Sundays Ep. 44 All City Showdown Chicago from peter w. on Vimeo.

Two, maybe three, months ago the Sundays crew signed up for Uprise's All City Showdown (ACSC).  Inspired from the Seattle contest of the same name.  How it works is you have a team of 3 skaters and one filmer and you get 8 hours to get clips.  At the end of the day, everyone turns in their raw footage and they make a video out of everyone's footy.  So, probably the most epic Chicago skate video was made over the span of 8 hours.  I think there were 29 teams (That might be high) in the contest this year.  Crew's came from Michigan, Ohio, Dax even flew in from Arizona for it.  Needless to say, Team Last Place (That was our team name) was in for some stiff competition.  Spoiler alert, we did not win.  We had a few clips in the final edit, which you can buy from Uprise.

So, this is my edit of our footage from that day.  I decided to forgo the GoPro and use a big boy camera for the day, I rented a Sony FS700 from the boys at Magnanimous Media and borrowed a slider from Mo.  Not going to lie, I was really pulling for Best Use of Books Found Under a Bridge or Most Dramatic Shot of Sweeping but to my dismay, neither of those are real categories.

No one on our team thought we would win but this is skateboarding, it's not about winning.  It's about the experience and getting rad...which, I think we did a pretty good job.

Thanks again Uprise. Also, big thanks to Team Last Place: Randy Korwin, Zach Martin, Bill Wiora, and Larry Dobson (Life Coach)

. . .duck and cover.

Michigan City has one of my all time favorite spots but we haven't been out there for like eight years?  It's only an hour or so away, who knows... But yeah, it's always rad to get out there and shred.  It's kind of an eerie ghost town on Sundays, which works out fine.  We did manage to hook up with a local, Gordy Tharp, who destroyed the bank spot with some casual originality.  Gordy's trying to keep his scene alive out in Michigan City.  Here's a link to download his 'zine "The Lurker."

. . .skate some more

Holy crap.  This is the 40th Sundays episode?  Crazy.  Tons of skating in this one.  We had a tight crew and actually fit into one car or skated from spot to spot.  Larry was our tour guide and totally came through with some random/awesome spots.  I kinda feel like everyone (but me) stepped up their game for this one.  Even crazier, we skated for 9 hours...

. . .go back there.

"Yeah, I ollied that hip...in 1994," I said as we walked up to the spot.  Chad said he hadn't skated the downhill bank thing since 1990.  Crap, we're old. What you don't see in the edit is the horrible time we had at the Lockport park.  That place sucks.  We once found a bag of knives there and met a kid who made his own cologne in his closet.  Real talk.

. . .try going west sometime.

Finally we had a break in the weather and I had a break from work.  We rallied some troops and headed west to the Roselle skatepark and a pretty rad street spot.  Not shown, is our trip to Yeah Boardshop where we all stocked up on skate goodies. Thanks again Dav!

. . .do your chores.

A day in my life, when I have to do yard work from peter w. on Vimeo.

. . . find something behind the garage.

What I saw when I thew out the garbage. from peter w. on Vimeo.

. . .do your own thing.

A day in my life, when we shoot The Molotiv Kartel from peter w. on Vimeo.

Nothing is better than riding a tandem bike by yourself. As usual, Randy was on top of his game with The Molotov Kartel.

. . .go outside

An afternoon in my life from peter w. on Vimeo.

Today was a good day.

. . .get a job.

A day in my life, when I don't work. from peter w. on Vimeo.