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interviews and guest posts
- #177: cbi tm roundtable
- #176: rick ibaseta (2024)
- #175: tommy guerrero (2024)
- #174: chima ferguson (2024)
- #173: kenny reed
- #172: nikophotography
- #171: mike frazier
- #170: brian anderson (2024)
- #169: jake johnson
- #168: ben raybourn
- #167: zered bassett
- #166: rick howard
- #165: ron cameron
- #164: randy colvin
- #163: brian lotti (2023)
- #162: mark appleyard
- #161: josh kalis (2023)
- #160: satva leung
- #159: chico brenes
- #158: rick mccrank
- #157: marc mckee
- #156: evan smith
- #155: jonathan mehring
- #154: john lucero
- #153: frank gerwer
- #152: kevin "spanky" long
- #151: louie barletta
- #150: max schaaf
- #149: gideon choi
- #148: sean sheffey
- #147: caesar singh
- #146: robbie mckinley
- #145: joey pepper
- #144: ray simmonds
- #143: joey bast
- #142: brennand schoeffel
- #141: chris miller
- #140: andrew allen
- #139: louie lopez
- #138: gabe morford
- #137: jake rosenberg
- #136: mark suciu
- #135: karl watson
- #134: matt rodriguez
- #133: jason lee
- #132: fred gall
- #131: ron knigge
- #130: jake rupp
- #129: ronnie bertino (2019)
- #128: ed templeton
- #127: bobby worrest
- #126: silas baxter-neal
- #125: atiba jefferson
- #124: thomas morgan
- #123: mike o'meally
- #122: lance dawes
- #121: jed walters
- #120: kelly bird
- #119: keith hufnagel (2018)
- #118: dan wolfe
- #117: scott johnston
- #116: socrates leal
- #115: jeremy wray
- #114: shiloh greathouse
- #113: barker barrett
- #112: ronnie creager
- #111: grant brittain
- #110: steve olson
- #109: frank hirata
- #108: anthony van engelen
- #107: jef hartsel
- #106: kerry getz
- #105: steve caballero
- #104: ray barbee
- #103: dan drehobl
- #102: tony hawk
- #101: eric koston
- #100: danny way
- #99: andy stone
- #98: ocean howell
- #97: sal barbier
- #96: alphonzo rawls
- #95: jason adams
- #94: ryan hickey
- #93: vinny ponte
- #92: steven cales
- #91: chris senn
- #90: chris carter
- #89: joey suriel
- #88: lennie kirk
- #87: gabriel rodriguez
- #86: ishod wair
- #85: thomas campbell
- #84: jerry hsu
- #83: tobin yelland
- #82: mike blabac
- #81: andrew reynolds
- #80: mike maldonado
- #79: gino iannucci
- #78: ryan fabry
- #77: jason dill (2014)
- #76: todd congelliere
- #75: nate jones
- #74: kris markovich
- #73: rudy johnson
- #72: danny sargent
- #71: sean malto
- #70: reese forbes
- #69: matt beach
- #68: bo turner
- #67: mike daher
- #66: jovontae turner
- #65: natas kaupas
- #64: guy mariano
- #63: lance mountain
- #62: marc johnson
- #61: bobby puleo
- #60: tommy guerrero
- #59: daewon song
- #58: tim gavin
- #57: colin mckay
- #56: cairo foster
- #55: karma tsocheff
- #54: ryan gee
- #52: shawn mandoli
- #51: clint peterson
- #50: jerry fowler
- #49: andy jenkins
- #48: jefferson pang
- #47: drake jones
- #46: josh kalis (2012)
- #45: rick jaramillo
- #44: jason rogers
- #43: tod swank
- #42: danny montoya
- #41: ron chatman
- #40: pat duffy
- #39: danny garcia
- #38: tim o’connor
- #37: jeremy klein
- #36: clyde singleton
- #35: brian emmers
- #34: frankie hill
- #33: omar salazar
- #32: jahmal williams
- #31: ron allen
- #30: willy santos
- #29: james kelch
- #28: donny barley
- #27: eric ricks
- #26: greg hunt
- #25: dennis busenitz
- #24: james hardy
- #23: davis torgerson
- #22: rick ibaseta
- #21: rob welsh
- #20: quim cardona
- #19: salman agah
- #18: mike york
- #17: chris pastras
- #16: justin girard
- #15: mike carroll
- #14: sean sheffey
- #13: jason dill
- #12: don pendleton
- #11: brian lotti
- #10: duane pitre (2010)
- #9: jamie thomas
- #8: chima ferguson (2010)
- #7: richard mulder
- #6: tony ferguson
- #5: ronnie bertino
- #4: brian anderson (2010)
- #3: keith hufnagel (2010)
- #2: chris hall
- #1: john drake
- guest post: dave swift
- guest post: john cardiel
- guest post: gino iannucci
- guest post: keith hufnagel
- guest post: michael sieben
- guest post: clyde singleton
- guest post: jon horner
- guest post: mark whiteley
- guest post: bryce kanights
- guest post: alex olson
- guest post: van’s bro
- guest post: van’s bros
- guest post: jason rothmeyer
- guest post: ronnie bertino
- guest post: chris nieratko
- guest post: jake rosenberg
- guest post: jeremy wray #1
- guest post: jeremy wray #2
- guest post: jeremy wray #3
- guest post: jeremy wray #4
- guest post: alyasha moore
