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DUBLIN SKATE PARK The Dublin Coffman Skate Park is a cement made skate park that stretches more wide than long ways. Things at the park: some quarter pipes, banks, a curved rail, a hand rail, a flat box, a turtle back, a clover bowl, transition bowl, and hubba ledge. There is also a pretty crappy vert area. In this park, there are some skilled skaters yet the amount of posers, or 6-year-olds with plastic roller blades not only get in the way, but over populate skilled skaters about 5 to 1. This is one of the many reasons why people might decide not to skate there. Not only posers are annoying, the certain way the park is built is really annoying as well. It doesn't flow what-so-ever and has many cracks and ridges in the some parts of the cement. A lot of the quarterpipes have flaws and are either too steep or not steep enough. This definitely sucks and pisses a lot of people off who don't normally skate there. Even though the Coffman Skate Park is not very well known, you will find that many good skaters inhabit around the central Ohio area. Many of these skaters often skate there. Sometimes, some crazy tricks are laced. I try my best to catch some of these on tape. You'll find Eliot doing some pretty cool stuff in the video section. I am also on there, so is Eliot's brother Zach, my brother Jimmie, and other guys too. More are added all the time so come back often to see if there are new ones. Thank you for your time and I hope I helped your idea of the skate park in Dublin, Ohio. - Joe Hendrickson
POOR BOY RAMPS
Poor Boy Ramps is a small organization formed by local skaters that sells ramps to other skaters for fair prices. In most skating magazines you will find many ramps or rails for sell, these ramps or rails are extremely costly. Most 7' rails go for around 160 bucks which is definitely not their worth. Poor Boy Ramps promises by all means to beat any other price you can find in a skate magazine or catalog. Also, ramps do not cost shipping if you live in the Columbus area. All ramps are hand made and can be made any way you like. Ramps and rails are also made with extreme care, and are tested before sold. This way, the consumer does not receive deficient or broken orders. Click the above picture for additional information as well as contact information. Or, Contact my email with any questions. Last time skating at The Hut (Poor Boy Ramps skate area) I found everything has changed for the best! New additions to the park include a new huge kinked box and a double kinked skate rail. Better yet, wooden sides have been added to every ramp in the skate area. This makes the whole place look neat and nice! The ramps aren't the only thing in the park that have changed, but the park setup has been changed around too. Everything flows nice making you want to skate there all day. With only a few more additions including a mini ramp and pipe-coped-ledges, the park will soon become a public skate park on the weekends. I know you can't wait! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP 5 PRO INLINERS
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMER OF 2003 Around the end of the Summer of 2003, my family and I took a trip to Florida. When we arrived the skate scene was amazing! Across from our hotel we were staying was a beach with a 3 mile, foot tall, beach wall made from cement. With little wax, this thing was sliding for days. Jimmie landed a couple nose slides and I landed some topside grinds and alley-oop 360s. Their were also lots of handrails outside our hotel, some 9 stairs and some 12 stairs but due to the constant flow of people and surrounding cops, these rails were un-skate-able. Besides street, we visited two skateparks. Both of these skateparks were located in Pompano, about fifteen minutes away from the hotel. The First park we visited was the 24,000 square foot Pompano Indoor Skatepark. This park had some sweet skating including a flawless street area with smooth, coped hubba ledges, square rails, and such. There was also a mini and a vert section and some other long, steep ledges. Overall it was pretty sweet. Jimmie threw down a blunt and tail slide on a rail, BS Boardslide the long square rail, and did some good vert stuff. I mostly stayed in the street area, addicted to the copped hubba ledge. I was putting down some tech stuff such as, Pornstar to AO Topside Soul and Acid, Soul AO Topside Soul and Acid, Miszou to Kind Grind, Half-cab Soul to 360, 360 Soul to 360 and other stuff. The whole place was really hot but they had water fountains and a TV to chill at. The owner was big on making money, but was cool for the most part. For more info on Pompano Indoor go here. The second skate park went visited was Ramp48 also in Pompano. Ramp48 is smaller the Pompano Indoor but it has air conditioning and the people that skate there and work there are cooler and more generous than at Pompano Indoor. The skating is decent, everything is kind of beginner leveled, and most of the ledges are fairly low, but all