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She’s training to compete internationally as a slalom skateboarder. It’s a sport she’s mastered over the past 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see me with a skateboard, they think it’s my kids or my grandkids,” Oyama says, adding that she doesn’t have grandkids. “They don’t expect someone my age to be skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 64 years old, Oyama is faster than she’s ever been. In fact, she’s one of the best in the country. At the World Skate Games in Rome this fall, she’ll race against riders from all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slalom skateboarding, as opposed to traditional skateboarding, doesn’t involve fancy tricks or style points. Slalom skaters compete based on speed and accuracy while weaving through obstacles — usually cones. Riders typically launch off a ramp to generate speed, and on some courses, skateboarders reach above 30 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A skateboarder with a red helmet slaloms through a line of white cones on a road.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama weaves through cones on a bike path in Santa Cruz on Feb. 19, 2024, while preparing for the 2024 World Skate Games. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gone on these giant slalom courses where sometimes I’ll just scream as I’m going because I’m scared and happy at the same time,” Oyama recalls with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her recent races was a bank slalom — where riders weave up and down walls in a concrete ditch — in the middle of the Nevada desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was new and challenging and scary,” Oyama says. “There were metal rung ladders that were on each bank, and you had to time it to go around the cone and go in between the metal ladders. I did crash a couple of times and tweaked my ankle, but I kept doing it because it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Judi Oyama\"]‘Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too old or it’s just a toy. If you enjoy it, keep skateboarding.’[/pullquote]Competitions are nothing new to Judi. She did her first downhill race at 15 in Capitola in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been part of the local skate scene ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her first jobs was packing and shipping skateboard parts and putting bearings in wheels for the Santa Cruz skateboard company NHS, or NHS Skate Direct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I silkscreened skateboards for them,” Oyama says. “That’s kind of where I learned how.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job at the Santa Cruz skateboard company helped launch her career in graphic design. She started airbrushing surfboards and creating window displays at a shop owned by NHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 20 years, there weren’t many slalom skateboarding races to go to, but Oyama kept skateboarding for fun and to get around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcHpec4qy4k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a friend called her in 2001 and told her that official races had started back up, she jumped at the chance to get back into it. Her hands were full with two young children at the time, but she didn’t let that slow her down. The kids came to her races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in diapers,” Oyama remembers. “I was still breastfeeding when I started racing in my early 40s again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she jumped back into the game, she started winning and never stopped. In 2018, she was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>On the world stage and in museums \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the NHS Skate Museum opened in a large warehouse in Santa Cruz, Oyama helped curate it. During a tour of the museum, she points out a glass display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inside this case is my original Santa Cruz skateboard team bag,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum is full of photos and videos of old competitions, colorful skateboards and vintage skate art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-scaled.jpg\" alt='A pile of gear and a bag with \"Santa Cruz\" written on it, with old photos on a wall behind it.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama’s team bag is displayed with other skateboarding gear from the ’70s at the NHS Skate Museum. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first display is one of Judi’s early skateboards — an original Santa Cruz brand board. It’s made of deep red fiberglass with red wheels, and “Santa Cruz skateboards” is printed in yellow block letters on the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Oyama’s helmets from her early skating days is in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you’re old when your stuff’s in a museum,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama hadn’t planned to skateboard at all anymore, let alone professionally. When, earlier in her career, one of her racing friends suggested they would still be skating in their 60s, Oyama laughed and told them it was “crazy talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama raced at the last World Skate Games in Argentina in 2022. After qualifying again — this time for Rome — she immediately began training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep in shape, she goes to 6 a.m. CrossFit classes five times a week — lifting weights, doing box jumps and cardio — and pays close attention to nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-scaled.jpg\" alt='The bottom of a skateboard hanging on a wall reads \"Santa Cruz Skateboards.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Judi Oyama’s first skateboards is now displayed in the NHS Skate Museum. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Oyama’s longtime skating buddies, John Ravitch, who’s also a slalom coach, says her commitment to the sport isn’t new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the time I’ve known Judi, she’s always been a very focused and intense competitor and very focused on self-improvement,” he says. “On top of being a full-time professional creative director and working another job and also raising two kids. It’s pretty incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A mentor to new slalom skateboarders \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oyama is known as both a force to be reckoned with and an encouraging advocate in the skating world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isa Ruiz, a 31-year-old who is also on the USA national team, says Oyama has always been uplifting to new women in the sport, “giving them socks and making everyone feel super welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13931352,arts_13951732,arts_13916267\"]Ruiz was a junior racer when the two first met around 2005, and Oyama became an inspiration to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always really been a mentor to me,” Ruiz says. “She’s always cheering me on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama encourages them even when they compete against each other, like at the World Skate Games two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually beat her for the first time in the giant slalom at the World Skate Games. And so that was a huge accomplishment for me,” Ruiz says. “And she was just so happy for me and encouraging. … We can all be really competitive in the sport, but she really felt joy and was really proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judi also inspires other moms through her skating apparel line. She created a line of stickers and clothing called “Badass Skatemom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends encouraged her to start selling shirts, socks, and sweatshirts with designs and phrases like “be brave” and “fearless.” The profits help sponsor her races and other skateboarding moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a couple silk screens that have different graphics on it,” explains Oyama. “One says ‘badass,’ or it has the mermaid or my dog standing on a skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman skateboarder with helmet and knee pads skates a ramp in an old photo.\" width=\"2489\" height=\"1811\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG.jpg 2489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1536x1118.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-2048x1490.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1920x1397.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2489px) 100vw, 2489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama skateboards at Winchester skatepark on a striped board that she silkscreened and hand-painted. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michael Smiley Goldman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tagline for Badass skate mom is “Be Badass every day.” And she tells people to keep pursuing things that they love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too old or it’s just a toy,” Oyama says. “If you enjoy it, keep skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama says she’ll keep skating for as long as it still brings her joy, whether that’s from slalom races or from the ramp in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says if the joy ever wears off, she may pick up another passion. “I want to get back into riding horses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sexagenarian Judi Oyama is faster than she’s ever been and one of the best slalom skateboarders in the country as she prepares to compete in the World Skate Games in Rome this fall.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712355977,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1409},"headData":{"title":"At 64, Santa Cruz Slalom Skateboarding Mom Trains for World Games | KQED","description":"Sexagenarian Judi Oyama is faster than she’s ever been and one of the best slalom skateboarders in the country as she prepares to compete in the World Skate Games in Rome this fall.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At 64, Santa Cruz Slalom Skateboarding Mom Trains for World Games","datePublished":"2024-03-29T14:30:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-05T22:26:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/4e8904c9-4f44-476a-a0b9-b13f017d20b6/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ErinMalsbury\">Erin Malsbury\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981066/at-64-santa-cruz-slalom-skateboarding-mom-trains-for-world-games","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Judi Oyama weaves a skateboard through small, white cones lined up on a bike path in Santa Cruz. She’s training to compete internationally as a slalom skateboarder. It’s a sport she’s mastered over the past 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they see me with a skateboard, they think it’s my kids or my grandkids,” Oyama says, adding that she doesn’t have grandkids. “They don’t expect someone my age to be skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 64 years old, Oyama is faster than she’s ever been. In fact, she’s one of the best in the country. At the World Skate Games in Rome this fall, she’ll race against riders from all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slalom skateboarding, as opposed to traditional skateboarding, doesn’t involve fancy tricks or style points. Slalom skaters compete based on speed and accuracy while weaving through obstacles — usually cones. Riders typically launch off a ramp to generate speed, and on some courses, skateboarders reach above 30 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A skateboarder with a red helmet slaloms through a line of white cones on a road.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_1762-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama weaves through cones on a bike path in Santa Cruz on Feb. 19, 2024, while preparing for the 2024 World Skate Games. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gone on these giant slalom courses where sometimes I’ll just scream as I’m going because I’m scared and happy at the same time,” Oyama recalls with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her recent races was a bank slalom — where riders weave up and down walls in a concrete ditch — in the middle of the Nevada desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was new and challenging and scary,” Oyama says. “There were metal rung ladders that were on each bank, and you had to time it to go around the cone and go in between the metal ladders. I did crash a couple of times and tweaked my ankle, but I kept doing it because it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too old or it’s just a toy. If you enjoy it, keep skateboarding.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Judi Oyama","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Competitions are nothing new to Judi. She did her first downhill race at 15 in Capitola in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been part of the local skate scene ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her first jobs was packing and shipping skateboard parts and putting bearings in wheels for the Santa Cruz skateboard company NHS, or NHS Skate Direct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I silkscreened skateboards for them,” Oyama says. “That’s kind of where I learned how.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job at the Santa Cruz skateboard company helped launch her career in graphic design. She started airbrushing surfboards and creating window displays at a shop owned by NHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about 20 years, there weren’t many slalom skateboarding races to go to, but Oyama kept skateboarding for fun and to get around town.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fcHpec4qy4k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fcHpec4qy4k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When a friend called her in 2001 and told her that official races had started back up, she jumped at the chance to get back into it. Her hands were full with two young children at the time, but she didn’t let that slow her down. The kids came to her races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in diapers,” Oyama remembers. “I was still breastfeeding when I started racing in my early 40s again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she jumped back into the game, she started winning and never stopped. In 2018, she was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>On the world stage and in museums \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the NHS Skate Museum opened in a large warehouse in Santa Cruz, Oyama helped curate it. During a tour of the museum, she points out a glass display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inside this case is my original Santa Cruz skateboard team bag,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum is full of photos and videos of old competitions, colorful skateboards and vintage skate art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-scaled.jpg\" alt='A pile of gear and a bag with \"Santa Cruz\" written on it, with old photos on a wall behind it.