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Aye Matey: The New Skater Island

by Brooke Geery

For the past couple weeks I've been trying to find out if Skater Island in Middletown,

RI had completed it's expansion. I finally decided that the only way to figure it out was to go there myself. I made the voyage on May 8th, and when I got there I was greeted by quite a pleasant surprise. The one they call Crazyhorse let us know we had come on the right day, as the bigger bowl was right inline to be complete. I spent the day drooling over it while a layer of masonite was applied. Finally around 7:00 it was determined that it was done enough, and the crew was given a 12-pack so they'd stop working. This is when the session got started. Of course, I couldn't cut it with the big boys for long, so I retired to the deck with my digital camera. Luckily for you, this means I took lots of pictures. Before I get into that however, a little disclaimer. As a skateboard photo editor, I am about as accomplished as the people who choose extreme sport photos for non-industry companies, ("So what he's not grabbing, the composition's great!") Basically, I have no idea if these photos are any good, but you'll get the idea either way.

Left: I believe this guy's name is Jack. He did a really cool backside Smith grind on the pool coping, but I wasn't paying attention to shoot it, so instead, I'm pretending this is a good shot. Right: I asked Tim to write down his full name for me so I wouldn't misspelled it. He agreed, and quickly penned two words, "BIG TIM."

Left: The infamous Crazy Horse was one of the first to drop in to the new ramps. He proceeded to kill it for the remainder of the evening, even though it was snowing inside the park. Either that or it was dusty, but I'm going with the former. Hey, it was only about 90 degrees out, and the park is indoors, it could happen.