We woke up in Invemere, BC. After a quick breakfast we went to the local skate park which was too perfect and normal to even bother skating. Knowing we had lots of driving ahead, we decided to get on the road. The first stop was….. a skate park.

Me, AKA Uncle Leo getting straight to business with a 180 over the biggest gap at the park. Meantime Jimmy Key is being grumpy and drinking his warm 6 pack to wake up.

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Landing the gap was no problem for me but my stupid belt couldn’t handle it. I have never seen a “leather” belt rip right in the middle …… cheap rollerblading companies. The reason I used the belt was because the button of my pants fell off earlier in the tour from just swimming. Again cheap rollerblading product.

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I was too juiced to get a different belt or change my pants, so I just did a 540 with my pants falling off. True bad ass. TASK WHAT !!!

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Landing the drop followed with my shorts dropping…… cheap gear.

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Ron Mac AKA Todd had to show me who’s boss with this huge zero spin shifty like only Todd can.

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Even though we got a perfect clip and a perfect pic first try. I made Todd do it 5 more times to get more perfect clips and pics. Surprisingly his frame broke.

Here is another one of Todd’s perfect pics.

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The kids at the park were arguing who is better, Uncle Leo or Ron Mac. We both skated very good, so the kids had to fight it off.

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It was very hot and everyone had their T-shirts off but I wanted to be different so I took my shorts off. As you can see I had some hot Canadian boxers that Eli bought for me in Banff.

Bank to soul.

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After this hot session We drove all day through beautiful British Columbia. Todd was driving while I was color correcting pictures for the tour update. We stopped at Castlegar, BC for a quick bite to eat and a not so quick tour update. When we got out of the restaurant it was nearing sunset. We asked the waitress if they had a skate park in town and lucky for us there was an amazing park 2 blocks away.

I have to say that Todd killed that park with his broken frame. He got some amazing clips but his tricks were way too advanced for pictures. Thats where I come in handy with a normal trick.

Straight air into the bank followed by 2 royales full speed. The line on video is much better than it sounds.

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Jimmy Key being the superstar that he is had to get the last trick of the tour.

Jimmy roll to mute almost killing me on his landing.

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After the session we decided to drive all the way to the city of StevieE… Kelowna, BC. StevieE was very excited about the fact that we were coming so he was drinking all day. We arrived at his house at 3 AM. StevieE was no where to be found…. he didn’t answer his door buzzer or his phone AKA he got way too HYPHY and passed out. He didn’t leave us much choice but to drive another 2 hours to Kamloops, BC.

Jimmy Key is about to go back to his own bed after a month of touring….LUCKY

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Todd was another lucky guy. His girlfriend Carly was visiting her parents in Kamloops for the weekend, so he didn’t have to endure another 3 hours of drive back to Vancouver.

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After 20 hours of driving and 38 days of touring Mr. and Ms. Shop-Task are back home and will be sleeping for the next few days.

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So this is it for the TASK AROUND TOUR 2008, I hope you all enjoyed the daily updates. The blog will stay up and it will have a permanent link from the main page of www.SHOP-TASK.com. We captured a ridiculous amount of footage and will be producing a DVD.

I want to thank everyone that was a part of this unforgettable journey across our country. I would love to mention everyones names but out of the 300-400 people that I have met and skated with on the way I would definitely miss a few.

SHOP-TASK’s purpose is to unite all Canadian skaters and make our scene bigger and stronger than ever. TASK AROUND is one of the biggest and most effective steps in this direction. Thank you all for supporting Shop-Task and making it possible.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR….. TASK WHAT!!!

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-LEON BASIN

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Ron Mac – 540 over the table with his legs crossed

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Leon Bunsky – hopping this straight air to rock then 180 to flat.

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Carson pretty much joined our tour for the 3 days we were in Calgary. He skated and took lots of pictures. Here he is busting a hot true mizou on his last day. Who’s in charge of giving out the StevieDVD here? How come he didn’t get one?

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Dale getting dirty for the camera.

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Dale – late fakie 360

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Afterwards we followed Tommy D and Goss to the Banff skatepark only to find it closed and in the midst of construction. The boys snuck in anyways and got a few clips and pictures before they got kicked out. Todd – transfer with his legs crossed again

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After a nice meal, we wanted to leave Banff but Todd didn’t want to go without getting a clip. Todd – full speed to stump to gap over fence.

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Another angle of another cross legged air.

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Bunsky and I, tired of seeing another one of Todd Mac’s cross legged kicks.

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Tomorrow is the last day of the tour. We will be driving through Beautiful BC and skating some amazing spots as always.

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-ELI

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Jessy Culp was busting hard for the cameras.

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Most of the tricks that day were to complex to get photographed, but we sure got some hot footy.

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Ron Mac with a bank to bank air after Jimmy Key checked his bank.

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After the urban downtown session we skated this very nice park with many geese that pooped all over the park.

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Todd was very happy with this line … jump over bush to mono 360 off the rock. He got very mad at me when I said, it’s pretty good for what it is. From now on I know how to push his buttons.

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Dale Philips with an actual trick …. fakie 360 Liu kang .

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We are staying another night in Calgary to get hyphy with our homies. Tomorrow we will skate Chocrane skate park and Banff.

Keep it sleazzy.

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-LEON

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The shower was surprisingly decent, Jimmy Key was happy about that.

