Manual Madness

Let me start this post off by saying that manual tricks are not easy! They sometimes take hours, days, weeks or longer to attempt, and even then there is no guarantee that you will get the trick you have worked so hard for. It all comes down to that one attempt where every single little factor in the equation goes absolutely perfectly. From the board throw down, to pushing up to the obstacle, the flip, catch, land(on 2 wheels), the balancing act, ride away, and not to mention your mindset. Cory and Geoff worked for over 3 hours at trying to get their manual tricks and in the end only one of them came out with a new piece of footage for the vault.  We will be back to get the other trick in no time I'm sure.

Photo far right: Geoff kickin it with his own twist on a popular 80's dance move

Kitsch In Montana

Last month , in search of news spots, we decided it would be a good idea to drive to Montana, to skate, film and shoot some photos.

With Sean back in Calgary and AJ and Haistie busy working, our crew ended up being Cory, and Kyle, and myself (Geoff). Our good friend Dane was down to come and film, and Brian Cassie came along to shoot photos for an upcoming article. We also brought with us Sacha Daley aka Smasha, who was fairly well behaved and only got us kicked out of one hotel...

Thanks to our good friend Victor , we had a place to stay and locals to show us their spots. The week trip was a hectic blur of driving , skating, eating and sleeping.

So in no real order , here are a bunch of photos to check out;

After watching Kyle and Cory destroy a gap in a very busy back alley in Billings, these dudes were freakin hyped to say the least.


This is our friend Victor who hooked us up with an amazing trip, thanks Vic!

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Our crew



I was the only person insured to drive, after skating all day, and driving for hours each night I managed to somehow keep us all alive.


On about the fourth day we finally found good coffee.



This is a self proclaimed 'skateboard mom', instead of kicking us out of the spot we were skating, after checking out our website, she was eager to meet us and wanted stickers to take home prove to her kids that she met some travelling skaters from Canada. At least some people understand what we do.



Meet the Folio Skateboards crew, these dudes rip.


This is what actually goes down, in downtown Missoula.



Dane gets a mean angle



Brian loved this scooter, here he displays a 'one footer' in front of the cops.



Kyle getting close to the edge of a cliff that overlooks the town of Billings.



Waking up to the sun, having no idea what spots we might skate, Wilson sets up a board.

Desaulniers, Dermer and MacAlsiter on the Circa Summer Camping Trip.

Back in July the fine folks over at Circa were kind enough to invite Kyle, Sean and Geoff on a camping trip to the interior. The weather was perfect , the spots and parks were great.
Here are some of the people we rolled with,


this is Hayden, he grew up in Point Roberts and he rips.

Magnus Hanson is a good friend indeed, always down to 'hype the session' . Here he empties his shoe full of scum water after spending a good two hours draining that pool. Right before he front feebled the coping...

Elliot is the Circa T.M. , he takes care of business on and off the board.

Sean enjoys his smoke, Geoff enjoys his coffee,.

Stoked to see the boys at Deviate boardshop hooked us up with a window display

'Back of the cash register back ground props'


Kyle feels the need to drop in on everything.

Sean after handling the 9 stair rail like a champ.

Adam from Dunas skateshop let us stay at his house in the 'hood' in Vernon.


No one likes getting their photo taken while waking up.

Brian , Elliot , Amus, and Adam , had to stop at Duna's.



Magpie and Parm, who came and did a great job filming, watch for the video soon!

Everyone thinking about it...

Nicky - this is a priceless photo.

On our way out of town.
Sean and Brian look forward to the mission through the mountains.



Sean knows how to chill.