Saturday, March 20, 2010

First Skatepark

This video blew me away! Click Here to watch the footage. The Animal House was a skatepark owned and operated by the Maloley family in Ferrysburg, MI. The skater in the video is Lonnie Pease. I have no idea how Lonnie and the other older guys at the ramps put up with me everyday when I was 10 years old, but I would like to thank them publicly for doing so. The skaters at Animal House, Lonnie especially, played a huge role in shaping me as a skateboarder and as a human. If anyone knows of any other footage from this skatepark please contact me.

After thought: I can vividly recall every moment, emotion, and fear that I experienced the first time I dropped in on the ramp in this footage, I must have been 8 or so.

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