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We drove to Medicine Hat to skate with Travis Nabe, who ended up coming to C-town with us for the Wednesday Night Session. Here he gets his juice flowing with a mute 360.

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I have to be honest, when Leon told me he was going to do this, I doubted him. Leon proving me wrong (again) – bank to top soul.

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Uncle Leo – alley oop fishy.

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Leon woke up on the right side of the bed. He was fucking on fire. Throughout the day he ended up getting well over ten amazing clips for the video.

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We had enough of the skate park and left. Walking out the exit was too boring for Travis, so he mute gap 180ed over the fence.

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Like I said, Uncle Leo was on fire. We went to Brooks and Leon found the biggest gap in the park.

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Todd – lui kang to “C” carve medspin out.

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Travis Nabe – triumphant mute over the hip.

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The locals were intrigued by our blade skills, even though we can’t do backflips.

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Arriving at Millennium Skatepark for the Wednesday Night Session was like a big family reunion.

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We’re explaining to Jimmy Key how common it used to be for bladers to bust Misty Flips. Tommy D keeps it old school.

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Greg – topacid into the bank.

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Mike – soul to back torque into the bank.

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Chase – kind grind into the bank.

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Chase – alleyoop fish into the bank. After he did this one, he had the biggest smile on his face.

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Chase – soul grind.

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Jessie Karma – top soul.

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Tommy D – FF Torque in C-Town. WTF TSWHS

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Bunsky – backside backslide 270 out on the 34th try.

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Everyone wanted to skate so we recruited Matt to do some filming. I believe in this photo he was filming Leon’s 23rd backslide attempt.

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This was the most impressive trick of the night. Mike – front farv up and across mute 180 out.

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Although his head is facing forwards, he is actually going backwards. The Culprit alleyoop top porn.

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Nabe stayed with us until about 3 in the morning even though he had to be at work at 6 which is about 3 or 4 hours drive. We rewarded his dedication with a copy of the StevieDVD.

Tomorrow we’ll be skating street in Calgary with the lucky locals who don’t have to work.

Thank you for your patronage and decision to click your way to our tour update. Keep it sleazy mickeasy..ce soir.

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-Todd McInerney

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The first spot was at the Parliament building. They had the best public washrooms I’ve pooped in while on this tour. Leon hit this gap to the stair in a line right before it started to rain.

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We packed up our shit to head somewhere else and Leon put his coffee on the roof. He was sitting in the car talking to Richie and the coffee spilled all over his shoulder. Richie was disgusted with Leon’s misfortune.

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Our plan to street skate in Regina didn’t work out due to rain, so we drove to Swift Current and hit the park there. Jimmy Key – disaster lui kang tru mizu.

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Todd (me) – roll up the steep ass bank to soul 180 gap over ledge.

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It was a tough trick to film, but Uncle Leo came through in the clutch, and he changed his shirt.

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Leon – ledge roll to gap into the bank in a line.

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In order get enough speed to do this rocket transfer, I had to jump into the bank of the table seen in the background.

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Eli doesn’t blow at filming.

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We were all tired and hungry so we drove to Boston Pizza and treated ourselves to some mediocre pasta. 

Tomorrow were meeting up with Travis Nabe in Medicine Hat and making our way to C-town for the Wednesday Night Session.

Thank you for reading and appreciating the tour update.

-Todd McInerney

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After a hot smelly drive from Brandon to Regina, we met up with Richie, Devon, and Dustin for an evening blade session at their park. We were stoked to see them and they were stoked to see us.

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Dustin Werbeski is absolutely incredible, and he wears some of the deepest v-neck shirts I’ve ever seen. He’s also my girlfriend’s favorite rollerblader in the world, beside’s me of course. Here he rocks out with a fresh disaster savanna.

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Dustin follows it up with a perfect disaster backslide (to fakie of course).

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Devon keeps it steazy like only he can with a fast true topacid.

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The most well known rollerbader in Canada, Richie Eisler laces this true mizu up the ledge.

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I was missing my girlfriend, so I thought doing this mediocre topacid would help, it didn’t.

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Richie takes full advantage of the possibilities of rollerblading with this mizu up the rail transfer to soul on the ledge.

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Devon changes his shirt for this true fishy.

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Alf, sorry I mean Dustin – mono roll to alley oop fish.

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You can decide whether you like grabbed or ungrabbed alley oop fishies.

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Dustin – backslide up…grabbed.

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Dustin – backslide up the kink 270 out.

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Got the time Dustin?

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Trio rail grind o’clock.

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“P” is for Precise. Richie – Backside Backside.

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Devon – outspin fishy.

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A trip to Regina isn’t complete without a game of mini golf. Dustin’s girlfriend Katelyn mopped the floor with us and we found out that Jimmy Key sucks at mini golf, I’m not so great myself.

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Somehow I got stuck keeping score.

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The mini golf crew minus the winner.

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After an epic battle were off to Richie’s to play NBA jam and get a sneak preview of the new Regina video “The Regina Monologues”, which, by the way is fucking hot.

The next day we were off to blade the swift current park and make our way towards Calgary, Alberta.

Thank you for your patience,

-Todd McInerney

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Someone must of gotten really hyphy the night before and vomited in downtown Winnipeg. Dave was lucky enough to run over it with his car. 

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Leon busts out the first trick of the day – freestyle makio.

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I couldn’t let Uncle Leo have all the fun – handplant wallride to 180 drop.

