SPoT Life: Road Trip to Johnny Romano Skate Jam

Joe Pelham aka HiDefJoe

Joe had his hairy animal-camera out bright and early Wednesday morning when we rolled into the Tallahassee skatepark.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Markus Jalaber

Markus Jalaber had support from his cousin who lives in Tally.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Uncle Sam Bellipanni

Uncle Sam on a chilly backside smith grind. It was freezing that morning!
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alejandro Burnell

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Dylan Perry

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Uncle Sam Bellipanni

The tranny was super tight and steep, but Sam popped out of this blunt and rode away pretty easily. He's a freak.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alejandro Burnell

Alejandro - Backside boneless.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Part of the crew at the Tallahassee DIY. Thanks to the locals for taking us there.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Uncle Sam Bellipanni

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Uncle Sam Bellipanni

We made it to Baton Rouge and the fun started immediately. Sam half cabbed over the gap while Manny rode through.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Frank Branca

Frank and his homie Jeremy Diagle, who lives in Baton Rouge - they hadn't seen each other in 10 years.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Yonis Molina

Yonis Molina - Switch frontside 180. He did about 10 of these in a row.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Robby Kirkland

Robby Kirkland can do magic on a ledge. Here's a hardflip backside tailslide.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Markus Jalaber

Markus did a backside tailslide up and over this ledge, then decided he wanted to bigspin out. He's also a freak.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Uncle Sam Bellipanni

Uncle Sam - Frontside hurricane.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alejandro Burnell

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alex Bibiloni

Alex Bibiloni ollied the bump to bump. She's hyped on those Magenta boards!
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Joe Pelham aka HiDefJoe

Joe is always filming, so no one ever realizes that he rips. He shut down the session with this lipslide up and over.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Chris Jata

Then the casino money came out. Dylan and Jata came up.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Frank Branca

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alex Bibiloni

Alex got herself a back disaster.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Frank Branca

Frank got a few more tricks once everyone had their fill. Before we took off he did this frontside hurricane transfer.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Nick Trapasso

We ran into Nick Trapasso, Jon Coulthard, and Raymond Molinar in the streets of downtown Houston.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Markus Jalaber

Markus Jalabar - Front feeble.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Manny Rodriguez

Manny flew off this front board straight into traffic. Oh wait, that means I was sitting in the street to get this angle. Sketchy.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Markus Jalaber

Markus is a straight G. Backside 180 nosegrind to fakie on a pencil-thin rail while the entire crew watched.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Frank Branca

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Manny Rodriguez

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.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin

Alex Bibiloni

Instead of waiting patiently, Alex decided to throw on her boots and hitchhike back to Tampa.
Date: November 26, 2013
Photographer: Aaron Austin