ISLAND INVASION SKATE SESSION

well the Island Invasion Hot Rod Weekend is now over. What a great time... i really was only able to attend 1/2 of it. Busy Busy Busy. But my daughters and i hosted the skateboard session part of that weekend. It was a good turn out and here's some session results. Thar was this dude who cruised up in a Volkswagon van... his name was Thrasher Bill from Vancouver. Nice guy. Rolled around the park and then headed for the tea-cup like bowl. Proceeded to destroy the coping. Smooth lean to tails, 50/50's , rocks, and then a frontside air to the small half-pipe section. Then near the end of the session he busts a handplant. Bill is an old skater rom the eighties who says he doesn't skate much at all any-more. Its always a pleasure to watch old men skate good. Real Good. He got the Invasion prize of a two/four retro skateboard with steel rollerskate wheels. Again Rick Styballs... one of the top skaters in Vancouver in 1976 declined to ride. The back just won't allow it. Yet he jumped into his old chopped & lowered 38 buick and bounced all over the parking lot. Bad back means you should get some decent susspension in your car dude. He got no prize.... Jay Beal from Beal Kustoms came in his 62 Chev SW full of gromets and they poured out into the park on thier BMXs. These little dudes proceeded to do the wheel of death on the bowl with three ridein in the bowl at the same time. Collission! They all took home prize bags! Two little chicks age 6 & 8 came with thier dad in his 57 Ford. They geared up and proceeded to skate on thier bellies all over the park, By the end of the session the oldest one was standing on her board and riding down the transissions.... Thier dad did his best to show them but good old dad got the Mr. Wilson Award. Sketchy and scarey. The little chicks walked away with prize bags, and a new helmut. Tons of others skated and there was some marvelous bike crashes by big dudes on kustom bikes. There was some dang fine technical skateing by a few of the guys. My daughter Molly skated the bowl with style and grace in her flip flops... she forgot her skate shoes. Her friend Catty who plays in the band Carrott skated the bowl doing fakie after fakie. again confirming my theory that bowls are for old men and girls. The parking lot contained kustom cars and the heat was getting to hot so the session ended. Just then a car full of JaKs showed up. Much to thier surprise they didn't win any prize! hardy har har - ricky jak P.S. a BIG ThanKs to Jimmy Miller who made the prize bags fatter and other cool swag to give away.