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Leon busts out a very canadian bank roll to rocket fish at spot number two.

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I was outraged that I had to do this roll up the bank to freestyle fishy bank roll out.

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Leon doesn’t fuck around, sweaty from the ground.

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At the same spot was this street hip with a super steep landing, my legs were really happy about it.

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Spot number three was this small, but really fun skatepark that I can’t remember the name of. Uncle Leo shows us who’s boss with this chest high topacid.

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Leon pushes his luck with this rocket fishbrain.

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There was this really fat kid at the skatepark wearing a massive white/dirt covered shirt/dress. He was riding around on a shitty bike and approached me with a big grin on his face. He said “wanna try?”. I was confused and asked him “try what?”. He gestured towards his shitty bike. I said “no”.

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Then I skated really fast and did this quick drop to long jump.

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Self consciously, I didn’t want this photo included. That would have been a mistake because I’m sure you’re all gonna have a good laugh, so enjoy. Darkside soul to 180 gap over the grass.

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In order to lui kang this gap, I had to get a really long run up. So I made it worth my while and did it in a line for Uncle Leo’s memory recording device. You can see the fat kid on the bike I was telling you about watching me in the background.

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Between Winnipeg and Brandon, Leon pulled over for Eli to go to the bathroom. There was some kids hanging out and skateboarding this tiny grind box. I couldn’t resist showing them some dope ass blade maneuvers.

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The kids were stoked to see dudes from out of town so they smoked us up. They were all down for a group photo and we even got the girl that was working inside to join us.

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Then we drove to Brandon to sleep for the night in a cheap hotel. Tomorrow we’re heading for Regina to blade and play mini golf with the Regina boys.

Peace the fuck out.

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-Todd McInerney

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Instead of skating this amazing park, I pissed out of my ass a bunch of times and munched on Tums, which didn’t help my diarrhea at all. That’s OK, it’s not like I wanted to skate it anyway, I mean, the park isn’t fucking incredible or anything.

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If Uncle Leo was a fish, he would probably look something like this, and he’d probably be cool with Dave royale sess sliding his back.

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Nigel – 180 launch 

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Nigel – mute gap into the bank

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One of the local rippers ripping it with a ripping 180 … ripping!

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Dan the man acid soulerama like only Dave can.

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Jimmy Key was hungry from some hard blading so he started gnawing on his shoe and showing off his grillz with a “z”.

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Lee Mcmillan wears a really nice shirt and tames his hair which can’t be tamed while doing this top soul.

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Lee decides to do a 180 launch while continuing to wear a really nice shirt and taming his hair which can’t be tamed.

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Eli got a bunch of hot clips on this razor sharp ledge.

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After submitting her resume on the ledge previous, Eli took a nasty fall and scraped up her hand pretty bad. Leon cleaned her wounds like a good boyfriend.

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After blading, we checked into a really nice Holiday Inn with a pool and a hot tub and very friendly service. It’s a good thing we switched hotels because we heard on the news that there was a drive by shooting at the sketchy one we stayed in last night. 

Tomorrow we’re skating street downtown and hopefully not having diarrhea. Wow, I spelt diarrhea right first try, that’s a hard one.

We all want to send our best wishes and get well soon vibes to “the real deal” Jason Steele. Feel better soon buddy.

Peace Out,

-Todd Mac

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We woke up in a town that none of us can remember the name of. After eating some Tim Horton’s, we were on the road towards Kenora.

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Eli and I enjoying our break from sitting inside the stink mobile. There’s no mistaking who’s who.

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We arrived at the skatepark in Kenora and started busting out. The locals had really white teeth and were fascinated by people rollerblading on their park.

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Leon gets in on the action with a delicious back unity.

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Leon Basin with a very precise gap into the steep bank.

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I was drinking a beer at the park and a local kid tried to tell me not to. He said they (the locals) would be blamed for it. I told him I would put it in the garbage when I was done and nobody would be blamed for anything and when he gave me a dirty look, I told him to go back to church, THIS IS A FUCKING SKATEPARK.

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Then I skated really fast and launched an abstract 540.

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Uncle Leo transcends the coping with a back royale.

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After the park sesh we drove to this kinker so leon could do a top soul to back backslide.

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Uncle Leo, top soul to gap into the parking lot.

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Leon, quality control.

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We got to Winnipeg and checked into the sleeziest motel we could find. It smelt like piss but it was cheap and actually had some pretty sweet paintings on the wall. In the morning Eli woke to find bugs crawling all over the bed. Quick thinking Leon put one of the bugs into a jar and showed the front desk, and we didn’t have to pay for the room.

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Me, abstract 360 from bed to bed without spilling a drop of beer, what.

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Manitoba has a chain of restaurants called Salisbury House. I don’t recommend it. We waited about two hours for our food, and the next day I pissed out of my ass all day.

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Tomorrow we’re skating some parks in Winnepeg and checking into a different motel.

Peace Out.

-Todd Mac

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I’m not sure why, but in Wawa there were three of these massive wooden geese. Maybe the town was named after the sound birds make?

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I told Leon not to take pictures of me doing my morning blade yoga routine on this rock, but he did anyway.

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Somewhere between Wawa and Thunder Bay, Eli enjoys some fresh air and beautiful scenery.

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We pulled over for some gas and Leon pressured me to rocket front torque this rail, only when I did it, I jumped way too high and flew right over it.

