Skullery Street Jam

The Skullery crew put on a jam down at Memorial park Tauranga on the weekend so I headed down to check it out and film a few clips. Was an amazing Summers day with some sweet riding going down, Reegan Masters and Simon Cavanagh were killing it all day. A good day for sure, check it out.


Skullery Street Jam from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

So the new indoor park in almost finished just a a few more handrails and decks to be done, was lucky enough to get a little roll yesterday, can't wait till its fully finished

 Still a box jump to build and I think theres also a foam pit going in, not my cup of tea but will help these young guys progress for sure, which is always a good thing.

Alex Cranswick, local ripper was looking quite at home, had plant over the spine.


On Scooters:

Its not BMX or Skateboarding that has got us this amazing facility, but the new craze that we all love to hate, Scooters. Theres so many of them now I can actually see this park being sustainable, now in the last few years we've all been there, you turn up at your local park for a chilled jam only to be confronted with a biblical plague of scooter kids and your chilled jam turns into a game of dodge-ems and no matter what angle you try, to teach them some park etiquette, for me anyway it just ends in me leaving. which gets me to my other point.

Yes scooters are a pain, because they're usually ridden by kids who have not yet fully grasped the rules of the play ground and one day these kids will be too old/big for a scooter, now I could be wrong here and stranger things have happened, but I'm pretty sure there won't be many 20 year old scooter riders unless they develop a larger scooter (wouldn't' it just be bmx then?) or find some sort of super alloy so scooters can handle a fully grown man can you imagine someone like Jed MIldon throwing down a huge Briflip (hows that for some lingo) and the scooter still being in one piece, not very likely.

So that means one day these kids will have to quit scootering, and those skills only really lead one direction, they'll have to get a bike I'm not saying they will all transfer to bmx but one of these kids could be the next Jed Mildon or Paul Langlands, so we might get some new killer talent out of some of these kids, we just have to bear with it for now, patience is required. Anyway thats my rant if you bothered to read it.


Just go out and ride...Or just ride some trails, don't see many scooters in the woods.

ATK

A few of the local riders organized an, all night jam at Arataki skate park last weekend, quite a good turn-out, no way was I hanging around all night although I did stop in for a roll,and a beer also managed a few shots. Check out the slide show.

17th Ave Jam

Awesome turnout for the comp at 17th Ave skatepark on the weekend, weather was good,
made for a good day.

Top placings went,
1st, Simon Cavanagh
2nd, Cristian Orellana
3rd, Connor Smyth
Wth best trick going to Alex Cranswick with a 360 backflip

Check out the slideshow