the obligatory cell shot before getting on the road... wrex and mike check the tire pressure after we get some gas heading out to memphis to meet up with our tourguides an early start at 6:30 in the morning...
we get to the memphis crew house dubbed "trife street" about 8 am... good to see that these dudes are ready to hit the road, there's nothing worse than hopping to go with laggers... anyway after some cranky interrupted morning dumps and general razzing of their crew babyface, jack, we load up the cars with boards, bags and buttocks and hit the road. on the way out, we got to see the new location of the diy spot, altown version 2.0. looks rad... at the end of their street with lots of potential for creation.
wrex and i hopped in bambei jeep along with tino and mike. we stop about an hour out of memphis and see this piece of do-rag radness at the chester chicken gas station
the plan was to hit kanis first for a couple of hours and then the dreamland park afterwards... luckily for us, we're along for the ride and up for whatever comes up...
local sweeper in the diy
a lot of diy stuff has been going on over the past few years since my last visit there...seriously creative stuff going on....
the bowl is super rough and slick, but super fun. this is not for the "pampered by smooth concrete" skateboarder. this bowl was built in the 80s by a local contractor. considering these guys weren't skateboarders (if i remember the history correctly), i think they did a pretty good job... if the bowl was swept and mopped, it probably would be 10 times better, however, you skate what you got before you and you have a good time.
fart panda showing the scumline some love
there is some awesome skatepark graffiti along the decks here as well...
PUNK WALL ACTION
bambei lien to tail
wrex bs disaster
one of three things wrex can do anywhere and on anything: rocknroll
VARIOUS OTHER ACTION
this is the only photo of taylor, pivot
jack, i'm not sure this was a make in the punkwall pocket
the crew watches as wrex pushes pushes to taste test some diy crete
wrex 5-0s the jersey barrier pocket
of course naturally when you go visit an old friend's local spot, you gotta give them a ring and a how do ya do, come skate with us. hence, the detour in our plans to hit up spent the rent kent's ramp for some weiners and a ramp session...
his place is pretty sick... up a giant hill we drove into the woods, u know it's quiet and peaceful up here, away from little rock city life overlooking a wheat field, his ramp rests...
thanks kent, family and friends for the hospitality!!!
after the ramp, we went to a dimly lit north little rock park which was amazing!! however, with few lights, it was impossible to take full advantage of this lovely concrete dreamland creation... we all decided that another trip up soon is due, and this park would be the focus of our attention.
all in all, the trip was extremely awesome, hard to put into words. but if you can relate, u know what i'm talking about...
thanks memphis crew for getting us out and up that way. looking forward to our next trek with the crew!!! keep it trife...
