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I've been riding my skates in empty pools, ramps and skateboard
parks for the last 31 years. I turned pro at the Dog Bowl Pro
contest at Marina Del Rey Skate Park in 1978. I have met some
of the finest people I have ever known through skating. Pool
skating continues to be a great and thrilling adventure in my life.
Fred Blood and I started out together and I don't believe either
one of us would have gotten as far as we did without the other.
We pushed each other every day that we skated and we skated
every day. It was what we lived for. There used to be many
skaters in the skateboard parks and it didn't seem all that
strange. These days when I show up to skate it's a real oddity.
There are a handful of diehard skaters out there still ripping
pools from coast to coast and across the globe. You won't
usually find more than one of us at any given time at a particular
location. I am hoping to change that in the next couple of years.
Guys like Brian Wainright over on the east coast and my good
friend Irene Ching from New York, and Jay Tubb over in the U.K.
are all die hard skaters that continue to spread the word and
shred their local spots on a regular basis, for the love of the
sport. There are actually many more skaters out there that
deserve recognition and perhaps if you’re reading this you'll get
the chance to see one or more of them in action.
Keeping the faith
Duke Rennie,
tell you
