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Lansdowne, Baltimore Maryland
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On 7/8/2002 cabbage
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Snake runs, long and fast....check gravityboard.com parks and places for photo, or email me for more info....70's style concrete sure to make you smile.
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SNAKE-RUN
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On 7/7/2002
DIEGO
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Kona, this story sounds really cool, I remember riding sensation basin in gainesville back in 81' it was really cool, i was just starting to ride walls when there was a killer bowl with a high walls on part of the snake-run, it was turned down and a "nice parking lot" was built there!!!
so, other than kona, are there more snake-run around the country? if someone knows about it and has pics, please send them, i'm working on it!!!!!!! maybe we will be coming to rip 'em snake-run walls in your town!!!!!
keep on ridin'
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Kona
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On 7/7/2002 Sir Flake
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I have so many great memories of riding Kona....aahhhh that smooth concrete. It wasn't perfect (unlike Upland's CombiPool) but I vividly remember back in the day (1978-1979) some crazed hippie starting at the very top of the snake run and then turning left to hit the main bowl (those familiar with the layout of the park are hopefully grasping the balls of this run), dropping in with so much speed and energy, he could hardly stay contained carving the lip around and back up to the snake run, super low pivital and compressed...he also had a "Jesus Saves" sticker on his powell peralta lite beam....Anyone know who this cat was?
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Orcas Island
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On 7/7/2002
Dan Hughes
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Oras is now open, and it's a great park. Worth the trip. Reminds me of Aumsville. Deep in sections, and mellow in others. All of it is supper smooth.
Has an oververt bob-sled run, a deathbox, little Jump over the the gap, and a Love seat on the vert wall. All with real Pool Coping.
I'd rate it 9.8 out of 10.
Orcas Island, WA Skatepark.
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2003 Fibreflex World Longboard Skateboard Championships - Bowlriding location: Hangar Bowl
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On 7/7/2002
tasos/ILSA
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We spent the day yesterday at the Hangar Bowl for their annual Fourth of July Fest and it was wild! Skaters from many states came by and the party was on. You couldn't take your eyes off for a second, before someone dropped in as someone else was hurrying to get out and get out their way-total frenzy! If you are up to it, their biggest jam is the Halloween Jam-hundreds of skaters camped out and re-fueling the legend of the bowl. I told the boys yesterday that Buddy Carr of Tracker Trucks was sending me a package full of goodies for the Hangar Bowl tribe (Grind Syndicate) and Debs from Fibreflex sent out a nice big banner to hang up next to the Vans banner. Next summers' World Championships will have a bowlriding contest, but entrance will be limited. It will mostly be by invitation from the ILSA and the Grind Syndicate. They would like Alva, Adams, Hackett, Olson, Peters, and others to make the trek to the dark and mysterious woods of the Hangar Bowl for the contest. Enjoy skating your bowl, but someday, somewhere, if you haven't skated the Hangar Bowl, you will have missed your chance to tell your own story. Look for a cover article in the next Concrete Wave Magazine and some phenomenal photos to wet your appetite! I'm off to put some ice on my ankle...
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Orcas
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On 7/5/2002
Dan Hughes
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Anyone know if Orcas Island in Washington is open now? It looks to be a killer park, but I don't know if it opened on time (July 4th) or not.
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soooooooooooooooooooo
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On 7/4/2002
ben
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msk do you live near monrovia....skate transition....whats you email.....lets sk8.........
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Monrovia
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On 7/4/2002 msk
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Glen wrote:
"Purkiss Rose and LRM Ass. still bite"
No argument here...
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Re: Kona
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On 7/3/2002 Spat
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If you're in J'ville, make sure to check out the new park in St. Aug as well......very nice.
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Monrovia
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On 7/3/2002 Glen
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I guess I should shut up and go try it.
Purkiss Rose and LRM Ass. still bite.
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ATTACK!!
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On 7/2/2002 Graham Sims
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woohoo, my bday is thursday and on friday i am headed to jacksonville for some Hardcore Kona action. Most likely won't make it into the park untill Saturday but, oh well. WOOHOO!! anyone else planning on a Kona trip this weekend? would be fun to meet up and do double down the snake run :) and maybe some in the pool woohoo :)
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Monrovia
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On 7/2/2002 msk
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Glen wrote:
"I was put off by the amount of downhill elevation and the shallow deepend. It seems to me that you can generate much more speed than the bowl can handle. I skated the original Winchester Washboard and remember how much speed the bumps allow you to generate. To put those on a downhill slope and end it in a bowl whose rim is 2.5 feet lower than the high point is lame."
When I first saw the park, that was my reaction. While it took a while to really figure out some of the lines, the design does work. Not as well as it would have if the bowl had been 8', but it is fast and fun. I don't know how many people here remember the old Montebello park (mid 70s), but there was one shallow snake run where all the hips lined up, and one of the favorite lines was to go straight downhill over the hips, carve the (much too) shallow bowl, and pump back to the top over the hips again. Monrovia brought back that feeling.
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Yo Loneskater
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On 7/2/2002
John Dillon
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That sk8 park in the woods you mentioned was the Morehead City, North Carolina sk8 park. It was sk8able until a few years back...I roadtripped down there from Baltimore w/my youngest bro only to find that it was dozed 2 weeks earlier! I was heartbroken....it was a great fun place to sk8. You had to keep moving as the mosquitos were vicious everywhere.
