Skate Park Review: King City: Deserted at 5PM, good; all metal above ground ramps, different; clean and decently maintained, good.7:11 PM Apr 20th from web
Thus began Bryan Skateboarding Mk3. I was 12 years-old when the landmark skateboarding film “The Search for Animal Chin” came out and me and all my friends went out and bought skateboards. I loved the culture and the idea of it all, but living in the mountains with salt-rotted roads and no sidewalks to speak of, I never really did much actual skating. I wasn’t cool enough to hang with the kids who had ramps in their backyards, and I didn’t have the imagination to the see possibilities in a bank and curb (this was in the days when vert was king anyways). My skills peaked with a kick flip and rail slide, and as I entered high school and drifted to new friends, I gave it up just in time for my parents to buy me a new skateboard for my sixteenth birthday just to reinforce the fact that they weren’t going to let me drive anytime soon.
Six years ago I made it back to Nevada from my travels and there were these skate parks everywhere, and it blew my mind. It looked so fun and I had a job that took me all over the region and had periods of downtime in the middle of the day. So spent the next three years entertaining the hell out of myself carving bowls in parks across Northern Nevada and Northern California. I never had the speed to go over the lip and into the air, but I didn’t mind, and it gave me something to work for. Until my truck was broken into and my skateboard (and shoes) were stolen.
When I got down here to the Central Coast a few years ago I got a new board with the intention of picking up where I left off, but the new job that brought me here made things a little more difficult and the board sat in my garage. Until I gave up smoking last month and decided to get in shape. I was never fat, I just never had much aerobic capability, and I wondered just what I might be able to accomplish if I could ride for more than thirty minutes without suffering cardiac distress.
