Chad Norman » Cocoa Beach Skatepark http://www.echohive.com/blog Welcome to the life portfolio of designer Chad Norman :: Original photographs, images, and words :: Enjoy! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:16:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Frontside Tweaky http://www.echohive.com/blog/2007/04/12/frontside-tweaky/ http://www.echohive.com/blog/2007/04/12/frontside-tweaky/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:26:26 +0000 Chad Norman http://www.echohive.com/blog/2007/04/12/frontside-tweaky/ Dylan Taylor, 2007.
Homeboy’s got style like a pair of Prada shoes.

Frontside

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Grabbing backside out of the big very bowl.

Bowl

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This guy showed up right when I was leaving, but I still got a couple snaps.

Frontside Ollie

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I dunno…

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The hips at the Cocoa Beach Skatepark are no match for this the D. He was pretty cool, and let me shoot him for about 20 minutes. He had mad chops, and knew where all the best lines were.

Dylan Taylor

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I grew up in ramp country. Crusty vert ramps in barns and metal mini ramps behind welding shops. Stories of crashing pools and sessioning concrete parks were only told in Thrasher and Transworld. The world of paved goodness eluded us, but we always dreamed.

Then last week my time came. I had only one hour to spend at the Cocoa Beach Skatepark, so I had to move fast. The park has one large section of six-foot bowls, trannies, and humps, with a deeper section made up of three vert bowls. Two sections of oververt and great coping throughout make for a fun setup.

Unfortunately, after fifteen minutes I realized that carving and pumping sideways through the bowls would take some practice, no matter how many hours I had spent imagining it. As the the park began to fill up and that last slam on my knee began to kick in, I got out my camera.

The local shorties were really tearing it up, and knew all the lines…damn them! Making it look so easy. They were cool though, and I got some good snaps (coming soon!). Hopefully I’ll have some more time and patience with my skating next time. Not quite living up to the dream, but certainly no nightmare…this park is going to rock the future me!

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