Typical weekday @ the park

[sKaTiNpUnK]

Heres a typical weekday at Major Taylor Skatepark in Indy. It's outside so it's a bit cold at times. This was earlier last week it was really warm. Nothing special just my fav skatepark.

[thrasher]

lets see some photos of you shredin' it now.

[psycoskater]

Sweet skatepark so when will we see some pics of you?
man my camera is all messed up it won't even turn on

[Mrock]

Those stairs look super fun...

[sKaTiNpUnK]

mrock, like i've told you all before, i mean, i'm like the only camera person ever that knows how to take decent camera angles and nice shots. but i can't find a boarder that can. so when i get a good camera that my parents trust me with on a board, and a decent board again, i'll do my best for you all

[sKaTiNpUnK]

mrock- those stairs are awesome. the 5 set, it's taken me awhile to get used to it still. but on my contest run i hit a double kickflip down it perfectly.something i thought was impossible for me to do.

[Ramprage]

Wicked park, want to send me a plane ticket? :D

[sk8erpsycho]

yea ill be ramprage's... uh...... watcher person while i skate, haha, you double kickflipped that?!

[sKaTiNpUnK]

lol i couldn't believe it myself sk8erpsycho, i think it was one of those things i was so revved up from the crowd, so much adrenaline, so little time, so much screaming, so sweaty god i could've completed anything and everything that day. i just hope i'm like that for the skating finals for king of the park. (or queen :D)

[sKaTiNpUnK]

the only bad thing about this whole park is the sides of the bowls. they suck. i've gotten stuck in these things at least a hundred times, they hurt, let me tell you that. face first on concrete isn't anything new at major taylor skatepark. lol. but these are pics of the ones i hit the most.

ramprage-i think sk8erpsycho should be your luggage. lol. we'll talk about those plane tickets maybe.....never....lol. i don't even have enough money to buy a decent board! :eek:

[sKaTiNpUnK]

ow

[sKaTiNpUnK]

ow again

[sKaTiNpUnK]

one out of a million none living things i want to strangle, it is this knoctch. it pops up on you the worst of times.

[Mrock]

What the heck kinda camera is that? Those look professional.

[Ramprage]

That definately looks like a serious problem for the park. What if you tried to get a fundraiser going and a group of skaters to fix the edges. All you need is some cement patchwork which isn't hard to do, you can buy bags of cement at local hardware stores, you just mix it with water.

Possibly patch up the edges and put all new coping in... that would cost more but it will fix the problem a little better.

Has anyone asked the city or community if they're willing to fix it? How many skaters use it? Get people to sign a petition, the more people interested in fixing the problem the better the chances are.

[Flip Boy]

hey get a talented skater to finish the job, get cememnt as ramprage said and fix it yourself thats a good idea it will take a while but remember to tell the other skaters its wet lol!

[sKaTiNpUnK]

mrock-actually it's not the camera that did that awesome job, it was the scanner. lol. i know it sounds weird, but really. i just used a disposable camera (which are the best to use for still shots) and then scanned them on over at my cousin's house whos got some major hardware for his pc.

[sKaTiNpUnK]

also mrock- i changed a lot of the settings on his pc for the picture, therefore making it look more professional. it's a little confusing when you do it, but it's all worth it in the end, expeciall when someone thinks your disposable camera shot is professional.

ramprage-we skaters (meaning about 12 of us thats all there is out there practically) have all tried to get someting going. we've contacted the front offices and many other people to get something going. they said that they wanted to build steel beams into the bottom of the skatepark, but that would take some time, and money. i told them we just wanted our sides back to normal, everything else to us is fine. they still don't listen to us, but i mean, shouldn't they? considering we're the skaters, and we're the ones who ride it. doesn't matter what it looks like, but this time you can't even ride it smoothly. so they won't listen to us, and they'll probably just tear up the park again.

[Ramprage]

They built a skatepark for 12 skaters? There has to be more than that.... If they still don't listen then keep bugging them, don't bug the same person, try a variety of people until you actually find someone who listens. Maybe I can do an article on your park to help get the awareness up about it, maybe people will want to help you out.

[Ramprage]

If they still don't listen then I'd do this....

Even if you get every one of the 12 skaters to donate $41 bucks you'll have $500 dollars. You can probably get enough cement to patch it up with that amount. Find out if the skaters are willing to put a little bit of money into it, and their friends/family and then approach the counsil and tell them the problem and that all you need is their permission to fix it.... you'll do it all. They'll surely say yes and then maybe offer some help. Try to get the community involved and have like a planned couple of days to fix up the park!

