Super Park
Back in issue #55 of The Mag I wrote negative comments about ESPN people replacing vert skating with something called "Super Park." My negative commentary was not as personal as some may have thought. My real goal was to let the skaters in the X Games know we had their back and that the corporate types shouldn't be making decisions such as that without consulting the group as a whole. Blah, blah, blah.
Well, as it turns out, vert was put back in and Super Park is debuting next week at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles. So I get called by a friend at Vans about going to the Super Park practice to shoot Omar Hassan and he'd go ahead and get me a media pass for the day. I told him good luck with that, and when he called back he confirmed my suspicions — I am not a fave of the people over at the Entertainment and Sports Entertainment Network, but somehow he still managed to get me a pass. I was just glad that someone over there cared enough to read my comments written in the mag. Anyway, here are some pics of Rune, Andy Mac, and Omar practicing for next week's Super Park.
Here's the Super Park.
Andy Mac deems it shredable.
Frontal bluntal.
Practice over.
Omar can take fastplants to fakie on anything.
Rune finding the difficult lines.
Now that's funny, Omar.
Bartie showed up with skills.
We're cool now, right?
1 month ago Danozone said:
This is how "vert" should have been all along. Now it will be well worth watching!
1 month ago Shad Lambert said:
Sick. Yo swift, you still got your pass? Maybe I can use it to sneak in..... juuuuusssstttttt kidddiinaahhhhhhh! Actually, you still got it?
1 month ago Dave Swift said:
go today 'cause World Cup skateboarding shut down practice for the weekend to make sure people attended the Sole Bowl in HB. Go get 'em!
1 month ago Hiposaasa said:
OOO, Interesting story))
1 month ago Dave Swift said:
Ahh shit, that's "Soul" Bowl.
1 month ago J. Grant Brittain said:
Swift has Blog Skills!!! Next week it'll be video!
1 month ago Gabe Sinclair said:
Yessss.... I bet Bob and Danny build this thing in their backyard while the rest of San Diego and North County dont have a freakin skatepark. Vert IS Dead. Take some of ur riches and build the kids a park.
1 month ago Tom Jones said:
Super
1 month ago Sig said:
Why didn't they build it out of concrete and actually contribute something back to skateboarding?
1 month ago twat said:
andy mac is fucking awesome!
1 month ago leo said:
yo this is sickk i wanna skate that
1 month ago calvin said:
thats dope that people who just go to bowl events can sell out too, i want to see omar hassan in the next proactive ad, or maby rune could start riding for head and shoulders, serious home boys got a good head of hair
1 month ago Ivo Janssen said:
Yeah, Swift! Always lurking...
1 month ago wurst said:
super park?
bmx park I'd say. that has nothing to do with any funny part of skateboarding
1 month ago nikonsk8 said:
who's skat'n the Superpark? I see the usual guys, anyoine new?
1 month ago matthew said:
when the olympics come to random cities they have "venues" why can't the hold it at one of the random killer parks already about
still will be fun to watch
1 month ago Luke Cessna said:
I am just great full that skateboarding is still helping kids in a positive way.
1 month ago wurst said:
I'm a fucking idiot.
1 month ago swift said:
I totally agree with Matthew "when the olympics come to random cities they have "venues" why can't the hold it at one of the random killer parks" And Gabe "Take some of ur riches and build the kids a park." ESPN should be thinking along this line. Bored of the X Games in Los Angeles bring it to cities that need parks and hook some brothers up and that would seriously outdo what the Maloof brothers did. At the bottom of it all I just want to see some sick skating.
1 month ago animal chan said:
wow... that set up is crazy.
1 month ago Mike Buff said:
built by BMXers. Shit is sketch.
Fuck BMXers.
1 month ago PIssed My Pants said:
Fuck the X-Games, fuck BMXers and fuck you!
1 month ago brett said:
Tony Trujillo is in it and is gonna own!!!
1 month ago Michael said:
What?
Stupid Obstacle...
nice Corners and Pockets, i hope Ben Schroeder takes it all..
1 month ago bmx legend said:
thats a dope ass setup
and fuck anyone who says fuck bmxers
this whole skaters vs bmx thing is so 1997
grow up
1 month ago will said:
it does look like a fun setup, but true enough, why don't they build it somewhere that needs it and can leave it there after?
Also if it is superpark, why don't they integrate pyramids, launchs and rails with big enough landings that you can keep your speed and hit a vert wall and bust out a 10 foot backside ollie.
That would be the future. treflip noseslide over a rainbow rail, land into a steep slope pump then pop out a 10 foot tail grab fakie then come back and do a switch heel over the pyramid where the rainbow rail. is how sick would that be?
get the flip team to design it. OI
1 month ago Pwis said:
I wanna see Miller ride/kill that thing...
1 month ago Laz said:
I came here to see 90% skating, 10% crying..
I got 90% Crying, 10% skating.
Something that both legit skaters, and bikers find annoying.
1 month ago Dave Mirra said:
Im winning guyz
1 month ago Stay strong LOL said:
FUCK BMX. Shit was just last week when some bmxer ran into me at the skatepark that doesn't allow bikes. Can't you fags go play in the dirt or something? Fuck you, your pegs, your shin guards, your life. Stay Strong LOL!
1 month ago lc said:
yo what's wrong with the bmxers, they're not that bad, c'mon.
its definately not bmx park because otherwise there'd probably be one million box jumps anyway
1 month ago luciano P said:
stop the hating.... even if xgames suck we will have something better to watch than football and beiseball. skatebaording allterrains is not dead. ledge kids stop crying please.
1 month ago Bevan Philip said:
Hay Swifty its an old Del Mar mate from the early 80s Bevan how good is your memory and Hi to Grant
1 month ago RIGE KAMI said:
fuck that place! whats up with that heelflip BARTIE?
1 month ago number2 said:
the x games is the iraq war of skateboarding.
1 month ago jack said:
watched the bike finals and it even looked sketchy for them. The coping doesn't look great and there isn't enough tranny. Still, anyone who can rip a pool can rip this. I'm excited to see Rune.
1 month ago bubba said:
That park ruled, rune G is a cry baby and like 90% of skaters, not happy unless there some wimpy curb launch to flat. thrash or die.
1 month ago anon said:
Bubba, That superpark does not rule and Rune Glifberg can skate gnarlier terrain than most. What? did you help design that piece of shit park?
1 month ago bubba said:
disregard that, i suck cocks.
1 month ago number2 said:
the results of this "superpark" event is as dissapointing as the protect pool party...every year, now dont get me wrong rune kills it but andy mac and omar were skating much better. and another thing put some pads on and go fucking nuts, this is the "superpark" and i saw nothing super about most of the skating. sorry chad that you cant bend your legs because you chick pants are too tight. in order to move forward as a sport the professionals need to get past the whole image thing and skate like men. i dont want to see butt slides from a failed stalefish i want to see some next level shit. it was entertaining and i watched the whole damn thing so i guess im the big fag...i was hoping to see progression not the Status quo and maybe thats why skateboarding and the x-games are can only go so far before they become the swatch impact tour.
3 weeks ago satan said:
The whole idea behind super park was to emulate bowl skating, not bmx. If it were a bmx course it would have been bigger and more spread out so guys can pedal and do big shit. that wa so unimpressive of a bmx contest. dew tour stuff is far better for bmx comps. what is really sad is that most skateparks are cryinh the blues but simply letting bikes in can generate money to stay open, built new stuff for us to skate. he even the skatepark of Tampa is bike friendly, very bike friendly.