Ishod Wair – Backside Noseblunt at the World Famous Lenox Ledges – Photo by Zach Malfa-Kowalski

After the rainy Sunday, and these guys having a California-esque experience of driving an hour to a handrail, only to get kicked out in ten minutes, we had one last day before the ways of real professional skateboarding intervene, and demos, events, etc. all take priority. So, Monday was the last day of straight skating around the city, and it was unfortunately marred by indecisive rain clouds, and the fact that it was “a fake nice day” — which is a seemingly favorable temperature that masks the insane level of humidity.

Things got started early at Lenox Ledges, where random crowds of EA Skate fans would intrusively shout their favorite celebrity’s name in the middle of trying a trick, probably because they need to fill the void of rarely seeing Cam’s purple Range Rover up there anymore. The session slowly moved up to the dirty, broken glass ridden, over-the-ledge-down-the-three-block spot that Caswell Berry and Jimmy McDonald skated a few years back, and ended at the newly blown-out (thanks, Transworld, or the QS spots section) Fort Greene Park Monument, where there were three pro teams, five filmers, two photographers, and about twenty people skating right before gigantic rain drops started falling from the sky. Every summer (at least until 12th and A came around), has that one over-blown spot that everyone goes to. For 2010 its looks like the Monument wins the honor. Either that, or it’s just that half of the people in the skateboarding industry are here for Red Bull’s Manny Mania, and can’t exactly skate any of the other things we call “manual pads” in the city too easily.

If you spend a week taking people that are accustomed to Barcelona flatground and Southern California schoolyard asphalt around to New York spots that you think they might like, or be able to skate, only to have the sentiments of the group fall in favor of repeatedly venturing out to the next location, you will slowly start to realize that Jake Johnson is even more of an amazing skateboarder than you previously thought. If you don’t know what that means, or how that’s relevant, then Alien, Quiksilver, Gravis, or Brengar need to arrange for and start raking in the profits from a Jake Johnson reality bus tour. With skate video sales drastically plummeting, reality tours might be the next big money maker for the skate media world.

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