DEEP
WATER
D
=CAUTION=
Too steep a dive can cause your
head to hit the bottom. This can
result in a broken neck and paral-
ysis. Dive only on areas of pools
properly designed to accommo-
date diving. Know how to dive
properly and safely. If in doubt
don't dive!
DIVING IS
DANGEROUS
EEP WATER 6
Clockwise from left: Old
Curtis showed up for the
last sessions to rip it to
bits; frontside corner
pocket. Overview. This
picture of Max Schaaf
clearly shows the massive
vert and a sweet frontside
lipslide. After finding this
Daewon bench, the gang
put it up for Matt Neely to
grind it. Teamwork rips.
EXIT
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that
his is a long story, so I hope you bear with me. I've
been skateboarding in San Francisco for almost 16
years. And of all the friends I know, nobody I know
skated more than maybe five pools in the City. They
were usually all little ones or hit-and-run jungle bowls,
stuff that really wasn't that great, until this summer.
It all started with a picture in the newspaper of a pool
had gone to
to hell in a bad neighborhood of San
Francisco about two blocks from where I work. The point of
the article was whether they were gonna fix it or destroy it.
I had an idea in my head that I had to get in there and check
it out. One day we were driving by; it was me, Mic-E, Arc
and Julien, and we actually saw some guys in there work-
ing, so we went in there and asked the dudes if we could
check it out. We told them we were with a painting compa-
ny and gave them some sob story about what we were
doing down there. So we went in there and looked at the
pool. I mean, the roof was caving in, but there was nothing
going on and it was totally deserted. The pool was a square,
a big wide open gnarly pool with a good four feet of vert
and five-foot trannies. Good forty-foot face wall. Square lap
pool. But we couldn't hook it up to get in. The guy was
telling us, "Well, talk to my boss, maybe he can arrange
something. You guys can come down and skate it or try it
out one day." And we were like, "Yeah, OK." But Mic-E lost
the number, so we pretty much filed that for about two
months. But it had been bugging me, and I'd drive by and
see it, and say, "Fuck, I gotta get in there." So sure enough,
I had to call a buddy of mine named Gluehead, a specialist
who was obviously the man for the job to get into this build-
ing. It wasn't like breaking and entering, because the fact of
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