what came from the evolution was pretty unique and gnarly. we werent going to be pulling no 5' high bowl in a 20' high space bullshit. we went big- 7 1/2 trannys w 4 1/2 feet of vert in 20' space. that vert wall was 16 pool blocks wide. the rest of the bowl was onehundredandtwentysix feet of handpoured cement coping with a 3" dia nose. that coping made a ledge across 2 extensions, made a 3' high ledge across the upper party deck, spined the mini, flew over a 3' wide door, escalated down and around a pocket, whipped around 3' radius hip at 7' tall and kept you flying in a no flat bottom tube that had 4 1/2 of vert on 1 side.

the warehouse dwellers (joe, kevin, slava, andrea and biscuit) sometimes slept as we transformed their space with amazing quickness. we finished it in about 2 months of random evenings- the masonite was on and the coping was poured by thanksgiving. it was a massive effort of pooling the resources of my skater friends. guys from construction (jimbo, tuck, brandon, oke..) brought what they could; wastell and his apprentice hooked up huge halogen lights and power to the stage; big ed brought his fancy hilti tools and stuck that vert wall to the brick; companies like conspiracy, thrifty stick and 64mm donated money or materials; merk layed out the hip and pockets for kevin; james and vince made the coping happen; and many others like brisco, tom, the motts, cam, steve, plug ed, joel, rich, christian, sessions, bruce, nels, ben, jen, dana, john, shorts and more donated time and money when they could. we never ran out of supplies, someone always came through. we had bowl fever and converted a huge mass of scrap wood into something very special.

when it was all said and done, we had one of the coolest spaces denver has ever seen. there was a huge stage for bands to play while people either skated or moshed in the bowl (sometimes this was combined with kids moshing up the trannies and over the door); a huge wall to show videos on with plenty of seating on the lip; and a one of a kind skateboard bowl. the bowl had features never seen or combined in such a way. it wasnt easy to skate, the lines were different and sometimes you had to use your balls as well as your skills. but as a skater i think you should embrace such a thing and take what you can out of it. use your creativity and find your flow- something only a few learned to do in the bowl. thats probably why people called it the death bowl. but it was anything but death- we resurrected a bowl, had a sanctuary from the man, played music real loud, made the denver winter pass real quick and kept skateboarding real.