The City of Presidents Skate Jam is an annual get together for any and all skaters in Quincy, Mass. Put together by the talented @skatestills
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This was my first year attending my local Skate Jam, as well as my first time taking photos of skaters in general. I was very shyly taking photos from a bench at first, not knowing the photography etiquette. As the day went on, I got more and more comfortable with looking for shots wherever I could but still really only from a distance.
The park was full of wonderful people and had many events such as a best trick contest over one of the volcanos and a highest ollie contest (obviously this was measured by stacking boards on top of each other each round) with plenty of giddies to be won from places like the Orchard Skate Shop in The North End of Boston.
Elijah and I went to high school together and became friends in our senior year, but after graduation, our paths diverged, and we didn’t talk as much. One day, last summer, he showed up at my work, we talked, and I told him I had gotten into skateboarding to get around my schools’ campus. He was very excited to learn this and immediately started making plans to bring me to our local skate park and go to the skate shop. We spent the rest of summer at the Quincy Skatepark even after the new Waymouth park had opened just down to road.
Despite the nasty weather earlier in the day, the jam had an incredible turn out, some people who attended were locals, and some even came from across the state.
BOSTON
Before heading to the Quincy skate park, we headed to Boston’s Downtown for some sew shoes and The North End for some new trucks at Orchard Skateshop as well as some of the best pizza I’ve possibly ever had in my life at Ernesto’s Pizza just two blocks over.
