» Oktoberfest Skatepark , June 24th, 2005

In the late 80’s I was a sponsored amateur skateboarder. I took 1st at an AM competition in Denver, Colorado, got sponsored, and a year later moved out to Huntington Beach, California to pursue skateboarding.

I finished high school at Marina High School, where one of my classmates was Chet Thomas, who, at the time rode for Powell. We pretty much skated together all the time pushing each other to progress. We hit all the regular Huntington hot spots. Rode a few times with Ed Templeton, and actually rode a few times with Jason Lee, who had a 7 foot mini at his mom’s house (before he became an actor).

So even though I’m in my mid 30’s, I still pretty much skateboard as much as I can. These shots and video were taken by Niko Stumpo (of abnormalbehaviorchild.com and weareaiko.com fame) and Christian Flaccus at the skatepark where they throw Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.

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This railing is 32 inches high.

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And while Niko was trash talking that he could ollie higher than me - It was I who walked away the winner. Sweet !

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180 shuvit to truck grind down the railing.

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Clearing the “fuck gangster” fun box.

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9 Responses to “ Oktoberfest Skatepark ”
  1. stylemo said, on January 15th, 2007 at 1:22 am

    Wow! I didn’t know Joshua Davis can skate like that! Man thank you for the inspiration you bring to us. You really are one cool artist! And thanks for coming to Graphika Manila! You were really awesome!

    Thank you!

  2. Jerry said, on September 26th, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    Good to see you have not forgotten your roots. Sk8ing is always a great way to forget about the real world. Your coding is amazing you give us amateurs something to work towards without losing our own creativeness. If that is even a fucking word, creativeness. Thanks!

  3. yeh said, on September 22nd, 2006 at 9:48 am

    those are some yellow ass wheels… got to dust the board off more often!! Pivot rock to fakie is thumbs up!!

  4. thepod said, on September 19th, 2006 at 7:13 am

    great video. especially love the slo-mo portions. slo-mo video is always funny.

  5. Konik said, on September 14th, 2006 at 9:10 pm

    i cant believe you havent broken your legs old boi, still skating then. you really took the skate or die motto in the literal sense :P

    send me a mail tell me whats poppin with you these days, its been a while.

    - teh konik

  6. c said, on September 11th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    Nice hops, man! You push mongo just like me — we’re a tight community, you know. Ever make it to the Northwest? There’s some killer parks up here…

  7. Rory Breaker said, on September 10th, 2006 at 5:38 am

    I really like the tattoo’s you got.
    Can you take pictures of your arms close up of the artwork

    Do you have the original pictures of the art for us to see,
    before you got tattood

    thx

  8. Joshua Davis said, on September 6th, 2006 at 7:08 am

    that’s why I show both photos - going up and coming down in the second (and the video for ultimate proof).

    :)

    for me this week… it’s skating while listening to the eagles of death metal.

  9. ohio said, on September 5th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

    I stumbled onto your site while looking for old TOOL art. While I didn’t find what I was looking for, I must say that your stuff was pretty good. It’s cool to see other skaters art, espescially when influenced by the greatest band ever. Listening to TOOL, while skating, will make you better.

    P.S. I have trouble believing in the first ollie photo, too close to the rail.