The Cocoa Beach Skate Park encountered a nice treat on Sept 23rd when members of the Bacon Skateboard team did a demo and hung out with the kids. Tim Johnson, Roadkill, and Mike “Darkness” Barnes rolled in with Nathan from Bacon. The crew came in a little after 5pm and skated for almost 2 hours.
The concrete park looked like home to Tim Johnson as he blasted the nastiest frontside airs, stalefishes and alley-oop 270s over the hips. He gave the kids a nice treat when he transferred from the clamshell over the tongue to the corner bowl. Tim is by far one of the most under-rated pros on the circuit.
Mike ”Darkness” Barnes had every liptrick you can think of on lockdown like backside pivots to f/s 270 out, frontside hurricanes and a super stretchy backside boneless over the hip. Roadkill is one of the most unpredictable skaters in the arena today. His approach is unique with fakie roll-ins, tweaked ollie to tails over the hip and the gnarliest back crails.
The session became even more heated when Timmy Knuth joined the demo. Timmy brought mad kickflip variations to disaster, a kickflip nosemanny to helmet shuffle to nose blunt in. It was nice. Mike Rogers from Grind for Life rolled in about half way through and showed the kids solid lines long 5-0 grinds and smooth carves with mad style. One of the coolest parts of the night was when Steve Workman showed up and started to skate with the Bacon crew.
Workman, pretty much a local ironman of skate legend in Florida, was killing the course with the best indy nosebones in the history of the world. As the MC was announcing that Workman was checking in to the demo, Tim Johnson pointed to him and said “that’s my mentor”. Tim explained that Workman was influential to the learning stages of his early days on a skateboard. Now, some years later, they’re still having fun together and ripping like you wouldn’t believe.
Tim Johnson, Darkness, Roadkill, and the boys all signed autographs for the kids and hungout until closing time. DNA energy drink was in the house and gave out some free product. It’s always a good thing in skateboarding when real dudes come in and do a demo for a small group of kids for free.
Big thanks to Bacon, Dan Hatcher and the Cocoa Beach Skate Park staff for hosting the event.
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—Scooter
