Tag: Skate Spots
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DIY Jersey City
Back in November, I checked out the popular Junkyard spot in Jersey City. The spot is exactly how you’d expect a Jersey DIY to be: crusty, tight transitions, and littered with locals drinking and smoking. A fun place to spend the afternoon. I can’t wait for Winter to be over. Here’s a video of a Z-Flex rider […]
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Skateboarding in NYC
With a few exceptions, anytime I traveled outside of Oklahoma it was strictly for skateboarding purposes. My friends and I would load up a car, sometimes two, and spend a week skating whatever the foreign city had to offer and wind down each night drinking cheap beer in a cheap motel room. These trips and […]
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Skateboarding with a Stranger from the Internet
7/20/14 Before I left Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, I made a post on the well-known skateboard magazine website Slapmagazine.com. In the online forum I made a request for information about skateboarding in Philadelphia, such as skate spots, tips on avoiding tickets, the skate-ability of LOVE park, etc.To my surprise, about a month after posting I received a message […]
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Skate Jawn 4 Year Anniversary
7/12/14 Thanks to my new friend Joanna I was able to meet other skateboarders she knew in the Philly area. Her friend Mike gave me the heads up for Skate Jawn’s 4 year Anniversary Skate Jam. Like some of you reading this, I was unaware of what Skate Jawn was or what it meant. Skate Jawn is […]
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First Week in Philadelphia
6/25/14 After spending a weekend in Camden, we were relocated to Temple University. Our home for the next month. It’s funny. After I graduated college I assumed I would be done living in dorms. However, since I graduated in May I found myself staying in three different dorms within the past two months. Apartment life will be spectacular.
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Go Skateboarding Day
6/21/2014 On Go Skateboarding Day weekend I found myself staying at the Rutgers University campus in Camden, NJ. At first I was excited. Camden was yet another new city to explore and having the chance to see parts of Walt Whitman’s hometown was intriguing. However, based on my conversations with the other Teach for America members, […]
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Brick City
*Dating back to around 6/19/14 (Playing catch-up) When I told people I was moving to work in Newark, NJ I was often told “Good luck.” I figured people back home didn’t know what they were talking about. But even after I arrived to NJ, even the locals were warning me about certain areas and scaring […]