A classic LA spot gone with the wind...
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Awol in LA.
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Unofficial Skatepark Tour
- 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
Mad Carver @ Slug Bowl
Vancouver's Best!
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Las Vegas Pool Skating
- Paul, making it look too easy…
Mark Partain / Paul Smith / Randy Colvin / Spitfire Pool / Las Vegas. Footage shot by Manimal and Fishegg.
The Spitfire pool, an insane right hand kidney I only got to ride half of (the shallow half). Got there too late, it was already filled with dirt to just under the tiles in the deep end. I was able to rig a shallow stair session out of scaffolding and somehow made it and that footage is around somewhere. Wish I had got to ride the whole thing, its looks so fun!
Image courtesy of Paul Smith
A very famous empty pool…
One pool that's always dry!
This pool has seen more skateboarding action than any pool in all of southern California. It may be thee most well known pool of this era. Who knows…
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A permission pool in 2007…
A Los Angeles permission gem of a pool, circa 2007.
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1-1-2012: Etnies Skatepark, City of Lake Forest
Skateboarding and surfing, no better way to start the year!!!
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1-1-2012: Surfing Trestles
- A best way to ring in the new year!!!
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Pool Surfing
If skateboard spots had stuff like this to commemorate the place...
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Pool Skating Research @ Trestles
Pool skating research in the waves at Trestles...
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