River Bottom Nightmare Pipes

Good ol’ RSM full pipe session. Wish this was still around to hit.

Blue Heaven

Found this ol’ article, worth a looking at. http://www.brokenmagazine.com/blueheavenfinal.htm

Love him or hate him, Benji Galloway 5-0’s through rocks over the love seat like it was sauced bull nose. Photo Mike Davis

San Clemente Times Opinion Article

http://www.sanclementetimes.com/uploads/SCT_20080501.pdf

The city of San Clemente has long been home to surfing, skateboarding and the action-sports industry. As our town grows, so do the needs of the residents. One urgent need would be to expand our current skateboard facility, or develop a new skatepark at a different location. The current facility at Richard T. Steed Memorial Park is small, outdated and often crowded to the point of endangering the users.

Although the current skatepark was built for skateboarding, inline skateboarding, and roller-skating,  many others use the facility currently for BMX, mountain/trail bikes, razor scooters, snake boards, street boards, heelies and even a mini dirt bikers. These additional users, although not permitted or even covered under state law for liability, create an environment in which I feel unsafe to bring my toddler son to ride. The skatepark is poorly maintained and often has large holes, cracks or dirt on the surface, which can impede riders or cause injury. The current park design is for beginner to, at most, intermediate riders; it doesn’t even have lights, which if you work during the daytime, you cannot ride it during the week. This is a sad fact, especially when there are times that the baseball fields are lit up with nobody using them and our skatepark is closed. If the city can spend $20 million-plus into three more pools for San Clemente (besides the high school and Ole Hanson), then why cant we spend roughly $200,000 to $400,000 to expand our current park into the dirt lot adjacent to the current park. The city states that land is slated for a roller-hockey rink with no plans to build. I am searching for private sponsors to make the park free for the citizens of San Clemente to use. We just need the city to give an OK on the land use and for some of our local industry to step up and give some money. I am even willing to have a pay park so we could have a worldclass facility. San Clemente has some of the highest priced skateboard lessons ($200 for an eight-session class) and contest fees ($35 per person), all of which could go toward a new facility. A few solutions to the current problem are pretty simple. One would be to expand the current park into the adjoining dirt lot and have a company like Grindline, a skatepark design and construction company, build a great facility. Or we could allow residents such as myself to begin building on the land adjacent to the current skatepark like Washington Street Skatepark in San Diego or the Channel Street Skatepark in San Pedro. A new facility could also be built to accommodate other users such as BMX and appeal to a broader scale of residents. If you feel like San Clemente needs a new skatepark, sign the etition http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/new-skatepark-for-san-clemente-ca.

San Clemente tells scooters to scat from skate park

San Clemente tells scooters to scat from skate park

Scooter riders are appealing for city to let them ride, saying they’re no more dangerous that skateboards or inline skates.

Lisa Dunn used to be able to take her 8-year-old son to San Clemente’s skate park and sit and watch him ride his scooter.

If a sheriff’s deputy showed up, skateboarders in the park would scatter, since many weren’t wearing required safety gear. The scooter kids, who tended to wear a helmet and pads, got to keep on scootering. But in recent months, something has changed. Scooter riders now are being told to leave, Dunn said.

“I think both should be allowed,” Dunn said. “One is not worse than the other.”

Some scooter parents are asking the city to allow scooters – not just skateboards and inline skates. They reason:

•A scooter has the same wheels as inline skates, just a bit bigger.

•A scooter is a skateboard with a handle. Skateboards evolved from scooters.

•Scooters are no more dangerous than a skateboard.

“When you fall on a skateboard it flies away,” said Anthony “Twan” Bustos, 19, a pro scooter rider from San Clemente. “A scooter doesn’t.”

Bustos and Dakota Schuetz, 12, of San Juan Capistrano are the premier scooter riders at San Clemente’s skate park and two of the best in California. “I’ve learned everything at San Clemente,” Bustos said, “my back flips, everything. There’s nowhere else to scooter.”

To do it legally he must travel to skate parks in San Diego and Diamond Bar. “I’d really love scooters to be legal at San Clemente skate park, and maybe have contests,” he said. “There’s a bunch of hot kids that scooter in San Clemente.”

Schuetz, who travels the West giving exhibitions with the Dale Webb Extreme Sports and Air Show, said he gets along fine with skaters at the park and doesn’t know why the sudden ban.

“They never said it was illegal, and all of a sudden the police show up,” said Gary Schuetz, Dakota’s father.

Carla DiCandia, city recreation manager, said it’s about liability. “The skate park is for skateboards and inline skates only,” she said. “The state (liability) legislation is subject to interpretation, and a majority of the cities’ risk managers and insurance carriers are interpreting the legislation as not covering Razor scooters.”

San Clemente’s skate park is unsupervised, and for most of its 7 1/2 year history there were no issues with scooters. Scooters and skaters got along, although older, more skilled park users would at times complain about little kids getting in the way, whether on skateboards or scooters. Last November, complaints to the city about too many scooter kids prompted a review of city policies, DiCandia said.

Going Out with Class

 SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill.  —  Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he’s got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. “I actually fit, because I got in here,” said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn’t plan on needing it anytime soon, though.

He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin — designed in Pabst’s colors of red, white and blue — with ice and his favorite brew.

“Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?” said Bramanti’s daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.

Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.

tuma

lurking around the server found this one ed took ahwile back.

Free Stickers

broken magazine pirate guns, originally uploaded by broken magazine.

you ask and ye shall recieve. shoot us an email for some free stickers or hit Nick up at the skatepark. how can you go wrong with the pirate guns?

Another Sick Ass Cardiel flick over at Thrasher Today

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=3&Itemid=40&frontpage=1&clipid=297&category=SkateRock

Vinyl Solution / Black Label Skates 20th Anniv Party!!!

Cave with a light

death box cave light, originally uploaded by broken magazine.

another random empty pool shot.