I don't know too much about Grindline, but I can say that they are fun merchants of the highest order. Leaving a concrete wave of construction in their wake, Grindline has blessed me with four ripping parks within twenty miles of my house.

The Carnation, WA (murdertown) is a delicious mix of deep end trannies with bowled corners, mellow shallow end and over vert pocket. It will let you be lazy if you need to bang out your mini ramp tricks, or push you out of your comfort zone with all sorts of hips, coping and speed for your fix. It also sits in a really nice setting, with a playground, BMX jumps and grassy field as immediate neighbors. Wanna bring the cooler and the grill? Carnation is the ticket.

Duvall is the best use of space I've seen at a skatepark, period. The street course have everthing a street monkey would want: ledges, rails, street gap and more. A jewel adjacent to the street course is the left hand kidney bowl with stairs in the shallow end. Unlike a real pool, I can grind this one. The first time over the stairs I felt like Salba. The pool is challenging yet not impossible to skate. After a few carves you need to either tackle the stairs or dump speed somewhere. There is plenty of room but it isn't a trench... It is such a good example of skateboarding terrain. Check it out.

Whoever thought up the aggregate coping for that bowl is a genius. I was trying to deduce the thought process on that one. "Hey, let's put pool coping in." "Hey, how about we try something different. I think this will work." "Cool, let's do it."

I don't know how they arrived at the final decision or how they tested the product, but I am so glad they did. It absolutely rips! Grindline: thank you. If I knew who you were I would shake your hand. As it is now I feel like I owe you a case of PBR's. Swing by to collect.