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Skateboarding => Appreciation! => Topic started by: Eon on June 30, 2010, 10:44:59 PM
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Show appreciation and love to one of the most supreme forms of skateboarding.
The free floating carves, the growling coping, the rapid fire of tiles, and the occasional floaty frontside airs.
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Every skater should have 'Skating a Pool' on their bucket lists.
Discuss. Peace.
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Hell Yeah!! I got to skate a pool once about 5 years ago. It was not very skateable. You can see the coping is not grindable at all. And it's in my hometown in Canada...so the concrete was all cracked and super rough. But daaaaaamn was it fun.
(http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae175/jeremyrandallsk8/Random%20Skate%20Shit/l_e451d2c178ec442aa547ba51c1f07af0.jpg)
post edit: Holy Shit my board is tiny in that photo. That was back when I skated 7.5's. I can't even imagine skating something that small now.
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Every skater should have 'Skating a Pool' on their bucket lists.
I know it's on mine, but I doubt I'll ever get to skate an actual backyard pool
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I've skated two. One was more set up like bank to wallrides. The other was perfect. Skating a pool was on the list, but so was grinding real coping and carving over a light, got to do both there. I dropped in on it too. It was some meth head lady's pool. She had a son too. The backyard was filled with all sorts of garbage, a pit bull, and this poor 5 year old kid. Weird scene for sure. The kid actually was the one who would give us permission to skate the pool. When ma would come out he'd tell her we were his friends and she let it go. I guess after a while it got blown out though, and eventually mom didn't care who his friends were, nobody could skate the pool. I only got to skate it once, but it was rad. It was actually in the east bay, and I got to skate the hook for the first time the same day. Amazing day for sure.
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i love lances part in extremly sorry.
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I've skated only one in my 22 years on the board. I'm in Australia so skateable pools don't come up too often. Definitely a bucket list moment. So much harder to skate than I thought. I'm way more amped on pool footage than I was before.
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I've skated a skatepark pool a couple of times and it was fun as hell. But that doesn't count at all when talking about actual pools
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Skating 20+ years and never skated a real pool.Hard to come by in washington.
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Skating 20+ years and never skated a real pool.Hard to come by in washington.
same here.
i did skate one of those banked type pools when i was a kid but i don't think thats official.
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i'm really shocked at the amount of people here who've never skated a pool. i've skated a bunch. i also can't believe you made something so gnarly sound so gay in the first post. free floating? are you kidding me? try quick and deadly.
k
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Every skateboarder should take a pilgrimage to Southern California just to skate some pools. Although, I just heard about one in the Philly suburbs just last week...
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skated a bunch of them, definitely didn't shred any of them but they can be fun for a bit. i usually get bored though and mainly because i never hit the lip and get bored with craving them and they are usually way out of the way and only skated each one once so never really get a chance to progress. i have some photos on a hd at home with some pool adventures on it though, if i ever get it hooked up i'll post some. definitely fun to watch guys who know what they are doing rip them though.
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I've skated between 15 and 20. I haven't skated one in a few years. I know where two empties are right now, but I am on court probation so I can't chance it.
We had one that was in a county park. My friends cleaned it out and we had it to ourselves all winter. We had to bucket rain water every time. We had to cross through a creek to get there so we had creek shoes stashed in the bushes. When the creek got too high we had to skate down a bike path a mile and cross the creek on the freeway shoulder. We had it for a long time and then some dudes from SF e=who had skated it in the 80's came to check it out. A month or two later it was a bust.
This is from like 5 or 6 years ago....
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I don't think I've skated any type of pool. But I might've found one at this apartment complex. It's empty and it's the summer, so either they don't want to swim or the landlord is lazy. Whatever the reason, I'm going to try and roll around one of these days, I want to skate a good pool.
