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Yes, this is Andrew Reynolds doing a massive frontside flip. 

Nothing more needs to be said. 

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Go Skateboarding Day 2009 in the streets of Vancouver

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Jamie Tancowny at Vancouver Go Skateboard Day.

One backside flip to rule them all and landing in a crowd is pretty dope too!

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The Shoes I skate

If any of you have seen me skate in the last 9 months or so you will have noticed that I have been skating the Nike SB Zoom Tre.  

I get asked all the time why I choose to skate this shoe over another more popular Nike or any other popular vulcanized shoe.  

My answer is pretty simple.  This shoe, although it takes a long time to brake in cause of the rubbery toe cap it has, maintains its padding.  The new vulcanized shoes everybody skates these days only feel good between your feet and your skateboard for the first week maybe.  After that its nothing but pain. 

I recently shot some photos of two friends of mine skating a seven stair.  Both of the guys were waring vulcanized shoes that were more than a week old and within no time at all both of the guys were complaining how bad their feet were hurting.  

Now understandably no matter what shoes your skating eventually they are gonna hurt skating drops, all I am saying is that some are better than others and are gonna last longer too.

Another great reason that I skate this particular model is that it lasts so long.  If you click one of the photos below you will see that across all of the toes is a rubbery grippy looking piece.  Unlike suede, leather, and other canvas type materials which after a little help from grip tape rip through with ease this rubber takes a long time to go through.  From my experience with this shoe your more likely to go through the sole around the toes than the rubber.  

Not only does it help to have rubber on the shoe to make it last longer but the design of the rubber itself causes you to go through it in layers as opposed to all at once like a traditional shoe. 

So even though these shoes may cost a good buck up front in the long run they well worth it due to how long they last.  When every other kid at the park is going though shoes like Winona Ryder you have the same pair, thus you have money to go spend on fresh decks cause no matter what deck you get they never seem to last.  And if your parents are the ones still buying you shoes than they will be pumped to cause I know they have said "What!! We just bought your new shoes!!" 

If I just sparked your interest and you want to check some color ways out other than the ones you have seen me skating at the park head here:  

http://www.nike.com/nikeskateboarding/v3/

This Shoe Has Been Skated For 2 weeks

This Shoe has been skated in for 6 weeks

This shoe has been skated in for 6 months

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Birthday Love

Even though the name of the Contest is Birthday Love I question how much love there actually is.  Would the fine people who left comments on my Facebook page have left as many enduring posts as they had if they were not competing for a prize?  

Honestly I don't know, but at the end of the day its not about the sincerity, its about a winner, right?

So onward and upward we go. 

In 3rd place...Dylan Shming Shmong Wetherill with a Birthday comment @ 12:09

In 2nd place...Bach Mahahlo (who we all know isn't who he says he is) left a Birthday comment @ 12:01 (so very close)

and the coveted 1st place goes to....Ryan Barclay!!!!!! Who left me a post at 12:00 on the nose!! It's hard to find perfection like that let me tell ya. 

You could all take a page out of Ryan's book.

Congratulations again dude!!

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This is the guy that put me on the injured list setting a particular trick in a game of SKATE on a bank.  Thanks again Cody!

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Sometimes skating a spot gets a tad bit stressful. 

But in the end its all worth it.

Ledge for Lunch

Alright I promised that either yesterday or today there would be a video up on this page of a noon hour session on one of the ledges at the Nomis warehouse.  Unfortunately I bruised my tail bone pretty good the other day skating a hip (curse you Cody) and I have been out of commission.  So I'm sorry to say that you are going to have to wait a few more days before that video is completed. But I promise you your not going to be disappointed. 

Much Love

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Alright Laura and I were out last night in Vancouver until the wee hours of the morning snapping photos and trying to find fun stuff to shoot. This is one of the first photos of the night under the Iron Workers Memorial bridge.  Check back to see more photos from last night.

Going A Little Deeper Behind The Nomis Warehouse Part 2