Text Dave Swift—July 25, 2008 Back in issue #55 of The Mag I wrote negative comments about ESPN people replacing vert skating with something called "Super Park." My negative commentary was not as personal as some may have thought. My real goal was to let the skaters in the X Games know we had their back and that the corporate types shouldn't be making decisions such as that without consulting the group as a whole. Blah, blah, blah.
Well, as it turns out, vert was put back in and Super Park is debuting next week at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles. So I get called by a friend at Vans about going to the Super Park practice to shoot Omar Hassan and he'd go ahead and get me a media pass for the day. I told him good luck with that, and when he called back he confirmed my suspicions — I am not a fave of the people over at the Entertainment and Sports Entertainment Network, but somehow he still managed to get me a pass. I was just glad that someone over there cared enough to read my comments written in the mag. Anyway, here are some pics of Rune, Andy Mac, and Omar practicing for next week's Super Park.
Here's the Super Park.
Andy Mac deems it shredable.
Frontal bluntal.
Practice over.
Omar can take fastplants to fakie on anything.
Rune finding the difficult lines.
Now that's funny, Omar.
Bartie showed up with skills.
We're cool now, right?
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Now that is something I will watch...not that I had a problem with Vert but Street/Park just didn't do it for me this looks like plywood version of any park in the Pac NorWest...anyone know what day it will be on?
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It is almost like racism to seperate street skating and longboards.
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sweet jaysus...that looks amazin...
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all the geezers that ride that kill today's schmoes!
what?! schmoes? you are crazy...
love the masters division ( go cabbie! )
but the pros are where its at,
Omar, Trujillo, Rune...and those other vert jockies too
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This looks like it's gonna be better for TV than it will be to watch from the bleachers, TV camera's are gonna be on the deck's looking down into the bowls from close up the bleachers are gonna be to far back to see a lot of the tricks
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Originally Posted by livefortoday2007
It is almost like racism to seperate street skating and longboards.
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Originally Posted by Xgecko
This looks like it's gonna be better for TV than it will be to watch from the bleachers, TV camera's are gonna be on the deck's looking down into the bowls from close up the bleachers are gonna be to far back to see a lot of the tricks
x games is always about the camera first, they don't worry about the bleachers.
it would be interesting to see how they film this one,
the negatives for bowls is the camera angle is always from the deck.
as opposed to halfpipes, you can shoot from the side.
A cameraman inside the bowl might be interesting,
but interfering to the riders...
supergildo, that is mike rogers, he's not a pro, he competes in masters, he got one eye from cancer....
Dave Swift's shoots the new X Games Super Park
Back in issue #55 of The Mag I wrote negative comments about ESPN people replacing vert skating with something called "Super Park." My negative commentary was not as personal as some may have thought. My real goal was to let the skaters in the X Games know we had their back and that the corporate types shouldn't be making decisions such as that without consulting the group as a whole. Blah, blah, blah. 
