How odd. Just yesterday my car got broke into and my Ick retro flattie, the third ever made after Charlie and Steve's was stolen out of my car. I also lost a blue ick carerra that I bought at the FCR race in Catalina.

Here's tight: Bicknell Hill, Santa Monica California 28 cones on 6' centers in just over 6 seconds. WLAC tight is about 12-15 seconds for 30 cones. Fast enough for ya? A clean run is a rare and serious accomplishment. Even the world champ doesn't run this thing clean every time. Forget the hybrid an...

Hey Adam, We are going to try to run Bicknell every Thursday night around 8:30pm. In the summer, we should have some beautiful warm sunset sessions. If there is an event like WLAC or some other race like maybe JPL happening, maybe we will run a weekend session so out of town folks can experience thi...

Last night Atilla, Floyd Reid and I ran 6'straight cones on Bicknell Hill in Santa Monica, the famed Z-boys practice spot. This hill is so steep that Rene Carrasco compares it to Signal Hill. Running Floyd's 6' course here clean qualifies you for the Bay Street Cross, tight slalom's highest decorati...

Man, this event sounds like it was great.
How about posting some pictures? Didn't anybody take any?

Ed thoroughly enjoyed giving me shit for walking thru the timing beams by accident yesterday. He even starts the JPL outlaw races without even being asked or paid. Thanks Ed.

Hey Glenn,
MUCH steeper. Great runout, you need to make a turn at the bottom of the hill, and then you've got acres of parking lot on either side. I was using a hundred yards or so of runout last night with no problem.

They've already raced at the Trocadero! Gilmour raced there years ago, so we know that place is makeable. The steeper the better, don't even tell me you are worried about getting hurt.

This summer, outlaw super steep TIGHT racing. That's right, all you self-appointed martyrs of TS. I know all of us on the West Coast are fat beer drinking longboarders that only ride GS cuz we're too lazy to deal with the DISCIPLINE of tight. That's OK. That's why we'll get Floyd Reid to set the cou...

OK, the Z-Cult slalom session at Bicknell Hill was GOIN OFF last night. Anybody who's seen the Dogtown movie might remember that hill the Zephyr crew used to practice on, down the street from the old Jeff Ho shop. It's right on the beach south of the Santa Monica pier. Jesse Martinez called a sessio...

Well I know a West Coast non profit involved in slalom. The Venice Skateboard Association run by Jesse Martinez is nuturing slalom racing among the Venice beach kids. Maybe they could use your Benz JG.

What Hackett did with the Deathrace was a great start towards introducing the concept of racing to skate world in general. The crowd was very diverse, and they were all stoked on the idea of racing. Now the race itself called for exactly none of the specialized skills we associate with slalom except...

Ok we got some major players signed up for this thing now, like World Champion Chicken, Series Points Champ Paul Dunn, Hackett, and even TA, (assuming that's not some joke).
I think we have representation from most of the major teams like SSS, Roe, Turner, La Costa Boys, Ick, and Black Leather.

I wish. To me the issue at WLAC is the reflectors, man hole covers, narrow width of the road surface, outrageous roughness of the street, etc. There really aren't holes to speak of, just other problems.

GUERRILLA ROAD REPAIR Armed with trowels, brushes and sponges, we loaded buckets of cement dyed with black house paint pigment to match the road onto old beat up kicktails and rolled them past the locked gate and down the JPL hill. We filled in all the potholes we could get to, then went back home a...

This is great. This stuff is exactly the kind of discussion thats helps the sport advance and would be difficult to accomplish on the other site without getting shouted down. The JPL race fits nicely into the GS parameters as I hoped it would. One thing I wnat to experiment myself is how steep a hil...

Damn, that's good stuff. More Colorado stories.

Thanks for posting those pictures Maria. Even that overview shot doesn't show the whole hill. Between 40 and 50 cones, wide open GS, but the offsets are makeable. Basically the top of the course is lightning fast, and then you've got to figure out a way to haul it all in to make the corners as you n...

Got your good hill out here, JG. The JPL hill is a place where braking skills will come in quite handy. TK is coming out and he can give you an idea. Wheels chirping? Can do.

I take exception to Vlad's statement that we won't like tight when we see it, and that the course setting is a reflection of the participant's desire. We are the ones asking for tight! And trust me, a lot of courses we ran this year were NOT a relection of the participant's desire. That's why you wi...

Oh, Glenn
As far FCR courses, think Tahoe, or La Costa or Avila but with the offsets pulled Way in.
Long, fast, good traction. Did I mention Fast? By the way there is a place I just found there to set up mellower courses if desired. The big hill is a screamer, no lie.

Hey Glenn,
I haven't ridden here with Charlie, but I have been riding an exact replica of his championship winning Ick deck. So far, Chicken, Richy, and Attilla are in. Come up and ride this Saturday morning, I think some of the boys are coming up to practice, and I'll be there for sure.

JPL Outlaw Round 2. Sat, Feb 1 2003
FAST steep hill slalom.
20$ entry, all money paid to top finishers.
Course set by some of SSS's finest.

Please get in touch by email if you plan to attend. Course located in Los Angeles County near Pasadena. Last race was epic, don't miss this one.