the rails are height adjustable and if you use your creativity the park becomes real challenging. Jimmie did a Boardslide to Fakie around the coping of an "L" or "J" shaped quarterpipe and landed his ever-so-popular handstand flip a bunch of times. I found some huge gaps including one where I 180ed off a ledge over an entire 12ft bank and into the flat. I did a lot of royales, kindgrinds, and pornstars on the handrails there and also landed a nice triple switch up to 270 on a hubba ledge. In addition there was nice Vert Ramp in the back left corner and a tiny mini when you walk in. I threw a couple 720s and did some Royale 270s and Top Souls. Also, I ripped my pants while coming up a bank. straight down my crouch so I skated half-naked for most of the time, and I also broke 2 bearings but the owner was nice enough to replace the two wheels for free. The trip was awesome. I wish I could move down there and skate everyday for the rest of my life. That would be sweet. For more information on Ramp48 go here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I am going to try to start up this section, having received from great feedback on issues and stuff through email. If your pissed about something in skating, pissed about cops, sponsors, or this website I'd like to hear about it and I think a lot of other people would too. Therefore, send me your feedback at my email: sk8ingfaygoman at hotmail.com This is the best I can do until I get a little message board going... From: Jones17901@aol.com To: Sk8ingfaygoman@hotmail.com Subject: bmx and skate relations Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 02:28:50 EDT Yo! Good looking out on the info about Dublin
skate scene but why is it that PEACE A concerned B.M.X.er
Ya I completely gotcha. Sharing
a space at Dublin has been a problem between skaters and riders ever
since the place opened. Unfortunately, bikers are the ones who usually
get the short end of the rail, cuz everyone points out the fact that
"the rules", which were created by adults who know nothing of
skating, says that "bikers are not allowed in the park". This definitely
sucks and I think that someone needs to break that stupid sign in half.
I think that bikers and skaters should be able to respect each other and
each other's arts and be able to roll or ride together. It's stupid how
some people don't understand that both arts/sports/whatever you wanna
call them have their own difficulties and challenges. And when it comes
down to it, aggressive skating, skateboarding, and biking all have
wheels, and are all possessed by a person who wants to do nothing but
have fun, escape some pressure, and maybe get a little bit of exercise.
I say stop the rivalries and controversy that isn't needed and let
skaters, riders, and rollers shred together. Joe
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK SHEEP SKATE SHOP Black Sheep Skate Shop is a skateboarding, aggressive skating, or snowboarding shop located on Main Street in Columbus' campus area. Black Sheep is cool and they are more likely to throw you a bearing if you need one, than make you pay for minor things that hold your skating back. They carry everything from skateboards, skate shoes, snowboards, stickers, gear, sunglasses, aggressive skates, accessories, clothing, magazines and a whole lot more. Black Sheep is completely non-sell out compared to other skate shops around the area. At Black Sheep, they tend to care more about supporting a hobby or new sport than making money of it. I highly suggest Black Sheep over any other skate shop for this reason. In addition, Jim, the main owner/manager of Black Sheep is awesome. He will beat any price you can find on the internet. For all of your skating needs check out Black Sheep Skate Shop. I've heard very little about a sponsorship team for Black Sheep at this time. Jim tells me another worker there might be putting together a team but it probably wont be any time soon. Until then, you can just put together a video and they'll give you some feedback on your skating. VISIT MY BLACK SHEEP LINK HERE VISIT THE BLACK SHEEP HOMEPAGE HERE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNSPORTS & HOLLISTER. A CONNECTION? You might be thinking right now, "What's up with that title?" "What do you mean Sunsports and Hollister are connected?" After talking to a Sunsports customer, (unnamed), he told me about a little thing that Sunsports is doing with Hollister. Have you ever been inside the Hollister store at the mall and seen the fake skateboards hanging on the walls and shelves? It turns out, Sunsports takes shipments of these boards, assembles them, then sells them back to Hollister to be displayed in their stores, to attract people who wanna look like skateboarders. These boards are completely fake; the wheels don't even spin. Just a way for Sunsports to make some quick cash I guess. I don't really blame Sunsports for doing this for Hollister but isn't this considered kind of selling out? I mean, isn't helping a clothing store attract posers wrong? By doing this, are they supporting the look and not the true art of skating? I don't know, but something isn't right here. ***What do you think? Post your ideas on this topic here.