I can’t quite put a date on this, but I’m going to say mid to late 90’s. Anyways Looks like this guy was going all out for his contest run and didn’t think twice about missing the trick… well after snapping his arm in two, maybe he won best bail.
Kyle Jr. breaks it down for you like a pro. Short and to the point for the most difficult trick we have ever tipped our hat to.
Here’s a list of ways to make your skate park experience that much better. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments below and win the satisfaction of helping others have more fun.
The items are in no particular order…
1. Invite every rollerblader you know to come out to the park for a big session. Set a date and time etc…
2. Bring an extra pair of skates for the local kids to try out and get hooked on aggressive skating. A kid was skating some garbage “box store” skates and JH (AKA OMH) let him try on our shop pair of Carbons and the kid was stoked.
3. Bring a mini BBQ and cook up some food. Hot dogs are cheap as heck. Just keep the food outside of the park. I can’t stand it when everyone trashes the parks with spilled drinks and melted ice creams.
4. Have extra parts and tools with you. Nothing will ruin a session faster than loosing your bolts.
5. Skate something new at the park. Always skating the same park ledge in the street course? Why not try out the bowls and gain some skills on the coping.
6. Travel to a park you’ve never been to before or rarely go to. We just went to this small SJ park last Saturday that some of us had never been to and it was extremely fun.
7. Stretch and warm up ahead of time. Can’t stress this enough.
8. Film and take pictures. Really easy to catch all of your friends on camera having fun and doing stunts.
9. Upgrade to better wheels and bearings. You will be surprised at the difference they make, especially skating transition. You will roll smoother and faster with way less effort. I recommend Swiss bearings and Eulogy wheels.
10. Wear all your pads so that you are not constantly getting broke off. But…. if you don’t like to wear pads, you can still sneak some thin knee pads or gaskets under your jeans without anyone noticing and at least save some wear and tear on your knees.
11. WATER. Keep your session going longer by staying hydrated.
12. Keep it positive. Yes it’s corny or whatever, but this post is about having more fun at the park.
13. Challenge yourself with tricks outside of your comfort zone. If you go to the park and do basically the same tricks on the same obstacles every time you are going to progress at a very slow rate and most likely get bored of skating park.
14. Skate the whole time… if you want to improve your skills and add to your bag of tricks faster.
15. Go out for wings and beer (soda if your under 21) after the session. Great way to replenish the body and keep everyone in good spirits.
16. Say what up to the new guy/girl skating at your local park. Grow the aggressive skate scene.
17. Put up your favorite stickers. Props to Will for getting Aggressivemall stickers the highest up at the SJ Lake Cunningham park.
Now go tear up your local skatepark and have fun with your friends. Just don’t forget to still skate street spots or else Dre (AKA Paco Ass Dre) will be disappointed.
Posting it eary, so you have no excuse. 7-9:30(when they close). It’s $5 to skate, but free to park. You will probably need something to cover your elbows (a l/s shirt, pads, socks, shoes etc.) and most definitely a helmet. See you there or were sending debo to knock you the F*** out.
Here is an edit submitted and edited by Neil Chen. This edit features local skater Ronald Raquion.
Ronald Raquion 2008 edit from neil chen on Vimeo.
Flash back 15 years when aggressive skate technology was just starting to progress and CDS Detriot made these wonderful soul plates to attach to your Roces or Rollerblade skates.
I was at my folk’s house the other day and I found a pair of Roces Moscows and some of my old used CDS soul plates that I remember installing on an even older pair of Roces. Well this is how you had to attach them on your skates. Damn that was a huge soul plate area that really locked you on those early 90s rails…
Gather together some tools.
Grab your old school skates.
Drill some holes.
And BAMN! Your ready to soul grind your way to the X-Games.
Remember when we had that logo count contest that ended in about 2 hours a couple weeks ago? Well here is our winner, Valo EB1. Maroon with his brand new pair of Cool Snakes. WE DELIVER SKATES 2 SKATES.
They came all the way from Georgia out to California to hit up or Wednesday night skate. And This just so happens to be the first edit for our WNS at the Lake Cunningham park. Filmed and edited by Julian Garcia.
You heard right! We have an extremely limited number of left over wheels that are being sold seperately on the site now. Get yourself one of the hottest 58mm wheels out there, poured by Eulogy specifically for the Cool Snake skate. Get yourself a set for only $26 here.
KINKS UP THE ASS.
and Funny this one was titled steeze, but I foundz it anyways.
DON’T THINK WE FORGOT! BE THERE OR GET BEAT! 7-9:30(when they close). It’s $5 to skate, but free to park. You will probably need something to cover your elbows (a l/s shirt, pads, socks, shoes etc.) and most definitely a helmet. See you there.
After way too long of wait, the USD Richie Eisler pro classic throne skates have finally arrived. With multiple colors used in the design, the USD Eisler’s really look awesome in person. The photos are nice, but you really have to strap up a pair of the Eisler’s to truly start to understand their unique look.
USD also has a new white version of their Evo ‘09 skate that looks great with the gray parts that come on it. To set up the skates even better, USD decided to have them come stock with the new Kizer Slim Line team frames.
As always we have plenty of set ups for you including plenty of custom options.
USD Evo ‘09 White Custom Skate
Check out all of our USD aggressive skate set ups here.
Don Bambrick gets his highly deserved pro model wheels from Street Artist which didn’t hold anything back in designing him two great looking wheels. Seriously though, the graphics are awesome on Brambrick’s pro wheels with an impressive amount of colors blending into each other.
We’ve had excellent feedback on the Street Artist wheels so far, so you might even be able to drop some MAN SIZED hammers in these like Bambrick does daily.
Street Artist Bambrick Pro 56mm 90a Wheel
Street Artist Bambrick Pro 58mm 88a Wheel
Our entire Street Artist wheel and clothing collection here.
If you haven’t noticed the little widget on the side of the blog, we have been updating out Flickr account bi-weekly with our early morning session photos and wednesay night skate session photos. Here are a few for you to check out.
Razors and Ground Control combined forces to release some new purple parts for your skates. I think there are more parts to come… but this is what we have received so far. Again these are available in limited quantities so if you like ‘em don’t delay.
Purple Razor Cuff
Purple Featherlite 2 Frames
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