From the Archives: Skate Poetry

I've been meaning to get to this project for a long time - one of those things I've put off and put off. I want to digitize all my old skate photos and get them organized on a website or something. Anything better than in a box. When I pulled a box of my photos out of the closet my project turned out to be a bigger undertaking than I thought...so
I found some photos and other treasures. One of them was this poem I wrote when I was 8th grade!

I figured it would be best if I took it out of my stash and scanned it for your enjoyment.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to get all my old photos scanned.

Devin & the full pipe

The thing about this photo is that Devin couldn't have got any higher in the pipe - he's crouched in the corner. Also he'd start at the other end of the pipe, run, throw down his board and snake carve it up. He told me he loves tranny.

Crail Life

This is a photo of my friend Devin York. He displayed such nice form on his crail slide and it was Halloween so I had to give this photo a special Photoshop treatment. Maybe a little over done. Maybe. But I don't think it takes away from the rawness of Devin's slasher.

Spooky SKATE on Halloween

SKATE on Halloween at the AF park - and in costume I might add. Many showed up Halloween morning for the festivities. Here's the results for the Spooky Game-O-SKATE:

• 1st - Trevor Mason. Costume: Indian boy.

Trevor hardflippin' to first place. With the feather and his shadow he looks like one of the lost boys on Peter Pan.


• 2nd - Dustin Wayne Hill. Costume: Monk.

Dustin the monk getting the letter 'T'


• 3rd - Justice Goble. Costume: Pirate.

The winners with their pumpkin trophies.

And winner of "Matt's Huckfest" (best trick down the eight) . . . Chase Strikwerda. He destroyed it like a Velociraptor.
I still have no idea how Chase pulled off this front board. He couldn't see much of anything with that raptor mask on. Raw.

Some of the amazing Halloween costumes were Ernie from Sesame Street, Billy Mays, a pirate, a raptor, a nerd, a monk, an indian, a dinosaur and Link from The Legend of Zelda to name a few.
Trevor got 1st pumpkin.

Link the Tri Force is complete!

Dave had a boring costume, he was just a skater. Tre flip.

I had a blast. A nerdy one. Photo by Parker Cross aka Billy Mays.

Thanks to Milo and Siege Audio for the support.
More spooky shredding will be posted soon!

Spooky Game-O-SKATE

We had to do it again this year since last year Frontside (RIP) did a Halloween contest and it was such a blast. Maybe it'll become an AF park tradition.
Scroll down to see photos from last year...

Halloween at AF park Last Year

Mad Scientist Boardslide | Warren


Pirate Backside Lipslide | Chase


Cowboy transfer | Matt


Scary Smithgrind | Brandon