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| Al Baker lien air, State College, PA August 1984 |
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Alex: It's so much more fun, and granted, the sign of a good skater is someone who can get used to new tranny, and eventually be able to master it no matter what. Or you're such a local that automatically no matter how uncoordinated you are as a skater, you ride the thing enough, you'll be all right in it, you know? That's a funny thing too, like at Skatopia, you can definitely tell who the locals are. But then, I went there last June, and there was this guy, Shaggy, and Jimmy Moore, from I guess where? Arizona. Those guys had never skated it before but shit.
SK8TC: Yeah, they tore it up. Alex: To drop in first time in there and be hauling ass is pretty amazing. I mean a 13 ft deep bowl, gimme a break. SK8TC: They're definitely no strangers to burly terrain. Alex: I'd love to ride more backyard pools and terrain like that but bottom line is, is where we're from, you know East Coast, there's just not that much around. SK8TC: Yeah it's a little harder to pull off. I miss that. There's something special about skating something that wasn't meant to be skated. Alex: In a way it's funny, the place where like street skating and hesh dogs sort of gnarly pool skating dovetail is, you know makes sense, is the fact that you're all skating stuff that's not meant to be skated. I mean you're in two different worlds, the kid doing like a handrail vs someone doing a grind over the deathbox, I mean they're two really different things. But that's where they're similar, you're riding something that's not meant to be skated. SK8TC: Making use of what other people don't want or what they consider trivial, part of the background. Alex: Part of the whole environment. Look at that! SK8TC: Whoah that pickup truck is broken in half. Alex: There's no ambulance around, hopefully that person is fine. |