Question: How do I get sponsored by Cactus Skateboards?
Answer: Good question (not really, see * below). However, prospective riders are usually brought to our attention through current team riders. Ideally, what we look for are skilled skateboarders with good attitudes who are progressing at a rapid rate. The operative words here are "good attitude and progressing", not "getting faded everyday". If you're getting coverage, that always helps, too.
Sponsor-me videos/DVDs are encouraged, but not always considered. If you feel like you have good footage and are stoked on Cactus, we encourage you to keep shredding, support our shop, hang out with our riders and send in a DVD/videotape. Give us some time to check you out and then follow it up with a call or a face-to-face chat is even better.
We're stoked when skaters want to represent Cactus, but... "DO NOT SEND EMAILS ASKING "WILL YOU SPONSOR ME" or "WHAT TRICKS DO I NEED TO KNOW TO BE SPONSORED???" If you are serious about seeking sponsorship, then follow the above suggestions (or even better, the one down below marked *).
By the way, emails requesting sponsorship will be promptly deleted.
Cactus Skateboards
Keeping the shred real in Springfield, Oregon since 2005
1780 Centennial Blvd.
Springfield, OR 97477
(541) 747-4462
*Being sponsored is not all its cracked up to be. What does it really mean to be sponsored? Free or discounted product is alright but it's not the best thing in the world. Big freakin' deal if someone is sponsored. Skate for fun. Support a legit skateshop. If you are good you won't even need to go "looking" for sponsorship - it'll just happen. That's how it worked out for me.
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Best Cactus Letter Ever!
We received this letter a few days ago from one of our best customers. I will leave him anonymous but thought sharing his feelings on the shop might stoke you out a bit. Needless to say, me and the crew were super stoked to read such kind words from such sincere motives. I've edited it in parts for continuity, mild editing and adding punctuation where needed, but left his entire thought in its raw form. Read on, and enjoy.
"hey red whats up. just here to say that i'm so stoked on cactus right now. i'm glad that you are getting more and more attention from everyone about the new bag of skate shizit, and stoked on that you are no where in site of closing because i love it there. when i first went to cactus you welcomed me and made me feel like i was a local that went there all the time. now u still treat me with that same respect and i love that you shout my name and then say "pound it". and thats why i keep on buying my skate stuff only at cactus. thats why i have spent almost 800 dollars in one year!!! people feel good to go to cactus. cactus and you are the only reason i kept skating. when you go to [other shops] they don't even notice you unless you're there to buy something and they hate it when you just chill, but you made a sick place to chill at and every one loves to go to. so just thought i'd show some love.
cactus rocks!!!"
"hey red whats up. just here to say that i'm so stoked on cactus right now. i'm glad that you are getting more and more attention from everyone about the new bag of skate shizit, and stoked on that you are no where in site of closing because i love it there. when i first went to cactus you welcomed me and made me feel like i was a local that went there all the time. now u still treat me with that same respect and i love that you shout my name and then say "pound it". and thats why i keep on buying my skate stuff only at cactus. thats why i have spent almost 800 dollars in one year!!! people feel good to go to cactus. cactus and you are the only reason i kept skating. when you go to [other shops] they don't even notice you unless you're there to buy something and they hate it when you just chill, but you made a sick place to chill at and every one loves to go to. so just thought i'd show some love.
cactus rocks!!!"
The Cactus Story
I thought for our 2 year anniversary it was high time to set the story straight to the skate community of Eugene/Springfield and beyond about the origin of Cactus Skateboards.
Cactus Skateboards began as a dream over 10 years ago. In the mid 90's I really wanted to be a professional skateboarder (yeah… I still do but I'm old and I suck. So what?). Anyway, two friends of mine, Ed and Trent, started their own skateshop in the town where I lived. These were good guys with good heads on their shoulders. They started a skateshop that focused on skateboarding only since they themselves were only into skateboarding, just like me. They sold only skateboard goods and hardware. No snowboards, no surfboards, no wetsuits, just skateboards. In no time it blossomed. Within a year they had 2 successful shops up and running and today have 4 shops and a central warehouse with a huge private miniramp. To say the least, they are super successful and are what any skateshop owner longs for, including me. That was well over 10 years ago.
With the advent of their shop my dream of becoming a skateshop owner was a seed thirsty for water. I spoke of it from time to time with close friends but was never really serious about it, or even taken seriously by my friends. Rather quickly through the years I came to the disappointing conclusion that I would never make it into professional skateboarding, not even close. The best I got was a shop sponsor with shoes flowed now and then from the sales reps from Duffs and DVS. Don't get me wrong, I greatly appreciated everything that was given to me – still do. But professional skateboarding requires the best of the best and is very demanding on your time, energy and body. And I obviously am nowhere near the best of the best. I mean, most of you guys have skated with me and it's rather pathetic, wouldn't you say? I got janky oldschool style and my kickflips blow... I do love skateboarding though. And I'll never quit. But good luck to those of you who are going for it. My heart is with you and I'm full of advice for what not to do.
Back to the Cactus story. So this dream subtly kept growing over the years. In the meantime, I got married, got a college degree, lived overseas for a couple years and had a kid. It wasn't until my wife and I were talking about it one day when she asked where I would like to start the shop. When I told her none other than her hometown of Springfield, Oregon things got really serious. My dream shifted from being a mere seed into an overdrive reality. We started writing down every idea we could and talked about it nonstop. This was all during our time living in South Korea. It wouldn't be for another year and a half before we would have the business plan drawn up and a few "start your own business" lessons under our belts before we actually opened the doors.
Right away we wanted to name the shop Cactus Skateboards because the cactus plant represents a place where skateboarding meant so much to me – the desert. Phoenix, Arizona is where my good friends had started their shop and since they were so good to me I wanted to somehow pay homage to them for treating me so well by naming our shop Cactus. They even helped me come up with a practical way of running our shop. The help Ed and Trent offered through the years can never be repaid. I owe them my very life.
We moved back to Oregon after spending 2 years teaching English overseas. Once we were back, with my dream burning in my chest, we set out to open Cactus Skateboards once and for all. That, however, was not without it's setbacks. We had many, many obstacles to overcome before opening our doors to sell skateboards to you guys. One of the biggest obstacles was general know-how. Neither I nor my wife had ever started a business before. It wasn't long though before we were fortunate enough to meet a guy by the name of Colin. Consequently, he was the owner of Bacon Skateboards and he knew everything there was to know about opening up a business. Luckily for us he had sympathy and decided to lend us a hand. Honestly, we could not have done it without his energy and efforts. We also owe him our greatest debt of gratitude.
From the beginning I wanted to make a skateshop unlike any other shop in the Eugene/Springfield area. I wanted a place for you guys to hangout at, watch skate videos for free, skate a few ramps, and most importantly be influenced in a positive way to… well, skate. This proved to be another obstacle for us – legitimacy. I mean, I'm not from around here. I didn't know any of you guys before we started this thing. I had to start and build friendships from the ground up. That takes work and most importantly time. But I wanted to be a legitimate skateshop that you all could relate to, be stoked on, and be willing to support. In time, fortunately, this happened and continues to happen to this day. We could not exist without all of your help. Every dime spent here is accounted for and only helps us grow. The more you shop here the better the Cactus gets. In that regard this is your shop. I guess the main persons I owe the most gratitude is all you – the ones interested enough in Cactus Skateboards to read this lame little story.
