The Ramp

It all started in the backyard. After watching Back to the Future my brother and I had gotten a couple of skateboards. I got a Variflex, and Eric got the legit Valterra just like Marty McFly. We rode those boards around the neighborhood, mostly bombing the hill in front of our house.

And then we got the first real boards. Mine was an Alva Eddie Reategui and Eric's was a Santa Cruz Jeff Kendall. Shortly after we got these boards, we built the ramp:

Now let's get one thing straight: this was not a properly built ramp. It had a little half-inch piece of wood molding for coping, and was built by basically laying a piece of plywood on top of a bunch of pieces of wood sticky up from random places.

But it worked. Eric and I learned how to kickturn on this ramp, and that was part of the beginning.