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2257-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama’s team bag is displayed with other skateboarding gear from the ’70s at the NHS Skate Museum. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first display is one of Judi’s early skateboards — an original Santa Cruz brand board. It’s made of deep red fiberglass with red wheels, and “Santa Cruz skateboards” is printed in yellow block letters on the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Oyama’s helmets from her early skating days is in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you’re old when your stuff’s in a museum,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama hadn’t planned to skateboard at all anymore, let alone professionally. When, earlier in her career, one of her racing friends suggested they would still be skating in their 60s, Oyama laughed and told them it was “crazy talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama raced at the last World Skate Games in Argentina in 2022. After qualifying again — this time for Rome — she immediately began training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep in shape, she goes to 6 a.m. CrossFit classes five times a week — lifting weights, doing box jumps and cardio — and pays close attention to nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-scaled.jpg\" alt='The bottom of a skateboard hanging on a wall reads \"Santa Cruz Skateboards.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/DCS_2234-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Judi Oyama’s first skateboards is now displayed in the NHS Skate Museum. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Oyama’s longtime skating buddies, John Ravitch, who’s also a slalom coach, says her commitment to the sport isn’t new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the time I’ve known Judi, she’s always been a very focused and intense competitor and very focused on self-improvement,” he says. “On top of being a full-time professional creative director and working another job and also raising two kids. It’s pretty incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A mentor to new slalom skateboarders \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oyama is known as both a force to be reckoned with and an encouraging advocate in the skating world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isa Ruiz, a 31-year-old who is also on the USA national team, says Oyama has always been uplifting to new women in the sport, “giving them socks and making everyone feel super welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"arts_13931352,arts_13951732,arts_13916267"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ruiz was a junior racer when the two first met around 2005, and Oyama became an inspiration to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always really been a mentor to me,” Ruiz says. “She’s always cheering me on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama encourages them even when they compete against each other, like at the World Skate Games two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually beat her for the first time in the giant slalom at the World Skate Games. And so that was a huge accomplishment for me,” Ruiz says. “And she was just so happy for me and encouraging. … We can all be really competitive in the sport, but she really felt joy and was really proud of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judi also inspires other moms through her skating apparel line. She created a line of stickers and clothing called “Badass Skatemom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends encouraged her to start selling shirts, socks, and sweatshirts with designs and phrases like “be brave” and “fearless.” The profits help sponsor her races and other skateboarding moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a couple silk screens that have different graphics on it,” explains Oyama. “One says ‘badass,’ or it has the mermaid or my dog standing on a skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman skateboarder with helmet and knee pads skates a ramp in an old photo.\" width=\"2489\" height=\"1811\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG.jpg 2489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1536x1118.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-2048x1490.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/JudiOyama_Winchester-cropped-FSG-1920x1397.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2489px) 100vw, 2489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judi Oyama skateboards at Winchester skatepark on a striped board that she silkscreened and hand-painted. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michael Smiley Goldman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tagline for Badass skate mom is “Be Badass every day.” And she tells people to keep pursuing things that they love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too old or it’s just a toy,” Oyama says. “If you enjoy it, keep skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyama says she’ll keep skating for as long as it still brings her joy, whether that’s from slalom races or from the ramp in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says if the joy ever wears off, she may pick up another passion. “I want to get back into riding horses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981066/at-64-santa-cruz-slalom-skateboarding-mom-trains-for-world-games","authors":["byline_news_11981066"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6576","news_22018"],"featImg":"news_11981071","label":"news_26731"},"news_11956110":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956110","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956110","score":null,"sort":[1689889850000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfpd-releases-video-footage-from-skateboarding-hill-bomb","title":"SFPD Releases Video Footage From Skateboarding 'Hill Bomb'","publishDate":1689889850,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SFPD Releases Video Footage From Skateboarding ‘Hill Bomb’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Police Accountability and SFPD’s internal affairs division are separately investigating SFPD’s response to a youth-led skateboarding event that took place on Saturday, July 8, law enforcement officials said at a police commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this year’s Dolores Park “hill bomb,” more than 110 people — 83 youth and 34 adults — were detained for inciting a riot, as well as for remaining present at an unlawful assembly and conspiracy, after the annual skateboarding event was shut down by police. Most were cited for misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kevin Ortiz, co-president, San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club\"]‘They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth.’[/pullquote]“If there’s one group that the police should be trained to deescalate, it’s with the youth, and there is no excuse,” said Kevin Ortiz, co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hill bomb is an unsanctioned skateboarding event where skateboarders test their tricks down San Francisco’s steep hills. It is not permitted by the city and is organized mostly through word of mouth and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents on Wednesday expressed outrage over the militarized police response to the annual skateboarding event this year. Video footage from July 8 shows officers in riot gear pointing less-lethal rifles at teenagers in an attempt to close down the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11956080 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with glasses and wearing a police uniform speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Chief William Scott speaks during a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of all youth arrested were Latino, according to demographic data shared by Chief Bill Scott at the police commission meeting on Wednesday. Scott says his department is reviewing its policies for detaining juveniles in response to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer body camera footage shows San Francisco police telling youth to disperse before the event spiraled into chaos. The videos show a can, a glass bottle and a firework launched toward officers. They also show an officer firing a less-lethal weapon at people climbing a Muni vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers discharged these “less-lethal” foam rifles 15 times that day, and used physical force to take down someone three times, Scott said. Only a small portion of the available video footage has been released. Footage of the juveniles’ arrests could not be shown due to state and local privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who spoke before the meeting described the youth waiting for hours with their hands zip-tied without access to bathrooms or the ability to call their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11955479,news_11955465\" label=\"Related Posts\"]One parent named Lisa E., who asked not to use her last name to protect her son’s privacy, said she was sitting with her son at home around 8 p.m. when he left to take a scooter to a friend’s house near the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They asked the policeman, where should we go? And the cops said, go that way. So they went that way right into the riot cops, where the riot cops grabbed the three kids,” she said to reporters before the commission meeting. “They were detained. They were told to stay. They were not allowed to call us. They were zip-tied and he was forced to stay with a group of kids, this very large crowd of kids, until 1:00 in the morning. No jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lisa E. said, she received a call from the Juvenile Probation Department saying her son’s case had not been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Blanco, a trustee for the San Bruno Park School District, said that seven youth from her district were caught up in the arrests, including her own daughter’s friends, who spoke at the commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her daughter’s friends included 16-year-old Lesley, whose last name is omitted for privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when they were trying to close down the event, they were getting really aggressive. And when they closed the street they kept saying we are under arrest but not why,” Lesley told KQED. “Then they zip-tied us and put us on the busses. A bunch of people needed to use the bathroom and I got pushed into a seat and my elbow was bruised. The zip-ties were really tight. I don’t know why we were treated that way. There was a 12-year-old on our bus and she didn’t know why she was there. We had to wait until after we got processed to get a phone call. Probably like 12 to 1 in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated in an official looking building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members attend a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa E. said the event has warped her son’s ideas on policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a good kid. He gets straight A’s. He volunteers at the rec center and his perspective is changed now,” she said. “It’s been altered of how he thinks about law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">teenagers swept up in the mass arrest following the skateboarding event\u003c/a> at Dolores Park will likely be dropped, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mission%20Local&utm_campaign=2f38168f69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_17_12_00&utm_term=0_-2f38168f69-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=2f38168f69&mc_eid=e089857c8e\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. Some families have already been told they won’t need to show up to a court hearing and the cases will be dropped, according to Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many parents at the commission meeting said they had not yet received that guidance. Many are still confused about the status of their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,” Ortiz told KQED. “For the majority of cases to be dropped like that, it clearly shows SFPD overreached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department did not confirm the exact number of people whose cases will be dropped. Officials from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office also did not confirm the number of youth whose cases would be cleared when asked by KQED on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one case involving an adult has been discharged, KQED confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each case will be assessed individually to determine if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Randy Quezada, communications director for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “All avenues to ensure there is appropriate accountability will be explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth probation officials said they are still awaiting results of the police department’s investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand behind a person speaking at a podium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members hold a rally in front of City Hall before the Police Commission meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of contacting all parents/guardians to let them know that we will reach back out to them when we have more information,” said Katherine Weinstein Miller, chief juvenile probation officer for the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, told KQED she had heard from multiple parents whose children were not even at the event but got swept up in the mass arrest when they were walking, or in one case riding a scooter, through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just appalled by this,” said Lederman. “I’m talking to kids who were simply passersby or were trying to go home, just in the general vicinity of where the event had been when they were trapped between police lines, not allowed to leave, [[arrested] and detained in appalling conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the police crackdown on the event said that it has been problematic in the past. Injuries are common, and one death took place in 2020 when a cyclist collided with the hill bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were correct to try to bring it to a speedy end,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes Dolores Park. SFPD, he said, “will continue to need to do police