Ed Benedict OPEN Saturday!
Those of you left still holding your breath can take a giant inhale. Sam from SkateOregon just got off the phone with a real life Portland Parks & Recreation representative who confirmed the fences are coming down, and Ed Benedict is officially open tomorrow, Saturday, February 7th. An formal ceremony may or may not come at a later date. It’s Portland’s first street plaza, so you have to believe there will be some sort of recognition. I wonder if our beleaguered Mayor will attend?
Free Cold War 7.75″ Strike deck to the first person to send me photo or video proof of any kickflip variation over the snake river gap! No joke. It has to be new proof, not something poached from when the fences were up. I’ll judge “first” by the order it reaches my inbox. May the best man (probably not old) win! UPDATE: We have a winner. Clip coming soon.
- Thanks to Sam for the tip!
Posted by: kilwag on February 6th, 2009
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I vote we ban tail domes and nose guards.
Whenever I see some self-inflated egotripper trying to police a park, I think “what if that was my kid they’re harrassing?”
Then I get really, really pissed. While my boy and girl will probably wind up skating, there’s every chance they’ll want to play with other toys–that’s what skateboards are when your still too young to get caught up in some stupid scene.
In fact, I’m going to let them explore any avenue their sweet little hearts desire, and heaven help anyone who decides to tell them otherwise.
If they wanna bust out and razor the park, cool by me. All I will teach them is ettiquette.
Now, I’ve been up all night trucking around the Olympic Penninsula in the snow and ice, and I’m tired, pissy and I’m going to bed.
the only issue i have with something other than a skateboard is getting my block knocked off. the only thing that can do that to me would be a bike.
I’m defenetly with you Fitz (but i would not be so certain your kid’s will follow your footsteps). so it’s good you’ll let them do their own thing. I made the comment that I thought scooters could do dammage, but really it’s only if the riders have the skill to do ledge bashing tricks. but the bottom line is that if grinding and such were not destuctive we probably would not have as many parks as we do now. the parks are there for us to wear them down. the bmxr’s seem sort of lazy to me cos they can go make stuff out of dirt to ride.
I kicked some kids out of the bowl in Kettle Falls for dorking arround with a old metal wheelchair (mostly because they were in my way) and I thought their crashing the chair repetedly could mar the perfect surface that I hold so dear to my heart. but other than that I live and let live, on my 169′s, beside my heely kid.
Don’t worry about a confrontation with a scooter, they always fold. Haw!
Thanks for a thoughtful reply Curtis. Skaters these days are lost in groupthink, and it’s refreshing to come across somebody who’s able to seperate themselves from skateboarding long enough to attain some objectivity.
objectivity?…skate and destroy dude!
# colin Says:
February 11th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
the only issue i have with something other than a skateboard is getting my block knocked off. the only thing that can do that to me would be a bike.
And don’t forget, in addition to the bike, any girl over the age of 9 years old.
i will be at egg bendadick on my bike soon cant wait to see everybody there
And I will be there on my rollerblades, cant wait to see everybody, too! mu-muah-muahahahahaha
And I will be there on my surfboard,cant wait to see everyone! ahahahahahaha
And I, as well, will be there and cant wait to see everyone,also. bro.
And I, I will be there with my wits,and deck of cards!
Cant wait…….hoohaha
And I concur with the others on the topic of being there and eager to see everyone…watch me dance my story to aaaaaaallllll!
Tambien me gusta Benidicto Ed Parque,y no puede esperar al la “Bee there”!
Yo dudes! I ride bikes and I’ve helped by donating money to the opening of this park with other fellow bikers so why shouldn’t bikes be allowed? The only good reason is bikes tearing up ledges with there pegs. I will agree that bikes do chip ledges only if you don’t know what your doing. if I see some random kid trying to grind on something and he’s tearing the shit up I’d. Tell him the same thing you would. I believe bikes should be able to ride the same shit skaters are riding and if there is some biker/skater disrespecting a park they should be dealt with not banned from a park that we all helped open.
I wonder why there aren’t more (or is it any?) bikepark construction companies run by bikers, and building bike only facilities. I’m afraid it’s because it’s easier to continue the 30+ year tradition of following skateboarders around and copying what we do. “Dude, this golf course is the PERFECT place for me and my friends to ride our ATVs. It’s a public course,it’s unconstitutional to ban us!”