I never wanted to get rich off skateboarding. That's not why I stated a skateshop. Skateboarding has done so much for me and has been there every time I needed it that I just wanted to be able to give back a little something of my own, hence Cactus Skateboards. This is my way of saying "thank you" to skateboarding. We hold contests and events, sponsor local rippers like Chris Fish and pass out free hot dogs all to draw attention to the positive aspects of skateboarding: it's brotherhood, excitement and fun. That's pretty much the gist of it.
In summary, I feel it must be said again and even emphasized: If Cactus Skateboards exists it is only by you, and in order for Cactus to continue to exist it is only by your loyalty to continue to shop here. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Cactus Skateboards what it is today.
-Redneck '07
Cactus Skateboards began as a dream over 10 years ago. In the mid 90's I really wanted to be a professional skateboarder (yeah… I still do but I'm old and I suck. So what?). Anyway, two friends of mine, Ed and Trent, started their own skateshop in the town where I lived. These were good guys with good heads on their shoulders. They started a skateshop that focused on skateboarding only since they themselves were only into skateboarding, just like me. They sold only skateboard goods and hardware. No snowboards, no surfboards, no wetsuits, just skateboards. In no time it blossomed. Within a year they had 2 successful shops up and running and today have 4 shops and a central warehouse with a huge private miniramp. To say the least, they are super successful and are what any skateshop owner longs for, including me. That was well over 10 years ago.
With the advent of their shop my dream of becoming a skateshop owner was a seed thirsty for water. I spoke of it from time to time with close friends but was never really serious about it, or even taken seriously by my friends. Rather quickly through the years I came to the disappointing conclusion that I would never make it into professional skateboarding, not even close. The best I got was a shop sponsor with shoes flowed now and then from the sales reps from Duffs and DVS. Don't get me wrong, I greatly appreciated everything that was given to me – still do. But professional skateboarding requires the best of the best and is very demanding on your time, energy and body. And I obviously am nowhere near the best of the best. I mean, most of you guys have skated with me and it's rather pathetic, wouldn't you say? I got janky oldschool style and my kickflips blow... I do love skateboarding though. And I'll never quit. But good luck to those of you who are going for it. My heart is with you and I'm full of advice for what not to do.
Back to the Cactus story. So this dream subtly kept growing over the years. In the meantime, I got married, got a college degree, lived overseas for a couple years and had a kid. It wasn't until my wife and I were talking about it one day when she asked where I would like to start the shop. When I told her none other than her hometown of Springfield, Oregon things got really serious. My dream shifted from being a mere seed into an overdrive reality. We started writing down every idea we could and talked about it nonstop. This was all during our time living in South Korea. It wouldn't be for another year and a half before we would have the business plan drawn up and a few "start your own business" lessons under our belts before we actually opened the doors.
Right away we wanted to name the shop Cactus Skateboards because the cactus plant represents a place where skateboarding meant so much to me – the desert. Phoenix, Arizona is where my good friends had started their shop and since they were so good to me I wanted to somehow pay homage to them for treating me so well by naming our shop Cactus. They even helped me come up with a practical way of running our shop. The help Ed and Trent offered through the years can never be repaid. I owe them my very life.
We moved back to Oregon after spending 2 years teaching English overseas. Once we were back, with my dream burning in my chest, we set out to open Cactus Skateboards once and for all. That, however, was not without it's setbacks. We had many, many obstacles to overcome before opening our doors to sell skateboards to you guys. One of the biggest obstacles was general know-how. Neither I nor my wife had ever started a business before. It wasn't long though before we were fortunate enough to meet a guy by the name of Colin. Consequently, he was the owner of Bacon Skateboards and he knew everything there was to know about opening up a business. Luckily for us he had sympathy and decided to lend us a hand. Honestly, we could not have done it without his energy and efforts. We also owe him our greatest debt of gratitude.
From the beginning I wanted to make a skateshop unlike any other shop in the Eugene/Springfield area. I wanted a place for you guys to hangout at, watch skate videos for free, skate a few ramps, and most importantly be influenced in a positive way to… well, skate. This proved to be another obstacle for us – legitimacy. I mean, I'm not from around here. I didn't know any of you guys before we started this thing. I had to start and build friendships from the ground up. That takes work and most importantly time. But I wanted to be a legitimate skateshop that you all could relate to, be stoked on, and be willing to support. In time, fortunately, this happened and continues to happen to this day. We could not exist without all of your help. Every dime spent here is accounted for and only helps us grow. The more you shop here the better the Cactus gets. In that regard this is your shop. I guess the main persons I owe the most gratitude is all you – the ones interested enough in Cactus Skateboards to read this lame little story.
I never wanted to get rich off skateboarding. That's not why I stated a skateshop. Skateboarding has done so much for me and has been there every time I needed it that I just wanted to be able to give back a little something of my own, hence Cactus Skateboards. This is my way of saying "thank you" to skateboarding. We hold contests and events, sponsor local rippers like Chris Fish and pass out free hot dogs all to draw attention to the positive aspects of skateboarding: it's brotherhood, excitement and fun. That's pretty much the gist of it.
In summary, I feel it must be said again and even emphasized: If Cactus Skateboards exists it is only by you, and in order for Cactus to continue to exist it is only by your loyalty to continue to shop here. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Cactus Skateboards what it is today.
-Redneck '07
Core Means Poor.
I've figured it out! If you want to make tons of money then do something you loathe. Seems like most everyone ends up taking this route one way or another. It's easy to fall into, I guess. You want that house, car, boat, trip, whatever so you work your tail off at some dead end job to get it and finally you do and then its on to the next thing because nothing like that ultimately satisfies, does it? Sounds like America, huh? This is what our culture revolves around - consumerism. It's enough to make me want to gag, even though I fall into it over and over myself, which is why I want to gag.
The way I see it is if you are stoked on something, I mean super stoked on something then why not pursue that. What's your dream? What do you want from life? You want to be a writer? You want to be a musician? You want to be the manager for Mcdonalds? Whatever it is if it's your dream then go for it. Take it! What do you have to lose? Demand it of life. You only live once. Make the most of it. Don't work at something you hate forever just to start living at retirement. Live now.
I opened up Cactus because I am stoked on skateboarding. I've skated the majority of my life (25 years to be exact). I work 2 jobs. We make no money. You've seen our place. It looks like your average kid's bedroom most days. But it's what I love. There's nothing but skateboarding stuff in there. I'm broke as anyone, especially with the economy in the dumps, but I'm so stoked that I get to work at a skate shop that sells super good stuff (not like WalMart or FredMeyer). It's so rad! I sleep easy at night knowing I've served my customers the best I can with what the skateboard industry has to offer. What keeps me going is that I know deep down something positive is being pumped back into the skate scene around here. And I'm not taking credit for any of it because it's all of our customers - YOU! - that deserve the credit. We're just here to support you guys.
The conclusion? Keep doing what you love. Don't stop. If it's a good thing, no one will be bummed but only blessed by you and what you do. And keep riding skateboards. It's the best!
Redneck
2009
The way I see it is if you are stoked on something, I mean super stoked on something then why not pursue that. What's your dream? What do you want from life? You want to be a writer? You want to be a musician? You want to be the manager for Mcdonalds? Whatever it is if it's your dream then go for it. Take it! What do you have to lose? Demand it of life. You only live once. Make the most of it. Don't work at something you hate forever just to start living at retirement. Live now.
