Camp Kids and the Harvest Jam 2009 Presented by Expedition

Posted on Monday, November 16, 2009 by Rob

By Rob Meronek

After all these years, this is the first time I've ever seen The Moat turtle

The Moat turtle thinks he can hide under can of Busch. That's probably his beer can. This turtle is what inspired Todd Bratrud's Skatepark of Tampa Party Team logo and The Moat Dunk

I have been logging lots of overtime on the keyboard and not enough on the skateboard lately, so when the Skate Camp kids and Wizard Smoke barged my office, I had to hang out with them for a bit

Now they're raising the roof in Schaefer's office

First order of business at Skate Camp is a Frontside Grind Magazine cover shot for Wizard Smoke

You can learn Gonz ollies in Skate Camp

You can learn the hot new moves, too

Justin's new to the crail grab. He'll have it on lock by next time

All little kids know the varial flip. No need to teach that one. Justin's got it

Alejandro is my favorite kid in the Park these days. I think Porpe might have put him up to this pop shuv-it tail grab thing, though

When you're a grown up and you're in the air with your back foot looking like that, you know you need to instantly abort mission. Not these kids. Seconds later this landing resulted in a baby scorpion all the way down the bank continuing into the concrete. Why can't we all just go for it in skateboarding like that?

I have taken many thousands of what seems like all the same photos in the Park over the years, so I'm trying to make them look different. How about a motion blurry backside flip deck check?

The backside flip is a popular move in the tyke divisions. This is Blaine Partridge from the 9 to 12 Division where I pretty much took all my photos. Old guy session coming up another day

Body also picks Hottest Mom of the Contest from this lineup. Guess which one he chose?

Hottest Mom of the Contest was this Georgia peach

That's Favian Rubio hardflipping his way to 1st place in the 16 and Up Division

Who Dat? Stand up stiff feeble grind

Thanks to the Expedition team for hanging out on Saturday. Since they're all over age 11, I didn't shoot any photos of them

Patrick Fischbach has the new varial flip - nollie bigspin

Funny looking kickflips, not funny as in haha. They'll grow out of it

If it's not a deck check, I ain't shooting it - frontside 180

Who Dat? I don't know, but this kid is way too old to be in front of my lens

Lachlan Johnson - baby feeble grind

Justin Atchley used to be in my tyke photography club, but he's grown a foot or two since then. You can tell he's old as hell now since he's all about the meron grabs