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In Thunder Bay, we skated this ghetto park and it was actually quite fun. Here, Leon hits a full speed gap from the ledge to the wooden bank. The locals were fucking stunned.

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We all thought this sign was pretty funny so we tried to get Jimmy to air over it for a photo. But he didn’t want to. Leon wouldn’t let it go, he kept bugging Jimmy to do it and threatened to kick him off the tour if he didn’t. It turned into a big scene and Jimmy got really pissed off. He started skating the rail over to the side and Leon kept bugging him about not jumping over the rail. Then Jimmy did a half backflip off the rail and fell really hard on his hip. He pulled his skates off and got really pissed at Leon. Then we drove away and the car was really silent. Then after about five minutes of complete silence, Leon and I started laughing really hard.

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Afterwards, we ate really good sandwiches at Mr.Sub. Then drove for a few hours to get closer to Kenora, Ontario.

Today we will skate Kenora and then drive to Winnipeg, Manitoba where we will blade and party with the Winnipeg crew until Sunday.

4 more info please contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK.

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-Todd McInerney

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Next stop is Thunder bay, ON

For more info please contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-LEON

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On the way we stopped for some bacon, sausage, ham, eggs, toast, and friendly service from an older woman. As you can see, James and Nick forgot to drink the brown magic water.

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DP gets the action started with a backslide hop the crack to alley-oop fish.

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DP keeping it hot with a back side back slide.

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Jimmy Key gets in on the curvy action.

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Jimmy Key begged us not to use this photo of him.

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This is for everyone who laughed at the previous photo.

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I thought it would be funny to sneak up behing Jimmy and pretend to slice his throat with a knife I found on the ledge. But when I did, he flinched and I accidentally cut his hand. I felt bad. Luckily, my girl packed me some band-aides. Thanks Carly, sorry Jimmy

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The University of Guelph found out we were coming and built this bank for Leon to bust this Lui Kang transfer.

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We spotted this mural on the side of a bong store and just had to stop for a photo. A lady who had just purchased a bong for her son walked out and offered to take the photo so we could all be in it. Thanks lady.

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Instead of skating we posed like this for about two hours.

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DP back royale to makio stall back to soul.

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Next stop was downtown Hamilton. Nick jumps on and slides down.

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This is me after smashed my shin really hard on a sharp ledge while doing probably the silliest trick ever.

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DP porn to royale to alley-oop top porn.

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Jon Craig – royale to fifteen foot transfer over a rail to royale while getting mad props from some Hamilton thugs.

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DP Dumpster grind.

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DP rolled this kinked drop ledge but Leon blew the photo. This is DP doing it again.

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Someone wanted to share their opinion on boobs. I agree with his opinion.

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DP caps off the day with some full speed gaps while everybody pointed their memory devices at him.

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Harvey’s is cool because you get to customize you burger, then you can loiter in their parking lot for a couple hours.

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We dropped off DP and thanked him for the memories. He was happy to walk away with the StevieDVD.

After a long day of skating we drove all night towards Thunder Bay.

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-Todd McInerney

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Jimmy Key whined all night like a little bitch about how much his back hurt. He spent most of the day lying on his stomach like this.

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Todd laced this alley-oop fishbrain while listening to the ambient sounds of a baseball game in the background. Look, it says Fuck on the quarter pipe!

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Leon’s a fucking slave driver. All he did all day was tell people to do good shit for his camera, then tell them to do it better.

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Aaron McInnis shows Todd how to alley-oop fish like a “real man”.

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Bye Wheat!

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What time is it Uncle Leo?  “It’s steazy tru mistrial o’clock.

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Mr and Mrs Task couldn’t keep their horny hands off of each other after being separated for over two weeks.

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Eric Burrow shows how awesome he is with this awesome fish. Awesome!

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I felt kinda bad for laughing my ass off after this fall…no I didn’t.

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This is Andrew Boyle. Not only is he a badass blader, he’s also really good at standing…really good.

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Andrew displays his athleticism with this stomach high alley-oop top soyale, and he didn’t even shit his pants.

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Andrew takes a break from standing really well with this full speed top soul up the rail 720 off.

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Andrew and Eric sitting on the ledge…together.

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Dan (DP) with a full speed soul grind to mute air.

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After a wild day of blading, we went over to DP’s house where we drank beers, ate burgers and hot dogs and chips, and watched blade videos on his big screen projector.

Today we skated Guelph and Hamilton all day that’s why we couldn’t update the blog earlier…sorry! We’ll be working on the updates for tomorrow during our all night drive towards Thunder Bay. Peace Out.

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-Todd McInerney

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We went to iceland skate park where we found over 40 rollerbladers, for some reason it was easy to take this picture.

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Alex Petrov lacing this 540 over the box.

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Jon Craig sliding the ledge in the backslide position, damn his watch is shiny.

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Aaron Mciness just finished chopping down trees and came out to show everyone his alleyoop top porns.

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Jon Craig with bouncy dreds on this sick fishbrain.

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Justin with one of the most stylish 270 backside full torques I have ever seen.

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AJ Delong with this fakie to topsoul.

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Jon Craig ordered steez with his burger but they gave him a back royal up the ledge instead.

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Serge doing an alleyoop fish luckily he grabs with his left because he dislocated his right shoulder a few days ago in MTL.

