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Friday Slide Show: Elegant Antiskate Devices
29 March 2024
Boardslide, noseslide, tailslide, lipslide, bluntslide ... whoa! Crooked grind, nosegrind, Smith grind, feeble grind ... wha-ho! Grinds and slides? Yo. Like "when you jump the skateboard onto an obstacle and slide along it. It is super fun and often makes a great sounds," our skater authority advises us.
It can also crumble concrete, plane wood and otherwise destroy urban infrastructure.
So a whole range of antiskate devices, often referred to as studs, have been invented to make a slide or a grind impossible. Or, to put it another way, "super unfun and bone busting."
Skateboard deterrent spacing is 18 inches from the end of wall with 36-inch spacing, center to center. You drill a hole, fill it with epoxy, twist the stud into position and let it dry.
While mere brackets and balls will serve to deter, the devices have also become something of an urban artform. After all, urbanites expect their hardware to exhibit some degree of design.
Along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, where raised planters tempt the four wheelers, there are elegant sculptural studs of sea creatures.
We found something similar, if smaller, at the Ninth Avenue branch of the San Francisco Library recently. So we took a few photos.
Who knows, we may get stoked and slide more into this. Even grind out a hella series of them.
