California Skateparks builds Maloof in 2010

Updated: February 9, 2010, 3:39 PM ET

Maloofs expand competition

Associated Press

IRVINE, Calif. -- The Maloof Money Cup skateboarding competition is expanding to New York City this year.
Joe and Gavin Maloof, who own the NBA's Sacramento Kings, said Tuesday they will hold Maloof Money Cup New York on June 5-6 at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, featuring a street skateboarding competition. The winner will earn $100,000.
The Maloofs have agreed to donate the $1.8 million, world-class skate park they will build for the competition to the city of New York through the City Parks and Recreation Department's "Adopt-A-Park" program. Joe Maloof said the cost of the skate park will be defrayed by contributions from sponsors Vans and Monster Energy.
The Maloof Money Cup will return to Southern California for the third straight year, featuring street and vert competition, from Aug. 4-8 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
"I always felt the most important thing was to start in California, where it was born," Joe Maloof said. "We'll always stay in Orange County and the L.A. area. That will always be No. 1. However, we needed to get an East Coast presence. It's a privilege to get into New York. It's not easy to have an event in New York."
The New York competition will include a wild-card contest to give local skaters the opportunity to compete against the top pros in the industry. Pro skaters Chris Cole and Geoff Rowley, New York skating icon Steve Rodriguez and Joe Ciaglia of California Skateparks will lead the design of the street course. The New York prize purse is nearly $250,000.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County will expand to five days.
Invited pros include defending champions Cole in the street competition and Alex Perelson in vert. The 18-year-old Perelson won last year's vert after becoming just the fourth person to land a 900 during a competition.
The Maloof Money Cup Orange County pays out nearly $500,000 in cash and prizes, with $100,000 going to the street winner and $75,000 to the vert winner.
Maloof said the competition will expand to South Africa in 2011.
"I think this thing has evolved from a small skateboarding camp to a major skateboarding event," Maloof said. "It's going to expand opportunities for skateboarding around the world."

Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press

Concrete Ledges for the DC Warehouse

California RampWorks is currently fabricating some custom street obstacles for the DC warehouse out of the Arizona Shop. Here are a few photos of the progress so far.

These are some killer steel balls the guys over at DC picked out for their grind boxes.

These balls are going to be used as the legs.

 

After the trays are fabricated into the correct shapes, the balls are then welded to the bottom of the tray.

Close up view of one of the feet

Once all the legs are attached and everything is braced of properly, the pieces will be ready to fill with concrete.

These pieces are super durable and designed to remain portable which work great for indoor applications.

Words/photos: Dug K

California RampWorks at the Fantasy Factory

California RampWorks has been hard at work with California Skateparks designing and building season 3 of Rob Dyrdek's MTV show, the Fantasy Factory.

I can't give away all the secrets, but here is a sneak peek form the construction site.  We added more ramps around the whole facility, giving the already spectacular indoor skaters fantasy a facelift and overhaul. 

We added all new rails and lines thruought like this killer kinked rail that is ready to be hit from all directions. Rob's Worlds largest skateboard (built by Joe Ciaglia at California Skateparks) will be seen in this season, mounted inside the park, sporting the  custom AWS and CSP graphics on the bottom.

The banks were also mellowed out and hips cleaned up to create better flow and should most definitely improve the lines.

The ramps are now completely surrounding the office space, creating unique flow lines inside and out. Shown here is the substructure of a concrete bowl corner that will lead into a miniramp on one side and a eurogap on the other.  RampWorks and California Skateparks have continued to use the hybrid construction techniques that allow for a truly freeing design experience. Creativity is now unleashed which makes all of us designers breathe a little easier when handing the designs and specs to the foreman.

Make sure you catch the first episode of Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory on MTV in 2010.

words: Dug K

photos: MTV and Erik B

Check out the new Woodward Camp in Beijing

You have got to see this!
A California Skateparks Designed project, Woodward Skate Camp in Beijing China.
Skating and Commentary by Corey Duffel, Cairo Foster, and Neal Hendrix.

Woodward Skate Camp in Beijing, China

 

The DC Ramp is Finally Finished!

California RampWorks has created yet another masterpiece. The brand new DC Vert Ramp is now complete, including an enormous street hip, removable square coping lappers, a Texas-sized euro-gap, rolling tranny sections, setback walls, and much more. Here are a few pictures of the freshly finished product. I will post some quality skate photos as they surface.

This is a prime example of what a vert ramp step-up would look like.

Tony and Joe shown here, totally blowing it! I told them to act natural.

They were putting the finishing touches and skatelite on the Chin-section.

Erik taking the time to show Jake exactly how easy it is to transform the channel.

A few bolts, levers, and braces later, the deck easily swings down with one person.

The entire Tranny piece sits on rollers, and simply rolls back out of the way creating a new channel and deck gap with grind box. Jake Brown's Pimp'n force is so strong he can move the section without even lifting a finger!

The Section of coping can stay in for a channel death rail,  or can be easily removed.

 

After nearing our deadline, we called our buddy Willy Wonka to send over some extra helpers to get the project finished. This was our favorite little guy, Brad.

The worlds largest indoor street hip.

Stay tuned for more projects from the California RampWorks Crew.

2010 is going to be a wild ride with all the MegaRamp Events, ASA BMX triples events, Three Stops of the Maloof Money Cup, The Dew Tour, X Games, Harmony Festival, and many more!

I hope to see you are one of our next events.

words: Dug

photos: Dug

RampWorks DC Warehouse progress

Almost nearing completion,  the California RampWorks crew gets closer to covering the massive indoor vert ramp for DC Shoes and Monster Energy.  Designed by Colin Mckay, Jake Brown, and PLG, this ramp has some seriously gnarly custom components. I can't to see these guys rip this thing apart!

Check out the truly unique banked hip on the right side. Truly the worlds largest street hip!

The extension of the banked wall to the right will have some Golden State pool coping installed to give it that extra level of gnar,

Here is a shot of the coping. Designed for Skateboarding, this new formula gives the noise and feel of real pool coping.

...and you thought you've skated a euro-gap...

This thing is massive.

 

Transformers are for girls... this is straight Monster Garage!

Harper has been designing this new fully custom rolling chanel gap. This section has a touch of the Chin Ramp influence, allowing for either a 8' chanel gap, a floating rail, or in closed position reates a long continuous flat wall. More proof that California RampWorks can make your wildest visions come to fruition.

Just a few more days and we should have this thing all sewn up.

Stay tuned for more...time for bed.

photos: Dug

words: Dug

New Pictures of the Berrics!

 


 



















Here is a good shot of the 5-stair rail and Hubbas. Everything you see here is a combination of concrete, steel, and wood. The last 10ft before the top of the stairs is all poured concrete to give that perfect snap.

Here you can see the 7-stair set and rails.  Butter.

The Park wasn't two weeks old and you can see the solid application of wax and wheels marks along the low ledges. If you haven't seen footage of the new park yet, go to www.theberrics.com now!

This feature I have coined a "Handi-Gap" for obvious reason. Not shown in this picture are two removable handrails that can be used as a pop-over rail or interconnected into one long flat-bar. I saw some good footage of Peter Ramondetta killing it.

Every indoor skatepark needs to upgrade to concrete.

If you would like to talk to us about an opportunity to upgrade your skatepark to Hybrid,

please visit www.carampworks.com and drop us a line.

Words: Dug

Photos: MRZ