Woodland edit

New edit of me and Kyle riding Woodland. 95 degree heat is terrible motivation to ride. There's nothing even close to being epic in this video. Just a fun sesh.


Woodland edit from JD Biddle on Vimeo.

I was bored a couple of weeks ago, so I called up Wyatt and Billy "Hsu" Nguyen to see if they wanted to go to the Dry Ridge skatepark. They were both down, but Hsu couldn't go, so Wyatt and I ended up going.

1. Wyatt Hoffman, backside 5-0- This is more like a berm than a quarter pipe. It's situated in the middle of this little snake run that goes around a six- or eight-foot bowl. Wyatt kept getting really close to falling in coming out of tricks off of this.

2. Wyatt, backside tailstall

Coming in caliente!

Summer's coming in full blast, with the temperatures supposed to be hitting the low-to-mid nineties this week, and today was a good day to hit up the park. There was a great session going down, involving Wyatt, Ty, and Zach. Check it.

1. Wyatt, pyramid ollie- The mood was pretty chill, and so was this pyramid ollie.

2 & 3. Ty, switch backside hip flip- These are pretty simple, but Ty makes them look pretty good, especially when you see them in person


4. Wyatt, nosegrind down the handledge- After what seemed like 500 tries, one pretty hard slam, and getting hit in the wrist by a stray board and subsequently having my hand instantly go numb, Wyatt finally managed to stick this nosegrind.

5. Seventies- I thought this would be a good picture to end on. Seventies, living the high life.

Yeah, update!

So it's finally starting to warm up and stop raining a little, and I finally made it out to the park to ride and take some photos.

1. Wyatt- smoking like a freight train

2. Chico- frontside 180 over a traffic cone

Chico

These are just a couple of pictures of Chico while we were hanging out at the Georgetown park back in early March.

One Life

These were from the OneLife concert at SCHS a few months ago. It was set up as a Senior Project for a couple of kids, as a fundraiser for a vocational school in Uganda, I think. The bands that played were all local high school bands: Sinister G, The Likeable Inbetween, and The Ben Lumen Band.

1. Nick Pennington and Anthony Tucker- Guitarists in the Ben Lumen Band

2. Nick Pennington- Playing an acoustic piece during the BLB set. I think he was playing a Jack Johnson song, but this was a long time ago and I could be wrong.

3. Likeable Inbetween- From left, guitarist/vocalist Matt Eddy; guitarist/vocalist/trumpeter Ryan Parker; keyboardist Cameron Webster.
Cameron is an ADHD kid on meth. He's completely crazy. He used to be in a gospel band called The City Limits, with a bunch of black guys.

Ollie's

1. Josh Kyle, mini to bank gap- According to him, the scariest part of this gap is jumping from the deck of the bowl into the mini. What a madman.

2. Josh Kyle, wallride whip- He hit this wall at 500 miles an hour. No joke.

3. Cody Gay, barspin- Cody got his barspins on lock, but he wasn't happy to stop just there. Shortly after this, he was trying 180 bars, and getting pretty close too.

4. Cody Gay, wallride- He's so smooth. I'm jealous

Caturday!?

Caturday has come and gone, and here's a video to keep that happy feeling going for another seven days until the next Caturday.
Bovice a.k.a. Lebron James a.k.a. Kyle Ruschell throws down some moves in celebration of Caturday!


Is it Caturday already!? from Transitions on Vimeo.

New!

So I'm riding shotgun on the way home from my cousin's basketball game in Lexington, and I get this random urge to shoot some clouds. The first and third shots were shot at about 60 miles an hour, and the second one was at a stoplight.
In other news, I now have a Flickr as well HERE

Basketball

These are from the Huntington (WV) High- Scott County (KY) High game at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, KY, back in February, '07. At the time, Huntington High School was the number-one high school team in the nation, with the likes of Patrick Patterson (who now plays for the University of Kentucky) and OJ Mayo (plays for the University of Southern California). Scott County won this game by four points, and soon thereafter traveled to Huntington, where Huntington beat Scott County by four points as well.

1. Jordan Lee gettin' in some blockage.

2. Jordan going up against Patrick Patterson

3. Yet again, Jordan Lee

4. And, again, Jordan Lee, with a layup.

Feliz Navidad!

I'd just like to say Merry Christmas to everyone! I was too busy setting up/playing my new Xbox360 (HALO 3 EDITION!) to take pictures. Well, I take that back. My dad bought me a new 18-55mm lens (the kit lens for the Nikon D40 and D40X), so I took a couple of pictures. I'll get around to posting them up sometime :)

Pics from today: 12.22.07

Today was a good day. I got to ride with Bargo and Sean, which was cool, since I hadn't rode with Bargo in like six months.

