We had a good trip to Bedford, VA. Micah got to skate Jake Hilbish's 6 foot mini ramp -- Micah said it was the nicest mini he has ever skated. He also had fun riding the little half bowl in Jake's basement. Brian Hilbish told us of plans to put a concrete skatepark in Bedford County. The park will be just a mile around the corner from Micah's grandparent's house. Thanks Hilbish's! Last night we went to Old School Skatepark in Fredericksburg, VA with his Uncle Daniel. The traffic was rough, but we finally got there. Micah had fun tearing the bowl up. He was close to landing a fs 360 air. This morning we went to Powahatan Springs Skatepark in Arlington. It is his favorite park. The cool trick of the day was a stalefish over the spine. Next event -- the mini comp at Blue Wallace on Jan 5th.

Wu Kru in Milwaukee - Four Seasons Bowl Comp. Thanks Mrs. Enakoa for the van and Orlando for the hospitality.

Clash of the Titans 2007 Skatepark of Greenville, SC. Footage of the bowl and vert comps plus random new mini ramp tricks. It was a blast trippin down with the whole family plus Orlando, Abe, Preston and Dustin. We met PhenOm Phamily Clay and Tim Dougherty down there. Long time friend Tony Philpott, who we hadn't seen in years came down from NC to visit. It was good catching up with him.

Halloween Skatefest 2007 Woodland Skatepark Lexington, KY

Micah was picked up on Flow by Quiksilver today. Thanks DC Mike and Eric of QS! Below is Sept/Oct footage.

Here's a chair that I made out of Micah's old PhenOm decks.

New Void and New Miniramp -- footage from the past month.

The Void's new miniramp! Thanks Arkansas and Reid for making it happen.

Orlando came down from Wisconsin and picked up Micah, Abe and I for the Zero Gravity Skatepark Bluegrass Games in Brevard, NC. We met up with 7 yr old Clay Dougherty there. It was cool to have 3 riders at this event. Micah placed 2nd in the Intermediate Street division.

Micah placed 2nd in the intermediate street (14 and under) and 1st in the intermediate bowl at 6th Avenue on 8/25 http://www.theamsa.com/

Blue Wallace Skateshop put on its first miniramp comp today Sept 1st. After getting stuck in some awful traffic on I65 S for a couple hours, we finaly reached Bowling Green right before the advanced division began. It was close, but Micah finished first! The whole Blue Wallace crew was really cool. Thanks for Lil' Tony -- Concretin who told us about the event and for the Blue Wallace guys who are putting on the Bacon/Galloway demo next week as well as future comps in BG. Some guys at BG have started a nonprofit group called Skateboarding Saved My Life check it out. They hope to do more events at BG and around KY -- hopefully some type of skate series thing, but they are just getting started.

The Wu Kru: Abe, Codie, Micah and David met up with Orlando in Bloomington, IN to enter the Midwest Bowl Competition. It was a lot of fun and the skaters were real welcoming. They had 2 bowls and a street section. Codie placed 3rd in beginners bowl and Micah placed 1st in the Intermediate. The experts were crazy sick! Scroll down for video of Micah's runs. Codie is in the yellow shirt and Abe is in the brown.

Micah is 10 today! We went to Natural Bridge, swam, caught crawdads, hiked, roasted marshmallows and camped. Wished we knew where Moser (the bowl man) lives, but that didn't happen. Put his old 62s back on his set-up in hopes of more speed for the bowl competition in Bloomington, IN Sat.

Wu Kru: Abe, Chase and Micah goes to Dry Ridge and Ollies.

Wow, thanks Orlando for the sweet editing!

Micah, Reid and Case represent Lexington at the 2007 Vans Warped Tour Mini Ramp Contest. Reid went down with an elbow injury. Micah and Case made the finals round but did not place.

Wu Kru in Nashville!
Click here for the official results and pics

Shots of Micah, Preston and Abe rippin in Nashville and Bowling Green. Check out the Phenom link to your right for pics of the Mt. Dew Free Flow Tour. Once you get to Phenom, click photos, then "Free Flow Tour Nashville" at the bottom. Abe's huge gash on his forehead is the last pic. Thanks to Orlando for the pics.

Arik, Preston, Abe and Micah had a blast in Bowling Green and Nashville. Micah won the 12 and under Free Flow Comp. On our way home we stopped at BG and Abe tried a nollie bigspin, backflip, overkrook down the 6 stair, giving himself a gash over the eye and a trip to the hospital.