work and I don’t think they could allow an event like this to go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb caused public transit vehicles to come to a halt as participants and onlookers crowded streets. Photos show one group of teenagers climbing on top of a Muni train and spray-painting graffiti on its outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be healing,” Ortiz said. “But there is a silver lining, and this kind of experience can lead to organizing that can push for more resources for young people”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,' said Kevin Ortiz of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689890581,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1487},"headData":{"title":"SFPD Releases Video Footage From Skateboarding 'Hill Bomb' | KQED","description":"'They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,' said Kevin Ortiz of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SFPD Releases Video Footage From Skateboarding 'Hill Bomb'","datePublished":"2023-07-20T21:50:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T22:03:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956110/sfpd-releases-video-footage-from-skateboarding-hill-bomb","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Police Accountability and SFPD’s internal affairs division are separately investigating SFPD’s response to a youth-led skateboarding event that took place on Saturday, July 8, law enforcement officials said at a police commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this year’s Dolores Park “hill bomb,” more than 110 people — 83 youth and 34 adults — were detained for inciting a riot, as well as for remaining present at an unlawful assembly and conspiracy, after the annual skateboarding event was shut down by police. Most were cited for misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kevin Ortiz, co-president, San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If there’s one group that the police should be trained to deescalate, it’s with the youth, and there is no excuse,” said Kevin Ortiz, co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hill bomb is an unsanctioned skateboarding event where skateboarders test their tricks down San Francisco’s steep hills. It is not permitted by the city and is organized mostly through word of mouth and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents on Wednesday expressed outrage over the militarized police response to the annual skateboarding event this year. Video footage from July 8 shows officers in riot gear pointing less-lethal rifles at teenagers in an attempt to close down the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11956080 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with glasses and wearing a police uniform speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Chief William Scott speaks during a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of all youth arrested were Latino, according to demographic data shared by Chief Bill Scott at the police commission meeting on Wednesday. Scott says his department is reviewing its policies for detaining juveniles in response to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer body camera footage shows San Francisco police telling youth to disperse before the event spiraled into chaos. The videos show a can, a glass bottle and a firework launched toward officers. They also show an officer firing a less-lethal weapon at people climbing a Muni vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers discharged these “less-lethal” foam rifles 15 times that day, and used physical force to take down someone three times, Scott said. Only a small portion of the available video footage has been released. Footage of the juveniles’ arrests could not be shown due to state and local privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and youth who spoke before the meeting described the youth waiting for hours with their hands zip-tied without access to bathrooms or the ability to call their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11955479,news_11955465","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One parent named Lisa E., who asked not to use her last name to protect her son’s privacy, said she was sitting with her son at home around 8 p.m. when he left to take a scooter to a friend’s house near the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They asked the policeman, where should we go? And the cops said, go that way. So they went that way right into the riot cops, where the riot cops grabbed the three kids,” she said to reporters before the commission meeting. “They were detained. They were told to stay. They were not allowed to call us. They were zip-tied and he was forced to stay with a group of kids, this very large crowd of kids, until 1:00 in the morning. No jacket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Lisa E. said, she received a call from the Juvenile Probation Department saying her son’s case had not been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Blanco, a trustee for the San Bruno Park School District, said that seven youth from her district were caught up in the arrests, including her own daughter’s friends, who spoke at the commission meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of her daughter’s friends included 16-year-old Lesley, whose last name is omitted for privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember when they were trying to close down the event, they were getting really aggressive. And when they closed the street they kept saying we are under arrest but not why,” Lesley told KQED. “Then they zip-tied us and put us on the busses. A bunch of people needed to use the bathroom and I got pushed into a seat and my elbow was bruised. The zip-ties were really tight. I don’t know why we were treated that way. There was a 12-year-old on our bus and she didn’t know why she was there. We had to wait until after we got processed to get a phone call. Probably like 12 to 1 in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956078\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people seated in an official looking building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67117_20230719-cityhallrally-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members attend a police commission meeting at City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa E. said the event has warped her son’s ideas on policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a good kid. He gets straight A’s. He volunteers at the rec center and his perspective is changed now,” she said. “It’s been altered of how he thinks about law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event\">teenagers swept up in the mass arrest following the skateboarding event\u003c/a> at Dolores Park will likely be dropped, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mission%20Local&utm_campaign=2f38168f69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_17_12_00&utm_term=0_-2f38168f69-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=2f38168f69&mc_eid=e089857c8e\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. Some families have already been told they won’t need to show up to a court hearing and the cases will be dropped, according to Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many parents at the commission meeting said they had not yet received that guidance. Many are still confused about the status of their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never had any justification in the first place to charge these youth,” Ortiz told KQED. “For the majority of cases to be dropped like that, it clearly shows SFPD overreached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department did not confirm the exact number of people whose cases will be dropped. Officials from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office also did not confirm the number of youth whose cases would be cleared when asked by KQED on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one case involving an adult has been discharged, KQED confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each case will be assessed individually to determine if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Randy Quezada, communications director for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “All avenues to ensure there is appropriate accountability will be explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth probation officials said they are still awaiting results of the police department’s investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956084\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand behind a person speaking at a podium.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67118_20230719-cityhallrally-13-JY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members hold a rally in front of City Hall before the Police Commission meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of contacting all parents/guardians to let them know that we will reach back out to them when we have more information,” said Katherine Weinstein Miller, chief juvenile probation officer for the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, told KQED she had heard from multiple parents whose children were not even at the event but got swept up in the mass arrest when they were walking, or in one case riding a scooter, through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just appalled by this,” said Lederman. “I’m talking to kids who were simply passersby or were trying to go home, just in the general vicinity of where the event had been when they were trapped between police lines, not allowed to leave, [[arrested] and detained in appalling conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the police crackdown on the event said that it has been problematic in the past. Injuries are common, and one death took place in 2020 when a cyclist collided with the hill bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were correct to try to bring it to a speedy end,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes Dolores Park. SFPD, he said, “will continue to need to do police work and I don’t think they could allow an event like this to go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb caused public transit vehicles to come to a halt as participants and onlookers crowded streets. Photos show one group of teenagers climbing on top of a Muni train and spray-painting graffiti on its outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be healing,” Ortiz said. “But there is a silver lining, and this kind of experience can lead to organizing that can push for more resources for young people”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956110/sfpd-releases-video-footage-from-skateboarding-hill-bomb","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32905","news_32906","news_545","news_32935","news_6576"],"featImg":"news_11956120","label":"news"},"news_11955479":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955479","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955479","score":null,"sort":[1689193186000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event","title":"'A Step Backward': SF Police Commission Questions Mass Arrest at Skateboarding Event","publishDate":1689193186,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘A Step Backward’: SF Police Commission Questions Mass Arrest at Skateboarding Event | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Commission tonight will likely probe Saturday’s mass arrests of primarily youth at a skateboarding event at Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 110 people were detained on Saturday night after an annual “hill bomb” skateboarding event in the Mission District was shut down by police. Many people have since criticized the forceful police tactics used to respond to the youth-led event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kevin Benedicto, San Francisco police commissioner\"]‘I think there’s a consensus that events like this need to be made more safe. But I question whether what we saw made this more safe.’[/pullquote]A total of 81 juveniles and 32 adults were arrested for “inciting a riot” according to police, as well as for remaining present at an unlawful assembly and conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials tasked with reviewing the city’s police department are questioning the force tactics officers employed, including pointing less-lethal rifles at teenagers to deter the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One San Francisco police commissioner said the police response was “troubling, to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a consensus that events like this need to be made more safe. But I question whether what we saw made this more safe,” said Kevin Benedicto, a San Francisco police commissioner, who said \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/meeting/july-12-2023/july-12-2023-police-commission-meeting\">he plans to discuss the actions at tonight’s commission meeting\u003c/a>. The police commission oversees police department policy and disciplinary hearings on police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department has made a lot of progress in recent years on sort of modernizing the way it deals with juveniles and with youth,” Benedicto said. “And this seems a little bit like a step backward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual hill bomb, which is not city-sanctioned, attracts hundreds of people to watch skateboarders of all ages fly down Dolores Street, and resulting injuries are not uncommon. But at this year’s event, scenes of a blocked Muni train covered in graffiti, small fires and teenagers running from police in riot gear overshadowed the gravity-defying runs down Dolores Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of interest in suing and challenging this police misconduct to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. “Parents in particular are outraged at how they were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she has spoken with children as young as 13 and adults in their 30s who were swept up in Saturday’s mass arrest. She plans to hold a meeting next week with the affected families, and didn’t have a timeline for when a lawsuit could be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents waited four to six hours to reconnect with their children after they were detained at the event, Lederman said. “They were held as it became dark and cold. A lot of kids said they were freezing. They weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom, their phones were taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju echoed some of the concerns in a public statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The militarized police response to a youth-led skateboarding event was a tremendous overreach that escalated tensions, endangered young people and onlookers, and violated people’s rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju said his office has heard from several