POOL SAFARI
Words & Photos by Brian Brannon
That idea
obliterated, work soon began on the West Seattle Bowl, aka the King
Kong
Kidney, an 11 foot deep amoeba in a sympathetic friend's backyard. Now,
five years later, Munk owns the house and wants to put in a vert ramp
in
the warehouse behind it, while actively encouraging skaters from all
over
to move to his neighborhood and build stuff in their backyards too.
When it
all comes together, Munk envisions a sidewalk snakerun going from house
to
house with a pool or ramp in every yard.
Munk's plan is to continually
move
forward, month by month, day by day, in order to create the first ever
urban skate jungle. "We're gonna take over the whole West side of
Seattle,"
he says.
"It's not over, it's just begun. . ."
This episode of Pool Safari goes out to Munk, aka Mark Hubbard, a pool
skating madman from out Seattle way, who not only rip rides it up every
chance he gets, but is also the instigator behind the creation of some
mighty fine skate spots. Inspired by the beautiful cement work at
Burnside
in Portland, Munk and his Seattle cronies began work on a bowl of their
own
under the Schmidtz Park bridge. Alas, just when they were ready to pour
the
'crete, up pulled five Seattle cop cars with guns drawn.