Today June 15, 2009 at about 4:30 pm the last corner was finished on the Red Bull side of the Coastal Carnage bowl. I initially got a call from my friend Seth Elson from Four Star Fabrication and he gave me the scoop that he and his partner Brian Ferrel had designed the red bull bowl and it was going up. Knowing people is a good thing! I was there with skateboard in hand to be the first one in and hit 4 corners in it. Shortly after Eric Lee started skating it with me as well. About 1.5 hours after that Abe and Jason got done with their narley add-on section of the bowl which is basically another bowl that is sponsored by Converse shoes, and the first real session was on. The section that Jason designed is appropriatly named because you have to be thinking on that side the whole time or their will be carnage. After watching the first couple of runs it was clear to see that the scene of the most carnage is going to be the doorway. Tricks that where completed today where bowl to bowl spine transfers, grinds in the corner pocket and three people made it over the doorway of death and Abe got a nice grind in on his last attempt. Its nice to see the lead construction guys ripping the bowls the hardest and that would be Eric and Abe both with nice doorway rollovers! Here is a few pictures of both sides of the bowl and a video clip of us (I mean them skating and mid afternoon walkaround of the construction going down on the bowls.

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Coastal Carnage – Building the Bowls

Coastal Carnage – The first real session complete with a lot of firsts!