I opened up Cactus because I am stoked on skateboarding. I've skated the majority of my life (25 years to be exact). I work 2 jobs. We make no money. You've seen our place. It looks like your average kid's bedroom most days. But it's what I love. There's nothing but skateboarding stuff in there. I'm broke as anyone, especially with the economy in the dumps, but I'm so stoked that I get to work at a skate shop that sells super good stuff (not like WalMart or FredMeyer). It's so rad! I sleep easy at night knowing I've served my customers the best I can with what the skateboard industry has to offer. What keeps me going is that I know deep down something positive is being pumped back into the skate scene around here. And I'm not taking credit for any of it because it's all of our customers - YOU! - that deserve the credit. We're just here to support you guys.
The conclusion? Keep doing what you love. Don't stop. If it's a good thing, no one will be bummed but only blessed by you and what you do. And keep riding skateboards. It's the best!
Redneck
2009
Letter to Thrasher
[This letter was published in Thrasher magazine in October 2006]
Dear Thrasher,
There was this one cartoon on the newspaper-type pages among the hodgepodge articles and photos in one of the earliest Thrashers I can remember. I'm dating myself here, but who really cares? I cut out that little comic and hung it on the back of my bedroom door. The comic hung next to a sequence of Alan Losi doing a hip-hop over a channel on an obscure ramp somewhere, along with a photo of Tony Hawk lying down on top of his board with his face painted as his graphics, an ad for Venture V3 trucks, and a Brand X ad, along with a plethora of other odds and ends thoroughly representing skateboarding at the time. All of this covered the back of my bedroom door.
The cartoon depicted a skateboarder blasting a huge, huge backside air out of this ramp; the kids on the platform and all around were commenting and yelling with excitement, as skaters often do even these days when something noteworthy has just been thrown down. I remember studying that comic and pointing out one of the comments to my brother, the one with the guy looking up, yelling "Phuc!" In my innocence and general bliss of youth coupled with the excitement about skateboarding, I said, "Look he's saying 'Puke!'" And my brother's response (as he was a little older and wise to the ways of the world) was to maintain that innocence of mine a bit longer. But I can still see the look in his eyes that he knew I had no clue. He smiled and remained silent anyway.
That was well over 20 years ago, but I remember that look like it was yesterday. I appreciate that about my brother. In that very moment he kept skateboarding pure to me, even from the silliness of a silly word. He understood in some obscure way just how much I loved it all, and was wise to know that actually revealing the harshness of some things in skateboarding (and life in general) might take some of the fun out of it. He preserved the mystery of it for me just a little bit longer. It is the mystery of not fully knowing the object of our love that sometimes makes us love what we love with an unfulfilled longing for more.
And that's just it. That's skateboarding! It's addiction. Variable ratio on wheels. Like gambling. You did that trick yesterday but can't work it out today. Ah, the mystery of it all! That's what makes us love it. That's what keeps us coming back for more, even all battered, bruised and beaten. And kids still get just as excited about it and just as addicted as I did over 20 years ago.
So regardless of how many tricks you have learned, how many sponsors you've had, how many videos you've made or been in, or even how many cut-rate letters you've written about skateboarding, it is and always will be pure fun, a purely innocent thrill void of all the peripheral – well, crap – that can accompany this object of our love.
Congratulations Thrasher, on 25 years! Sorry for the late congrats, but thank you for faithfully reminding us that skating is fun – and for being there the whole time I've been skating and getting me stoked all the more to keep rolling. And thank you, Jody, for keeping it so pure and simple fun in its own proper rightful essence, even way back when.
Sincerely,
Redneck
Dear Thrasher,
There was this one cartoon on the newspaper-type pages among the hodgepodge articles and photos in one of the earliest Thrashers I can remember. I'm dating myself here, but who really cares? I cut out that little comic and hung it on the back of my bedroom door. The comic hung next to a sequence of Alan Losi doing a hip-hop over a channel on an obscure ramp somewhere, along with a photo of Tony Hawk lying down on top of his board with his face painted as his graphics, an ad for Venture V3 trucks, and a Brand X ad, along with a plethora of other odds and ends thoroughly representing skateboarding at the time. All of this covered the back of my bedroom door.
The cartoon depicted a skateboarder blasting a huge, huge backside air out of this ramp; the kids on the platform and all around were commenting and yelling with excitement, as skaters often do even these days when something noteworthy has just been thrown down. I remember studying that comic and pointing out one of the comments to my brother, the one with the guy looking up, yelling "Phuc!" In my innocence and general bliss of youth coupled with the excitement about skateboarding, I said, "Look he's saying 'Puke!'" And my brother's response (as he was a little older and wise to the ways of the world) was to maintain that innocence of mine a bit longer. But I can still see the look in his eyes that he knew I had no clue. He smiled and remained silent anyway.
That was well over 20 years ago, but I remember that look like it was yesterday. I appreciate that about my brother. In that very moment he kept skateboarding pure to me, even from the silliness of a silly word. He understood in some obscure way just how much I loved it all, and was wise to know that actually revealing the harshness of some things in skateboarding (and life in general) might take some of the fun out of it. He preserved the mystery of it for me just a little bit longer. It is the mystery of not fully knowing the object of our love that sometimes makes us love what we love with an unfulfilled longing for more.
And that's just it. That's skateboarding! It's addiction. Variable ratio on wheels. Like gambling. You did that trick yesterday but can't work it out today. Ah, the mystery of it all! That's what makes us love it. That's what keeps us coming back for more, even all battered, bruised and beaten. And kids still get just as excited about it and just as addicted as I did over 20 years ago.
So regardless of how many tricks you have learned, how many sponsors you've had, how many videos you've made or been in, or even how many cut-rate letters you've written about skateboarding, it is and always will be pure fun, a purely innocent thrill void of all the peripheral – well, crap – that can accompany this object of our love.
Congratulations Thrasher, on 25 years! Sorry for the late congrats, but thank you for faithfully reminding us that skating is fun – and for being there the whole time I've been skating and getting me stoked all the more to keep rolling. And thank you, Jody, for keeping it so pure and simple fun in its own proper rightful essence, even way back when.
Sincerely,
Redneck
Best Video Parts by Shawn Kilmer
In the words of my friend Shawn Kilmer:
These are the top five skate parts that shaped my ideals of skateboarding. These are the parts that every time I was skating I was trying to live up to. Yes, this is one of those “back in my day” stories. Read on if that doesn’t bore you:
I stopped watching new videos, and I think its because a good deal of innovation is gone. Some no name kid who has been skating for 2 ½ years is kickflip backlipping handrails and shit. In every video. Its respectable, its hard, but it’s not new anymore. The video parts I grew up on in the nineties were literally a new experience for skateboarding with each video part. Almost every trick was a new innovation, a new contribution to the greater good of skateboarding as we all found out what was possible together.
The world wasn’t as connected before fast internet video, so everyone was so original in their different parts of the country and world. You rarely knew what exactly had been going down in the San Francisco scene or New York scene until the next video came out from the areas. You didn’t have as big of a problem of “fad tricks” as nowadays (though the one footed backside ollies and pressure flips were almost totally headed out when I started skating).
