John Aguilar skates in Mexico

Mexican street style

I don’t know what you call this kind of riding, half-ditch? Who cares, it’s rad. This is a closeup of a shot of John John Aguilar skating a ditch type situation in Mexico City, circa 1989. See that concrete halfpipe in the background? John said this was an old closed up skatepark called Dogtown. They had to hop a fence and barge it. The caretaker kept a small amount a sheep on the lot and occasionally skaters would have to dodge the males with horns who were intent on ramming intruders. John lives in Bellingham, Washington now, so the only thing he has to dodge is little kids. See the whole thing after the jump.

Now that I know this is an actual old skatepark, maybe that’s the freestyle area? Photo by Miguel Colchado. Click to enlarge.
Mexican ditch skating

Discussion

6 thoughts on “Mexican street style

  1. I saw a spot like that in a movie last night.

  2. Slitburn on January 29, 2009 - Reply

    I’m skating in the rain, skating in the rain,…

  3. Prickly Pete on January 29, 2009 - Reply

    That’s one hot wallride. Frontsides! Nothin’ better. Nice cast in place concrete halfpipe in the background. Are those wallride stoppers in the Clockwork Orange scenes? Seems like kids today could ollie into a grind on them. Isn’t a “vollie” a vagrant ollie?

  4. well, the movie does take place in the future, so maybe those ARE skate stoppers!

  5. I think I see a half pipe of concrete in the background.

  6. john aguinaarr!! on January 30, 2009 - Reply

    yeahh it was scarryy! it was a U no flat , no deck, and it had 3 or 4 feet of vert!

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