1. Gangstas- Just a photo I took of Bargo and Sean while they were talking about some trick

2. Sky- The weather today was kinda weird. It started out super bright, and then these clouds just started moving in out of nowhere. This was taken as the clouds were first showing up.

3. Sean- what a goof.

4. Sean, whip air- This is a ridiculously hard trick on that ramp, because it's just a launch ramp, and it's hard to keep your bike in the ramp when you try to air it. To make matters more complicated, Sean decided to throw a tailwhip into the mix.

5. Bargo, footjam- Bargo doing a footjam in the middle of a line. I'm diggin' the sky in the background.

6. Bargo, tombstone whip- Bargo decided to throw down a whip from the quarter to the bank over the tombstone.

7. Sean, lookback- Lookbacks are one of my favorite tricks, and Sean lays one out in perfect form.

8. Bargo, tombstone whip- This is just another angle of Bargo doing the tombstone whip.

Cody Gay and a couple of pics from Frankfort

This is Cody Gay. Yeah, his last name is Gay. Cody likes to hop over everything. See exhibits 3-8 if you don't believe me.

1. & 2. Cody- these were a couple of pictures I took while we were eating in Lexington Center during one of our street sessions.

3. Fish hop- For some reason, Fish wanted Cody to hop over him. So, of course, Cody did it.

4. Bush hop- bush hop, 'nuff said.

5. Parking lot gap- this was just a fun little gap from a higher parking lot to a lower one. Nothing extraordinary.

6. 3 set with flat- This little three set was right next to the parking lot gap. There's a flat on the end, so it's like around a five set in length. The worst thing about this spot is these little plastic poles that are stuck into the ground in line with the rails, I guess to keep people from griding them, but can be potentially hazardous if you manage to mess up on something easy, like hopping the stairs.

7. Wall hop- Cody was nervous about doing this one. The hop over isn't hard, because on the other side, the wall is like a foot and a half high. But he wasn't sure about the three-plus foot drop that you see here.

8. Rail hop- This is a six-stair rail in Frankfort, KY. The coolest thing about this spot is the landing- the ground around this building is a bunch of huge removable pieces, and underneath it's semi-hollow, so when you land it makes this really weird sound.

9. Mike Dilts, wallride- This is under a railroad bridge in Frankfort. It had been raining before we came into Frankfort to ride that night, and so this wallride was soaked. To make it even better, there was this random yellow rail about three feet from the wall.

10. Dilts-E, icepick

Children At Play trailer

This is a little trailer that I put together for a video me and Dilts-E are working on. I'm not sure if we're going to do it by parts, by spots, or just random riding footage... Actually, I'm kinda digging a random riding footage format, now that I think about it.
Anywho, the video should include riding from:
Cody Gay
Kyle Ruschell
Evan Ruschell
Mike Dilts
Me
and probably some other people...

Enjoy!

Children At Play promo from Transitions on Vimeo.

Whateva

Short post today!

1. Mike Dilts, tabletop- Taken with my first digital camera, an Olympus point-and-shoot. This picture was learning experience, because it was the first time I had ever messed around with Photoshop, so I just decided to use this picture to play around with and get a feel for what I was doing.

2. Ty Fite, 50-50- This one was taken from the middle of a sequence I shot of Ty doing a 50-50 on this handledge/hubba thing at our skatepark.

3. Sam Mullins, huge stiffy- This photo really doesn't do any justice to seeing Sam do this in person. He had to have been getting at least five-and-a-half to six feet of air that day, but actually being there and watching him, it looked like it was 20 feet.

More Random Photos

1. Old Growth- I shot this photo for Apple's Insomnia photography festival/competition. This is in an old, run down house in Georgetown, with grass growing on the second story floor.

2. Wyatt- Sean Baker had taken a bunch of us to Ollie's skatepark, and we ended up getting back late and staying the night at Sean's house. This was the next morning, after everyone except Sean had woken up and ate out of a bag of potato chips laying on the counter.

3. Abandoned classroom- This is one of the rooms inside the abandoned Sadieville school. The place was a mess, with chairs, desks, big hunks of paint, and who-knows-what-else strewn everywhere.

4. Sunset- I shot this from the second-story deck of a restaurant in Beaufort, North Carolina while eating dinner with my family waiting for the Fourth of July fireworks to start.

5. Cody- Just a random photo I took one night sitting in my driveway after we had been riding.