Was it a mini ramp or a vert half pipe?
It was 8 wide with 4 trannies with a broomstick for coping. It was 4 high with 8 of flat. Neil Heddings would love it now but back then it was death. Then you got out of it? Well, I had a death in the family and it affected me big time. It was my brother who turned me onto skateboarding. I stopped skating for almost a year. Then I was in my backyard one day looking at that ramp and I said, “Fuck that.” I started to skate and I learned how to ollie that day. And I ve been skating from that day on. It s just a mind fuck where you go down and down and then you snap out of it and you get back up. When did you meet up with the boys? I built a real vert ramp in my backyard in 82. I drew it up in drafting class. It was 12 wide and 9 tall. Then we started road-trippin . We heard about this contest in Naragansett, RI so we went down there. The park was called Base Camp. It was all asphalt with a rad bowl banked area with hips. We got there and it was a quarter pipe contest. There were 30 people