[sKaTiNpUnK]

hey thanks ramprage. i've been doing a lot of posting at school too. so thats helped out a lot for us. fat tom has been doing a lot also, he's actually beginning to talk more. which is cool because he never does. thanks for the advice ramprage. i really appreciate it.

[The Turtle]

Those are some really bad cracks you got there.

[Chekos]

man your skatepark is alot nicer then like any i have been to its all nice pavement and everything the ones around me are old paking lots with cement that takes a crap load off your wheels from riding

[Chekos]

like i mean nice cement compared to the skateparks here

[Flip Boy]

my one is like 4 ramps lol and there all shite

[AIRZ1]

Thats a well nice park. Shame about the cracks

[sKaTiNpUnK]

yeah every skater here HATES the cracks. we all complain now. i went a few days ago and i found out that i wasn't the only skater that had a petition going to fix the cracks. the guy, craig brock, and i decided that we'd combine our petitions together since we were working for the same exact cause. so we've got a butt load of people now. once we hit 250 we'll turn it into the skatepark manager or whoever we need to reach. right now in counting, we've got 189. so we're doing really well if you ask me.

[sKaTiNpUnK]

tomorrow is my king of the skatepark competition...i'm really really scared though. i just need to focus, and let it all go. you guys have any suggestions of maybe what i should do to prep up for this?

[Ramprage]

Skateboard competition... hmm just try to visualize yourself doing your tricks and gets lots of sleep, don't have a heavy lunch ;)

Make sure you photocopy those petitions before you just hand them over..... keep up the good efforts. If you guys get together and want to send me an article about the park then I'll post it :D

[sKaTiNpUnK]

thanks ramprage. yeah i tried to get as much sleep as i could. i haven't eatin yet. but i will. skaters have to be there @ 4. i'm pretty focused right now. i got up @ about 10 something this morning. went out in my pj's and did some boarding, i dont care how i looked, i was just so focused this morning. so wish me luck, and god i hope i win this.

[sk8erpsycho]

good luck and tell us how you do after

[sKaTiNpUnK]

you will never guess what happened....whoa, it was PHENOMENAL! it was so awesome. i did everything just so perfect it seemed like. i only fell once. the crowd just revved me up so much. they actually wanted me to skate FOR them. i'd been working so hard on my darkslides at home earlier that day and i couldn't get them down right. so heres how it ended up going...

the best combo i hit went like this....first i kickflipped up to the rail, boardslide, darkslide, heelflipped down, rolled awhile, went to the stairs, double kick flipped, kept rolling, had like 5 seconds left, so i just tried something suicidal, they stuck up this new ledge thats like a foot and a half high, i went up and tried to ollie, i thought i'd bust my butt, i ended up barely, BARELY getting over it. it was the biggest adrelaline rush i'd ever gotten in my life. i'd thought i'd pass out from excitement. the crowd just like went off. lol i didn't even think i did that good of a job. but i was 4th skater out of 13. i had a lot ahead of me. they narrowed it down to 6 skaters after our runs.

i ended up being in there.

so i went on another run, i just hit everything. it was the greatest day of my life. i didn't mess up AT all in that run. i didn't plan anything for that run like i did the first one. i just did whatever came to me. 6 skaters left, only 2 would be narrowed down.

i ended up getting a spot.

my friend flitch got out though, i was upset.

this really started to freak me out though. i had to go up against this 14 year old guy who was just totally great. he ran through his run, did a totally sweet job. he tried something thinking he was ahead of me anyways. and he totally screwed himself over. he tried to pull off a darkslide, he fell face first onto the ground, broke his nose, 20 seconds left in his run. whatta shame.....

my turn after they cleaned up the blood. lol muhaha

so i went out there, did my best, was so focused and yet so eased at the same time. it was just, well, beautiful. my run was awesome. i did everything i could do in the first 50 seconds. (see we get a minute and a half)

so, since i was the only one that day to pull off a darkslide, the crowd starting going "darkslide, darkslide" i was thinking "damn i feel like rocky or something lol" so i got the best force i could behind me, pop shuv-it, boardslide, darkslide, (the darkslide seemed like forever though but it was so sweet i didn't care) then i landed it.

i landed it, again. i don't know how, but some type of weird ass force just like invaded my body. lol

i had 10 seconds left so i just kind of went around and did a lot of stationary moves, so on.

buzzer rang, time to go up to the front...this time my legs were friggin jello i was so freaked.

