Juice is stoked to announce a “Blood And Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club” movie encore screening Friday, February 27, 2026 at Venice Beach Bar, 323 Oceanfront Walk, Venice, CA 90291 from 6-10pm. Juice Talks hosted by Juice Dan Levy will feature special guests: Allen Losi, and Chuck Treece of McRad, as well as Mike Maniglia, Director of “Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club”, in addition to more surprise guests.
“In the middle of nowhere lived an unexpected piece of skateboarding and punk music history. A skateboarding mecca of the 80’s, it was a veritable metal monolith, tucked away on a country club in the suburbs of the nation’s Capital. It was a place of pure unadulterated expressionist freedom where cutting edge skateboarding and punk rock music collided and made history. “Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club” is the story of a one of a kind skateboarding playground that attracted skaters and bands from all over to experience what became known simply as, “The Crest”.”
“Blood And Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club”, featuring interviews with Mark Hooper, Mike Mapp, Bruce Adams, Wade Herren, Fred Smith, Paul Wisniewski, Sam Boo, Allen Losi, Bob Umbel, Randy Jansen, Dave Tobin, Ian MacKaye (FUGAZI/MINOR THREAT), GWAR, SCREAM, Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Tony Magnusson, Dan Heyman, Derek Krasauskas, Pete Stahl, Franz Stahl, Keith Lanharr, and Rob Mertz, will make you laugh and want to annihilate the next vertical surface in sight.
“Take a trip into the time machine of “Blood And Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club” for a reminder of what skateboarding is all about at its very core. Cedar Crest not only defied the impossible, it defined the impossible. The Crest launched music scenes, skate crews and skateboarding careers by providing a coliseum for some of the gnarliest skateboarding known to mankind. It was an epic clash of punk rock, hardcore, blood and guts, and do-or-die-skateboarding super sessions.
The treasure chest of early skatepark footage and backyard ramp clips that Director, Michael Maniglia, and Producers, Frank Scheuring, Mike Mapp, Bruce Adams, Mark Hooper and the crew pulled together for this documentary is spectacular. “Blood And Steel: CCCC” is a firsthand look at fierce dedication to building terrain where none exists. Never forget Cedar Crest. May its legacy and spirit live on forever!
For more info about “Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club”, please visit: http://www.subterrafilms.com/
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All ages are welcome for this free private film screening event at the VENICE BEACH BAR. Parking is available in the paid Rose Avenue Lot on the beach at the end of Rose Avenue. Street parking can also be found nearby. Please RSVP to JuiceMagazineUSA@gmail.com.
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JUICE MAGAZINE’S DAN LEVY spoke to some of the primary players from the Cedar Crest scene…
MARK HOOPER and his dad were the creators of the Cedar Crest Country Club,
and Mark talks about those years of mayhem and the behemoth ramp they constructed...
“That ramp was fast! Dropping in on that thing, when you got to the other side, you almost had to slow yourself down, so you didn’t fly out of the top. It had 9 1/2 foot transitions of steel with a foot and a half of vert with pool coping. The flat bottom was 12 feet, not 16 feet like the newer ramps. There is a photo of a guy standing on stool with a squeegee in his hand and he’s raising it up and Tony Magnusson is doing a 12 foot backside method air overhead. That was the kind of cool over the top kind of shit that happened there… Cedar Crest was the best and the worst of times, the beginning and the end of a rise to total rage to the zenith of fun to the pinnacle of camaraderie. YEAH!!! It’s hard to say all of the memories because there are so many, but here’s what I can say, “All of the bands that played, all the girls that got laid, we definitely slayed!”
BRUCE ADAMS, O.G. skater and creator of Lapper shared this memory of the Crest...
“In 1985, Cedar Crest was built, and it was unlike any other ramp I had experienced because of the steel surface. We all grew up skating rough concrete parks (with admission fees), and crappy, splintery backyard plywood ramps. We also skated Masonite with PVC coping that was slippery as hell, and deteriorated after a few sessions. Steel was a whole new world to me. It was fast and quiet, the perfect surface, but it was slick. Our plan to fix this was to paint it. We started with a coat of red primer, and it seemed to work perfectly, so we left it that way. Over time, it also became too slippery. Our next solution was to pop a pin hole in a Coke can and spray the ramp with the can. That worked great, but it attracted a lot of bees. We began mixing sugar with water and mopping the ramp with it. Bringing a bag of sugar and water became a regular thing for the locals. The sugar-water had to be a certain ratio to work or the primer would stick to your wheels. Once the primer stuck to your wheels, it was like having a bunch of flat spots on them. Despite all of this, the ramp was perfect in every way. It was in the middle of nowhere and there were no complaining neighbors, no law enforcement, it was open 24/7, and it was free! It was a dream come true, and I had some of the best times of my life there. I will never forget what Mark Hooper and his dad did for skateboarding. Above all else, I will always remember the feel of the steel.”
MIKE MAPP, a.k.a. "Micro", designer of the steel skate coliseum has this to say about the documentary...
“It’s awfully hard to put seven years into one movie, but I feel like Mike [Maniglia] did a great job. This is an East Coast story. What I mean by that is that you kind of had to be here to experience it, but this movie is going to bring you back to that time and place to get a taste for skating as it was in the ‘80s, and an awful lot of music too. There was a big music scene going with Cedar Crest too, so even if you didn’t skate, it put skating and music in the eye of people that would visit there. We always kind of pinch ourselves that it was there and that it’s probably never going to happen again. Looking back now it’s like, “Was that a dream? How did that happen?” Sure enough, it happened. When we got Cedar Crest, we had a central point for all of the tribes of the world to come to.”
