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KALAMATA HOUSE: HELTER SHELTER

words and photosby jeff thorburn

Skateboarding is a funny thing. While most of the general recognition goes to those doing the hot tricks at the hot spots, there are always those outside of the limelight doing interesting things that usually go unnoticed. While the local hotshot is going through his list of tricks down the eight stair, rest assured that someone, whose name you might not know, is doing a trick at a spot that you’ve maybe walked by hundreds of times and never thought of how to skate it. What that guy is doing is far closer to pure street skating than just trying to learn new flippers down the standard stairs. Whenever the low-key variety aren’t working, or even while they are, these guys are watching the streets, looking for untouched or unnoticed spots. Every city has these types, but you rarely hear much about them…