Texas Style Skateboarding

Some serious 80's skating on the kahuna metal ramp at the Skatepark of Houston.  What a line up with pros like Hosoi, Hawk, Caballero, Kasai, Craig Johnson, Blender, Mountain, McGill, Magnusson, Art Godoy, Steadham and more.   Phillips was there and of course I took pictures of him, but will have to dig deeper for some photos - many bundles not labled and these I found loose in a box.  I think this was one of the first events I photographed and it was great to be able to show all the locals in my shop how rad these guys were.

The legendary ramp was re-incarnated by Lou via some great painting work on the vert at Eisenbergs.  Tony Goza from SoundCreationsonline.com provided some killer tunes from 80's Punk Rock Clown days for an authentic soundtrack to the action.  Lot's of full on Texas Style raging by Clown locals back in the day and new rippers with some young guns coming to further the Texas vert tradition. Skaters like Mike Crum, Dana Buck, Gary Morris, Jeremy Smith, Lou Statman, Adam Wiggins, Ben Johnson, Pat Sherman, John Lytle, Bryan Saremslani and more kept the action and urethane flowing.  Legends Craig Johnson, John Gibson, Todd Prince and more came out to hang out and sign some cool relics(Shots courtesy of txpunk.net). 

This event is a tradition in Houston at a killer ditch that's been around for decades feeling the urethane of skaters for generations.  Lloyd and Carol at Surfhouse have been putting these on for years. Pinks Pizza, the guys at Cockfight (Mike, Dave, Kevin) along with a impromptu set by Molotov Compromise and friends made for some Texas size skate fun.