ECD – Last Days Of Penn Skate

On January 1st, 2023, after 25 years, Penn Skate closed it’s doors forever. Nilo Hodge captured some of the last sessions in the iconic park during its final days and put the footage together for the latest ECD web video. The video includes riding from Dustin Clewell, Jake Rutkowitz, Jarrett Dillman, Justin Mitchell, Nilo Hodge, AJ Herrera, Dylan Heckman, Chopper, Mad Mike, and more.

Filmed and edited by Nilo Hodge.
Additional filming by Dustin Clewell and Jarrett Dillman.

Dedication – Park Mix

Dustin Clewell put together a new mix of some old unused skatepark footage stored on his computer. The video features Dustin Clewell, Chopper, Knick Smith, Grant Bass, AJ Herrera, Cotton Robbins, Justin Mitchell and more riding a variety of skateparks in the Pennsylvania area. There’s some pretty wild stuff in here including an impressive Icepick grind to 180 Lookback by Chopper towards the end. Hit play and check it out.

Quaker State – East Coast Destruction

The final installment in our “Quaker State” web series features the legendary East Coast Destruction. The video premiered exclusively Friday on the DIG BMX website. The section includes riding from Jarrett Dillman, Eric Gibson, Jonathan “Okie” Leffler Jr., Josh Stair, Richard “Chopper” Viands, Weng Khuu, Andrew Messer, Aeden Feher, Travis Loteck, Nick Smith, Pat Quinn, Cody “Mclovin'” Neiswender, Ryan Muschlitz, Eddie Grabert, Dylan Costanzo, Nilo Hodge, Dustin Clewell, Robert “Frost” Kilpatrick, Chris Denman, Brandon Bellew, James Hess, AJ Herrera, Fateem Williams, and Grant Bass. Filmed and edited by Nilo Hodge with additional filming by Wes Garcia, Josh Stair, James Hess and Jon Herr.

We would like to thank everyone that helped make this project possible especially Matt Smith, Sam Downs, Buck Milliken, Devin Feil and DIG BMX.

The Hosed Jam

On May 29th, Action Wheels Bike Shop hosted their first annual ‘The Hosed Jam’ at the Bethlehem Skateplaza. Despite a bit of a wait here is the official video from the jam which was filmed by Scott Effting and edited by Ted Strohler. The video includes riding from Justin Care, Mike Stahl, Pat Quinn, Dustin Clewell, Chopper Viands, Matt Rivera, Anthony Rastasario, James Kehs, Nilo Hodge, Bumper, Brad Weidlich, Wilfred Alvarez, Danny Andersen, Aj Herrera, Shred, Jarid Solosky, Derek Payne and more.

Photo Gallery: Shutter Destruction ‘The Hosed Jam’

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On Friday, May 29th, Action Wheels Bike Shop hosted a jam titled ‘The Hosed Jam’ at the skateplaza in Bethlehem, PA. Frank Ashbridge was on hand for the event to shoot photos for his Shutter Destruction project. Frank was kind enough to send through a photo gallery from the event which he shot and edited. You can view the gallery after the jump.

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Photo Of The Week: Okie Doke

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This week’s ‘Photo Of The Week’ features a look inside our upcoming web-series ‘Quaker State’. Okie Doke (Jon Leffler) roasted this huge wallride while filming for one of the videos sections. The ‘Quaker State’ web-series is due out late this summer and we will be releasing more details soon so keep an eye out.

Photography by AJ Herrera.

ECD Spring Photos

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ECD has updated their site with some new photos from a couple of Spring sessions. The first photo is of AJ Herrera (attached) shot in Philadelphia by Nilo Hodge. The second half of the photos contains shots from The Yea / Butchers Block Jam featuring Evan Smedley, McLovin’, AJ Herrera, Nilo Hodge and Dillman shot by Adam Rell with the exception of Evan’s photo which was also taken by Nilo, make sure you check them out.

Top 13 Videos Of 2013

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Every year we post countless videos on this site. They are here one minute and archived the next. As part of our Year End web-series we wanted to take a look back and highlight the videos that made a notable impact statistically on this website in 2013. This list is based purely off the amount of views these videos/posts generated through this website only they are not opinions, poll results, or views from a third party website such as Youtube or Vimeo.

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ECD Fall Promo

Check out the new ECD Fall Promo released online yesterday. Featuring riding from Mclovin, Pat Quinn, Grant Bass, Jonathan Au, Derek Payne, Devin Albino, Nilo Hodge, Evan Smedley, Richard “Chopper Viands, Josh Stair, Nick Smith, AJ Herrera, James Hess, Butcher, Dustin Clewell and more. Filmed by Nilo Hodge and Jonathan Au and edited by Nilo Hodge.