Hide-n-Skate Ramp is truly hidden, from everyone
Canada’s Much Music had an event on Go Skateboarding Day that featured something called the Hide-n-Skate Ramp. It’s not super ground breaking, but it’s still pretty cool, so you’d think you could find a few pictures of this ramp being set up, in transit or at the very least, being skated, but no, there doesn’t appear to be anything anywhere on the web. WTF? I wonder if the Much Music channel actually plays music videos, unlike any of the MTV channels. Coincidentally, I also recently stumbled across plans for a mini ramp that folds up into a shed(!?) on RampPlans.org. Michael Cheah’s got seven pages of instructions and photos, but amazingly, not one picture of the damn thing folded up into a shed. As weird an pointless as that sounds, I want to see it. Come on people, let’s follow through on the obvious! You could all use some pointers on documentation from Tracy Sigler.
didn’t powell have a setup like this that they’d tour with back in the day?
Much and Fuse both are trying to keep up with MTV, which means they now suck just as bad. MTV3, or TR3S, actually has some decent shows including, Indie 101. If you’re lucky enough to get Fuel TV (www.fuel.tv.), it’s probably the best source of televised music I know of. All of their skate shows have good music, and some of them are available on iTunes.
A few years back while living in the Bay Area there was a little event in San Jose that had fold up ramp on a trailer. It was all metal and skated alright. But sorry no photos of that one either.