Thread the needle
Improvise
Family fun
TYPES OF
COPING
Coping is the place where dreams are
born and hopes are crushed. It is the
fine line between genius and insanity.
Taste true pool coping and no grind you
do will ever be the same. From lapped
over pitched-out kingpin lockdown to
five block Smiths, coping is your best
friend in any pool.
Tile coping
Gnar-gnar
Over, not through
Heaven or Earth?
Standard
What's My Line?
Pump?
Boomerang
Elliptical
Bismarck
Random
Landscape
Sorrento
Brick
Spit gutter
Zero coping
Rock
SECRET STOKE
There once was a pool so large and
smooth that nobody would breathe a word
of its existence. This elegant roman-end
beauty was twelve feet deep, three bus
lengths long, had four love seats and some
of the ugliest pool deck coping that ever
grabbed a pair of trucks and threw its rider
for a loop. Those who rode kept their visi-
tations a staunchly guarded secret. But
when a pool is this fine like wine, the word
seeps out. Not long after everyone heard the news,
the cops started cracking down and the neighbors
would call them back at the sight of a skater's car.
After a while, a few lone braves would arise before
sunrise to session its fine lines while visions of sugar
plums danced through the neighbors' heads. As an
added precaution, one of the crew was posted down
the street with a walkie-talkie to herald the arrival of
approaching law enforcement vehicles.
Entering the premises with the crow of the rooster,
the fugitives made the most of the cool morning air.
But alas, a nearby homemaker cut them off at the pass
and pointed out the posted "No Trespassing" sign.
With heads hung low, six skaters departed to ren-
dezvous down the street and make new plans.
A new pool was in order.
A few miles away lay another abandoned house
and another empty pool. Well, it was almost empty, a
pile of boulders littered the bottom.
"Bummer," said one.
"Yep."
Half the group headed home and the others hung.
One of the remainders pulled out a booklet marked
"Top Secret." It contained a list of houses with pools,
their addresses, descriptions and ratings.
All smiled. Yes, they would find and grind.
-Brian Brannon
This actual surveil
lance photo (top) was
taken from a hot air
balloon. Ball brigade
(above), the more the
merrier. Just don't
pour the scum water
In the death box.
PHAY
BLUE HAVEN
Pools
Naples
Tempo
Cortina
Landscape
Kidney
Madrid
Monaco
Athenian
Modified
Pear
Genoa
SPECIAL THANKS TO WORM ZINE OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS, AND GREG'S POOL PERFECTION OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA
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