Although the Highland Lakes Skatepark Association still is at its infancy in fundraising, the town of Marble Falls is building a temporary skatepark for the local skate community. For the time being, it will consist of a big concrete slab approximately the size of two basketball courts. Doug King, the guy mentioned like four hundred times on this page, is building some props to go on the slab. Donylle Green, the main organizer for the HLSA, assures me this will not be the final skatepark implementation for Marble Falls. This skatepark construction photo, btw, was provided to Austin Skate Notes as an exclusive. Feel free to use it as your Friendster photo, though.
Here’s a cool photo album of a DIY concrete project in San Pedro, CA. Sage and a couple other people came down from Portland to help pour a new bowl. Very impressive.
So earlier this evening I went out to the Banana Farm with Kevin and Adam. I was pretty hungry for it. I had all kinds of ambitions of stalefish airs on the tall wall and caballerial disasters on the short. So, I was taking off for a boardslide-to-fakie through the breir patch corner and landed with too much weight on my tail from a backside ollie over the 45′ hip. Son of a bitch! My tail foot came off and stuck to the surface of the ramp, thereby wrenching the hell out of my knee. Yeah, it hurts. But not enough hurt to send me to Thailand.
I took advantage of the fantastic weather this afternoon with a bike ride around town. Eventually, I ended up down at Town Lake, so I decided to stop by the slab on River street. A few people were sessioning the various street props. Now there’s a cool-looking flatrail there with a kink to it. Also, it appears that someone finished off the cinderblock ledge with a slab of concrete on the top and angle iron embedded in the edge. The angle iron treatment is especially nice. Since it’s embedded, it doesn’t stick up above the concrete like the typical liquid nails approach. There’s also a butter knife embedded perhaps as a signature in the concrete top.
As I headed back north, I came across the remains of the "Easy Rhino" restaurant at 28th and Guadalupe. Looks like the property owner finally threw in the towel and demolished it. Saw several dozen perfectly-good cinderblocks laying right next to the parking lot. A few sheets of good plywood scattered about as well. Probably won’t last for long.
Finally, I ended up at the Banana Farm Ramp where a barbecue was in full swing. Got a chance to speak with Doug King. Sounds like if things really come together, he might be on his way out to China to help construct the ramp for Danny Way’s jump over the Great Wall. Good times over there. Bunch of people running around with limited edition Banana Farm Ramp t-shirts. Stetson gave me a handful of Pepsi bottlecaps with free iTunes song codes. Thanks!
