FURR the making of film

I spent a few weeks with Rhys at The Pilot in Mumbles watching how he brews Furr beer and capturing the process on video. This is the result. Get down to the Pilot and try out some Furr. Also check out the amazing Marked Men....their song Fix My Brain is the soundtrack to Rhys brewing both on the video and in the brewery!!

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Scene TV Raw

Scene TV did a great episode a while back with the awesome Ffej and Gwar interviews........

$CENE TV Raw Episode 9 from SCENE TV Raw on Vimeo.

Go watch every episode, Scene have covered some great skaters and bands.....Dressen, Spidey, The Godoys, Frazier, The Dwarves, Battalion of Saints and most recently Corey O'Brian and The Faction.

New year and christmas at the ramp

Managed to get a couple of fun skates at Exist over the holiday....starting the year as we mean to go on and throwing some new/old moves in........

A couple of skates at Exist over the christmas holidays from Jono on Vimeo.

Bilboyo hits tape!

Bilboyo from Jono on Vimeo.

The video has clips from a few years worth of trips to Bilbao put together in a homage to some of the skate video greats that inspired the trip and skating over the years.....music from Sol, The Boxcar from 411vm, The 45 and Trinny,Mad Skillz, Jimi Hendrix, Ezy Rider, Panjabi MC, Mundian to back ke, Radioactivity with Silent Kill and Souls of Mischief, 93 till Infinity. Every one a hit!!

Quick trip to L.A. with Greg for Skin's show February 2016

Bilboyo so far!!

Bilboyo is a bunch of Boyos skating in Bilbao, the land of concrete! So far its once a year and we are planning the fourth one for April/May 2017.

 

Leioa big bowl Bilboyo 2014

 

Bilbao trip 2006

Plans are afoot for a Spain trip in the spring....here are a few great reasons to go to Bilbao. A huge variety of concrete and transitions to fill a long weekend. Photos by Vost, Styley and Rich.

California road trip with Twiss....the videos.....

California trip video from Jono on Vimeo.

California June 2013 part 2 from Jono on Vimeo.

California in a week!

View California skateparks and spots in a larger map

This time next week we will be rolling through the streets of S.F.....maybe no updates while I am there but hopefully the spot count will be high! Flying next Thursday and meeting up with Twiss on Friday.
The link is one of the spots on our radar...maybe!
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8. Parc Williams skate area, Loughor.

While the rest of South Wales is investing in and providing state of the art concrete skateparks Swansea council insists on spending it's money on utter crap....at least the sun was shining.

Area 51 skatepark, Eindhoven. June 2003.

The perfect bowl at Eindhoven. That is Stoo Charles skating in yellow in the bowl too!

California in June!!

View California skateparks and spots in a larger map So the road trip of the year begins on 30th May 2013.....San Francisco and all points south flying out of Los Angeles on the 8th June. Meeting up with Twiss, renting a car and hitting as many spots as our legs can cope with. Looks like a ton of new transition and skateparks since I was there last but we will be on the lookout for more...ramps, ditches, curbs and not forgetting pools. The map is going to fill up over the next couple of months to give us as many options as we can get. Better get fit in the meantime.

After months of trying to get this trick back.....

7. Exist Skatepark, Swansea.Thursday 15th November 2012.

Dark mini ramp run from Jono on Vimeo.
Pretty regular Thursday session at Exist...still sticking to skating the miniramp. Jason caught this for me...it's dark in there this time of year.

3/4/5/6.....Cuckfield, Shoreham, Hollingdean and Hemel Hempstead

1. Newport skatepark. 15th September 2012 and 2. Porthcawl skatepark, 16th September 2012

So the year ticked over on June 20th and as i'm now 43 it's 43 spots before 20th June 2013....1 more than last year so i'd better get back on the road. I wasn't sure how to approach it this time as far as revisiting the same spots over again from last year....there are a ton of new skateparks popping up all the time at the moment so it could work as total new spots if i could travel every weekend and had nothing else going on in life. This would be impossible so i'm going with a same spots as last year are allowed policy....with the added turn up the tricks clause. I will not allow myself to turn in the old frontside grind at every spot this year so it's try new tricks at every opportunity or at least regain a few from my pre- break days!
The last weekend was a special one as it was the almost annual K-Boys trip to Wales...i say annual but it was actually over 3 years ago they last made it down here.
I missed the chance to go and meet them at Churchdown in Gloucester but made it to the new Newport park at Tredegar Park. It's not officially open till Friday but as Ally is good friends with Youngy who is doing the build then we were welcomed with open arms. It's all done apart from the landscaping round the edge and the fencing....amazing park and number one for this year. It might be a little busier next time i get over there but i'm hoping the pool's size will deter most and i can get to grips with it properly. I did manage to drop into the 6ft shallow end which is well tight and i got over the light too which is in fact a concrete skull set into the transition 3/4 of the way up the wall of the 10ft deep end....carve over the steps next time maybe!


Then it was time for a quick drive back to Porthcawl, a very short visit to the bowl and a night out in town and crashing Harvey's hotel room. Back to Porthcawl bowl in the morning with slightly fuzzy heads. So i'm putting Newport and Porthcawl as my first 2 spots of the year. Porthcawl is a regular Tuesday so a few pics from last Tuesday too and maybe more tomorrow...different tricks to follow someday!

Another Costa Rica post inspired by a visit to Subway.

So in 2005 me and Siobhan spent the whole year travelling from Mexico City to Sao Paulo...mainly overland by bus and the rare taxi...i had my skateboard and was always on the look out for a spot or two. I had no idea Costa Rica would have some perfect concrete parks hidden away in some unlikely places. We arrived from Nicaragua by bus and the first town we hit was Liberia. Just off the town square we ran into a little skateshop. Asking about parks the guy in the shop handed over his two shop copies of Blast Magazine and pointed out the photos of the parks in Costa Rica, then it was down to us to locate them and decipher the directions. First to the coast and the surf town of Tamarindo and then on to Lake Arenal and the legendary Tilawa hotel bowls. Here are the magazines and the articles that led us to some amazing spots.






So massive thanks to the guys in the shop in Liberia and Blast mag for showing us the way...the Subway bit in the title is Charlie who works in Uplands...this is how we found the parks!

Over Ply Wood trailer

The last 2 days of 4242

London trip 18th June 4242 last day from Jono on Vimeo.

Spots 35-39 and an extra Porthcawl bonus last day in the sun. A day in London to finish the year and a meet up with Styley at Bay66...which is in it's last week before it shuts for an 8 week complete refit. Got a couple of old classics in there...Meanwhile and a damp Kennington. So i made it to 39 if i include the skating around London between spots. I'm not stretching it out to get the last 3 so i'm straight on with 4343 Spots 35-39 and an extra Porthcawl bonus last day in the sun. A day in London to finish the year and a meet up with Styley at Bay66...which is in it's last week before it shuts for an 8 week complete refit. Got a couple of old classics in there...Meanwhile and a damp Kennington. So i made it to 39 if i include the skating around London between spots. I'm not stretching it out to get the last 3 so i'm straight on with 4343. More spots, more tricks and of course many more frontside grinds.

34. The spot. Swansea. 12th June 2012

Finally got to have a bit of a skate down at the spot. Solo trip down between the days of rain. Plenty more building to do and a few tweaks. More days of mixing cement and carrying rocks. Looking forward to the first bowl corner being finished....then onward to the next and the next. Better get used to the transition though....a smooth wooden miniramp it isn't!