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. …
Tag: Skate Spots
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
