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27 Jan

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In the middle of the city of Toronto, known for its street riding, lays Dufferin Grove Park, or Duff Grove as it is commonly known. Full with a community garden, bone fire pits, and a Thursday evening farmer’s market, it also contains a make shift wooden park that bike riders and skateboarders make the best of. Certain times of the season it may be in total disrepair, and other times it may seem like it is running smoothly. Made of mostly donated ramps (one of which is from us) and rails, the community pitches in where they can to keep this place going.

It’s not a glamorous spot by any means, but it is where you will often find riders looking for a mellow session without having to pedal far, hanging out with their friends without much concern. From locals to riders visiting from out of town that day, it’s our warm up spot, meet up spot, or just where we unwind after a work day. It’s probably the one spot I ride the most all summer long, and some evenings I would pull out my camera from my pocket and try to film a bit of what an average night there is like. Check out this short video of assorted stuff I filmed this past summer with Chijioke Okafo, Trent Barker, Chris Cadot, Greg Henry, Lee Dennis, Brandon Webster, and Chris Silva.

Filmed and edited by Prashant Gopal
Music: Ponderosa Twins Plus One – Bound

25 Jan

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Duke Thompson Kurz by Zach Rampen

Here is a random snap that just popped into my head. This was taken on a Vancouver summer cruise a few years back. Duke is a wild man and looking at this photo instantly makes the lyrics of “Fly Like an Eagle” pop into my head. I’ll Drink to that!

23 Jan

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When you see footage of Drew Bezanson riding it’s usually at Joyride 150 or winning a contest in some far part of the world. This ‘casual’ mini ramp edit of him riding with Hucker and Daniel Sandoval at the Vans skatepark in California is obviously mellower than the videos that he’s famous for, but still a very cool look at what I can presume is a regular session for these guys. They nonchalantly ride a humungous sub box and Drew starts firing stuff out over that rail as if its actually meant for it. Get in to it.

22 Jan

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Brandon Webster is damn good. This edit was filmed within a few hours, in typical effortless Brandon fashion. This is daily Brandon riding and is a sign of what’s to come from him. Looking forward to seeing alot more from this kid.

21 Jan

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Some of Canada’s finest riders right now: Dillon Lloyd, Brandon Webster, Drew Bezanson, Mike Gray and Ben Kavanagh are featured in this Nocturnal V2 Joyride edit by Justen Soule.

20 Jan

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Carl Arnett along with Jordan Hango and Dave Scott round out yet another amazing 5 clip at the Tsawwassen skatepark. This park is a jibbers dream and a great place to mess around on the odd nice day while everyone is still shaking off their winter rust.

18 Jan

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Here is Jordan Hickey’s section from The Stranded Video that came out late last year from Newfoundland and premiered at Turndown. This section is pretty amazing and filled with some amazing looking setups (like the rail at 4:00). The entire last minute was filled with some awesome clips that I wasn’t expecting. The two tracks threw me off at first (surprisingly I don’t hear too many parts edited to Drake, yet that guy is everywhere), but the riding holds up throughout. This video, and the rest of the Stranded video, really does a good job at showcasing the newest generation of riders in Newfoundland, and they will be slowly putting all the sections online over the next little while.