New MRKT Skateshop Grand Opening party

Posted in Random skate news on August 8th, 2008 by corpo

partyCongrats to MRKT on getting the location they’ve wanted for awhile.  The grand opening party has Gonz artwork, Krooked/MRKT decks, New Belgium MRKT brew.  Party!

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skate journal: Louisville park rules. crooks bigspin out? almost

Posted in Skate Journal on August 8th, 2008 by corpo

Jason, Nate and I had just watched And Now for the first time and only had time for an hour or so of skating so we were pretty hyped up to say the least.  The only times I’ve been to Lville park recently was to help teach kids how to skate at 9am.  That’s too early to skate. Anyways, I was taking a warm up run in the snake run and since there was a bunch of BMX’ers around I figured the coping was really sticky.  Nope.  I slid out pretty bad and landed on my wrist on the coping.  Thought I broke it at first.  Ugh.We ended up skating the ledge as we always do.  It was a pretty hectic session.  The park was really crowded with people that were actually skating so it was chaos.  Nate beat me to a front 50 back 180 so I was cursed on front 50s all night causing me to hurt my wrist even more.  Luckily crooks were feeling good.  The 8″ trucks help with those for sure.  Within 5 tries I had done crooks and crooks 180.  Unheard of for me.  I started trying crooks shove and was getting close, but the board kept spinning to far.  I decided to go with crooks bigspin out and somehow came super close.  Gotta go back and learn that one!