Hope for skaters in Hermosa

Photos (CivicCouch.com) Skate videos of the park are posted at SkateHope.com Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday night junior high and high school kids swarm the fly boxes, quarter pipes and seven-stair, and parallel ledges at a former Albertson’s supermarket in Hermosa Beach. On a recent evening, one of the park’s regular shredders, 13-year-old Adams Middle School student Marcus Williams, explained the simple rules of S-K-A-T-E — one can’t back out of a game once it’s started. Williams sports an orange and black flannel with blacked out, knockoff Wayfarers and a brown, fitted hat taming his curls. Think Whiz Khalifa, but a good foot and half shorter and no tattoos. “This place used to only have a little halfer, one rail, and a few junk ramps. I’ve been skating here since before all of these ramps and this whole set-up was done,” he said. The walls of the former Albertsons supermarket are covered with collages of colorful street art. “Our mission was to create a sick park that skaters would actually want to skate. We didn’t want to rush and make this junky park that kids wouldn’t enjoy,” said veteran skater Ryan Richard, who heads the junior high youth group at Hope Chapel. The…

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