Okay, let’s get to the bottom line. This particular skateboard demo featured some of the best skateboarding possible by a human being. The people who made it happen were professional skateboarders, and Accel Wheels Team Riders, Mike Vallely, Chet Childress, Kristian Svitak, and Joey Pulsifer. These skaters destroyed every ramp and obstacle in the entire park.

A few of the Accel team members, Stefan Attardo, Stacy Lowery and Joey Pulsifer were suffering from a flu virus that they contracted during an earlier part of their nationwide tour. Attardo and Lowery decided not to skate in the demo, but Pulsifer, who said he was “going through the first stages of the virus,” skated very well. He pleased the crowd with fingerflips over the big pyramid hip, frontside nose grinds across and down the fly box ledge, and airwalk’s over the park’s smaller transitioned hip.

Now, moving on to the main event. Vallely and Childress started the demo out on the 6-foot high mini ramp outside of the park. Vallely got busy with powerful frontside airs out of the makeshift vert wall and Childress stuck a huge frontside ollie transfer out of the 6-foot to the 4-foot high mini off to the side.

The demo then moved inside because it was getting dark. Vallely got the ball rolling again by making a rock to mute grab fakie off the top of the thirteen foot high vert wall to the terrified bank below. Childress then proceeded with his signature wild and fiery frontside and backside ollies to the vert wall from the quarter pipes below.

Vallely eyed the top of the vert wall, and most people knew what was about to happen. After a few tries of flying out of a four-foot-high quarter pipe to alley-oop frontside airs to 50-50 stalls on top of the vert wall, Vallely made the trick and history at the park. No one had ever successfully pulled that trick at the Skate Barn before, and anyone could have easily figured that out by observing the screaming reactions from the crowd.

Childress put together the craziest and most consistent lines of the entire demo., “Chet was doing some of the best skateboarding I have ever seen,” Vallely said.

Childress covered the entire park, destroying every ramp. He also pulled off the first ever backside 360 air transfer from the street course into the small three-foot bowl.

Svitak pulled frontside feebles and boardslides down the square rail, frontside blunts down the ledge and square rail, and a frontside 50-50 on the tall ledge to a 180 into the four foot bank. After a solid hour of skating, Svitak said, “I really enjoyed skating this park. It has a good variety of things to skate.”

There was also some great skating being performed by the Wilmington Rippers. Guys like Josh Maready, Trey Womble and “Boz,” Brandon Fonville were throwing out their signature tricks all over the park, and basically just naturally killing it while having a good time.

Vallely brought the demo to an official close with a frontside tailslide atop the vert wall. After asking Vallely his thoughts on the park, he said, “The weather here was amazing compared to what we have been dealing with during most of the tour. I had been to the Skate Barn before, but it was a long time ago.” Overall, Mike said that he “enjoyed skating the park a lot.”