WaWa Weekend Day 3

On the third day and last leg of this weekend tour we went to Pro Skateshop in Point Pleasant, NJ which is owned by Bob Loseedo. If you ever wondered why in some photos when people are skating a random pool in the tristate area there may be some spray paint that says "Bob Loseedo Wears A Speedo". Well I guess the reason is that it obviously rhymes and Bob Loseedo lives in the vicinity. We all met again at Pro Skateshop where some sort of car show was taking place on the street that the skateshop is located on and they even closed off the street for this event. The area had a small town community feel where it seemed like the type of place where everyone knew one another on the street and rape is basically non-existent. It was quaint and in the midst of all of this is a legit shop that is thorough on all levels and had some amazing photos of old skateparks in the New Jersey area from the early 80's and are now unfortunately distant memories. But it was sick that they got their hands on some of those photos so you could check out some of the stuff that we missed out on due to circumstances of when our parents had sexual contact that resulted in our younger lives.

Next we were off to Sayreville to NJ Skateshop to meet up with Chris Nieratko who just recently became the father of his first child that was born on 9/11. He had called out this birth date way in advance for his child even though the doctors gave them another due date earlier than the 11th. But somehow Chris' prediction came true and his kid showed up on that wacky date. So now there is Chris, Kris (his wife), and Chris Nieratko the kid. Chris to the 3rd power. Very George Foreman'ish. I like it and I like that he's actually naming everything in his path "Chris".

There's always a lot of kids whenever theres a demo at the NJ skateshop. Chris does a great job of promoting the demos and every legit team that is in town always makes it to his shop. We hung out in the shop for a little bit and then all of us got in our cars and headed about a mile down the road to the local park. The park was jam packed with kids, teenagers, and basically peoples of all ages. You could only see skating in one direction due to the sunset and you also had to wait about a half hour to drop into anything at all. It was kind of hard to get a demo going under such conditions but most kids just seemed psyched that we were even there. Plus a lot of kids just want to skate themselves on a day like that and are hype to be rolling around with everyone else. So the demo was very mellow due to how hectic it was there but it was fun nonetheless and it's always good to get to hang out with Mr. Nieratko whom a lot of us know already.

Thanks to everyone that came out to all of the demos and signings. Also thanks to everyone at all of the shops for the support. Sorry that so many people were hurt but sometimes people get broke off and it isn't always the best timing. Usually I'm the injured guy so I'm just psyched that my ankles were intact and free from feeling the pain that the rest of my teammates were dealing with.

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Tim O'Connor