MMR or McDowell Mt. Ranch Skate Park was the setting for day filled with good memories.  On hand for the event were skateboarding legends Micke Alba and Kevin Staab, the AZPX local riders as well as Little Villain Skateboard team.

I was a fun day Kevin was purple from hair to pads and was killing it in the deep end of the MMR bowl after arriving late to Micke heckling him about the time.

Micke was mixing it up with the kids doing double runs with combinations of airs and hand-plants with local riders Shane Short and Trey Wood.

Old school events were staged with the simplest of items such as duck-tape and traffic cones.  The  longest carve and the the longest one truck grind  made for exciting events.  One would think these to be simple but wow guess again.  The act of pumping in your carve to carve higher was revived from a long forgotten 80′s contest video and adopted by the youngest of riders needless to say the crowed went wild.

NEXT the Best Trick contest was held in the deep end of the bowl on a TV…. yes a TV… we are still in the 80′s folks … its nice here  … and the winner got to keep the gem!! Fast-plants , Air-to-Tail, even blunt-to-fakeys attacked the helpless TV that sat braced by Robert Gonzales SR.  ( Flanked by Pat McGinnis and I cameras in hand attempting not to get killed ) This was truly a FUN EVEN, nothing like the trash skating days of the 80′s!!!

Lastly the BIG AIR contest in the BOWL.  with a mic stand and some tape the Airs were blasting with Andrew Miller, Shane Short, Rad Pinckard and Trey Wood setting the bar so to speak …. well in this case they were setting the tape!!

The best part of the event was everyone having fun and getting to hang out with skateboardings legends as well as the future of skateboarding.

You might have noticed I failed to list any of the winners …. there were winners but the KIDS having fun is more important and sometimes i think  people forget that and what skateboarding was all about when Kevin and Micke were kids …. or even when i was a kid in the 80′s in arizona with no parks at all.  We skated wood and empty lots, empty buildings and pools and we all had fun doing so … when we were not running from the cops.  I guess my point is Skateboarding is about Fun FIRST just a reminder.