MIKE MANIGLIA, director of "Blood And Steel" also worked at the Cedar Crest Country Club...
“When I first arrived at Cedar Crest, it was the mecca of skateboarding in that brief time period of the skateboard renaissance. I was there in my formative years; a total grom looking up to the Toke Team, who were the definition of antiheroes, and they were the dudes that ripped the Crest. The story of Cedar Crest is an American story and the do it yourself aspect of Cedar Crest, was a cornerstone of the DIY movement. To have that ramp was a completely unique situation that every skateboarder should see because Cedar Crest was truly born of the American spirit. Cedar Crest was this bright shining star in a dark hole of disenfranchised people that had nothing… To have the opportunity to get together with all the guys to make this film happen all started with Mike Mapp, and then we had skateboard historians like Bruce Adams too. Bruce and I skated Cedar Crest together. Frank [Scheuring] and I are professional filmmakers, so that’s what we do. Everyone involved in the film skated Cedar Crest 30 years ago, so it was a close-knit cadre of the right people who had the wherewithal to put it together. We could have done a thousand more interviews, but we got Fred [Smith], and Freddy is the backbone of the whole movie. We tried to give an unbiased perspective of the top rank and file skateboard legends and, of course, Ian MacKaye is in there too. It’s unreal. It’s all love and Americana DIY…”
DAVE TOBIN shared his experience of the Crest and the Toke Team traditions..
“Cedar Crest was a grand adventure. I felt like I belonged there, never wanting to leave. Being there and seeing a trail leading to the woods, as time went on, that trail turned into a path that would change everyone’s life. From campouts to meeting pros, which were only heard of in magazines. Cedar Crest gave people and skaters alike hope – hope to practice a new trick and get away from the metropolitan Rat Race. I mean who can learn EggPlants while watching Neil Blender doodle on a scratch pad? After choosing a fire to pee on, I would follow the sounds of GWAR or a Dischord band back to the ramp. I think before it closed down, I moved to Florida to start Mechanical School. It was wizard because when I moved back years later nothing was the same. That’s when I had to rethink why I moved back. Cedar Crest was gone and there was this big void to fill. I felt deprived. Spoiled for so long… knowing that I would have to spin the wheel soon and continue on my skate journey without her…”
DAVE TOBIN talks about the evolution of Cedar Crest in Juice Magazine #67 with Murf...
Tell us about the evolution of Cedar Crest.
Well, we had a ramp back in Gaithersburg, and then we heard that Micro’s buddy owned this million-dollar golf course, and the guy’s dad said, “Build whatever you want to skate.” So they started building the ramp. We wanted to be part of it because we heard it was going to be mega. Then we heard it was metal. I’d never heard of a metal ramp. I’d heard of aluminum ramps, but not metal. There was this ramp called the Sign ramp made out of a bunch of highway signs, but it was dented. They were planning to build this huge mega steel ramp. We were like, “No way.”
Micro was the man that was managing to have that thing fabricated and built. Was he on the cutting edge of building ramps back then?
I think that’s when he started. He had a ramp or two before that though. He was on the Annandale crew. We skated there weekly. He built that with another guy that has dreadlocks and lives in California. He was ripping. That was Micro’s best buddy, Mike Kresky. That was the Annandale crew. It was this guy named Mark Hooper whose family owned the country club. They built that ramp and we started going there. You would not believe how much better we got just by riding that thing. Since it was metal, you knew when you slammed, you weren’t going to mess your knees up on splinters, so you could try all these new tricks. Your pads would just slide.
When you were riding metal, how blown away were you when you first started dropping in?
When you dropped in the first time, it had pipe coping and then we realized we needed coping, so we butted the coping together and bolted it down. It was good for six months and then it got super chunky and you had to power over that shit or replace it. Now we’re back to why they called me Sketchy. I used to pump big airs at Cedar Crest and I used to come in and hit my back wheels, and sometimes my trucks, and pull it off. They’d say, “Oh man, that was sketchy.” Later on, The Toke Team would go to see Fred Smith and get tattoos. We’d go up to Providence and skate and see Fred in his little office. After my first Toke Team tat, I wanted to get my initials for some reason on my lips. He was like, “Okay, I’ll write your name.” It seemed to take longer than it should have, so I was like, “What the hell are you doing?” He was like, “Oh, instead of writing your initials, I’m writing your name.” I was like, “Okay.” I was halfway passed out from drinking from some bottle of something. Then I looked in the mirror and he had written “Sketchy.” I was like, “What? I didn’t ask you to write that.” He said, “You told me it was okay to write your name.” That was my second tattoo. It’s still there on my lip. It’s super sketchy too because the “y” is faded out. It’s a sketchy tattoo. It’s like Losi. That was the only other guy that I saw hanging up on really big tricks and making it. All of those guys used to come visit that ramp. It was so sturdy and you could pump airs. Magnusson and Blender came out there too.
SCHEDULE:
6:00PM – 9:00PM – Juice Skate Surf Punk Rock Golden Ticket Contest.
7:30PM – Juice Talks hosted by Dan Levy with Director Mike Maniglia and Chuck Treece and Allen Losi.
8:00PM – “BLOOD AND STEEL: CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB” Movie Screening
DATE: Friday, February 27, 2025, 6:00pm-10:00pm
LOCATION: Venice Beach Bar, 323 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, CA 90291
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