parents of kids who were detained on Saturday for hours, and some were transported to San Francisco General Hospital “for unknown reasons” before reuniting with their parents. One child who was detained was not attending the skate event at all, but got swept up in the arrests while riding a scooter to his friend’s house, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/teens-trapped-injured-by-sfpd-in-dolores-arrests-parents-say/\">Mission Local\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have heard from at least one family whose child was detained on their way home despite having no skateboard or any affiliation with the event,” Raju said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was organized largely through word of mouth and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many participants and onlookers, the hill bomb is a celebration of the city’s skate culture, youth and daredevil spirit. But it’s no doubt dangerous: Bruises and broken bones are a common occurrence. In 2020, a cyclist died in a collision with one of the skateboarders at the hill bomb event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to violent outcomes in the event’s history, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said that this year’s event was “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1678098260114944000\">safer than last year\u003c/a>” and said that the overall approach by police to shut down the event was warranted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be individuals who got caught up in it who should not have been. But overall, this was a mob engaged in destructive and dangerous activities,” Mandelman told KQED. “I believe that they were provided significant advance notice that arrests were going to happen if the crowd did not disperse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested another approach the city could take would be to create a city-sanctioned event for skateboarders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, police reported that some teenagers threw glass bottles and fireworks at the officers. SFPD was aware of the event beforehand and placed barricades on Dolores Street for traffic safety. Additional officers were also assigned to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, an officer was assaulted while attempting to detain a 16-year-old after he spat at the officer’s face. The officer was taken to the hospital, and photos show he had a cut on his forehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a Muni vehicle on Church and 17th streets was blocked by the crowd, and some youth began climbing on top of the vehicle and spray-painting the sides of the car, video footage and police reports show. Shortly after, the park was ordered to close and the fire department arrived on scene to extinguish fires caused by fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass arrests began around 8 p.m. when the crowd did not comply with orders to disperse, and police kettled a large group of teenagers in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This dangerous and unlawful behavior put members of the public and our officers at risk of serious injury or worse,” said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott. “This behavior will not be tolerated in our city and I thank our officers for taking action to hold those accountable who brazenly engaged in reckless and dangerous behavior and violated the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed also backed the police response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was an unpermitted event that has led to serious problems in the past, including property destruction and physical injury. The last time it was held, someone died. In San Francisco, we welcome public events that are conducted safely. This event was not that. People assaulted police officers, set fires, and vandalized property, including Muni vehicles,” a spokesperson from the Mayor’s office said in an email to KQED. “No one at this event was arrested for skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others criticized the militarized approach police took to try to control the activity, saying it escalated frustration and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is posturing from Mayor Breed to appear tough on crime, and these kids were used as pawns in a political game to make it seem like they are doing something about crime,” said Lederman, who lives in the Mission District. “These are children and skateboarders, not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Alex Hall contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than 110 people, mostly youth, were detained after an annual 'hill bomb' skateboarding event in the Mission District on Saturday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689193186,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1270},"headData":{"title":"'A Step Backward': SF Police Commission Questions Mass Arrest at Skateboarding Event | KQED","description":"More than 110 people, mostly youth, were detained after an annual 'hill bomb' skateboarding event in the Mission District on Saturday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'A Step Backward': SF Police Commission Questions Mass Arrest at Skateboarding Event","datePublished":"2023-07-12T20:19:46.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-12T20:19:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Commission tonight will likely probe Saturday’s mass arrests of primarily youth at a skateboarding event at Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 110 people were detained on Saturday night after an annual “hill bomb” skateboarding event in the Mission District was shut down by police. Many people have since criticized the forceful police tactics used to respond to the youth-led event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think there’s a consensus that events like this need to be made more safe. But I question whether what we saw made this more safe.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kevin Benedicto, San Francisco police commissioner","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A total of 81 juveniles and 32 adults were arrested for “inciting a riot” according to police, as well as for remaining present at an unlawful assembly and conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials tasked with reviewing the city’s police department are questioning the force tactics officers employed, including pointing less-lethal rifles at teenagers to deter the activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One San Francisco police commissioner said the police response was “troubling, to say the least.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a consensus that events like this need to be made more safe. But I question whether what we saw made this more safe,” said Kevin Benedicto, a San Francisco police commissioner, who said \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/meeting/july-12-2023/july-12-2023-police-commission-meeting\">he plans to discuss the actions at tonight’s commission meeting\u003c/a>. The police commission oversees police department policy and disciplinary hearings on police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department has made a lot of progress in recent years on sort of modernizing the way it deals with juveniles and with youth,” Benedicto said. “And this seems a little bit like a step backward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual hill bomb, which is not city-sanctioned, attracts hundreds of people to watch skateboarders of all ages fly down Dolores Street, and resulting injuries are not uncommon. But at this year’s event, scenes of a blocked Muni train covered in graffiti, small fires and teenagers running from police in riot gear overshadowed the gravity-defying runs down Dolores Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one attorney is exploring a lawsuit on behalf of the youth and families who believe they were wrongfully detained at the skateboarding event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of interest in suing and challenging this police misconduct to prevent something like this from happening again,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. “Parents in particular are outraged at how they were treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said she has spoken with children as young as 13 and adults in their 30s who were swept up in Saturday’s mass arrest. She plans to hold a meeting next week with the affected families, and didn’t have a timeline for when a lawsuit could be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents waited four to six hours to reconnect with their children after they were detained at the event, Lederman said. “They were held as it became dark and cold. A lot of kids said they were freezing. They weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom, their phones were taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju echoed some of the concerns in a public statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The militarized police response to a youth-led skateboarding event was a tremendous overreach that escalated tensions, endangered young people and onlookers, and violated people’s rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju said his office has heard from several parents of kids who were detained on Saturday for hours, and some were transported to San Francisco General Hospital “for unknown reasons” before reuniting with their parents. One child who was detained was not attending the skate event at all, but got swept up in the arrests while riding a scooter to his friend’s house, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/teens-trapped-injured-by-sfpd-in-dolores-arrests-parents-say/\">Mission Local\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have heard from at least one family whose child was detained on their way home despite having no skateboard or any affiliation with the event,” Raju said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was organized largely through word of mouth and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many participants and onlookers, the hill bomb is a celebration of the city’s skate culture, youth and daredevil spirit. But it’s no doubt dangerous: Bruises and broken bones are a common occurrence. In 2020, a cyclist died in a collision with one of the skateboarders at the hill bomb event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to violent outcomes in the event’s history, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said that this year’s event was “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1678098260114944000\">safer than last year\u003c/a>” and said that the overall approach by police to shut down the event was warranted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be individuals who got caught up in it who should not have been. But overall, this was a mob engaged in destructive and dangerous activities,” Mandelman told KQED. “I believe that they were provided significant advance notice that arrests were going to happen if the crowd did not disperse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested another approach the city could take would be to create a city-sanctioned event for skateboarders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, police reported that some teenagers threw glass bottles and fireworks at the officers. SFPD was aware of the event beforehand and placed barricades on Dolores Street for traffic safety. Additional officers were also assigned to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, an officer was assaulted while attempting to detain a 16-year-old after he spat at the officer’s face. The officer was taken to the hospital, and photos show he had a cut on his forehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a Muni vehicle on Church and 17th streets was blocked by the crowd, and some youth began climbing on top of the vehicle and spray-painting the sides of the car, video footage and police reports show. Shortly after, the park was ordered to close and the fire department arrived on scene to extinguish fires caused by fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass arrests began around 8 p.m. when the crowd did not comply with orders to disperse, and police kettled a large group of teenagers in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This dangerous and unlawful behavior put members of the public and our officers at risk of serious injury or worse,” said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott. “This behavior will not be tolerated in our city and I thank our officers for taking action to hold those accountable who brazenly engaged in reckless and dangerous behavior and violated the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed also backed the police response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was an unpermitted event that has led to serious problems in the past, including property destruction and physical injury. The last time it was held, someone died. In San Francisco, we welcome public events that are conducted safely. This event was not that. People assaulted police officers, set fires, and vandalized property, including Muni vehicles,” a spokesperson from the Mayor’s office said in an email to KQED. “No one at this event was arrested for skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others criticized the militarized approach police took to try to control the activity, saying it escalated frustration and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is posturing from Mayor Breed to appear tough on crime, and these kids were used as pawns in a political game to make it seem like they are doing something about crime,” said Lederman, who lives in the Mission District. “These are children and skateboarders, not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Alex Hall contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955479/a-step-backward-sf-police-commission-questions-mass-arrest-at-skateboarding-event","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_32905","news_32906","news_5270","news_20331","news_6576","news_32907"],"featImg":"news_11955370","label":"news"},"news_11871628":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11871628","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11871628","score":null,"sort":[1620080752000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teen-rediscovers-san-franciscos-enduring-skate-spot-emb","title":"Teen Rediscovers San Francisco's Enduring Skate Spot: EMB","publishDate":1620080752,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was written and produced by Nate Dolan, a student at El Cerrito High School, for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover Week\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been skateboarding since elementary school. One of the biggest things I’ve missed during the pandemic has been going to one of my favorite skate spots, the EMB at Justin Herman Plaza* in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871661\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11871661 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-160x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-800x808.