And You Don't Stop, a dmourati Production

Richmond Vert Remote Camera

2011-12-02T23:01:00.001-08:00

Wednesday night means one thing: Richmond Vert. Greg and the fellas get together to get weightless on the eleven foot ramp. The shots below need some explanation. The photos were made possible with a remote camera. While taking one photo, two cameras simultaneously got the shot from two angles.

Chris Henderson

Back Lip

Alleyoop Switch Nosegrind to Fakie

Motorcycle Track Day: Laguna Seca, Part 1

2011-11-30T00:14:00.001-08:00

Track Day

Laguna Seca

Part 1

A buddy at work races motorcycles and invited me to come down to a track day.

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Oops.

Scott Bank

2011-11-14T18:45:00.001-08:00

The Colombian Brothers, Carlos and Juan Pena are always down to skate. We hit up this bank spot off Scott street for a second session.

Juan, Stalefish

Juan Melon

Alternate view of the Stale, guest photo by Kristi:

Finally, here's our first take from back in April.

Log Shop and San Jose Dock Spot

2011-11-07T19:32:00.000-08:00

The rain tried to keep us down this weekend. Instead, we got busy at the Log Shop.

The weather held up for the day Sunday. After Pacifica, I headed down to San Jose for some night street shots.

First shot is a guest contribution taken by Juan's girl Christie.

While she was on the fish I setup with the long lens to grab these.

Tower Bar and Tattoo

2011-10-04T09:22:00.001-07:00

Tower Bar and Tattoo, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

Tuesday Hype

2011-10-04T09:02:00.001-07:00

Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side!

2011-09-27T20:56:00.001-07:00

Tim Brauch Memorial Contest 2011: Warmups

2011-09-25T15:17:00.000-07:00

Tim Brauch Memorial Contest 2011
Skull Bowl
Lake Cunningham
San Jose, CA

Warmups

Reigning Grandmaster: Steve Caballero

Starting it off with a longhair front side grind

Christian Hosoi on a back 50-50

Josh Borden Back 5-0

Salba Invert

Bord-en-slide

Gurney rides for Bloodwizard. Love those guys! Still looking for Mongo Monster.

Steve Alba makes it look so easy.

This was one of my favorites from the session. Gurney, nailing a front smith in the deep.

Hammerhead!

Hosoi Charging

Huge Backside Air in the deep

FSA

Sky Siljeg Rippin!

Bennet Harada 5-0

Big Smith

Mr Upside-Down Man himself, Jeff Hedges

You can also see last year's contest coverage right here.

Napa Part 2: Concrete Mini

2011-09-19T19:01:00.000-07:00

Demarcus brought us to this sweet backyard hand-poured concrete mini. I've never seen anything like it. They just finished it with the pool coping. Sesh-on!

Aaron up first with this crazy salada.

Next he busts out a fat front feeble.

Demarcus attached this think. He had so many crazy bonelesses I lost track.

Here's a sweet 50-50 chunky grind new pool coping.

Last up was Stephen with the front blunt.

For the earlier bank session, see Part 1.

Sitting by the Dock

2011-09-19T11:23:00.000-07:00

Another bank spot?!? Cali loading docks have these awesome skateable bank ends.

Black Talon Security Rolls up on the Set

Demarcus and Stephen: We're, uhh, just leaving.
Black Talon Security: Oh, you guys getting some footage?
D&S: Umm, yea
BT: Oh, that's cool.
D&S: Umm, okay.
BT: See you guys later, drives off

Demarcus, Fatty to Flatty

Blunt Nosegrab to Fakie

2011-09-14T03:08:00.001-07:00

Blunt Nosegrab to Fakie, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

Vallejo

2011-08-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

I took a trip out to Vallejo to meet up with Demarcus and Dan. We hit a few local parks and a sketchy Vallejo street spot. Vallejo is pretty much sketchy all the way round. Last year, someone set fire to the courthouse. Vallejo has a population of 115,000 and a total of four, count 'em four, police squad cars.

We started out at X-Park in neighboring Benecia. Demarcus started out with a Layback.

Next up, Melon.

Check out the fro comb.

Smithers.

Shmoke and a Pancake?

One more look at that layback stylee rock and roll.

After some refueling at the local DQ we headed over to the Vellejo skatepark. Super sketchy dudes hanging out in the parking lot, nobody skating.

Directions.

Demarcus.

Backside Air.

Miller Flip.

Upper Berry Creek Falls

2011-04-25T11:26:00.001-07:00

Upper Berry Creek Falls, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

Homewood

2011-04-17T21:53:00.001-07:00

Homewood, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

One of My Favorite Spots at Alpine Meadows

2011-04-09T22:36:00.001-07:00

One of My Favorite Spots at Alpine Meadows, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

Juan Back Alley Ollie

2011-04-05T19:36:00.001-07:00

Juan Back Alley Ollie, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

Richmond Vert Part Deux

2011-03-31T12:17:00.000-07:00

Steve Caballero Frontside

2011-03-31T01:17:00.001-07:00

Steve Caballero Frontside, a photo by dmourati on Flickr.

BZN

2011-02-14T17:43:00.001-08:00

BZN
Originally uploaded by dmourati

Jamal Smith Tornado Spin - How-To Skateboarding Trick Tips - Skate Video

2011-01-24T22:26:00.000-08:00

Runnin' Gates

2011-01-18T22:31:00.001-08:00

Pow Pow

2011-01-03T12:16:00.000-08:00

Caifornia Love

Planning

2010-12-09T17:59:00.000-08:00

Alpine Meadows Opening Weekend Nov. 27/28

2010-12-02T10:34:00.000-08:00

Hosoi, Keegan, and Art'n'Soul

2010-10-31T16:13:00.000-07:00

The wedensday night vert session was on at Cunningham! I was working on this shot of none-other-than Christian Hosoi...

Keegan skates over to say hi.

Keegan: Hey D what's up?
D: Keegan, hey man, how's school?
K Great, I'm digging it.
D: Cool.
K: Blah blah blah, Frontside grind, blah blah
D: Sounds great

Five minutes go by, Keegan skates back over.

Keegan: I can get a frontside grind in the cradle in max two tries
D: Oh, you want me to get that shot for you?
K: Yea, that'd be sweet.
D: OK, let's do it.

Keegan got this.

Keegan's dad Terrance was there to see and he was super stoked on it too.

Cunningham shut down by 9PM so I rolled over to the monthly fixture at Voodoo Lounge San Jose: Art'n'Soul.

Blake, F/S 5-0 Kickflip out

The boys put a new coat of paint on the ramp and added a nice extension.

Then it really went off! The band took the stage.

Luis got after it.

Daniel Boyer is always on.

Noggin climbed up to the top.

Then shit got a little weird.

Tony started himself on fire.

The band started getting buggy.

Mike went INSANE.

Abstract and out.

Go check out Art'n'Soul at Voodoo Lounge. It's a great time. If you want to see more photos from Cunningham, check the Tim Brauch Memorial set up on flickr.