So kids are good, they are really good. And I cant wait to see what they are going to be innovating in their later 20s, but so much of it doesn’t hold my attention the way it did when it was all so creative.
These parts have all been written about for their historical value and nostalgia at length by many others, so I will keep my captions brief about what they mean to me.
#5 - Andrew Reynolds Union Wheels Video:
The Union Wheels video was the first skate video I ever bought, on VHS. I couldn’t really ever afford videos, so I watched this one a ridiculous amount. I'd say for a year I watched it 2-5 times a day. Lots of days the tape would just stay on Andrew Reynolds part as I would just rewind it and re-watch it over and over.
What stood out instantly was the cajj factor. This little buck in this clip is showing the future of what street skateboarding had in store… major shift of emphasis all to style. Its about looking casual when you push, looking casual when you attack things. What also stood out to me was these lines of endless at-will switch flip tricks. A switch anything was a novelty trick at the time, but here this kid was just lofting switch tricks over real things, like the little set of stairs he switch heels in his opener, that was new. Then of course the wall-dodge to self-props at 20 seconds into this video is so awesome. I get stoked on seeing dudes stoked, because that’s what skateboarding is, it is just playing. That’s what it should be.
#4 - Pat Duffy Questionable Video:
Now actually, I didn’t start watching this til 97, when I met someone old enough that skated that knew about the old Plan B stuff and had copies of it. I got like an 8th generation copy onto VHS, and like the last video I mentioned, I watched the whole video maybe 100 times, but I watched this Duffy part like 300.
This has been said elsewhere, but let me weigh in: NOBODY was skating handrails and proper ledges with these modern street tricks at that time. NOBODY. Nobody was grinding these types of huge handrails for years to come. I’m not aware of seeing another Backside Lipslide on a legitimate handrail any earlier in history than the one he does IN THE RAIN. But of course one of my favorite tricks of the whole part is the harsh kink Backsmith at 2:00 in. that would be a clip in any skate video to come out this day.
#3 - Pat Duffy Virtual Reality:
When I copied the Questionable video I also got Virtual Reality on the same tape. While the Questionable video had pat doing incredible mind-blowing stuff for the time, for me his part in Virtual Reality fully blew the doors down from the older type of skating we used to have to the “new school” that started then and is pretty much unchanged to this day, except with more corporate sponsorship.
I mean from the first time I saw this part, it was like I had seen a changing point in the history of the activity of skateboarding. I mean, you would never even see Kickflip Front Boardslides come into skating until like 98, 99, and on that little handrail he does Treflip Lipslide!! The style, the magnitude of the tricks! This part from 93 could come out today with updated boards and clothes, and it would still stand against modern stuff, it could be an ender part.
When some pros were just barely catching up to his earlier handrail work, he was already a huge step beyond, like on that back tail Shuvit on the chrome handrail or the pure balls Lipslide on the white high kinked rail into the street. Again, I can’t remember seeing any back tails take place on any handrails before that.
Then, the last thing I have to say about it is Kickflip noseslide hubba hideout. Take one clip of anyone skateboarding from my entire lifespan to symbolize what skateboarding is/was for me, and its that clip. In San Francisco, the dream of skateboarding, wearing baggy clothes and backwards hat because you don’t give a fuck, you just skate, skating the hottest spot where everyone knows the ABDs, and pulling out a fully modern first-time-of-its-kind kickflip noseslide. Sick. That’s the whole dream, right there. 5 bucks if anyone under 18 knows which ledge in this clip is called “the Duffy ledge”.
#2 - Cairo Foster The Reason
This part really sealed the idea for me when I was 17 or so that speed is awesome. If you go fast and do your shit, you are a badass and it looks awesome. Cairo goes pretty fucking fast. Look at that haul-ass confidence stair section at 2:00 to 2:15.
This part ushered in the whole era of new-school nollie skating. Sure you would see the occasional stairset nollie flip, or a big nollie into a grind or manual, But I just cannot remember seeing anyone do these kind of man-size nollie tricks as part of a regular trick bag. He is nollie heeling entire SF pier blocks and its not even in his main footage, its an artsy opener!
This video and part also set the tone for the insurgence of “indie-emo-art-clips” style of skate video editing, as you would notice if you could hear the beautiful built to spill soundtrack, over generous helping of 16mm art clips. I joke about it now because of how the style was cookie cutter cloned to this day, but that had a big influence on me for editing videos.
This part Cairo has is also partly responsible for me striving to learn switch Frontside Flips. His banger of a Switch F/S Flip at the end of this remains to this day one of my fav tricks I've seen on tape in history. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to SWITCH ollie up that pier block going like 40mph, then powering out that switch F/S Flip through speed wobbles while you bend down? That shits great.
#1 - Andrew Reynolds The End:
Pretty much the sole reason I was doing kickflip melons around the Visalia, California skatepark in the last two years of the 90s was from watching this part. I didn’t realize it at the time, but a huge reason I have a pretty strong frontside flip and fakie cab are from this video part alone. In 98 or so, this was only the third skate video I ever got after Welcome To Hell, so this one ended up seeing lots of plays as well. Again, I didn’t have time after school to watch the whole thing before skating every day, so the tape just stayed on Reynolds’ part. The opening cab… holy…. Fucking shit. This is 11 years later, and if someone did that same trick today it would still be holy fucking shit. And again, the casual element. He just lands that little piece of history and just rides out of there stoked and bouncy, doesn’t give a fuck. What a great trick. And with that slo-mo, you just feel what it must feel like.
The part is pretty cool, but to me the part would be just as strong if it consisted of only the opening cab and then cut out everything up until 2:30 at the front blunt kickflip. From there on out it is just utter mayhem. When I saw the 14 stair rail fs flip for the first time on a Transworld cover I thought it had to be unreal. Then I stared at the full-page photo sequence of it, razored it out, and I have it to this day in a plastic sheet inside of a binder. I’ve probably spent over an hour of my life looking at that photo sequence just in respectful awe. That Frontside Flip was it for me, anything was possible once that happened. Anything was possible. -Shawn Kilmer 2010
These are the top five skate parts that shaped my ideals of skateboarding. These are the parts that every time I was skating I was trying to live up to. Yes, this is one of those “back in my day” stories. Read on if that doesn’t bore you:
I stopped watching new videos, and I think its because a good deal of innovation is gone. Some no name kid who has been skating for 2 ½ years is kickflip backlipping handrails and shit. In every video. Its respectable, its hard, but it’s not new anymore. The video parts I grew up on in the nineties were literally a new experience for skateboarding with each video part. Almost every trick was a new innovation, a new contribution to the greater good of skateboarding as we all found out what was possible together.
The world wasn’t as connected before fast internet video, so everyone was so original in their different parts of the country and world. You rarely knew what exactly had been going down in the San Francisco scene or New York scene until the next video came out from the areas. You didn’t have as big of a problem of “fad tricks” as nowadays (though the one footed backside ollies and pressure flips were almost totally headed out when I started skating).
So kids are good, they are really good. And I cant wait to see what they are going to be innovating in their later 20s, but so much of it doesn’t hold my attention the way it did when it was all so creative.
These parts have all been written about for their historical value and nostalgia at length by many others, so I will keep my captions brief about what they mean to me.
