Josh Mattson @ Roosevelt Park, San Jose, CA
Josh Mattson testing out the Roosevelt Park in San Jose.
The Roosevelt Park in San Jose is similar to the Santa Cruz skatepark. Not surprisingly, both are designed by everyone’s favorite skatepark designer, Zack Wormhoudt, who arguably has increasingly improved his skills by his 100th design attempt.
!Flashback! Black Bottom Pool: Oakland, CA, 1992
Digging around on my hard drive this afternoon I stumbled upon some unused footage of Matt Neely (RIP 1999) and considering this is the 10th anniversary of his untimely death, I figured I’d post the clip as a tribute to Mr. Neely, one of the best underground pool rippers of all time.
Japanese invade Cachagua Land
The Cachagua Land project is a DIY “skate park” that Zarosh has been working on for the last few years. People come out to the land, deep in the Carmel Valley in central California to bring concrete, help dig, build and skate the ever changing concrete contraption. The project is a work-in-progress as cinder blocks, rebar, parking blocks, man holes, and hundreds of bags of concrete are collected piece by piece and bag by bag.
Empty barrels in Santa Cruz?
Santa Cruz Harbor is a wave that rarely breaks, but when it does it’s the most hollow wave in all of Santa Cruz.
German ex-pat Patrick Trefz has been living in Santa Cruz for the better part of the last 2 decades. He’s a staff photographer for Surfer Magazine even though lately it seems he prefers to shoot films about the actual characters that shape the surfing community.
Concrete discovered in Stuttgart, Germany
So it was time to migrate south for the winter, or at least for a … Keep reading
California Backyard Pools
Confusion West Coast correspondent Dan Robinson checked in with some photos from a pool up … Keep reading
What Sharks? Deep in the Red Triangle
Back in Santa Cruz in October we were looking for waves up the coast. We … Keep reading
OMSA POOL Sessions [video]
OMSA Pool in Düsseldorf, Germany is a private wooden bowl with pool coping and a … Keep reading
Buena Vista Pool Re-Revisited
When I was back in Santa Cruz in late September, I had a late night “top secret” call that the legendary Buena Vista pool was dug out again and was off limits until they were running a permission contest on the land, agreed by the owner because he heard he could make some money from this event, and then he would fill ‘er in the next day – forever….