India Bowl
Through a random act of Google, while searching the web for pictures of David Lee Roth on a skateboard (no joke!) a stumbled on Mohammad Burney’s travel pictures. Man this guy travels a lot. Japan, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Morocco, Malaysia, New York, Kuwait, Egypt, England and India, which is where the bowl above resides. One of the three pictures (1, 2, 3) Shows that it is some sort of astronomical observational tool. Check out that coping. If you decide to ride this bowl and are take a chance on getting stoned to death by an angry mob, at least use copers. I’m not sure how Google pulled up this page in my search for “David Lee Roth” and “skateboard,” but it did. There’s a way to view it with comments enabled, and he’s essentially got reams and reams of comment spam. Maybe that’s where it came from.
Those wires going across have “decapitation” written all over them. Otherwise, looks fun. Amazing what’s out there.
I’ve traveled in India and seen some of those bowls. None I saw were skateable, they all had cutouts in the flat for people (astronomers) to stand in and line instruments up from. If that particular 16th or 17th century national treasure is skateable and you did get caught barging it, you wouldn’t likely get stoned to death, you would probably get your ass kicked by cops and thrown in jail, then heavily fined.
…My and my buddy might well have been killed by a mob if a cool local hadn’t seen us first and let us know that those fun little dirt jumps scattered around the village square were fkn GRAVES! Here we were just focused on using two as berms in order to get enough speed to clear three others. Could have gotten ugly.
You get so used to seeing just funny random siht in India. It never occured to my 17 year old brain to wonder what these 6 foot long dirt mounds were there for.
I like that I can randomly find something on the internet on the other side of the world and then someone reading this site has actually seen it in person.
Skating on graves? Dude, you’re EVIL! ( I mean, that’s really Killing it)
We were actually on these crappy Indian BMX bikes. Where we were at the time had almost no cement so we had to do something. There are definitely some good skate spots in India though. Fun times.