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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 09:57 AM

Title: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 09:57 AM: We travelled down here with a lad called Dave Davenport who used to work at S&M and a gang of his mates.
Cheers Dave! :daumenhoch:
It is similar to Woodward and is a fecking amazing place to ride!
The website doesn't exist any more which makes me think it might have closed.
Doesn't surprise me really if it has. It was in the middle of the desert :idiot2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/bowl.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/bowlpark.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/training-over.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/training-over2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/skate2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/sectorone4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/sectorone3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/sectorone1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/over-skate.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/over-bowlpark.jpg)

This place was down in that direction too just off the freeway though which made it a lot more accessible.
I think this might have closed down now too though. Its in Encinitas and there's a skatepark right next door that didn't allow bikes :tickedoff:
Chris Moeller drove us down there in the S&M van. A great day riding with him and Neal Wood...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilRollerline.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilBigLines.jpg)

Excuse the video quality. Filmed on a phone camera....

Me
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/th_EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilGeth.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v661/owdrider/?action=view&current=EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilGeth.flv)

Moeller
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/th_EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilChrisMo-1.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v661/owdrider/?action=view&current=EncinitasBMXPark13thAprilChrisMo-1.flv)

Best holiday I've ever had. 36 years old at the time in California with my BMX and my riding mates.
Well recommended.....you're never too old :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: harris on January 20, 2007, 10:00 AM: dame what a park .even our best one doesnt touch that one and i have never herd of it.
we are so behind the times.great pics. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: bmxmatt1974 on January 20, 2007, 10:00 AM: looks awesome place to ride.
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: theRuler on January 20, 2007, 10:01 AM: that place looks sooo good

nice vids too.
you got the mx style
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 10:07 AM: Quote from: harris on January 20, 2007, 10:00 AM
dame what a park .even our best one doesnt touch that one and i have never herd of it.
we are so behind the times.great pics. :daumenhoch:

Its one of the things that pisses me off with this country.
We also drove out to Vegas on this trip and the place is FULL of amazing concrete skateparks.
Here we might get a shit metal mini ramp in the roughest areas possible.
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 10:23 AM: If you have Google Earth -

Take the points from the bottom of the pic to find the place and you'll see what I mean about being in the middle of nowhere!
Its much further north from San Diego than I first thought :-[

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/PointX.jpg)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: rory on January 20, 2007, 10:26 AM: rad stuff :)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: zed4130 on January 20, 2007, 10:32 AM: its like stag world we can all run free :smitten: I think its still there ?
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on January 20, 2007, 10:51 AM: i can honestly say i have never seen anything like that second photo, how mental is that
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Stodgy on January 20, 2007, 10:52 AM: Wow. BMX Porn. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on January 20, 2007, 10:53 AM: so will there be a " geth shooter usa skatepark tour " next year, if so i am deffo on it
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 11:14 AM: Quote from: QUADROPHENIA on January 20, 2007, 10:53 AM

so will there be a " geth shooter usa skatepark tour " next year, if so i am deffo on it

Its my 40th this year.
I keep trying to talk Lucy into letting me go back to Cali for it.....

I'm working on it! ;)

Quote from: zed4130 on January 20, 2007, 10:32 AM
its like stag world we can all run free :smitten: I think its still there ?

That pretty much summed it up.
There was just 7 of us riding there all day. :wtf:
I hope it is still there.
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: LXIX on January 20, 2007, 11:17 AM: :4_17_5: looks great fun
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: rsdan25 on January 20, 2007, 11:25 AM: i wana go go go them trails looked wicked and thats how foam pits should look lol 8) 8)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 20, 2007, 11:30 AM: Quote from: danair on January 20, 2007, 11:25 AM
i wana go go go them trails looked wicked and thats how foam pits should look lol 8) 8)

My mate Gaz -
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v661/owdrider/th_PointX12thApril4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v661/owdrider/?action=view&current=PointX12thApril4.flv)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: dirtyvans on January 20, 2007, 11:37 AM: awesome park, nice turndown geth :daumenhoch:

yeah a foam pit with proper foam not neck crunching bits of old sofa foam that make you look like you have dandruff!
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Flaz on January 20, 2007, 02:39 PM: what a park :4_17_5: man i'd move to the states tomorrow if the wife would go

great pics and vids geth :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Trev on January 20, 2007, 02:50 PM: that's what i want in my back garden...

can anyone price it up for me? ::)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: priv on January 20, 2007, 07:11 PM: nice one geth,what a place that is,fantastic.

nice piece of riding too :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

priv
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: rudhallrascal on January 20, 2007, 07:33 PM: That place looks wicked, thats it i'm off to the states 8)
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: DJ on January 20, 2007, 09:08 PM: Ben Wallace went there a few times when he rode for SE & we sent 2 guys there who won Am at my event in Birmingham a few years ago, everyone said it was ALWAYS dead! Im pretty sure its closed now...
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: Geth on January 21, 2007, 07:56 PM: Quote from: DJ on January 20, 2007, 09:08 PM
Ben Wallace went there a few times when he rode for SE & we sent 2 guys there who won Am at my event in Birmingham a few years ago, everyone said it was ALWAYS dead! Im pretty sure its closed now...

Now you say it, wasn't there some SE ads with Ben Wallace at Point X?
Did I also see him on a MTB at Burnley skatepark a couple of months ago?

If Point X has closed down its a pity.
Title: Re: Point X camp pics - does it still exist?
Post by: DJ on January 22, 2007, 02:13 PM: Yeah, he did some ad's there for SE before he was on Haro.... & if he was on a MTB I'sd be surprised