Built to Shred
Sequoia Lake Skatecamp
S1 E6:
Jeff King and the crew head for the mountains to get weird in the woods. Mike Greenwald and Dave Bergthold have a long history of building creative skateboarding obstacles at camp so they join Jeff to create the ultimate shred trifecta. The first mission is to scout the camp's junkyards for shredable salvage. Jeremy and Jonas Wray waste no time rigging up a spontaneous junk jam with some irrigation pipes and an old trailer. Jeff drags a bed out of a cabin, hacks and welds it into a "shred bed" and then mounts it on top of a bank at Element Land. Chad Tim Tim, José Rojo and Nick Garcia take turns bouncing on the bed. The "shred bed" then gets stacked up into the world's first skateable bunk bed and the boys saw logs until sunset. For the Hammered and Screwed segment, Danny Montoya helps Jeff double the height and double the shred of the camp's infamous lake launch. Then it's time to "rock out with your dock out" - - old floating dock sections are rowed across the lake and a gap from rock to dock is created. The skaters and their boards get all wet but the mountain men all lay down some tricks. Dave and Mike build a launch over the campfire while Jeff rows in on a floating dock to surprise the kids. A crazy session erupts and camp director Mike Manidis throws down a "hot" 360 flip - - the campers are stoked. Cody Hager leads Jeff to a boat graveyard and they rig up an armada of shred by stacking a pile of old boats off a water tower. Cody grinds across a boat bridge, onto a water tower, then grinds down a boat "hubba" to sketchy downhill landing and trails through the woods to a bear box ledge! Mike Manidis summed it up perfectly, "This was the awesomest session skate camp has seen in 22 years!"