Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards

someguyatwork on January 31, 2012 - Reply

I’ve seen this story before.
http://www.outtherecolorado.com/General/14-year-old-has-big-dreams-for-vert-ramp-at-memorial-skate-park.html

DeMarco on January 31, 2012 - Reply

Call me old and lame but I just don’t understand the need for a vert ramp when there are literally dozens of pools/bowls in the area that all have vert. Didn’t vert ramps only start because people wanted to skate pools where there were none and bowled corners were too tough to make?
1. MC on January 31, 2012 - Reply
  
  and maybe I should have said indoor vert ramp
  1. DeMarco on February 3, 2012 - Reply
    
    Ahh. I can totally understand that!
    
    And I wasn’t saying vert was lame or anything, like I said below I’m just jealous of all that great concrete you guys have out that way.
2. someguyatwork on January 31, 2012 - Reply
  
  I hear you. This is at the park where the kid wants a vert ramp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WuFi-2Ierk I don’t get it.
3. some kook on January 31, 2012 - Reply
  
  There are a number of bowls with vert in my area; but no straight up vert ramps. I’d like a few weeks on one just to learn tricks and get dialed in.

wesCHAOS on January 31, 2012 - Reply

Because riding a vert ramp and riding a pool are two different things. We built Vert ramps not because we didn’t have pools (we had a few), but because we wanted to skate a half-pipe.

Futz on January 31, 2012 - Reply

Too much stuff to skate… Such a problem!

Concretin Nik on January 31, 2012 - Reply

Where’s my 90s mini ramp, with a spine, and an extension?

carvin marvin on January 31, 2012 - Reply

the padded up old guys just look for the two biggest oposing walls and ride them like a half pipe all day never touching a round wall

no need for spongy plywood

Young NW resident. on February 1, 2012 - Reply

Evidently you don’t skate much in the Portland Metro area.

Skhater on February 1, 2012 - Reply

adapt or die!

corncobcock on February 1, 2012 - Reply

oh my!

RIGHT on February 1, 2012 - Reply

VERT RAMPS ALLOW YOU TO HIT MORE CONSECUTIVE WALLS IN LESS TIME WHILE BAILING ON A MORE FORGIVING SURFACE. IF YOU CANT FIGURE OUT THE BENEFITS ITS BECAUSE YOU NEVER BELIEVED IN DOING AN AIR ABOVE YOUR OWN HEAD.

DeMarco on February 2, 2012 - Reply

Well thank you for such a polite response. I guess I’m just jealous that other states have so much concrete and so many pools and yet they want a big wooden ramp to go back and forth on.

Here in MN we have to build our own bowls indoors and pay rent every month – the handful of 4 foot and under true ride parks in the city just don’t cut it. I guess I’d just be so stoked to have a concrete bowl less than 3.5 hours away (let alone several) that I wouldn’t even think about riding back and forth on wooden ramp.
1. DeMarco on February 2, 2012 - Reply
  
  Also, what better way to get speed for a big air “over my head” then pumping out of a corner…?

Grover on February 2, 2012 - Reply

You lost your heritage when you stopped surfing. You lost your heritage when you stopped skating vert ramps. Don’t let the past go. http://www.don‘tloseyourheritage.GVK

Rich on February 2, 2012 - Reply

Wow, you’re in Mexico one day and you’re already on the interwebs. Close that laptop, go directly to the surf and work on those laybacks.
1. Bert on February 2, 2012 - Reply
  
  Save the laybacks for the concrete. Laybacks in the surf have always been an edgeless way of nursing a turn.

DickCancer on February 2, 2012 - Reply

We are spoiled rotten in Oregon. Oregon has the raddest skate scene in the world.

Fitz on February 2, 2012 - Reply

Definitely!

Chad on February 3, 2012 - Reply

I had this same discussion under the bridge with Dirt awhile back. He told me how bad we need a vert ramp, and I pointed to Pier. He says its got too much flat, and I didn’t really know what to say about that.

MC on February 3, 2012 - Reply

Pier is only 11.5 feet deep. with 12 foot of flat.

lou sassel on February 3, 2012 - Reply

i want to ride a vert ramp, a vert bowl, a hill, a curb, a backyard pool, a mini ramp, a skate plaza.

I want to join the skate army and ride the rails with the Q-Man!

DickCancer on February 4, 2012 - Reply

Pier has too much Flat! Dink, probably has too much FAT. As for Q-man, he wandered into the ol’ Klamath Falls Library Thursday. He had a skateboard and was catching up on (what do they call those things with all the shoe advertisements?) Oh, skateboard mags. I asked him if he wanted to head up to the park, I said Beef Cake and I are heading up. He passed, and asked if they still have the helmet B.S. I said “no, it’s a free for all” He still passed.
ON another note, they have taken down most of the fence around the K-falls skate park. That’s one of the biggest, dumbest, bullshit wastes of money, putting up a stupid Phucking fence. I HATE stupid fences, like the big bohemoth phucker around Sacremento’s Granite skate park. As for sacramento and the rest of california GO POUND SAND!