyone for coming out. We had the food and drinks, the kickflip challenge and the best trick contest. Burner got 3rd with pop shuv, Graham got 2nd with a kickflip and Kevin got 1st with the tre flip.

Here’s just some random clips from the last week or month or whatever. Mike Summers does some great lines and then you’ve got Burner and KFB on the UGA campus, followed by Chris Head and Santi at the park in Athens. Santi just tore his ACL last week. I saw the footage and it’s remarkable how down he is to commit to something crazy, but sometimes that doesn’t pay off. Get well soon Santi!

Seeing skating like this in person is pretty damn enjoyable. Here’s Al Partanen, Omar Hassan, and Darren Navarrette. Following those guys, you’ll see Load. If you don’t know him, he’s a gnarly old pool skater who’s full of attitude. He took a couple runs in the bowl, and at some point he slammed hard enough to get knocked out. He was completely unconscious for several minutes, and was even bleeding from under his helmet. Eventually he came to but it was quite alarming. At least there were plenty of friends around.

This is TNT Skatepark. Jonah from Hazard County helped build it. The nice people that run it invited us to try the park out before they open to the public. It’s great so go there.
Grand Opening: Saturday June 7th, open at 10am.
1375 Weber Industrial Dr.
Cumming, GA 30041
770.781.3405
www.tntskateboarding.com
In this clip its: Chris Burns, Kevin Radley, David Clark, Santi Menendez, Cole Fraiser, Graham Bickerstaff, Scott Pouncy, A guy I haven’t met, Mike Swett, Pat Mclain, and Dan Plunkett.

I’ve noticed how Flynn posts his photos after they get published in the magazines, so with that in mind, here are Markovich’s tricks from the new 411.