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Dp hitting a 270 Bs savana rocking it to death metal.

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Dave Ghent tru mizou first try as always.

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Jong with a mizou 360 out with those fresh looking Nimhs.

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Eric showing off his hip skating skills, everyone is jealous of his hat and this frame grabbing attitude.

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This skate boarder wanted to act like us rollerbladers, maybe next time buddy.

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Nick handing over some hot CanadianRoll.ca merchandise, Leon is such a grom look at how excited he gets over free stuff.

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Quick stop down town toronto where we could hear urban beat boxers ripping freestyles like there’s no tomorrow. 

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Todd had the freestyle stuck in his head which inspired him to do this bonk to soul.

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Today we will be skating Milton and finish the day in Guelph, ON at DP’s house.

For more info please call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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The mayor of brampton ripping it on the skateboard.

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After the skateboard the mayor tried to bike around the park, It wasn’t a great success.

Everyone is helping the mayor up, after the terrible fall on her face. The mayor had good sportswomenship, she got up and biked around the park saying it’s part of the game.

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Nick Damico from Canadian Roll was there to cover the event. 

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Dave Ghent preping the demo line up. 

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It started raining after 2 minutes of demo. The park became a huge sess slide platform.

Leon Basin sess slide 270 out. 

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Roger wilkinson from CANADIAN ROLL repping it hard in the demo with this true mizou.

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AJ Delong from BLADR repping it even harder with this true mizue up.

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Leon Basin Fishbrain.

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AJ Delong back unity.

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Roger Wilkinson true savana.

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Leon Basin Back full tourque up to gap, no  success.

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AJ Delong Sweat stance. 

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Leon Basin Makio.

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Leon Basin Backslide.

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Aj killed it with this fakie to topsoul on the super wet floor. 

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DP won a skateboard and quite rollerblading.

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After the rainy session we all went to hang out at Tim Hortons and do tour update…….I hate tour update.

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Later on we drove StevieE to the airport. Believe it or not but StevieE has to go back to work. Work is for the poor and thats why we gave him a free “StevieE DVD 2007″ 

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Today we will pick up Eli Vuong and Todd McInerney from the airport. We will skate the Brampton park again and then skate Mississauga park all night.

For more info please call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-LEON

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We waxed this ledge and got kicked out without even trying it.

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We then went to check out a kinked rail to find that the HULK didn’t like people skating it. Heading to another spot we found these rails.

Leon – Backslide.

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DP – Kindgrind.

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After a few tricks, we got kicked off this spot as well. So we crossed a parking lot and found this bank to rail.

Mike – Topsoul.

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Mike – Topacid to BS Backslide.

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Leon with another backslide.

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Jimmy Key went back to bed.

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Joshua Key – Full Torque.

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Dippy – Back Full Torque to Makio back to Back Full Torque.

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DP – Back Royale Transfer to Royale all Sleazied in that air TONIGHT.

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We got kicked out of a third spot and got a photo with the security guard.

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We got to Leon’s parents house in Toronto and his Mom had a Russian Cuisine ready for us. Jimmy Key almost puked 15 times.

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StevieE and DP keepin it sleazy on the couch before bed.

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We woke up early today and did a demo for the opening of the new skatepark in Brampton. We got to see the Mayor fall on her face trying to ride a BMX at the opening. You’ll see the demo pics on the tour update tonight.

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For more info please call Leon at 1800-978-TASK.

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-StevieE

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DP is warming up with first try AO top-porn.

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DP again with this supper fast AO top-acid 360 out.

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Jason Squirrel stole Immony’s skates and snuck in to the parc for a free session, doing a sneaky front tourque.

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Jimmy Key 360

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A few of us were skating this huge bank to ledge for a while. Leon Basin AO top-acid 360 out.

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StevieE with a full cab Ao-soyal.

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Leon Basin Fishbrain over the hump to a sick line for the camera.

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Leon is checking the footage.

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After the south parc session we drove back to Ottawa, ON where every one went to the club and got super HYPHY. I stayed home to do a bunch of work on shop-task website. When the guys got back home StevieE was way to drunk and couldn’t handle the tour update. That’s why I had to do it in the morning………. I hate tour update.

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Today we will skate Ottawa in the morning and drive to Toronto. We want to stop at few spots on the way to Toronto.

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-LEON

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Starting the day off at the Holiday Inn pub, sponsored by the Bank of Steve.

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After switching rooms due to “dirty things” under the bed, we grabbed some liquor and started drinking again.

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We went to the club so Leon could bring pool into fuse ball.

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After Josh smashed this bottle, he tried to collect all the beer he wasted.

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Leon matched the bathroom wall quite nicely.

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DP supporting Shop-Task

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Josh tried to stop drinking cause he felt “sick”, so StevieE and DP forced him to chug this pitcher.

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After the club, Jimmy Half a Chub Key was really happy about all the crazy antics of the night.

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Josh passed out, so we filled a condom up with mayo and slapped him around with it.

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Today we’re gonna skate in Montreal, then head back to Ottawa, ON.

For more info, please call Leon at 1800-978-TASK.

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-StevieE

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First spot of the day, Baseline skate park.

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Jimmy Key – Cross Grab Back Torque.

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Josh Boyd – Mute into the spine.

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John Craig – AO Topsoul.

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The Russian Bad Boy – Torque

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John Craig – Top Porn.

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John and Surge keepin it sleazy.