#5 - Andrew Reynolds Union Wheels Video:
The Union Wheels video was the first skate video I ever bought, on VHS. I couldn’t really ever afford videos, so I watched this one a ridiculous amount. I'd say for a year I watched it 2-5 times a day. Lots of days the tape would just stay on Andrew Reynolds part as I would just rewind it and re-watch it over and over.
What stood out instantly was the cajj factor. This little buck in this clip is showing the future of what street skateboarding had in store… major shift of emphasis all to style. Its about looking casual when you push, looking casual when you attack things. What also stood out to me was these lines of endless at-will switch flip tricks. A switch anything was a novelty trick at the time, but here this kid was just lofting switch tricks over real things, like the little set of stairs he switch heels in his opener, that was new. Then of course the wall-dodge to self-props at 20 seconds into this video is so awesome. I get stoked on seeing dudes stoked, because that’s what skateboarding is, it is just playing. That’s what it should be.
#4 - Pat Duffy Questionable Video:
Now actually, I didn’t start watching this til 97, when I met someone old enough that skated that knew about the old Plan B stuff and had copies of it. I got like an 8th generation copy onto VHS, and like the last video I mentioned, I watched the whole video maybe 100 times, but I watched this Duffy part like 300.
This has been said elsewhere, but let me weigh in: NOBODY was skating handrails and proper ledges with these modern street tricks at that time. NOBODY. Nobody was grinding these types of huge handrails for years to come. I’m not aware of seeing another Backside Lipslide on a legitimate handrail any earlier in history than the one he does IN THE RAIN. But of course one of my favorite tricks of the whole part is the harsh kink Backsmith at 2:00 in. that would be a clip in any skate video to come out this day.
#3 - Pat Duffy Virtual Reality:
When I copied the Questionable video I also got Virtual Reality on the same tape. While the Questionable video had pat doing incredible mind-blowing stuff for the time, for me his part in Virtual Reality fully blew the doors down from the older type of skating we used to have to the “new school” that started then and is pretty much unchanged to this day, except with more corporate sponsorship.
I mean from the first time I saw this part, it was like I had seen a changing point in the history of the activity of skateboarding. I mean, you would never even see Kickflip Front Boardslides come into skating until like 98, 99, and on that little handrail he does Treflip Lipslide!! The style, the magnitude of the tricks! This part from 93 could come out today with updated boards and clothes, and it would still stand against modern stuff, it could be an ender part.
When some pros were just barely catching up to his earlier handrail work, he was already a huge step beyond, like on that back tail Shuvit on the chrome handrail or the pure balls Lipslide on the white high kinked rail into the street. Again, I can’t remember seeing any back tails take place on any handrails before that.
Then, the last thing I have to say about it is Kickflip noseslide hubba hideout. Take one clip of anyone skateboarding from my entire lifespan to symbolize what skateboarding is/was for me, and its that clip. In San Francisco, the dream of skateboarding, wearing baggy clothes and backwards hat because you don’t give a fuck, you just skate, skating the hottest spot where everyone knows the ABDs, and pulling out a fully modern first-time-of-its-kind kickflip noseslide. Sick. That’s the whole dream, right there. 5 bucks if anyone under 18 knows which ledge in this clip is called “the Duffy ledge”.
#2 - Cairo Foster The Reason
This part really sealed the idea for me when I was 17 or so that speed is awesome. If you go fast and do your shit, you are a badass and it looks awesome. Cairo goes pretty fucking fast. Look at that haul-ass confidence stair section at 2:00 to 2:15.
This part ushered in the whole era of new-school nollie skating. Sure you would see the occasional stairset nollie flip, or a big nollie into a grind or manual, But I just cannot remember seeing anyone do these kind of man-size nollie tricks as part of a regular trick bag. He is nollie heeling entire SF pier blocks and its not even in his main footage, its an artsy opener!
This video and part also set the tone for the insurgence of “indie-emo-art-clips” style of skate video editing, as you would notice if you could hear the beautiful built to spill soundtrack, over generous helping of 16mm art clips. I joke about it now because of how the style was cookie cutter cloned to this day, but that had a big influence on me for editing videos.
This part Cairo has is also partly responsible for me striving to learn switch Frontside Flips. His banger of a Switch F/S Flip at the end of this remains to this day one of my fav tricks I've seen on tape in history. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to SWITCH ollie up that pier block going like 40mph, then powering out that switch F/S Flip through speed wobbles while you bend down? That shits great.
#1 - Andrew Reynolds The End:
Pretty much the sole reason I was doing kickflip melons around the Visalia, California skatepark in the last two years of the 90s was from watching this part. I didn’t realize it at the time, but a huge reason I have a pretty strong frontside flip and fakie cab are from this video part alone. In 98 or so, this was only the third skate video I ever got after Welcome To Hell, so this one ended up seeing lots of plays as well. Again, I didn’t have time after school to watch the whole thing before skating every day, so the tape just stayed on Reynolds’ part. The opening cab… holy…. Fucking shit. This is 11 years later, and if someone did that same trick today it would still be holy fucking shit. And again, the casual element. He just lands that little piece of history and just rides out of there stoked and bouncy, doesn’t give a fuck. What a great trick. And with that slo-mo, you just feel what it must feel like.
The part is pretty cool, but to me the part would be just as strong if it consisted of only the opening cab and then cut out everything up until 2:30 at the front blunt kickflip. From there on out it is just utter mayhem. When I saw the 14 stair rail fs flip for the first time on a Transworld cover I thought it had to be unreal. Then I stared at the full-page photo sequence of it, razored it out, and I have it to this day in a plastic sheet inside of a binder. I’ve probably spent over an hour of my life looking at that photo sequence just in respectful awe. That Frontside Flip was it for me, anything was possible once that happened. Anything was possible. -Shawn Kilmer 2010
What Really Matters
Who cares what board so-n-so is riding or what kinda of shoes/style/tricks so-n-so wears/has/does?! They skate. That's all that should matter. They are having some innocent fun.
If we don't get along with someone for personality reasons we should just avoid them and be cordial when we have to be around them. It's simple really. We just tend to complicate things in life in order to "fill" our time (Note the quotations around fill). Complications just become a distraction for what is greater and far better for us, namely love. If we loved people more and thought about ourselves less I think life would be much easier for all of us. The problem is no one can truly love someone else unless they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are loved immensely by something greater than themselves. Of course I'm talking about the love of God. His love truly changes us because he looks at us and sees all the good things we are but he also sees how crappy we are to others and ourselves and he chooses to love us anyway. This is life-changing type of love. This is why I have friends who ride bikes and friends who roller-blade and friends who have never even stepped foot on a skateboard because ultimately in life skateboarding, bikes, roller-blades or anything else like that really doesn't matter. The only true thing that matters is getting to know God and loving those around us.
Sorry for the rant. It just bugs me that people get so focused on themselves and their own agenda that they lose focus on what matters. I'm guilty of this myself. Skateboarding is so much fun, but because of that there is a danger of being distracted by it and putting our agenda ahead of Truth (capital t is intentional there). This is why I'm so laidback when it comes to skateboarding. I don't compete because it's not why I skate. If I do happen to enter a contest I try to best myself to see if I can pull the tricks I think I can do just as if I was casually skating with my friends in a heated ramp session or whatever. It stays fun that way. Trying to outdo the other guy to make myself look better takes the fun out of it for me. When I go to the park I don't try to one-up anyone there. I just ride my skateboard. I like to talk trash because I'm skating with my friends and it's fun to talk trash in a joking way, but I do it because the tricks I can or can't do don't really matter to me because I know there's more to life than skateboarding. I even get stoked if someone is there ripping harder than me. I can just sit and watch and be stoked for them even if we're not really friends or they ride for another shop. I can get stoked for them because I know God loves me regardless if I rip or suck.
