alot of things happen in 3 months...

Here's a quick video timeline of what's been up since the last post.

The start of July was the peak of hotness and a heavy work schedule, so not much was filmed...

July 20-21: Thunder Bay Trip

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Sk8 Skates took a weekend trip down to Thunder Bay to do a demo at the park and just to have some fun. Despite the number of beers drank the first night, Jamie filmed the craziest tricks as soon as we got to the park early the next morning.

July 29-August 2: Road Rage Trip

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Every year, skatelife and The Edge Skatepark put on a contest for kids that brings teams from different cities around the country all to BC. I flew with Cliff from the Edge to Vancouver, and then met up with all the crews the next day in Kamloops. The teams (coming from as far as Yellowknife) had to try to do as many tricks as they could from the manifest, a King of the Road-style book that got them points. At the end of the week, the team with the most points won TONS of prizes, and this year, it was the Winnipeg team.
This was all filmed on a VX1000 with no viewfinder, a working DVX, and each day was edited the night that it was filmed.

August 8: Gimli Skatepark

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While I was gone on the BC trip, the Gimli Skatepark officially opened. So when I got back, we took a quick trip out there one day. Fortunately a good friend Jake Kuzyk was back in town at the time, so he could come along and get some footage.

August 29-30: Flin Flon Trip

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We took a quick 10-hour drive up to Flin Flon for one night, to skate a little demo for the city. Despite both cars running out of gas on the highway, and little-to-no time to street skate, we found some cool spots, and filmed enough to make a short montage.

And lastly...

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I decided I wanted to make a video this year, and while thinking of names driving around in my car, Jared Arnason came up with the idea of "Club Bangers" - A video made with only sweet, hit songs. A few days went by, and I came up with this promo. There's no names of people who have parts, that's because no one will know, except me. I'm not telling anyone who has footage in it, or who has parts, or what songs they will be skating to.

Hopefully there will be some kind of premiere where everyone can watch it together for the first time, but that won't be until like December.

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That's about it, hopefully I'll make more posts more often now, but I say that every time...

Meanwhile, check out Jake Kuzyk's blog:
http://jacobkuzyk.blogspot.com/
He blogs about skating here in Winnipeg, and his travels with snowboarding. Sweet blog though.