Vinny Crispino and Marc Kachtan Shields Session
Here’s a Shields session edit staring Vinny Crispino, myself and a guest appearance by Anthony Villani.
Filming ended abruptly when Vin decided to pull a Gary Nilsson and eat shit at the end of the edit. Get well soon Vin.
Buy some shit to help Vin get better.
2012 Ohio Trip Photos
So we drove out to Rays last night and it took us 12 Hours to get there.
Some on the trip are saying its because I was lazy, and had Tyrone Williams drive most of the way.
He was seen driving 40 MPH in a 60 MPH zone.
We got in and slept from 9am to 1130 am. and headed to Rays.
We meet with Hollywood and other NYC natives Dave Hall and Brian Burnhart.
After the Rays session we went for a private session at Chenga 57 courtesy of Cole.
Here are some photos of the crew.
Woodward Winter 2010 Edit
Here’s a little edit from out Woodward 2010 winter trip. These clips have been sitting on my computer for quite some time so I finally decided to do something about it.
More random riding photos
This is Sunil and Sebass lookin’ like a couple of homos in front of Slayerville skatepark
I had a real big picture of this on my computer but I accidentally deleted it. Alexis (the photographer of said photo) also had the original but I deleted his shit by accident too.
This is me chillin with Platinum at the trails before her rapid weight loss. Platinum is a marijuana eating weimaraner owned by… you guessed it, Alexis.
This is a photo of my friend Marty back when I was a camper at Woodward in 2005. I always tell people who haven’t gone to Woodward as a camper that the fun is 70% the people you meet and 30% riding. I have met some of the craziest people at Woodward and am lucky to have been able to go.
This is an old ass photo of me doing what looks like is an irish jig mid-air but is actually a downside whip. I tried to go as high as I could on this one and immediately ate shit upon my attempted landing. The fall resulted in me fucking up my hand and not being able to ride for quite some time… something that is becoming more and more frequent. I really love riding but sometimes I wish I didn’t fall so much. This photo was taken by Ben Hittle.
Here’s P.S. 6 local Joe Stazzone doing some kind of skateboard stunt. I’m clueless when it comes to skateboarding but it boggles my mind how people can maneuver a plank of wood so well using only their feet.
Tom Espo took this photo of me at our beloved but now pile of shit skatepark. This photo is the reason I don’t grow my hair out any longer. Perhaps I should have looked in the mirror a little more often.
Another shot at what used to be a good skatepark of Spam, Paino and I. Alexis took this photo.
This is my buddy Dennis Dombrow. I met him at Woodward through my friend Kevin Tierney way back in 2002-2003. Dennis is one of the funniest people I have ever met. He moved from Chicago to Texas and lived with Aaron Ross and Chase Hawk. You can watch him slicing fruit with a samari sword at said house in a somewhat recent Props interview. One time at camp he was wrestling our counselor and nearly snapped his neck. Dennis can now be found fighting people in cages as a professional MMA fighter. You can follow Dennis on twitter @d_liciousD.
This sums up Augie pretty well, wild as fuck. Augie is an extremely talented BMX rider and one hell of a dude. Little known fact: Augie is actually Italian and not Mexican.
This place was heaven on earth for me. These are the legendary South Beach ramps. So much shit has gone down here, so many memories, so many friends and so many good times. I spent every minute I could riding and hanging out at these ramps. I wish I could go back and do it all over again.
Riding Photos Old and New
After putting together my China 2011 post I began browsing through some old riding pics reliving memories of BMX sessions past. In a strategic effort to regain some hits for the Group Home Bikes site I’ve decided to share some of the more interesting photos. Some may have been posted on here before, but I’m too lazy to check. So here for your entrainment is a select few of my riding pictures that I deemed worthy of posting on the inter webs. Enjoy.
What better way to start off a post titled “Riding Photos” with a picture of a dog. Rufus posing for the camera while the humans shred PS6.
Alex with a mean mugged hop whip at PS6.
Another hop whip photo but this time by someone way more handsome. TO THE PEDALS BITCH.
Alex is a cat person.
I did this trick about 500 times but Vin Crispino’s greasy pizza fingers couldn’t snap the photo on time.
You know it’s bad when Bayonne has a better skatepark than you do. Thanks Adena.
