Adam Dumas' Dropknee Destruction Impresses & Unidentified Redheaded Riders (along with Kim Magin and Michael Birch) Go the Distance at the Wedge

 Adam Dumas was executing very swift and interesting maneuvering today.  From late drops on the forehand dropknee stance, to smacking oncoming sections in an non-traditional fashion, he impressed me with his riding today.  It wasn't necessarily what he landed that inspired and intrigued me as much as what he didn't.  Sometimes, seeing an uncompleted maneuver--that is a radical departure from the norm--is far more interesting than seeing someone ride out of the typical redirection.  While I posted a standard backside dropknee shot for this blog post, see some photographic evidence of his unique approach to the Wedge in the upcoming issue of the magazine project...

 One redhead (riding a bodyboard) wheelie-stalls...

...while another (a highly skilled skimboarder) steps on the gas.

All the while, Kim Magin (above) and Michael Birch (below) were busy demonstrating--through their wave selection--how the Wedge earned it's name.  (For the uninitiated, note the pointy peak of each wave, forming a more-or-less wedge-shaped breaker in both cases.)

 --FIN--

"Occupational" Hazards & A Magazine Project in the Works!

While this misstep was not in vain, it surely was funny!  Before eventually landing his trick, here skateboarder Mike "P-Wire" Piwowar (pictured in the red t-shirt, stepping on the ledge mid-trick-attmept) and one of his regular skateboard filmers (pictured below, nearly copping a board to his fisheye-adapter equipped camcorder) do the all-too familiar dance in action sports: the "avoid-the-fisheye" filmer-athlete tango.  And what's the dancefloor for Piwowar?  In this case, the stage is a slippery concrete ledge.  The danger was heightened by the ledge's edge--which Piwowar has a single foot on--being coated in a candle-wax like substance by previous visiting skateboarders.  This wax allows for faster slides (sliding on the surface of the wooden skateboard plank) and grinds (sliding on the metal trucks' hangers)--but also makes for a dangerously-slick surface to perform on.

This scene is a common action-sports occupational hazard to be sure--but usually one that eventually pays off.  Luckily, no skateboarders were seriously injured in the making of this shot--and neither was the filmer, nor the photographer, nor the equipment!  It was a close call for both videographer and skater, however.

Pictures of made tricks from this session (two sequences and one still)--along with a still of Piowowar flinging himself off of a banked loading dock--are to be seen in the upcoming edition of Jonas Nakas' and my new magazine project.  Stay tuned for more details!