Quit being lazy and get your own game – if you donate $ to a skatepark,that should entitle you to riding a skateboard in it…
fuck yeah thats whats up i’m tired of scooter/fruitbooter/bike kids having a sense of entitlement and blowing up the parks that skaters worked hard for and then being dicks when you tell them to get out
I don’t seem to get many complaints from many of the skaters where I BMX. They try to stay out of my way and I try to stay out of theirs, the “terf war,” so to speak, between all the different people using the skate parks is really getting old. Yes I would agree that skaters have worked hard time and time again to get parks built, but that doesn’t mean that you should block them off from the rest of the extreme sports community.I’m sure that if us “biker kids” had an insane park built skaters would show up and want to skate on it.Either way the “skaters hate everyone that doesn’t ride a skateboard” thing is getting old.
It’s not hatred of bikes. It’s love of skateboards. Do your own thing somewhere else and there’s no problem. Build an insane bike park and I’ll come ride a bike in it. There’s no such thing as the extreme sports community, that’s marketing garbage for TV.
This place is the perfect place to perfect my parkour skills. I cant wait to see you guys there.
this crap pisses me off you all think scooterers are fags or fat people or little kids that dont know what the hell they are doing
YES WE DO!! it is actualy a freaking sport look us up on youtube we do actually ride for the same reasons as skaters skate and bikers bike why arnt we allowed?? thats stupid its all because of the little kids all you have to do is make and age limit of like 10 and up
look us up if you dont belive here are some names to look up….terry price,coedie donavan,kc corning jerret ried ,jesse macaluso, kody geiger,kieth zadig…we do scoot for a reason just like skaters and bikers. so why do you have to take away are sport ..thers no were else for us to go???
Kody – that’s a joke, right? A sport? Well OK, but whining about isn’t going to get you any respect. I suggest you start Scooter and Annoy, or Scoot Daily, or maybe band together with the bladers, who also don’t get any respect. Just don’t expect any sympathy here.
kody, I think most of us are ok with the scooters. I think the scooter riders who have kept up with their craft have the ability to damage the cement parts of skateparks. thats sort of cool with me because skateparks are meant to be worn down. most scooter riders are just innocent little kids having fun, and most of us agree that’s cool. as far as the bmx’rs are concerned we think they are lazy leaches because they can “do it in the dirt. when the fall or smash their pegs on OUR parks they can chip the surface. these chips won’t stop you or affect the bmx’rs. but it can drasticly affect the ride of a skateboard. so you don’t give a shit about the smoothness skateparks surface. why do you think they call them skateparks? because they are designed for skatebording. not scooter riding or bike riding etc. we tollerate you people in our scene enough.
I don’t need to look up you on youtube, I see kick ass scooter riding all the time. and if being on youtube makes it a “sport” then I suggest you check out “ropeboarding”.
I’m not defending ed benidict from bikes and scooters, because if I go to Portland to skate that is the only park I might skip. and from the sound of it, alot of the skaters that make comments on this website, would appriciate it if some serious scooter riders (like the ones I mentioned above) would show up and shave off an inch of the coping in the mini ramp part.
you recomended some names on you tube, is there a site like skate and annoy for scooter riders? I’d be stoked to “troll” that!
I do agree that our pegs can jack the hell out of “your” parks, and it annoys the hell out of me when im skating and a chip in the concrete throws me off my board. It’s the irresponsible BMX’ers that you should target. When me and my friends ride concrete parks that skaters occupy, we bring some spakel and if we chip the concrete we just fill it in and flaten it out so its flesh with the concrete.
ok, so today it’s raining on my skatepark parade, i’ve got some time to kill so I decided for shits and giggles to watch youtube and see the riders Kody recomended. most of them are prity good at there thing. the ripping scooter riders I see are at this level or close to it (though I haven’t seen them do handplants yet, so I’ll suggest it to them). I occasionaly see the flip, but have yet to see the double flip.
if anyone does not think scooters can do dammage check out “coedie donovan punk scooters”. that kid rips but is a fucking dick head who would FULLY hear about it from me. he does not deserve to treat OUR public spaces that way. some one should seriously kick his ass for his whoosie ass tantrums. you wanna trash the park that is cool, but do it on your ride of choice.
and the kids on the 4 wheelers are in no way convincing. un impressed, but they can ride at my park anytime. if they want to ride skateboards they should take that handel bar off, it restricts their potential.