The long and downhill slope to Ryan's front doorstep is a driveway lined with skate stuff that we started referring to as the "Dream Driveway." Yesterday there was a session with a few Tampa locals where I pointed digital devices to capture these images.
A Dream Driveway Session With Locals
Published 10/13/2013 by Rob Meronek
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This is Jorge's second front board photo today. The other one was downtown at the TECO rail, where you get one try before security confrontations begin.
Jared Currey is new to Tampa after moving here to work at Skatepark of Tampa. That ended up not working out, but he's staying local anyway. That's a frontside nosegrind.
Imagine the first person who wore a bucket hat after 2010. You would have had so much defense to handle, sort of like the first person blazing a path through the thick of the jungle. After the path is cleared, everyone's on board, though. It's crazy how quickly bucket hats came in. Justin Zaragoza is already ready for Christmas with some candy cane socks to complement. That's a feeble grind.
These kids are all learning the old guy tricks here. I don't even know what you call this thing Alejandro Burnell is doing. Is it a frontside tail block? Update from Clem: Heely monster. Louie Barletta was the first dude I saw do them.
It looks like a bail, but it's a clean rollaway for Ali Tawoosi. After you grow into your legs, that board will stick a lot better to the soles.
Alex Sandino has full knees to the chest to get this frontside ollie snapped into the grapefruit sky.
I'm still not used to seeing younger dudes do stalefish grabs. I've been doing them nearly the entire time I've been skating. Alex has a nice one.
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