shut up and skate

Got 2 layers on the u-bowl now. And we put on some temporary black pipe to help scratch it. Dropped in and it was tough, but it was very clear that once we get the other side done... it's on.

kick turns? You betchya!

I finally got a second layer on one of the corners and to my surprise, it actually came out pretty decent. After putting down the first layer I thought this thing would be all kinked out, but the second layer took care of that concern. After it was done, we moved some wood and cleaned up and got some kick turns in - and a little bit of some carve action. The one corner isn't done yet so it was a bit sketchy to roll on it. But it felt really good to roll around for a bit.

There have also been some concerns as to how skateable this thing would be. It's too small, no flat, low ceilings, etc. Well, based on the tiny bit of skating we got in, I'm happy to say that this mother is fully skateable. It'll be tight and quick, but we barely scratched the surface and we can't wait to get her done.

(the corner that has the skateboard on it is the corner with 2 layers)

Seasons Greetings 4 Life...

just a little message from our sponsor (with the help of 20+ inches this past weekend at mt snow). more importantly though, we got....

1 layer done...

kinda sorta have it figured out...

It's still very dim... but there is light at the end of the tunnel

My side

Lance's side...

Skate this, bitch!!!

Yup, we got ourselves a real mess going. As you can see, one of the hardest things we gotta figure out is how to build this thing and keep all the wood inside. In fact, I think we used up half the night just rearranging the garage. So although we made it somewhat skateable the other night, it is completely not skateable now.

Keef came over again, who is normally very useful, but on this nite he was already about a 6 pack deep before he even got there. So, he wasn't the full 110% that we're used to seeing. At least not his work capacity - his hate level was high as usual. Nah, just kidding Keith. Keef and Lance got going on the third corner and I got to layering some ply on the finished corners. We all got things started, but (as you can tell) didn't get to far. We're hoping that the wives will lets us have at it again tonite.

Until then...

well, we .. skated...??

...my board had cobwebs on it and i'm not as limber as i was back in the day when we started building this thing... but we got this far friday night. getting after the roundwall tonight.

(again sorry for the crappy photos, we'll get it right next time, of course. and if you were here getting blogged up long enough to hear some Maiden or one of the other classics -- assuming you turned up your volume -- you can thank puccio. nice touch pj!)

skin it

Well, we actually think we're ready to put down some layers. Infact, it was kinda shocking to think that we might have something to do some kickturns on by this weekend.


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