The St. George banks are gone. For a lot of people the were a "skate by it and ride it with a cola in hand" kind of spot. We tried skating the stairs in an up down manual down fashion but it never worked. It was like imagining your car is faster than it is, you know the physical limitations BUT the banks, however.....They knew no limits and brought us back at the start and end of every session. The fact that they were there was taunting in what what is the, amazingly, bankless city. As a kid in the sticks I often thought of Hogtown to be one giant tonyhawkproskater level before the game or playstation was even invented. When I got there I found a lot of soon to be be famous spots but I never got the skate perfect banks or street scultpted vert rides that I had imagined. But who did. This spot meant a lot to some and nothing to everyone. Bag of rocks there and the reason that this picture stuck to me was that Evan did that there. nobody else would skate unless kenny hughes skated and he couldn't "put the hammer down" on the bank over the rail so naturally sitting around was the last resort. Evan skated because he wanted to skate and I shot because I thought it was cool, shot in what sense you may wonder. Here it is. The spot that birthed a stole stone and the place that I and a friend took for granted until "I actually hope the wreck it".
Monday, August 11, 2008
Bag of rocks
The St. George banks are gone. For a lot of people the were a "skate by it and ride it with a cola in hand" kind of spot. We tried skating the stairs in an up down manual down fashion but it never worked. It was like imagining your car is faster than it is, you know the physical limitations BUT the banks, however.....They knew no limits and brought us back at the start and end of every session. The fact that they were there was taunting in what what is the, amazingly, bankless city. As a kid in the sticks I often thought of Hogtown to be one giant tonyhawkproskater level before the game or playstation was even invented. When I got there I found a lot of soon to be be famous spots but I never got the skate perfect banks or street scultpted vert rides that I had imagined. But who did. This spot meant a lot to some and nothing to everyone. Bag of rocks there and the reason that this picture stuck to me was that Evan did that there. nobody else would skate unless kenny hughes skated and he couldn't "put the hammer down" on the bank over the rail so naturally sitting around was the last resort. Evan skated because he wanted to skate and I shot because I thought it was cool, shot in what sense you may wonder. Here it is. The spot that birthed a stole stone and the place that I and a friend took for granted until "I actually hope the wreck it".
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sikh, sikh foto. anyone who had skated there knew the difficulty - might have explained the lack of popularity. the angle of the bank was the easiest part - impossibility increased from there. let's go skate a real spot.
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