Thursday Night Skate: January 3rd 2019 at KTR Mesa

The first person I saw was my bud Danny Mcquate, There was a glass divider between the check in area and a walk way. I think we jokingly did the whole longing to caress one another but the glass is barricading our affection type of pose.

I did not want to skate that night because the last time I was there I felt like I paid ten to something bucks just to get my ass handed to me; So I decided to snap some pictures that night. Talk about amateur hour.

I went to restroom and I see two blader/Inliners (Edit:It was Christopher Smith and someone else…). I gave a nod of acknowledgement and went towards the skate park portion of the establishment. I saw good amount of skaters there when I stepped in. Hopefully I could get the attendance right based on my faulty memory. In attendance (in no specific order) were: Sam Giese, Derek Stanton, Chris Parks, Kenny Scherf, Nate Brown, Ryan Buchanan, Stephen Parson, Ty Davies, Josiah Jones, Andrew Heath, Beno Thomas and Mike Willoughby, along with this guy with grey EU Valos (Tim Wojutulewicz), and a few other people either I forgot the names of or I forgot that they were there, my apologies. Also Zach Wyman with Remz Skates.

Anyways, I did my greetings with all the skate buddies. I started snapping pictures near the mini half pipe area.

Beno Thomas - X grind

Nate was doing this Ally oop top soul to spin to royal. Looked pretty cool. Not sure if he ever landed one that he was satisfied with.
Stephen was doing his quick footed lines of grinds and stalls. I never get bored of watching Stephen’s hyperactive trick vocabulary.

Ty did a few top Acids and a Wheel Barrel (heel roll Fish brain slide) on the coping. Ty has a certain amount of trick vocabulary that is reminiscent of Jon Elliott.
Sam was trying top soul to something on the extension near the wall.
Ryan and Kenny were filming a clip.
Kenny was attempting to do a Cess slide on the top of a quarter pipe to stall the Makio foot on the coping and then Cess slide down the quarter pipe.

Later on that night, the p rail was being skated by Derek, Josiah, Nate, Chris and Kenny.
Derek was doing alley oop top Acids and many other cool grind switch ups. A good combination of grace and technical foot / body switch

Josiah was doing a sweet top porn, to budget pull up Torque, to a tru top Soyale switch up.

Chris was doing some sleezy / steezy back Torque / Farvs.

Nate did this really impressive back Royale to counter clock wise spin into a Sweatstance.

The session was coming to a close until Kenny and Ty were skating the mega ramp to rail.

Sam told me that our old, friends Britt Myslynki. Devan Stewart. and Kegan Stewart were going to skate at Tempe 2 skate park.

I said a quick good bye to the guys at the KTR session and immediately drove to Tempe 2.

Tempe 2 is just a large bowl. I was not planning on skating so I decided to do some maintenance on my skates and catch up with Britt, Devan and Kegan.

I got there and it was freezing. I lubed up my bearings and rotated my wheels on a few skates and left to meet up with my wife to attend a friends drag show.

Overall the session was fun and skating is probably one of the funniest things that surrounds my life at times. I met a lot of good friends since the beginning and now I feel more encouraged to meet new people who share the same hobby as me.
First Session of the year. 2019, More fun to come.
Serg A. Ybarra  01/15/2018

(oh and for bonus, Here is Ryan Buchanan's Edit of the evening, Thank you again Ryan!!!!)