Sunday - Seaport Village, Lawrence, Jacky, Tech Decks, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and more... with photo highlights!!
Posted by Bryan Hong on August 08, 1999 at 22:20:10:
Week of: Monday, 2 August 1999 posted by Bryan on August 02, 1999 at 21:19:25:
This has been a pretty action packed weekend, with a lot of fun stuff going on, and since I have my digital camera now, I there are pictures I can post!!!!
Thursday night, Cami, Helen, Jesse and I went down to Seaport Village to just hang out. If you don't know what that is, it is a little area near the San Diego harbor where there are a bunch of little shops and things.
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There's Helen standing in front of Jesse's house. This is the first good picture I've ever gotten of her, you know, that didn't show her from 20 feet away. It's amazing. Now for some shots of us eating ice cream:
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Friday night, I went out and got the demo disk for the play station game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. This is simply the best skateboarding (or any other "action sport") game ever. There is only one level in the demo,but this one level has held my attention longer than most full games can.
The reason is this-- it is like you are in a skate park... you can go wherever you wanna go, and you can do whatever you want to do. Most skateboarding games up to this point have involved racing. Going downhill, through a course, with some ramps, punching people and stuff.
This is completely different. There's no punching, and nobody to tell you where to go. You pick your own line. If you want to fly off the side of the half pipe, go ahead. If you want to launch out of the bowl and hit a grind on the grind box, go for it. Do whatever you want to. Just like being in a real skate park. I can't wait for the real game to come out!!
Saturday, Lawrence came down and we skated at the Encinitas YMCA. I thought that if I saw Tony Hawk there, I would tell him about how great his game is. But he wasn't there. Oh well. We skated a lot, and got really tired.
He crashed at my place, where we played some more Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
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We basically spent the entire night laughing at all the dumb looking tricks we can do that could never be done. Like doing backflips and christ-airs OVER the half pipe... rocket air 540's that look really funny... and hitting a quarterpipe to half pipe christ air to boardslide transfer... which was the most ridiculous trick ever, and had us rolling on the ground.
Jacky, who came over and cooked us a nice korean dinner didn't really understand why we were laughing, I don't think. So she just retreated and hid under her blanket.
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So they stayed over the night, and on Sunday, Jacky went to the beach. Me and Lawrence went to UTC where we saw that Tech-Decks (mini finger skateboards if you don't know what those are) were on sale at Kay-Bee. So we both bought them and I also bought the "bench set". They had a vert ramp, but hey man, street skating is where it's all at.
We made a little animation of one of my tricks:
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So I guess this shows just how little of a life I really have.
Then as it turns out, Zac and Karen came down to San Diego for the day. He called me up and we had dinner at Trophy's, and it was good.
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So all in all, I had a pretty event filled weekend, and I even managed to do the update twice in one week. Now is that amazing, or is that amazing?