ione sleeps through her first gig.......
The Groundnuts and Independents at the West Cross ramp jam on Sunday.

The Groundnuts and Independents from Jono on Vimeo.

Groundnuts and the independents myspace
Ally told me about this band, been around for years and skating for years too...finally got to see them in the park at the end of the road.....kids loved it!!!

The Boardroom in Leicester had a jam too, looks like the bowl is still getting sessioned, Vaughn Baker ruling as usual......Nando's?? strange turn of events that in a very roundabout way battery chicken farming is paying for skateboarding in a bowl i had a hand in building, is there blood seeping through those sheets of ply....people love the Peri Peri, it's all about the flags, it's all about the chilli eating contest...these things are a badge of toughness...line em up suckers, it's a gun show.
Nevertheless the Boardroom saved the Edge from extinction and breathed new life into it, i mean look at the footage, the place looks awesome, it's stronger than ever and packed to the rafters....nice one.

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A bit of a contest and jam happened on Sunday down at the miniramp at the end of our road...here's a few clips of what went down.......

West Cross mini ramp jam from Jono on Vimeo.

Rich requested this clip....Pivot fakie on a wet metal ramp by Tom!!

First of all learn this trick....seems easy!


Then do them like this.....

Photo taken from Thrasher mag

Thrasher Skateboard Magazine

Then enter the Thrasher mayday contest, alternatively just enjoy the fact that you can do an amazing looking trick, for my next trick i will do a pivot fakie!!.....if it's the last thing i do.

Rich does the slickest pivot fakies i have ever seen

Styley took this at the Gernika bowl when we went in 2006.

This years Thrasher skateboarder of the year???? Should be!!!!!

Rad!!! Shame the company that made these things stopped making them last year....

I collected as much of the masters, bulbs and inks as i could get my hands on and afford before the end of production in Japan so i have a little life left in my Gocco...nice one Styley for finding my PG11 and sending it over.....

Cool video that comes with the Gocco unit!

Claus Grabke post updated......

Styley sent a link to this video....nice!!!

Gorilla vs cyclists.....myth or monster?

How much deep fat frying would you need to do to end up powering your car with the left over oil?? Thats a lot of chips/spring rolls......

Ever wondered what happened to Claus Grabke? Why all his board graphics had clocks in them? Ask no more.....have a look at this exhibition of every Grabke board at the Skateboardfieber museum in Germany.....
"Without doubt Claus Grabke is the european Skateboard legend ! No other German Skater had ever such a commanding position as Claus had in the 80ies and 90ies. From Titus Skates (1983) he went to Powell Peralta (1985),to Madrid (1986) and later in the same year to Santa Cruz Skateboards. "



Other skaters are interested in time and time travel too.....shame the Clause Grabke tribute section of This n That isn't on this clip....

Trevor Johnson came down to Wales with the Kettering weekend roadtrip crew in July...here's a couple of lines from Chepstow bowl and Ally's warehouse ramp.....

Trev in Wales from Jono on Vimeo.

Ray Underhill video section from one of the Powell Videos....check the intro out, often quote this in my head when in the same situations, Paris, French Riviera, art galleries etc etc......insert your name and starsign.

Young Offenders video....freight trains, guitars....what more do we need???

A day at Cuckfield skatepark and i left unable to walk, over a week later and i still can't do a lot...i fell from a rocknroll thinking i'd made it and next thing i was down, i must have twisted to protect my knee and pulled/torn or strained something around my hip or groin which began to hurt a couple of days later....still weak from my broken leg well over a year ago i'm trying to build things up and get some of my strength back....today i was forgetting my weakness and thinking i could do anything, sort of anyway, been watching a lot of Thrasher videos lately and had more ideas above my station! Rocknroll's aren't hard but i got a bit tied up in the turn back in and either caught my front wheels on the coping or under rotated on the way in and because i'd figured i'd made it ti was a slam rather than a step off or bail.....the whole occasion must have fired me up and i forgot my limits, not imposed by my head but by my body. Try as i might to speed things up with walking, cycling, running, skating, swimming and whatever else i could do it didn't seem to take much to bring me down...not giving in though, from being carried out of the bowl by the mutie reunion crew to crawling up the stairs to hobbling around with the aid of an ikea fold away wooden chair i'll be back in the bowl in no time....gotta remember to fit in some training for the Cardiff half marathon at the end of October too.
Siobhan took the group pic and Len took my pic.

And a quick burst of Youth of Today when they played down at S.O.A.S. in London in March of the same year.....Tim was there too, way before i knew him....heckling the band by all accounts.

On the 8th November 1989 Gorilla Biscuits played at The Fulham Greyhound near Hammersmith in London....the pub long ago became a generic chain "pub" but in the late 80's and early 90's it was one of the London venues for cool tunes....
This is part one of the gig which i recorded on my walkman, one of the most memorable shows i have ever been to!
The sound is pretty good considering, i have cleaned it up a bit but sounds pretty good to me. First few minutes are slightly glitchy but stick with it........

Cuckfield is always good, rare to see many people there, easy transitions, metal coping and a hip on both sides into the shallow part. Some of the bottom part of the transitions are coming apart so a bit of an unexpected bump in parts but thats being too picky....skating at Market Harborough for years and cracks and uneven concrete are a part of skating. All these perfect parks and smooth concrete have meant that people have become spoilt.....what's needed is someone to build cracks into the design of parks like in the good old days.
Got a few clips from our trip on Saturday....me, Matt, Len and Sunay got an early start and mainly had the place to ourselves. A quick rough chuck together of the clips but more fine tuning and a plan that might come together sometime soon. John hinted at a get together of the old Rowell/ Desborough faces....Matt thought of a possible rent a night at Skaterham where we could meet up and have an indoor park to ourselves for a pretty small price....catch up and have a skate and perhaps recreate Jess's photo from our big trip to Stevenage all those years ago!!!