Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Mark "Monk" Hubbard.



Grindline.

Mark passed away last June. He left his imprint on the planet by building numerous skateboard parks all over the United States and the world. The man had a vision of creating massive flowing seas of concrete for people to skateboard on and he certainly accomplished that goal. His parks in the Pacific Northwest helped spawn the all terrain wonder kids that have come to shape where skating is these days.

Grindline built a small little park in Erie, Pennsylvania in 2009. It's not as fancy as some of their other creations, but it is a nice little slab of concrete. The surface is so smooth. It sucks I never got there to roll last year. I sort of didn't hit up a variety of terrain in 2018. That was the one lame thing about the last twelve months.

Congrats to Beer City on tapping the quarter keg last year. Cheers to many more.

The photo is by Marshall Stack.

Thrasher - July 2018 Volume 39 Number 7

1 comment:

Justin said...

If Vert Is Dead doesn't get updated Wednesday or Thursday, it will be because of weather. We're supposed to get a bad snow storm starting tonight and I'm not sure how things will work out. In the event of a snow day, I'll post what I was planning on the next day.