Rincon bleachers

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Mystery Skateboards ad shot at Rincon bleachers

The Rincon Bleachers is a famous skate spot in San Diego, California, that has shown up numerous times in skateboard media outlets, such as videos and magazines. It is located at Rincon Middle School, which has been a popular landmark for skateboarding for over a decade. In 1997, Jamie Thomas found a newly built bleacher set for shaded basketball.^[1]

1 The Spot
2 Difficulty
3 Notable Tricks
4 References

[edit] The Spot

Rincon consists of a shaded bleacher set, with smooth concrete for skating. There are four sets of bleachers (four levels from top to bottom), as well as a tall rail has been used as a skateboarding obstacle.

[edit] Difficulty

Rincon is considered a difficult spot to skateboard at, with both height and length. Being a bleacher set, each tier is the size of three average-sized steps (there are two steps connecting each level), making it as tall as an average flight of twelve stairs. If a skateboarder chooses to do something over the railing, the height, and therefore the impact on the skater, is even greater.

Skateboarding on the rail is considered difficult for a few reasons:

Getting on to the rail, because you must go over the first tier, and up onto the rail to perform a manuever on it.
Sliding/grinding across the rail is difficult because the rail is very steep and short; much different from what skateboarders normally skate.
The impact of landing after a trick on the rail is high, because from the end of the rail to the ground, it is about a six foot drop.

[edit] Notable Tricks

These are in rough order of happening:

Jamie Thomas: Gap-over-railing Ollie (1997)
Jamie Thomas: Gap-to-rail Lipslide (1998)
Jamie Thomas: Gap-to-rail FS Lipslide (1998)
Jamie Thomas: Gap-down-set Backside 180 ollie(Zero Skateboards "Misled Youth" video)
Steve Berra: Gap-to-rail BS 50-50 (1998) (In Birdhouse's The End)
Steve Berra: Guest skater Gap-to-rail Backside lipslide (In Girl Skateboard's "Yeah Right" Eric Koston's part)
Kanten Russell: Gap-down-set Fakie Ollie
Kanten Russell: Gap-down-set Backside 180 ollie
Kanten Russell: Gap-down-set Switch frontside 180 ollie
John Ratray: Gap-down-set Nollie
Ryan Smith: Gap-down-set Kickflip (In Zero's Dying To Live) (2002)
Ryan Smith: Gap-down-set FS Flip (In Zero's Dying To Live) (2002)
Chris Cole: Gap-down-set 360 Flip (In Zero's Dying To Live) (2002)
Jamie Thomas: Gap-down-set Switch FS 180 (In Zero's Dying To Live) (2002)
Steve Berra: Gap-to-rail BS lipslide (In Girl's Yeah Right!) (2002)
Jon Allie: Gap-over-railing Kickflip
Brandon Turner: Gap-to-rail switch BS boardslide to fakie (Osiris Shoes "Subject to Change" video)
Josh Harmony: Gap-to-rail F/S Nosegrind (In Toy Machine's Good & Evil)
Austin Stephens: Gap-over-railing Kickflip
Jon Allie: Gap-over-railing FS Flip
Tommy Sandoval: Gap-over-railing Switch Ollie
Andrew Reynolds: Gap-down-set Shifty Flip (In Baker's Baker 3)
Chris Cole: Gap-to-rail FS Nosebluntslide (In Zero's New Blood)
Slash: Gap-to-rail FS Boardslide (In Pig Wood's Slaughterhouse)
Caine Gayle: Gap-to-rail frontside boardslide (In City Stars "Street Cinema" video)
Ryan Zammant: Gap-to-rail backside feeble grind (In Zero Skateboards "Dying to Live" friend's section)
Diego Buchierri: 12 stair rail(removed?)frontside lipslide to fakie (In TWS "I.E.")
Ryan Bobier: Gap-to-set ollie(In TWS magazine '94?)
Lindsay Robertson: Gap-over-railing stalefish(In Mystery Skateboards' Ad)
Corey Duffel: Switch Ollie (In Foundation's Thats Life)