Rain

Today was supposed to be the last day of filming..but the rain had other plans. There is a rain cloud above Hammonton until thursday so that will be the last day to bang anything out. I know Shaun, Josh and Nick Capaldi all have some serious stuff in mind and I'm sure Kyle Smith will do something pretty ridiculous. Hopefully Max can get out there and show us how to use pegs at the ol' 777 building.

Last Sunday after the mandatory Shred Shack meeting a bunch of guys hit up some Mays Landing street. Mostly the schools which actually produced some really nice clips. I was very surprised because I've been riding out there for a long time and never rode any of those set ups.

Mazzone took it pretty hard at Oakcrest. So did Josh but unfortunately it didn't happen on film so no skaetched out cell phone screen shot.

There may be a few more trips on Matt's camera but as of Thursday filming on the zr850 is done!

UPDATE!

Check out this video of Goggles and Joe ripping up some street.

I'm pretty stoked to see the Patriot rail in there. Along with all the other clips in the video as well haha.

2 days left

I don't know whether to smile or cry. Filming is just about up boys!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Throw back of long lost friend of Piney, Richie Janiszewski.

So it's finally thanksgiving. November 25th. You know what that means? We're close.."Close to what" you might ask? Close to the deadline...but more importantly...close too

Fuck Yeah

I dont know if Gettings is going to do a write up about this so I'll throw a temporary one up here.

Matt put together this video featuring Louis, Matt Marrero, Gettings himself, Me and Goggles. We rode for about 2 1/2 hours or so. Before we went to Stockton, Goggles got the hookups at Burger King which I thought was awesome, mad french fries. Anyway watch this video and enjoy the fruits of our labor.

112110 from Matt Gettings on Vimeo.

So much at once

It seems to have dawned on everybody that Deadline is in a few weeks. Those who aren't hurt are throwing down right now. Gettings and Louis have been getting down lately and today they brought me along for the ride..kinda...

I drove them out to Buena and the surrounding area, in return for all the years of them driving me places. I've only ridden Buena a hand full of times and usually only for a half an hour at a time. We spent a few good hours out there searching for spots and having success with that. We also found long lost shredder Dustin Dixon, I haven't rode with that dude in years but he's still got some moves after being out of the game for a while. He showed us this school out there with this real nice loading dock where Gettings got a really sick clip. I did my first ever tooth pick on something above stem height and Louis had a crash that made absolutely no sense at all haha. After a good session we headed to a church with a pretty nice bank, Louis did a really nice 180 which you'll definitely see in his part, he hasn't filmed a filler clip in a long time and I don't see him starting any time soon.

Recently I started filming with Kyle Smith. In the 15 minutes I rode with his he got two pretty legit clips but we were fighting the dark and had to call it quits. He has a few sick clips in mind that I bet you can't wait to see.

There will be a nice session going on Saturday in Hammonton. Hope to see you there, until next time..keep on shreddin

Nicee

Just uploaded around 70 clips from Matt Gettings' camera. A lot of raw stuff from New York and the northern parts of Jersey as well as some Atlantic City trips. Finally some Mike S and Louis K footage! Things are finally looking up.

Amanda's field

Kevin Little, Mike Paton and Erik Sammartino went out to Upper township park and put in some work. Some stand out clips where Mikey P's luc-e 180, Erik 3ing off of the roll in and Kev throwing down a line involving two clicked turndowns and a no footed can-can. Watch and enjoy some masters

We've got all things that are good here

Gettings slayin the crowd, covering Bob Dylan's "I Want You" with the guitarist and drummer from Mewithoutyou.

"I Want You" (Bob Dylan Cover) from Matt Gettings on Vimeo.

Pain in the butt...and ankle...and knee...and wrist...and hip

Yesterday Nick Capadli, Billy Brown, Marc Allen and myself went to Ocean City. Little did we know half of the city was under water. Luckily the side that the skate park is on was nice and dry. Although the wind was ripping pretty hard everybody managed to get some real nice riding in. Big Marc learned to drop in on quarters which is mega awesome, personal progression is the best. Nick was throwing bars up, down and over everything in the park and got a few real nice clips. Marc and I went to 3 brothers pizza to grab a slice of pizza the size of three infants, after spending roughly $6,000 on boardwalk pizza we made our way back to the park where Erik Sammartino was ripping with Nick and Billy. I swear to god that dude rules, I'm pretty sure it was a simple warm up session for him and he was throwing down some real good stuff. 180 drop in was a stand out in my eyes. Also he was just in the November issue of RideBMX magazine which is super dope.

(Sick nasty rail hop.)

Billy got some real nice boost clips over the hip and did a pretty steezy railride. I went for a line involving smiths and five four oh's, let's just say I'm not really good and under rotated which bent my wrist back well beyond it's usual bending point. Minutes before that Billy went for one of his patented air bike jerkers, but he never brought the bike back and landed funny. Evidently he tore ligaments in his knee and it's full of water which is never good. He will be out of riding for a little while which is a total bummer, especially since he never got to film his banger :(.

