Action sports resort proposed for Memorial Coliseum

[the dude]

from http://www.actionsportsnw.com/

"...world-class overheard barrels...perfect waves that never end, challenging even the worlds fittest athletes. Flow can be reversed to allow waves that break left or right."

mmm....

[bluesilver]

Guess the coast was getting too crowded so they decided to bring it inland. Pretty soon you'll be able to surf in Montana

[scubetubeular]

I'm sure they have the best of intentions with this action sports megaplex.
I predict after meetings with city officials and financers
what starts out to be grand will get cut down to a small skate park, water slide, fitness gym and a plastic 30 degree wedge with water flowing over it similar to the flowriders on cruise ships.

You can all become the next Rick Cane at our new Urban wave pool.
Go Ahead. . . . . . Go Shred!

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

I would like to propose Measure 69 to help pay for it.

[muleman]

I assure you that there will be no flowriders!

[Spent]

Muleman (Adam Wagner of Nelscott 'fame', perhaps?),

If you are indeed a representative of Action Sports NW, you should know such a facility is the antithesis to how many of us Oregonians participate in 'action sports.' There is no need for an all-in-one/ one-stop artificial sanatized convenience store for the activities we live for. We don't want to pay to play. We don't want set hours in a for-profit private facility.

We don't mind searching, waiting and working hard for our waves and bowls. We don't need a Seagaia in Portland. Its an insult to how we approach 'adventure,' like skiing in Dubai. Furthermore, it can never be a fully sustainable project, like you propose. To be fully sustainable, just don't bother. Lend a hand with some DIY bowl builds, help keep our rivers, beaches, coast and mountains clean and accesible. Otherwise, I wish this project nothing but failure. I will be sure to organize my thoughts more thoroughly when I contact the city to object to such a monstrosity.

Simply put, we don't need an eXreme $tarbuck$. We champion individual intiative, DIY and the spirit of true adventure.

Try the suburbs of Sacramento, perhaps?

[bluesilver]

good call spent

[erzats]

will it have parking for my honda element?

[Nash]

will it have parking for my honda element?

Doubtful, but you can ride your fixed gear there with your alaia under your arm.

[scubetubeular]

I'm in complete agreement with Spent on this one.

[erzats]

cool. They really should work on their client focus, put the PDX mollusk in there, maybe have a stumptown coffee, bike polo courts, skate park of course. Little dodge ball on the side. They could teach courses on how to do bar spins on your fixie. A retro jam music room with pianicas, glockinspiels, and retro keyboards. Oh, and don't forget about the cocaine bar. This is going to be good.

[Moe]

Boy if you didn't have your element to talk about you would say much would you erz.

[erzats]

Three things:

First of all:

if you didn't have your Element, you would have less to be offended by.

Second of all: I like to keep it simple. My contributions here, which are as worthwhile or worthless as anyone's are limited to:

1) Sciency stuff now and then which some people find useful.

2)Harassing BS and his boobie thread and watching him get worked up even though I actually enjoy looking at boobies (don't tell him)

3)Harassing Element owners

4)Sometimes I post normal surf related stuff

Finally:

I though my element comment was kind of funny and thought you would appreciate it if they made special allowances for you folks.

[Moe]

you folks eh...
first off that was four things not three,
and third I enjoyed harrassing the guy harrassing element owners.

[erzats]

those were subcategories. See section 3, article A of the MS word bulleting guidelines.