- guest post: aaron meza
- guest post: julien stranger
- a serious tea drinker
- commentary: lance mountain
- skate free series
- eric koston vs. l.a. courthouse
- roundtable: eric koston
- cbi x abd #5: drake jones
- mark and eric's pack of lies: intro
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: natas (#1)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: thiebaud (#2)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: thiebaud (#3)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: blender (#5)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: blender (#6)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: mountain (#7)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: barbee (#8)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: hensley (#9)
- mark and eric’s pack of lies: lotti (#10)
scans and everything else
- 101
- 40s
- a new york minute
- aaron meza
- aaron murray
- abandon ship
- adam mcnatt
- after black hammers
- alan petersen
- alex olson
- ali boulala
- alien workshop
- alphonzo rawls
- alva posse
- alyasha owerka-moore
- andrew allen
- andrew reynolds
- andy howell
- andy jenkins
- andy roy
- andy stone
- animal chin
- anthony correa
- anthony pappalardo
- anthony van engelen
- anti hero
- ari marcopoulos
- arto saari
- atiba jefferson
- barker barrett
- ben liversedge
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- ben sanchez
- ben schroeder
- beryl banks
- big brother
- bill danforth
- bill weiss
- billy valdes
- billy waldman
- blind
- blue
- bo turner
- bobby puleo
- bobby worrest
- bones brigade
- bonus part
- brad staba
- brain floss
- brandon biebel
- brennan conroy
- brennand schoeffel
- brian anderson
- brian blake
- brian chung
- brian emmers
- brian ferdinand
- brian lotti
- brian wenning
- brick distribution
- brooklyn banks
- bryan herman
- bryce kanights
- bullshit
- burnside
- buster halterman
- caesar singh
- caine gayle
- cairo foster
- carl shipman
- carlos kenner
- carlsbad gap
- chad bowers
- chad muska
- chany jeanguenin
- check outs
- chico brenes
- chima ferguson
- china banks
- chocolate
- chris branagh
- chris carter
- chris hall
- chris keeffe
- chris miller
- chris nieratko
- chris pastras
- chris senn
- christian hosoi
- chrome ball crailtap top 5
- chrome ball incident
- chrome ball incident for abd
- chrome ball incident guest board
- chrome ball incident x bobshirt
- chrome ball incident x heel bruise
- chrome ball incident x nike
- chrome ball incident x scumco
- chrome ball incident x tws
- chrome ball interview
- chrome ball roundtable
- chrome ball theatre
- chrome ball x killing floor
- chrome ballers
- clint peterson
- closer magazine
- closer x lucero x chrome ball
- clyde singleton
- clyde's corner unedited
- coco santiago
- colby carter
- cole wilson
- colin mckay
- corey chrysler
- corey o'brien
- cream
- curbs
- daewon song
- dan drehobl
- dan peterka
- dan wolfe
- dane burman
- danny garcia
- danny montoya
- danny renaud
- danny sargent
- danny supa
- danny way
- Darrell Stanton
- darren navarrette
- daryl angel
- dave swift
- davis torgerson
- debbie does chrome ball
- dennis busenitz
- dennis mcgrath
- diego bucchieri
- don pendleton
- donny barley
- doug smith
- drake jones
- droors
- duane pitre
- dylan rieder
- ed devera
- ed templeton
- eddie villa
- elissa steamer
- ellesse shoes
- EMB
- eric dressen
- eric koston
- eric pupecki
- eric ricks
- erik ellington
- ethan fowler
- evan smith
- fabian alomar
- flushing meadows
- Fort Miley
- forties
- foundation
- fourstar
- frank gerwer
- frank hirata
- frankie hill
- fred gall
- gabe morford
- gabriel rodriguez
- geoff rowley
- george daher
- gershon mosley
- gideon choi
- gino iannucci
- girl
- goodbye
- grant brittain
- greg hunt
- gsd
- guest post
- guy mariano
- harold hunter
- heath kirchart
- henry sanchez
- holidays
- hubba hideout
- ishod wair
- ivan perez
- jahmal williams
- jake johnson
- jake rosenberg
- jake rupp
- james hardy
- james kelch
- jamie thomas
- jason adams
- jason carney
- jason dill
- jason lee
- jason rogers
- jason rothmeyer
- javier nunez
- jaya bonderov
- jb gillet
- jean michelle
- jed walters
- jef hartsel
- jeff grosso
- jeff lenoce
- jeff pang
- jeff pettit
- jeff phillips
- jeremy henderson
- jeremy klein
- jeremy wray
- jeremy wray week
- jeron wilson
- jerry fowler
- jerry hsu