If we don't get along with someone for personality reasons we should just avoid them and be cordial when we have to be around them. It's simple really. We just tend to complicate things in life in order to "fill" our time (Note the quotations around fill). Complications just become a distraction for what is greater and far better for us, namely love. If we loved people more and thought about ourselves less I think life would be much easier for all of us. The problem is no one can truly love someone else unless they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are loved immensely by something greater than themselves. Of course I'm talking about the love of God. His love truly changes us because he looks at us and sees all the good things we are but he also sees how crappy we are to others and ourselves and he chooses to love us anyway. This is life-changing type of love. This is why I have friends who ride bikes and friends who roller-blade and friends who have never even stepped foot on a skateboard because ultimately in life skateboarding, bikes, roller-blades or anything else like that really doesn't matter. The only true thing that matters is getting to know God and loving those around us.
Sorry for the rant. It just bugs me that people get so focused on themselves and their own agenda that they lose focus on what matters. I'm guilty of this myself. Skateboarding is so much fun, but because of that there is a danger of being distracted by it and putting our agenda ahead of Truth (capital t is intentional there). This is why I'm so laidback when it comes to skateboarding. I don't compete because it's not why I skate. If I do happen to enter a contest I try to best myself to see if I can pull the tricks I think I can do just as if I was casually skating with my friends in a heated ramp session or whatever. It stays fun that way. Trying to outdo the other guy to make myself look better takes the fun out of it for me. When I go to the park I don't try to one-up anyone there. I just ride my skateboard. I like to talk trash because I'm skating with my friends and it's fun to talk trash in a joking way, but I do it because the tricks I can or can't do don't really matter to me because I know there's more to life than skateboarding. I even get stoked if someone is there ripping harder than me. I can just sit and watch and be stoked for them even if we're not really friends or they ride for another shop. I can get stoked for them because I know God loves me regardless if I rip or suck.
My Skatepark List...
Here's a list of all the skateparks (at least the ones I can remember) that I've had the privilege to skate over the years. I've numbered only the ones in the US. The ones in Canada, S. Korea and popular spots count, in my mind, but in all fairness they weren't in the US or a legit "skatepark" so I didn't feel right including them in my overall number, just mentioning them by name is sufficient enough to get my point across I think.
-Redneck
Arizona:
1. Vans – Phoenix, AZ
2. Cottonwood Skatepark – Cottonwood, AZ
3. Bushmaster Skatepark, Flagstaff, AZ
4. Kingman Skatepark, Kingman, AZ
5. Lake Havesu Skatepark, Lake Havesu, AZ
6. Florence Skatepark, Florence, AZ
7. Casa Grande Skatepark, Casa Grande, AZ
8. Itchy Foot Moes Skatepark, Tucson, AZ
9. Tucson Skatepark – Tucson, AZ
10. Skatepark of Tucson (biker park) – Tucson, AZ
11. Payson Skatepark – Payson, AZ
12. Camp Verde Skatepark, Camp Verde, AZ
13. Thrasher Land, Phoenix, AZ
14. Prescott YMCA – Prescott, AZ
15. Phoenix Skatepark – Phoenix, AZ
16. Chandler Skatepark – Chandler, AZ
17. Mesa Skatepark – Mesa, AZ
18. Gilbert Skatepark – Gilbert, AZ
19. Apache Junction Skatepark – Apache Junction, AZ
20. Paradise Valley Skatepark – Paradise Valley, AZ
21. Awatukee Skatepark – Awatukee, AZ
22. Peoria Skatepark – Peoria, AZ
23. Scottsdale Skatepark – Scottsdale, AZ
24. Site Design Indoor Skatepark – Tempe, AZ
25. Tempe Skatepark – Tempe, AZ
26. The Zone Indoor Skatepark – Phoenix, AZ
27. Yuma Skatepark – Yuma, AZ
28. Prescott Skatepark – Prescott, AZ
29. Prescott Valley Skatepark – Prescott Valley, AZ
Arkansas:
30. Kanis Park – Little Rock, AR
California:
31. Vans – Los Angeles, CA
32. Vans – Vancouver, CA
33. Mission Valley YMCA – San Diego, CA
34. Camarillo – Camarillo, CA
35. Skatelab – Simi Valley, CA
36. Skatepark of San Diego (Kevin took us there) – San Diego, CA
37. Murde Skatepark (Ash Tray Park) – Huntington Beach, CA
38. Huntington Beach Skatepark – Huntington Beach, CA
39. Modesto Skatepark – Modesto, CA
40. Blythe Skatepark – Blythe, CA
41. Redding Skatepark – Redding, CA
42. Santa Cruz Skatepark – Santa Cruz, CA
43. Pleasanton Skatepark – Pleasanton, CA
44. Palo Alto Skatepark – Palo Alto, CA
45. San Mateo Skatepark – San Mateo, CA
46. Petaluma Skatepark – Petaluma, CA
47. Santa Rosa Skatepark – Santa Rosa, CA
48. Napa Skatepark – Napa, CA
49. Yuba City Skatepark – Yuba City, CA
50. Hanford Skatepark – Hanford, CA
51. Santa Clarita Skatepark – Santa Clarita, CA
52. La Verne Skatepark – La Verne, CA
53. Claremont Skatepark – Claremont, CA
Colorado:
54. Crested Butte Skatepark – Crested Butte, CO
55. Durango Skatepark – Durango, CO
56. Ouray Skatepark – Ouray, CO
57. Denver Skatepark (small, metal) – Denver, CO
58. Apocalypse Skatepark (park next to this church) – Boulder, CO
Florida:
59. Kona – Jacksonville, FL
60. Skatepark of Tampa (S.P.O.T) – Tampa, FL
61. Clearwater Skatepark – Clearwater, FL
62. Stone Edge – Daytona, FL
Georgia:
63. ESPN Skatepark – Atlanta, GA
Iowa:
64. Des Moines Skatepark – Des Moines, IA
Kentucky:
65. Louisville Extreme Park – Louisville, KY
Maryland:
66. Lands Down – Baltimore, MD
Nevada:
67. Planet Plywood – Las Vegas, NV
New Jersey:
68. Casino – New Jersey
New Mexico:
69. Focus Skatepark – Albuquerque, NM