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Skate Park Design
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On 7/2/2002
Dan Hughes
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I couldn't agree more. The best parks I've ridden are the ones that are designed and build by professional skaters themselves. Grindline and Dreamland companies have put together some really sick parks in Oregon and Washington. They are worth checking out if you've not done it yet. And they are all free to boot!
I still say, it would be really nice to have a real pool contractor make the bowl or a real pool for that matter. With coping and tile, and the street section could be made by these landscaping companies.
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Monrovia
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On 7/2/2002 Glen
wrote in from
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I admit I didn't actually skate it.
I was put off by the amount of downhill elevation and the shallow deepend. It seems to me that you can generate much more speed than the bowl can handle. I skated the original Winchester Washboard and remember how much speed the bumps allow you to generate. To put those on a downhill slope and end it in a bowl whose rim is 2.5 feet lower than the high point is lame. I liked the odd shape of the bowl, and the hits and I bet if they had built your original design it would have been one of the best features at any skatepark and it would have helped skaters progress.
Remember Ben you're good enough to skate anything and you can take whatever situation and rip it. But those of us who are average or below average skaters end up fighting with the terrain. I submitted some design ideas for the Burbank park that is in construction. I wanted to see a kidney bowl that was 5' in the shallow and 8' in the deep end. They are building a 5' shallow and a 5' deepend and losing about 5' in width and 10' in length. It's will still be kinda fun, but it could have been really cool.
LRM and Purkiss have consistanly built crap based on what a group of 10 year olds and non-skating city officials think they want. Both companies are not real skatepark designers. No city would build a golf course by hiring a city park designer and then asking a bunch of hack golfers what they want in a course. They hire golf course designers and have a Jack Nichlaus, Arnold Palmer, or Jonny Miller design them.
I like the fact that they are calling on guys like yourself and Salba to consult, but they need to let you design and then just build it, not modify it.
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MNV Gang
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On 7/2/2002 Ben
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The only better free, public park for bowl riding that is- not street skating. And Glen, did you roll in it or just look at it? At first glance its unconventional shaping does throw people off by its unusualness. Call me up & lets skate it together. Ben
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Monrovia
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On 7/2/2002
Ben
wrote in from
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Hi Glen I dont know what you're talking about calling it a skaters nightmare. My freinds, brothers & I have been skating it everyday and having a blast. Yeh Jerks & hoes I mean purkiss rose did screw it up and limit its potential(deepend shallow & downhill, the bumps in the rythm section sharper&taller than I would have done) but its still lots of fun after you learn the lines. I feel that the only better free public in so. cal is Fontana.
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Monrovia CA. park.
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On 7/1/2002 Glen
wrote in from
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I drove by the Monrovia park today.
Another City Counsel dream park, but a skater's nightmare.
Ben S. designed the bowl section and the developer had to go and change it so that it's under 5' and lame. They are building a park in Upland that's supposed to have a full pipe that Salba is helping on. He'll probably design something rad and they'll turn it into a 7' diameter pipe to ride through, like some kind of skateboarding miniture golf game.
Purkiss-Ross and LRM Associates need to get out of the skatepark design business (they are really landscape architechs) and go back to making city parks, public restrooms, and rock gardens. If your city is considering a skatepark, fight hard to make sure these guys don't get the design contract.
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Torrance
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On 7/1/2002 Ben
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also for "newcomer" there's a good, wooden, mini-ramp bowl at the Torrance skatepark. Only problem is having to PAY to skate. Go to sk8parklist.com for directions and a plethora of other SKATEPARKS.
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re:help me
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On 7/1/2002 ben
wrote in from
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skater chic...you dont need to ollie..you just need to roll..maybe kickturn.
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YIKES! HELP ME!!
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On 7/1/2002
Sk8ta chic
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and its my first time to go to a skate park
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YIKES! HELP ME!!
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On 7/1/2002
Sk8ta chic
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Hey i have one ? 4 ALL OF U!!! how do u do a ollie? i really really need to know that bcuz im goin to a skate park on friday but i really dont know how to do a ollie, and when u go up on the half pipe, do u do a ollie to go up and go back down or what? but ne ways if your 16 OR YOUNGER, (NO LIARS,) email me and tell me
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bowls
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On 7/1/2002 newcomer
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any good bowls in torrance ca.
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Turning Point Ramp
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On 7/1/2002
Livmojoe
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I had a conversation with Kent Senatore at this year's OSSJ regarding the TP ramp. He valided my sighting of the ramp (or at least parts of it) in Malibu.
Back in the summer of '81, some friends and I were driving north up Hwy 1 through Malibu and caught a glimpse of what looked like the dome section of the TP ramp in somebody's yard. It was just sitting there and was being used as a green house. We shot some 8mm film of it (now transferred to VHS). There were also some sections of plexyglass on a trailer parked near by.
When I spoke with Kent, he told me he had heard a rumor that it was sold back then and that it really was being used as a green house. He said it sold for something like $500. Kind of crazy to think about since he said it originally cost close to (if not more than )$35,000 when new.
If I can do it, I'll make a still from the VHS tape and post a pic of the remains.
JD
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Turning Point Ramp
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On 7/1/2002
Bill
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I got to skate the TPR while it was at Marina Skatepark too.
Glen you are right about the line. I always thought it was a trip because you could see through the ramp. It was easy to get disoriented.
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