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I've skated two. One was more set up like bank to wallrides. The other was perfect. Skating a pool was on the list, but so was grinding real coping and carving over a light, got to do both there. I dropped in on it too. It was some meth head lady's pool. She had a son too. The backyard was filled with all sorts of garbage, a pit bull, and this poor 5 year old kid. Weird scene for sure. The kid actually was the one who would give us permission to skate the pool. When ma would come out he'd tell her we were his friends and she let it go. I guess after a while it got blown out though, and eventually mom didn't care who his friends were, nobody could skate the pool. I only got to skate it once, but it was rad. It was actually in the east bay, and I got to skate the hook for the first time the same day. Amazing day for sure.
There's one like that about an hour from me. Got to skate it for a bit and it was a blast until the end. I was just doing a bs wallride as high as I could and my front truck got hung up on the coping and I fell straight onto my hip/wrist. I definitely wanna go back though!
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I skated a bank to wallride pool, too. More like a bank to curb. The sides walls had normal, but lumpy transitions that turned into a bank in the deep end. The tiles and coping were set up like a bank to curb. I did some backside slappy rear truck scratches a few times, but mostly fell on my head.. My friend would blast crazy talislides on it.We skated in a bunch until some dude showed up one day and threatened to shoot us if we returned.
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I've only skated a pool once. It was gnarly, dusty, and steep as shit. Didn't even carve over the light. My friend rock n rolled the deep end, and front rocked the shallow.
I prefer them filled with water on a hot day.
Has anyone seen Cancer Dust? Ryan Johnson kickflips over a set of stairs in the shallow end. That video's crazy.
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my neighboors up the street got their house foreclosed so ive been skatin their pool evreyday
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i skated a few as a young lad. usually friends' parents who had drained pools and didn't know well enough to not let us skate them
have not skated any since i've been back skating. i know for sure that some people i skate with definitely skate some secret pools but i have yet to get "the invite" . maybe when i get backside smiths down they'll invite me
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In my country they don't make the pools like that, just an square hole in the ground, sucks
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Pools are always coming and going out here, I think I have skated about 2 dozen or maybe a little more in my life but could have skated way more.
Sometimes they just don't last too long or get blown out too quick, that's why the dudes who know where they all are tend to be so secretive about them.
Anyway, this one has been in circulation for about a year or so, good thing the housing market for these kinds of super rich neighborhoods is in the shitter.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ukMIJnt4nEw/SmTpwBxQAiI/AAAAAAAAC1c/WXsGfW_RB-M/s320/moto_0136.jpeg)
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There's a kink in it but grinds over the light are rad and if you're super gnar go get the deathbox, OR if you're beyond amazing grind over both in one crack.
Whatever, pools are sick, by all means go sesh if you ever get the chance, even if you're one of those cats that skates nothing but ledges and stairs, it's a great thing to experience.
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used to be one around me in jersey and it was so hard to skate. also heard rumors of one in the philly suburbs i may check out. ever since skating one, i've had infinite amounts of respect for pool skating because it is fucking impossible
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I've only ever heard about 2 or so, I've never actually seen a skatable one.
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I've skated two. One was more set up like bank to wallrides. The other was perfect. Skating a pool was on the list, but so was grinding real coping and carving over a light, got to do both there. I dropped in on it too. It was some meth head lady's pool. She had a son too. The backyard was filled with all sorts of garbage, a pit bull, and this poor 5 year old kid. Weird scene for sure. The kid actually was the one who would give us permission to skate the pool. When ma would come out he'd tell her we were his friends and she let it go. I guess after a while it got blown out though, and eventually mom didn't care who his friends were, nobody could skate the pool. I only got to skate it once, but it was rad. It was actually in the east bay, and I got to skate the hook for the first time the same day. Amazing day for sure.
you talking about the pool with the fence around it in the oakland hills? because i skated a pool up there one time that had a 5 year old kid too.
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I had my pool drained for a couple days this summer, My friends and I got to skate it, It was amazing.
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Skating 20+ years and never skated a real pool.Hard to come by in washington.
lurk more.
