Jacob Tillman punks
out a stand up five-0
on four feet of vert.
sure flip circles that were so
popular then. Eventually, the
city determined that the size of
the park was too small to
handle the amount of skaters
that were using the park and
allowed us to expand it to
triple its initial size. The park
now features a sixteen by six
foot mini ramp, a greatly
improved street course with
cement and steel pyramids,
various quarter-pipes, a bank
to wall ride, and a seven foot
bank with transition at the bot-
tom and top. The park is run by
the YMCA and doesn't require
a membership, but costs five
bucks, and pads are mandato-
ry. The locals are always
improving the park, and it is
sessioned daily, vibe free, by
Booker, automatic Than,
Sweeper King, Justin Hocking,
Roth, Chris Sessions, Steve
Revord, PBR Sliard, Trey
Womble, Stoots, and KED.
Present:
Anyone visiting Boulder
can expect to hook up a ses-
sion by coming by the park or
by visiting either BC Surf and
Sport or Brothers Boards.
Both of these shops are run by
very cool people that will have
no problems helping you
meet up with local kids..
Street skating is very big in
Boulder because of the over
abundance of natural ter-
rain
the
University and
History:
While the skateboard media
focuses primarily on the right and
left coasts of our nation, a medium-
sized city at the base of the Rocky
Mountains is blowing up faster than
an East Coaster could shout out,
"Yo!" Boulder is your typical college
town complete with hordes of young
people, bars, and, most important-
ly, skateboarders. Boulder's skate
scene emerged in the late seventies
and early eighties when Mad Rats
and Norcons were the fashion and
even had a full-fledged concrete
skatepark that hosted a pro pool
contest. Street skating, along with
an occasional Joe Johnson/Kevin
Staab tag team demo, kept the
scene rolling through the eighties.
The early nineties ushered in the
rodeo clown fashion revolution, and
at the helm was One More Skate
Company/Phat Clown mogul Ken
Park. Ken met with city council
members and helped conceive a
plan that eventually led to the com-
pletion of a city sponsored skatepark. In the
summer of 1993, under the direction of ramp-
master Tim Payne and a group of local slaves
constructed what appeared at the time to be the
last vert ramp in existence. This,
along with a miniature 25 by 25
foot street course, more resembled
a smash up derby track best suited
for the Malachi Brothers than the pres-
BOULDER
Story and photos by
Keith Eric Davidson
COLORADO
50 TR
downtown
areas.