half-pipe

There’s something about a skateboard wipeout that can make one cringe like no other. Perhaps it has something to do with the smack the pavement (or half-pipe) makes when it meets the face, or maybe it’s the scrapes, blood and scars that tend to accompany them.
Either way, it’s time… Read the rest

There’s one group of people that isn’t upset about the rising rate of McMansion foreclosures: skaters. Many of those houses have swimming pools, now just as empty as the houses they belong to, and empty houses mean makeshift half-pipes.
“We have more pools than we know what to do with,”… Read the rest