Western Wallride

Mocoso of the Wallride Side crew sent in this pic of a backyard bowl build he's been helping on out West. Looks like Wallride Side got the permanent shut down by the city recently, which went so far as to send in a SWAT team to bust up the park and haul in whichever of the loc builders lurking at the site they could nab. Mocoso, Matamaricones and Estéban all escaped and decided to cool it for a few months by signing on to this job out West.

Click on the bitch

Fucking weird, but that backyard looks kind of familiar to me. I asked Mocoso who was behind it, though, and he said I wouldn't know the guy. "I recognize that place," I insisted! "It's like I've been there before or something." But to no avail. Mocoso ain't say shit, other than to throw out some cryptic explanation about Jimmy Acosta's goofy-footed stunt double or something. So don't get your hopes up.

One thing's for sure: It's hella cool to see people getting right to the point on this whole "backyard revisionism" thing that came out in Confusion Magazine a few months back. I mean, it's good to know that even with all the sick skate parks out West there are still people dedicated enough to make a backyard scene happen, which is the best way--in this age of predatory corporate colonialism--to build skating, since projects like these do more than just make skating possible. They protect its integrity, if there is such a thing, from the seemingly endless onslaught of cocksuckers trying to fuck it up. And that ought to be commended.