Way back when, we were reporting on a new skatepark across the Atlantic opening and someone left a now-immortal comment.
“I’ve always wondered what skatepark builders have against STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGES. I live in CO and there’s a skatepark in every town with A 20 foot cradle but not a STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGE at any of em. What are the kids gonna do with a 20 FOOT CRADLE?!?! Just build us a STRAIGHT FUCKING LEDGE and be done with it!”
In the twelve years since, anytime we have reported on a built-for-skateboarding structure, we simply had to commentate on whether or not the park, plaza, et al. included a …Straight Fucking Ledge™.
Today, more New York City skateparks have Straight Fucking Ledges™, though probably not in the abundance that a Straight Fucking Ledge™-enthusiast would want.
So why not? We had already learned that high-concept structures are too much of a diceroll (see #14). Instead, we would practice what we preached. We were supposed to do a skate jam at Tompkins with Adidas, and for it, we built, yes: a Straight Fucking Ledge™.
Originally, we were supposed to mimic the proportions of Staten Island’s ABC ledge. (Shout out to @anyoneskating for getting those measurements like five minutes after the story post on the QS IG went up.) However, that ledge is 30-feet long, and unless you’re Mark Humienik, sliding across the whole thing isn’t really what that spot is known for.
Angle iron comes in 20-foot strips, so we chopped the ABC Ledge’s proportions down by ten feet, with the 14-inch height and 20-inch width identical to it.
Video by Greg Navarro.
When we were planning a recap vid, Greg was like, “For an event like this, you really need three cameras.” (Marshall said the same thing for the Hardies D7 jam.) Like an idiot, I didn’t get more people on camera besides Greg and missed a ton of stuff that went down because the jam averaged about one trick attempt per second. Sorry to anyone we missed; promise we’ll get you on the next one 🫡
Man that was the most wax I’ve ever seen somebody do. And s/o Doogie
Fuckyeah