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After a long day of skating we arrived at South-Parc, Montreal for a chill session. Thanks to everyone that came to the session

Max Free – Zero Spin AO Soul.

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Shawn Tucker – Fullcab Truespin Savanna.

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The Russian Bad Boy – AO Soul.

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Immony – Inspin Topsoul.

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Max Free – 540.

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Shawn Tucker – Launch to Soul Stall.

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Leon loving the South-Parc Session.

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Shawn Tucker – Inspin Topsoul.

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Josh Boyd loving the session as well.

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The Russian Bad Boy and Leon at the afterparty.

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The tour today was the biggest turnout so far. Thanks to everyone that came out. Tomorrow we are gonna skate and stay another night in Montreal. No thanks to tour update for keeping me up until 8AM.

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For more information or questions, please call Leon at 1800-978-TASK.

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-StevieE

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Today was a very rainy day as usual. We all teamed up and rented a local indoor skate park. The session was amazing and we all killed it.

Sebastian Daigle with a crazy Misty flip.

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Leon Basin dressed like Jimmy Key- Wall stall to fakie.

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Sebastian again with a big air.

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Leon Basin – 360 mute to a hot line for the camera, filmed by StevieE’s sleazy eye.

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Brandon Shaugnasy – Wall ride to fakie.

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Josh was skating with no buckle but it didn’t stop him from killing the session again.

Josh Boyd – Back royal 270 out on a sketchy wabbelly rail held by Jimmy Key.

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Tonight we are expecting some guys from Toronto to join us for a good night of sleep. Tomorrow we will skate Ottawa in the morning and meet up with more guys from Toronto to join us for the FREE South-Parc, Montreal session.

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REMINDER by John Craig

Shop Task is holding another great session at South-Parc, located in Montreal, QC. This parc session is part of the Shop-Task Around Tour.

This post is rather last minute, but bare with me.

The session is TOMORROW Tuesday, April 29th from 10pm – Midnight at South-Parc.

*Admission is FREE

*All participants will be granted $20 in Shop-Task Dollars

*Also you will be seen in the Shop-Task DVD to be released this summer.

If anyone is able to drive to this event please leave your contact info, as we need as many people from Ontario to show up and support the scene.

For any more info contact LEON at 1-800-978-TASK

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-LEON

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They took us to some amazing rails – Gatineau handicaps.

Jeff Doctor – Mistrial 360 out.

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Mike Snedker – Full torque to true mizou.

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Curtis Diplock – Sweatstance

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StevieE – Royale sitting all gangster on it, just for Leon.

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Josh & Curtis are tired of Leon taking 100 pictures.

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Josh Boyd was dropping mad hammers for the camera – Fakie to royale to 180 mute. .

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Sebastian Daigle – Royale 270 out.

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Josh Boyd again with a kindgrind 360 out.

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Everyone is tired after a long session.

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After the session we went to the Ottawa skate house where we got HYPHY and stayed for the night..

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We got way too drunk to do the updates last night.

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Today it’s raining again so we will be renting a local skate park. Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 29) we will be renting South-Parc in Montreal. Everyone should come out to South-Parc at 10:00 pm and skate for free. Everyone that shows up will also get a $20 Shop-Task gift card. So you basically get paid to skate.

For more info, please contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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A quick oil change after trying to find a place to do it for 2 hours.

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Some artsy fartsy photo at 120 km/h.

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Another artsy fartsy photo.

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We found a bird so Leon had to take a picture. StevieE was not impressed by the cold wind.

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Finding this moose peeing was the highlight of our day.

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Tomorrow morning we’re gonna drive to Ottawa and skate then get HYPHY and spend the night.

For more information call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-StevieE

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The dam in Thunder Bay.

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StevieE zoned out with Jimmy being excited we finally got to do laundry.

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Leon busy on the phone with a coffee and a cigar outside the laundromat

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Jimmy and StevieE playing in the laundry carts.

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Jimmy managed to dye some of his clothes pink. Clearly his mommy does all his laundry at home.

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We spent the rest of the day in the hotel pool and the bar.

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Jimmy filming the ghetto antics within the hotel.

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The Jimmy Key video.

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As you can see the conditions weren’t the best for skating, so we spent the day and most of the night in the car.

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Leaving Winnipeg while keeping it SLEAZZY.

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We made it to Ontario and kept on driving all the way to Thunder Bay, which is about 6 hours drive from the Ontario/Manitoba border.

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For the record, StevieE didn’t drink today. Tomorrow will be a very busy day for StevieE, he has lots of drinking to catch up on. The weather should be good and we are hoping to get a lot of skating done. We will stay at Thunder bay tomorrow night and drive to Timmins, ON the next morning.

For more information please contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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Leon Basin – Top Soul sitting all gangster on it.

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Lee McMillan – Top Acid.

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Jimmy Key – Backslide to AO Fish 270 out.

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Leon Basin – Rocket Fishbrain to Fakie.

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After skating the park, we went back to Lee’s house cause he had to go to work.

Lee getting a Razors t-shirt, the Razors Closer/Uncloned DVD, and most importantly, a StevieDVD 2007 for letting us stay at his house.

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We then met up with Dave Schlaikjar and headed to the University to Skate. Jon met us there.

Jon – Fishbrain sitting way more gangster on it then Leon.

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Leon Basin – Soul Grind to a huge 180 Mute.