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I've skated two. One was more set up like bank to wallrides. The other was perfect. Skating a pool was on the list, but so was grinding real coping and carving over a light, got to do both there. I dropped in on it too. It was some meth head lady's pool. She had a son too. The backyard was filled with all sorts of garbage, a pit bull, and this poor 5 year old kid. Weird scene for sure. The kid actually was the one who would give us permission to skate the pool. When ma would come out he'd tell her we were his friends and she let it go. I guess after a while it got blown out though, and eventually mom didn't care who his friends were, nobody could skate the pool. I only got to skate it once, but it was rad. It was actually in the east bay, and I got to skate the hook for the first time the same day. Amazing day for sure.
you talking about the pool with the fence around it in the oakland hills? because i skated a pool up there one time that had a 5 year old kid too.
No, it was in the hills in some town in the east bay, but I don't think it was Oakland. I forget the name of the town, but its the same city that the hook is in. I've heard stories about the fire pools up in the hills though.
Oh, and a correction to my last post, I've skated 3 pools, but the third pool just sucked all around and I barely even remember.
For all those people saying "pools are hard to come by around here," cut that excuse out. Pools are hard to come by EVERYWHERE.Even southern California. That's part of what makes them so rad. Such a rare and forbidden fruit. I guarantee that the dudes on here saying they have skated a bunch of pools didn't find them accidentally.
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I've skated two. One was more set up like bank to wallrides. The other was perfect. Skating a pool was on the list, but so was grinding real coping and carving over a light, got to do both there. I dropped in on it too. It was some meth head lady's pool. She had a son too. The backyard was filled with all sorts of garbage, a pit bull, and this poor 5 year old kid. Weird scene for sure. The kid actually was the one who would give us permission to skate the pool. When ma would come out he'd tell her we were his friends and she let it go. I guess after a while it got blown out though, and eventually mom didn't care who his friends were, nobody could skate the pool. I only got to skate it once, but it was rad. It was actually in the east bay, and I got to skate the hook for the first time the same day. Amazing day for sure.
you talking about the pool with the fence around it in the oakland hills? because i skated a pool up there one time that had a 5 year old kid too.
Oh, and a correction to my last post, I've skated 3 pools, but the third pool just sucked all around and I barely even remember.
For all those people saying "pools are hard to come by around here," cut that excuse out. Pools are hard to come by EVERYWHERE.Even southern California. That's part of what makes them so rad. Such a rare and forbidden fruit. I guarantee that the dudes on here saying they have skated a bunch of pools didn't find them accidentally.
The Hook is in Castro Valley. I live 15 minutes from there and I've still never been to it. Blowin it.
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That's the one! The pool was in Castro Valley!
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a few back home, the chase is haf the fun.
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been skating for ten years and i've only skated two. plus, it was when i was starting out, so i didn't really do shit. i was randomly wondering about this today and thought maybe i should ask this here: how come there isn't any black pool/tranny skaters? i just thought that was kinda weird
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black people hate swimming.
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but black pool skaters are typically gnarly.
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been skating for ten years and i've only skated two. plus, it was when i was starting out, so i didn't really do shit. i was randomly wondering about this today and thought maybe i should ask this here: how come there isn't any black pool/tranny skaters? i just thought that was kinda weird
There are tons, they're just all old. The only people now that grow up skating transition/pools are park rats(which are actually supposed to be hated on here), and kids that have dads that skated pools. .
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Good stuff.
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been skating for ten years and i've only skated two. plus, it was when i was starting out, so i didn't really do shit. i was randomly wondering about this today and thought maybe i should ask this here: how come there isn't any black pool/tranny skaters? i just thought that was kinda weird
(http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/dtown/images/marty2a.jpg)
Marty Grimes of Glen Friedman fame.
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Wasn't Cookiehead Jenkins a black vert dude? Alfonso Rawls got his start as a vert dog too.
