SPoT Life: Road Trip to Johnny Romano Skate Jam Article at Skatepark of Tampa

SPoT Life: Road Trip to Johnny Romano Skate Jam

Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 by Sebastian

Video by HiDefJoe and Frank Branca.
Words and photos by Aaron Austin.
Joe
Joe had his hairy animal-camera out bright and early Wednesday morning when we rolled into the Tallahassee skatepark.
Markus
Markus Jalaber had support from his cousin who lives in Tally.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam on a chilly backside smith grind. It was freezing that morning!
Alejandro
Alejandro grinded smooth back smiths through this corner every try. It just so happened that Frank was filming Timmy Knuth and his broken board in the background at the time I shot this one.
Dylan
We made it to this DIY spot in Tallahassee to skate for an hour or so. Dylan flew out of the tight quarter to backside 50-50 on the ledge and ollied out into the bank.
Uncle Sam
The tranny was super tight and steep, but Sam popped out of this blunt and rode away pretty easily. He's a freak.
Alejandro
Alejandro - Backside boneless.
Part of the crew at the Tallahassee DIY. Thanks to the locals for taking us there.
Uncle Sam
The next morning we woke up in New Orleans. Sam was busy super-glueing his new shoes before we piled in the van on our way to Baton Rouge.
Uncle Sam
We made it to Baton Rouge and the fun started immediately. Sam half cabbed over the gap while Manny rode through.
Frank
Frank and his homie Jeremy Diagle, who lives in Baton Rouge - they hadn't seen each other in 10 years.
Yonis
Yonis Molina - Switch frontside 180. He did about 10 of these in a row.
Robby
Robby Kirkland can do magic on a ledge. Here's a hardflip backside tailslide.
Markus
Markus did a backside tailslide up and over this ledge, then decided he wanted to bigspin out. He's also a freak.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam - Frontside hurricane.
Alejandro
Alejandro is really fun to skate with, especially if you get to skate a bowl or some type of transition. He had a lot of fun scraping his tail across this hump.
Alex
Alex Bibiloni ollied the bump to bump. She's hyped on those Magenta boards!
Joe
Joe is always filming, so no one ever realizes that he rips. He shut down the session with this lipslide up and over.
Chris
Then the casino money came out. Dylan and Jata came up.
Frank
On Friday morning, we started the day in Houston at this DIY spot that has an amazing view of downtown. Frank got MVP with this nosepick pop-in on the satellite dish.
Alex
Alex got herself a back disaster.
Frank
Frank got a few more tricks once everyone had their fill. Before we took off he did this frontside hurricane transfer.
Nick
We ran into Nick Trapasso, Jon Coulthard, and Raymond Molinar in the streets of downtown Houston.
Markus
Markus Jalabar - Front feeble.
Manny
Manny flew off this front board straight into traffic. Oh wait, that means I was sitting in the street to get this angle. Sketchy.
Markus
Markus is a straight G. Backside 180 nosegrind to fakie on a pencil-thin rail while the entire crew watched.
Frank
When radical maneuvers like this one happen, I remember why I skateboard. Frank barged across this mosaic fountain like he was 9 years old - pure freedom and happiness right there. That shut down our Houston street skating adventure on Friday evening.
Manny
We rolled out of Texas on Sunday morning after the contest and had to stop on the side of the interstate because of a bubble in one of our tires. Impromptu flatground session in the middle of nowhere? Check.
Alex
Instead of waiting patiently, Alex decided to throw on her boots and hitchhike back to Tampa.

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