Speaking of our gone but not forgotten skatepark, here’s a photo of me getting upside down pre-Adena “Fuck your park up” Long got into power. The bulimic dude in the background is Brian Laughner who is currently on his second or third tour in Iraq. Get home safe buddy.
Gary Nilsson with a foot jam toothpick to fakie at lakewood circa 2007-08
Andrew Paino with a tail whip gap at that park with the chess tables.
Augie had to move all the way to Jersey just to learn turndowns.
Riding can be painful at times, especially the older you get. I feel like every time I step on my bike I’m injuring something new… I need more practice.
Roman chillin with his homies in the hood. Peace nigga!
Note to self: Never hand Little Mike the camera. Don’t get me wrong, I love Little Mike with all my heart and soul but the dude just was not made to be filming people.
The year is 2011 and the BMX industry still has not figured an easy way to get this done. Fuck everything about replacing a bottom bracket. Next time I need a new bottom bracket I’m just going to buy a new frame.
Yours truly getting wild at H-Town. I hate going upside down, the longer I ride the closer to the ground I like to stay.
Small panorama from inside the Rape Van. I have spent many hours on the floor of this van worrying that the next lane drift will be my last. I’m sure many of your reading this have experienced the same.
That’s it for today’s photos. Tomorrow I plan on putting up some more China photos as well as doing another one of these posts. There are still many more photos…
Skate Board Furniture
Yes furniture made with recycled skate board decks. Turn old broken decks into tiles, tables, art, and whatever else your heart desires. Here is the link to their site.
And below is some balling furniture only Tom and Bupsy would have.
Money table. Talking about Blowing money fast.
Close up of Money table leg
Bupsy digital table. and yes its touch screen.
Apple 2012 furniture line
Alex would love this chair!
Augie would love this chair!
Matt Brown's Base Brooklyn May Day edit
Here’s another edit from Base’s May Day Jam at Inline 1. Check out the GHB team shredding in style.
Philly Day Trip
Yesterday me and the whole crew headed up to Philly to get some footage and have a good time. We met up at Ed’s at 8ish and got to Philly around 11 I think. First we headed to the legendary FDR skatepark in Philly. We rode there for like an hour or two and then we headed out to the main part of Philly. As soon as we got there we split up into two groups. Me, Ed, Bupsy, Big Nick, Zack, and Alex all went to get some banging Philly Cheese Steaks at Pat’s King of Steaks while everyone else went to get some pizza. We left eachother at like 2 or something and we didn’t meet back up until around 5 or 6. The other group defitently got to ride more shit but we still had a good time. Check out the photos below.
Started out the day with a shitload of bikes and 4 people in the trailer
Ed had some duck tape in his truck to use on his victims so I decided to put it to good use.
Self Explanatory
The van with the trailer hooked up
Mikey chillin out eating some pirate booty
This shit was in my fork the whole day thanks to the dicks in the trailer
Sticker in the van
Ed yelling at Marc, “We didn’t come to Philly to ride, go stack that wood.”
Bupsy helping out drain the bowl
Ed being Ed
Eddie rolling up the hose that they used to drain some of the water out
FDR Skatepark
I could ride this place all day
This place just keeps on going
Some skaters pushing some shit up to Ed and some dude to go help drain out the other bowl
Huge bowl
Everybody riding the little shit outside the skatepark while Ed and Bupsy were helping out
Huge vert ramp they had there
Quigley with a bar off the spine thing
Steve looking ugly
Hood niggas in the van
This one made me LOL
Quigleys from Whoville
This was a crazy ass black guy we met at the cheese steak place that kept bitching about our bikes. He was OSS
First spot we went to. Ed doing his thing
Bupsy with a fence ride
Fence ride #2
Marc getting his film game on with Zack filming
Zack grabbing his little nuts.
Riot BMX
Shark Weed
Big Nick
And again
Marc got a flat so him and Ed had to fix it
Marc with a long double peg
Zach’s to cool to film Marc
Alex doing a long, fast feeble
Only in Philly
Tommy with a wallride
Scoping the shit out
Alex with a turndown
Bupsy with a double peg on a cool setup
Big Nick filming
Getting ready to go
We rode a sick rail setup after but we didn’t get any photos there. Philly was a good time.
OHIO APRIL 2011
Photos from trip to Ohio. Big thanks go out to Ryan’s sister Meegan and her family for letting us assholes sleep at her house.
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