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1020x1030.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1521x1536.jpg 1521w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-2028x2048.jpg 2028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1920x1939.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Dolan, a student and skateboarder at El Cerrito High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of subject.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, I took my recorder out to capture the sounds of the Embarcadero skaters. It’s been pretty quiet over there recently, but with the state opening back up, the skateboarding community is bringing it back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, Justin Herman Plaza was built by Don Carter at the East end of the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. This plaza contains the Vaillancourt Fountain, an ice skating rink in the winter months, and a nice open space for nearby workers to congregate while on breaks. A visitor I spoke with at Justin Herman Plaza said, “You get to be in the middle of the action downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Justin Herman Plaza is also home to San Francisco's most famous skate spot. “EMB,” as skaters call it, is full of ledges, stair sets and gaps. The spot first gained popularity in the early '90s, and as skateboarding began to grow, people from all over the world came to the Embarcadero to show off their skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to another skater visiting the EMB, “It’s a legendary spot to come and skate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11871659 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate performs a 'manual' on his skateboard. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nate Dolan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the '90s, EMB remained popular, and new spots in the plaza were discovered. Mark Gonzales, a famous pro skater, created “\u003ca href=\"http://www.xgames.com/action/skateboarding/article/7360682/history-lesson-embarcadero-gonz-gap\">The Gonz Gap\u003c/a>” there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The objective of this trick was to go from the top of one particular wall, ollie off and over a 10-foot gap, and land. There was also the “Hubba Hideout,” a set of six stairs with ledges on either side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These spots were so legendary in the skate world, that they even appeared in Thrasher’s 1999 video game \"Skate and Destroy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/PEbFaOW0EQg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the skate scene at the plaza has changed since the '90s, you can still find skaters of all ages skating the plaza. Another EMB skater said, “I think it’s just as popular today as it ever has been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The famous Embarcadero skate spot is a huge part of skateboarding culture, but for skaters, it’s just one part of San Francisco's massive skate scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*In a November 2017 vote, San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SF-parks-commission-strips-Justin-Herman-s-name-12363778.php\">voted 4-2 to remove Justin Herman’s name from the plaza\u003c/a>. It is currently known as Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The pandemic may have shut down San Francisco's world famous skate scene, but the local skateboarding community is bringing it back to life at EMB, located at the Embarcadero.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620170401,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":479},"headData":{"title":"Teen Rediscovers San Francisco's Enduring Skate Spot: EMB | KQED","description":"The pandemic may have shut down San Francisco's world famous skate scene, but the local skateboarding community is bringing it back to life at EMB, located at the Embarcadero.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teen Rediscovers San Francisco's Enduring Skate Spot: EMB","datePublished":"2021-05-03T22:25:52.000Z","dateModified":"2021-05-04T23:20:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11871628 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11871628","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/03/teen-rediscovers-san-franciscos-enduring-skate-spot-emb/","disqusTitle":"Teen Rediscovers San Francisco's Enduring Skate Spot: EMB","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2021/05/NateDolanTCRPM.mp3","nprByline":"Nate Dolan","path":"/news/11871628/teen-rediscovers-san-franciscos-enduring-skate-spot-emb","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was written and produced by Nate Dolan, a student at El Cerrito High School, for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover Week\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been skateboarding since elementary school. One of the biggest things I’ve missed during the pandemic has been going to one of my favorite skate spots, the EMB at Justin Herman Plaza* in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871661\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11871661 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-160x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-800x808.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1020x1030.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1521x1536.jpg 1521w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-2028x2048.jpg 2028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Close-up-2-1920x1939.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Dolan, a student and skateboarder at El Cerrito High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of subject.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, I took my recorder out to capture the sounds of the Embarcadero skaters. It’s been pretty quiet over there recently, but with the state opening back up, the skateboarding community is bringing it back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, Justin Herman Plaza was built by Don Carter at the East end of the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. This plaza contains the Vaillancourt Fountain, an ice skating rink in the winter months, and a nice open space for nearby workers to congregate while on breaks. A visitor I spoke with at Justin Herman Plaza said, “You get to be in the middle of the action downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Justin Herman Plaza is also home to San Francisco's most famous skate spot. “EMB,” as skaters call it, is full of ledges, stair sets and gaps. The spot first gained popularity in the early '90s, and as skateboarding began to grow, people from all over the world came to the Embarcadero to show off their skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to another skater visiting the EMB, “It’s a legendary spot to come and skate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11871659 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Manual-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate performs a 'manual' on his skateboard. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nate Dolan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the '90s, EMB remained popular, and new spots in the plaza were discovered. Mark Gonzales, a famous pro skater, created “\u003ca href=\"http://www.xgames.com/action/skateboarding/article/7360682/history-lesson-embarcadero-gonz-gap\">The Gonz Gap\u003c/a>” there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The objective of this trick was to go from the top of one particular wall, ollie off and over a 10-foot gap, and land. There was also the “Hubba Hideout,” a set of six stairs with ledges on either side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These spots were so legendary in the skate world, that they even appeared in Thrasher’s 1999 video game \"Skate and Destroy.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PEbFaOW0EQg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PEbFaOW0EQg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Though the skate scene at the plaza has changed since the '90s, you can still find skaters of all ages skating the plaza. Another EMB skater said, “I think it’s just as popular today as it ever has been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The famous Embarcadero skate spot is a huge part of skateboarding culture, but for skaters, it’s just one part of San Francisco's massive skate scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*In a November 2017 vote, San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SF-parks-commission-strips-Justin-Herman-s-name-12363778.php\">voted 4-2 to remove Justin Herman’s name from the plaza\u003c/a>. It is currently known as Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11871628/teen-rediscovers-san-franciscos-enduring-skate-spot-emb","authors":["byline_news_11871628"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_25641"],"tags":["news_2674","news_38","news_29407","news_6131","news_6576","news_23013"],"featImg":"news_11872071","label":"news_26731"},"news_11733418":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11733418","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11733418","score":null,"sort":[1552770302000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jake-phelps-skateboarder-and-thrasher-editor-dies-at-56","title":"Jake Phelps, Skateboarder and Editor of Thrasher, Dies at 56","publishDate":1552770302,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Skateboarder Jake Phelps, longtime editor of the San Francisco-based skateboarding magazine Thrasher, has died at age 56. Tony Vitello, the magazine's publisher, confirmed Phelps' death in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAo67FAIQz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram post\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never met anybody who loves anything more than Jake worshiped skateboarding,\" Vitello wrote. \"Just as we need food and water to survive, Jake needed skateboarding to keep his blood pumping. It was more than a hobby or form of transportation or way of life - it was his oxygen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAo67FAIQz/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His uncle, Clark Phelps, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/clark.phelps/posts/10217297117275279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a> on Thursday that his nephew \"died suddenly and easily today.\" Further details on his death have not yet been made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps became the editor of Thrasher in 1993 and was one of the most well-known figures in the skateboarding world. The magazine is known as \"the bible\" to skaters, and according to a 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Sunday Magazine profile\u003c/a> on Phelps, he liked to consider himself as the \"brand personified\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Phelps is an unreconstructed punk rocker in a city that has little need or space for them anymore. He refuses to pay his Muni fare, instead slipping through the rear doors. He bums cigarettes everywhere he goes; he calls kids blood. He barks at strangers and screams at drivers. He sails through lights with an unearned confidence, directing traffic with cryptic hand gestures. He shoplifts candy bars just to see if people are paying attention.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He was known to brag about his violent close calls while skateboarding, including in 2017 when he suffered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Skateboarder-Magazine-Editor-Recounts-Wipeout-at-SF-Event-From-His-Hospital-Bed-434425463.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious head injury\u003c/a> skating on Dolores Hill in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon learning of Phelps' death, fans and fellow skateboarders took to social media to mourn his passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a true skateboarder to the end, a fan of diverse styles and a passion for the history of skating,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tonyhawk/status/1106551549730287618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/tonyhawk/status/1106551549730287618\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fans cited Phelps and Thrasher as important parts of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hiimdxr/status/1106642897141747713\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaseyyMarleyy/status/1106377563021234177\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DanSena/status/1106365223575785472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ShowYouSuck/status/1106399149770137606\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DanteRoss/status/1106475196620275712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps' brash attitude and use of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MadDublier/status/1106935634977914884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homophobic slurs\u003c/a> made him a divisive figure for some in the skating community. In 2016, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/justin-bieber-thrasher-editor-jake-phelps-stop-wearing-thrasher-tees-rihanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lashed out\u003c/a> when celebrities including Rhianna and Justin Bieber started wearing Thrasher apparel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps spent the first 11 years of his life in California before his parents divorced. He moved to Massachusetts with his mom, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Sunday Magazine profile\u003c/a>. That's where he first learned to skate and was briefly sponsored by Pepsi in the late 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He returned to San Francisco in the 1980s, working at a skate shop in the Haight before starting to write for Thrasher and boxing the brand's hats and T-shirts at its Hunters Point warehouse. Phelps would give editorial input on the magazine while working the warehouse before eventually being tapped to take over the publication in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jake Phelps was 100% skateboarder, but that label sells him way too short,\" Vitello wrote in his Instagram remembrance, \"because beyond his enormous influence in our world, he was truly an individual beyond this world.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For the past 26 years, Phelps was the editor of the San Francisco-based magazine that was known to skaters as 'the bible.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552954167,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":539},"headData":{"title":"Jake Phelps, Skateboarder and Editor of Thrasher, Dies at 56 | KQED","description":"For the past 26 years, Phelps was the editor of the San Francisco-based magazine that was known to skaters as 'the bible.