We i'm starting to feel the love that comes with being a TV celbrity. A nice lady up the road stopped us on the way to school to say " i saw you on telly you looked great"( i meen what do you say to that, er thanks) Did you all get a chance to see it yet?
Well i'm sick of working all the time so it's got to be time to hit Bushy this Sunday even for an hour. Still real word on how Eamons knee is doing, with any luck we'll see him ripping soon.

" Look mum i'm on the telly"

" Look mum i'm on the telly"

Well the wait is over for us in old dogs old tricks RTE's Nationwide have finally showed the piece they did of us in Bushy and it not too bad. I'm sorry that we where unable to let you all know when the program was on in advance but the true of the mater was we never knew ether. i went in to work on Saturday to hear "you looked great last night...."But that's the way show business goes i guess. But all in all i think it turned out well, it's just a bummer that i could not skate on the day but that's life for you. I'm not going to say to much so have a look at it and post a comment I'd love to hear what you think of it. But i must say thanks to everyone who help.

Just look in the top right corner where there is two people standing under an umbrella. Click on "watch the show' and when it starts skip forward to 14 minutes and that's us

http://www.rte.ie/news/nationwide/

Hi Eamon love the art work and the link. That guy has a great style love his art on the decks and hoodie.I'm going to give the tuxedo t-shirt some serious consideration,i love it. The decks are great i love that they look different, i don't know why all new school deck look the same.Its as if deck makers are just lazy and i love riding a deck that no one else has. I love the "Big fish" 10"x32" that would be a great one for you Eamon. I looked at it when i was looking for a new deck months ago and the shape is great. If you are tempted let me know and I'll get you to get me the T-shirt in XL. "Jack the dripper" looks cool but at 9.5"x36" that's one long deck. Keep up the good work buddy hope the knee is better did you miss work in the end? hope to see you pushing your plank soon.

Nice video Scott, those guys rip.Don't think I'll risk a skate this weekend as I,m still getting twinges in my knee but I hope to go to belfast for the opening of the new bowl in the city centre - I'll take my camera. Check out http://www.funhouseskateboards.com/ some cool designs and JJ Rudiskill's artwork is great...

Jeff King Built to shred - ramp to wall ride

these dudes are mad, pivot to fakie on a DIY 7 feet of vert wall

Built To Shred

pivot to fakie on a D.I.Y. rallride madness

Well yesterday was a bit of a bummer what with Eamon paying his dues, but its left me itching for another outing to Bushy. With any luck I'll be able to get out over the next few days. Is any one up for a trip to Bushy some lunch time this week?

Hope your ok Eamon how's the knee?

MEDIC.......................

We had a man down today. After coming all the way down from the north Eamon ended up limping home. He came off doing a simple front side carv which is nothing new, its happened to us all but normally you just slide out on your knee pads and that's it. But Eamon came down strangely, his foot kind of twisted under him and when his knee hit it was bad. We thought it might be dislocated but after a sit down for an hour he limped to his car and headed home. He says it still sore but he went to the Docs and the gave him the all clear so now he has a real reason to use the antique walking stick. Get well soon buddy. Its suck a bummer we had the place to our self's and John and another really good skater from Australia called Ben turned up just as Eamon was putting his leg back together.

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this dude rocks great smooth airs.

Well BBC Acu. weather is still saying sun for Sunday so with any luck we'll have all the gang for Bushy. Has anyone found any cool vids from the X game superpark ?

Bowl-A-Rama 2008 - The Masters

more from Bowl A Rama this time thee masters. it looks like the weather might be good this sunday any one up for a roll around Bushy

Jamail Skate Park (opening day)

MIKE VALLELY -

The great Mike V. love his "bone up " at the start. I've never seen that one before i love his creativeness he comes out with the stanges stuff that no one does.The sound is not great but still very cool

Glad to hear you got a skate to day buddie love the pictures. did you take any pictures of the new set up in Unit 13? I had the pleasure of working all weekend so I'm dying to get out and roll around Bushy for an hour or two.How the hell did you break a kingpin? i don't know if Neil got out this weekend but I'm going to do my best to get a skate before work this week.

Just a couple of pics of Scott and Neil at Bushy a couple of weeks ago...sometimes we get lucky but mostly we suffer from shutter delay and miss the action.

Well I got to skate the new setup at unit13 in Belfast and I must say it has a few new lines, there is a new line between two big 8 foot quarters with a volcano to bank inbetween, kinda reminded me on the old ramp city in dublin a bit except this is a lot faster. There may be more changes on the way too. I even managed to break a kingpin today so it brought my session to an early end, can't wait to try again. Next weekend should be a big weekend at the park as the meltdown fundraiser is happening for details click on the poster on an earlier post.

Just a quick post to say I will be heading to unit 13 on sunday to try the new setup. The photo is of Bennet Harada showing us how to ride that deck, just need to teach mine now! Scott the Bondi Bowlarama is great with some serious airs...

Eamon sent me a link with some pictures of the work the boy and girls of Unit 13 have some to remodel after the floods a few weeks ago, check out the first 3 pictures. Belfast Urban Sports Association at http://www.ourbus.org/.Its looking great with any luck we'll get up to see it some day soon.

BOWL-A-RAMA 2008

you got to love watchingthe masters at work

Neil come through with some cool pictures from our little session on Sunday. It's a killer to think that we have to wait until the 21st for a skate. With any luck the weather will be on our side but i doubt it. Eamon had his camera as well so I'm looking forward to seeing his pictures too and we have finally gotten Niel to be an author on the blog so fingers crossed he'll post something soon

Play with fire and you get burned

"i got a booboo" hit some grit and bust in the deep end and went for a skid

Well we had a ball on Sunday. Not only did Eamon come down but Neil even made a guest appearance. We got there early about 11am but had to wait 20 mins for the guy with the key to get out of bed. But when we did get in and padded up we had the place to our self's for about an hour which was great. The only down side was that when we where there some old girl tried pushing rubbish of the path in the park though the fence in to the skate park and when Eamon said told her not to she got snotty, whats the story with the local of Bushy ??I'm going to try and contact the council tomorrow because i know she will be on the phone giving out about us.

Lets hope the weather holds for tomorrow as Scott says and we'll see if we can persuade our old corpses round the bowl at bushy. Meanwhile check out the events poster for a meltdown weekend at unit 13 in Belfast if anyone is interested, it looks like a good one!

The weather report for Sunday is (drum roll please.......) "sunny" well that what they say on BBC weather center. So if they are right we're going to hit Bushy at around 11 ish. I'm dying to play on the pool tile's again i had a blast last time with Eamon so with any luck we'll see him and Neil on Sunday.

MIKE VALLELY -

this is an epic video of Mike V. the guy has such a cool style not like any other skater out there

Bob Burnquist - The Firm

What i can say about Bob Burnquist the man is from another planet. I dont even know what you cal most of the trick he does and as for his switch crazyness !!!!!!!!

San Diego Skate Session

this looks like a fun little bowl

Man the weather suck i was kind of hoping to sneak out of work for a quick roll around Bushy today but that's never works out for me some how. But we've got our fingers crossed for Sunday.

Eamon sent us another cool update of the bowl that is being built up north, looking good. I don't know anything about it but i we where wondering how are they going to run it, can you rent it? is there a club or something.

well it's Monday and the kids are back in school and I'm pinning for a skate, but the question is are we going to go to Bushy Saturday or Sunday and are we going to get Neil this weekend because its been to long since we all got together for a roll around Bushy. As you might of noticed we now have the pleasure of Eamon as an author for the blog which is great seeing that he was always one of our best sources of info and links.Welcome aboard buddy love your posting keep up the good work.