Pretty sick article. I love living in SF, and always finding new shit to skate everywhere. For that ben gore photo though, i always thought diamond heights was up off diamond st, like up from glen park but before twin peaks area, idk. So many little neighborhoods, never know where they start or end.
it is, that was a design mistake. i'll get josh (j south, our designer) to reposition. thanks for pointing it out.
Really good article. Can't wait to go to skate SF in the next couple of years. Is there any chance of doing the same sort of article on other places? Like NY or something?
possibly NY, but we just did that big city-wide article a couple months ago...
gipper has the right approach, you'll have way more fun just cruising around the city and finding what you find. that's how it should be skated. it's cool to skate famous spots, but more fun to just go. and yeah, your first experience with SF hills will be a mind opener. once you get past them being scary, they are so much fun. still gotta be careful though, hill slams hurt a little...
I heard that Hunter's Pt. was really sketchy...but also heard that gentrification was going on. Is there a new area that is getting worse?
SLAP office is basically in HP. during the day it's fine if you just go about your business. at night, you don't want to hang out. people still get blasted and stuck up pretty much daily. we see funerals going several times a week up on 3rd street. it is in the process of gentrification, but it's slow. gonna be hard to get more upscale people to move in out here, not only because of the crime but because the water and soil is toxic due to the proximity of the old naval shipyards where all kinds of nasty stuff went into the ground and water for decades. but it does consistently have the best weather of anywhere in SF, and you get really nice views of the bay, downtown and the bay bridge when you're up on the hill in the projects. plus the oldest skatepark in SF is smack dab in the middle of the projects too! as far as other bad areas, there's plenty- the tenderloin is no picnic- but HP is probably the worst overall.
sean young clip--
here's that same hill bomb, but in the rain: