Oakland and Emeryville skaters like Alex Fatemi saw all their work at The Spot destroyed as Caltrans brought in the bulldozers and removed their DIY skatepark citing the usual “liability issues,” according to a story on KGO.
There had been hope of leaving the spot open and perhaps working out a deal with Caltrans. But skateboarders say, with redevelopment agencies on the way out and the economy what it is, officials in Oakland and Emeryville were unable to come up with the money for the $5,000 per month lease that Caltrans wanted.
So another DIY park will revert to it’s previous life as a place for trash (both human and garbage) to pile up, and the skateboarders will be back out in the streets.
Bowl slayer Kevin Kowalski finally won one after coming up a little short at the Converse Coastal Carnage by winning the Ultrabowl Pro III, according to a post on Skatedaily.net. Click the link for full results.
Yes, a slew of parents are going to have to settle back into the day-to-day doldrums of having there kids around the house, as Windells summer season at Mt. Hood is now over. Hard to believe, but we’re all into that awful shoulder season when summer is over and winter is still a couple too=long months away. Until then, we’ll have to enjoy one last edit from Windells.
While we can’t really say we’ve been wondering what snowboardcross racer Lindsey Jacobellis has been up to this summer, Yobeat.com definitely let us in on a little of her singing summer. Apparently, this is a parody of song from the Disney movie Tangled. Wow.
It’s good to see pro skateboarders doing well as they get older, have kids, and roll forward. Ray Barbee seems to have things pretty much in tune if this Strange Notes @Home clip is any indication.
Lance Normine and Jen Sherowski built a little indoor skateboard park in Portland, Oregon called Commonwealth Skateboarding that has become a favorite hangout for people from around the world. Here is the story behind the park. Please excuse all the caffeinated corn syrup logos.
In this time of fall snowboard movie premieres it’s good to look back and remember where it all came from. This film of Gunnar Burgson and Vern Wicklund reportedly using their new snow sliding invention in the early 1940s proves that the basics of sliding on snow really haven’t changed all that much in the last 70 years.
