BLOOD AND STEEL: CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB "Feel the Steel"
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In this teaser, Ian MacKaye, Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Allen Losi, Randy Janson and Rob Mertz tell of their experiences at what many called "the mecca" of vert skateboarding in the late 80s.
Grew up there! Best times ever
I remember the first time I heard the story. I didn't believe it. Why would a man that owned a golf club let his son build a skateboard ramp on the property? Also, given that I knew how expensive it was just to build an 8' x 12" halfpipe made of plywood, I could not image how much money this unicorn would have cost. Plus, we lived in Fairfax, VIRGINIA! Who in the hell builds a ramp like that in Fairfax?! But, my best friend at the time was a bloodhound for skate spots and he wasn't wrong about CCCC. I remember finding other ramps with him too in Northern Virginia. Also the defunct, yet still standing Lansdowne (Sandy Hills) skatepark in Maryland.
It was a daunting ramp, when you consider having only skated 8' half pipes prior. I think one of the Henderson ramps nearby-ish was 10', so I had that experience. But CC also had 22 inches of vert - with pool coping.
Also intimidating was skillset on display and the pros that seemed always to have made the pilgrimage. Alva team seemed to live there in tents for a long stretch. And the 1/16" steel - if you didn't know how to bail, you had no business on that ramp. They used Coke to tackify the surface because most wheels slid all over the place. It didn't matter how early in the day I arrived, it was already populated. Unless you had skated pools or skateparks made of concrete, with lots of vert, you had no prior experience to prepare you for this ramp.
I wanted to go but as a young adult starting the workforce I couldn't afford to take the time off or afford to travel there 😢