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| EL RODEO DE COCHINO / ROUND ONE / CHINO |
| BLKPRJKT |
The first round of the Rodeo is in the books. The initial reaction of competitors and spectators alike is generally the same:
"Uh, nobody is gonna bust out on that." At first glance, El Cochino is absurd. Several acres of denuded Guatemalan rain forest, 6543 recycled aluminum cans, 3 square miles of griptape, and 8 pounds worth of plastic risers, rails, and mounting hardware. Add a set of vintage Bullet 66's and you have it. El Cochino is an equalizer, a yardstick of human achievement in the carnival of the bizarre we like to refer to as skateboarding.
MSK testing the capabilities of the practice board while Kyle contemplates heavy strategies.
Roy Starin hoists some wood in the deep and shows off the sweet Richard Sanchez graphic.
Why would we hold a contest like this? We aren't even sure ourselves. If I was asked specifically to define the "why" of the rodeo, I might respond this way: Some people take skateboarding way too seriously. If it isn't fun, maybe it's not worth doing. You can be deadly serious about it and still have fun, well you should anyways...if not, well, I don't know what to tell you.
The point of all this is that maybe there is no point, really. It's just a different skateboard. It's just a contest. It's just you and the pig. At first, it seemed we might not even be able to get people to enter. Based on the reaction of most people to seeing the board in the flesh for the first time, maybe this wasn't the best idea. Some people won't even step on the thing out of fear, or pride, or ego, or something.
Not an entrant, but just stirring up the pot a bit, BLKPRJKT paying a bit of lip service to the porkbellied princess.
Nick arrived after some heavy salvoes were fired, but rather than shy away, he steps it up a few notches.
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Brian Whitney was giving the other first round competitors a serious run for the money. Yeah, that's an invert.
The gravity of peer pressure can sometimes play to your favor. All it took was one young man to get the ball rolling. In fact he set the bar extremely high. After witnessing his madness, We thought that no one else would accept the challenge. we were wrong. The Rodeo is heating up, and the big guns are contemplating ultimate takedown moves. As competitive as this might seem, it's all about fun. You know what that is...right?
Kyle presented a deep bag of lip trickery later in the day(see the video) and then proceeded to take frontside ollies™ home, along with grind revert variations and a lot of other madness.
Chuck Hults screams through a backside smithback grind. Check the tortured geometry of that back steering column!!!
Brian skies the hip transfer line. El Cochino is so heavy, a single rail grab isn't enough to keep his shoes plastered to the tape, but he still landed this with relative ease.(see the video)
Round two is coming, Sunday Dec 11th at Glendale/Verdugo Skatepark in Glendale, CA. MAN UP! The more entrants, the bigger the purse! What have you got to lose but five dollars, some skin, and a bit of pride?
Saddle up suckers!
El Rodeo de Cochino is proudly supported and sponsored by:
CONCRETEDISCIPLES.COM
Madrid Skateboards / Full Circle distribution
Rockin' Ron's Rocket Bearings
OLD STAR / LOOSETRUCKS.COM
Crooks rails
Team Goon / Punk Rock Skateboards
-BLKPRJKT
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-BLKPRJKT / PHOTOS MRZ |
Sunday 27th 2005f November 2005 20:16
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