Independent Day....4th June 2010.....
The Independent UK flow team had a bbq down at Ally's on Friday, collected all their clothes and shredded the ramp....here's a quick clip of some of the madness. Cheers Ally...it also turned out none of the team was vegetarian so faced with an array of meat i feasted on a bag of the possibly limited edition Brazillian Salsa Walkers....

Learning to skate again means going to different places, different sizes....smooth and rough...Newport has both so is a good place to get strength and confidence back....pretty hot today too....grunts indicate effort......

It's been a year since we moved down to Swansea from London...here's a few pictures from around our old neighbourhood in SE1..........

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Things i've done in the last week....the summer weather got me out on the road, down to the ramp, around the bay and a trip over to Cardiff on the train......                                                                    Ione directing the shots down at the ramp. She is now my main filmer for the documenting of my return to skateboarding. Day one of my documented return included rockfakies, pivots, grinds, grind reverts.....   


Phone pictures 25/05-29/05/10....4 days in May.

.........through the gardens on the way home for some lunch we saw these amazing colours...

Then we went out for a ride, me and ione in the seat on the back and we headed for a quick geocache down by the Cork Ferry.

 Found the Cork Ferry Travel Bug waiting room and left the spider travel bug we had found the week before near Kidwelly.Geocaching over and we headed back round the bay all the way up to Mumbles.......ione fell asleep on the bike with the excitement of it all and the heat.

Ione on the bike sleeping from Jono on Vimeo.
 Cardiff on the train

 Found one geocache in Cardiff city centre, went to Spillers and got hold of the Walter Schreifels album.......

Trying to shake the fear and get some strength back before i attempt a rocknroll on Wales smallest miniramp....my nemesis and the thing that put me out since last August, rocknrolls, not so much a trick but a way of turning...the next step up from a kickturn....anyway i don't bounce back as well as i did when i was a mere youth of 31, 10 years on and a few days before the birth of my second child i am being a bit wary. These days of documenting everything on blogs have led me to record my phoenixlike rise from the ashes of injury, breaks and strains will not stop me so this is the first of many seemingly repetitious clips.....hopefully, if no more appear then i am once again in plaster or leg up with ice packs...giddy up!!

Learning to skate again (Part 1) from Jono on Vimeo.

My new camera..........
Flip HD camera is working out pretty good, here are a few clips from the first couple of weeks of playing with it......

Spring in high definition?? from Jono on Vimeo.

Mum got hold of a video of the street party for the royal wedding in 1981....Desborough embraced the party spirit and this was our local one in the next street....someone had a video camera in 1981 too, it must have been massive but i don't remember seeing one....battery problems at the end of the clip...i'm in one of the races and so is Rich.

Desborough street party from Jono on Vimeo.

Brilliant idea.....

Scenic Sprint Alleycat, Swansea....27th March 2010...a few clips.

Here are some of the stats from my perspective in the race.....
The clips are from the longest skid comp and the prizegiving..had no time for race video or pics as i had my head down all the way to Mumbles and back.....thanks Evs for organising such a class event, i think most people got prizes too.

A trip up to Aberdare when the big snow hit yesterday and i found Ant at the park....i don't think he was too hopeful that the bowl would dry out anytime soon.

Snow storm at A.s.p. from Jono on Vimeo.

A quick look through my tapes from Thursday and it wasn't too hard to find some sick clips to put up. Thursday was Christmas party so a quick and intense ramp session and then on to the Prince of Wales at Kenfig for a haunted nut roast and chips!

Kill City at Ally's from Jono on Vimeo.

A quick re-post of Mike 62's Roller racing video......Swansea Rollapaluza is not too far away so this might fire you up...

Mike's Roller Race Video from Jono on Vimeo.

Long time ago now but we did spend a year in Central/South America....i started making something out of all the video i brought back and this is as far as i got....it's a kind of intro to the whole thing comparing life as a courier in London to the bright colours of Latin America...as everything i do it remains a work in progress so there is some to take away and plenty to add...i might even get back there before it is completed so then it will be back to square one....here are a few of the ideas i was working on....

Brick Lane in 3 seconds from Jono on Vimeo.

brick lane to brazil part 1 from Jono on Vimeo.

A Day at the Beach from Jono on Vimeo.

Tim, Dougie, Jason and Pete rockin S.F. in October this year.........

A few clips taken on my phone mainly from my bike in London working at Metro.....Angus and Ben are in there too.....2006ish.

Quick ride to the end of the road....not actually that far but good to be on the road again after so long waiting for my groin strain to clear up....got a turbo trainer from Rob for some fair weather living room rides

Creature premiere in Newport on Sunday should be a riot......

Since i'm injured again and unable to skate for a little while i've been taking my camera along to the Thursday nights at Ally's ramp...here are a few clips i stuck together in a speedy fashion......

Ally's ramp clips from Jono on Vimeo.

Plenty more tapes to go through and a few more Thursday's when i can't skate but intend to go along anyway.....more to come in other words.

With the prospect of Rollapaluza coming to Swansea i have re posted my Roller Race video in a higher quality than previous appearances.
Bristol had the South West qualifiers at the weekend and there was talk of Swansea being ideal for the Welsh version.....
It all depends on finding a good venue and getting some interest generated. The race will be the Welsh qualifier for the Rollapaluza National Series 2009....finals will be in London sometime soon....in the meantime we need to get Swansea rolling......

Roller Race from Jono on Vimeo.

Rollapaluza National Series 2009

Ally slowed down from Jono on Vimeo.