![]() ![]() After a couple months I noticed every sheet of plywood had a hole in it, so I asked him why. I’d get all the 2 x 4’s and he would get all the plywood. I had a friend whose parents would let us build stuff in their front yard. It was probably about 70 feet long, but it was 2 miles from my house, so we started building quarter pipes in our driveways. We had been skating a ditch called Jimbo’s Gutter. We started building little quarter pipes in ’74. I didn’t want to stand still and just flip my board. I remember spending a day in the church parking lot, trying to flip my board and falling on my ass. Were you skating parks or just skating freestyle? That was how you judged if you were a good skater.” The excitement was hitting your helmet in the top of the pipe. It had two runs that went downhill, and one of the runs came back under the take off hill and there was a 12 foot fullpipe going through it. One of our favorite parks was the Longwood Pipeline. “We started building the vert ramps about the same time the parks started popping up in Florida. After that we went to garage sales and bought old wooden water skis, because they had a kicktail. The first time I saw a skateboard was when a friend of mine came rolling up on a water ski with wheels and trucks on it. Can he pull it off? Read on and feel the pain. Now with public and private facilities showing interest in building concrete skateparks again after 20 years, Tim is looking to make his mark in the concrete arena and has formed Team Pain to do some damage. From the multidimensional Animal Chin ramp created for the Bones Brigade, to the loop that led Hawk past 12 o’clock, Tim has proven again and again that he can build anything out of wood that a skateboarder could imagine. ![]() PHOTOS BY MATT JOHANIS, DAWNDRA BUDD, TODD HUBER AND TIM PAYNEįor the last 20 years, Tim Payne has been responsible for some of the greatest wooden ramp and bowl creations that skateboarding has ever seen. DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE: TEAM PAIN SKATEPARKS
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