skaters whinging about corporate interest is like homeless dudes yelling at people who walk too close to their piss soaked cardboard box.
as a homeless collective those piss soaked boxes and shit stained square metre around them is THEIRS! they can either make some noise or let people walk all over them....
Does a dude who loves skateboarding make a bowl for people to come get wrecked or stuck in? I don't think so. He makes it to be able to (1) skate himself or a close second (2) to watch skaters riding it and make it fun for others to watch or ride a skateboard in it.
I sure was happy to see some of the skateboarding action on the video and pics of it and definitely am not of a level to be able to ride something like that, probably now at being in the 40+ crowd or ever, for that matter, but I can still appreciate what has gone into it.
You might want to be the clueless dude behind a keyboard and maybe not actually look into the info on their site, read about the guy who created it, etc and all the power to you for doing it - just keep rolling, cause everyone has the right to say what they like on here as well as criticise others who disagree with them - just as I will not lose any sleep over it or anything you say.
Re kook - yes I am sure in life I have kooked it more than I ever realise, probably did here too, but when you guys are shutting it down as per all comments above, I feel like I want to give some too.
I don't live anywhere near any of their stores and not that inclined to travel just to eat at their place, but I am curious to go see this bowl in person and just because I would be away for work and work pays for my meals, I would probably eat there too, just to see what all the fuss is about.
Apart from that, it would not matter what or where, when it comes to a skateboard facility inside a private place, but like Godbowl, I know those guys and they have skated for a long time and wanted to make somewhere they didn't have in any kind of normal access, hence the building of a pool like replica for their own and any other skater's enjoyment, not pushing religion or their beliefs once on anyone there to skate.
Can't you be happy to just skate, or you still want Dead Kennedys logos on your grip tape and Fuck the Police playing on the stereo?
Maybe you are not even old enough to get those references.
Sorry.
And also sorry to sound soft or to agree with you, but I do find it quite funny that someone who wants to ride it has to have credentials scrutinised by a panel of dudes who have seemingly made it in skateboarding. I know some guys they would not have ever heard of that might just be able to shred it better than half of the cool / spono dudes in the magazines, but chances are they would not even get to set foot inside the cage.
Do you really think a skateboarder would have come up with that wording though? More like the legal dude or someone similar...
Anyway, on with the show, as the saying goes.
Thought this pic might just do it for you too.
Skate shop in the food shop with the bowl in the middle of it...
https://instagram.com/beach_burrito_co/There is a link to save the Vic Mega ramp on their main page too, which you could look at.
Mark Brimson, for someone who apparently has nothing to do with this place you seem to have gotten awfully fired up about a bit of sk8parx hate? Trying to work out where the butthurt is coming from, did you try something similar and get torn a fresh one?
are they taking applications for the cool guy panel? I have been a cool guy for years
Funny really... I just sometimes like to research and annoy - sort of like Skate and Destroy only right now I am too sick / headcold with no balance to be able to skate so I have to do something to pass the time. I guess this was it right about the time I got back in from a long working week away.
I think too when someone else starts / ends with "someone or so and so can get fucked" which seems a little too far or a very uneducated statement, I don't mind taking the other side just to push a few buttons and give a "get fucked" right back at 'em.
I do find it really funny when people complain about places like Godbowl being only open to skate a couple of days a week and then try to break in and ride it, then wonder why they are getting in trouble, or why they are not able to or allowed to ride it. If it is a public facility, you can ride it whenever you like. If it is private, you have to respect the rules of the place if you want to use it at all.
In response to the Maccas playground, they make those things to comply with all safety standards so people WILL NOT get hurt. For something like the Burrito Bowl, they could have made a 2 foot deep mellow little dish that anyone (even me) could do pivot fakie or nose blunts on all day every day, which would have been fine to let everyone ride, but like the guys at Godbowl, they wanted to make something special and difficult to ride so it would be more of a challenge than a simple easy little bowl that people would get tired of sooner or rather than every other type of park / bowl around - something that would push your limits and maybe hurt you if you pushed too far - how often do you get something like that?
The Godbowl 10 year special is happening this Wednesday night too.
Good times I am sure.
Did I mention I really like a good burrito too? Or any burrito really...
I effin love burritos as well... and skateboarding is ok too. It seems people have more of a problem with the press release than the fact they can't skate the bowl, which is kind of understandable, the press release was a bit patronising and kooky. It probably could have been worded differently...
Anyway good luck to the owner/s, building a bowl in a Mexican restaurant gets my worthless tick of approval and if I find myself in the area I'll pop in for a Fajita (without my board).
is this thread about burritos or bitches?
