Atwater welcomes Mikey Moya to the Atwater skate team. This is the second recruit from East Coast Skateboard Manufacturer Instinct Skateboards. Were super hyped to have Mikey on board with us here and look forward to some late night photo shoots.
Archive: Skate
Mikey Moya
August 23rd, 2010 by Mike Quilliam
Isidro Vargas loves architecture
July 7th, 2010 by Mike QuilliamIts always a great day when you come across something that wasn’t meant to be skated but is perfect to like a little bump in the concrete or a tiny little bank to wall. Every once in a while you come across a little hidden gem and try to hide it from everybody but as skaters its the nature of the beast to share these spots with your friends. Dean and I found just that over 10 years ago on top of a mountain, well actually in between 2 hills but we did have to hike to get to it. We came across a ditch and not just your typical ditch but a snake ditch, nothing like palo alto but a snake ditch no the less and to solidify the term snake ditch we actually had rattle snakes fall into the ditch a few times which is a bit of a shock when your walking back to the top and there’s a 4 foot snake just hanging out shaking his tail around. Well that serpent fell down one hill and then proceeded to climb back up the other hill so we didn’t have to charm it which I was getting ready to do. We actually hadn’t been up to the snake in a couple years but decided to go check it out a few months back and let me tell you, we are the only ones that know about this cause it had about 2 tons of debris in it. We went back with a wheel barrel some shovels and brooms for about 3 weekends in a row to get it back to its natural beauty. We actually bought some quik crete and did a little fixing to some of wounds our poor snake has gotten over the years.
The purpose of this banter is to talk about the great hidden gems we come across every now and then just like Isidro here shredding something that wasn’t meant to be skated when it was created. Good times!
The Snake
More from Kyle Oneill
June 16th, 2010 by Mike QuilliamAgain some more Kyle Oneill shots from a different day.
Kyle Oneill busting out East
June 14th, 2010 by Mike QuilliamTake a look at these Kyle Oneill photos that hes been taking over the last couple months while in school in PA. I have a few more that I will be posting in a bit.
Colin Keaton
May 27th, 2010 by Mike QuilliamJack Laird has been hooking up Colin for about a year now. Here he is blasting off a ledge in the North East Quadrent of the states.
Dono’s Birthday Mayday festival
May 3rd, 2010 by Mike QuilliamThis last Saturday May 1st was our friend Donaldson’s Birthday. He has been planning on this party for over a month that I know of but its probably been in the works since May 1st 2009. For those of you who don’t know Dono, he has the sickest place probably next to Professor Schmitt to skate. His place is tucked back in the hills in San Juan Capistrano down a 1 lane road that can scare you a bit coming in or out with its curves.
We went there with our friend Chris who had never heard of this place before so we were stoked to show him something new to tell his kid about. When we pulled up there were like 3 different guys directing traffic up the road to different yards (Donos’ very cool neighbors) where we got to park and head off.
We got to the ramp and the session was already going strong with the likes of James Reed, Chris Mumma, Tyler Mumma, Ray Barbee, Jim Cagne, Jim Gray, Dean Bradley and many others destroying the ramp. The session went on into the night but before night fell we had a full catered spread for everybody to enjoy and while we ate we had a couple bands to keep us entertained.
All together a great afternoon, Thanks Dono!!
The Flyer that created all the buzz
The walk down to the ramp
The Ramp
The Ramp
Ray Barbee lofting a nice B/S ollie
Jim Cagne with a nice B/S air
Ray with another ollie
James Reed
Ray
Reed
Cagne invert
Tyler Mumma
Jim Gray
Reed
Reed
Jim Gray
Jim Gray B/S disaster. Jim actually did like 6 of these in a row just back and forth, it was pretty cool to watch
Reed
Tyler
Chris Mumma
Chris Mumma
Chris Mumma
Chris Mumma
Jim Cagne
Jim Gray
Chris Mumma
Chris Mumma
Jim Cagne F/S Rock n Roll
Chris Mumma
Dono and the guy from the Saw movies
Reed was making all these trick shots through the trees and over the house, the guy is good at the game
James jumper
Chris, Dean and Chris
The grub
Oh Yeah!!
The view from the bluff
The bands stage
