Skate Or Die!

So... It has been about 5 month since I have gone out skating with my normal crew, and nearly a year since I shot any serious Skate photography. Reason 1 being I don't own a Fisheye (or super-wide angle lens) and will not until after I purchase my D300s. Reason 2 being I got much much more serious about photography after Summer was over and that's when I interact with and am around my skating crew the most, We actually just busted our butts to film for this Skate video called Buzz kill - 100% edited and put together by my buddy Brendan Bill- which dropped this last October 31st, so no opportunities really arise for me to go skate and photograph here in SF and im not really the kinda person who will go hunt down skaters and ask to photograph them at spots.. maybe I should be :/

Anyways 70%of the time I go out to shoot skateboarding I will use a fisheye, since fisheye lenses are most commonly associated with: Extreme sports photography, Star scapes and occasional landscapes.

Today I went out with one of my great friends Breandin Bill A.k.a Big Bill, and our other good friend and up-in-coming skater Daniel Dubois. Here is the shot I took today of Daniel busting a Hardflip, which he caught and landed and rolled away... but then slipped out. so probably a 2d trip to that spot will be calling.
I also am going to toss in a couple other much older skate photos I have taken

^ Daniel Dubois Hard flip over the 7 rail, which was caught and landed just not rolled away into the street :(
How this was shot: I used my D40 with a Sigma 10-20 f/4 (which is my fathers) and since i forgot my light stand I used my remote flash trigger system to wirelessly  trigger My Sb600 held in my hand  just a bit above my head and aimed so it would hit his body and board directly.

Again Mr. Dubios here with a front 360 down Morga's 3 block. This was taken about a year and a half ago with my kit 18-55 f/3.5 lens with added HDR pp, as you can probably tell.

Armand Wesley with an enormous ollie into this bench, and YES he did land it. This was at Albany High's massive 7 block in Albany, Ca. I used my kit 18-55mm on this and little PP was done, just added contrast and whatnot. so pretty simple all in all, but not the trick.