Brian Patch was invited out to skateboard the vert ramp at the Operation City of Angels after 9-11. Who: Spohn Ranch, The American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles, CBS 2, Infinity Radio Los Angeles, and STAPLES Center.

What: The public will be able to drive-thru and drop off a monetary donation to the American Red Cross, or they will be able to make a family day out at this event. Families will enjoy free live entertainment and games for the children. At the Red Cross booth the public will be able to: make an appointment to donate blood, make a financial donation, receive information on how to become a volunteer, and receive disaster preparedness information.

When: Saturday, September 29
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Where: STAPLES Center’s Parking Lots #6 & #7
On Figueroa Street, between 11th and 12th streets
(Enter from Figueroa Street)
Downtown Los Angeles

H-Street’s first feature length skate video changed skateboarding not only with its content but also its form. Shackle Me Not is shot entirely with video cameras when skateboard videos were until then shot with film. Mike Ternasky and Tony Magnusson’s “living room” editing approach changed the rules of skate video production and ushered in an era where “anyone” could make a skate video. The skating is a mixture of vert, pool and street from a then unknown or just-coming-up group of skaters, many of who are now legendary, such as Danny Way, Ron Allen and Matt Hensley.

Here is a youtube video clip of the H Street Shackle Me Not Video

Danny Way is a shown here in this video clip of H Street Hokus Pokus. Danny must have been about 15 or so in this H-Street video clip. He has a huge bag of tricks over the spine here at the Carlsbad Skatepark and then he takes his tricks to the Vert Ramp. Danny Way is my hero and continues to take skateboarding up to the next level.

Mark Gator Rogowski was one of the best vert skateboarders in the 80’s. Brad Dorfman of Vision Skateboards saw this and marketed the hell out of him. He was wearing all sorts of Vision Streetwear stuff and and was living the lifestyle of a rockstar. He was a madman on the vertramp as scene in the video clip below. He got rich quick and had everything and then vert skateboarding became unpopular and the money started to disappear. What happened next well Gator found religion but that didn’t help him out to much. When his girlfriend left him he snapped and ended up raping and killing one of her friends and dumped it in the desert.
He later confessed to the murder and is now serving 31 years to life in prison. Well here is a look back when Gator was on the top of the world and kicking ass on the vert ramp