{"id":54665,"date":"2014-05-01T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=54665"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:03:51","slug":"duty-now-for-the-future-retrospective-shaggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/duty-now-for-the-future-retrospective-shaggy\/","title":{"rendered":"Duty Now For the Future Retrospective – Shaggy"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE RETROSPECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAVE PALMER A.K.A. “SHAGGY”<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERVIEW BY JIM MURPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHOTO BY ADAM VALADEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n

We started the Duty Now for the Future articles to honor those skateboarders building concrete for other skateboarders. These skaters are dedicated to building skate structures, day in and day out, where quality is job one and money doesn’t matter as much as the finished product. They are the ones carving the future for generations to come and we want to bring their stories to you in order to understand what goes into building those killer parks that you get to ride! We want to thank these skaters for all their sweat, hard work and dedication to skateboarding! They’re not afraid to lay yards of pool coping down, so get out there and grind it up!!! That is our Duty Now For The Future! D-E-V-O. We dedicate our Duty Now For the Future Retrospective to Bob 2 aka Bob Casale. R.I.P.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shaggy, it\u2019s Murf.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s up, man?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on, brother?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, man, just watching my kids grow up with my wifey, Jill. It\u2019s awesome! Oh yeah, and still building parks. What are you up to?<\/p>\n

Just calling you up to ask you some questions for our Duty Now For the Future Retrospective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s killer. You\u2019ve still got it going.<\/p>\n

Absolutely. Are you ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite skateboard park, either one that you built or that someone else built?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite park is definitely the park we are building now in Spring Park, Texas. It\u2019s twice the size of the biggest park I\u2019ve ever worked on. It\u2019s got everything. As far as parks go, this is my favorite, but I prefer the organic scenes: streets, ditches and backyards.<\/p>\n

Okay, dude. So what\u2019s your favorite backyard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

West Seattle is going off right now. The butter bowl has always been killer and now we have a vert ramp on the other side of the hill.<\/p>\n

Is that Monk\u2019s?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. It\u2019s insane, dude.<\/p>\n

Why are those your favorite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re right at our compound and pretty much the energy that all the homies bring to the scene tops any other scene that I\u2019ve ever been involved with.<\/p>\n

Right on, dude. I\u2019m proud of you. Question number three. What do you see as the biggest innovation in skatepark building? As skatepark building has grown, what has been innovated?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest innovation is\u2026 Well, you\u2019ve got your cradles and your technical ledge stuff and your oververts, but I\u2019m going to have to go with an original piece of the skatepark that is still up on top and that is pool coping, Jim. We\u2019re going to go with pool coping.<\/p>\n

Nice. Bullnose?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bullnose pool coping. I don\u2019t care who makes it.<\/p>\n

Oh, come on. What\u2019s your favorite pool coping?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, you can\u2019t go wrong, man. You\u2019ve got your Tedder Stone and your Penrose. You go out East and the kids love their Federal Stone out there. I\u2019m not going to hate on it. I like all pool coping.<\/p>\n

What do you feel is your Duty Now for the Future, Shaggy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My duty now for the future is to keep pushing to build big structures. Don\u2019t let the communities scare you away from doing that because that\u2019s the future of skateboarding. Bigger, faster, better. Keep the doors open for the kids for endless possibilities.<\/p>\n

Nice. So who has been the biggest influence on you in park building? Who has taught you the most about what you know? Who\u2019s the man?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a tough question. I\u2019ve been lucky with my experiences. Mark Scott showed me concrete was gnarly. Rick Carje took me in and showed me the ropes. Rabi has taught me how to look with a critical eye. Munk taught me a lot, how to not take no for an answer when building something killer and I\u2019ve learned a lot from him when it comes to running jobs and being a leader on the site. Most influential is all my peers I\u2019ve ever worked with. Skaters are passionate. Building stuff to ride is all of our dreams. It feels like we\u2019ve all been chosen to do it. It\u2019s an unexplainable experience.<\/p>\n

That leads me to the next question. Who is on your crew right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right now we\u2019re building the biggest skatepark in the free world and I\u2019ve got 18-man crew. Do you want the names?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hear the 18 names on the mega park crew.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay. We\u2019ve got Munk Hubbard helping me as the other foreman. We\u2019re running two foremen on this job, so we\u2019ve got Munk Hubbard on there. At the Aloha house, we\u2019ve got Peabody. We\u2019ve got Sky Thompson and Derek and Lil B. In the Remington Ranch House, we\u2019ve got Chase, our ripper greenhorn. We\u2019ve got Scotty Sorenson from Seattle. We\u2019ve got Pete Gunn, one of our biggest dogs out there. We\u2019ve got Greasy from Colorado. We\u2019ve got The 5 and Chris Collette. Now we\u2019ve got the locals: Kevin Lane, Jeremy Smith, Grubbs, Joe Dirt, Evan Okeson and Rick McGaffey, our oldest shredder. Coming all the way from Japan, my counterparts in Grindline Japan, Tsuyoshi and Sho, have come to help out and learn a little bit. That makes 18. Next question. Shoot.<\/p>\n

[Laughs] Out of everything that you\u2019ve built, what\u2019s the one thing that you haven\u2019t gotten to build yet, as far as a skate structure goes, that you want to build in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Possibilities are endless. I\u2019m into big structures. I\u2019ve had a plan for a while called the rabbit hole. It\u2019s like a friendly funneling Glory Hole that you could jump into or loop sideways. It\u2019s a mega structure\/bowl that is going somewhere.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d drop in on all that vert?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s banked out, so it\u2019s friendly. Other things on the list would be animal structures, skateable animals. I want to build a parking garage skatepark too. That\u2019s on the list for sure.<\/p>\n

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“Skaters are passionate. building stuff to ride is all of our dreams. it feels like we\u2019ve been chosen to do it.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh sick. Like an abandoned parking garage, and make it into a skatepark?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. Either like that or just let us build a three or four-story skatepark inspired by the concept of a parking garage.<\/p>\n

That would be sick.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So things like that are where we\u2019re hoping to go with it.<\/p>\n

Why wouldn\u2019t you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly.<\/p>\n

What I figure is that since you\u2019re building the biggest skatepark in the free world in Houston, they\u2019re going to need parking for that skatepark, so you should just build that parking garage right next to the skatepark, dude.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, change order. I\u2019m into it. I\u2019ll write it up tonight.<\/p>\n

Write it up and tell the crew at Grindline headquarters that this is what we\u2019ve got to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, Murf.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your time. We\u2019re proud of you. You\u2019re killing it out there, man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, you guys are killing it too. We\u2019re all on the same team. We\u2019re proud of you too and it\u2019s great to talk to you, Jim.<\/p>\n

Go get em, Shaggy. Say what up to the boys for me, bro.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will, dude. Later.<\/p>\n

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