I agree, park footage is too common
back in the day it was only okay if you were really killing it
back in the day it was only okay if you were really killing it
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Still true amongst a lot of skaters. All the bowl/tranny guys have made it more acceptable but if you released a street part filmed entirely in a park you would be roasted.
I think it's that parks are so commonplace nowdays they are a basic part of every skater's diet.
My skating days were the mid-late 90s/early 2000s, parks were few and far between and it seemed the guys who skated parks stayed in the parks and ripped them...the rest of us showed up and were afraid to ollie the pyramid.
Also now everything is skatestoppered or designed to be unskateable when constructed so the parks are a safe space.
In my opinion it should be a no go for actual video parts. Go out and work for your clips. That being said, I always thought it was cool seeing the park footy from tour demos in Hot Chocolate and the few park clips sprinkled throughout Enjoi Bag of Suck worked well too.
I thought there might have been some in Volcom's Chichagof and went back to look. That was such a good video. Wish I still had my copy
I thought there might have been some in Volcom's Chichagof and went back to look. That was such a good video. Wish I still had my copy
yea skateparks were just not a thing in my day. you had powell skate zone in SB or YMCA in Encinitas. both too far to be a consistant thing for me.
in my hood we had what we called "mann jams" named after the mann theatres upper parking lot where like 50-100 kids would show up every friday saturday night, bring ramps and boxes and skate until the cops came. pros like ryan kenreich, josh beagle, adam mcnatt all frequented.
when HB high got the little park it was like holy sh!t and that park sucked but we loved it. got to skate with some legends there too.
Late 70z early 80z had to parks close before I turned 12 but first to close "sparks" was a great park with some fun bowls compared to 2nd "golf'Nfun which closed around '82. After we had a very rough gutter set up we called the "walls" and I was able to talk my dad into a backyard 1/2 pipe for a little while until neighbors complained
I like this thread. Skating the local park tonight and this weekend 3 of us are doing a trip to 4 parks (all in our mid 40's).
Wish my son was going but he only likes street and doesn't like hanging out with us when we drink
Wish my son was going but he only likes street and doesn't like hanging out with us when we drink
it was fun for sure, pretty chaotic but stoked to have a place we didnt get kicked out of. That weird lopsided pyramid was a blast if you stuck to the one side of it. plus you could hop the fence and skate the tables at HB High.@CutnSnip I remember when HB park first came out. That place did suck! lol. But there was some crazy lines that went down there. That little flat bar and bank were the sh!t! RIP HB Park!
This thread is great.
Never saw this one before and it popped into my recs. Nicest dude ever and the fastest feet I have ever seen skate. Tearing Derby a new one!
Never saw this one before and it popped into my recs. Nicest dude ever and the fastest feet I have ever seen skate. Tearing Derby a new one!
RIP Pier 7. again
Probably doesn't help when the news van shows up.
I don't know how long it has been "unblocked" again, but the city blocked it up in the last week.
It was great seeing how many people would post up and skate the concrete boxes there when I would drive home or run by in the evening. Everyone was super mellow and a lot of guys ripped. I was pretty bummed to see it all skate stopped again.
Probably doesn't help when the news van shows up.
I don't know how long it has been "unblocked" again, but the city blocked it up in the last week.
It was great seeing how many people would post up and skate the concrete boxes there when I would drive home or run by in the evening. Everyone was super mellow and a lot of guys ripped. I was pretty bummed to see it all skate stopped again.
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Justin destroying a curb in Los Altos pre pandemic 
just found some funny old pics. Somewhere I have some of Antwaun when he was trying a comeback 3 years ago, need to find those,
just found some funny old pics. Somewhere I have some of Antwaun when he was trying a comeback 3 years ago, need to find those,
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This group of crazy So CA skaters showed up at my local park one day and this dude would do these crazy a$$ carve slides "kinda aka Duane Peters with less attitude more humor". He would carve slide up coping and sit on top of bowl "mili second" then jump back on total seat of pants mad speed but kinda slowed down with goof ball tricks. Turns out guy had no pivot rubber hold kingpin on his trackor trucks
Pretty fvckin' amazing, isn't it?
A city where people sh!t and **** on the sidewalk at will, petty theft is OK, where homelessness is a popular lifestyle choice, where women get shot and killed by ex-con illegal immigrants (a few blocks away from that very place) and junkies stick glass bottles up their asses in public... and yet somehow they've made every effort over the decades to make that place unskateable.
It's great they have their priorities straight.
I was thinking the other day. What if you made ledges that were designed to mount on skatestoppers?
food for thought
food for thought