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After skating we got cleaned up and headed to the bar to celebrate Lee’s birthday… AGAIN!

StevieE – First time on tour sitting in the back seat being way too tall.

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StevieE after ordering surprise drinks and shots making rollerblading look even gayer.

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Group photo right after one of the surprise shots.

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More SHOTS by StevieE

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StevieE paying the bill that is almost as tall as him.

We’re hoping to stay in Winnipeg another day depending on weather. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow here, and if it does we’re heading out towards Quebec, if not we’re gonna stay another night here.

For more information call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-StevieE finishing the blog at 5:30AM… ALONE. Everyone else passed out by 2:30AM except for Jimmy who passed out at 3AM.

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Leon Basin – Soul Grind

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As we arrived in Winnipeg, all we could see was wheat bails.

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We met up with Dave Schlaikjar, Dan Buchanan, and Lee McMillan at the Skatepark West in Winnipeg.

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Jimmy Key – Backslide to AO Fishbrain

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Lee McMillan – Mute 180 over Tony Hawk.

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We then went to the Winnipeg Skate Plaza where StevieE is still sessioning beers.

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Dave Schlaikjar – Acid Soul

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After skating we went to the Round Table Pub for some HYPHYNESS AKA Lee’s pre-celebration birthday. Merry 21st Mr. McMillan.

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4 people in the back seat to cut down on drinking and driving. Remember Jimmy.

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StevieE still stunned doing Tour Update outside of a school by Lee’s house while drinking a 30 pack with the Winnipeg Crew.

Skating the parks in Winnipeg was amazing today. We’re staying the night at Lee’s house and are very excited to skate some more parks and some street tomorrow, then celebrate Lee’s birthday in Winnipeg, AGAIN, AT THE SAME TIME!

For more information, contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

-StevieE

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Leon woke up StevieE and Jimmy Key to get out of Swift Current. No wonder why skateboarders call rollerbladers gay.

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Jimmy Key sleeping (as usual) as we left Swift Current.

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Another artsy fartsy photo on the way to Regina to try and escape the snow and the cold.

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Check this out! It’s another artsy fartsy photo escaping the snow and cold.

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We were happy to arrive in Regina to see that there was no snow on the ground there.

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We showed up at the Regina indoor park to find it was closed.

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After making a call and getting directions from Chase Gardiner, we found the infamous Arcola Rails.

Leon Basin – Mistrial

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Leon Basin – Misfit

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After watching and cheering for Leon skating Arcola, we gave these kids a StevieDVD 2007 and some Shop Task business cards before we left Regina.

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Another artsy fartsy photo on the way to Winnipeg.

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We stopped to find some more beer for the drive to Winnipeg and found that Senate has started a skate shop in Brandon, MB.

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We went around back to find out that Senate was a skateboard company.

Leon Basin wearing a classic Senate shirt at the Senate Skateboarding Shop.

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Leon doing tour update while StevieE yells at him.

After we found the Senate Shop, we found some amazing street spots so we decided to stay the night in Brandon, MB to skate some spots when we woke up before leaving to Winnipeg.

For exact times or more information, contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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Justin left the tour and bought the StevieDVD 2007.

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Thanks to all of the ice and snow we were able to create this photo to be all artsy fartsy.

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StevieE was happy to make it to the hotel room without being another one of the 60 vehicles in the ditch.

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Jimmy Key drinking it off.

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Jimmy Key, StevieE, and Leon sharing the last bed in all of Swift Current.

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StevieE doing the tour update on video while Leon is passed out.

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We weren’t able to skate today, but we’re gonna drive to Regina tomorrow to skate the indoor (if its open?) and get HYPHY.

For more information, call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

-StevieE

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StevieE has changed, he now goes by the name StevieEMO.

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StevieEMO and the Calgary boys are about to hit that mini ramp, tonight.

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Good times, we kept it sleazy.

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Jimmy K. with this cesslide up to fishbrain stall, 270 royal cesslide down.

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Tommy D introduced us to a new TRICK POKER GAME on the mini ramp. The game was sponsored by Shop-Task and IDFA.

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Dan Clark the winner of TRICK POKER GAME received a set of Crap bearings, IDFA tee-shirt, StevieE DVD 2007 as well as a $10 Shop-Task gift coupon which was given to everyone that showed up tonight.

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Tomorrow we will try to make it as far as possible from that crazy snow. We should make it to Regina.

For more info call LEON at 1800-978-TASK

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-LEON BASIN

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The driving conditions through the Rockies to Calgary were really ungangster.

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After 6 hours of driving AKA cessliding on black ice, we arrived at Tommy Dixon’s house.

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James Kapetski was very exited to skate the mini ramp at Tommy’s basement. James with a stylish backslide to cross grab AO fish.

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Sean Knight was there to show us how good people can skate this mini ramp. After hitting almost every trick in the book, I decided to put another AO fishbrain pic. AGAIN.

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Next stop was the Bar.

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We had good times as you can see.

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The waitress was very busy with our table and very nice to us. I guess she heard about StevieE.

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After the bar we went back to Tommy’s basement.

(StevieE)-EHHH, EHHH, EHHH (Leon)-SHUT UP, IT’S TOUR UPDATE.

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We are not sure yet what is the exact plan for tomorrow. We might drive to an indoor skate park outside of Edmonton, AB

For more info contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-LEON BASIN

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We spent the whole day skating the new Salmon Arm skate park which is amazing.

