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On Sunday A
couple of Spoonfish riders, Gary Hardwick, Matt Kelly, me and Ross Fontes (owner of
Spoonfish) along with the Terminal Velocity Team went down to check out the newly built
and currently unopened Coronado Skatepark right off of the Coronado bridge in San Diego.
Apparently the city of Coronado is having problems opening up a park with a 10ft. deep
bowl in it, fearing that kids will drop in and break their heads open or something so
somebody at Terminal Velocity set up a test pilot type of program to give the city
feedback on the conditions of the park. Now I had never been skating with longboarders
before and the ones I did see kinda sucked and got in the way but not these guys. Huge
transfers from the cloverleaf bowl to the streetcourse. 360 flips, kickflips and nollie
tricks where just some of the things these guys were doing over the funbox and ledge
rail..I would have to say I was truly impressed and to say watch out street rats these
guys are definitely coming up!! Check out their site at http://www.streetboards.com Gary Hardwick is the
owner of Terminal Velocity Streeboards in addition to being a Spoonfish rider. Spoonfish
has been working with Terminal Velocity on a custom longboard with the traditional
Terminal Velocity shape which will ship to stories complete with a Trestles Express
Longboard lock. So
instead of fighting a 100 little kids I was able to have a killer 4 hours session with
about 10 other people basically having the park to myself. The park is very workable and I
would give it a solid 10 in my skatepark rankings with regard to all the parks I have been
visiting over the last couple of months. The street course is free flowing, no walls to
run into, a good fun box and some super fun hips. Next there is a clover leaf bowl and
behind that is a square/round pool that is the reason the park isn't being opened. To tell
you the truth, with the hookup I have down there I hope they never open this damn thing so
I can always skate with no traffic:-)
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