To continue with more bad news, Matt Gettings lovable Blazer is out of commission for a while. We were shredding Clayton skatepark for a few hours and when we decided to go ride some street out that way his truck broke down 200 feet after leaving the parking lot of the park. Even more bad news, my infamous Red Rocket is having trouble shifting. I can only go 45 mph which is a problem on the White Horse Pike. All of this shit has to happen during the last few weeks of filming of course.

On a lighter note, Matt and Brandon are now putting together videos for Shred Shack. The one day edit came out really nice and since then they put together another one.

If you have a youtube account go subscribe to shredshacksoldiers. They also have a Vimeo account. Give them both an add. I'm pretty sure once filming for the Piney DVD has ceased, more filming for Shred Shack is going to go down and I'm way suped on that since I don't have to edit anything!

Who isn't hurt?

It started with Matt Mazzone...

The Joe North...

Brandon Bunting...

Today...Billy Brown...

Mike Ware...

Who's next?

Ware You At

Mike Ware: Icepick

Shred Shack bro

Last Sunday was one of the most productive days filming-wise in a long time. The shred shack crew minus Joe and Brandon went out to Amanda's field. A lot of good stuff went down and Matt Mazzone was there to document it. Here's a video he made of clips he got from that day, riders include Nick Capaldi, Myself(Mike Ware), Jeremy Kauffman, Matt Marrero, Victor Behm and Stephen Carty.

Steve's banger is pretty ill

Picture Book

Billy Brown: Alley Oop Tire Grab

Billy Brown: Nac Nac

Tuck No Hander: Matt Marrero

5 tapes

Filled up the 5th tape today, they are sadly still just sitting next to my computer with no way of being uploaded. If there is no chance of them being uploaded I'm going to just make an intense web video with everybody's best clips but it seems like that would be a waste since we've been filming for so long.

Some bad news, Brandon Bunting is the final Mays Landing rider to go down. He destroyed his hip doing what would have been an insane grind combination in Philly. He's off his bike for two weeks which really puts a damper on the Stereotyped section. He'll attempt to bang out as many clips as possible in the 10 days he has back on the bike but I just don't see a full section happening. I think Mazzone is going to be good to ride a few days before the deadline so hopefully he'll be able to get his banger before November 30th.

I witnessed one of the sickest hops of my life the other day at Nick Capaldi's house. If you haven't heard about it you'll just have to wait till the video drops because it's definitely amazing.

Everybody's clockin some last minute footage which is pretty dope. I'm lookin to pick up a few more clips with a few amigos like Matt Marrero, Max Loomis, Shaun Thompson and Kyle Smith to finish up another section I've had in mind so if you guys are reading this make sure we get some clips soon.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour. An extra hour of sleep but one less hour of daylight. I'm not sure I like that too much..

I'm amped to see this one

ANTHEM II trailer from Stew Johnson on Vimeo.

Website for Franklin Mills Skatepark

This is the link to Franklin Mills Skate Park's website. Anybody who has any interest in attending a trip up there should print one out right now and get it signed for future reference. To everyone under 18, you need to have it notarized, which means its signed by your parent in front of somebody who has the authority to witness it. Your parents should know where you can get it done. The link for the waivers are on the left hand side.

Directing is hard

There have been so many shitty things happening lately. Mazzone got real sick and wasn't supposed to ride for a month, then he rode anyway and now he has a ruptured ligament in his ankle and will be in a boot for at least 3 weeks. So right there the Matt Mazzone/Brandon Bunting split part is out the window. There was still hope for a Mays Landing part with Mr. Joseph North being the gnarliest rider ever I was sure he'd be able to clock at least a minute worth of footage in the time left, but as you can see in a previous post he has broken his ankle. I'm not sure how long he's out but I'm guessing it will be at least a little bit past November 31st. Right now Brandon is still trying to push out a good part and doing a good job of it. Banged out a few good clips at the newest "street" spot in Mays Landing while I had a broken chain and Mazzone watched with his torn up ankle. Matt got what might be his last clip for the DVD in today since he won't be able to ride with us for a while, but he did it was steez and a dope leather jacket.

I'm thinkin there are going to be a lot fewer full sections then previously expected. I'm sure I sound like a broken record but it's a cold hard fact. A lot of guys just couldn't make it on a few of the trips and hence they don't have enough clips. But a wise man once said Quality over quantity...(tity lolz) and the clips that most everybody got were pretty dope and all have their own little story if that makes any sense. There are a lot of holy-shit-I-can't-believe-I-landed-that's in the video and that's pretty awesome in my opinion.

Max has been killing it lately and I'm hoping to get him out on a few more trips because I love filming with him. He makes everything he does look easy. It's possible that there will be a Hammonton crew part but I don't know, i don't want to make a friends section because we're all just friends. There are no superiors just guys that wound up getting more clips than others. it goes back to the old Myspace quote from 2007 "We aren't confined to being a team, but just a bunch of guys that share the same love of simply riding a bike"

It's definitely not going to be like most bike videos. At least 5 different types of cameras, 5 different file types, some widescreen some full screen. A very different introduction that nobody outside of our crew will understand. But I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, it's been some of the funnest years I've had filming with all of the guys reading this. We've made some friends, lost some friends, been through injuries, been through bullshit but in the end we'll have a gay little bike video too look back in the future and go, "hey I had some fun with those guys."

DREAMMM WARRIORRRS!