- jesse martinez
- jesse neuhaus
- jim greco
- jim phillips
- jim thiebaud
- joe lopes
- joey alvarez
- joey bast
- joey mcsqueeb
- joey pepper
- joey suriel
- john cardiel
- john drake
- john igei
- john lucero
- john montesi
- john pryor
- john rattray
- johnny come lately club
- jon horner
- jonas wray
- jonathan mehring
- jones keeffe
- jordan richter
- josh beagle
- josh kalis
- josh stewart
- jovontae turner
- julien stranger
- june cate
- justin bokma
- justin case
- justin girard
- justin lovely
- justin strubing
- kareem campbell
- karl watson
- karma tsocheff
- keenan milton
- keith hufnagel
- kelly bird
- kenny anderson
- kenny hughes
- kenny reed
- kerry getz
- kevin "spanky" long
- kevin taylor
- kien lieu
- kit erickson
- kris markovich
- kyle walker
- la courthouse
- laban phedias
- lance conklin
- lance dawes
- lance mountain
- larry perkins
- lavar mcbride
- lee ralph
- lee smith
- lennie kirk
- lester kasai
- lewis marnell
- lotti sandwiches
- louie barletta
- louie lopez
- love park
- marc johnson
- marc mckee
- marcus mcbride
- mario rubalcaba
- mark and eric's pack of lies
- mark appleyard
- mark gonzales
- mark heintzman
- mark suciu
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- phil shao
- phillips studios
- pier 7
- plan b
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- Profile
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- real week
- recommended by
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36 comments:
chrome ball will return on Tuesday.
happy birthday, beats.
EPIC post Chops!!!--thanks for making the week end on a sweet note!
amazing pictures
R.I.P. Hubba. I remember rolling up in that place in 95 and thinking "I gots no hops". Shoulda shared some ready rock with the bike messengers in their g-strings.
poor hubba. if i lived up there i'd try to get a chunk of it while they are destroying it. sell that shit on ebay like a piece of the berlin wall.
didn't the butcher have an indy ad doing his kf bs ts?
i finally went to sf & went to hubba a few years ago. when that wallenburg contest went on. i tried one noseslide, landed in the gravel & got a heelbruise. it was rad.
it was pretty big.
i feel like if another hubba hideout appeared, a ledge with the exact dimensions, all the madness would start from the beginning. like a tailslide would be legit. its only because it was hubba and so much had been done on it, that so much more got done on it. if that makes any sense.
Sick post. so many good tricks went down at that spot. I remember Lavar McBride killing it in Trilogy.
great post chops.
I never got to see it nor skate it. So many sick tricks went down on it.
I like the angle of the Carroll bs smith...
Dill sw fs krooked grind... was there ever footage of that?
And the SJ Think ad. Look at those wheels!
Carroll cover in Pumas looks amazing.
That on video clip is the best. Lennie Kirk with the sw bs 180 fakie nose grind is off the charts.
THE END OF AN ERA!!!
R.I.P. hubba! been there a few times that place was no joke...
If the city is tearing it down because of the skating, I wonder if they are aware of how many of those little skate rats turned into successful entrepreneurs.
I remember when I seen Carroll hitting it in the Fully Flared vid thinking that shit was art. Kind of like going full circle. Starting there, then coming back with all blessings skateboarding gave him in between.
Keep it up chops!
glad i got to visit hubba this past year. gnarly height.
as i walked up the stairs, satva leung walked down.
didnt even realize until a second after he pasted.
Awesome shots, all of them, but I'm really feeling that Carroll bs smith. Never saw that one before, really cool photo.
Check out that style on SJ's nosegrind too, damn.
Greatest trick ever done at Hubba? Random dude ollie over a board to manual, manual the whole joint pop off the ledge. Sure, it's no Lavar in Trilogy, or even Koston. But shit was so SMOOTH, son.
K, I met the dude that manualed down about a decade ago in SF...Joe something, he had some clips in Thrasher videos from around that time doing similarly wonky tricks. I gotta quibble with the "All Hubba Teams" because Lennie Kirk should be on there. Props to my friend Chad for switch tailsliding it in '95, shortly after Dyrdek. Timely post.
Hey K and Platinum. The guy that manualed hubba was Joe Valdez.
