So we left around noon on a thursday. The crew was Sam, Alex, Gary Billow, and myself. We ate at our local mall oddly enough and right before we were about to leave Gary decides he needs to buy a Ukulele for the trip ... so he did haha.
10 hours later we were rolling into Philadelphia. I contacted Kerry Getz on the way and talked about possibly skating with him while we were in town. For those of you who don't know who Kerry Getz is, he is a professional skateboarder ... practically legend. I've been watching him skate and following his career since I was 14 so it's unreal still to think I even talk to him.
We got to the hotel and went to sleep after getting settled in. When we woke up the next morning I had a message from Kerry asking us to skate his ramp. So we met up with him at his skateshop, Nocturnal, then followed him to his house. And following someone in unfamiliar Philly/New Jersey traffic felt like a video game. Seriously tough stuff, but I rocked it.
We skated his ramp for a couple hours. Most perfect ramp ever! It was a lot of fun, I even filmed a 3 flip disaster on it. Afterwards I got to talk a little about Kerry's current projects and he was interested in keeping touch about it. It'd be insane to work with Kerry on anything so I was beyond psyched on that.
After that we skated street, I failed once again on landing my 3 double flip at the Philly 3 block. Then came dinner, Pats Cheesesteaks of course. It rocked. If you go there get cheese whiz and pizza sauce! Delicious.
Then we went to Love Park. The most famous skate spot of all time in my eyes. It's getting torn down this year. We didn't skate it but we did find pieces of the ground that had been broken up. We totally took pieces of Love Park. So we took it! We have a piece of skate history!
After Love we headed over to the rocky steps and raced up them, Alex beat me by one step! Then we took a picture of Gary punching the Rocky statue in the weiner ... that explains Gary in a nutshell haha.
Hotel. Sleep. Wakeup.
We skated a urban park under a bridge, then again at the 3 block. I failed at my trick again, but Sam filmed a heelflip and some random tricks down it. Then we hit up Temple university and I filmed 2 tricks over a flat loading dock gap. Then we headed back.
It was only 2 days but we had a lot of fun. Figured I'd write about it. Not sure if anyone cares, but here's some pics from it. And a video with a lot of Philly footage. (the new philly footage, what you just read about is toward the end of the video)
My life is insane and really difficult, good but difficult. I need to write about that. later guys!
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