Friday, February 26, 2010

" let's add another 2x4 dude."

i spent hours on janky
little ramps like this.
scouring the street for bricks
boards and whatever you could
shove under your ratty ass piece
of plywood. i can still hear the
sound the ramp would make and the sound
of it crumbling down moments after
blast off.


dave back in 88.
thanks for the foto.

6 comments:

  1. wobertFebruary 26, 2010 at 9:40 AM

    good times

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  2. DavidablFebruary 26, 2010 at 10:11 AM

    Hey, Max.
    Kids skating in some streets maybe even tougher than
    Oakland. Kabul, Afghanistan. Another place where different cultures meet skating.

    http://www.daylightmagazine.org/podcast/january2010

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  3. Dave "2¢" DerelictoFebruary 26, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    My dad used to stockpile scrap lumber in the backyard so we had ghetto ramps-a-plenty. Good memories.

    Another memory
    http://iamnotabrewster.blogspot.com/2010/02/grosso-and-devil.html

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  4. andyMarch 1, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    haha i still remember the day my dad pulled in the driveway one night after work and here i am skating on a crap ass stacked wood ramp....... the wood was a piece of very expensive laminating teak used for high end wooden boat decks!!.....not good, he had told be a dozen times not to even think about skating on that.

    it curved really nice though, so i used it anyway.

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  5. ezPzMarch 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM

    man, kids + jumps = magic

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  6. RyGarMarch 2, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    Here's a shot of myself, back in '87.
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9R8vLKZUHqY/STcvrG6RiUI/AAAAAAAAADY/aaoybj106Uo/s1600-h/Thrashin+%2787.jpg

    My yard always had a bunch of super sketchy "ramps" growing up. Over the years we added parking blocks lifted from the local DMV, a 'vert wall' in the garage made out of a collapsed carport, a bunch of file cabinets, and some Safeway pallet with plywood manual pads. The "Trashpark" was what we called it.
    I remember that the milkcrates in this photo would shoot out about half the time and I'd bail all tangled up in them. Kids are fucking gnarly.

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