Inward Tour Review

The Inward East Coast Tour recently wrapped up last Friday. The trip was definitely a success despite inclement weather. The crew of Matt Ogle, Jordan Jasa (thats me), Josh Kish, Zig Short, and "Baby Nate" Wagoner started their trip in Buffalo, NY at the XW Scooter Competition. Zig ended up winning the AM contest, with Nate getting 2nd. Overall it was an awesome showing of Inward's riders, who also started filming there for a DVD.

The crew at XW.

The next day consisted of driving up to Massachusetts. We got there pretty late but were able to get some street clips during the drive. The next day, Monday, we were able to ride three parks. We started at Newburyport, and got quite a nice turnout. After a raffle and autograph session we left for the next park, Ipswitch River Park in North Reading, but were rained out and unable to really ride the park. We did a quick raffle and were able to find a park in Milford, Connecticut. That was probably the best session of the day, we all got some bangers on film and were able to make some new fans of the team and company.

Inward minus Zig (who kept going to the van to sleep) plus Dan Holm, whom shreds.

The next day we had planned to go to NYC and film some street, but the rain kept us away. Instead we opted to stay in Connecticut. We were on our way to a park when we saw this random ghetto park of metal ramps. We took the exit and were able to ride the park for a while, and got some clips. Zig of course was able to find something to ride other than the ramps, and made a ghetto gap to box to drop to get some clips on. That was definitely a fun sesh, and so we were a little reluctant to leave. But we packed up again and headed to Jennings Beach Skatepark. Normally they don't allow scooters but JP worked his magic and convinced the lady to let us in, without helmets as well. Eventually the park attendants started getting antsy and wanted us to leave, but we stayed long enough to get some bangers.

After the outdoor parks, we again were rained out. Fortunately we were able to find a sick indoor park, New Haven, and they let us in despite scooters not being allowed. They had some big mats there and the crew was able to learn flairs (except for me cause I was actually trying to get clips, not spend the whole time learning one trick. Slackers.).

The next day, Wednesday, was supposed to be the day of the All-City Jam in NYC. Once again, however, Mother Nature defied our plans and we were forced to regroup. So we took off from our hotel to Drop In Skatepark. That park wasn't too good but it had some fun street obstacles and I got to meet Shane McNulty, one of my good friends from the scooterchat. That was definitely a highlight for me. After we finished at Drop In we got word that it was drying up in the city, so we drove to the Maloof street plaza park to meet up with some other riders. It was a little crowded but we were able to make a success out of it and film some stuff. After that we headed to Zig's house, where we would start our street filming session. It didn't take too long for it to get dark but we definitely had a good time filming and meeting some of Zig's crew.

The Inward van outside of the Maloof park, which is located next to the Globe, a famous spot.

On Thursday was our TIC jam. I'm not gonna lie, TIC wasn't one of the parks I was excited for but I was happy by the end of the day, after landing a banger and getting to ride the foam pit. What I was looking forward to most was seeing Josh Kish ride, as TIC is pretty much where he lives (jk Josh). Eventually he threw down, including a world first and some other amazing tricks. We also got to see Zig trying flairs to wood. He didn't really get close but it was still crazy seeing a street rider like him doing a park trick like that. Nate also landed his first backflips, big props to him.

Friday was the last day of the trip. We started the day out at Newport Skatepark in Delaware. We were all super tired and didn't really ride much, cause we're all a bunch of slackers. So we got tired of that place and went to Woodward of Philly, or whatever that park is called. Pretty much right when we got in there, Matt and I tried frontflips. We didn't really get very close but I was glad I tried em anyway. After JP brought us all some Monsters we started riding to get some clips, highlighted by Nate spending like 9 hours trying one combo, which he landed clean as can be. We finally left and had to say goodbye to Zig and Josh, who went home earlier than Matt, Nate and I. The park was probably my favorite out of all of the ones we went to, I would have stayed longer but J-Pizzle wanted to get some grub.

Overall the trip was a definite success. We got hit by a lot of rain but were able to make changes to our plans so we could ride anyway. We met a lot of fans, and made some new ones. A ton of footage was filmed, and we all had a lot of fun.

Footage from the trip will be released in the Inward DVD, which will featured parts from each rider. The video, entitled "Bustin Cakes", will be out by Christmas.