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I skated a few pools when I lived in Arizona. Probably around '89 and '90. It was fun. I remember carving around the light and my board slipped out sending me back first to the bottom knocking the wind out of me and giving me a concussion. That was the only time I really ever ate shit skating a pool. I haven't seen a decent one where I live that has been skateable in years though. Now that I'm older I wouldn't mind finding another one to session for a little while. Just carving a pool super fast is fun. That's all I'd want. I have tons of respect for people that can tear a pool apart...it isn't easy.
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I ate shit hard hitting the drain immediately after dropping in on one. After that I noticed that people tape them down or put a sign over them in most videos. pretty good idea.
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join the backyard pool fan page on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/San-Diego-CA/Empty-Pools/87564346239?ref=ts&ajaxpipe=1&__a=9
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My favorite thing to skate. Skated one a couple of weekends ago that was super tight and hard, but fun none the less. I think I have skated 20 or so, on the hunt for some now.
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i didn't realize they were so hard to find. don't they post them up on concrete disciples? i know when i was in houston they were pretty easy to track down via word of mouth if you were into them. just talk to geezers at the park. they even had a skater there who got a house that had a kidney pool in the back which stays empty for skating.
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Skated two. The first was when I had a broken collar bone, I could only carve but I was so stoked on it being the first and all. Went back constantly when I healed. Second was last summer at a motel during a family trip through AZ. Found that by accident while aimlessly looking through binoculars from the motel we originally at. Super tight tranny but so fun. Busted a piece of tile off for a souvenir.
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Yeah it definitely helps if you know the right people and they trust you enough not to blow the spot out and bring a whole gang of people or generally do stuff that gets a pool shit down real quick.
Some of these pool shark bros are super secretive and keep a lot of these gems to themselves and only toss out a few leftover nugs, I can pretty much see why, a lot of people don't know the basic etiquette and general ground rules for keeping a pool bust-free and skateable.
Sometimes a lot of work goes into just the mere act of finding a pool, not to mention putting in mad hours draining and/or bailing out disgusting heinous sludge water, drying the shit up with Kitty Litter or rags and towels, sweeping, and whatever else prep work is often necessary before a pool can even be skated.
Just gotta be in the right place at the right time and you'll occasionally get to sample.
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been skating for ten years and i've only skated two. plus, it was when i was starting out, so i didn't really do shit. i was randomly wondering about this today and thought maybe i should ask this here: how come there isn't any black pool/tranny skaters? i just thought that was kinda weird
cookiehead jenkins, don hillsman, alfonso rawls were all dropping in back in the day for sure (amongst MANY others). i can't remember the name of the brother who skated with the original z-boys crew in venice, but here he is (below) on the left. anybody remember his name? so that means a brother was helping to invent pool skating (if you believe the z-boys started it, which i know to be false).
(http://www.seventeen.com/cm/seventeen/images/z-boys.jpg)
and @ COTG, i'm guessing you've never seen The Darkness (Mike Barnes) skate, huh? he's a FLA loc and is flow for bacon and has the most insane stalefish boneless you'll lay eyes on. and he's pretty young. dude skates so smooth and is a solid dude all around. here ya go. a full interview so you can get a little history. and it ain't even february, HA!
(http://baconskateboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DarknessPage1.jpg)
(http://baconskateboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DarknessPage2.jpg)
(http://baconskateboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DarknessPage3.jpg)
see it's not like black skaters don't skate pools, it's just that no one knows and they got cockblocked in the industry/skate media as a rule. shit, Clyde's skated a few in his day and still might on the right day!! up your knowledge fools.
**this has been a public service announcement from blacgnar inc.**
k
edited to include the link to the interview, i thought it would be readable. here: http://baconskateboards.com/?p=714
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I've only skated one pool in Germany and almost got killed fucking up a feeble. It scared the hell out of me. I havn't seen a pool since I've been back to America, but that shit is pretty hard to skate.
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been skating for ten years and i've only skated two. plus, it was when i was starting out, so i didn't really do shit. i was randomly wondering about this today and thought maybe i should ask this here: how come there isn't any black pool/tranny skaters? i just thought that was kinda weird
PFFT! Whatever!