70. Albuquerque Skatepark – Albuquerque, NM
North Carolina:
71. Eastern Vert – Winston-Salem, NC
72. Fayetteville Skatepark – Fayetteville, NC
Oklahoma:
73. Oklahoma Skatepark (kid that ripped and let us skate his ramp) – Oklahoma
Oregon:
74. Ashland Skatepark – Ashland, OR
75. Talent Skatepark – Talent, OR
76. Jacksonville Skatepark – Jacksonville, OR
77. Coos Bay Skatepark – Coos Bay, OR
78. Newburg Skatepark – Newburg, OR
79. Lincoln City Skatepark I & II– Lincoln City, OR
80. Reedsport Skatepark – Reedsport, OR
81. Newport Skatepark – Newport, OR
82. Florence Skatepark – Florence, OR
83. Aumsville Skatepark – Aumsville, OR
84. Toledo Skatepark – Toledo, OR
85. Salem Skatepark – Salem, OR
86. West Linn Skatepark – West Linn, OR
87. Waldport Skatepark – Waldport, OR
88. Woodburn Skatepark – Woodburn, OR
89. Dallas Skatepark – Dallas, OR
90. Corvallis Skatepark – Corvallis, OR
91. Albany Skatepark – Albany, OR
92. Roseburg Skatepark – Roseburg, OR
93. Cottage Grove Skatepark – Cottage Grove, OR
94. Willamalane Skatepark – Springfield, OR
95. Churchill Skatepark – Eugene, OR
96. Barger Skatepark – Eugene, OR
97. Veneta Skatepark – Veneta, OR
98. Amazon Bowl – Eugene, OR
99. Trainsong Skatepark – Eugene, OR
100. Cal Young Skatepark – Eugene, OR
101. Toledo Skatepark – Toledo, OR
102. Emerald Skatepark – Eugene, OR
103. Kaizer Skatepark – Kaizer, OR
104. Shelter Indoor Skatepark – Eugene, OR
105. The Edge Indoor Skatepark – Springfield, OR
106. Donald Skatepark – Donald, OR
107. Amity Skatepark – Amity, OR
108. Independence Skatepark – Independence, OR
109. Bend Skatepark – Bend, OR
110. McMinnville Skatepark – McMinnville, OR
111. Hillsboro Skatepark – Hillsboro, OR
112. Tualatin Skatepark – Tualatin, OR
113. Forest Grove Skatepark – Forest Grove, OR
114. Department of Skateboarding Indooor Park – Portland, OR
115. Pier Park – Portland, OR
116. Madras Bike & Skate Park – Madras, OR
117. Redmond Skatepark – Redmond, OR
118. Sweet Home Skatepark
119. Grants Pass – Grants Pass, OR
120. Joel Tanzi Skatepark – Central Point, OR
121. Josephson Skatepark – White City, OR
122. Tigard Skatepark – Tigard, OR
123. Beaverton Skatepark – Beaverton, OR
124. Glenhaven Skatepark – Portland, OR
125. Canby Skatepark – Canby, OR
126. Harrisburg Skatepark
127. Oregon City Skatepark
128. Portland Plaza
129. Siletz Skatepark
130. River Bend – Winston, OR
131. Myrtle Point skatepark – Myrtle Point, OR
132. Sportsplex – Eugene, OR
South Carolina:
133. Charleston Hanger – Charleston, SC
134. Transitions – Greenville, SC
135. Skatepark of Charleston – Charleston, SC
136. Skatepark in Charleston (behind Fairmont) – Charleston, SC
137. Owen’s Field Skatepark – Columbia, SC
138. Fun World – N. Myrtle Beach, SC
139. St. Matthews Skatepark – St. Matthews, SC
140. Duncan Skatepark – Duncan, SC
141. Barn Skatepark (with Trent, big vert ramp in back) – Somewhere, SC
142. Myrtle Beach Skatepark – Myrtle Beach, SC
143. Beaufort Skatepark – Beaufort, SC
144. Plex Indoor Sports II – Irmo, SC
Tennesse:
145. XXX Skatepark – Nashville, TN
Washington:
146. Vancouver Skatepark – Vancouver, WA
147. Bellview indoor park – Bellview, WA
148. Marysville indoor park – Marysville, WA
149. Arlington Skatepark – Arlington, WA
150. Issaquah Skatepark – Issaquah, WA
151. North Bend Skatepark
152. Maple Valley Skatepark
153. Des Moines Skatepark
154. Silverdale Skatepark
155. Bremerton Skatepark
156. Port Orchard Skatepark
157. Kelso Skatepark
158. New Vancouver Skatepark – Vancouver, WA
159. Battleground - Vancouver, WA
Canada (Vancouver):
White Rock
New Westminster
Burnaby
Richmond
Langley
Murrayville
Aldergrove
Abbotsford
Surrey
Ladner
Griffin
Selyn
Seashelt
Famous Spots:
FDR Bridge (Phillyside) – Philadelphia, PA
Love Park – Philadelphia, PA
Giant Ramp – Los Angeles, CA
Burnside – Portland, OR
Nude Bowl – Palm Dessert, CA
Huntington Beach High School – Huntington Beach, CA
Tum Yeto mini ramp – San Diego, CA
The Wedge – Scottsdale, AZ
International:
Do-Bongsan Skatepark – Seoul, South Korea
Daegu Skatepark (worst park ever-rubber ground) – Daegu, South Korea
Suwon Skatepark – Suwon, South Korea
Ulsan Skatepark – Ulsan, South Korea
Itaewon Base Skatepark – Seoul, South Korea
-Redneck
Arizona:
1. Vans – Phoenix, AZ
2. Cottonwood Skatepark – Cottonwood, AZ
3. Bushmaster Skatepark, Flagstaff, AZ
4. Kingman Skatepark, Kingman, AZ
5. Lake Havesu Skatepark, Lake Havesu, AZ
6. Florence Skatepark, Florence, AZ
7. Casa Grande Skatepark, Casa Grande, AZ
8. Itchy Foot Moes Skatepark, Tucson, AZ
9. Tucson Skatepark – Tucson, AZ
10. Skatepark of Tucson (biker park) – Tucson, AZ
11. Payson Skatepark – Payson, AZ
12. Camp Verde Skatepark, Camp Verde, AZ
13. Thrasher Land, Phoenix, AZ
14. Prescott YMCA – Prescott, AZ
15. Phoenix Skatepark – Phoenix, AZ
16. Chandler Skatepark – Chandler, AZ
17. Mesa Skatepark – Mesa, AZ
18. Gilbert Skatepark – Gilbert, AZ
19. Apache Junction Skatepark – Apache Junction, AZ
20. Paradise Valley Skatepark – Paradise Valley, AZ
21. Awatukee Skatepark – Awatukee, AZ
22. Peoria Skatepark – Peoria, AZ
23. Scottsdale Skatepark – Scottsdale, AZ
24. Site Design Indoor Skatepark – Tempe, AZ
25. Tempe Skatepark – Tempe, AZ
26. The Zone Indoor Skatepark – Phoenix, AZ
27. Yuma Skatepark – Yuma, AZ
28. Prescott Skatepark – Prescott, AZ
29. Prescott Valley Skatepark – Prescott Valley, AZ
Arkansas:
30. Kanis Park – Little Rock, AR
California:
31. Vans – Los Angeles, CA
32. Vans – Vancouver, CA
33. Mission Valley YMCA – San Diego, CA
34. Camarillo – Camarillo, CA
35. Skatelab – Simi Valley, CA
36. Skatepark of San Diego (Kevin took us there) – San Diego, CA
37. Murde Skatepark (Ash Tray Park) – Huntington Beach, CA
38. Huntington Beach Skatepark – Huntington Beach, CA
39. Modesto Skatepark – Modesto, CA
40. Blythe Skatepark – Blythe, CA
