You just have to keep in mind like, “What would I want to skate when I was 7?” If the homeowners have kids who skate, are you talking to the kids about what kind of obstacles they want?Ībsolutely! Sometimes kids don’t have the best designs but I take into account exactly what they want and try and make it more skateable. We needed a retaining wall on a hillside, so I told the guys, “You might as well make the next leg of this whole thing skateable.” So retaining wall slash China Bank it is. We did one private job that was 4,500 square feet. The best design stuff happens when they’re like, “We can blend that into this and do a planter box over there, but we can smith grind it.” I really love blending residential traditional hardscape design into skatepark stuff. A lot of the time it’s a husband and wife and there’s a lot of, “Well, if he gets the ramp then I want this,” and I’m like, “OK, what if we blend this together?” Sometimes they go for it and sometimes they don’t. What’s the difference between working at someone’s house versus a random DIY spot? This is my job now.” So it became this like, “Hey we’re building spots in this ditch” to “We’re doing backyard remodels and these people are paying a lot of money to do this.” I started getting more and more calls and all of a sudden it was like, “Oh shit. We didn’t have a name, we didn’t have anything, but here and there I’d make a couple bucks and we’d have a new place to skate. It was just another part of skateboarding that was super fun. I started doing DIY spots around San Diego and LA just to skate. We were still skating, still making a little bit of money from it, kinda like “Time to get a job” but also “I don’t know, maybe we can keep it going for a minute.” I moved back to San Diego with Matt Mumford about 7 or 8 years ago. How did you get into doing residential projects instead of public skateparks? So we talked with him to find out what it’s like turning houses into skateparks and how much it’ll cost to turn the curb in front of our office into a sick launch ramp. Well, nowadays he’s making little kids (and 30+ year-old kids) jealous of his backyard skate spots. Some may remember Kyle from when he skated for World Industries and Consolidated, or when at 16 years old he won Tampa Pro (still the youngest to do so). Curious to know how these kinds of projects come about, we reached out to Kyle Berard, the one guy leading the charge in #ResidentialSkateboarding. But that’s weak compared to the kind of real e-skate people are building today.Ĭertain pro skaters - Shane O’Neill, Chris Cole, and Leticia Beefaroni - have full-on skateparks at their houses, and plenty of other sponsored and non-sponsored skaters have smaller backyard set-ups. Rob Dyrdek’s house used to have just two wooden quarterpipes, a box, and a flatbar, and that was pretty much considered a skatepark. It used to be the dream of every skateboarder to have a wooden mini ramp in their backyard.
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