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Don't forget Eric "Tuma" Britton
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Pools are so gnarly. I never once had an easy time skating one but they are fun as hell. This one is in Lowell, MA.
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http://powellskateboards.com/team/steven-reeves/ (http://powellskateboards.com/team/steven-reeves/)
(http://powellskateboards.com/content/team/action/steven-reeves.jpg)
(http://powellskateboards.com/content/team/action/steven-reeves-back-lip.jpg)
This dude rips, got to skate with him in Portland a couple of times.
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I've only skated one pool in Germany and almost got killed fucking up a feeble.
Doing feebles in pools is a good way to fuck your shit up, a lot can go wrong on that trick - from locking up to missing and sliding out to just coming in wrong to having your board go behind you at a weird angle...all kinds of nightmarish scenarios, but worth it for the feeling of coming out of a good feeble. Had the worst slam I've taken in recent memory locking up at high speed on a feeble and falling to flat bottom in a pool that was 8' or so. Limped like a sissy for about a week and a half, my hip still hurts if I bump it or slam on it - way worse than the other hip. Ah the joy of the feeble grind, a trick that some people seem to have no problem doing forever and others never seem to master
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Never skated one, would like to though.
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Skated a bank to wall pool when I was a kid, and a couple of others that were kind've a joke... but this one was a permission pool. I wrote about it before, it was fucking hell to drain and shovel out, and one of the scariest fucking things ever:
(http://www.loudblue.com/gorm/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/6pool.jpg)
About the same time this thing existed in the back of a condemned house in Baton Rouge... after work one day I used a little flash memory camera to document it (shit skating, after work and I was worried about getting fucked out there alone one a Friday)... the pool was destroyed the next day and at the beginning, what you're seeing is what happens to a pool that stays empty for too long in most parts of the state... water makes them pop up out of the ground. Same reason NOLA and other places use above-ground graves. Anyway, the popping up made going over the light over vert, which was fun as shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlajZxxmtM
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Grim - Looked like a good time, getting over that light looked tough.
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never skated any, but i've skated closed down waterslides, if that counts for anything
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my two friends and i drained this pool maybe 6 years ago. it was after those series of hurricanes that slammed florida, and the hurricane cracked the seawall by the pool, making one wall of the pool crack too. (see the cement used to fix the crack for skating?) the owners were out of town on vacation. we skated it every day for three weeks or so. so amazing, right on the water, we could jump in the river when we were tired. pretty janky but definitely skateable. there's some footage of it somewhere, i'll try to find it later.
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i've skated two others, one was really square and shitty. the other one, in the middle of an apartment complex, was the best pool i've ever seen. unbelievable. perfect transition. drained it, we each carved over the light once, and then a cop rolled up. maybe i should add that people were living there still, watching us, and the pool was not abandoned at all, hahaha. but dude, it was fucking perfect, too good to not try!
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^ You drained a full pool in the middle of an apartment complex to skate it? Ballsy.
I used to know a dude who lived in Santa Cruz who would search for carcasses of dead animals in the woods and by streets with a lot of road kill incidences and throw them into perfect pools so people would be forced to drain them. Apparently a rabbit or raccoon won't get them to drain, but a deer with an open wound or that has been rotting for some time apparently works like a charm. I've also heard leaving the label on a glass bottle and smashing it in the pool will force the people to empty it to get rid of the glass, which is invsible in water. Leaving the label on is necessary because if you do that, they can see that a bottle has been broken in their instead of finding out be feeling it.
Pool skating is raw like war.
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a bunch of packages of black rit dye works wonders in getting a pool emptied.
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http://powellskateboards.com/team/steven-reeves/ (http://powellskateboards.com/team/steven-reeves/)
(http://powellskateboards.com/content/team/action/steven-reeves.jpg)
(http://powellskateboards.com/content/team/action/steven-reeves-back-lip.jpg)
This dude rips, got to skate with him in Portland a couple of times.
damn that first white pool me and my friends found when were like 16 a couple years ago it's so fun to skate
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Don't forget Eric "Tuma" Britton
He just got the cover of the new Juice. Dude rips.
