Pool Season
Posted by Prashant - 13/05/09 at 08:05:09 pm
A handful of riders have been taking advantage of the season and hitting up as many pools as they can before the summer season hits, and they fill up with water. Chris Chitaroni shot a handful of great photos while on a pool mission with Jorden, Rich, and Jeff, wrote some words of pool inspiration and sent them over. Click below to check out it all out in full.
Spring cleaning is a pretty interesting tradition in our culture. After a long winter of being couped up inside, people cleanse their living environments of all the clutter and filth accumulated over the winter. Nowhere does clutter and filth develop like in the bottom of a household swimming pool. Each and every spring, like clockwork, pool owners systematically drain, clean, paint and re-fill their concrete watering holes. In doing so, they give people like us a one or two week window in which we can sneak in and shred their elusive pool trannies.
Pools are alot like girls. They have tight curves, seductive shapes, a dirty drainage area that is usually clogged full of muck at the bottom of them, and you usually spend alot more time thinking about them than you actually do riding them. Jeff Bedard has been on a pool hunting mission like nobody else this year and has a record of 3 pools in a night. After drinking one evening he went pool hunting and somehow fell right into the bottom sludgy part of one of the pools and came dangerously close to being another drunk hobo found floundering dead in the bottom of an abandoned pool by kids the next morning.
The other night we had the opportunity to ride a really cool pool that was lit in the middle of the night. We rode for nearly 2 hours without getting the boot and actually did a good deal of great stuff there. The pool itself really only had transitions in the deep end, worked as a great curved wallride and if you pedaled fast enough at it provided opportunity for airs and stalls (although the transition had easily 2 and a half feet of vert which bordered on being over-vert in places). The thing about pools is they are far from perfect, you need to map out the transitions very carefully in your mind or risk falling face first into the bottom of the bowl. Jeff managed to get right up on coping, even grinding double pegs around the corner of the bowl, Rich Redmond was going fast at the wall and throwing some pretty clicked tables over coping, which was absolutely insane as it was not only a vert wall but his airs were pockets each time. The session was extremely hype, Jorden did some filming so I’m sure footage will make its way to the internet soon so keep your eyes peeled for that.
For all you kids out there who have never ridden a pool but think it would be fun, do it. Just go late at night, toss your bike over the fence and let ‘er rip. You’ve got nothing to lose. Pools are everywhere, apartment complexes, sports centers, people’s back yards, you just need to man up and get your tires in there. You wont regret it.
- Chris Chitaroni
Deep end of the pool.
Jeff Bedard on his hands and knees, putting in work to ride.
Jeff sprawled out.
Jeff Bedard – double peg
Pool boss.
Rich Red – pool table
Chris Chitaroni – downside fastplant
Chris Chitaroni – deep end air
Chris Chitaroni – tight double peg
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good work boys.
Comment by Denver — May 13, 2009 #
Pools are just the street version of park. Its like a gay guy fucking a transsexual, sure she has boobs but she also has a dick. You guys rode “street” but its just a bowl.
Sit on a dick, try not to enjoy it. I dare you.
Comment by footjamsonsundays — May 14, 2009 #
sweet post, what does that comment above even mean?
Comment by Nick — May 14, 2009 #