we both walked up (by the way, his name is jake) and we stood in front with the owner of the park, and some other dude. and he annouced. "2nd place, with a great run through, nice moves, slick look, crowd loves this guy...." (now when he said guy i friggin peed my pants.) "Jake (w/e his last name was)" i jumped like 40 feet high. my dad was like belastic lol.

i won.

i actually won that contest guys. i mean, this is megan, the skater girl who, uh, really isn't all that good. but pulled off some crazy ass moves, that i can only do when hormones race, and adrenaline is pumped to the maximum.

but i mean, i just still can't believe i won that. it's just unbelievable. i seriously just feel so blessed. i mean, come on I WON!

for now on THANK YOU lol call me "Megan THE skatepark queen" lol they have to change the trophy. to say "queen of the skatepark" lol.

GOD i'm just so excited still!

ramprage- thanks for the light lunch thing, some kids like puked that ate so much lol

and again, this is the greatest thing thats ever happened to me in my whole entire life. just i want to thank all you guys for your support, i probably couldn't of pulled this off w/o you all. thanks. i love you guys!

-queen of the skatepark-megan

[psycoskater]

COngrats.... sweet combos for which I read that whole speech you wrote... anyways sweet I wish I was the skatepark king; wait there is not skatepark here :( man oh well but still I am the skating king for like 8 blocks around me :)...

[BoArDeR420]

thats awesome CONGRATS!

[Ramprage]

Way to go sKaTiNpUnK! Darkslides? damn I haven't even tried one before!

I would love to see some footage, pics of you skating!

Great work! :D

[sKaTiNpUnK]

i know! i want some! i just hope they had some photographers out and some people taping. they don't really make big deals out of the skating scene though. so yeah thats indiana for you. i'm going to try my best though to get to the person i need to get to for pics. so you guys will be the first to know when i get some!

ramprage- yeah those darkslides, i was a big freaked, and yeah need to buy my friend some new griptape lol. he had the really cool grip art stuff too lol. poor guy i'll get him some more.

[DarkHawk2-2]

i never tried darkslide cuz im scared of fukin up my grip tape. Anyways, my friend does darkslides all the time cuz his board sux.
Actually it doesnt but its REAL old.

[psycoskater]

DArkslides are sweet but they suck when you are like not really to get off them cause you may flip the board to your nuts...

[sKaTiNpUnK]

lol i wouldn't know, i don't exactly have nuts you know?

[sk8erpsycho]

lol, yea..... i so want to see some footage of you shredding some of those moves... and how do you go from boardslide to darkslide, just askin', do you like boardslide and flip the board half over under you or something? sweet good job

[blind]

sk8erpsycho, i think she was doing these moves in a line, like, boardslide down a rail, then go for a few secs., then a darkslide on a curb/ledge thingy.

[sKaTiNpUnK]

alright well this is how i did it at least, or how i learned it:

1.Ok you need to try this grind on a parking stub also. You need to know the kickflip and the ollie first.
2.Go to the stub at a 45 degree angle. Put your feet in a kickflip position. Ride up to the stub ollie turn your body at a 45 degree angle.
3.While you are turning your body kick the board to a half kickflip.
4.When you stop the board with your foot make sure the stub is right under the board.
5.Now you have to keep balance.
6.This is the hard part. Find a spot at the trucks to see if your foot can hook onto something. If so hook your front foot under the thing. Now when you are about to get to the end push your backfoot down and your front foot up and turn your body at a 90 degree angle and stop the board spinning when it gets right side up again.

thats the best i could do so i hope it sounds alright :: cringe ::

[iskatebad]

thats awesome! i wish we had a skatepark but the only one we have is too far away and i can't get a ride.

[The Turtle]

Wow!
Great work on winning the competition!:D

[Flip Boy]

not to put you down but a kickflip to boardslide to darkslide and a heelflip out...i think you may have exajurated a tad there...thats stuff of tony hawks and rodney mullen!!!!!

[AIRZ1]

Well done Queen of the skatepark champion (skatinpunk) good luck for future competitions.

[Ramprage]

Originally posted by Flip Boy
not to put you down but a kickflip to boardslide to darkslide and a heelflip out...i think you may have exajurated a tad there...thats stuff of tony hawks and rodney mullen!!!!!

Yup, I think Mullen can only do that....

To darkslide you need to kickflip on (sorta) but it's still a darkslide.... but to heelflip off? umm rightt..... I don't believe it until I see some video, sorry.

[sKaTiNpUnK]

it's cool i fully understand, i know half of your guys probably think i'm lying my ass off lol. but i'm not so it's cool

[Ramp]