Hometown Heroes at Louisville was a blast! The weather was great and the crowd impressive for 10pm on a Monday.
Roadtrip Friday to Bowling Green and Nashville. Abe, Preston and Arik will be joining us. Micah also got invited to skate in the Warp Tour Mini Ramp Contest on August the 1st at River Bend in Cincy!

Thanks Orlando for the pics from the Cosmics Event.

Here's video of Arlington and Greenbelt.

Had a blast at Greenbelt. What a gem of a park! Small, but with a great bowl. Micah was able to get more air then ever on the backside early grab. He finished 1st in the 10 and under and was interviewed by Marcus Ngbea of the Gazette and Star of Greenbelt. The article is also supposed to be in Thurs Metro section of The Washington Post. Everyone had a blast, the atmosphere was great. We'll definitely be back to Greenbelt. We actually met a cool skater named Jake from Bedford, VA -- that's where Micah's other grandparents live. We can't wait to check his miniramp out and road trip to the new Lynchburg Park when it opens later this summer.

Micah at the Arlington Street Comp.

Airing over the volcano at Arlington.

Blogging from Grandma and Grandpa Wu's in VA. This video is longer -- about 6 min. It has footage from Louisville Extreme, Riot, Berea King of King's demo, Delhi during the Zero/Mystery Demo, Dry Ridge, Georgetown, Florence, Frankfort, Lawrenceburg IN, Ollie's, Woodland, Rupp, University of KY and our house. We've been busy trying to impressive our gracious sponsors. Expect lot's of comp footage in a few weeks. We continue to look for cool riders to roadtrip with. Thanks to Zeb, David and Preston for trippin' with us in the past weeks.

Here is a video of Preston. He's got some smooth lines and grinds.

Hit 3 states and 5 parks on Friday: Dry Ridge, Florence, Delhi, Lawrenceburg and Ollies -- Saw the Zero/Mystery demo. Chris Cole was effortless. Today we saw the King of Kings demo. They were pretty good. Upcoming comps: Etnies Box Lunch at Ollies the 11th, 14th Mid-Atlantic Skate Series in Arlington, VA and the 15th MASS in Greenbelt, MD. New video and pics are at the PhenOm website -- there's a link in the bar to the right. Micah's new logo is courtesy of Orlando, owner of PhenOm.

Micah gets 2nd place in Intermediate Street -- and covered by Channel 18 News at the Cosmic Rocks Contest in Lexington. Click here for the interview and the runs.

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Camp Woodward 2007 Video

New friends of Cabin 25 at Camp Woodward: Jack, Micah, Archer, Anson and Kevin

Micah and I had an amazing time at Woodward. In the advanced mini ramp division he placed 3rd and did well in intermediate street though he did not place. He learned to drop into the vert ramp. And he got tapped (invited to the all-star week)!

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Yeah, we wimped out and skipped the Bowling Green skatepark opening. I just didn't see spending the gas money to see Micah knock himself out and rust his bearings in the rain. Well, we went to Ollies instead. Half of Lexington was there. Micah got feeble grind to fakie in the bowl, mini and 6ft mini. He also got 50/50s in the corner of the bowl. We had fun w/Rachel and Joe. Joe learned to carve and Rachel beat a bunch of kids at skate. Here is an article on the BG Skatepark opening at http://bgdailynews.com/articles/2007/04/15/news/news1.txt (cut and paste it into your browser). We are so happpy for Bowling Green and can't wait to come down.

Spring Break skateboard in KY, VA, MD and MI.

Micah at Modern Skatepark in Novi, MI. He placed 2nd in the intermediate bowl competition.

Grandpa Wu, Micah and I went to Fredericksburg, VA to check out the new "Old School Skatepark." It had a cool bowl. Micah liked the mini and the spine. We met a nice young skateboard instructor who does web design named Charles Dagley. Micah had a close game of SKATE with him. His site is http://www.hypnoticproductionz.com/.

We're having fun visiting family and hitting skateparks in VA. Micah skated Wakefield Skatepark yesterday (switch 50/50s!) and we are headed out to Powhattan Springs this morning. Hopefully we will hit Olney Manor, a new park in Olney, MD this week also. We will head up to Novi, Michigan (www.modernskatepark.com) at the end of the week for the Bill Danforth American Nomad Pool Shootout. There will be Pro and Am divisions. Check out Micah's newest video at www.phenomskateboards.com click video then Micah's.

