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Unofficial Skatepark Tour

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Fun little spot on a hot summer day in sunny southern California.
The last spot after riding 4 or 5 skate parks and one other backyard pool.

This photo was from The Unofficial Sk8park Tour we did back in the summer of 2009 here in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas. We had a blast checking out all the new skateboard parks at the time and generally getting baked in the hot summer sun all for the sake of fun. We came across a couple backyard pools, a steep rectangle at a vacant house and a right hand kidney at someone’s home that had carve-able shallow stairs. In the end we hit more than 25 parks over a series of weeks, often riding 3-5 a day. It was a challenge to document even with 3 or 4 photographers because it was more about having fun and skating as opposed to shooting pictures.

Plans for the Unofficial Sk8park Tour 2012 are being kicked around since there are new skate parks to be ridden.  More than a few.  Looking forward to another skateboarding adventure!  Stay tuned.

Images courtesy of Aaron Melendrez Photography and Jeremy Wray

Pool skating debacle on Southland

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Southland, Season 2 Episode 3

Looks like the production team on Southland should have consulted with poolskateboarding.com before staging such a phony looking death scene. Talk about making skateboarding look bad. Nothing about this makes sense. We’re here to help, next time call us.

(BTW, I think this pool is adjacent to a very well known LA street skating spot.)

Image courtesy of Southland

Happy New Year 2012!

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To more of everything rad and less of anything sad!  Poolskateboarding.com wishes everybody around the world a happy new year!  To more pools, waves, sunny days and beautiful women.  To a prosperous 2012 regardless of what the Mayans say…

Or to adventure and good times…whatever your motto is.

Whatever you do today is supposed to mirror the year, well I don’t necessarily buy that but its good motivation to do something awesome with your time on this special day.  I’m hoping to surf when I get up then skate somewhere concrete.  Not exactly sure where, somewhere in OC or LA or both.  Surf in Orange County and skate in Los Angeles…it could happen.  I will snap a couple pics and put them here later today as an ode to 2012 and the rest of the year…have a great day!

tb

YWCA Pool: Long Beach, California 1989

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The YWCA Pool in Long Beach was an amazing square with the sickest carve-able corners & the tile coping was so rad to grind.  Pool skating at its finest.  Che Hernandez, rock n roll in the LBC, 1989.
Image courtesy of Chris Nokes, RIP