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Fingers crossed I am going to skate one today. Great to celebrate Independence day!
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Grim - Looked like a good time, getting over that light looked tough.
Definitely no park transition! haha, it was fun but like I said, being there alone was sketch because I really didn't want to get knocked out only to be found the next day by the construction people. My girl (now wife) would have tripped... hitting it side to side like a ramp was doable, but I wasn't comfortable about hitting the brick lip while solo. I can still take getting pitched, but prefer to do that when someone in the crew is with me.
Also, kamltoe posted that pic of Mike Barnes doing a huge stale at the bricks in Orlando... it's hard to explain how insane that is! those fuckers are tough to ride... hit 'em a few years ago when attending the Surf Expo:
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/144/l_55506e8ed7db4f588cb3b836e2484160.jpg)
(Thanks to Shannon May for the pic)
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Skated a gnarly one today, couldn't do much because the left side was really kinked and there was a small puddle of water cutting off going up the face wall, want to go back and clean out the little bit of water and see what I can do.
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might as well share some of my footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxMvSg4fTU
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Grim - Looked like a good time, getting over that light looked tough.
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/144/l_55506e8ed7db4f588cb3b836e2484160.jpg)
(Thanks to Shannon May for the pic)
sick
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kTjP-5nhE
yeah i know the drop in, is wack.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kTjP-5nhE
yeah i know the drop in, is wack.
awesome spot, but dude, you need some friends.
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^ Fucking gnar spot.
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Had to dig through a ton of old photos on my hard drive to find these.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/friendlydave/Staplegun_1.jpg)
This is my buddy Donovan at a now defunct pool in Woodburn, OR. It was the first pool I ever got to skate, and I was lucky enough to session it a handful of times before it got filled. Square bowl, real tight trannys, with a light in the deep end, and staris built into the lefthand wall. I carved over the light in the rain one time, I was pretty hyped on that.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/friendlydave/PA170067.jpg)
Rivers Inn pool in Klamath Falls, OR. This pool has made it in the mags a couple of times. I remember Drehobl had a photo doing a boardslide to fakie around the corner in the shallow. This is the first pool that I grinded the coping on. It was rad because if you stayed at the Rivers Inn they let you skate the pool for free. Pretty convenient on skate trips down to the Klamath Falls park. As far as I know the pool is still there, but I know it has gotten pretty cancered and the coping is kinda fucked.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/friendlydave/davebrewmaticad.jpg)
Sorry about the cheesyness of the graphic. It was a little promo for a video my friends and I never put out back in 05/06. This is the only pool I've ever skated in Wisconsin. It was on January 1st, and it was in some kid's parent's house. Super random, and pretty shitty. It was essentially a tight ditch, with a flat wall on top. I remember it was some russian kid that hooked it up, and the whole time his mom was being all sketched out and wanting us to leave. But he kept being like "fuck you mom, why don't you go fuck off?" and talking shit in Russian. It was crazy.
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saw that first photo and thought, "looks like a slamavan trick."
then i read your caption.
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I'm still not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed to be the one who taught him how to do staple guns. :)
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Here's the pool I was talking about. it's so fun. From that patch of quickrete to the top is about 3 ft just straight up. This angle doesn't really show how high up the wall is though. (photo by bradford bishop. skater is drew windon)
(http://www.skateillinois.com/photos/fspivotpoolweb.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kTjP-5nhE
yeah i know the drop in, is wack.
awesome spot, but dude, you need some friends.
yeah. no one else was at the spot. so propped the cam on the bailing bucket.
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=017gyErd7ZY&feature=feedu#)
watch the video until the end.
if you live in this area of florida. you should go find this. drain it. and skate it.
the shallow end looks sick as fuck.