Florence Construction Video
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Another blast from the past as I dig through my box of un-edited skate footage. 
This time it’s a peak at the construction of Airspeed’s Florence park. Lots of sand, re-bar, and shotcrete. Music by Pepe and the Bottle Blondes.
October 14th, 2005 at 1:38 am
I always did like that still picture you used for the Florence construction video. Did I tell you that Randi and I got invited to a backyard half-pipe with lights and tarps near Newberg that last time she was up?
It was a pretty freaking sweet set-up. Something like 25-feet long, 2-feet wide, mostly 4-feet high with one side having two extensions to like 6-feet on both ends and the other side having one 6-foot extension to over-vert with pool copping.
I only took a few runs and was argubly drunk, but did some 50-50 set-ups and went after the over-vert. I got a bit of a grind, but couldn’t keep the board under me.
I went and bought some softer wheels a few days later.
I also went back to my SPF wheels this week for two hours at Newberg on Tuesday. They are noticeably faster than those Del Mar wheels.
Peace out!
October 14th, 2005 at 1:39 am
That’s 20-feet wide.
October 19th, 2005 at 12:02 am
Pool coping on a wood ramp? kooky. hehe Sounds like a sweet set-up.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:34 am
I actually just watched the video for the first time… very good. Thanks for the photo credit! That will make a good piece to mix-up the skating in your “still-up-coming” DVD release!
November 30th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
yeah. Cool. I like the part where they are spraying ‘crete and you are walking away in the background cheering. hehe I was psyched to be able to watch ‘em work that day – and in Toledo.
The DVD is about half finished. I am making the transitions between all of the videos. Gonna be pretty cool.
That reminsd me – When I get the DVD almost done we should all get together and we could record a Director’s Commentary for it. Just talk about what we were doing or whjat road trip we were on. Wadda ya think?
December 1st, 2005 at 2:28 am
Hell yeah… I like that idea a lot!
December 1st, 2005 at 2:29 am
What do I think.. I think we need to plan another road trip!