*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRISTMAS BREAK 2003 Christmas break was truly awesome. Besides the long, just under twenty total hours on the road, Christmas Break was a great experience. Arriving in St. Louis, Missouri after on the road for two days, I met my cousins and stayed with them for about four days. After countless days of ongoing ping pong battles and Texas Poker gambling, my grandparents from Illinois, my grandparents from Louisville and my aunt and uncle from Indiana arrived. We exchanged some gifts and celebrated Christmas together. Now, to the skating. The next day we all went up to The Mills mall about an hour away from where we were all staying. It was the first mall I've ever been to that had a skate park in the heart of it. This indoor skate park is one of the new skate parks coming into Mills Malls by X Games and it wasn't bad at all. About 40,000 square feet, with an upper deck for parents or people who wanted to watch and the main part, on the lower floor for skaters. Overall, it was pretty decent. If your heading towards St. Louis make sure to stop, skate, and shop at The Mills. ***Other information and pictures of us skating there, HERE*** |
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- Please remember to rate my page, spread the word, link me onto your page, and sign my guest book - Each category is alphabetical - Poor Boy Ramps Inc. (PBRI) are now selling away some of their ramps and building some new ones to sell for cash! - Click here for Poor Boy Ramp Information - Fixing all videos that are not working with a new video compression method that will run videos at high quality and also make them less space and therefore quicker to download. Coming Soon! - I recently found tons more info on skate parks in Ohio, yes, even the small ones. New videos from Reynoldsburg and Lancaster skate parks will be added soon hopefully. - I'm working on fixing all of my links and making new pages for the ones that don't work. Bare with me. - Got back from Kentucky on June 20, 2003 - Added Louisville Pictures Link on June 21 - Added a new section, "Aggressive Skating Trick Tips" and working on "Skateboarding Trick Tips" - Added Skateboarding Trick Tips - Added more Dublin Videos (more Zach, More Joe) - Added Florida Trip Category - Added the "Wham Fest" videos category. - I am currently working converting all videos on this page to REAL format because I don't find it neat to have the MPEG and REAL mixing. If you haven't got a REAL Player, get one soon! (9/16/03) - Will be adding more videos of us all at the Dublin Skate Park soon! - More completed videos will be coming out soon for your enjoyment. Jimmie and I will be working on a complete oldskool video. Check the Complete Videos Link in a month or so. - Videos up for sale! - Check out the new Black Sheep Skate Shop link! (11/26/03) - Check out the new subtopics at the bottom! (11/26/03) -Eliot got 3rd place at the flow -Eliot go sponsored by Duff's Shoes will soon be put onto the amateur team hopefully. 12/13 - Visited the flow and got some sick footage -will be adding soon! -May 19, 2004 God Bless, Rev. Branden Wilcox |
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March
12, 2003: -Jimmie Hendrickson My last time skating at The Hut, I notice some great changes had been made and new additions had been added as well. A new, 16 foot long, double kinked round rail is a new feature. Also, Eliot and Zach nailed plywood to the sides of their ledges and also built some new ones. When I skated there, nothing had been coped yet, unfortunately, but coping will come soon. Hopefully, after looking up insurance rules and waivers, The Hut will become a private, admission only skatepark in Plain City, Ohio. Cost and other information is not available yet, but will soon come. April 11, - Joe Hendrickson The Dublin Skate Park is still up and strong so far throughout the Summer. Everything there is in usual order, cement cracks and decay have no been noticed yet either. The Park was built stronger than I had anticipated and the cheap cement seems to be holding up well. But I'll keep you posted as the Summer progresses and more skaters some to the Park and tear it up. - Joe Hendrickson The Louisville skate park is amazing featuring some of the best constructed ramps, bowls, and ledges. Overall, it is a skater's paradise with smooth concrete and creative lines. The full pipe was huge as well as the masonite vert ramp; both of which were constantly sessioned by skaters of all kinds. Better yet, while we were there we got to skate with a bunch of experienced skaters who were putting on an open demo. Among these guys was the famous Andy Macdonald who landed a BS Air over a ten foot gap in the bowl with the full pipe. This experience was most definitely a dream come true. - Jimmie Hendrickson |
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