Here is his part from thrasher Timebomb. http://www.thrashermagazine.com/component/option,com_hwdvideoshare/Itemid,93/task,viewvideo/video_id,238/
If you youtube search his name you will also find some other good clips
Joe Valdez, right?
@ handsclapanin, the footage of the kf bs ts was in the Think video Dedication IIRC. Pretty sure Paul Shier kf bs 50-50d for a 411 part (no. 22??)
Only those who've been there will know how much heftier and more intimidating it is in real life. It's properly large and the drop on the other side rarely shows well on video.
Always bemused with Carl Shipman's straight legged fs blunt, largely as his body is 90 degrees to his right leg, proper geometric shapes!
That Scott Johnson Think ad was on my wall as a young fella - copied the light bulb tag and scrawled it all over my school books for years.
Epic post chops, much appreciated!
I almost always made it a point to see what was going down at hubba during SF visits. I remember my first time there was shortly after I'd seen pictures of Steve Olson slaughtering it. Thinking about the tricks, and then looking at this massive thing... it just seemed absurd at the time.
The memory of my friend Ano's fs 5-0 down it will stay with me forever.
Thanks guys.
I just want to chime in also about the first time I saw Hubba, I really couldn't get over how big it was either.
This was '96 and my first time to California. We went to LA first and I immediately realized how much smaller everything seemed there... this was during the elementary school gold rush where everything was miniature. I became so suspect of the things I'd seen in the magazines that I figured by the time we got to SF and Hubba, it would be a joke.
I was wrong. That thing is just an awkward mammoth pillar. And that was before it was widely known about the drop on the other side. I couldn't believe it.
Plus, I remember there were kids just sitting there. Camped out. All day. Just waiting for someone to come and skate it. I know cause I tried waiting them out so I could attempt to kill myself without such an audience but they were there everyday I was there, all day.
And Plat, I agree. That list is suspect. No Lennie or MC? And how is Gershon in the starting 5? I only remember a switch noseslide.
Last trick in his The Reason part - flip fs noseslide. Pretty savage too.
Gershon switch front smithed it.
I found Hubba Hideout using a map you emailed me. The same map you used some 12 years earlier. Then my soon to be fiance tagged "Happy Birthday Robby" underneath one of the ledges.
I have to add, I was very suprised at the size of it.
Thanks, Chops.
Say what you will about Steve Olson, the dude had flair and could rotate his bs 180 nosegrind 180 all the way around. Pony up, young bucks!
what about karl watson's frontside noseslide, FRONTSIDE 270 out! shit was absolutely bonkers, and he did it clean, too.
brian anderson killed it too.
Peter Smolik, handling the spot all switch, in "Fulfill the Dream" has to be my favorite...all while wearing a Real sweatshirt, so tight!
That Carroll Thrasher cover is one of the worst cover photos Thrasher ever ran. Not showing or cropping the steps is the equivalent of the newspaper photographer who shoots a photo of someone doing an air on a vert ramp and not showing the coping.
i liked it
Anyone understand the Crailtap comment, "Don't you hate it when someone turns the Hubba calendar a day early in the boys' bathroom?"
They mean Hubba wheels. The psuedo smutboarding company calendar, no relation to the famous ledge.
That list is pretty lame. Lavar should be at the top. Stand outs to me (video, not ads unfortunately) were Dill's nollie 180 switch bs 50-50, Marcus' heelflip bs 50-50, Cairo's nollie nosegrind, and Garcia's nollie flip ns.
First time I gawked the ledge was the same trip I saw Wallenberg for the first time, in '98. It was a sobering trip.
Drake told me that Kalis did that SS-BS-TS on 2 separate occasions. Unreal.
Oh, forgot to say AMAZING POST CHOPS!!! Thanks once again.
Oh shit, this is pretty damn epic! BA and Steve Olson will always be the two rulers of this place...
Once skated here with Ed Templeton, Brian Anderson, Chico and Pat Duffy-had to be one of the randomest sessions I've ever seen/been at! Great times for sure, thanks Chops for reigniting old memories!
damn quinn, i didn't even notice Lavar WASN'T on that list. Pretty much voids that thing.
And is that really Chip Van Ham? Whoa.
I love this post. How do you feel about an update with any additional pics you come across in your treasure trove of old skate mags? I know its been torn down and all, but I still love seeing pictures of this place.
Anyone know who that is jumping into a 5050 at the top in the McGrath photo? I only seen BA skate that in Sheep-my fav hubba clips. Kinda looks like Jamie Thomas. Was Freddy not on that list? Staba got some goods too. But yeah Lennie is king. Pennys bs tail was sweet too . Shout out to Wade. I wonder if Upson ever hit it. Senn did a noseslide 270 shuv I wonder how many other tricks went down undocumented.
Muska.
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