As most of you may know the Tru apparel boys have been getting about recently. With all the cities that have been visited and skated one destination was clearly missing out, Manchester. So Tom Mark and Ben made the trip up to meet Jonny and Matty for a weekend of madness. Come midday on Saturday everyone had arrived and the warm up spot was being sessioned. Chosen spot was a flat rail just outside Piccadilly station. Matty Jonny and mark all grabbed some tasty switchup clips which set the day up nicely.

On the way to the next spot Quayle spied a short metal ledge to drop opportunity out of a car park , quickly got down to business and laced the hammer with a perfect soul 180 out.

Next spot on the list was a curved upwards chrome rail. Burston and Laura came and met us at the next spot and Vella stepped up to the plate with a perfect ao porn full cab out, clip!

Once the session on the curved rail was done we went off for an explore in one of the Manchester university sites, where instantly Burston eyed a huge gap off a roof over a wall. Deciding this was the best way to start his day Alex proceeded to 180 and then 540 it. Both cases first try and with ease, keep an eye out for the clip because it is mental! Quayle chipped in next with a nice line involving a rail and a gap. Up next with arguably the trick of the day was Vella. He put together a home made kicker to gap onto a gnarly rail and landed a perfect ao top porn, managing the disgustingly narrow landing like it was nothing.

Following this we moved on to the next spot, a famous ledge in the middle of the city, name Unknown! By this time a few local bladers had joined us and we had a great session with everyone landing some nice tricks.

After this it was time to start wrapping the session up, Mark and Quayle grabbed a quick couple of clips on a rail we found next to a main road, Ben landed an awkward gap and we moved on to the last spot. A long chrome rail. Mark stepped up with a perfect mistrial. Alex described it as the longest mistrial he has ever seen, serious effort after a long days skate. With that Saturday was wrapped up, ten hours of skating and a wealth of clips, what a day. We headed back to Quayles to check our footage. Saturday was sick.

Naturally after Saturday’s skate everyone was feeling rather tender but on Sunday we headed out just after mid day, ready for more. Little did we know Sunday was gonna be bust day. We went for a quick hours warm up at platt fields skatepark where Kyle Murray and Duncan Clarke joined us. We headed over the road from the skatepark into Owens park halls where there are a few nice spots if you can dodge security. Quayle had a rail in there in mind he wanted to hit, a perfect down rail. Only downside was the building about a foot to the left of the bottom of the rail, this spot was gnarly. Full of composure Quayle laced a perfect top sunny after a real near miss with the building.

After that we moved on to a flat rail in the centre of the halls, but before we could start our session we got kicked out and decided to move on. We jumped in the cars and headed to some perfect ledges in a school at Salford quays. Before long we were told we had had the police called on us and we managed to get about an hours session out of these perfect curved ledges before they eventually turned up. The officers didn’t actually agree that we deserved to be kicked off, but had to do there job, gutted! Not before we all managed to lace some sick clips though. We decided to head round the corner to some perfect marble ledges.

Again we managed to get a couple of clips in before another security guard came out to kick us off. By this time it was getting close to Toms train home and we decided there wasn’t time for another spot. So we packed our stuff up ready to go home. We had such a sick weekend in Manchester and thanks to Quayle for having us all stay at his. Now we’ve just got to find the time to sort through the footage!

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