Jersey Dave was like, “Do you guys wanna do an obstacle this year?”
“Nah” — seeing as how the design-by-committee Pool Coping Philly Step™ from last year that people were soooo excited for didn’t live up to everyone’s imaginations. (We got into it at entry #14 in 2024’s Year-in-Review.)
“…wait!” Instead of building what other people want, we’re going to build what we want! And what do we want in an age of tension, frustration, and uncertainty?
A foot-high “hubba” ledge down a mellow slope, with the satisfactory friction of diamond-plate as you make your way down it with any respective dream trick that would prove too frightening for an actual hubba ledge, or even one at a skatepark.
Lucky for us, the prototype already exists on 114th and Morningside, except out of the last 100 years, it has been under scaffolding for probably all but a cumulative four months. So we enlisted the brilliant mind of Jerry Mraz to measure it, and replicate it in fine-tuned detail.
It’ll remain at the Vans park for a tiny bit longer, but we’re currently in talks to restructure it into a plain ol’ diamond-plate box to drop at Tompkins or Blue. Hopefully it gets skated more than the Pool Coping Philly Step™.
