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Go Skateboarding Day

At about 10am with good weather and good friends, Gabe, Flip, Grant and Mike, Monday officially kicked off the first day of summer with a bang. Go Skateboarding day was a smash! 4 parks one private bowl, and a kick ass BBQ combined with amazing weather made this one of the best summer kick offs yet.

We started at Amazon, the oldest skatepark in oregon down in Eugene. Rough crete, small snake run and a lunpy gnar quarter in the back. It was a good start to the day!

We followed that one up with a slightly more updated, Emerald Skatepark. With one big pocket and nothing over 5 feet we stayed an hour or so.until Flip ground the 5 foot tall rail extending off one of the quarters there. burly fucker.

After that we headed out to Bethell skatepark. This park was super fun, this is the kind of park you want right in your back yard. It is almost completely a tranny park, while the trannies are pretty mellow throughout the park, there are a few challenging obstacles, like the 3feet of vert in the back pocket of the bowl. While this park is not very difficult to ride it would be amazing to have closer as its the perfect park to dick around in all day long.

We finish up with Eugene and head out to a park built only a couple years ago in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg skatepark is one of the best parks in oregon, from big bowl, to little micro mini ramp. This park has everything from jersey barriers to pole jams, everywhere you turn there is something to skate. We stayed for an hour or so there and moved on to the backyard....

Last stop of the day was at Trevors! The private bowl, beer, bbq session. By the time we got to Trevors it was about 8pm, none of us thought we had anything left after the 45 min car ride back. 2 beers later were droppin in and gettin worked. With dogs, corn, baked potatoes and a table full of BBQ fixins we hung until we couldn't walk pretty much. At least 2 of us are out a week now due to injuries, but a little heal time until our next road trip adventure is probably what we need.

To all of those that skated on Go Skateboarding Day... CHEERS!

RADNESS!

Who needs lights that work?

With the big light out, Trevor tails up for a run through the shadows.

Fun night, too bad this was the only shot that came out.

Meanwhile at an undisclosed location, in an undisclosed state...

A party happened.... skating was done... the grill was fired... money was won

We Choose This Life

I remember the first time I heard someone say "I used to skate". Id say I was around 14 or 15, it was outside a gas station and we were skating those rounded off metal curbs on the side of the building while waiting for the lucky random person that would buy us cigarettes to show up.

Up walks random metal dude, probably about 19, sweet we ask him to buy us smokes.. He says "sure man no prob, but you gotta lemme see your board" Hesitantly one of my friends kicks their board over to him. The guy stands on it, feels the trucks out and looks at us and says "man its been a while, I used to skate back in the day". Were not believing him at all until he snaps a double kickflip about thigh high ugly as shit. He barely lands it and chuckles to himself as he kicks the board back over to us. We all cough up the 2 bucks it cost for smokes back then (yeah thats the buying a minor cigarettes price too) and go on our way to skate.

We get to the spot to meet up with the 2 other skateboarders that lived in the town. We start talking about the dude we ran into. We start telling our friends about this random metal dude that could double kickflip waist high (you know what im talking about haha) At this point were all wondering why a dude that could randomly bust out a trick like that would ever quit skateboarding. We came to the conclusion, he gave up so FUCK HIM. I vowed to myself that day that I would never be THAT guy, I would never say "I used to skate"

Some of us have known that from the first time on a board that this was it. I knew that whatever I did in life would be in some way shape or form a means to keep skating. Some of us did whatever we had to do to keep skating, a job was a job, school was pointless, careers were for grown ups, screw it lets go skate. Our paths led us wherever our board took us, because we chose to let it. Every day were thinking of where to skate next, every day we send out the call to meet up at the spot, every day we work a shitty job just so we can have money to buy another board. Every day we make a choice.

Poverty Skateboards is dedicated to just that.

We Choose This Life.