Comments on: Comment on Gabriel Park http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/ Skateboarding for the disenfranchised Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: oldfatjeff http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31170 oldfatjeff Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:23:42 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31170 <p>so grab a shovel and come to huntington wv and help me dig Falcon out of the dirt...Remember Blender's run there in "Footage"?</p> so grab a shovel and come to huntington wv and help me dig Falcon out of the dirt…Remember Blender’s run there in “Footage”?

]]> By: corncobcock http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31155 corncobcock Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:32:58 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31155 <p>aaahh! the good old days. skater fag for life</p> aaahh! the good old days. skater fag for life

]]> By: Dick Cancer http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31132 Dick Cancer Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:25:59 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-31132 <p>Cockcobcorn. Don't be jealous, it's alright. The eighties, WHAT??? F the eighties. You're lucky it's not the eighties. I had fun in the eighties, skating red curbs, and the bank of gibraltor, 7-eleven curb, K-mart curb, 900 building CURB, and a bus bench. THAT's street baby and don't you forget it. I used to get run over, water ballons thrown at me from high speed cars passing as I rode in the F ing street. Take a water ballon to the back from a car going 60 mph and see what that feels like. It almost makes you want to cry. And not to mention the endless "skate and destroy dude" "skate hard or die dude" "skaters suck" "I'm going to kick your ass skater" I loved the eighties for the most part. I skate and don't give a phuc. Especially now when I hear "I grew up" "you're too old to skate" "aren't you too old to skate?" "you skate???" "isn't that for kids?"</p> Cockcobcorn. Don’t be jealous, it’s alright. The eighties, WHAT??? F the eighties. You’re lucky it’s not the eighties. I had fun in the eighties, skating red curbs, and the bank of gibraltor, 7-eleven curb, K-mart curb, 900 building CURB, and a bus bench. THAT’s street baby and don’t you forget it. I used to get run over, water ballons thrown at me from high speed cars passing as I rode in the F ing street. Take a water ballon to the back from a car going 60 mph and see what that feels like. It almost makes you want to cry. And not to mention the endless “skate and destroy dude” “skate hard or die dude” “skaters suck” “I’m going to kick your ass skater” I loved the eighties for the most part. I skate and don’t give a phuc. Especially now when I hear “I grew up” “you’re too old to skate” “aren’t you too old to skate?” “you skate???” “isn’t that for kids?”

]]> By: shoey http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30902 shoey Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:28:21 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30902 <p>My vote is for gabriel park being the deepest pit in the N.W. Lets be rational . After these 19 portland will probably not get that many more. Make em count !!!! Make them BIGGER!!! DEEPER!!!!FASTER!!!</p> My vote is for gabriel park being the deepest pit in the N.W. Lets be rational . After these 19 portland will probably not get that many more. Make em count !!!! Make them BIGGER!!! DEEPER!!!!FASTER!!!

]]> By: corncobcock http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30894 corncobcock Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:29:36 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30894 <p>your all a bunch of spoiled jaded crybabies...skate what you got, yer fuckin lucky it aint the 80's</p> your all a bunch of spoiled jaded crybabies…skate what you got, yer fuckin lucky it aint the 80’s

]]> By: Danimal http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30860 Danimal Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:17:39 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30860 <p>Neil, I do skate pool style in pools the thing is that real pools are few and far between in the NW, they come and go. I skate street on a regular basis since its right outside my door and i dont have to drive to get to it. We do need lots of street parks so the new street rats dont blow out my spots. </p> <p>Pier does have a small bowl and a medium bowl that has lots of flat. I've only skated there twice however but that was my perception. I live in a town with a park with lots of flat and mellow small stuff, it gets boring after a while since the challenge it presents is minimal. It is a good beginner park though. I would guess that many people who frequent this website are not beginners at skating and this is why they want what they want. Maybe portland needs a park designed for beginners.</p> Neil, I do skate pool style in pools the thing is that real pools are few and far between in the NW, they come and go. I skate street on a regular basis since its right outside my door and i dont have to drive to get to it. We do need lots of street parks so the new street rats dont blow out my spots.

Pier does have a small bowl and a medium bowl that has lots of flat. I’ve only skated there twice however but that was my perception. I live in a town with a park with lots of flat and mellow small stuff, it gets boring after a while since the challenge it presents is minimal. It is a good beginner park though. I would guess that many people who frequent this website are not beginners at skating and this is why they want what they want. Maybe portland needs a park designed for beginners.

]]> By: Richard Lien http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30847 Richard Lien Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:36:20 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30847 <p>Hey Bill, yes, of coarse — Tricities. That Kennewick park with the ridiculously huge mega pool that made your knees wobble just hitting the coping let alone getting some air. 14' , 15' deep with like 3' of vert. I certainly remember you and some of your crew like Kyle Kinney and Rob Scalla, etc. Bill here's my e-mail address: lexicon@shaw.ca.</p> <p>Richard</p> Hey Bill, yes, of coarse — Tricities. That Kennewick park with the ridiculously huge mega pool that made your knees wobble just hitting the coping let alone getting some air. 14′ , 15′ deep with like 3′ of vert. I certainly remember you and some of your crew like Kyle Kinney and Rob Scalla, etc. Bill here’s my e-mail address: lexicon@shaw.ca.