A dude named Aaron took a shot of this fakie wally for his photojournalism class this winter. Thanks Aaron!

We went up with our friend David Castillos to Ollie's last night for the bands McRad, Smiles and for the Best Trick contest. Micah did well in the bowl with smooth frontside airs, an Indy, lipslide and cool carves. He was the youngest competitor. He received an Honorable Mention. Morgan Burgess ripped up the bowl taking first.

The Sessions Mini Ramp Comp was a blast! Micah was the youngest to compete in the Intermediate Division. He took a surprising 2nd place. 1. Alex Longcamp 2. Micah Wu 3. Brandon Lee 4. DJ Rybicki
Thanks to Mike and DC Shoes for deciding to flow Micah!

Pics from King of the Groms 2007 Minneapolis, MN
Click here for the contest report.
Click here for the heat pics.
Click here for the award pics
Video of Louisville and Minnesota






Click here for the contest video from 3rd Lair.

Micah got 1st place (out of 40 contestants) in the intermediate bowl and 3rd in the mini at KOTG. We could not believe it! Click here for results. Thanks to Orlando and PhenOm boards, Micah's new board sponsor and Jesse and Laura for putting us up and driving us through multiple foot drifts of snow! Here are pics and a vid from Saturday's qualifier. Here are pics and a vid from the finals Sunday.

3rd Lair King of the Groms -- after a couple flight delays we finally got to Minnesota. Laura picked us up at the airport. Laura and Jesse took us out to eat at Hong Kong Noodles. We are getting ready for the competition today. It is STIFF. There are 40 competitors in the Micah's first competition - Intermediate Bowl. The sheet can be viewed here. I think I counted 156 total registrants from over 20 states.

2-18-07 Went to Ollie's. It was hopping. Morgan and DJ were tearing up the park. Micah finally started getting his frontside ollies. He snapped a bunch off in the little mini, the 6 foot halfpipe and the bowl.

2-19-07 After shoveling off the Woodland Park, Micah got some good runs in. We are real excited about flying out to the King of the Groms at Third Lair in Minneapolis, MN. It is advertised as the largest 12 and under skateboard competition in the world.

Here is some footage from the comp, Concrete Wave Country, Ollies, and Woodland.

Here is the video that Sixth Avenue Skatepark put together for the Young Guns Comp. Alex Longcamp, one of Micah's friends from Ollies took first in the expert.

We had a lot of fun running down to 6th Avenue Skatepark in Nashville for the Young Guns 13 and under competition Sat. We left at 7:30am and returned at 11:30pm. We hooked up with Nick and Alex from Ollies. Nick won the 13 and under beginner and Alex took 1st in the advanced. They originally put Micah in the Novice 9 and under, but he got bumped up to the intermediate division.

He placed 3rd out of 15 and was probably the youngest intermediate contestant.After a whole day of skating at Sixth Avenue we went to Concrete Wave Country, hit the Waffle House then headed home.

Man it is raining a lot. We had to get out, so Ollie's is where we went. David, Harrison and Micah. The vid is of Micah, David, Arik, Forest, Alex. Ack, didn't get any footage of Harrison, but David said he was "Rippin it up."

Sto, Steve and Micah check more of Sto, Steve, Joe and Ern at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXLHYA0Oxc

Akron, OH


Never again will there be such a perfect trip... Friday morning we departed. First stop Georgetown, KY - had the whole park to ourselves. It was sunny and nearing 60 degrees when we got to the new Dry Ridge Park. After that we went to Florence. Saw some young shredders from Toledo ollying a 4 foot trash can. We capped off the night with a late session at Evolution Skatepark in Canton. The next day we went to the Akron Park, then back to Evolution for the Spinezilla double miniramp competition. Micah Placed 2nd (behind Zach Krouth) in the younger division out of 20+ skaters. Kristian Svitek was one of the judges. After 5 hours of skating we hit the road getting home about 1am New Year's Eve Day. Thanks Harrison for helping us make this trip happen.
Click here to see a video of the roadtrip.
At the end of the vid is pro skater Doug Brown. Micah got to jam w/him in the mini. He's pretty sick. Click here to see go to Doug's site.