Best/Worst 2009 – Chris Chitaroni
Posted by Landozine - 31/12/09 at 10:12:03 pmSorry Prashant for bogarting your best of post, but I forgot to send you mine and figured it was just easier to upload myself. I uploaded pictures with mine for superior viewing pleasure.
I had a hell of a time making a best/worst list this year… because every time I thought of something noteable for either best or worst it always kind of straddled the line. So for that reason i’ve got the top ten moments of 2009 along with their pros and cons.
NOT SO METRO.
Pro: Super fun course, Ottawa guys all threw down with pretty good runs, getting drunk and heckling topped it all off and then the legendary dance cave! Rich and Jorden smashing soap dispensers two nights in a row, Harassing the dude working at pizza pizza, putting recycling boxes in the back of cabs, Rich letting the fire extinguisher off in the room… amazing ruthlessness
Con: Rich letting the fire extinguisher off in the room, ruining prashants camera and further damaging Jeff’s smoke ridden lungs.
HULL TRAILS
Pro: Having a new place to ride and seeing everyone come together in the spring to get shit built. Watching ginger do 540s over the dirt spine, Kyle and Greg Flag doings over unders on the jump/berm, actually seeing Chris Campbell come out (once… only once). Beers and trails in the morning before work… can’t wait for spring.
Con: Everyone losing interest in them by July. Having shitty mountain bikers steal the wood for the mini ramp to build big useless kickers, and cut the lips down with their dinnerplate sprockets.
TAZ FINALLY RE-OPENS
you'll never see this at Taz...
Pro: Having an amazing park only 2 hours away is a perfect winter road trip destination.
Con: As a result both South Parc and UAB will undoubtedly struggle. Although I could care less about slippery old south park, it WAS nice to ride once in a while and has now apparently been degraded to an almost ‘road warrior’ish post apocalyptic mess of wood and metal that threatens to envelop your bike with every landing. I’d hate for Taz to be the undoing of UAB though, because that place is more than a skatepark, its a legend.
HECKLING WHITTON @ The MACNEIL DEMO
cmon Ali, you gotta learn to take it if you're gonna make it!
Pro: It was really really really funny.
Con: Now everyone hates Ottawa.
Pro: Did I mention it was funny?
HATE THIS PREMIERE
Pro: Everyone getting together to get ruthless. Lelo and Pat at 39c getting their drunk on and the inevitable cockmaster show, The MTL/Ottawa hockey game, Jorden puking in a pizza pizza and passing out, only to wake up and get ruthless at zaphods and get drunk all over again only hours later.
Con: What a shitty video.
Pro: Rich being cool with heckling.
POOL SEASON
Pro: RIding fucking pools! Do I really need to explain this one? The abandoned pool we rode was my favorite, that or the prince of wales pool… or maybe the Andrew Grant II pool… fuck they were all great. I hear Jeff is already planning his upcoming pool season.
Con: Finding out first hand how retarded Ottawa Police are. (specifically the vanier police). Having him kick us out and tell us we’re lucky he doesn’t beat us up… I sure hope Rich can clean up the force when he gets in there…
TOMMY’S INJURY
Pro: (yup, there is a pro to this.) Having Tommy on the sidelines for a couple of months gives all of us old guys a chance for our egos to mend.
Con: Losing a staple rider in the scene always sucks. Having suffered a big injury myself at the same age when I tore my ACL, I know how much it sucks to have riding taken away from you. Its hard. But sticking with it through all that is what separates us all from the chumps who still wear skate shoes in university and buy skate/bike videos but haven’t touched a bike or board since they ‘rolled their ankle’ back when they were 16 doing something i’m sure they’d describe as super gnarly but is definitely a lie.
39C JAM
Pro: Awesome day of riding on some sketchy ramps. Eating meat, drinking beers, having laughs and getting ruthless.
Con: Kind of a meagre turnout. Lots of riders didn’t bother to show. This isn’t especially a bummer, but definitely a sign that the Ottawa scene is not as tight as it used to be.
MACNEIL DEMO
Pro: Having a reason to go to CP and drink beers and ride.
Con: The demo sucked. Alistair can’t air as high as ted in the 7 foot, and thought we’d be impressed by his feeble stalls… the only good thing to go down was that 3flip to fakie that dude was doing with no shirt on. Macneil needs to sponsor good riders, drop Ali and Silva and pick up Ben already.
Con: Cory Beal. Just kidding dude, I know you have the internet hardwired into your brain and that you’d see this. At least I spelled your name right!
CHRIS BRYAN’S BRUSH WITH DEATH
Con: Watching a good friend lose half his face and start twitching is pretty terrible. As bad as this was for us to see, I can only imagine how shitty it was for Chris to deal with.
Pro: I learned a valuable lesson; gingers unlike zombies can survive a direct blow to the head. Evidently our only weapon against them is sunlight…
ALSO. I have the best and worst of the Gay. Because BMX always has a little gay in it…
BEST.
WORST.
ALL THE BEST FOR 2010!
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You can’t help but laugh at that picture of Andrew.
Comment by Roland — December 31, 2009 #
lol!!!
Comment by Rich Red — January 1, 2010 #