Richard

]]> By: Dick Cancer http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30826 Dick Cancer Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:34:10 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30826 <p>Neil, get your punk ass down to the next skatepark design meeting and put in your one cent in or shut the PHUC up!!! At the next grand opening, go and tell Mark Scott his park designs suck, go and tell Sage his work sucks, go and tell Mike Swim the same thing. Neil, you don't have the balls to do such a thing. I don't know these guys personally but you know I'm pretty thankful they are alive and building and fighting to put in gnarly shite. It's easy to put in a ollie pad, a curb, and a set of stairs. Sidewalk builders from the corps of engineers can build that lame ass shite. Try building a waterfall and make it butter smooth so when you fall or slide out you don't rip off half your ass. Think about that you insignificant individual. Tell me where you can find 19 more parks being built in one town? NOPE you can't because it's only happening here. Quit being a little bitch and come on down and talk the talk or walk on BITS. Why don't you keep looking at stupid magazines that show hand rail, after hand rail, shoe ad, after shoe ad, after shoe ad, after shoe ad ,after shoe ad, and more shoe ads. That to me sucks because it's a phucking ads, MOST skate mags these days SUCK donkey penis. The skateparks whick is about skating hardly gets any play in the mags. They get park spotting, like a little girl on the rag who spots on her period, they call it spotting. do you know anything NEIL???</p> Neil, get your punk ass down to the next skatepark design meeting and put in your one cent in or shut the PHUC up!!! At the next grand opening, go and tell Mark Scott his park designs suck, go and tell Sage his work sucks, go and tell Mike Swim the same thing. Neil, you don’t have the balls to do such a thing. I don’t know these guys personally but you know I’m pretty thankful they are alive and building and fighting to put in gnarly shite. It’s easy to put in a ollie pad, a curb, and a set of stairs. Sidewalk builders from the corps of engineers can build that lame ass shite. Try building a waterfall and make it butter smooth so when you fall or slide out you don’t rip off half your ass. Think about that you insignificant individual. Tell me where you can find 19 more parks being built in one town? NOPE you can’t because it’s only happening here. Quit being a little bitch and come on down and talk the talk or walk on BITS. Why don’t you keep looking at stupid magazines that show hand rail, after hand rail, shoe ad, after shoe ad, after shoe ad, after shoe ad ,after shoe ad, and more shoe ads. That to me sucks because it’s a phucking ads, MOST skate mags these days SUCK donkey penis. The skateparks whick is about skating hardly gets any play in the mags. They get park spotting, like a little girl on the rag who spots on her period, they call it spotting. do you know anything NEIL???

]]> By: Coulter http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30819 Coulter Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:12:14 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30819 <p>Skateboarders from the Northwest are more rounded than skateboarders I have seen anywhere else. This is due to the fact that the terrain that they skate is so varied.</p> <p>I am blown away daily by the kids (by kids I mean sub 20) who completely rip Glenhaven to shreds. Not the street course, not the bowl, but all of Glenhaven. They skate the streets, they skate the street course and they skate the bowls.</p> <p>Each type of skateboarding helps you with the other varieties. Don't get me wrong here, in that I agree with Neil that we need to provide some A+ street terrain, and some good mellow stuff to learn on (a.k.a. Battleground street area), but corners and transitions should have a place in all of the parks in my opinion.</p> <p>I am blown away daily by how well rounded our local skateboarders are, and it's because we have provided them with a number of different things to skate. That is something that we need to continue. Nothing makes me happier (or feel older) than the kid that does the chest high f.s. air in the Glenhaven mini bowl and then attacks the big rail down the stairs. I saw it happen again yesterday. That is Northwest skateboarding at it's finest.</p> <p>[r]</p> Skateboarders from the Northwest are more rounded than skateboarders I have seen anywhere else. This is due to the fact that the terrain that they skate is so varied.

I am blown away daily by the kids (by kids I mean sub 20) who completely rip Glenhaven to shreds. Not the street course, not the bowl, but all of Glenhaven. They skate the streets, they skate the street course and they skate the bowls.

Each type of skateboarding helps you with the other varieties. Don’t get me wrong here, in that I agree with Neil that we need to provide some A+ street terrain, and some good mellow stuff to learn on (a.k.a. Battleground street area), but corners and transitions should have a place in all of the parks in my opinion.

I am blown away daily by how well rounded our local skateboarders are, and it’s because we have provided them with a number of different things to skate. That is something that we need to continue. Nothing makes me happier (or feel older) than the kid that does the chest high f.s. air in the Glenhaven mini bowl and then attacks the big rail down the stairs. I saw it happen again yesterday. That is Northwest skateboarding at it’s finest.

[r]

]]> By: Neil http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30785 Neil Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:38:50 +0000 http://skateandannoy.com/2007/06/27/comment-on-gabriel-park/#comment-30785 <p>is it not clear that i want more than just a street plaza? it is great that one is being built and i hope there are some plaza areas in at least a few of the other 19 parks. i want to see some variety. i want to see a some flawless parks. i want some of them to be easier to skate whether they are tranny, street, or x-game style set-ups. is mellow always bad? is flat-bottom uncool? i want the parks to be well thought out and accommodate many skaters and skill levels. do you people really not see flaws in the last few parks that were built?</p> <p>wouldn't it be better to learn a bunch of new tricks on some smaller more forgiving tranny and then take some to a real pool? shoot, you could take your new tricks to one of the many pool replicas at the skateparks and then to the real pool. if you skate street in the streets, Danimal, then why not skate pool in the pools. $</p> is it not clear that i want more than just a street plaza? it is great that one is being built and i hope there are some plaza areas in at least a few of the other 19 parks. i want to see some variety. i want to see a some flawless parks. i want some of them to be easier to skate whether they are tranny, street, or x-game style set-ups. is mellow always bad? is flat-bottom uncool? i want the parks to be well thought out and accommodate many skaters and skill levels. do you people really not see flaws in the last few parks that were built?

wouldn’t it be better to learn a bunch of new tricks on some smaller more forgiving tranny and then take some to a real pool? shoot, you could take your new tricks to one of the many pool replicas at the skateparks and then to the real pool. if you skate street in the streets, Danimal, then why not skate pool in the pools. $

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