Ohio Boyz!

This past Easter weekend a bunch of guys from all over the Midwest met up in Ohio to ride, film, and just have a  good time together.  I myself roadtripped it alone to Tommy Daddono's house, where I met up with Tom as well as Matt Rittler from Wisconsin and Owen Wilson and Dylan Dorfler.  From there we drove 6 hours to a hotel in Columbus, where we waited for Spencer Steed, Brian Amato, James Shaheen, Josh Young, Brandon Rowell, and Kelly Zmijewski to arrive.  They finally got there, as well as David Veltum and Dylan Kasson, and we drove 2 more hours down to Florence, Kentucky to ride Ollie's indoor park.  We unfortunately got kicked out (paid for a 2 hour sesh and rode for 3) and went back home.

The next day we took advantage of the rain-less weather and rode one of Dylan's local parks, Powell, for a while.  Everyone was definitely hyped on that session, it was basically scooter riders only at that park until a few skaters showed up.  But even they were hyped on what everyone was throwing down.  Speaking of which, if you haven't watched the video yet, Ohio OG (and unsponsored) David Veltum shut down the session with his tricks down the step down, he still shreds so hard.  And of course DK did some cool tricks.  After we finished up there we headed to Cici's Pizza for some grub and then drove off to Ohio Dreams.  Tommy Daddono was vital in getting scooters allowed there and having scooter camp there and so we all were able to get in for cheap.  A lot of us were hyped for the foam pit but we all got scared off after Tommy slipped in some puddle in front of the rollin and almost put his face through the launch, so we went up the hill to the outdoor section.  It was pretty wet still from all the rain but we managed to ride and get some good clips.  When we ran out of light we went back into the main park area, where Dylan Kasson was putting on a show.  He and I seshed the sickest little 4 stair there, that was definitely a lot of fun haha.  We stayed there for maybe a half hour later than we should have and finally got kicked out after getting a bro shot of all the guys who were there.  Then we had to head back to the hotel for our last night in Ohio.

After an interesting night, we all packed up to leave.  We said our goodbyes, and went on our way.  On the way back to Chicago, we looked up some parks on the Internet to see if we could find somewhere to ride.  I noticed that the Rob Dyrdek Street Plaza happened to be only a half hour away, and immediately jumped on the chance to ride there.  The other guys were a little hesitant at first but after getting there and riding for a bit, they were all stoked.  Matt threw down a few sick rail clips despite having cracked Rad bars and I even did a handrail haha.  Finally we decided we had better get going since Dylan had a train to catch back in Chicago to get home.  I stayed overnight at Tommy's and we rode his local, Lake Bluff, for a little while before I had to leave for my own house.

Overall this was definitely one of my favorite trips I've been on.  Met a lot of new riders, was impressed by a lot of the guys, made some new friends, rode some amazing parks.  Cannot wait to go back again, or at least to ride with everyone again...which I should be doing at the end of the month.  Plans are being made to have Chicago/WI trip soon, get stoked.

Also, if you haven't seen Josh Young's account of the weekend, check it out on the LIT Blog.  He includes some extra happenings that I left out as well as some pictures.