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Hickam Vert's New Facelift
March 7, 1997
Even though the vert ramp at Hickam Hangar has grown in size and has been relayered for approximately six weeks or so, we took the time to wait until we actually rip on vert so we could get some good footage. Unfortunately, we still suck pretty bad and we forgot to bring the camera the night Kale was doing head-high backside ollies.
If the 'King of Vegas' dealt drugs, he'd always be in supply. Here's all the crack you'd ever need. Indy nose-pick.
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We've officially become old-school slash-dogs. We're talking inverts, tailblocks, edgers, and sweepers. We're talking cess slides, pivots, frontside rock and rolls, lien to tails, acid drops, handouts, and truck-locking barefooted slash grinds to body slams.Well, OK, we can't even do that stuff, but we used to do it when we were 12 years old and high on heroin. Anyway, let's talk about the ramp. Many of you may remember Hickam's "vert" ramp as being this short skinny, kinked piece of shit, whose walls never really quite made it to up to vert. It's transitions were 9 feet tall with a foot of "vert" and 16 feet wide. Rumour has it that the transitions were actually put in upside down when the ramp was originally moved from Richardson Field, so it was never really constructed right. Now the ramp has the same transitions, but they made it 32 feet wide, with a roll-in channel(?). Also, some genius decided to line up the coping with the side of the ramp, rather then the channel (because of course everybody rides the edge of the ramp and not the middle!) which makes tricks over the channel pretty gnarly, because you've got to cross the big gap in the coping. |
| Rob pulls off really gay eggplants, although he knows he really does them just to impress the Hickam skate sluts |
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Brian Takeshita almost floated away with his anti-gravity board, but luckily he was able to grab the coping and pull himself back into the ramp |
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If vert's not your cup of tea, the flat bottom makes a nice long sidewalk to do manuals on. Over the past few weeks, the ramp has held up pretty well, but the old kinks are still there, so enjoy the new layer before it begins to deteriorate. Last, but not least Rob would like to thank Gee-Mee for letting him skate for free the past couple of times, because he obviously kissed some serious ass to get there.
Choose the correct caption (left)
One-footed Stale Fish, Fast-plant to Fakie, Bunson over the Junson, Headless Wonder, none of the above.
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Not everyone is into the vert ramp. For those of you who like little things, Hickam just relayered the smallest ramp. But watch your ass, cause it's fast.
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