Stake your claim.THOUGH HE'S INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN as a leading concrete commando, Geoff Rowley Geoffrey Joseph Rowley (born June 6, 1976 in Liverpool, England) is a professional skateboarder who currently resides in Huntington Beach, California. He began skateboarding at the age of 13, and he has been skating for over 18 years. has an equally rabid passion for what lies beyond the paved world. Remember that Vans ad where he was standing out in the middle of the woods, the one with him and a couple of mustachioed mus·ta·chio also mous·ta·chio n. pl. mus·ta·chios A mustache, especially a luxuriant one. [Ultimately from Italian dialectal mustaccio, mustache; see mustache. and camouflaged gentlemen? Well those are Geoff's animal tracking friends, and it's with those guys that he likes to bide bide v. bid·ed or bode , bid·ed, bid·ing, bides v.intr. 1. To remain in a condition or state. 2. a. To wait; tarry. b. his off-the-board hours; chasing beasts, battling the elements, and scrambling all over hell's half-acre in pursuit of some genuine wilderness adventure. He really gets into it. Recently, Geoff decided to try and meld his two interests--skating and the great outdoors--which led to the building of a private retreat somewhere in a far-flung corner of the American West. Nestled on several acres of high desert, the house stands just off a dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n , and beyond it an intricate and ever-morphing mini-ramp sits alongside the scrub and occasional Ponderosa pine ponderosa pine pinusponderosa. . The front porch is skateable, as is the garage and driveway. It's a fortress of solitude The Fortress of Solitude is the occasional headquarters of Superman in DC Comics. Its predecessor, Superman's "Secret Citadel", first appeared in Superman #17, where it was said to be built into a mountain on the outskirts of Metropolis. and a skatepark all in one. Yell as loud as you want. No one can hear you. Run around naked; Geoff does. It's far enough out to feel lonesome lone·some adj. 1. a. Dejected because of a lack of companionship. See Synonyms at alone. b. Producing such dejection: a lonesome hour at the bar. 2. , but close enough to civilization to sample some of the best ditches to ever drain the Rocky Mountains. "It's perfect, really," Geoff says., True. Especially if your idea of perfection involves learning body jars in the morning and tracking mountain lions at night. It's absolutely perfect. Little David Gonzales is having the time of his life. Crail to fakie Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the way out West A master of every nollie bigspin variation, Mark hits the ceiling with a tail revert off the extension I'm not kidding about Geoff running around naked. Sometimes I think he wishes he was a wolf. Frontside flip to tail One last back lip while the coyotes start to howl This kind of thing is so easy for Arto. If he got serious about vert, dudes would be losing their Yoo-Hoo sponsors quick Geoff pitches a frontside 360 on the side of the Lost Highway David Gonzales is like a video game. I suggested this trick, and he landed it in five tries after waxing his wheels. No shit--he waxed his wheels David hits the drains with a chunky grind to kickflip out Laying into a thick block, Appleyard saves the ollies until absolutely needs them Laying into a thick block, Appleyard saves the ollies until he absolutely needs them Arto was a victim of the Call of the Wild a few times, but he used it to his advantage on this frontside flip New tricks sprouted like flowers after a desert rain. Geoff takes Mark's staple into a stylishly overturned backside air |
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