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Jake Phelps, Skateboarder and Editor of Thrasher, Dies at 56","datePublished":"2019-03-16T21:05:02.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-19T00:09:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11733418 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11733418","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/16/jake-phelps-skateboarder-and-thrasher-editor-dies-at-56/","disqusTitle":"Jake Phelps, Skateboarder and Editor of Thrasher, Dies at 56","path":"/news/11733418/jake-phelps-skateboarder-and-thrasher-editor-dies-at-56","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Skateboarder Jake Phelps, longtime editor of the San Francisco-based skateboarding magazine Thrasher, has died at age 56. Tony Vitello, the magazine's publisher, confirmed Phelps' death in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAo67FAIQz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram post\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never met anybody who loves anything more than Jake worshiped skateboarding,\" Vitello wrote. \"Just as we need food and water to survive, Jake needed skateboarding to keep his blood pumping. It was more than a hobby or form of transportation or way of life - it was his oxygen.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BvAo67FAIQz"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>His uncle, Clark Phelps, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/clark.phelps/posts/10217297117275279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a> on Thursday that his nephew \"died suddenly and easily today.\" Further details on his death have not yet been made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps became the editor of Thrasher in 1993 and was one of the most well-known figures in the skateboarding world. The magazine is known as \"the bible\" to skaters, and according to a 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Sunday Magazine profile\u003c/a> on Phelps, he liked to consider himself as the \"brand personified\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Phelps is an unreconstructed punk rocker in a city that has little need or space for them anymore. He refuses to pay his Muni fare, instead slipping through the rear doors. He bums cigarettes everywhere he goes; he calls kids blood. He barks at strangers and screams at drivers. He sails through lights with an unearned confidence, directing traffic with cryptic hand gestures. He shoplifts candy bars just to see if people are paying attention.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He was known to brag about his violent close calls while skateboarding, including in 2017 when he suffered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Skateboarder-Magazine-Editor-Recounts-Wipeout-at-SF-Event-From-His-Hospital-Bed-434425463.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious head injury\u003c/a> skating on Dolores Hill in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon learning of Phelps' death, fans and fellow skateboarders took to social media to mourn his passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a true skateboarder to the end, a fan of diverse styles and a passion for the history of skating,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tonyhawk/status/1106551549730287618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted\u003c/a> skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106551549730287618"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Many fans cited Phelps and Thrasher as important parts of their lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106642897141747713"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106377563021234177"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106365223575785472"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106399149770137606"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1106475196620275712"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Phelps' brash attitude and use of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MadDublier/status/1106935634977914884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homophobic slurs\u003c/a> made him a divisive figure for some in the skating community. In 2016, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/justin-bieber-thrasher-editor-jake-phelps-stop-wearing-thrasher-tees-rihanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lashed out\u003c/a> when celebrities including Rhianna and Justin Bieber started wearing Thrasher apparel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps spent the first 11 years of his life in California before his parents divorced. He moved to Massachusetts with his mom, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Sunday Magazine profile\u003c/a>. That's where he first learned to skate and was briefly sponsored by Pepsi in the late 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He returned to San Francisco in the 1980s, working at a skate shop in the Haight before starting to write for Thrasher and boxing the brand's hats and T-shirts at its Hunters Point warehouse. Phelps would give editorial input on the magazine while working the warehouse before eventually being tapped to take over the publication in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jake Phelps was 100% skateboarder, but that label sells him way too short,\" Vitello wrote in his Instagram remembrance, \"because beyond his enormous influence in our world, he was truly an individual beyond this world.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11733418/jake-phelps-skateboarder-and-thrasher-editor-dies-at-56","authors":["11260"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_6576"],"featImg":"news_11733423","label":"news_72"},"news_11653010":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11653010","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11653010","score":null,"sort":[1520038105000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred","title":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","publishDate":1520038105,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would get called like 'faggot' a lot, or like 'that's so gay' and like 'you're gay',\" Cheung tells me. \"It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was \"too afraid to experience what would happen\" if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!\" Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made 'zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity's queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The first one was just amazing, so many people came,\" Cheung recalls. \"And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity's queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it's just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I've never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like 'here's water', and...it's unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people -- skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight -- who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BWqPkXYDwUp/?taken-by=unityskateboarding\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards' new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: \"I'm a skateboarder and I'm a queer, and then I'm also female and... I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom like hated it,\" she says. \"She thought girls shouldn't be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like 'I'm going to skate anyway.' So I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn't think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance -- at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A queer skateboarding collective called Unity is changing the sport's homophobic culture -- one skate session at a time.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1520040431,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":888},"headData":{"title":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred | KQED","description":"A queer skateboarding collective called Unity is changing the sport's homophobic culture -- one skate session at a time.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","datePublished":"2018-03-03T00:48:25.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-03T01:27:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11653010 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11653010","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/02/at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred/","disqusTitle":"At Oakland's Queer Skateboarding Meet-Ups, Everybody Can Shred","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/03/QueerSkateboarding.mp3","path":"/news/11653010/at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred","audioDuration":336000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Growing up in Oakland, Jeffrey Cheung felt like he lived in two different worlds: in one, he was gay, and in the other, he was a skateboarder. It was clear to him that the two didn’t mix. Nobody else knew he was gay, but when he went to the skatepark, other skaters threw around the word ‘gay’ as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would get called like 'faggot' a lot, or like 'that's so gay' and like 'you're gay',\" Cheung tells me. \"It’s very homophobic. And not very welcoming. And I remember feeling very ashamed about myself and sexuality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Cheung was 18, he decided to stop skating. It was just too hard to live in both worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-160x159.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-240x239.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-520x518.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29716_skateboards-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity founder Jeffrey Cheung is also an artist. He paints skateboard decks with inclusive images of genders and sexualities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Ramirez grew up in Southern California, but he also lived in those two worlds. In high school he \u003ci>wanted\u003c/i> to try skateboarding, but says he was \"too afraid to experience what would happen\" if anyone found out he was gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez remembers the day he met Cheung at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding out that he was gay and skateboarded, my mind was blown!\" Ramirez laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez and Cheung started dating. They moved to Oakland, where they skated, played music and made 'zines. At the end of 2016, their worlds were rocked: first by the presidential election. And then they lost a friend in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. As their queer and artist communities grieved, they felt pushed to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung pulled out a sharpie and made a flyer for a queer skateboarding meetup at a parking lot. It was low-tech and low-expectations, just bring your board and show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 586px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11653056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer.png 586w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-160x164.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-240x246.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-375x384.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-520x532.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/queer-skate-day-flyer-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer for one of Unity's queer skate days. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The first one was just amazing, so many people came,\" Cheung recalls. \"And it was just a space where everyone could just feel welcome.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went so well, they decided to do them monthly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year later, this monthly meetup has a name: Unity Skateboards. Ramirez and Cheung continue to organize queer skate days in the Bay Area and up to 60 people show up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 599px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11653042 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-240x218.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-375x341.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29715_Unity-qut-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity's queer skate days draw up to 60 people each month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unity Skateboards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cheung stresses how unique the Unity atmosphere is compared to other places he has skated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it's just like ridiculous how positive and supporting it is. I've never been in a place where everyone is just so happy and just supportive. People are like bringing food, like 'here's water', and...it's unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a casual meetup in a parking lot is now a community of people -- skaters and non-skaters, queer and straight -- who all want to shred.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BWqPkXYDwUp"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>And now, they actually have a place to come together indoors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With money earned from their full-time jobs, Jeffrey and Gabriel are renting the top floor of a bookstore downtown Oakland. Jeffrey says it’s important to have a permanent safe space for their community. The walls of the wooden loft are covered with skateboards and artwork. There’s a printing press in one corner, a couch in the other. It reminds me of a clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29192_P1022357-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People crowd into Unity Skateboards' new loft space for the opening party. