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<title>Skatelandias</title>
<description>this map focuses on skatespots that are either gone or forgotten.</description>
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<title>Webb Park</title>
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        This was my local spot growing up.  I used to take the Poway transit in from Garden Road to skate here with Team Heorge and ELG.  Later, in the 90s, the spot became a favorite of many pros.  I had the most amazing experience of skating with Matt Hensley here for the first time when he was still an AM.  He busted consistent backside lipslides down the banked ledges and other things that blew my 14 year old 1989 mind.  This spot was demolished and is now (literally) a grassed in sidewalk but before it was destroyed, there were banked and flat ledges, banked walls, gaps, walls to drops, stairs banked curbs, benches and basically everything else the DC skateplaza now has.  We could put concrete benches going down stairs and no one would move them ever.  From 1988 to 1995 I was never busted here.  Then I moved away from SD and when I came back, the spot was gone.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/56624">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-08 14:26:01.218755+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Tijuana Skate Park</title>
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        When I was in 6th grade I first rode this park and I feel it embodied everything a skate park should have.  The whole park was a snake run with a corner that had some nipples and another bowl that was half filled with dirt.  It was rough with potholes and the transitions were totally lumpy.  The concrete was like sandpaper and if you fell on it, there would be a visible mark where you had deposited skin.  Periodically some crazy gangsters would drive up in a huge white van and all the skaters would scatter.  If you got caught, they jacked all your stuff.  There was a liquor store down the street a little with 40s and soda for under a dollar.  As little kids in the 80s, we would ride the bus down or get a ride with older skaters, cross the border and skate to the park, which not unlike San Diego, was illegal.  However, if you got caught in T.J. $20 would get you off.  Once, when we showed up there, the owner Julian was getting married.  We got to hang out at the wedding, party with everyone in the wedding party and skate into the night.  The locals at this park were amazing.  They rode totally dilapidated boards at about 90mph launching over humps and into bowls.  (Note: this is actually a map to the border.  Although there is a new T.J. park under the gigantic flag, this park has been sadly dozed).  Memorable video parts by Matt Hensley and Doug Smith depict this amazing lost spot.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/59947">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 23:06:38.946401+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>san Pasqual High</title>
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        In the 90s, this was a skate mecca.  We wouldn't even let rollerbladers touch this spot.  Rails banks you could ollie a dumpster out of and rails only Pat Duffy could hit (in the rain).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/63133">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-16 00:12:22.99956+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Poway Banks</title>
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        This one day we were skating at what is now boney's market on Poway road on the same old worn down curb we always skated on when this old dude came barreling up on us in a white work truck.  He said (for real), "Hey little dudes, they just laid some fresh crete' up in the business park and were gonna be the first people to shred it, hop in!"

We had no idea who this old dude was.  Actually, we were kind of scared of him.  He was all sun burned and not wearing a shirt.  His board was about 10 years old and he was drinking a tall boy of Bud but he told us he was taking us to a skate spot so we all jumped in.

I rode up front.  The old dude's name was Randy.  Randy was a "shredder" in his days.  He could rock Berts and layback grinds and bust bonelesses like the old pros.  randy took us to the Poway Banks the first day they were ridable.

I found out later that Randy was waiting and keeping the banks a secret.  He wanted to be the first person to ride the banks alone.  When we got there, the powder was still freshly laid over the dry concrete.  After randy took his maiden run to Metallica "Master of Puppets" blairing out of his truck, we all got in there.  The concrete was smoother than anything I have ever felt.  We all ruined our boards from the powder but this was a virgin skatespot and you only get these like once if ever.

For the next 4 years this was our new spot.  Randy came back sometimes.  Randy was a good guy, he told me he just wanted to "pass the torch."  While he was busting out with some amazing frontside layback grinds, we were busting head high ollies out of the banks but everyone was happy.

Unfortunately, after 4 years of being vacant, the building was leased to a trucking company and the days are rare that any bank is skatable.  Originally, the spot had 3 sets of 4' banks with grindable curbs andsweet spots to ollie out of that could boost you head high or bigger.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/59771">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 22:29:17.87678+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Carlsbad High School</title>
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        When I was in high school, I interned at Plan B Skateboards, which meant I was a folder of shirts and jeans and a trash recepticle attendant.  I also got to cut rubies for screen prints and do the grunt art work like driving ads to transworld, mailing stuff and developing other people's photos.

When I graduated, M.T. hired me on full time and I became Carl Hyndman's offial art slave.  This was 1 of 2 jobs I loved ever.  I also got to work with Dave Andrecht, which was also amazing.  Everything was great.

After a year of interning and a year of art slaving, I was prommoted to video photographer.  I had been working on my skills with David Schlossbach and M.T. every weekend for at least 6 months.  I would take some stills and shoot video and they would teach me while working on Virtual Reality.

Finally, after quite a long time I was cut loose and I got to shoot people alone.  One of the first days I did this, I shot at Carlsbad High School with Jeremy Wray and some of his friends.  This was one of the funnest days of my life.

About a year or so into the filming of what would end up being called Second Hand Smoke, M.T. got killed by an elderly driver.  This devastated a lot of people's lives.  For me, M.T. was the most important person in my life ever and I ran away from everything for awhile after this happened.  For others, it was an opportunistic moment to grab at something that was not theirs.

When the final edit of Second Hand Smoke came out, I was excited to see a lot of my work alongside the work of M.T. and David Schlossbach.  However, when the credits rolled, I realized that I was not credited for my shots.

The webpage above is one of the shots I was not credited for.

Recently, Plan B was restarted by some of my favorite people from the old days.  I contacted them and told them how I remained silent when the video came out because I was too broken up over M.T. to deal with anything.  They immediately replied that the next run of DVDs would credit me alongside M.T.  This put an end to a decade of bad vibes.

I feel like a big weight was lifted off of my chest when I got the message.

here is the link again because it is not showing up on the main page:
http://alamasse.free.fr
they also have some other dope stuff from skate videos.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/60580">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-12 12:47:05.813862+00:00</dc:date>
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