41. Redding Skatepark – Redding, CA
42. Santa Cruz Skatepark – Santa Cruz, CA
43. Pleasanton Skatepark – Pleasanton, CA
44. Palo Alto Skatepark – Palo Alto, CA
45. San Mateo Skatepark – San Mateo, CA
46. Petaluma Skatepark – Petaluma, CA
47. Santa Rosa Skatepark – Santa Rosa, CA
48. Napa Skatepark – Napa, CA
49. Yuba City Skatepark – Yuba City, CA
50. Hanford Skatepark – Hanford, CA
51. Santa Clarita Skatepark – Santa Clarita, CA
52. La Verne Skatepark – La Verne, CA
53. Claremont Skatepark – Claremont, CA
Colorado:
54. Crested Butte Skatepark – Crested Butte, CO
55. Durango Skatepark – Durango, CO
56. Ouray Skatepark – Ouray, CO
57. Denver Skatepark (small, metal) – Denver, CO
58. Apocalypse Skatepark (park next to this church) – Boulder, CO
Florida:
59. Kona – Jacksonville, FL
60. Skatepark of Tampa (S.P.O.T) – Tampa, FL
61. Clearwater Skatepark – Clearwater, FL
62. Stone Edge – Daytona, FL
Georgia:
63. ESPN Skatepark – Atlanta, GA
Iowa:
64. Des Moines Skatepark – Des Moines, IA
Kentucky:
65. Louisville Extreme Park – Louisville, KY
Maryland:
66. Lands Down – Baltimore, MD
Nevada:
67. Planet Plywood – Las Vegas, NV
New Jersey:
68. Casino – New Jersey
New Mexico:
69. Focus Skatepark – Albuquerque, NM
70. Albuquerque Skatepark – Albuquerque, NM
North Carolina:
71. Eastern Vert – Winston-Salem, NC
72. Fayetteville Skatepark – Fayetteville, NC
Oklahoma:
73. Oklahoma Skatepark (kid that ripped and let us skate his ramp) – Oklahoma
Oregon:
74. Ashland Skatepark – Ashland, OR
75. Talent Skatepark – Talent, OR
76. Jacksonville Skatepark – Jacksonville, OR
77. Coos Bay Skatepark – Coos Bay, OR
78. Newburg Skatepark – Newburg, OR
79. Lincoln City Skatepark I & II– Lincoln City, OR
80. Reedsport Skatepark – Reedsport, OR
81. Newport Skatepark – Newport, OR
82. Florence Skatepark – Florence, OR
83. Aumsville Skatepark – Aumsville, OR
84. Toledo Skatepark – Toledo, OR
85. Salem Skatepark – Salem, OR
86. West Linn Skatepark – West Linn, OR
87. Waldport Skatepark – Waldport, OR
88. Woodburn Skatepark – Woodburn, OR
89. Dallas Skatepark – Dallas, OR
90. Corvallis Skatepark – Corvallis, OR
91. Albany Skatepark – Albany, OR
92. Roseburg Skatepark – Roseburg, OR
93. Cottage Grove Skatepark – Cottage Grove, OR
94. Willamalane Skatepark – Springfield, OR
95. Churchill Skatepark – Eugene, OR
96. Barger Skatepark – Eugene, OR
97. Veneta Skatepark – Veneta, OR
98. Amazon Bowl – Eugene, OR
99. Trainsong Skatepark – Eugene, OR
100. Cal Young Skatepark – Eugene, OR
101. Toledo Skatepark – Toledo, OR
102. Emerald Skatepark – Eugene, OR
103. Kaizer Skatepark – Kaizer, OR
104. Shelter Indoor Skatepark – Eugene, OR
105. The Edge Indoor Skatepark – Springfield, OR
106. Donald Skatepark – Donald, OR
107. Amity Skatepark – Amity, OR
108. Independence Skatepark – Independence, OR
109. Bend Skatepark – Bend, OR
110. McMinnville Skatepark – McMinnville, OR
111. Hillsboro Skatepark – Hillsboro, OR
112. Tualatin Skatepark – Tualatin, OR
113. Forest Grove Skatepark – Forest Grove, OR
114. Department of Skateboarding Indooor Park – Portland, OR
115. Pier Park – Portland, OR
116. Madras Bike & Skate Park – Madras, OR
117. Redmond Skatepark – Redmond, OR
118. Sweet Home Skatepark
119. Grants Pass – Grants Pass, OR
120. Joel Tanzi Skatepark – Central Point, OR
121. Josephson Skatepark – White City, OR
122. Tigard Skatepark – Tigard, OR
123. Beaverton Skatepark – Beaverton, OR
124. Glenhaven Skatepark – Portland, OR
125. Canby Skatepark – Canby, OR
126. Harrisburg Skatepark
127. Oregon City Skatepark
128. Portland Plaza
129. Siletz Skatepark
130. River Bend – Winston, OR
131. Myrtle Point skatepark – Myrtle Point, OR
132. Sportsplex – Eugene, OR
South Carolina:
133. Charleston Hanger – Charleston, SC
134. Transitions – Greenville, SC
135. Skatepark of Charleston – Charleston, SC
136. Skatepark in Charleston (behind Fairmont) – Charleston, SC
137. Owen’s Field Skatepark – Columbia, SC
138. Fun World – N. Myrtle Beach, SC
139. St. Matthews Skatepark – St. Matthews, SC
140. Duncan Skatepark – Duncan, SC
141. Barn Skatepark (with Trent, big vert ramp in back) – Somewhere, SC
142. Myrtle Beach Skatepark – Myrtle Beach, SC
143. Beaufort Skatepark – Beaufort, SC
144. Plex Indoor Sports II – Irmo, SC
Tennesse:
145. XXX Skatepark – Nashville, TN
Washington:
146. Vancouver Skatepark – Vancouver, WA
147. Bellview indoor park – Bellview, WA
148. Marysville indoor park – Marysville, WA
149. Arlington Skatepark – Arlington, WA
150. Issaquah Skatepark – Issaquah, WA
151. North Bend Skatepark
152. Maple Valley Skatepark
153. Des Moines Skatepark
154. Silverdale Skatepark
155. Bremerton Skatepark
156. Port Orchard Skatepark
157. Kelso Skatepark
158. New Vancouver Skatepark – Vancouver, WA
159. Battleground - Vancouver, WA
Canada (Vancouver):
White Rock
New Westminster
Burnaby
Richmond
Langley
Murrayville
Aldergrove
Abbotsford
Surrey
Ladner
Griffin
Selyn
Seashelt
Famous Spots:
FDR Bridge (Phillyside) – Philadelphia, PA
Love Park – Philadelphia, PA
Giant Ramp – Los Angeles, CA
Burnside – Portland, OR
Nude Bowl – Palm Dessert, CA
Huntington Beach High School – Huntington Beach, CA
Tum Yeto mini ramp – San Diego, CA
The Wedge – Scottsdale, AZ
International:
Do-Bongsan Skatepark – Seoul, South Korea
Daegu Skatepark (worst park ever-rubber ground) – Daegu, South Korea
Suwon Skatepark – Suwon, South Korea
Ulsan Skatepark – Ulsan, South Korea
Itaewon Base Skatepark – Seoul, South Korea
Dorking around a skateshop...
Here's a few clips of me skating around the shop actually accomplishing little tricks I've thought about getting on film for the past 5 years. Yaaa me for getting on top of things in a timely manner. Hope you enjoy!
Redneck
Cactus Skateboards
Skateboarding only.
Redneck
Cactus Skateboards
Skateboarding only.
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