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tiny shop is packed for the opening party. Louise Alban has been skating with Unity for almost two years, and she says it has helped her learn to love all of her identities: \"I'm a skateboarder and I'm a queer, and then I'm also female and... I can do all of those things and there’s other people like me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alban started skating when she was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom like hated it,\" she says. \"She thought girls shouldn't be skating and I was like that young defiant little kid, and I was like 'I'm going to skate anyway.' So I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653053\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29166_P1022327-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Alban started skating she was 11. Her mom didn't think that girls should skate. \u003ccite>(Nadine Sebai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alban found out about Unity Skateboards on Instagram. She sent Cheung a video of herself skating. He mailed her back a skateboard, an invitation to come skate with them. Louise moved from her home in Yucaipa a few months later to attend her first queer skate day, and she’s been in Oakland ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity’s founder, Jeffrey Cheung, says now, he has the most queer friends he’s ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also says that if there was something like this when he was younger, it would have changed his life entirely. He wouldn’t have felt so alone and ashamed of being gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Unity Skateboards, Cheung says he hopes he’s making it a little easier for the next generation of young people to find acceptance -- at school, at home, and at the skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>On March 4, 2017 Jeffrey Cheung and Unity Press will be hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/riso-printing-unity-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zine making workshop\u003c/a> at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11653010/at-oaklands-queer-skateboarding-meet-ups-everybody-can-shred","authors":["11365"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_4316","news_20258","news_22681","news_18","news_6131","news_6576","news_17286","news_2486"],"featImg":"news_11653485","label":"news_72"},"news_10518442":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10518442","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10518442","score":null,"sort":[1431270002000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-spot-san-franciscos-soma-west-skate-park","title":"My Spot: San Francisco's SoMa West Skate Park","publishDate":1431270002,"format":"standard","headTitle":"My Spot | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For Oakland resident Andrew Shusterman, a social media manager at NHS Skateboard distribution, any chance to get back to his roots and jump on a skateboard is a welcome return to youth and passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he has developed a special connection to his \"spot\" — the newly built \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chronicle-Watch-SoMa-skate-park-grinds-on-5642118.php\" target=\"_blank\">SoMa West\u003c/a> skate park in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first really gnarly, amazing skate park San Francisco has ever had,” says Shusterman. “Usually I come to skate parks once every two or three weeks, but this park’s so great I find myself here once a week and sometimes, if not, more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204598276\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoMa’s location at the end of San Francisco’s Mission District, under a busy freeway overpass that connects Interstate 80 to Highway 101, provides a uniquely San Franciscan ambiance that Shusterman revels in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a car but I always choose to take BART here,” says Shusterman, favoring the more urban aesthetic. “I like the journey to get here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey, and the fun of the park, provide a perfect weekend getaway for Shusterman and his friends, who frequent the park Friday evenings after work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a transition from work to fun,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'This is the first really gnarly, amazing skate park San Francisco has ever had.' -- Andrew Shusterman","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1431136531,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":248},"headData":{"title":"My Spot: San Francisco's SoMa West Skate Park | 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Richmond","path":"/news/10518442/my-spot-san-franciscos-soma-west-skate-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Oakland resident Andrew Shusterman, a social media manager at NHS Skateboard distribution, any chance to get back to his roots and jump on a skateboard is a welcome return to youth and passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he has developed a special connection to his \"spot\" — the newly built \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chronicle-Watch-SoMa-skate-park-grinds-on-5642118.php\" target=\"_blank\">SoMa West\u003c/a> skate park in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first really gnarly, amazing skate park San Francisco has ever had,” says Shusterman. “Usually I come to skate parks once every two or three weeks, but this park’s so great I find myself here once a week and sometimes, if not, more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv 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to take BART here,” says Shusterman, favoring the more urban aesthetic. “I like the journey to get here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey, and the fun of the park, provide a perfect weekend getaway for Shusterman and his friends, who frequent the park Friday evenings after work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a transition from work to fun,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10518442/my-spot-san-franciscos-soma-west-skate-park","authors":["byline_news_10518442"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_17120"],"categories":["news_10"],"tags":["news_38","news_6131","news_6576","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10518798","label":"news_72"},"news_141519":{"type":"posts","id":"news_141519","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"141519","score":null,"sort":[1405112446000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"skaters-want-to-legalize-abandoned-west-oakland-skatepark","title":"Skaters Want to Legalize Abandoned West Oakland Skatepark","publishDate":1405112446,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/LowerBobs640_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-141520\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/LowerBobs640_2.jpg\" alt=\"Skaters at West Oakland's unsanctioned Lower Bobs skatepark. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at West Oakland's unsanctioned Lower Bobs skate park. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> dead-end street in West Oakland’s Lower Bottoms neighborhood runs right into a sidewall of Interstate 880. For years, this was a vacant patch of concrete, with an enormous pile of illegally dumped dirt filling a lot next door. For a time, it became the scene of laughter, ollies and kick flips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of skateboarders decided to create an oasis in this impoverished corner of the city late last year, but recently agreed to abandon the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel happy here,” Kevin Jenkins said when the park was still open. He’s one of the dozens of skaters and supporters who built the Lower Bobs skate park, which takes its name from the Lower Bottoms neighborhood and the business next door, Bob’s Warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s bothering me,” he said. “I’m not doing drugs. I’m not on the corner wasting my time doing some other stuff I shouldn’t be doing in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With school out for the summer and a shortage of resources for sports and other activities, Jenkins says a volunteer-built skate park in a neglected part of Oakland is just what the neighborhood needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped graffiti,” he said. “We cleaned up a dump. We gave kids skateboards. I’ve never built a skate park in my life. I built one — I wanna keep it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keeping Lower Bobs might not be so easy. It was built without permission and in the face of numerous warnings to stop, said Joe DeVries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came out when it was just a really small berm and I said, ‘You guys really need to stop. I’ll try to help you on the inside; we’ll try to make it legal,’ ” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thought he had the Lower Bobs skaters’ agreement, but when he drove by a few days later, “They were fully going at it, construction,” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No trespassing\" signs were erected, and ignored. A fence was put up, and torn down. A skate park organization called Gauntlet stepped in to negotiate with city officials, which led to a neighborhood meeting in April. The majority of community members at that meeting expressed support for what they see as a bright spot in a neighborhood plagued by violent crime and blighted by illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We cleaned up a dump. We gave kids skateboards. I’ve never built a skate park in my life. I built one — I wanna keep it.'\u003ccite>— Kevin Jenkins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I believe that it makes my community safer,” said Vlad Levitansky, who owns 10th & Wood, a cafe around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been an incredibly positive addition to the community, because they’re creating something, be it illegally,” he added. “But you have all sorts of people who are coming together working on something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City-Skater Cooperation in San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A video posted online chronicles the construction of Lower Bobs. The park is the latest in a tradition of DIY skate parks, some of which have been legalized in other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s Washington Street Skatepark was created in 1999, and after forming a nonprofit and negotiating with the city, it now draws skaters from across the U.S. The Channel Street Skatepark in San Pedro was constructed in 2002. Skater Andy Harris, president of the San Pedro Skatepark Association, says then-Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn was an important ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With moms dropping off minivans full of kids at Channel Street, it was clear the skaters had created a safe and important space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think the thing that saved us from the get-go was just a really good working relationship with local government,” Harris said of Hahn, who is now a U.S. congresswoman (D-Los Angeles). “[Hahn] saw the benefit of community members coming together to build something that the city had completely failed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Williams, or K-Dub, spearheaded the construction of Town Park, a legitimate skate park in West Oakland that opened in 2008. The well-known skater and community activist told those at the neighborhood meeting that government bodies need to be more open to working with skaters, or they leave them with few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is about seven parks underserved,” Williams said. He added that people who need a place to skate are likely to take matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when you don’t serve that recreation, then you get folks who have access to trucks and concrete and skills, wood and labor, to just do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most Oakland skaters have yet to find their champion inside the system. Two other illegally constructed Oakland skate parks have been demolished in recent years, although both were on land owned by Caltrans, not the city. Oakland City Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents the neighborhood where Lower Bobs was built, said she’s willing to work with the skaters — but they need to change their approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a way you come into a community respectfully, but this isn’t it,” Gibson McElhaney said. “No matter how beautiful it is, this isn’t a respectful way to arrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skaters who built the park have agreed to stay away for now. But with no one managing the area, vandalism, drug use and a homeless encampment have all appeared. In the meantime, Gauntlet is working to obtain insurance, inspections and money to buy or lease the site.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Volunteer-built haven on a dead-end street sits unused in midst of dispute between skateboarders, city.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1405121428,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":983},"headData":{"title":"Skaters Want to Legalize Abandoned West Oakland Skatepark | KQED","description":"Volunteer-built haven on a dead-end street sits unused in midst of dispute between skateboarders, city.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Skaters Want to Legalize Abandoned West Oakland Skatepark","datePublished":"2014-07-11T21:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2014-07-11T23:30:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"141519 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=141519","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/11/skaters-want-to-legalize-abandoned-west-oakland-skatepark/","disqusTitle":"Skaters Want to Legalize Abandoned West Oakland Skatepark","path":"/news/141519/skaters-want-to-legalize-abandoned-west-oakland-skatepark","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/LowerBobs640_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-141520\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/LowerBobs640_2.jpg\" alt=\"Skaters at West Oakland's unsanctioned Lower Bobs skatepark. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at West Oakland's unsanctioned Lower Bobs skate park. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> dead-end street in West Oakland’s Lower Bottoms neighborhood runs right into a sidewall of Interstate 880. For years, this was a vacant patch of concrete, with an enormous pile of illegally dumped dirt filling a lot next door. For a time, it became the scene of laughter, ollies and kick flips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of skateboarders decided to create an oasis in this impoverished corner of the city late last year, but recently agreed to abandon the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel happy here,” Kevin Jenkins said when the park was still open. He’s one of the dozens of skaters and supporters who built the Lower Bobs skate park, which takes its name from the Lower Bottoms neighborhood and the business next door, Bob’s Warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s bothering me,” he said. “I’m not doing drugs. I’m not on the corner wasting my time doing some other stuff I shouldn’t be doing in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With school out for the summer and a shortage of resources for sports and other activities, Jenkins says a volunteer-built skate park in a neglected part of Oakland is just what the neighborhood needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped graffiti,” he said. “We cleaned up a dump. We gave kids skateboards. I’ve never built a skate park in my life. I built one — I wanna keep it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But keeping Lower Bobs might not be so easy. It was built without permission and in the face of numerous warnings to stop, said Joe DeVries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came out when it was just a really small berm and I said, ‘You guys really need to stop. I’ll try to help you on the inside; we’ll try to make it legal,’ ” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thought he had the Lower Bobs skaters’ agreement, but when he drove by a few days later, “They were fully going at it, construction,” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No trespassing\" signs were erected, and ignored. A fence was put up, and torn down. A skate park organization called Gauntlet stepped in to negotiate with city officials, which led to a neighborhood meeting in April. The majority of community members at that meeting expressed support for what they see as a bright spot in a neighborhood plagued by violent crime and blighted by illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We cleaned up a dump. We gave kids skateboards. I’ve never built a skate park in my life. I built one — I wanna keep it.'