James hits this backslide.

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James again copying Starling with a straight air.

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Leon taking pictures.

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After 5 days of sessioning beer, StevieE finally gets a skating pic.

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Leon managing Shop Task, while StevieE is wondering where he can hide his beer from the cops.

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Justin Coles with a soyale.

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Starling with a huge 540 to flat.

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Starling selling out on the tour cause he has to go back to work unlike StevieE who makes DVD’s.

Starling holding the StevieDVD 2007.

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Tomorrow we’ll be stopping in Cochrane and our way to Calgary.

For exact times call Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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3 vehicles and 5 people are leaving Kelowna to meet 1 more vehicle and 1 more person in Vernon.

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Our first stop was the Coldstream skate park just outside of Vernon, the park really sucked . While Starling was sessioning his beer, Leon hit a huge 180 to flat fakie roll, freestyle ?????? WHAT ? ……..BOOBS

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After the park Adam took us to this sick kink rail and showed us a gangster full torque

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While Leon is doing this sweatstance, StevieE was trying to get a straight picture.

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The next stop was the Vernon skate park……. It also sucked.

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Starling with this ghetto bank to bank straight air over the box

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Starling again with another straight air again, flat to bank

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While StevieE and Justin were drinking in the SUV, the battery died. Their local friend came to the rescue ……..LUCKYYYYY!!!!

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After driving to Salmon Arm we got HYPHY at the Holiday Inn.

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Tomorrow we will be skating Salmon Arm and Sicamous skate parks.

For more info please contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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-LEON BASIN

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During my first 2 hours in Kamloops, I was trying to get a hold of Sterling but he wasn’t picking up his phone. As you can see he was way too busy with his X-Box Live.

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After the X-Box session we went for a quick session at the infamous Kamloops skate park.

Sterling Raven with this huge 180 from the quarter to the bank.

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After few more hours of driving and taking wrong exits, James and I finally arrived in Kelowna. StevieE and local friends were waiting at the Ben-Lee skate park.

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Leon Basin AKA me, is doing a hot non fast plant top soul AKA sitting all gangster on it.

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Me again with this rocket fish.

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Brent from Kelowna with a huge floatin 540 from the bowl in to the little bank.

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After the session we went to StevieE’s house for some pre-drinks aka the only thing StevieE does AKA HYPHYNESS.

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The next spot was a local pub where StevieE was known by name and the only drinks allowed were doubles, as ordered and paid by StevieE AKA money in the bank.

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Next we hit the club where shit got really HYPHY.

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StevieE was a very bad influence on me and thats why I had to update the blog the next morning.

Today and tomorrow we are hitting a few different parks around BC.

If you have any request or advise as per which parks please contact LEON at 1800-978-TASK

-LEON BASIN

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Packing and Charging all the media equipment.

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Not much room left for clothes, I have to be very picky with what to wear for the next 40 days. I think I will have to order some more clothes from shop-task half way trough the tour.

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Speaking of ordering from Shop-Task, business will be as usual. MIGUEL was training very hard for the last 2 month and learning all the secrets of keeping costumers happy. Miguel is an awesome guy, maybe even cooler than Leon

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Tomorrow morrning we will be in Kamloops, BC. We are picking up James Kopetski, who will join for the whole tour and Starling Raven who will join us for the next few days.

We will finish the day with a session at the Ben lee park in Kelowna, BC and get HYPHY with STEVE E, who will join us for most of the tour.

For more info, please contact LEON at 1800-978-TASK

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MASON OUELLETTE sweatstance

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JOSH SILVER mute fishbrain

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SHAWN ADAIR ao porn

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JOSH SILVER ao porn up the ledge

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MASON OUELLETTE 360 over the ledge in to the bank

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MIGUEL DE JESUS top-side ruff x-grind

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KEVIN ECKERT 180

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SPOT # 2 Fleetwood rail Surrey, BC

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JOSH SILVER back royal

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TOMMY CHUNG ao fish

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TOMMY CHUNG front torque

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TOMMY CHUNG true top-acid

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TOMMY CHUNG true kindgrind

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MASON OUELLETTE crazy wall ride 180

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DAY 2 was amazing, thanks to everyone that showed up and busted hard for the camera, we got tons of footage over the past 2 day.

Tomorrow will be a preparation day for the tour

For more info, contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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Local friends at Railside skate park POCO, BC

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Phelipe AKA Colombia was killing the transition. He was doing crazy Misty flips and Fakie Mistys over this pyramid. But it was a challenge to get a good picture, so what you get instead is this sick 360.

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BRIAN BAXTER is killing it with his creative hand plant bio 540

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ADRIAN & JASPER some of Vancouver’s finest Groms.

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ADRIAN DENNY ao top-porn.

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SHAWN ADAIR & CHICKEN NUGGETS, this guy will find chicken nuggets even if we were skating in the desert. That’s true love.

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Today was very hot but it didn’t stop us from skating some amazing flat rails at a local elementary school.

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LEON BASIN loving his new Aragon 2 skates, with a topside torque-soul 360 out.

DAY 1 was a great success, thanks to everyone that showed up and busted hard for the camera, the footy was HOT, just like the weather

We hope to see everyone tomorrow at Fraiser Heights skate park in Surrey, BC at noon.

For more info, contact Leon at 1800-978-TASK

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