Carving concrete: Skaters at Venice Beach Skate Park

The action is nonstop at the Venice Beach Skate Park. The sounds of skateboards scraping and pounding concrete fill the air as skaters make their moves inside smooth bowls at the park, which stands as a monument to the rich skateboarding tradition in Venice and Santa Monica. The bowls are like the empty swimming pools where Z-Boys -- members of the local Zephyr skateboard team -- revolutionized the sport with their surfer-like moves in the 1970s.

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• skate park
• venice beach
• Z-Boys
• Zephyr
• sports
• skateboard
• outdoors

[moldycatpoo1]

Sweettttttttt

[nocknights]

Wow,I've gotten so high and crashed right on the side of the big bowl so many times its weird to see it on you tube. the fucking Tee's break so nicely at night.but at 4 to 5 in the morning the volunteer cleaners come out!!

[filmforellis]

@billycrash138 oh, ok thanks dude, ive been waiting my whole life for someone on youtube to give me the approval to come out of the closet

[billycrash138]

MONGO RULEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­ZZZ. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[billycrash138]

@filmforellis mongo rules!!! you can come out of the closet now...

[lee0122333]

I SKATED DOWN THE WHOLE VENICE BEACH AND I COULDNT FIND MOST OF THE SPOTS IN PRO SKATER 2????

[filmforellis]

@PahubianInfluence666 we care about how someone pushes because mongo is fuckin gay

[PahubianInfluence666]

why the hell does everyone care so much about how someone pushes? Because some pro skater told you to push a certain way? who fucking cares!!! i can push both regular or mongo, its not about how you push, its what you do after you push...stop looking into it so much and worry about skating. skate whats easier for you, not what someone else tells you is 'cool' or 'not cool'

[VanZevenbergen]

somebody is pushing mongo at 0:25. that's a sin!!!

[brianator145]

@terminater3: yea hotsteeze is awesome i use it all the time to find new tricks