\u003ccite>— Kevin Jenkins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I believe that it makes my community safer,” said Vlad Levitansky, who owns 10th & Wood, a cafe around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been an incredibly positive addition to the community, because they’re creating something, be it illegally,” he added. “But you have all sorts of people who are coming together working on something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City-Skater Cooperation in San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A video posted online chronicles the construction of Lower Bobs. The park is the latest in a tradition of DIY skate parks, some of which have been legalized in other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego’s Washington Street Skatepark was created in 1999, and after forming a nonprofit and negotiating with the city, it now draws skaters from across the U.S. The Channel Street Skatepark in San Pedro was constructed in 2002. Skater Andy Harris, president of the San Pedro Skatepark Association, says then-Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn was an important ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With moms dropping off minivans full of kids at Channel Street, it was clear the skaters had created a safe and important space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think the thing that saved us from the get-go was just a really good working relationship with local government,” Harris said of Hahn, who is now a U.S. congresswoman (D-Los Angeles). “[Hahn] saw the benefit of community members coming together to build something that the city had completely failed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Williams, or K-Dub, spearheaded the construction of Town Park, a legitimate skate park in West Oakland that opened in 2008. The well-known skater and community activist told those at the neighborhood meeting that government bodies need to be more open to working with skaters, or they leave them with few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is about seven parks underserved,” Williams said. He added that people who need a place to skate are likely to take matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when you don’t serve that recreation, then you get folks who have access to trucks and concrete and skills, wood and labor, to just do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most Oakland skaters have yet to find their champion inside the system. Two other illegally constructed Oakland skate parks have been demolished in recent years, although both were on land owned by Caltrans, not the city. Oakland City Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents the neighborhood where Lower Bobs was built, said she’s willing to work with the skaters — but they need to change their approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a way you come into a community respectfully, but this isn’t it,” Gibson McElhaney said. “No matter how beautiful it is, this isn’t a respectful way to arrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skaters who built the park have agreed to stay away for now. But with no one managing the area, vandalism, drug use and a homeless encampment have all appeared. In the meantime, Gauntlet is working to obtain insurance, inspections and money to buy or lease the site.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/141519/skaters-want-to-legalize-abandoned-west-oakland-skatepark","authors":["213"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_6601","news_18","news_6576","news_6602","news_2318"],"featImg":"news_141520","label":"news_6944"},"news_141065":{"type":"posts","id":"news_141065","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"141065","score":null,"sort":[1404658836000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-new-san-francisco-skatepark-opens-in-shadow-of-central-freeway","title":"A San Francisco Skatepark Opens in Shadow of Central Freeway","publishDate":1404658836,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11138_IMG_8678s-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-141071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11138_IMG_8678s-scr-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Skaters at San Francisco's new SOMA West skatepark. (Alexandra Garreton/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at San Francisco's new SoMa West skatepark. (Alexandra Garreton/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just in time for this holiday weekend, there’s a new park in town. San Francisco’s newest recreational spot is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1663\" target=\"_blank\">SOMA West Skate Park and Dog Play Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Tuesday was the park’s \"soft\" opening, but Mohammed Nuru from the Department of Public Works said enthusiasm for the new space meant shooing away eager skaters who wanted to get into the park early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this part of the city there is not that much open space,\" he said. \"So this becomes a very critical area for the density and the people who live around the new park.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built under the Central Freeway where U.S. 101 turns into Octavia Street, the new space is part of a larger city plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many cities, areas under freeways have become a little blighted,” Nuru said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DPW is working to develop areas that became accessible with the removal of the freeway structure in the decades after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several community meetings were held to better understand what residents near the freeway wanted. The answer was a place for dogs and skateboarders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the SoMa West park began in 2009. Nuru said the city had to work out a deal with Caltrans, which owns the space. More than five years and $3.3 million later, the park is opening, complete with two dog runs — one for big dogs and one for little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before noon on Wednesday, more than 50 skaters of all ages were trying their boards on the new ramps and rails. Several of them liked the fact that the park is more tailored to street skateboarders, with wide-open spaces, stairs to jump, ramps to launch from and rails to grind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Carabarin, 30, came to check out the park on Wednesday before heading to his hotel job in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like it, it’s fun. There’s a lot of stuff,” he said. “One thing I don’t like, it’s crowded already, but it’s given, you know?” Carabarin foresees he’ll be visiting the ramps three or four days a week, depending on his work schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157690044&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When David Rosenberg, 34, isn’t riding his skateboard, he’s a local high school English teacher. He said, “New parks bring old men out of the woodwork.” Rosenberg gives the new park a “thumbs up.\" He’s been at the park twice in the days it’s been open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional skateboarder Karl Watson, 37, came from Oakland with his 15-year-old son to check out what SoMa West has to offer. He said that eight years ago the local skateboard community had slated this part of the freeway underpass for a do-it-yourself skatepark. Watson said what the city did with the space is a lot better. “It’s a lot cleaner. A lot safer. No nails sticking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SoMa West park is the newest addition to the area under the Central Freeway. A block away from the new ramps and artificial grass, construction has already begun in the McCoppin Hub Plaza. Once a seedy dead-end parking lot sandwiched between a liquor store and a U-Haul truck rental, the cul-de-sac will soon be a food truck court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the DPW is planning to host an official opening event for the new skatepark/dog run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we have seen, the neighborhood was very anxious to get in there,” said Nuru, “but it’s open now and there’s people enjoying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skater Carabarin thinks the park is good for the local community. “I think skateboarding is one of those things that teaches kids from a young age to old age how to interact with one another. There’s no prejudice inside of it,” he said. “It kind of breaks those barriers. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Skaters enjoy $3.3 million facility, which also includes a dog play area for both large and small breeds.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412203914,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":693},"headData":{"title":"A San Francisco Skatepark Opens in Shadow of Central Freeway | KQED","description":"Skaters enjoy $3.3 million facility, which also includes a dog play area for both large and small breeds.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A San Francisco Skatepark Opens in Shadow of Central Freeway","datePublished":"2014-07-06T15:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-01T22:51:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"141065 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=141065","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/06/a-new-san-francisco-skatepark-opens-in-shadow-of-central-freeway/","disqusTitle":"A San Francisco Skatepark Opens in Shadow of Central Freeway","customPermalink":"2014/07/03/soma-skatepark-san-francisco-central-freeway/","nprByline":"Alexandra Garreton","path":"/news/141065/a-new-san-francisco-skatepark-opens-in-shadow-of-central-freeway","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11138_IMG_8678s-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-141071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11138_IMG_8678s-scr-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Skaters at San Francisco's new SOMA West skatepark. (Alexandra Garreton/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at San Francisco's new SoMa West skatepark. (Alexandra Garreton/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just in time for this holiday weekend, there’s a new park in town. San Francisco’s newest recreational spot is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1663\" target=\"_blank\">SOMA West Skate Park and Dog Play Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Tuesday was the park’s \"soft\" opening, but Mohammed Nuru from the Department of Public Works said enthusiasm for the new space meant shooing away eager skaters who wanted to get into the park early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this part of the city there is not that much open space,\" he said. \"So this becomes a very critical area for the density and the people who live around the new park.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built under the Central Freeway where U.S. 101 turns into Octavia Street, the new space is part of a larger city plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many cities, areas under freeways have become a little blighted,” Nuru said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DPW is working to develop areas that became accessible with the removal of the freeway structure in the decades after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several community meetings were held to better understand what residents near the freeway wanted. The answer was a place for dogs and skateboarders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for the SoMa West park began in 2009. Nuru said the city had to work out a deal with Caltrans, which owns the space. More than five years and $3.3 million later, the park is opening, complete with two dog runs — one for big dogs and one for little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before noon on Wednesday, more than 50 skaters of all ages were trying their boards on the new ramps and rails. Several of them liked the fact that the park is more tailored to street skateboarders, with wide-open spaces, stairs to jump, ramps to launch from and rails to grind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Carabarin, 30, came to check out the park on Wednesday before heading to his hotel job in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like it, it’s fun. There’s a lot of stuff,” he said. “One thing I don’t like, it’s crowded already, but it’s given, you know?” Carabarin foresees he’ll be visiting the ramps three or four days a week, depending on his work schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157690044&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When David Rosenberg, 34, isn’t riding his skateboard, he’s a local high school English teacher. He said, “New parks bring old men out of the woodwork.” Rosenberg gives the new park a “thumbs up.\" He’s been at the park twice in the days it’s been open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professional skateboarder Karl Watson, 37, came from Oakland with his 15-year-old son to check out what SoMa West has to offer. He said that eight years ago the local skateboard community had slated this part of the freeway underpass for a do-it-yourself skatepark. Watson said what the city did with the space is a lot better. “It’s a lot cleaner. A lot safer. No nails sticking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SoMa West park is the newest addition to the area under the Central Freeway. A block away from the new ramps and artificial grass, construction has already begun in the McCoppin Hub Plaza. 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